carrying your DD tarp..

[shutupthepunx]

hey i got a 3x3 DD tarp and i was wondering how people carry theirs? Just in the bag in came in or differently? I store mine inside the original bag, and then inside a drybag but this is clumpy/big (even without the drybag). I was wondering if anyone uses compression sacks to get it smaller or would these damage the tarp at all? thanks

 

[mountainm]

Stuffed straight into a bishop bag.

 

[garethw]

I've a parachord ridgeline threaded to it with prussik knots so I can tension it at each end.. plus guys in each corner... After loads of trials the Ray Mears way of packing it is really the most practical. Makes it so easy and quick to put up. I keep it in the original bag to stop it getting the rest of my stuff dirty..
This than gets packed in the side pocket of my pack with my hammock, when dry.

cheers
Gareth

 

[Teepee]

I only ever bag mine if its wet and needs putting inside my pack. I always wrap the ridgeline and any other cords around the tarp-it stops them tangling and compresses the tarp at the same time.

 

[SJStuart]

I don't yet have a bishop bag for my DD tarps, but the 3x3 I fold neatly on the ridgeline, then wrap the ridgeline around it to slightly compress the entire thing and hold it all closed. This then just goes directly into the rucksack.

Similarly with the DD XL (4.5x3), though sometimes (depending on the rucksack I'm carrying) I strap it to the outside merely because it takes more room.

With the DD 4x4, I have made a snakeskin, and the whole thing gets bundled into a PLCE Bergen side pouch.

I don't waste my time with the bags the tarps come in... it's just one more thing to have to fiddle around with that, if you've set your tarp up properly to begin with, isn't necessary.

 

[Lister]

In a snakskin with my hammock then into a compression sack/dry bag then into a PLCE side pocket

 

[Man of Tanith]

Whatnis this bishop bag you all speak of?

 

[shutupthepunx]

i had to google it too as i had no idea, this video seemed to give me the best understanding. just seems like a bag with opens at both ends and you can have your ridgeline through?

i must look up mears' way of doin it to see if theres anything i get from it. i keep my ridgeline on my tarp now (after many times of taking it out and putting it away, and then having to re-do it all again the next day, etc). and yeah i guess it would be a good idea to not use the bag that it came with, and i could just bring the small drybag with me, but not put the rolled up tarp into it unless its wet.

as good as i feel drybags are, they take up more and more space the more you have. i also started using prusik loops on my ridgeline to keep the tarp taut, which works well.

 

[mountainm]

Bag open at both ends with draw cords. One end of the attached Ridgeline comes out of each end. To set up tarp simply attach Ridgeline to two trees. Unfurl tarp and tension prussiks. Then guy out. Super simple. In reverse simply stuff back into the bag whilst hung. Avoids dragging a wet tarp on a dirty floor.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Stuffed straight into a bishop bag.

+1 for the bishops / speed bag

 

[swotty]

Whatnis this bishop bag you all speak of?

I'm glad you asked that, I had no idea either

 

[Shewie]

I cinch my tarp towards the centre of my ridgeline and then just drop it into a stuff sack, hanked guy lines included. I then clip the stuff sack to the ridgeline while I undo the cordage.

If the tarp is wet is doesn't really matter, the stuff I need to keep dry in my pack is already protected by a liner or dry bags, sometimes both.

 

[JonathanD]

I just fold it up tightly, tucking in the guy lines and finished with the ridgeline wrapped around it.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Hear is a quick vid of a speed bag set up

[video=youtube;S-Yu6aSBMKg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Yu6aSBMKg[/video]


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Yu6aSBMKg


See thread
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=91154&highlight=Bishops+bag

 

[Lister]

Video of the setup i use, courtesy of RVOPs (Skip to 4.23):

[video=youtube;yB1spTRrhZw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB1spTRrhZw&t=4m23s[/video]

I manage to fit mine into 1 snakeskin however as i take the tension off the tarp, tuck it into the hammmock and then pack into the snakeskin as above.

 

[MikeLA]

Just fold mine into a side pocket (easier to get too) and never use a bag/stuff sack. that way it will dry quicker.

 

[Ecoman]

Hear is a quick vid of a speed bag set up

I love that Bishop Bag. So much more simple than the set up I'm currently using. I think I'm going to have a go at making one of them.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

I love that Bishop Bag. So much more simple than the set up I'm currently using. I think I'm going to have a go at making one of them.

I just used
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Plastic-Eye...=1388166825&sr=8-4&keywords=eyelets+tarpaulin

and an old exped dry bag.

 

[Bucephalas]

I have two bishop bags but never got on with them. Bugger to get it in and it's bulkier but maybe I'm missing a trick or my bag is a tad small.
I don't always use my tarp in the same way. Sometimes I have just a little forward overhand and with the Bishop bag I have to undo everything and re-thread the ridge line.
No need for a dry bag unless packing it away wet.
The DD bag is oversized for the tarp and I tie the cord around mine to cinch it in a tad.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

I have two bishop bags but never got on with them. Bugger to get it in and it's bulkier but maybe I'm missing a trick or my bag is a tad small.
I don't always use my tarp in the same way. Sometimes I have just a little forward overhand and with the Bishop bag I have to undo everything and re-thread the ridge line.
No need for a dry bag unless packing it away wet.
The DD bag is oversized for the tarp and I tie the cord around mine to cinch it in a tad.

You do make a valid point, it's is kind of a ridge line setup thing.

I will need to practise tarp set up with this configuration (the bag can come off very quickly but the main ridge line has prusiks attached to the tarp) If I'm not sore what's going to happen I normally just have a tarp in a dry bag with a handful of guy line.