I just posted this in another thread, but thought it might be worth a stand-alone thread as I haven't seen anybody else posting something similar.
Since I got my Dutch Stingerz, I ditched all other methods of hanging my tarps. I don't know any better/easier way to hang a tarp. However, I had two problems:
1. I found that with the ridgeline spliced to the Stingerz as intended by the maker, the V helping to prevent the hammock suspension to rub against the tarp line was not as large as I would like it to be: the tip is a Stingerz-length away from the tarp (= where the line is spliced to the Stingerz).
2. I often have to use trees spaced apart a lot more than I would like (recently had to use two birches about 10m apart), but I don't want to carry 2 x 25m of line.
This is why I decided not to splice my ridgeline to the Stingerz but to use it seperately. I spliced loops into one end and larksheaded them to the tarp. For normal hangs I use them in the usual way, but the tip of the V is now much closer to the tarp. And if I run out of line, I can detach the line, pass it around the tree and feed it through the loop (like you would with tree huggers) and run a single line back to the Stingerz. And voilà: I just added several meters of tarp line without additional hardware.
Here are two pictures to illustrate:
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