Whilst doing my yearly DD Hammocks group buy this year. I was chatting with Nick from DD about his MC tarps (MultiCam) as there were plenty of them being ordered. He was telling me that he still has people confusing the old camo tarp with the new MC one.
So I thought I'd use the excuse to put this thread on here.
As you possibly will remember DD brought out a camo tarp a few years ago.
It's camouflage had looked good in and could blend in quite well in the summer time.
Although I was been told by John fenna there is a pattern that keeps repeating.
Which I looked at after and had to agree with, but it still looked good.
Anyway it was selling ok until customers started sending in horror stories of the camo tarps tearing when using to the first loops in from the corners
At the time Nick was baffled why this had happened and the only thing that he could do was cut the offending loops off
Eventually Nick did work out what the problem was.
It was the material that had been used it had less threads in it than it should have done!
So it wasn't the camo tarp itself that was at fault but DD had received the wrong material from the material supplier but it hadn't been easy to spot as looked the same until you zoomed in on the number of threads.
Needless to say said supplier isn't used anymore
Anyway last year after two years and hundreds of hours in designing and testing and making sure the correct material was used he finally brought out the new MC tarp. Which in his own opinion in a million times better than the first camo tarp. And he's not shy in saying how happy he is with with this tarp.
When I had got my 3x3 MC tarp last year that was only the size available.
But later in the year Nick brought out the larger 4.5 x 3 and 4 x 4 tarps as well as the MC Frontline hammock.
As for my opinion on the MC tarp.
Well, I know I can't say I have no link to or I am not biased in DD's favor after nine years of doing group buys and the odd charity bit.
There's bound to be a link of a sorts and yes I am very biased in DD's favor.
But I can't disagree with Nick. I think he has done really well with this MC tarp and I wanted to put a thread up on here last year because I was that impressed by the new MC tarp. But could not think of an excuse to put it up on here at that time.
I think it really does blend in well with the background in summer as well as the winter. And with all the time that DD have spent in the design of the MC tarp I can say it really shows. With it's complex pattern and verity of colours. Which really blend in with the background. And I think even Mr Fenna would have difficulty finding the pattern repeating itself.
Here's Some pics below
Note the old camo tarp on the right
Both tarps together to compare to difference
Daughter in hammock
Thanks for reading
So I thought I'd use the excuse to put this thread on here.
As you possibly will remember DD brought out a camo tarp a few years ago.
It's camouflage had looked good in and could blend in quite well in the summer time.
Although I was been told by John fenna there is a pattern that keeps repeating.
Which I looked at after and had to agree with, but it still looked good.
Anyway it was selling ok until customers started sending in horror stories of the camo tarps tearing when using to the first loops in from the corners
At the time Nick was baffled why this had happened and the only thing that he could do was cut the offending loops off
Eventually Nick did work out what the problem was.
It was the material that had been used it had less threads in it than it should have done!
So it wasn't the camo tarp itself that was at fault but DD had received the wrong material from the material supplier but it hadn't been easy to spot as looked the same until you zoomed in on the number of threads.
Needless to say said supplier isn't used anymore
Anyway last year after two years and hundreds of hours in designing and testing and making sure the correct material was used he finally brought out the new MC tarp. Which in his own opinion in a million times better than the first camo tarp. And he's not shy in saying how happy he is with with this tarp.
When I had got my 3x3 MC tarp last year that was only the size available.
But later in the year Nick brought out the larger 4.5 x 3 and 4 x 4 tarps as well as the MC Frontline hammock.
As for my opinion on the MC tarp.
Well, I know I can't say I have no link to or I am not biased in DD's favor after nine years of doing group buys and the odd charity bit.
There's bound to be a link of a sorts and yes I am very biased in DD's favor.
But I can't disagree with Nick. I think he has done really well with this MC tarp and I wanted to put a thread up on here last year because I was that impressed by the new MC tarp. But could not think of an excuse to put it up on here at that time.
I think it really does blend in well with the background in summer as well as the winter. And with all the time that DD have spent in the design of the MC tarp I can say it really shows. With it's complex pattern and verity of colours. Which really blend in with the background. And I think even Mr Fenna would have difficulty finding the pattern repeating itself.
Here's Some pics below
Note the old camo tarp on the right
Both tarps together to compare to difference
Daughter in hammock
Thanks for reading
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first i will review it in the UK repeatedly and later in the year i'll review it's blendability into the Adirondack mountains during the autumn colour changes
- and it is a much more subtle pattern, so it is looking good!
