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    Robert Quimby
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    @traildog

    Locale: Great Lakes/Ontario

    11 oz. , 8.5' long by plenty wide. i bogarted some other designs and made a modified flat roof that tapers at the foot. the foot has a small beak that has been modified from the pic to provide more slope and not be so straight back.
    bivy1
    i wanted to be able to sit up and cook under it, even if i had to stake both long sides to the ground. the height at the head is around 3.5 '
    bivy under tarp
    a carbon fibre arrow shaft ( .2 oz, guy charged me $2 ) is used as a spreader at the head.
    head end showing flat roof and spreader
    my summer solo set-up is now finished: homemade ray-way quilt ( 60 deg ) on insulmat max thermo mattress, both inside a ti goat bivy, all under the above pictured tarp. total weight : 4 lbs, 2 oz.
    i know i could drop big weight ( like almost 1 lb. ) by changing my air mat but forget it; i sleep crappy without it.

    #1502373
    Misfit Mystic
    Member

    @cooldrip

    Locale: "Grand Canyon of the East"

    Great bit of home-grown there Robert! Question about the tail: it looks like it could be configured to have a small beak. Is this the case?

    Awesome idea with arrow-shaft; I might be bogarting your design for my next tarp!

    #1502377
    Robert Quimby
    Spectator

    @traildog

    Locale: Great Lakes/Ontario

    thanks scott, there is a small beak on the foot end. as you can see, i measured it wrong and the beak doesn't have enough slope, it's too straight back. it was an easy fix though; i just sewed the sides together for about 3", down from the beak tieout

    #1502381
    Misfit Mystic
    Member

    @cooldrip

    Locale: "Grand Canyon of the East"

    This solves one of my big pet peeves with my tarp, which is the lack of headroom if I have to pitch the sides low. I wonder if a side-pullout similar to Oware and MLD use would increase the head and shoulder space even more? I think that would help with another of my pet peeves with my flush-pitched tarp: the narrowness at shoulder and head height makes it difficult to avoid brushing against the sidewalls. I've been puzzling about this for the last few days while camping, but I think you've solved my quandry.

    #1502401
    Greg Mihalik
    Spectator

    @greg23

    Locale: Colorado

    The spreader is Brilliant!

    By tying the cord from the tarp into a tight loop, a single (tall) pole or forest stick could support the front, versus the never-present perfect tree limb.

    About how high is the front edge in this pict?

    So simple, so perfect.

    Thanks.

    #1502433
    Rog Tallbloke
    BPL Member

    @tallbloke

    Locale: DON'T LOOK DOWN!!

    > By tying the cord from the tarp into a tight loop, a single (tall) pole or forest stick could support the front

    Until the wind hits it. Maybe adding two more small cords to the spreader ends to tie further down the pole would stop it flapping.

    "Get that foresail tied off Bosun, and be sharp about it!"

    #1503815
    Robert Quimby
    Spectator

    @traildog

    Locale: Great Lakes/Ontario

    greg,

    in the pics, the front is about 4.5' high. i designed the tarp so that when it's pouring rain, i can peg the long sides flush to the ground and still have 3.5' of height at the head ( by 6' wide ), enough to sit up and cook. the foot end is 2' high.

    thanks

    trail dog

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