DD Complete Tarp Suspension System

This DD Hammocks Complete Tarp Suspension System has been devised and compiled by our owner and chief product tester Drew Wylie. This DD Complete Tarp Suspension System has everything you need to suspend your tarp and also has some redundancies thrown in for good measure. 

This DD Complete Tarp Suspension System will work with any tarp up to 5x5m, the system has been well thought out after 4 nights a week over months of trips in all weather conditions, including nighttime hikes in the pitch black.

 The System Includes:

• DD 10L Dry Bag: to house your tarp with your ridgeline for super quick deployment, and to keep your wet DD Tarp away from anything else in your pack.
• DD Superlight Amsteel 15m: the best superlight choice for your ridgeline.
• DD Superlight Carabiners x2: for simply attaching your tarp to the ridgeline, but also a very handy redundancy as these will hold the weight of your hammock as well, should you lose or drop the ones fixing your hammock at night or in the grass.
• DD Superlight Tent pegs x6
• DD Shock Cord 10m
• DD Mini Carabiners x10

How to use this Hammock Suspension System:

A little quote from Drew "Personally, I prefer a diamond set up with my DD Superlight Hammock and Tarp. It offers me the quickest possible way to set up and take down my tarp either after a long 25-mile hike or in bad weather when the skies have opened up. It obviously requires 2 fixing points for the ridgeline but unlike other configs, it only requires 2 fixing points for the other attachment points, unlike the rectangular setup that requires 4. The diamond config also offers me a great amount of flexibility with minimum adjustments to have one side open, folded back, or down in bad weather."

Setting up your ridgeline before your trip:

Your Tarp is now permanently attached to your ridgeline and ready to be packed into the DD 10L Dry Bag. To do this it is easier to fix your ridgeline to two points. If you have a clothesline in the garden, for example, this will work perfectly.

When the ridgeline is tight, slide the two prussic loops to about 5 cm on each side of the center Tarp loop, and get the air out of the tarp and stuff it into the DD 10L Drybag then coil up one side of the ridgeline and place in the dry bag, then repeat for the other side. If you have a DD Magic Carpet roll the 6 tent pegs in it and push it down, and then sit the shock cord on the top, compress the dry bag and fasten it up.