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[Old Charlie]

I just finished a diamond fly shelter. I used a painter's drop cloth and painted it with a 50/50 boiled linseed oil and mineral spirits. I set it up in the yard. I thought this will never repel water. Well last night we had rain and thunder storms. It did a pretty good job! the ground under neath it stayed dry. I will give it one more coat just in case.
I found the cloth straps I made for lines and pegs will not hold. I am going to try some made of leather.
Old Charlie

 

[sir henry]

throw some japan dryer in with it to help it dry faster. did ya test it to see how easy it ignights? pretty flamable stuff. :redthumb:

 

Hey Charlie, before you go sewing leather to your fly, have you thought about using musket balls, round stones, or walnuts? That way you're not--pardon the pun--tied down to where your straps go. I leared this trick from No Deer a few years ago and have stuck with it ever since.

BTW No Deer, I credit you here for it only because Gawd Awmighty knows that you would surely remind me that yes, you showed me that trick, and if I didn't credit you, you'd whine about it...

Anyway, Charlie, just take a stone or whatever, wrap the corner of your sheet around it--just enough to make a little halloween ghost out of it--and then loop your rope around it, and stake it down or tie it up or whatever. I am sure that someone here has pictures that they can show you if my words make no sense...

 

[Huntinfool]

Mark Baker does it in one of his Pioneering tapes too. He even goes a step further Stumblin he just folds the corner of the fly over in such a way that it'll hold the rope! He ties the rope around it and then to the tree or whatever!

Chuck

 

[No Deer]

BTW No Deer, I credit you here for it only because Gawd Awmighty knows that you would surely remind me that yes, you showed me that trick, and if I didn't credit you, you'd whine about it...

I would not have said a thing. :huh:

Gee, where would you be if not for me? Who else would drag you off into the woods in the middle of winter?
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Oh if only I could take credit. I had read about it someplace before I showed you.

 

[StrongWoman]

Hey, thanks for sharing the idea about folding the corner over and using that to tie on to in order to fasten the corner down! A nice "shooter" marble also works well too : )

Have a good week!

StrongWoman