This weekend my family and I traveled up the interstate to meet one of the forums newest cottage vendors. Last month I stumbled across him in another thread, and found out that he had some introductory pricing going on.
I ended up ordering an 11ft 1.6 hex d in olive yellow, a matching 1.1oz silpoly tarp to match and a fronkey style bug net. We set it up on a hike so that I could see it.
Initially I was really impressed with the setup, especially the tarp. Tonight I'm laying in it, thinking about what I'm wanting to say in this thread.
Let's start with the suspension. As I'd never worked with whoopie slings before I was a bit hesitant to order them. Now I'm glad I did. Charlie, the owner of MWG was able to show me a way of hanging with just tree straps, my whoopies and the biner he included. Super light weight setup.
like I said before I had my choice of fabrics so I went with 11ft of the 1.6z hyper d material in olive yellow. 11 feet.... is a bit excessive. Yea I've got a bit flatter lay, but I'm still up in the air about it. The width, well let's just say that 60" with side hems leaves me wishing for a few more inches. Diagonal laying leaves my heels and the top of my head right on the hems. Now this isn't the manufacturers fault, it's the width that the material comes in, I just wish it was a bit wider (ripstopbytheroll.com if your reading this, maybe this could be a future addition to the line up?)
Now the tarp. Let me tell you about this tarp. I ordered a 1.1oz silpoly in olive yellow to match the hammock. As bright as it is, I almost.....almost....Wished I'd have gone with the charcoal, but I'm still thrilled by it. I did not expect the tarp to have as many features as it does. It comes with 8 tie outs (4 on each side) and 2 wall extension tie outs on each side. And it has doors. Wait. Doors? Yea. It has doors. And that's the poop in my opinion. Probably my most favorite feature. I was totally not expecting that. At all. When you order the tarp, expect to source your own tent pegs. To date MWG isn't offering them. I ordered 8 light weight ones from dutch and 70 feet of tech line from diyhammockgear. Yea that's kind of a pain, and if I had known I needed the line, I'd have ordered it from MWG and had it delivered with the tarp. MWG also included a contrasting double ended stuff sack for the tarp
As I'm writing this I haven't seen the bugnet as there was a slight hick up that MWG is taking care of. Charlie was very up front about it and has promised to make good, so now I just have to wait a bit.
All in all, MWG'S stitching is on par with the other brands I have seen thus far. I haven't hit the ground. The transaction went very smoothly, and because I lived so close MWG'S want to show me how to rig everything was impressive. I have some friends in town that will receive my recommendation on Charlie's gear.
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Originally Posted by Poseidon
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