What do you guys use on your guy lines to make them more visible?
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Re: Guy lines
Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:41 PMbright colored pieces of cloth, tied in two place on each guy line.
and we also use solar power lights on each of the rebar stakes to light them...
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 3:01 PMi do this as well... lights down at the rebar stakes and bright cloth tied onto the line
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 4:09 PMneon-colored pool noodles! you can cut one into 3-4 pieces and both highlight your guy lines and put a little foam padding around the rebar. They're like $1.99 each at Rite-Aid or Walgreens. -
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 4:26 PMCostco sells a set of 15 solar powered lawn lights for about $90. I plant one of these next to each rebar stake. They work great. Often times this is enough, depending on how the guy wire is run.
I also have some solar christmas lights, and I ran those along the more awkward guy lines to good effect.
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:46 PMI run el-wire down mine, and also shine a solar lamp at the rebar.
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:51 PMI Like the EL wire Idea, gonna have to invest in some I guess, thanks man
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 5:35 PMhaha wow where is my mind? I read this and thought, "guy lines? would those be those two lines seen on lean/muscular guys just above the crotchal area, seemingly pointing in the 'this way' direction? I love those lines..." -
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 10:32 PMsounds like your mind as in the right place
you can look at our guy lines anytime. ok i guess i can only speak formyself but still...
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Sat, April 26, 2008 - 7:16 AMmy first thought was "things guys say to pick up girls" (or other guys...)
but I like where you're thinking, too.
and then there's "guy-liner" (Jonny Depp, Simon Bon,etc)
and that other stuff, yeah, EL is good, but pricy and needs batteries (which can be rechargable, but that becomes a maintenance issue on the playa). I like the solar X-mas light idea. Do they make solar LED light strings? -
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Sun, April 27, 2008 - 7:02 AMYes, they do male solar LED lights on a string. Got mine on ebay and at Target at Christmas. -
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Sun, April 27, 2008 - 12:29 PM
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Mon, April 14, 2008 - 10:28 PMlast year i used brightly colored cloth and also glow sticks but i found people tened to be lured in my the glow sticks and trip any way at night. this year i'm not sure what route to go for nighttime.
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Tue, April 15, 2008 - 7:37 AMThe guy lines on our carports are criss-crossed in an X between two of the three legs. We tilt the carports into a clamshell, basically leaving off the long legs on one side, the back guy lines just run along the beam toward the ground. Noting sticking out accept a little rebar; we cover those with *gasp* orange rebar caps which you get at construction sites.
Anyone using carports might find the X configuration handy, just be sure to use tighteners on your rope, it will slack up during the week. Our lines are pre-cut and spliced into the tighteners, make set-up much quicker.
There may be a picture of this somewhere in my photos.
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Tue, April 15, 2008 - 8:54 AMI thought you meant lines used to pick up guys...
I've tried LEDs, EL wire, glow paint and they were all a hassle and kept failing or falling off. Single-use glow-sticks are SO pre-Green Man.
I am going to try some glow-in-the-dark rope this year, I saw a little bit of it on the playa on 07 and it worked well. Can be used for the lines themselves or as short markers. Charges in the sun, lasts all night. Not as bright as EL wire but might have some fun costume and spin toy applications too.
coolglowstuff.com/id12.html
www.glorope.com/catalog/detail.cfm
www.safetycentral.com/glorope.html
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Tue, April 15, 2008 - 11:13 PMWe used solar powered Christmas lights and they worked great. It was a maybe 12' string that we wrapped around the guy lines, and they blinked all night. -
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Tue, April 15, 2008 - 11:59 PM
We utilized barbed wire. It worked great.
We caught a some ravers, hippies and fratboys. The ravers were released - too young. The hippies were let go as well - too old and gamey. But the fratboys were just right. We cooked them up and it was a wonderful meal for the whole camp. Everyone said they tasted like Heineken beer.
Remember, if you are not going to eat the catch, then please release it.
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 9:00 AMand a yellow tennis ball on the rebar stake,co's im fukin tellin you those fings hurt your toes. -
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Wed, May 7, 2008 - 3:53 PMThink about placing a portion of a pool noodle over the shaft of the stake. You know those floaty pool noodles toys with the hollow center.....
1) Pound the stake into the ground.
2) Size the noodle to the stake after it is in the ground (allow 2 inches for the tennis ball).
3) Cut the noodle and place it on the stake.
4) Cap the stake with the split tennis ball.
You have just potentially saved a life or a few broken toes.....
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Fri, April 18, 2008 - 9:06 AMThis is what I have done to tie my lines too. Everything (paracord and rebar) I am using is UV orange so it will glow in the black lights I am bringing.
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Tue, April 29, 2008 - 9:31 PMGuy lines:
"Is that a mirror in your pants? because I can see myself in them" =-P
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 11:48 AMI found this really cool glow in the dark braiding cord ( the type you make lanyards out of ) in a craft store that I thought about using. That and a whole lot of brightly colored material remnants that I put a little glow paint on. I throw nothing away :p
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 10:59 PMummm..........*stupid*........whats a guy line? -
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 11:04 PMno, not stupid, just not introduced to the terminology.....
a guy line is a rope from a tent, or other non-permanent structure, to an anchor point - often a stake in the ground
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Wed, April 30, 2008 - 11:04 PMlines are the things that keep your tent or sun shade from blowing away in the 60 mile per hour gusts of wind.
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