Bushcraft Skills | Fully enclosed tarp set up (3 meter x 3 meter tarp)

hi everyone what I've got for you today is just another tarp setup and today what I'm going to be doing is using a three by three tarpaulin and showing you how to configure that into a fully freestanding totally enclosed very sturdy kind of tent structure now this structure is ideal for very very bad weather conditions so in the absolute pouring rain really high winds absolutely brilliant your fully enclosed totally in the loads of space and you know it's a sturdy structure as well it's a triangular structure it's not going to get blown down easily and you know you can actually if you spend a little bit more time than I'm going to do on it today you can make this thing absolutely absolutely solid it's also ideal place if you're not out in the woods civvy out on say for example planes or meadowland or moorland or up on the mountains or whatever so long as you've got a pole that's roughly just on the 5 foot tall you'll be able to do this long as you can peg the thing out so it's yes a really really great structure so let's have a look at how the actually put this up ok so just before starting to put this up what I had to do is just gather myself find myself a stick and I straight strong stick I've realized that it's roughly my shoulder height so that's just under 5 foot is kind of an ideal size for this this is gonna actually form the sort of central structure of the tarp tent itself so I'm going to get the tarp out and I am then going to peg out to the corners and then a third one so let's have a look at how I'm going to do that and why so I'm gonna arrange this so that the front is facing this way so that means that these two pieces need to be the back of my tarp so I'm gonna peg goes out first always peg the side that you want to be your back out first you know so pendants on where your wind is coming from what the weather's doing etc what you want to wake up and see in the morning all that kind of stuff it's going to make sure that this is all open nicely central guyline over there now also for this I'm not going to use the pegs which were supplied with this I don't particularly like them particularly in bad weather I find them to be not very sturdy they slide out easily they're easily lost and I just much prefer to use sort of wooden stakes instead so I'm just gonna make one extra one here just really quickly nothing fancy but you see it's quite a long stake the reason for that the reason for keeping this long is so that I can drive it further into the ground to get a much much sturdier hold so this one's going to go in here nice soft ground so I can just push it straight in that's ideal I already had some other pegs which I probably covered up yeah when I push another one in this back corner making sure that is kept really taut so see I'm pulling that really tight there don't keep it tight okay so that's essentially the bit that's going to be down at the ground sorted so once that's done what I now need to do is bring the two loose corners together so we'll bring them in to a triangle here so I'm just going to do on the top of this pole is using my military-style mag I'm just going to wrap it around the top which will give the tarp something to kind of Pat Pat on to and push it on to it can be a little awkward but it just saves you damaging your tarp the last thing you want is this too you know poke through the top you tap all in all the things that I've used in the past being tennis balls bits and pieces like that but least your mags work perfectly for I love them that you know brilliant pieces of you know really versatile kit so I've got a nice bit of padding on the top there and I'm going to stick this up into the center of the tarpaulin so now I've got all this pegged out and just make sure that they're all nice and sturdy because they do have a tendency to ping out occasionally I've got my stick set up so now what I've got to do is get inside this and fit the pole so I'm aiming for kind of roughly Center doesn't always go dead center when you use the natural stick like this because it's quite hard to judge the size if you've got an extendable one it's dead easy but I don't have an extendable one with me today and I'm basically aiming for roughly this point you see dead center of the tarpaulin where that attachment point is so basically get inside here and then stick the pole up inside it and then just drive it down into the ground slightly whilst I'm doing that it can be a little bit kind of fiddly but it's pretty straightforward it's difficult to film though but I'm sure you'll get the idea so you can see one corner pinged out a little bit there it's all I've gotta do is just drive that further in so I find the point where Fitz just kept on that but I want this down down at the ground and if I was stayed in this I'd probably just knocked this peg really to keep it in place that it's nice and taut then but I'm not stopping in this tonight so that will suffice I can't get that stiff actually further in I think it's here root or something down there so effectively this is the tent constructed and what this this flat which seems like it's not doing anything is actually very useful it allows me a decent entryway into the tent and if I wanted to I can even open this front out if I had something to state this to which is a demonstration I'll say for another day but this one time inside you can do this from the inside I'm going to demonstrate from the outside can be brought round to the side here and it's dead center with that pole and what it does is it creates a totally sealed entrance here so even better that's it you know there isn't anything getting through that because it's totally folded over on all the seams or any one offs going to go up or at the bottom so the easiest ways to seal this up just take a piece of paracord and then tie a very loose knot and something that's going to be easy to undo I tend to flavour we've got old fashioned bow so I can just pull that and it comes on done that isn't going to go anywhere it might move around a bit of the night but it's not going to do do me any harm and then I can just pull it apart real easy to fall in mourning in order to get out you can do that from the inside very very easily so if you were using the similar bad conditions there's a couple of extra things you could do I'm not going to do them today because it's just demonstration how to construct it you see I've got a guide point at top here so what I could do is tie additional ones and take that out as guidelines to you know any side of this triangle depends on how bad the weather was I could also attach additional guidelines to these edges here to give me a little bit more space and of course I'd want this side piece as far down to the ground as I can get it as taut as I can get it so I can kind of pull these out a little bit more and really pegged a min if I have to so you know it's quite a versatile first a little thing there's quite a lot of space in there more than enough room for I'd say two people and a sensible amount of gear or one person and an awful lot of gear so there you go that's how to use your 3x3 tarp to set it up into a fully enclosed tent setup I really like it once it's all pegged out and everything it's totally bomb-proof really really good setup so there you go guys that's that's how to do this I hope you've enjoyed watching this hope it's being useful and a lot of other people have done this kind of setup but I wanted to do my own version of it just because I want to have a long selection of different type setups and this is quite an important one I feel so I hope you've got something out of this I hope you've learned something go ahead give it a try and as always thank you for watching please like share subscribe comment except to any feedback anyway I could improve this set up will be useful I do like it so yeah thanks for watching guys

Channel: Forrester Bushcraft

Views: 485,010

Rating: 4.8002167 out of 5

Keywords: Bushcraft, survival, how to, Camping, tarpaulin, Survival Skills (TV Genre), outdoors, hiking, backpacking, prepping

Id: t_TTAAzvybA

Length: 9min 40sec (580 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 11 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Scottler]

I'd never seen this build before. After watching, I had to try it. Hands down the easiest I've seen. First attempt and it went up under 2 minutes, and even that was only because I tried a few different pole options before going with a stick. Love it!

[u/[deleted]]

I use this setup a few times a year in really inclement weather. The biggest drawback is condensation inside the tarp.

[u/mrhelton]

Wow really simple, I'm going to try this next time!