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Integral Designs Siltarp2
Siltarp2 - 8X10
By Runemael
Ranked #920 - Tents
February 15, 2005
I like the service your website offers and my ranking should not reflect the service. I am disappointed in the Siltarp2 – 8x10 tarp itself. I was expecting a ridge seam of 10 foot long rather than an 8 foot ridge seam. Integral Designs’ decision in cutting the sections this way does reduce the amount of material needed to make the tarp, therefore reducing the cost to manufacture. However, it also reduces the efficiency of a tarp with the longer ridge seam. With other manufactures charging almost the same for their product with a 10 foot ridge seam, I would be hard pressed to recommend this product to others.
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Change me.
3 Comments Last Reply: September 12, 2011 By: MTMIKE
I have found you can pitch it either way and it makes no difference which way the seam is running
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I would love to see a picture of that, sounds good, but I got lost in your description.
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It depends on how you pitch the tarp. You can stake one of the 10' sides taught, then lift your pole in the middle of the other 10' side (make it maybe 40" high) then bring the two points on the still-unattached 10' side in toward the pole a couple of feet. Voila! A roomy shelter for two, almost a pyramid, strung along the 8' ridge seam. (Or, if you're doing an A-frame, make the ridgeline the 8' seam. You'll have an 8'-long shelter wide enough so that two people don't have to slide right up against the tarp to fit.)
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