Originally Posted by
waddo
I'd rather sleep on a bed of nails. Tents are tried and tested through hundreds of years in all kinds of societies and cultures. Apart from on a pirate ship, I cannot see any benefit with a hammock.
So...no flat ground, or ground covered with goat head thorns/biting ants/roaches/snakes/mud/puddles/pointy sticks/sharp rocks are not situations where a hammock offers a clear advantage? Not to mention that clearing a spot for a tent of all those things damages the soil layer if you're free-camping.
You also can use other items than trees to tether a hammock. Many creative solutions are out there...picnic tables, posts, cars, cracks between boulders....