Easiest Tarp Shelters you should know!

how's it going everyone Paul with adaptable survival what we're going to do in today's episode is go over five basic tarp shelters that you need to know let's dive into it [Music] so what we're going to hit on are five basic tarp shelters in today's video that you can utilize while you're Outdoors now there's tons and tons of tarp shelters if you start googling that look it up you'll find countless like I couldn't even give you an accurate number when I was thinking about this idea for video I wanted to build on it into like a longer series and when I started looking up to tarp shelters and what you can do with just a tarp I was pretty much amazed I'm like there's some of them are like super complex I don't even know how you set those up but before we start diving into the five that we're going to discuss in today's video I wanted to talk about the two types of shelters in my opinion that you're gonna find now this 5x7 mess tarp from Bushcraft Outfitters this is going to work really really well for an emergency shelter so super compact this has tent Stakes Ridgeline even another waterproof tarp inside of just this bag alone so if I'm looking to carry something that I can utilize to you know get out of the weather for a short time or in an emergency this is a go-to and then we have this free Soldier 10 by 10 carp I know the dimensions are a little bit different but in all intents purposes a 10 by 10 tarp now I'm a big fan if I'm going out intentionally to Camp of using a 10 by 10 even an 8x8 is really really handy now I've used tarps that were bigger than this and they definitely have their time in place if you look back I want to say probably two or three years ago I did a Wiki Up shelter and over the course that video seeing you know my initial idea didn't really work out because I didn't have enough coverage but I still made that work by far one of the hardest nights I've had sleeping Outdoors because I was basically sleeping on one side I like for my hip down to my knee was so sore the next day story for a different day but tarps usually come in those kind of two types you know that 5x7 or they're about sizing which is going to be an emergency tarp you'll think of your Arcturus blankets your Grabbers the Pathfinder survival blanket all that all those kind of fall under that category and anything bigger everything from Sil nylon polyester tarps all the way up to dyneema wax canvas oil cloth you know those bigger tarps are really meant for in for intentional camping so enough rambling let's dive into the five basic tarp shelters that we needed all right so what I did is I already set up the ridge line I'm not going to go through that process in this video because I have done videos on that already but the first shelter we're going to talk about is the lean to you probably by far one of the simplest tarp shelters you can set up takes very very minimal materials to set up so let me set this up and then we'll bring it in for a close-up so firstly I'm using the 5x7 for this shelter you can do it with a 10 by 10 it's just going to be massive so let me just get this tarp folded out here actually start over on this other side just feeding a loop through my other loop I actually want to shorten this up a bit and now one of the items or a few of the items you're going to need for this shelter setup are either some spare tent Stakes sticks off the ground or some sort of toggle so I'm just running that through here and then shortening this tail up now I come to the other side and on my Ridge line I have a prussic loop that I just bring it out where I want it to be to match up with the length of the tarp take another 10 stake put that through now I can tighten that up now I have that nice and tight right across the Ridgeline now I take my back corners and just line this up now I want to essentially make an L from the corner that I'm holding to this first toggle down the ridge line to the other toggle it now when I stake this out creating tension across there and this is almost going to be vertical of a lean tube just because of the height I have the ridge line but that's all right and now same thing I want to create that l or imagine I'm creating an x on the back line of the tarp here it's simple enough you can come through adjust as needed and now we have a basic lean-to set up here still have a little bit of waviness going in here but I do have a tree root on this side so may not be able to get this perfect and that is simply setting up that lean to so the reason I started with the lean to is it's going to be the easiest tarp shelter to set up in an emergency when the weather's turning on you when you're kind of in a pinch you know all you're doing is stringing up that Ridge line in whatever fashion you prefer toggling out two points on the ridge line and then staking out the back now I could get this tarp a lot tighter if I wanted to but you can see how this is almost Bowing in that's because the wind is coming from that direction it's coming to the back and that's ideally what I want is I want that wind to come up in the back and go over me I don't want to lose heat through different heat loss mechanisms I did a video on that go back in the history and check that out now this bottom in right now isn't ideal for camping it's too uneven of a train but for the demonstrations I'm going through today it works perfectly because I have a lot of trees here to switch between the different shelters but this shelter is really more designed to get you out of the rain to give you a lot of open airflow so you're not worrying about any condensation building up on the tarp if it is colder out and you're using a shelter like this or something with the reflective side you can have a fire in front of you but also not get burnt out of your shelter roast it out of your shelter so first shell tarp shelter I always recommend people to set up lean too but obviously your weather conditions are going to dictate which one of these shelters works best for you now for our second shelter we can easily transition from this lean to you into a plow point that is just having one point a little bit higher than where our ridgeline's at so for that one I'm just coming over here pushing this prusik Loop in so I can remove that tent stake taking this one keeping that 10 stake there removing this one out of the ground and now what I can do with my Ridgeline I can either undo it so I can easily adjust this or depending how tight I have this and now I don't tighten this as tight as I a guitar string let's say you know I leave some slack in there so when I pull this I can easily lift this up if I had to transition my tarp shelter for whatever reason but now what I can do with this back point is I can come out in any direction I want to from here I can come directly in line with the Ridgeline itself or I can bring this out Now by bringing this back end out here you can see how the tart starts to become nice and taut I just come down and I'm not too worried about this initial stake going in and permanently being here this is essentially just holding it while I get the wings staked out I'll come to this first one take out my handy dandy tent stake and then just come out to where I'm creating a nice tight tarp structure and then I'm coming over to this other side where the tent stake is still in that Loop and now just creating a nice and tight structure and now I can come back to this back stake and readjust this and that's all right if you have to readjust things I'm working with some soft soil here so that's it's to be expected so now as we can see we have a shelter that's giving us two sides where the lean tube was only giving us one that's going to give us additional protection from the elements now like I said this spot that I'm in isn't ideal for intentionally camping out here but if I needed to get out of the weather if for just for a quick rain shower or something like that I can set this up and be protected from whatever direction that weather is coming from if I were to camp out here and have this set up in an ideal spot this would give me somewhere to sleep more than enough room for me in here I could lay down here and still have some head room if it was colder and I was using a reflective tarp I can have a fire out in front of me collect a lot more of that radiant heat to stay a lot warmer so having some sort of reflective tarp whether that is one of the cheaper Sol mylar blankets or uh survival blanket emergency blanket you know either one of those options are going to work the mylar blanket what I wouldn't do and this is something I learned from Josh enyart is you could tape that to the inside of this and now you have a tarp you can constantly train with and then have that emergency option always ready so now we've hit on two of the basic tarp shelters we need to know with where I have this Ridgeline set we can move in to that third shelter so all I'm going to do is come through take these 10 Stakes out clean them off so don't make them tarp all gnarly set these off to the side and now I'm still coming up to this main point off well I forgot 110 stick getting ahead of myself here so now remove all of those and now I can come back to this Loop here off that modified Trucker's Hitch now if you have this attached with Carabiner or some or some sort of other method a plastic Loop can take the place of this now the main reason I like this mess tarp is along the sides the short ends you have a loop in the middle here and that can come in play for this next shelter so I'm going to do is get this tarp over the top line up where those middle Loops are and we're moving into a fly [Applause] let me get this attached in here or start rambling again oh take one of my extra 10 Stakes here I'm gonna need these other two but I'm just coming to this other Center Loop here moving that prussic Loop out however far I need to so I'm able to run it through bang bang done and now we have that initial part of a fly done where the second part is going to come into play is we are going to stake out Each corner with a guy line now I'm going to stake out three and I'll bring you back in close for the last one so as you see I have the three corners staked out and have that initial framing that I want for this shelter now let me lift up this corner that's not staked out yet where I have this right now is a little high for how I would use this but let's just say I'm if you know it's a downpour rain coming straight down on me this would work give me ton of that ventilation throughout here if I had some sort of bivvy or a mesh tent I could put that under here and have an improvised rain cover now we are going to stake out this last corner so let me bring you in for that so now with this last corner so that you can see there are Loops tied into this tarp I just have my guidelines and with these ones I just have that bowling tied in there just give me some slack there and what I'm actually going to be doing is I'm putting that bowl line right through this Loop and I'm just gonna make a running bowling bowline bowling I know someone's going to correct me in the comments so it is what it is and now if we look at that Loop and that bullet I just ran it in through itself I can tighten that down so that holds that in place let's go stake this out so now with this final corner I'm taking that guy line pulling it tight to where I need where it lines up and gives me that a shape on the tarp itself but I'm just running this down to where I need it I'm taking this the running end and I'm just throwing it over the top I'm creating a loop here and what we're all we're doing is making a marline spike so now I have that Loop in the line take my tent stake put it in there let's trap that down got that in there and now I just come here stake that in at an angle and now we're good to go so with staking out those four corners if we look at the tarp itself we've created an a now with a fly we can have it at this extreme angle here or we could widen this out essentially what you're doing is you're creating a rain fly think of that part you put over your tent when you're done setting up the body you put that top over it to protect you from the elements that's the same principle we're doing here now I have this really really high for the demonstrations I've been going through but you can easily drop this down to whatever height you desire and we'll actually be moving into a lowered version of this particular style with this a shape as we move on to the next shelter so we've knocked out three shelters that are very very simple to set up we are done with the Bushcraft Outfitters mess tarp that 5x7 now we're moving on to the big house the free Soldier tarp I just picked this up a week or two ago so I haven't used this at all um watch a lot of reviews on it seen some really good things and 40 bucks hell you can't go wrong so like I said with that last shelter we were going to easily transition to something else now with that 5x7 you can set this up but the space is going to be very very limited now as I'm dropping stuff all over like I said this is the very first time I'm taking this out so [Applause] what we're going to do is get this fully laid out here [Applause] and now what we want to do same thing we did with the fly is we want to find that middle point now just looking at this I know one thing is for certain we are going to need to move this Ridge line down before we go any further so like I said I have this tight I haven't returned I haven't re-tied this at all this entire video but I'm just bringing this down probably about to Mid stomach come over on this other side now this side may not be as easy to move down but we'll make do and we're about the same height so what we're going to do same thing we did to set up that fly make sure we grab one of our 10 stakes and I'll come back to that tarp and let's find our middle Loop the nice thing with this tarp that I'm seeing initially is not only does it have a loop but that Loop has a grommet we'll get a close in here close up in here in a minute let's get this tarp up on this Ridge line and now same thing I'm coming to that Loop and I'll run this through the grommet for something a little bit different you gotta change hands every once in a while and then now I'm just coming with the rest of this tarp lining up where the midpoint is of the tarp [Applause] so now I have that other one now I can just move my prusik Loops to whatever length I need [Applause] and that's going to seem about right there I feed that plastic Loop through grab my tent stake slap that bad boy in tighten it down Step One is done the next thing we move to is staking out Each corner I'm gonna get that done bring you back in So as we can see with lowering of that Ridge line we've essentially took our fly from being in the air and dropped to the ground also think back to when I was talking about setting up that lean tube when we were staking up the back corners you want to create that L with the length of sides of the tarp as this damn fly flies around my head but the additionally thing that can make this really really simple for you is we see this line going from one corner to the next we want to take this last Corner that we're going to stake out and essentially we'll want to get it to where we're making an X getting that nice flat lay from this corner to that corner and all I'm doing is taking this 10 stake and running it through this Loop down here the other thing that I'm doing is keeping in mind with that L that I told you about so I'm going from that attachment point down all the way over here and when I do that it makes keeping this tarp nice and tight extremely easy almost you don't even have to think about it now as we can see I have loads of coverage on the inside and we'll hop in here in just a second but now I can literally Camp under this with just a ground sheet my sleep system and be good really good for warm weather when there is some potential weather coming in or if it's raining this will give you coverage because since it is 10 feet long you're going to have you know a couple feet on each side so now if we look on the inside here man you're getting so much coverage with this setup now obviously it can still be a little bit tightened up and there is additional tile Loops all across this tarp so you could really get this nice and taut but for our demonstration this makes a really good visualization of dropping that fly from above us down to the ground now we have complete coverage on the sides and the only way in and out are on the sides we could block up one side and trap body heat if we needed to in further videos we'll talk about how we can modify this further to make it all enclosed to be really really warm maybe not all enclosed but show an evolution of the shelter and if these shelters are not very very hard to set up now the last one we're going to move to in just a second can easily be done from this position right here so like I said from this A-frame we can move into that Fifth and final shelter so what I'm going to do remove these 10 Stakes throw them back there just toss that on the back side now we have one free side that is moving freely I'm just coming up to where I have the Ridgeline attached just loosen that slack a little bit or loosen that tension a little bit I should say now we're taking those front Corners that we just unstaked and bringing them to the ridge line [Applause] put that in there tighten that up a little bit because we are still going to have to tighten the other side here and we're coming on the opposite side taking that out [Applause] bringing this front Loop up to the top feeding that through staking that out come back over here tighten that up now from here we're going to hop on to the back side coming from actually start on this side I'm undoing this back corner here and essentially all we're doing is we're shifting that A-frame around so now instead of having another Corner staked out we are going to get that Center Loop [Applause] bring this down to where we can stake this out keeping in mind of that L and creating the X on the back side [Music] come over to the other side rinse and repeat throwing the excess of the tarp underneath taking the back corner keeping everything nice and aligned here now as you see we essentially have our lean to set up on the ridge line but you might be asking yourself what are we going to do with this excess below now this is where having a 10 by 10 tarp can be extremely versatile and multifunctional is let's say we don't have a ground sheet with us we can use a 10 by 10 tarp to create one so all we're doing is taking that front corner still same principles apply creating that L shape keeping it nice and tight got that one stake down grabbing this other front corner bringing it out and there's some branches in the way here so this isn't going to sit perfectly but and I can simply come back over here tighten this up not trying to drive this tent stake into a tree root which may have that issue so as I said this isn't obviously ideal because we have those branches underneath the top part there but same principles apply you just got to find the right Camp space I'm only using this place because it has the best amount of trees the equal length that I need I could probably get it done on this side but you get the point we want to fold that other half the extra five feet underneath create that ground sheet now we have the envelope gives us protection from the ground where we can put our stuff on don't have to worry about that getting tore up and then have protection from the elements the one caveat with this shelter is you have to have a strong tarp to do this it's going to work really really well with the wax Canvas OR oil cloth this is I believe a polyester maybe even be a nylon rip stop enough to withstand this but if you're getting stuff into like Sil nylon dyneema those will work but you're going to have to take some care in where you're setting that up making sure there's not a bunch of extra sticks rocks or anything underneath that could really tear up that tarp so this is just another element to a 10 by 10 tarp that we can use to make our kit as versatile and as multifunctional in reality as possible so that was going through five basic tarp shelters for the outdoors now these can be used whether in an emergency or if you're initially intentionally camping initially camping leave me alone it's like 90 degrees out here I can't talk I'm roasting to death so I'm sure someone's going to hop in the comments say hey I would never camp in that area or that last shelter isn't set up properly and that wasn't my intention to show these picture perfect because life isn't picture perfect my goal with this video is to show you what you can do with various size tarps that you can carry in your pack for emergencies or if you're out there camping in the versatility in actual multi-functionality of those tarps a lot of times people online will say this is multifunctional just because I can throw it on something or it does this that and the other but how well does it do that we'll talk about that in another video but I'm just hoping that this gives you some good ideas for tarp shelters you can start utilizing for your Outdoor Adventures as I said in previous videos keep your comments respectful and in a good learning environment if you decide to act and ask in the comments expect it to come back for you because we will show no mercy Cobra Kai for life the tarps that I used were the free Soldier and the Bushcraft Outfitters mess tarp the free Soldier tarp got off Amazon for like 40 bucks uh so far I really really like the quality the mess tarp I've had for probably close to five years now haven't used a ton but it's a nice little handy tarp and I made a whole kit out of that one pouch which I'll do a video on here shortly the thing I will say with Bushcraft Outfitters Unfortunately they will be closing down so they are running a sale right now where you get I think it's like 15 off so hop over there show them some support while they start figuring out that next step in their Journey I'm not affiliated with Bushcraft Outfitters or paid or given anything from them I just want to give shout out to a small USA company that's making USA made products that unfortunately for whatever reason didn't quite work out so go over there show them some support if you come across this video and it's passed when they've already closed down there's plenty of other companies out there making similar tarps just find one that suits your needs do me a favor hit that like share and subscribe that gets more eyes on the community that we're building here helps bring more people into that community so we can grow our knowledge base and learn together and grow together as always this has been Paul with adaptable survival adapt your mind your body and your gear

Channel: Adaptable Survival

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Length: 30min 45sec (1845 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 04 2023