Originally Posted by
nanok
welcome back, glad you survived the storm
first of all, that method of doing the truckers hitch is imho only good for demonstration, it's unnecessary in practice. instead, take the uni-shackle, make a blake hitch with the tail, on the ridgeline where you want the truckers loop to be, and on the other end you have a closable loop (like a carabinner) so you don't have to feed anything through. it's also repositionable without untying, as a bonus.. if you want to be fancy, you can add a second uni-shackle, and make it an "automatic truckers hitch", but that would mean you'd have to tie a second blake hitch (or whatever you like, maybe you'd prefer a farrimond instead?), depends on you if you find that worth it. but in the scenario you described, using just one uni shackle instead of the truckers loop would have made everything simple and quick, without having to feed anything through. being repositionable you can leave it tied to the ridgeline and reuse it next time, and being very light, you can have several of them tied there, so you don't have to slide the only one you tied 20feet (which would kind of be like feeding the whole line through). then you operate as you would normally operate the truckers hitch.
extensions are definitely the way to go, having to handle excessive amount of rope which you carry "just in case", at every setup which is not "that case", will get annoying really quickly. don't worry about the prusick not sliding over, it's likely you won't need it to, as the extension would be beyond the point where you normally want the tarp to be centered, anyway.
also consider trying my method while you're at it (attach tarp to the same treestraps as the hammock), this will make the size of trees irrelevant to your ridgeline length, and will generally simplify things
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