Whew.........
Whew.........
I was in 60 mph winds with atleast -20f temps and the cuben held up fine. Funny enough (not at the time) my ridgeline snapped which was 1.75 lash it before the cuben or gross grain got damaged.
I do agree with the previous assumptions that deep cold doesn't help d-rings. To add to this topic. If a person were using a silnylon tarp, it most likely would have been stretched like crazy because of the winds.
Cuben is cool stuff.
Fronkey
My saw blade snapped that day too. As did a couple stakes trying to pound them into that frozen ground. I'd have to say it was the cold that gotcha. A key ring would be a good quick replacement, still giving you that fail-safe.
I always kept the plastic D rings off my tarps till I ordered a couple of cuben's off HG and they came with the D rings on them,,and I threatened to cut them off and just use the gross grain ribbon which always works fine for me,,,,still wanting to cut them off, but now I think I will just leave them on till they break as a fail safe. When they break,,will just put my tarp flyz and prussics on my tie outs on thru the ribbons and just say to heck with the D rings as like I always did before. I have no long term faith in plastic outdoors over time.
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I second that emotion with carrying extra key ring parts. (2 cause they can double as zipper pulls in a pinch.) Russ and I had HG cuben tarps in 35 MPH winds and 11 degrees. The stakes pulled out of the ground, but the rings and tarp remained intact. That said, with dutch ware, you can pull those tarp ridge lines REALLY TIGHT before you realize how much pull is on those plastic rings. If you employ dutchware, it's a caveat and a testimony to how good dutchware is made. Deep cold can change everything. Just sayin'..
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Thanks for getting back so quickly and for your kind offer to repair but it hardly seems worth the trouble. I'll use Fallkniven's suggestion and replace with a couple of key rings. No hardship experienced - worked as you intended and I was able to quickly re-rig using the webbing attachment in less than a minute.
On the positive side - it sure was nice to be able to be able to see the nearly full moon through the tarp and my 20* Phoenix with a 2 oz. over-stuff kept me toasty warm down to 5*
see you on the trail,
Mike
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