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Maybe this is a perpetually asked question, but please bear with me.
When rigging a Superfly, how and with what material (and how much) would you recommend rigging the side pulls? I'm thinking about using lash-it, but am certainly not dead set in any direction. I've seen a few pictures with tie outs going to poles, then to the ground but I'm not fully comprehending the way it's being done.
Any input would help this new hanger a great deal!
Howdy Spartan; Brandon at WB actually has a video telling what he does for his SF:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=UHuUmNOwBAw
That answers that question...but generates another...lol.
I was planning on using snake skins as a stuff sack/quick deploy for the tarp. Is there any harm in this, and any issues with tangling if I were to leave the lines that go out to the trees attached? Solutions, if so?
I leave all my lines attached to my Superfly. I figure 8 and tie them off first. And the snake skins have no problems sliding right over all the rigging. And I can still get the whole setup into the original stuff sack no problem.
I use nanolight poles to hook to my pull outs.
That's what I was looking for! You guys are awesome. Thanks for answering my inane questions!Quote:
Originally Posted by Trees4Me
I'm thinking about using the poles for porch mode, but I might just shoot for finding some sticks in the field. Never been big on hiking poles...but I'm ripe for conversion lol.
Sticks do work fine! But same as you I was like " I don't need no stupid hiking poles!" then I bought some to take on a Minnesota spring hang that had just dumped a foot of snow. They were a life saver! And Now I love them! I don't even care if they look dorky:laugh:
I use shock cord coupled with zing-it for my side pull outs. I like it so there is a bit of give. If available, it's nice to tie them off to nearby trees or branches.
How do you rig that? Zing-it between pullouts with shock cord going to the ground? Lengths?Quote:
Originally Posted by Bubba
I use 3ft lengths of shockcord on my side pull outs, with a small loop tied in the end to slip over a pole handle or stick. Then I take a 6ft length of 2mm dyneema down to the ground.
It pitches okay with a single pole but is much better if you can tie off to two separate conveniently located trees. If the sil gets wet it tends to sag quite a bit in the centre with a single pole. Not enough to reduce the space created around the hammock but I find it drops the height a touch.
I use static cord on my cuben tarps as they don't really budge much in the wet.
I use 1/4" poly rope for mine and I just stuff the works into the sack. It does get tangled sometimes, but I figure the time I spend untangling is probably less than I would spend coiling or stuffing the rope into a sewn on pocket. I like to tie the pull outs in an upwards direction (as opposed to staking them down), so I tend to use spots about chest high on trees for my tie of points. You'll love your Superfly, but bring lots of stakes.
One more thing to take into consideration with pullouts is maybe not using as much shock cord. I rigged my single pull out on my MacCat Deluxe with a long piece of shock cord, a la Shug's videos. I got into a windstorm so severe that the tarp was bowed into my hammock almost the entire night. I had to get out and use a spare piece of regular cord. A fixed line cord eliminates this, but puts a ton of tension on the pull out.
Check out the pole mod at wilderness logics works great with my SF !!!
I have a 5 or 6 foot length of shock cord tied to one pull out with the other end of the shockcord tied to the other pull out. I then have a continuous loop of Zing-it larksheaded in the middle of the shockcord. The continuous loop is then prusiked onto and 8 foot length of Zing-it. For a visual, what's created is a "Y". For use with a trekking pole I put the handle of the pole through the continuous loop that is at the centre of the "Y" and then stake down the line and the bottom of the "Y". Using the pole just helps pull the tarp out parallel to the ground and provides more interior space rather than out and down. The larkshead of the continuous loop can be slid along the shockcord but will still hold under tension. Being able to slide it is handy if I tie off to a nearby tree that is not in the middle of the tarp. I just slide it over to create an offset "Y" so the tension going from each pull out will be equal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spartan
I have small loops of heavy shockcord knotted around my Superfly side-pull loops. I keep a couple of 12' pieces of Lash-it rigged with mitten hooks on each end and a 6' piece of Lash-it looped onto the middle stored in my stake bag (think of a big "T" with the top being 12' and the upright being 6'). To use the pull-outs, I just clip on my rigging.
Take it easy,
desmobob