Caterpillar CRL

[GadgetUK437]

you can simply clip the fixed end straight to the tarp, and the adjustable caterpillar straight to the tarp, and you'd only need your tarp + 1-2" (adjustable caterpillar against / round the tree, so only 2 microbiners taking up space)

That would only need one caterpillar and work like Derek Hanson's CRL, adjustable from one end,

Might give it a go, if I ever go back to a CRL.



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[massis]

I know that it would work like UH's 2biner CRL, that's why I made it clear you'd lose the self-tensioned CRL in that case. As a backup for short distances though, it's good to know the option's there.

As you can tell from my OP, the entire thing was based off Derek's CRL, which I found lacked the ability to stay tight without the tarp on it.

[MikekiM]

I love it! Great work. I still need to study on a large screen (viewing on my phone, from my hammock) but I like the idea and execution.

Looks it adjust far easier than I was expecting it would based on the initial picture.


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[Rekoob]

Looks like it's working great. Your tarp looks perfect.

[martincline]

(Applause) this is brilliant!


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[massis]

Spent my first night in the wild with this setup last weekend. There was lots of lightning and some wind, but no storm nor rain. By morning, everything was still exactly where I left it.

This weekend I'll be going out for a facebook "hammock-sleepers" group-hang, where I'll be able to test it some more! Will report back next week :-)

[maximillian]

My tarp has been hanging for almost 48h straight using this, so far no slippage at all.

I also did whip up some guy lines in the same fashion, let's see how they survive the night.

Hard wind and some rain has been promised

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[massis]

My tarp has been hanging for almost 48h straight using this, so far no slippage at all.

I also did whip up some guy lines in the same fashion, let's see how they survive the night.

Hard wind and some rain has been promised

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guylines in this fashion? Now there's an idea! I'm assuming you simply have mini-UCR on your guyline as an attachment point? I'm going to take my splicing stuff with me on this trip and see if I can fabricate one myself, sounds like a really nice idea!

[sqidmark]

I had also been thinking about the mini-ucr for tieouts. Not too long ago I had replaced my winter tarp tie-out cordage with Lawson's reflective, used with hook worms. I have an HG cuben tarp which I'm going to replace it's tie-outs with some recently acquired reflective zing-it. I'll incorporate the mini-ucr.

[massis]

Here's my first attempt :

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guyline2.jpg

First impression? This might be the best application of the mini-UCR so far! The guyline is a 1.5mm polyester wrapped dyneema core, ucr is 1.8mm reflective dyneema from Dutch. Holds really well and minimum length on top of my tensioners is less then 4".

I've made just one, will see how it holds up over the weekend.