Webbing Straps for Tarp

[hommes90]

I'm looking at getting webbing from Harbor Freight to use as slings for hanging my tarp (once around the tree, then clip both free ends to the tarp via a figure 9 carabiner on a cord and tighten). This will allow a triangle for hammock webbing to go through and will not have "sawing" effect on tree of wrapping cord around tree and cinching tight.
Anyway, since the webbing won't be bearing weight beyond tension and wind on the tarp I'm wondering whether I can burn holes into the poly webbing close to the end, perhaps backed up with a bit of stitching, instead of tying or stitching loops. I've done this for similar things with tubular nylon webbing and it worked fine. Anyone have any experience with this?

[Bubba]

If the webbing is strong enough it should work but I'm not sure it's that necessary. To be honest, I've not seen any problems with using any kind of cordage for tarps on trees. I don't think there is enough tension to damage the trees or the cordage for that matter at least in my experience. Having said that I've only really ever been around harder woods. The webbing would be unnecessary bulk in your set up. If it works, that's cool, just my two cents.