Review of the DD 3x3 coyote brown Tarp

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A reveiw of the DD 3x3 coyote brown Tarpaulin, featuring taped seams, 19 attatchment points and a 30,000 mu waterproof pu coating

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hi guys and what I've got today for you is a little bit of kit I've just got this this morning not open it at all but I only know what to expect cause Dedes is a hammock company and absolutely fantastic

now what this is is it's a three by three tarpaulin which is much larger than one one you would have seen in my previous video on how to set up a tarp and hammock okay so I'm gonna do a bit of a review of it and then shortly after that I'm gonna do another howl - on how to put them up for you well first of all let's get through to the specs of this thing okay so Dee Dee's hammocks absolutely fantastic brilliant company to work with really really friendly fast delivery and actually quite cost-effective and probably the best tarpaulin that I've used and seen around okay they come in this nice compact little packet for you which is always the same color as the tar for another hammock itself this one is a it I believe coyote brown I've gone for the brown one just no particular reason it's just a little bit difference what everyone else has so I can distinguish my own more easily so I'll take this out now for you and go through the actual tarp or on itself and what comes in the packet with it I it is literally brand new today okay so comes pre fold it up I tend not to keep it that way and this is the South Pole itself I'm not gonna open it out completely because you'll see that in the next video but I will go through a couple of things with it now it comes with some guidelines or some pegs with it I tend to end up making my own because the metal pegs in certain terrains come out quite easily so I prefer to make my little wooden ones quick and easy to do I'll do a quick how-to on it it's a really thick material completely waterproof and all all the seams are glued and sewn which is really really important the fabric I believe is it's 192 polyester with a PU coating if you're into your technical stuff that means it's very very good I don't really go into reading into the costume what's cool but if you wanna have a bit of a closer look one huge advantage of using this type of tarpaulin above many of your brushes and tarps and you see it's the way that it's constructed a corner piece fear so the corner piece is usually you'll find most of them the cheaper ones tend to have a metal eyelet in it personally I stay well away from them because if you do end up with high winds or frost and snow those eyelets create a weak point and they come out really easily these ones have a kind of webbing eyelet on them which is sewn on so I'm really really strong here actually you can see it comes quite far in - it's a good sort of five or six inches either side it's so on both sides all the corners and all of the seams where these eyelets are all of them are reinforced with this thicker kind of plasticy fabric which stops it ripping it's really really good I've seen these stand up to some seriously strong winds absolutely fantastic these eyelets are all so much better than the round metal ones that you'll see because you can use it to elevate your tarpaulin using a walking stick or a piece of stick that you found around the forest and it's much much stronger so yes that's pretty much all there is to cut serious tarpaulin about one other thing which I really liked that went along that the central Ridgeline it actually has more of these fastenings just find the central point

while it lands are all gonna place so on the center where your Ridgeline will go instead of just having nothing there like most tarpaulins this again it has these webbing kind of islets which is great because you can suspend your tarpaulin from a higher guy line if you want to I tend not to because I like to have a guy line inside the tarpaulin to hang things off but they are really really good and they do offer a lot of additional support before your tarp once it's off and again on the inside they have got the the heavier plastic reinforcing and they're all stitched I'm not sure whether the camera will pick it up but you can really see how well stitched it all is there and this this this webbing is really really strong I can pull out all day and it won't rip so when you get this up now and I've got to do a little how-to on how to pull it off with an open front with your hammock on the inside really nice and airy like that thanks for watching guys please subscribe please give me a share and once again thank you for watching