Recommended gear | SuperLight Tarp

Description

Taking a look at the SuperLight Tar from DD. this 3m x 2.9m is incredibly lightweight and versatile, ideal for pretty much anyone who needs a decent dry space to work or sleep under in the outdoors. packed away this tarp is incredibly tiny and very very light. when used with the SuperLight Hammock, you can greatly decrease the weigh and size of your sleeping system.

Superlight Hammock : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv4vJefRUfE

Buy This Tarp : http://www.ddhammocks.com/product/DD_Superlight_Tarp

Tags: Bushcraft,survival,camping,how to,Tarp,Lightweight

Video Transcription

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alright guys in this video what I'm gonna be looking at is the DD super light tarpaulin which is part of the DD supe light range in the description below this video I'll put a link to the DD super light hammock which is what I use in conjunction with this both of them are absolutely fantastic pieces of kit and I know that DD I have a lot of faith in this because they actually sent them in a sent them out to me and asked me to do some videos on them because I really liked the gear and kit and I've done quite a few videos and some of those stuff before and they actually said you know if it's all terrible product it was a Ruis product don't be frightened of giving it a bad review don't be frightened of you know highlighting any issues with with it and I think that starts quite a cool thing for them today I don't think as many companies out there that would do that but I've been using this for just over a year now and it's an absolutely fantastic piece of kit really really good it's now my go-to tarp for for most things which will work I get onto why I might not use this type foot for some other bits and pieces as we get it up and but let's have a look at the specifications of this tarpaulin so this is the tarp in its pack top form you can see packed up it's tiny it's just a fraction larger than my hand it's pretty narrow and it's very very light so the main specifications of this and its tarpaulin as it's three meters by 2.9 meters it weighs in at 460 grams excluding the pegs which it is supplied with and I don't use the pegs I don't really like the wire pegs so I'm actually taking them out and I want we use them in this video but the producer standard tent pegs and this is the olive green version but is also available in what's called a sandstorm yellow it's very very yellow it's very very bright yellow home in fact but I've gone for the green version obviously I like my stuff to be green and kind of neutral to my surroundings and it's supplied with dye lines as well and I think I have got one the guylines in here with it but I tend not to use them I prefer to you piece of paracord it's not an issue with the dye lines themselves it's just my personal preference and of course it's supplied with this stuff sack as well so I'm going to get this tarpaulin up and let's have a look at it the only thing I will say about this is the hammock fits really nicely into a pocket this one will fit into a pocket but it is slightly larger than the hammock obviously it's a bigger piece of bigger piece of material but again you know it look at the size of it it's tiny and it can just be thrown into your bag it takes up at next to no space compared to most hearts which are usually about this big and usually pretty heavy as well so it's absolutely tiny so I'm going to throw this open just to kind of standard a-frame suspension sort of way over the top of the hammock which I've just put for the previous video again the link to that will be down it down below this and the link to this video will be in the link to the to the hammock so let's get this thing off and have a look at it you

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okay so just a quick note on the guylines and why I tend not to use them and I'm not a huge fan of Gaea lies in general so it's not necessarily a criticism of the product directly but these guys in particular do seem to have quite a bit of stretching the map I've got this pretty taut now but I've had to pull it really tight and it's also very thin which means it's quite difficult to untie it from the attachment points of the tarpaulin and occasionally I found this little piece of plastic and this one's pretty firm today but I found that it does tend to move around a little bit too easy but this one's you know they're all right there's nothing wrong with them it's just personal preference I don't really like guidelines I'd rather use peace of power paracord for it and the other thing as well as a really minor note is that the black and I don't like black dye lines particularly at nighttime they become quite difficult to see and very easy to trip over and if it's absolutely choke it down the last thing you want to do is trip over your guideline on peg it and then have to redo it so I tend to change them over for very bright colors on just the guide lines in fact I found that glow-in-the-dark paracord which is available is really good it just makes it stand out that little bit better so you're aware of it and the pegs I tend to use a wooden pegs that I've carved myself one because it means allowed to carry them and two they just seem to get much better purchase in the ground particularly as I said when it's wet the the metal pegs the metal wire pegs I find that they they ping out or they spin round or they slide out the ground far too easily so I just I just carried sorry I just make these little wooden pegs it takes about five minutes to knock for them up ten minutes to knock ten of them up you know it's really really really easy to do so that's that's the only only thing with this but let's have a proper look at the top so this tarp has 19 attachment points in total so there's three of these on each side so that's three six nine twelve of these ones along the long straight sides and if we just look on the side the reinforced very heavily stitched in and they've got this webbing material rather than the the guyline sorry rather than the little steel eyelets which are much better and you can actually pull these really quite taut I've used it I've used these tarps in a serious serious high wind never had so much as you know a rip in them very very reinforced each side underneath is hemmed hemmed off nicely and you can probably just about make out the camera the the the ripstop kind of design in there again so let's have a look at the other attachment points so there's three on each side one at each corner at three along the top so the ones corners look like this doubly reinforced as opposed to the ones which are at the the long sides I mean this is the corners are really what take the majority the strain in bad weather so again double stitching along here the hem comes through it and again it's got this this webbing a webbing kind of loop rather than an eyelet which is you know a really good feature I really don't like the eyelets and then on the underneath it's got this fabric here I'm not sure their fabric is actually it's kind of rubberized was very very hard-wearing

and you can see as well this tarp becomes obvious at the corners has a good amount of stretch in it which means you can get this thing incredibly taut I mean impressively taut give them the rain off just have a look at the top touch mints so again at the top we've got one of these single reinforced ones along the straight side but it's got just that little bit of extra where the two seams meet and then the central one again it's just got this webbing and then along the top we can see that these these loops which come off which again underneath to reinforce that same rubberized fabric and these are brilliant a lot of tarpaulins don't have these and there's great debates at the minute on whether you should have your your ridge line under the tarp or whether you should have the tarp suspended from these things personally I prefer to have them on this but I'm not going to get into the debate today and but one of the reasons I do like to have them like this is if this paracord gets wet sometimes it particularly in really bad weather the the rain class she will along the guyline and actually start to drip onto your hammock which is never going to be a good thing so I prefer to use the suspension bits at the top and again you can see get this really really quite incredibly taut and there you go that's actually attachment points basically 19 in toe or three along the top three along each side and then one at each corner so in terms of the size of this tarp its ample size I've got it set quite low today it's up simply for the purpose of the video but I can set this much much higher I wanted to there's a number of configurations you can do with this and it is just shy of three by three so it's a three meters by 2.9 meters which does mean that it's ever so slightly rectangular and it does make certain configurations this time ever so slightly more awkward I prefer a proper full squirt art but to be honest that one inch really doesn't make that much difference it's an absolutely fantastic tarpaulin so it's coated with a 3,000 mm PU coating which means that it is totally 100% waterproof and I have been out in some really horrific weather in this apse I mean like really really proper heavy British summer downpours in this thing and you know not a drop of water on me underneath it and then the other thing that I really like about this tarpaulin there's a bit of a breeze out today and I've got it pretty talk with you listen carefully there's absolutely no rustle to this thing even touching it really doesn't make too much sound wears a lot of the other plasticize clef tarps really make quite a lot of noise especially when you're putting them away and packing them up or putting the more and if there's a bit breeze out they'll flap around a little bit this thing is almost perfectly silent which is something I absolutely love I really like that it actually makes a difference when you come because you find a wildlife comes in that little bit closer to you as this has been the DD super light tart from DD hammocks as I've said I don't obsess too much over kit I'm not too obsessed with being lightweight and carrying as little as I can but this product particularly when used alongside the superlight hammock absolutely amazing in fact you can get the 2+2 mosquito net for a deal on the website which will actually save you a little bit of money I think it's 129 pounds and mite got that wrong but I will put links to all this in the description box below yeah it's absolutely fantastic I mean it's a huge shelter for very little pack space and that is you know not to be underestimated you know tend to find your sleeping system in shelters literally takes up almost all of your space in your packs if you're especially out in the summer we've got a tiny little lightweight sleeping bag spot on I mean you can take you can manage you know most you get it mostly gear in a thirty liter pack with with this set up it's absolutely fantastic one thing that I will say about this though and this kind of relates to my general laziness when it comes to putting my tarpaulins and stuff away most tarps you can just you know drop them down and just shove them in the bag any other way and fold them up properly when you get home this thing because it is designed to be lightweight and it's designed to be very small in the pack when you take it down you do have to fold it correctly which can be a little bit of a faff but it's just a little bit of extra time that you have to spend putting it down whereas normally I just whip the tarp now I'm trimming the bag off we go with this one you do have to fold it correctly otherwise it will simply won't fit in that pack and one thing that I have done to counteract this particularly you know really bad weather what I've done in the past is actually take the pack from my three by three standard D detail take the tarpaulin out of that and then keep it separate so if it's been absolutely batten it down for the whole night of you know a couple of days while I've been out there I can just shove this in pack away and get home as quick as I can in order to get the thing dried out but to be honest nice sunny day light very nice dry weather or if you don't mind getting a bit wet you can fold it up pretty easy I mean doesn't take that much time it takes about five minutes to actually fold it properly but yet folding it does got to fold it up to get it back in that pack but that being said you can fit it completely into the pack with all the guidelines and the ridgeline and everything in there and the tent pegs and it comes supplied with probably not these wooden ones are pretty pretty hefty but they're usually just gone the fire at the end of there at the end of the night out or whatever so yeah didi super light tarpaulin totally worth the money I think this one comes in at 62 pounds which is still even though it's more expensive than a lot of those other tarpaulins like they said they do send the sights because the materials cost more that is still a whole wedge cheaper than a lot of the other tarps that are out there you know it's an absolutely fantastic that kit I cannot recommend this piece these this gear enough just for the sheer lack of space that they take up in the in the bag you know so yeah I don't bang on about gear too much but these two items certainly worth a look at as always thank you for watching please like share subscribe drop me a comment any thoughts or anything like that it's always really good to hear and yet just thanks for watching guys much appreciated see you the next bit