Dismantled a set of found tentpoles at the weekend while camping and discovered a cunning way to keep guyropes tidy.
cut a 3"/80mm length of light elastic cord; tie in a loop through guyrope attachment point with a simple overhand knot, leaving a bit of a tai. you can then coil up the guyline (whatever length it's extended to) and tuck it into the loop of elastic, which'll keep it nice & tidy!
Until i did that, i was going to sew tiny stuffsacks for the guyropes
Cut the guyline down to 6ins long ,seal the end with a lighter or match.Fold and tie into a 3ins. loop. Seal the other cut end of the guyline and fold this also into a 3ins.loop. When pitching,put the long guyline loop through the tent loop, thread the adjuster through and use in the normal way. When packing remove the guylines and keep together in a bag with a few spares. I carry three or four extra long ones for trouble pitches,I also put double lines in a tent loop sometimes especially in exposed spots or I may leave a loop empty. Cheers.
I've used the loop-of-shockcord method too - works fine. So does rolling the guys into a hank and slipping a rubber band round them.
Depending on the design of tent and guy attachment points, another version of Waldo's suggestion (above) is to remove the guy, tie a loop on the inboard endthen use small brass 'S' hooks to attach them to the tent. That keeps guys and tent separate and makes it easy to deploy the guys and augment them with extra lines if necessary. The downside is the weght penalty of the brass or steel hooks if you're backpacking.
> When pitching,put the long guyline loop through the tent loop, thread the adjuster through and use in the normal way.
i.e. connect the guyline to the little loop using a larksfoot knot.
If there's already a loop on the tent that the guyline attaches to, there's no need to make the little loop.
The disadvantage of removing guylines from the tent is that they can get lost... Leaving them tied on, but tidied up in some way means that they're unlikely to get lost.
I'm with CP & MT. Had our huge family tent for 11 years now, with many(!) long guylines. It takes long enough to put up as it is, without faffing around. Simple fold into half and then again (sometimes thirds work better) and then overhand knot. Never got tangled, never got knotted.
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