Hey everybody, my name is Shug and today I want to talk to you a little bit about
Tarps. Now we're gonna look at the Cuban fibre tarp, which is often called the Dyneema tarp now or some people call it
DCF which means Dyneema cubic fiber
We're gonna look at a SIL poly tarp and seal nylon tarps
And mainly we're looking at these
To look at stuff sack sizes when they're packed down because everybody showed you tarp hanging up
But a lot of people want to know what a tarp looks like when it's all packed up
We want to see what takes up the least amount of space as opposed to the weight
Even though we will cover the weight because to me a lot of times
It's the actual volume of the thing that comes into play for me
I can carry a few more ounces, but I don't always have room to get everything in like my ula. Ohm
Depending on the trip or the number of days or the weather or how much insulation I need or jackets or how much food?
I'm carryin and still have
the amount of space that that Cuban fiber or
Naima takes up because it does not pack down as small as SIL nylon, or
so poly
So we're gonna talk about them tarps a little bit so stay with me here
There you go
That's them in their stuff sacks
This is one you've seen me camp under a million times if you watched any of my videos. This is what I call my
Black crow tarp. It's my little DIY tarp 11-foot ridgeline
A little over three feet on each side. So maybe six and a half feet across
This is my war bonnet. Mini fly. That's a SIL poly tarp. This is SIL. Nylon
This is my war bonnet super fly, which is a really nice big tarp
full-coverage 11 foot ridgeline 11 foot ridgeline 11 foot ridgeline 11 foot ridgeline
This is a hammock gear Cuban fiber or as they call it now DCF or Dyneema tarp with doors
So you can kind of see the bulk
Every one of them is in snake skins because that's how I carry my tarps
They have very little bulk and they're just kind of wadded up in the bag. You can kind of see the size comparison there
I
Don't know why I feel like I have to tell you what you can see because you know what you can see and I can't
See what you're seeing
But boy, I sure know what you're seeing because I am what you're seeing now, not everybody knows what a snakeskin is
But you can see on the tarp. There's this mesh cover
Over it
right and it sort of controls your tarp and
It's the way I like to pack it up and then I just cram it right back into the stuff sack
So each one of my tarps here
Is done that way super fly and the snakeskin
All in snake skins. All right. We got the hammock gear
DCF
Dyneema cubed and fiber tarp on the scales and we're looking at
Thirteen point nine ounces and that would be in grams
394 grams now
We're looking at my DIY sill. Nylon
Black crow tarp, that is 15
ounces point two and that is four hundred
four hundred and thirty one
Grams now
we have the
war bonnet mini fly on there made of silk poly and that is 16 ounces dead on and that's
one pound or
454 grams and here the war bonnets super fly a really big tarp made of silly
I wan that's one pound nine point three ounces
Or
718 grams or straight-up ounces 25.3 five ounces
Do you like it it is the camouflage I don't do let the camouflage but Stormcrow told me this
camouflage pattern on this DCF which stands for Dyneema cuben fiber tarp
It's not translucent
This is not a see-through and both what's nice about this tarp
It's four feet from here to here. So a little less in here just because of the catenary cut
Which if you don't know what that is
That's that little bit of a curved shape you see on a tarp and that helps keep a pitch tight
So that's basically the shape of this tarp eleven feet along your ridgeline at the top four feet in the corners
of course you got through your
door flaps you can pull in and
Create a windbreak there. So now what I'm going to do is just hang the other tarps on top of that
Just drape them over so you can just kind of get a size
The reason I wanted to show these in the stuff sacks and the way different fabric stuff down is
It is always a constant battle between weight or size
just kind of spitballing and just kind of alluding to
The different sizes em what they look like in the stuff sack and I think I've said that 10 times already, but you know what?
Sometimes I know that you just need to be present in the moment even watching a youtube video and don't go clicking off and check
In your email or your Instagram or your Facebook or your myspace or whatever stay in the moment? What?
Now I realize a little bit back in the video is talking about snake skins and a lot of you
Don't know what snake skins are I can't assume everybody does so here's what it's talking about
Thus unleashing guitar
Which is kind of handy because if you're setting up in the wind like when I had it sort of half out you can just
let one end out kind of set those ends and then pull your
snakeskin on back and and finish setting the rest of the the tarp and I just like
Instead of taking it down and trying to fold it up
I just like pulling the snake skins right over it when I'm done
So that would look like this if I were at camp and I'm packing up and I want to pack up the tarp
You get the idea right kind of easy not for everybody maybe adds a few grams because it's really just bug netting material
Sewn into a tube
But that's your choice
I decided to show it to you because I got in my mind and I did so I'll move on now
Alright, so looking at these tarp sizes. This is the super fly over the hammock gear Dyneema
Here's the inside cut of that and my finger is about where that is, so we're getting almost an extra
10 inches or so of tarp coming down
Guess what? I'm trying to say. It's just a bigger tarp
Let's look at it as it sort of dangles over from inside because that's the kind of excitement. I like to bring you into
So here we're looking we still got doors and
You know they're
Comparatively but a little bit bigger than the Dyneema and you can see on the on the sides there
There's quite a bit more fabric all around
Same on the doors over here
Got the doors
They just go down a little bit lower. So
Having a bigger tarp on the sides
You can see it's a lot bigger plus a heavier fabric but a much
Less expensive fabric still nylon is much cheaper than Dyneema
Cuben fiber DCM, whatever you want to call it. The the DCM tarps have are quite expensive quite an investment to save some weight
whereas something like the Super Fly which you can get in so Polly which is a little bit lighter and
A different feel than SIL. Nylon, it absorbs a little less water
So you got some choices, but that's probably my biggest tarp right there
and that's how it sizes up compared to the hammock geared ECM or
cuben fiber Dyneema Dyneema kiva fiber
What is called a TCM? Why don't we just call it light expensive tarp?
The DCM Dyneema given fiber tarp is the lightest but the bulkiest for its size
So it kind of shows you the biggest tarp
I have and showed you the lightest tarp
I have and then taking a look at the bulk of the - you know
Sometimes you go pick a person up and they look real skinny and light you pick them up
but man
They're all muscle and density and they're really heavy and then there's other people
Sometimes they look like they'd be heavy and you go lift them up and there is light as a barrel of rabbits
Well, this is pretty much the same
So you got to figure out is it space you're interested in or?
Is it weight or is it a little bit of both and plus we're talking about money - the DCM tarps
they cost a lot more because of the fabric whereas SIL poly and SIL nylon are still a really
really good value for what you get, so it's kind of up to you are those uh you
Know is is shedding a few?
Extra ounces worth it to you. It certainly is to a lot of people so that's your game to play
I'm just showing you what I got here. I really love this one
I can't wait to get it out sometime soon as soon as a spring gets here or in a couple of weeks
Hopefully, but I got to have a colonoscopy
next week and
I have a workshop and I have a photo session and a few things
so kind of a busy busy little couple of weeks coming up and then hopefully we'll get to get out on the trail and
I'm still trying to knock out 40 paintings, and I'm
I've done six kind of into my seventh right now, or is it?
Something like that you lose track. It's gonna take me about a year and then I'm gonna do a show so life is full
Hope you're well out there
Yeah, just finished this one a few days ago
And I'll tell you some of the hardest parts were you know?
when you really get into painting and you're looking at trees and
leaves and the colors in them and the colors that pop and the highlights and all the
way the light hits the hammock and
That's my buddy wandering fool. I took this picture once we were on the trip
So I always wanted to do something with it and just trying to get where the where the Sun
was coming in this way and hitting him as he was napping and that was a fun one and
just sort of started this one trying to keep it real abstract and
Lose some wild got to go back in and work a little bit. So that's what's been going on here
Secure in Sector seven is should here and
While we are having this Cove at nineteen pandemic
I thought I'd stay home from a camping trip and I thought I'd do a little video for you
Way to start this much of gustar, I tell you what kovita 19 talks a lot talks a lot of crap
I'm tired of hearing it. Come on. Come on. It's confusing. I know
I'm not an animal. I'm a man