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**T_Bone** · 08-17-2016, 01:28

Originally Posted by Dutch

Here is a vid of a tarp I made up real quick. It has a variety of tie out points. It took me a little more than an hour to make and cost about $30 in materials. One of the beauties of it is there is no seam sealing and there is no seam running down the center of the hammock. It weigh a little more than 9 ounces and I think you will see it covers an 11 foot hammock quite well. It starts out as an 10 foot by 75 inch wide rectangle but the ridgeline is on the diagonal.
Enjoy...

I really want to see this tarp too but the link gives me an error message on my phone. Any chance you could give me the title and I could search it out on YouTube?

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**atrane21** · 08-17-2016, 08:21

Originally Posted by T_Bone

I really want to see this tarp too but the link gives me an error message on my phone. Any chance you could give me the title and I could search it out on YouTube?

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Title of the youtube video is "DIY ASYM tarp made from Xenon WIDE polyester sil". Actual link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAHmwNqBr0

**T_Bone** · 08-17-2016, 11:04

Thank you! That is awesome.

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**Ratdog** · 08-17-2016, 11:53

What I really like is the extra tie out to create more coverage in bad weather.

I use an asym tarp for good weather and as a backup. When I take a group camping, I usually wind up with it. If rain happens, and it does, I end up draping a raincoat over one end and whatever I can find over the other end of the suspension.

The extra tie out would have helped me out any number of times. Wondering if moving it a little further down, or away from the peak, might help. Would need to experiment a little. Whatever works to maximize coverage.

**DrPhun** · 08-29-2016, 19:23

I bought some to make an asymmetrical tarp and looking at, I have a couple questions.

As indicated in the announcement with the comment about the usable width, the selvage is a little wider than I am used to. On other projects it has been narrow enough that I left it on and it ended up inside the rolled hem, but on this I will have to trim it off. By chance, is the grid of the ripstop parallel to the edge so I can use that as a guide?

One side seems like it is a little shinier than the other. Is this silicone on one side and pu on the other? Should the shiny side go on the inside? (I guess using the regular xenon or silnylon that is the same on both sides has made me lazy.)

What I am thinking, is that I will make it a 6 x 10.5 rectangle then I will add sufficient tieouts to give additional flexibility. That will give a 12' ridgeline hung on the full diagonal (corner to corner)or a slightly short and narrow but usable rectangle, or a rectangle wider on one side or partly diagonal (mid side to mid side).

**atrane21** · 08-30-2016, 07:24

Originally Posted by DrPhun

I bought some to make an asymmetrical tarp and looking at, I have a couple questions.

As indicated in the announcement with the comment about the usable width, the selvage is a little wider than I am used to. On other projects it has been narrow enough that I left it on and it ended up inside the rolled hem, but on this I will have to trim it off. By chance, is the grid of the ripstop parallel to the edge so I can use that as a guide?

One side seems like it is a little shinier than the other. Is this silicone on one side and pu on the other? Should the shiny side go on the inside? (I guess using the regular xenon or silnylon that is the same on both sides has made me lazy.)

What I am thinking, is that I will make it a 6 x 10.5 rectangle then I will add sufficient tieouts to give additional flexibility. That will give a 12' ridgeline hung on the full diagonal (corner to corner)or a slightly short and narrow but usable rectangle, or a rectangle wider on one side or partly diagonal (mid side to mid side).

We've had customers make tarps with this and leave the edges on and just roll them into the hem like you said and they haven't had any problems.

The shinier side is the PU side and it doesn't matter which side you have in or out. Just remember that if you need to seam seal at all that the PU side needs seam grip.

**infrastellar** · 08-30-2016, 09:15

Dutch, I dont see the xenon .9 fabric wide option, is that a mistake?

want to make ultralight asym tarp, and this wide fabric made me to think about it again.

**atrane21** · 08-30-2016, 12:01

Originally Posted by kardinal_emilus

Dutch, I dont see the xenon .9 fabric wide option, is that a mistake?

want to make ultralight asym tarp, and this wide fabric made me to think about it again.

There is no .9 xenon wide yet. We only have the regular xenon in wide.

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**kitsapcowboy** · 10-10-2016, 19:17

I purchased 8 yards of this new Xenon Wide and made myself a 25-ounce full-coverage 4-season widebody winter tarp (with integral doors) for less than $90...

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...de-Winter-Tarp

**gfranxman** · 10-10-2016, 19:58

Originally Posted by kitsapcowboy

I purchased 8 yards of this new Xenon Wide and made myself a 25-ounce full-coverage 4-season widebody winter tarp (with integral doors) for less than $90...

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...de-Winter-Tarp

well done! is the ridge cat cut too? looks awesome.

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