Guy Line Loops

[Cranky Bear]

taughtline hitch around the stakes. This way you can slide the knot up the line and get your tarp really taught.

+1! This will allow you easy adjustment if need be!

[^shane^]

+1! This will allow you easy adjustment if need be!

If he's building guy lines like mine all adjustment is done by the mini cam cleat. No need of an adjustable loop.

[perrito]

If he's building guy lines like mine all adjustment is done by the mini cam cleat. No need of an adjustable loop.

Exactly. I'm just not sure what kind of loop to tie for the stake due to the slickness of the Spectra line.

Thanx for the replies.

[Rug]

I must be doing something wrong. I use a taut-line hitch.
I have STL's on all my tie-outs, so a taut-line lets me adjust the pitch anyway i want, and then put a lot of tension on the line.

Or another way of looking at it, as opposed to a small loop that attaches to the stake, the TLH makes the entire guyline a large-loop that I can adjust.

I leave my TLH perm-attached so I only need to 'tie' it once.

[Cranky Bear]

If he's building guy lines like mine all adjustment is done by the mini cam cleat. No need of an adjustable loop.

I agree, but I am confused by the post below, he is asking about tying a loop, if using a cam cleat it is not needed, hence the replies by everyone on what to "tie" for the tie outs! Somewhere in the mix the "cam cleat" is missing!

Exactly. I'm just not sure what kind of loop to tie for the stake due to the slickness of the Spectra line.

Thanx for the replies.

[Knotty]

Looking at the post perrito referenced will clear things up.
Shane's Post

I'd try the perfection loop. Well actually, I put fixed eyes in the ends of my own tarp lines. Probably not worth the effort but, you know, I am "Knotty".

[Cranky Bear]

Looking at the post perrito referenced will clear things up.
Shane's Post

I'd try the perfection loop. Well actually, I put fixed eyes in the ends of my own tarp lines. Probably not worth the effort but, you know, I am "Knotty".

Yes it does!

Sorry for the confusion on my part! After seeing it, you could tie any knot really, if you are afraid of it slipping tie a safety knot behind it (ie figure 8 with a safety, or bowline with a safety), this would give you a fixed eye in the end! If you want to not have a fixed eye you could tie a clove hitch followed by a safety (if worried about slippage), a tautline hitch, or a couple half hitches might do the trick!

[flatline]

bowline, bowline, bowline. make the loop large enough to easily go around the stake twice.

[gRaFFiX]

Huh, I've never needed a saftey knot for a figure 8, or clovehitch, even with zing it. Am I just lucky? Anyway, I agree with Cranky Bear, those will do.

[Knotty]

The loads on tarp tie outs are pretty low so even though Dyneema ropes don't hold knots well (they slip) that shouldn't be a problem in this application.