Pitch ANY Tent Fly Only with this HACK 

Great hack! Using two different colors for the lines (red for long, yellow for short, for example) would make setup even faster and easier.

This is one of the best "omg DERR" moments. This is Excellent. It's becoming part of my education for scouts on tents.

Rather than cutting the cord for each side, you could just feed the cord through one hole, tie a simple overhand knot, then feed it through the second hole: no need for a second knot if you don't cut the cord. Or, if the washer is the right size, just use a ring hitch (slip a bight of the cord through the center of the washer, and loop it over the top of the washer), and you don't need to drill any holes in the washers. The cord will help prevent the washer from riding up the pole, too. Also, UHMWPE (the generic name for the material used in Lash-It and Zing-It) is famous for knots slipping. A better solution (but a little tricky) is to splice the cord to itself. Look up videos on making whoopie slings to see how to do this.

I just made one for my own Hubba Hubba! I made mine using 2mm cord from Decathlon and stainless steel M8 washers. Thanks a lot for sharing

Great hack! Thanks for sharing.

Brilliant. Thank you so much 😊

Outstanding hack. Merci!

WOW!! Love how simple this hack is

Great hack. Thanks for showing it

Excellent tip.

Great. Thank you for your hard work.

Great video of a excellent idea. Superb graphics and demonstration was on point. Thanks!

This is so awesome! Thank you for sharing. I love DIY solutions, especially ones that solve a real issue. This one certainly does.

I’ll be trying this out for sure 😊 thanks

This is truly brilliant and very ultralight! Wow thank you! 👏

MSR use to put grommets on the end of its footprints so that you could pitch fly first. Recently they stopped adding the grommets to the footprints. I’ve no idea why and I did write to them about it but no response. I was very disappointed when I bought the MSR Hubba 1 and discovered that the footprint did not allow you to pitch fly first, unlike my previous purchase of the Hubba Hubba 2p and footprint a few years ago. However I managed a work around. I had 4 split washer rings (8-9mm from memory). With 2 pairs of pliers I opened them up and inserted them through the MSR 1p ‘Generic’ footprint corner end straps and then closed the split rings up so they would stay attached to the footprint, and were also the right size such that they would accommodate the end of the tent poles but not slip up the tent poles. Has worked flawlessly.

Awesome idea!

Amazing idea. I'm going to do this!

This would be a great way to save weight and do a "fly only" setup for warmer days!

Wow! First time I see your chanel! You’re my new friend from now on! Love this hack that will help me with my Hubba Bubba.

nice and so rare to see clear process demo

Brilliant! Going to apply this to my Nemo

Nice! Gives me ideas.

Funny to see this video today. I literally just finished making something similar for my tent this past week, using loops of line at the corners instead of washers. Good idea!

Great video

That was an awesome hack. I've got the same tent as you, so it'll be a breeze. Thanks!

Clever idea! Super lightweight too.

I use some cord and knots. this is overcomplicated. but it will help some people somwhere. thumbs up!

Thank you so much for sharing this...I had imagined something like this, and for the same reasons you mentioned, about the weight of carrying a footprint and also, having a footprint lying in the rain while getting the poles inserted...this is a great solution. Thank you for making it happen and documenting it and sharing it...very appreciative 🙏🤓

I have an OEX Raccoon, with a weird pole system, but I am definitely going to try this!

That's clever for sure. But I'll stick to my Durston all in one set up. 😁 Another great video Mike!

Side tip: Paria Outdoor sells 1.5mm Dyneema line for $13/50'. Significantly cheaper than Lash-it/Zing-it if you only need a small amount (for something like this). With 50' you can create a fast pitch rectangle, and have enough line left over for a couple extra short guy lines.

Brilliant! I have a winter project now. And maybe I don't need a Durston xmid after all.

I made a similar setup using nylon strap for the pole holder instead of the washers. I just made the needed size hole with a soldering iron.

Especially the Hubba is possible to pitch fly only without any hack. I have seen it in an old MSR video. Spread the fly inside out on the ground. Put the poles in the grommets. Make sure the straps of the grommets are at it’s widest. Make sure the zippers are open . Then with move a little bit like folding a popup tent turn the fly up and the poles with a twist in it. Pull the straps set the pegs and you are ready for the innertent…

Thank you! :-)

Great & detailed tent fly hack and looking forward to trying it. Question, can't you assemble the MSR Hubba Hubba with just the rain fly first if needed attaching to the tent pole frame then assemble the tent body inside? Thanks for your content.

I did an even simpler, quicker version of this for my MSR Hubba Hubba: only two pieces of cord (for the two long sides of the tent) with a grommet knotted at each end. I just cannibalized some grommets from other old tent footprints that I had lying around. You don't really need the short sides, or the full rectangle shape. Just lay the two lines out parallel to one another, and at roughly the width of the tent. Of course, none of these gyrations would be necessary if MSR would just put some frigging grommets on the frigging footprint corners, lol. I've since moved on to a SlingFin Portal tent that is designed with the capability to be pitched fly-first.

Bankline would be sufficient for the lines

I have a nemo. What is it you are saying I need to do to make mine work?

I really love being able to leave the tent body at home & just use the fly over my sleeping bag

Do you have buckles at the corners to attach the fly?

I don’t know if it is just my msr hubba hubba 3p, but I can pitch it fly only with nothing special. The doors are loose and the poles support it just fine slotting it into the ends without anything else. I just went outside in case I was taking crazy pills. It worked.

Do you think you could just attach the washers onto the line with clove hitches, rather than drilling in and knots? Pros and cons likely, and want to make sure you have enough room for the tent poles to seat properly in the washers with the line inside too?

100ft of #36 bankline is 2mm and 300lb rated for about $10.

An exo-skeleton-design tent means the load bearing structure is the outer tent (what you in this video call 'fly') and the inne tent is hung from the inside of the outer-tent. This is way superior to normal tents since it both lets you pitch the outer and inne togeather but also lets you pitch only the outer for example a lunch-stop in bad weather or if you ar not using the inner for wheight-reasons for an example. This also results in far more stable tents that can take more wind and heavier snow-loads without loosing shape. Basically all decent scandinavian tent-manufacturers make all thier tents in exo-skeleton-design like this and few serius outdoor entusiast here wouldn't buy anything the tents used normaly in most other parts of the world. Helsport and Hilleberg is two reputable brands but there's other more inexpensive ones also. But if you are stuck with these tents for whatever reason this is a usefull stop-gap-solution!

Here my NO drill or washer versions I posted last year..... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9_k_FTWIHKo.html&ab_channel=Bokooda

Won't work if your tent is like mine with sleeves for the poles.

This is great! Very nice and many, many thanks! LIKE button HAS been hit :-)

Uhhhh, the tent you are using to show this technique, as well as the Hubba mentioned at the beginning can ALREADY be set up fly only, with the footprint, which you should be using anyway. 🤦‍♂️ Pretty sure most if not all tents using a footprint can be set up fly only. 🤷‍♂️