How to Set up a DD tarp with an open front

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In this video i demonstrate the easiest way to set up a DD 3x3 tarpalin with an open front for extra space.

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hi guys so what I'm going to do today is just show you a different setup for your tarp or and hammock the setup going to show you today uses a three by three tarpaulin I'm using the DD tarp the coyote brown one and what it is it's no confronted kind of setup for it so that if you wants a particularly bad weather this is really nice you can sit underneath the tarpaulin but because the front is open you can then look out to your campsite and be much more social it also gives you quite a lot more space to move around and keep your gear dry okay it's deadly easy to do so you start by setting up your rigs line as usual using your push stick not to get it all nice and taut that's the first bit you need to do I haven't got the hammock up first time this this time round because this is a setup that's really useful to use it in really bad weather conditions where you don't want to be getting your hammock wet so you can set your tarp or an opening you've got a nice wide space underneath your tarpaulin to work so without further ado how we start is make sure you've got your tent pegs ready minor here in my pocket and then you start moving around the back so I'm at the foot now and I move around the back to my tarpaulin well my guy aligns there within a setup ready I'm just gonna start by pegging the corners out and we'll even do the corners today because it isn't actually bad conditions but if it really was windy and very wet conditions you'd want to do more than the corners as you can see it's also very dry so I am going with the metal tent pegs rather than the wooden ones I prefer well these nice and simple it means I have to sit and make anything so two for the back oh my god you notice as well in a minute we don't do the other corner I'll show you properly but I'm bringing my guyline out at an angle which follows the angle in which the tarpaulins made kind of let the corner point out towards your guy if you bring it in you your whole tarpaulin will start to twist and it'll get a saggy bit in the middle she's never good because that's where water likes to so there's one side done again I'll show you now so you just see the corner there the tarpaulin lets you see it doesn't point straight down like this it does point out using this as kind of an arrow and you want to follow that directly see this is not a nice mole camp site so there's lots of sticks for me to contend with here what's all part of tight doesn't need to be super long right nice and tight that's why it's know you'll notice as well I've put this at quite a steep angle and if it was bad what bad weather ideally and it's not always the case you can't always do this but in an ideal situation you want to have this back end this at the steep angle with the wind blowing towards it and the rain blowing towards it because the other one's going to be open if you've got it facing the other way around all wind and rain is going to come in but you'll see that in just a moment so and we've back round the front now when I can make a start on that two walking sticks

I've made have a bit hazel these nice fort tops on them now you don't need to use these this one's my caravans this is mine you don't want to be lugging two of these round you can use a couple of sturdy sticks that you found out in the forest or you can even use they're kind of more modern hiking poles for this if they're the extendable ones what you'll notice that they're roughly was a little bit shorter but roughly just a little bit shorter than me so you do need two extendable walking poles you know and they work just as well but I prefer the rustic look reason what's nice so start by finding my loop just hook in that loop over the fork in my walking stick then pull that straight out so that line is a right angle with this and once I've got my area set and salt that walking stick in slightly give it a bit of a dig into the ground make it nice and sturdy you give that angle that angle is really important just doing it really like that because otherwise it's low when you defeat the point just give it a bit of an angle just like when you're putting your tent pegs in because this stick wants to pull with the tension back that way we're going to counteract that by using this guideline here get another tent peg now I'm not sure whether these metal tent pegs gonna work with this a tent like I said I tend to use wooden ones which are much more sturdy in the ground a little bit fiddly cuz that stick wants to fall over once it's up it's nice and secure

now so I've got the stick that almost the right angle there but I still want my eye line to come out it's going to invade my camera moans this the nuts in there you can see that is now standing up nicely do the same with the other side remember I'll be needing that so again

just hooks up through pull out right angle slightly angled in which and then bring back die line output the angle again following that point so now I'm a nice spacious area under which to work I put my hammock up and if it was raining that'd be keeps me nice and dry wife do that so I'm just go really quickly put the hammock up now I'm not gonna go after hard is it properly because I've already got over to you on that and if you check out my youtube channel through it this you know more information on how to do it easier as always you see my other bags on there already I'm just gonna come under the tarpaulin now so you might lose sight of me from over but I will keep talking see me struggling with my short arms as usual oh yeah

always and twist your hammock as you go it's nothing worse especially when it's cold and wet then about to sit in your hammock and find out that's all twisted and you can get your roller improperly or your blanket or whether you sleep on side off there that's nice too tight and now I can sit in my hammock gently I've got loads of space under which to relax I can keep all my gear under here with the handy thing to bring with you is a very very small tarpaulin just a little cheapy one you can put that on the floor and easy so you can take your boots off and have somewhere nice and dry to sit it really is quite close and where there's loads and loads of space it's far better and you can even do this with the much much larger tarpaulins this exactly the same principles it works just the same really really simple to do this you know if I was doing this off-camera it would've been much much quicker as I wasn't talking through things it's a really simple setup so thanks for watching guys as always please give me a subscribe and like share me around send any suggestions in of what you would like to see and keep watching thank you very much