When to use shock cord for pitching tarp?

[Vanhalo]

..... Hey look! A chicken!

[TrailSlug]

How about the panel pull-outs tho?

The only time I use my panel pullouts is when I'm on a short hike and for these I use to top pole mod which doesn't require any string on my setup.

[TrailSlug]

And what if it's just me in the backyard after dark, and after nearly tripping over the tie-outs twice, managed to successfully trip over it on the third try, the only thing saving my face from hitting the soft grass-covered ground being the hard plastic water bottle that cushioned the blow by splitting my lip?

I trip over mine all the time and nothing has happened. I'm getting better as the more you trip and hit the hard ground the more likely you are to not trip again.

[CrimsonVelos]

I have a silnylon Superfly, but even on my original tarp, the Kelty Noah 12, I have loops of shock cord attached directly to my tie out points to which I have loops of zing it that are attached to another length of zing it with a prussic. I've snagged the lines sometimes and I camp around other people too and possibly silnylon stretch aside, the shock cord is a peace of mind. I have shock cord loops attached to the four pull outs of my superfly. They stay attached and if I want to use the pull outs, I attach some zing it lines to the shock cord loops with mitten clips.
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[Heydad!]

I have a SilNylon and a CF tarp and put Dutch's tarp worms with shock cord on both. If I trip over the line they help reduce the shock, as well as absorb gusty winds....near treeline at 12,000' it can get interesting quick

[Country Roads]

I do use 1/8 shock cord on my cuben tarps just for the reason that you mentioned; they are far too expensive to risk the damage. And I have tripped over my guylines before and was very happy that I had shock cord on them. I also camp in very high wind areas and this helps with the "give" in the tarp I use shock cord on my Argon sil tarp because it stretches...a lot. On my silpoly tarps, I don't use shock cord; not sure why; I just don't.

[Five Tango]

I changed colors on my reflective guylines last week.Went from red to yellow because in the daylight the red seemed to just "go away".I note that I have had great success with red fishing monofilament line as the fish can't see it either.

[HandyRandy]

I changed colors on my reflective guylines last week.Went from red to yellow because in the daylight the red seemed to just "go away".I note that I have had great success with red fishing monofilament line as the fish can't see it either.

I hear ya! I thought it would be cool to to get a black reflective CRL. Not at all, lol! I'm stickin with yellow for all my line.

However, I'll use grey lash-it for my food hang line just to not attract the wildlife; and white reflective glow in the dark shock cordage.

[Hiker Boy]

I use shock cord as line tensioners on all my tarp lines. It seems to work well to combat sag on silnylon and helps with the wind on silpoly.

[SC_Dave]

Here is a thread with some input from Brandon @ Warbonnet on the subject.

https://www.hammockforums.net/forum/...t-From-Brandon