How do you store your tarp ridge lines or hammock webbing to prevent tangles and help speed up deployment?
How do you store your tarp ridge lines or hammock webbing to prevent tangles and help speed up deployment?
For my tarp ridgeline I hank it by looping it in figure 8's around my thumb and pinky then an elastic to keep it together. For my webbing I fold it over back and forth accordion style in my hand and then use an elastic to keep it together or I just stuff it in the stuff sac with the hammock. Don't seem to get tangles doing these methods.
Well first, you need to find a live chicken, bat droppings, the right eye of a bullfrong, and a piece of the line you're using for tarp lines.
Wrapping them around my fingers in a fig 8 then wrapping the lose end around the mass of line usually does the trick. Still, it's thin line so it's gonna tangle every now and again. I use BishopBags for my hammocks. I leave the webbing outside the bag and wrap it around. Keeps it from tangling, but mostly it keeps wet straps away from my hammock.
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I just wrap the webbing around the outside of the bag. It never tangles. For my tarp line, I use Zing-It, so it's pretty good about not tangling. But, like others have mentioned, I spread my fingers Vulcan style and figure-eight the line around my fingers. I bought a pack of quarter-sized elastic hair scrunchies from the dollar store. It came with about twenty. I larks-headed one to each corner of my tarp. When I store my tarp, I figure eight the tie-out lines, wrap the tag end around the bundle several times, then put it in the scrunchie and roll it up on each corner. That keeps the tie-out lines nice and neat , and if it is raining, I'll bundle the excess line up the same way when the tarp is hung.
BTW, I didn't mention how I undo the line, and I think that is important. With figure-eighted line, I find it is best to simply toss it or drop it after unwrapping the tag end. It seems to naturally unwind properly. If I try to fiddle with it too much, it tends to knot up on me.
Salty
Been wrapping my tarp lines around the end of my tarp at the ridgeline attachment ... I double the tarp bit over the figure 9 and then just do a speed wrap from the inside to out. I like it that way .... comes of with no tangles and I wrap warp speed.
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For elastic "scrunchies" you can use Nacrabiners made with 3/32" bungee cord. I keep them permanently attached to the free ends of suspension whoopie slings so they're right at hand (literally) as I finish doing the figure-8 wind on my fingers. They're easier to wrap around the cord and fasten than a closed loop elastic.
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