Setting Up a Ridgeline and Guylines on a Hammock Tarp
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Published 2022-05-01
For this setup you'll need 100 feet of Zing-It or Lash-it. You can get that several places online but its easy from Dutchware. The titanium hardware is also from Dutchware. I use Dutch's Fleas. They are super lightweight and make it really easy to hang your tarp up quick.
All Comments (9)
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Fleaz are the ticket for the stake out points on the tarp. I order those with the shock cord attached. For my ridgeline I actually prefer the Stingers. I got those where dutch mended the zingit to the hardware. I use one set and unclip to a different tarp if I switch. Great tutorial, I never thought of the fleaz for the ridgeline. Definitely cuts down on the gramage
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Thanks. Very detailed. You are a pro at this!
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I set up my 2nd tarp (Winter Tarp) . And I mixed up the ridge lines of different colors , and also the corner tie outs. It's easier to untangle , if the cords gets mixed up together . I like the Dutchware Fleas.
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Very nice!
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I understand that you prefer a split ridgeline rather that one "...going through [as in "under"] the tarp." Two schools of thought. But you do expose the tarp to any external pull forces that happen along (tree branch or person falling against the tarp). The the weight cost, near zero, of about 13 feet of Zing-It, you can have a continuous ridgeline ABOVE the tarp and it will take all those forces while the very expensive tarp hangs safely below it. I wouldn't have commented except you said "through the tarp" and that's not how a continuous ridgeline is normally set up (maybe under in the winter to support a potential snow load). You don't KNOT Zing-It or Lash-It. They are designed to be woven - the end is pulled inside the cord itself to make an eye. But you have the courage and effort to make a video - I have none. So I appreciate your sharing. But do investigate the ways of working with Amsteel, be it 7/64ths, Zing-It or Lash-It. Snakeskins win their purpose for being when you have to deploy the tarp in high wind. Rather that expose the whole tarp to the wind - were it acts like a spinnaker - the snakeskin allows you to expose a little of the trap to the wind, guy that, then expose a little more.
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Nice tutorial, and nice multiplicity reference haha! Iโve fallen for that in the past where each line gets shorter and shorter, whoops. Do you like using the snakeskins? I always wondered if they were really helpful or more finicky than just a stuff sack.
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Lol! 3 months later๐๐๐
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you can't talk away from the camera. If you want to do that, then you need a mic.
