These self tensioning lines are on sale. It's only a buck or two off the regular price, but I decided to give them a try. Does anyone use these?

Tarp Lines

these would come in handy, I'm always retightening the tarp lines.

I buy 1/8'' shock cord at the hardware store and just made loops on the tarp tie outs. I attach the guy lines to this and I'm all done. Does the exact same thing.

Fast and cheap...bungees or BDBs on the ends of the guylines and then secure to your tieout point(stake, rock, branch...)

One thing good about using bungee or shock cord is it gives a breakaway point if gusts are too strong. I use zing-it for my tarp lines and it has really high tensile strength. Since the bungee or shockcord is weaker than zing-it and nylon, it ensures that no loops tear off.

I know all the folks on hammockforums.com love to encourage people to support hammock cottage industries, but these are so easy to make at a fraction of the $20 it would cost for the necessary 4 (or $40 for 8 if you have panel pullouts).

I bought a pack of the smallest bungies on sale at a hardware store ($3 for 4), took off the metal hooks and fixed the resulting shock cord in between a short piece of 1.75 zing-it that ties to the tarp corners and put 8' lengths of zing-it on the other end for the stakes. So now I have 8 self-tensioning lines for a total of $8 or $9.