Tarp Door Managment?

[LowTech]

Question about folding the doors to the outside,
do you find that they catch the wind? We have windy conditions quite often, just had some up to 22mph this morning, so I've avoided putting them on the outside. But if I'm using poles over the top for the pull-outs then having them on the inside wastes loads of space.
The other thing I was trying to avoid was having them on the outside and it starts raining . . . now the "inside" of the doors are wet . . . and I have to go outside to close them.

And what about when you want to use the doors on one end but not the other? Now I have a set of doors but nowhere to clip them back to . . .

Guess that was more than "a question".

[cougarmeat]

Sounds like your doors are hanging loose when inside. I have shock-cord on mine with length to hook two (on the same side) together. If they were hanging loose in that configuration, I’d shorten the shock-cord until it was tight enough so that they were out of the way. The shock-cord would still be used to close the doors.

[LowTech]

Cougarmeat - it's not that they are loose, it's that the poles pull the sides out but the doors are still a straight line when connected together. At that point we may as well have the tarp in a basic A pitch and forget the poles.

[LowTech]

I suspect if the poles were on the inside, then the doors could be attached between the poles and the tarp? That would keep them back out of the space.

[tsshaw78]

I just clip mine back to the tarp corners. They are loose and flap a bit but it doesn't bother me. Then closing the doors is easy because the connections are pretty much where I need them.

[cougarmeat]

> it's that the poles pull the sides out but the doors are still a straight line when connected together.

I’m sorry - I can’t picture this. What I’m imagining is, first, the tarp with the doors folded back on the outside. Poles over the ridgeline hold out/up the panel pulls. the doors are wrangled by connecting the shock-cord on their D-rings together about mid tarp (left side to left side, right side to right side). I have mitten hooks (tongue broken off) on the shock-cord ends.

You are saying you don’t want them on the outside so the next step is to just fold them to the inside of the tarp instead of the outside. The shock-cord has enough pull that the doors are still held against the body of the tarp sides.

[Countrybois]

The issue is that the doors, on the inside will pull in a straight line and yet the tarp is not in a straight line because the poles are pulling it out.

Inside pole mods negate this effect since the shock cord can go under the poles and hold the lines/doors out against the tarp.

The only solution I can see is to add some inside tie-outs to attach your doors to.

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[Shug]

Question about folding the doors to the outside,
do you find that they catch the wind? We have windy conditions quite often, just had some up to 22mph this morning, so I've avoided putting them on the outside. But if I'm using poles over the top for the pull-outs then having them on the inside wastes loads of space.
The other thing I was trying to avoid was having them on the outside and it starts raining . . . now the "inside" of the doors are wet . . . and I have to go outside to close them.

And what about when you want to use the doors on one end but not the other? Now I have a set of doors but nowhere to clip them back to . . .

Guess that was more than "a question".

I roll my doors or door and use a large binder clips to hold it back. Works well for me as I never liked them tied back.
Shug

[drtolo]

When battening down the hatches, I simply stake out the guy lines in opposite directions so they cross each other & are nice & tight. For nice weather, I added stick on mitten hooks to the inside of my tarp so I can use the same guy lines to attach & tighten the doors down. I'm a bit ocd about flapping..

[Crazytown3]

I roll my doors or door and use a large binder clips to hold it back. Works well for me as I never liked them tied back.
Shug

You, sir, are a mad man.