What bedding you you have in your swag?

Fitted sheet, top sheet, doona & pillows with2 cases (when dirty tstake one off, second one is there). Also rollup with hut booties & thermals inside.

I have a good sleeping bag,a pillow and have replaced the foam mattress with a S.I.M.

Fitted bottom sheet, top sheet and doona, there is a blanket sewn into the top flap of the swag, covers all situations.

Gday
I found that a nice warm woman is the best thing in a swag at 3 am.

G'day W M

50 mm dense mattress on bottom - 50 mm soft mattress on top of that - fully opened sleeping bag for a sheet which can be zipped back up if it gets really cold but I have never had to do that and have slept in the snow a few times. Sleeping bag also doubles as an underblanket. Single bed top of the range woollen doona and 2 pillows. Hate getting in sleeping bags as they are too confined.

Also in my swag I have - beanie, as 90 % of body heat is lost through the head, small Princeton-tec torch for the compulsory 3 o'clock leak - pocket knife ( mates zip tied my swag zippers together one night when I had 15 too many beers and went to bed early ) spare pair of jox - 1/4 roll toilet paper in a glad bag - toothbrush - panadol - quick eze - 500 ml bottle of water and 2 condoms in case I get lucky. I can just throw my swag in the ute and know I can go at least a week without too much trouble.


Cheers


Gazz

Don't need anything more in ours than an opened out sleeping bag as a doona and a pillow for the head. We climb into the swags with the canvas top folded back unless really cold and more often than not, just use the swags as a mattress inside our tent.
But can erect the hoops and use the same makeup of sleeping bag, opened out and the pillow with the fly screen and canvas cover over the top of us.
We have covers for the HD foam mattress and don't need or desire the hassle of fitted sheets, etc. Works well for us and we simply remove the pillow and roll the rest up as a whole unit when packing up.

We have Burke and Wills swags that have a Thermatest mattress, we use Coleman Pilbara zero rating sleeping bags and we have two Onkaparinga full wool double bed blankets per swag.......

The biggest improvement is the quality of mattress you choose, with the sleeping bags we went with the Colemans due to they are a non tapered bag and are extra wide. The advantage of using full wool blankets is they are very warm but seem to regulate body temps better with the added advantage of not smelling if used over a long period of time.

Our swags are used on camp stretchers, placing them on camp stretchers have improved sleeping quality 10 fold as compared to the ground.

I've only ever had a tarp, with blankets and a pillow. Once I got married, had to have a mattress, and flannelette sheets, she said!

Still have a couple of the blankets that I had in the original swag, and they're a bit like mosquito nets now. Do have 2 RM Williams Bush Rugs, which were made by Onkaparinga, and they are magic, and warm too. Usually cart a mozzie net too.

Couple of things I've had in the swag that weren't much use were 2 large centipedes, a Bandi bandi and another very upset snake.

Bob

Hi mate,

We've got a double swag. I bought two of those thin roll up foam mattresses and put them under the original mattress. Fitted sheet on top with a soft thick blanket and flat sheet to climb into. Usually wear a beanie in there when it's colder. Also, a couple of small pillows. We've camped in some below freezing conditions and it's always been very comfortable.

Cheers

Only just ordered a swag, but use to go with a mate fishing up at jindabyne, had a minus 8 extra large sleeping bag on a camp stretcher. Soon as the sun would hit the horizon, everything would freeze, have to keep the beers in the esky so they didn't burst. Best time of year up there was winter, cold clear nights, and beautifull days. The trick was, the good old news paper, under the sleeping bag... And between the two pairs of socks.. Great times. Cheers

Have a couple of swags, double and single, the double is a Burke and Wills Redgum,, still has the original foam with a Dunlop eggcup 25mm topping with a fitted sheet, gave up on sleeping bags years ago, to restrictive so just use doonas in both, Easy to push out the way when you get to hot and easy to grab and put over yourself when cold.

Slept on rocky ground with this combo no probs at all.

Goodluck with your choice.

now i'm getting older i need some extra padding ,tent type swag standard mattress egg shell/cup mattress , lamb wool cover over that & fitted sheet over ....cant beat it .