great tarp,the moss green is a great outdoorsy color to,it gets a 5 star rateing from me,it looks like a light color od green neo
great tarp,the moss green is a great outdoorsy color to,it gets a 5 star rateing from me,it looks like a light color od green neo
the matrix has you
you know neo and me, same wavelength all the time, hard to tell our posts apart.
Got my tarp today, it is indeed a really nice color.
What I wouldn't do to get a line on the sil source the Jack's manufacturers have on the moss green and cattail brown colors...
although to get at it I suppose one would have to buy 2000 yards a time or something....
Grizz
We'd all help you out, Grizz. I'd buy a lot myself...
"Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities." - Mark Twain
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” - John Burroughs
Is the Winter Tarp the 11'x10' Cat tarp they list??
I think the thread title is a misnomer.
Speer sells the 'Speer Winter Tarp' (scroll down), which is an 11'x10' tarp. Since JRB also sells an 11'x10' tarp, the two get confused often.
“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.” - Cormac McCarthy
Thanks - it was getting me confused.
I remember some time back that JRB had some winter tarps fashioned after the work done by Youngblood. More of a tent than my version of a tarp.
I thought maybe they were talking about those.
Whatever happened to them?? If I remember correctly, they created some excitement for a while and nothing ever happened.
“I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.” - Cormac McCarthy
Some folks get confused by the hammock tarptents I designed back several years ago and posted photos on the Yahoo Hammock Camping Group and on WhiteBlaze. As far as I know, that was the pioneering work on enclosing hammocks with a tarp or tent like structure but that design was never put in production.
I used what I learned from that when I designed what became the Speer WinterTarp which Speer Hammocks started selling last fall. The WinterTarp is not as complicated, sets up easier that my original design, and sets up very taut in a variety of pitches, more so that other large tarps because of the use of 4 strategically placed catenary darts along with the catenary cuts on all ten edges of the tarp. To my knowledge it is the first tarp design to use catenary darts to improve tautness of variable pitch options and the first to shape the corners so they don't tend to drag the ground when you pitch close to the ground and want to angle the corners inward over a wide range to block wind. The catenary darts form somewhat of a hinge line for the shaped corners of the tarp when they function as independent doors or flaps. These independent doors or flaps allows for more variation in how one handles blocking the wind without adding too much to condensation issues when the wind dies out. You often need to compromise in how you handle wind versus having adequate ventilation... and vice versa.
Last edited by Youngblood; 04-04-2008 at 09:25.
Youngblood AT2000
I back the 5 star rating...only my 5* is for the Cattail Brown one....talk about awesome color...it's the type of brown that from a distance looks like the deep dark olive drab. I've got a spool of black 550 cord for my tie outs.
for what it's worth...this short fat boy is Truely Satisfied!!!
Alex Williams
Acts 10:13 "Arise Peter, Kill and Eat."
Job 14:15 "Call upon Me and I shall answer you."
Williams Custom Calls
Bookmarks