Hanging clothes to dry in MN fall + another tarp question

[ccrowhurst]

Cut the handle off your toothbrush or, better yet, use your finger!!!

just use a finger nail to peel the plaque off after a few days

[TominMN]

just use a finger nail to peel the plaque off after a few days

I think your fingernails are too long weight-wise...

(And I think I just might be a bit over-caffeinated this morning...)

[ccrowhurst]

I think your fingernails are too long weight-wise...

I use them as food, they require a good chew, but boy the nutritional value!

[TominMN]

I use them as food, they require a good chew, but boy the nutritional value!

Roughage.

[ccrowhurst]

Roughage.

Keeps me regular, which keeps the weight down.

[TominMN]

As long as we've strayed far from the clothes drying concern and moved on to the various ways to do a ridgeline, what about guylines? I'm curious what your approach might be. Always interested in what others are doing.

[cmoulder]

Thanks, it does. I can see how the single line system might make it easier to center the tarp and perhaps take some load off the tarp fabric. I do like the two line system as it appeals to the UL gram weenie within me.

With DCF tarps, I like the CRL (which TominMN correctly points out is actually single-line, which by repeated misuse and misunderstanding has become synonymous with "CRL") because it suspends the tarp under the cordage and reduces stress on the tarp itself. With two lines, if one tree sways and the other doesn't, all that additional stress is transmitted directly to the tarp... DCF is very low stretch and voila! the tarp sometimes shreds. Not often but it does happen.

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Personally, I don't use hardware but rather a small selection of simple knots that I have tested thoroughly in all seasons for a few years. Works for me, and there are a few others who have chosen a similar path.

[TominMN]

... With two lines, if one tree sways and the other doesn't, all that additional stress is transmitted directly to the tarp... DCF is very low stretch and voila! the tarp sometimes shreds. Not often but it does happen.

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A point not to be taken lightly!

[ccrowhurst]

As long as we've strayed far from the clothes drying concern and moved on to the various ways to do a ridgeline, what about guylines? I'm curious what your approach might be. Always interested in what others are doing.

I use dyneema line and truckers hitches, zero hardware. Which then makes me wonder why I dont just do that on the ridge lines too.

[ccrowhurst]

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This seems like a very good use of $10 - thanks I will sign up.