Uncle Phil
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I've set it up as a 'modified' a-frame.Is it possible (high enough) to set it up as an A frame?
It's already set up that way.Two long poles and two somewhat shorter ones so the tarp has pitch to it for encouraging run-off.
Already tried the ridge lines - straight across and corner to corner.Phil, you need something underneat the middle, that is, a piece of rope, from one pole to the other one, in diagonal.
You can join the 4 corners with two piece of ropes, that will intersect in the middle.
Then, a piece of something light, that will act as a spacer, just to create a small bump in the middle of the tarp.
Other possibility, use only 2 poles to create a two slope roof.
But keep the ideas coming as I hate to have to carry another pole if I don't have to.
The tarp is a 10X8 which is exactly what I want - (tent is 8 feet wide).My take on this is that your tarp is too small for what you want to do and you don't use enough tie-downs.
So you use two poles and put two tie-downs per pole (or 4 poles and two per pole)?well, I wish I had one. The lower edge on the left side of the tarp I used a tie-down in each hole
and the ones you can see are duplicated out of sight.