I have been using figure 9s with my amsteel ridgeline for several seasons now. Quick and easy! I did just switch my wife's tarp to Dutch stingers and zing it. (No ridgeline) I like them just as much and that are quite a bit smaller.
I have been using figure 9s with my amsteel ridgeline for several seasons now. Quick and easy! I did just switch my wife's tarp to Dutch stingers and zing it. (No ridgeline) I like them just as much and that are quite a bit smaller.
Years back tarp ridgeline was paracord with one figure 9. Currently using a DIY Zing it ridgeline, a Dutch titanium tarp hook on one end and a Dutch titanium tarp fly for tensioning on the other. Tarp is secured on both ends to the ridgeline by mini linelocks. S'all good.
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Used the small one, with the 'biner, for two years before I went Dutch. I still have it and use it regularly, just not on my tarp. Excellant piece of equipment.
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Nope, I just hook the figure 9 to the tarp...then I larkshead the zing it around the tree (I have a bowline on one end)and attach it to the figure 9, quick and easy. I do not use a ridgeline with my tarp. Tarp straight to the tree.Originally Posted by Vargan
Yea dutchware is nice, but it's more expensive. Flyz are 15 a pair, and I would need 8 tarpworms for superfly, thats another 20. The weight of them are similar too, 4.5 grams for 2x flyz vs 6 grams for 2x figure 9.
Do yo use anything to tie the ridge line to the tree? Like these dutch hooks?
http://www.dutchwaregear.com/dutch-hooks.html
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Figure 9 works great.
Scott
I went to the craft store and got a package of split rings (like used on key fobs). I used the split rings to put figure-9's on both ends of the ridge line (so I don't have to remember which end it is on). I tie a bowline loop in 3mm cord (REI -$5.00 for 50 ft) and mini-biner it to one end of the tarp. I go around the tree (and back through the biner), down and around the other tree, and connect to the other end of the tarp with a figure-9. I also put figure-9s on the guy pull-outs (with split rings). I found I prefer to adjust things at the tarp end rather than at the stake end.
The split rings are a safety in that they will fail before anything else. If the wind is strong enough to straighten them out, I can decide what I want to do - move camp to a more sheltered area or connect directly to the tarp straps.
I use the metal figure 9s with 2.2 mm zing-it continuous ridge line. The 1.75 mm zing-it does not hold well in the figure 9s but the 2.2 holds OK. i still add a slippery half hitch to make sure it doesn't loosen.
I hung my tarp with some paracord and a couple figure 9s the other day. Worked great. Eventually I'll upgrade from paracord due to the stretch but its what I have for now and it works
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