Foresters Tent! Green Beret Bushcraft Camp Build Part Three

see those maple poles that I cut out earlier I'm gonna use these three to make my tripod from my four source tent I've got an extra one I'm gonna use the longest one we're kind of the ridgepole and this one seems like it's got the most and I'm gonna save as much length as possible they have too much length but not enough but I also need it to be sturdy so you're gonna probably cut that off right about there you're not familiar with the plumbers vise make sure you check that video out as well easy way to safely cut through and probably get some construction projects out of the rest of that to using the gb2 Fuko on this trip all right there's my rich pole get as much length out of these other Q now this one's got a fourth right there at the bottom where I don't really need it go get rid of that pork then use that to determine all sunshine sunshine makes me happy I got a fork about in the same place I'll get rid of that there we go couple of poles I'll clean those up and then we can start making our tripod for the shelter you're already clean you're ready so I'm down by the creek right now and I've got a few projects that I need to do they're kind of require a mallet I've already cut just a small already cut just a small maple mallet that I can use to set up my tarp I also need to carve some steaks and some toggles and you know do some general bushcraft tasks and one of the first things that I want to do aside from the mallet and it is you know I want some sort of anvil to set on the ground and with any luck I'll find something to sit on besides the ground but anyway what I'm hoping is this this cherry tree has been down quite a while you can see this maple is actually growing around this dead branch on here and this is putting a lot of stress on that maple this one doesn't look that bad but this is down so this is also still up in the air up here so if I want to take this section right here and try to make kind of a makeshift anvil so what I'm going to do is use this as is as a saw buck and I'm going to cut this off and cut this section out now I'm not going to cut right here because then that falls off and then I have to buck this up or I have to stabilize this up so I can solve this out what I'm doing I'll do is saw it here get rid of that and then saw it there and the weight will bring it right down so that's what I'm going to work on right now this section here [Music] [Applause] Kimber alright that looks good it's not funky and rotten like I thought it might be I'm gonna come right up here do the same thing and I've got myself the makings for the beginning of an anvil to the point where I wish I had my bigger silkie what this will do this the one I've got with me now I've got the beginnings of an anvil made of cherry so found a pretty good seat down here by the creek that goes down and actually this is spring fit and I've got a pipe that accesses the spring the camps right up there a little ways but I figured I'd go ahead and take advantage of this nature chair while I make the amble so what I want to do is create kind of a flat surface for this to sit on on one side and then the other side I want to be kind of a flat surface that's cut out then I can actually use two baton against so a couple ways to think about doing this I'll probably set that down what do I do is just take my gone boy make this cut I'll take those cuts down to probably about the top of the saw blade you don't have to be anything crazy that's what I want on one side and about there on the other give me some stop cuts then what I'll do is I'll make a series of those all the way across then I'll knock those out with a hatchet there wonder what you use for an anvil when you're creating an amble to use if you use the ground that ought to do her take my hatchet and then just like with your knife safety always forward of your blood triangle watch your follow-through like right there that's not good probably more like that and just start chipping that away get rid of some of this park so she can start drying out maybe give it up real nice Clark that'll do I got my ambled done I can work on some tent stakes nothing you haven't seen me do before throw a stop cut in and do it with your knife as well throw a stop cut in carve a stick notch into that I'll crown the ends so they don't mushroom out whenever I'm hitting them with a mallet and then sharpen a point on to the other end not too shabby ninja test works make a few more of those learn how to room ninja test and just like everything else you know with traditional stuff we've said it before I could carry ten steaks they don't really weigh that much don't really think of a lot of room but you know I'll practice with your knife carving skills you know we find these expensive knives for bushcraft and then we don't bushcraft with them you know so there's that not that this one's expensive this one's actually my design is RGB do the the gb2 pouco this one I made that's the prototype it should be being picked up my Pathfinder knife shop for production in 2020 so you can get your own outstanding 1095 Scandi grind full tang very simple design and very functional very good utility ninja test alright that's six out of six you saw it here first place also what I'm going to be creating is are are some toggles I've got about a three inch piece right here and really what I want to do with these is just crown both edges crown both ends I should say like so and then I want a channel kind of a be not channel for some bank line to sit in right in the center so what I'll do is roll that and an angle so that it carves that B notch in there one side flip it over angle it the other way and connect those gives me a little channel for the bank line I can come in and clean that up look I'm a punky dope there's my toggle what I'll do with these toggles is just tie a a middle line clove hitch put that right inside that channel and it's just your basic fisherman's knot this fisherman's loop that I use for most all of my shelters now that's going to make a number of those and I'll show you how to how I incorporate those into the shelter I want to actually get to build it so I'm gonna make several of those [Music] here is my Forrester chin what I did was a tripod lash up here with obviously the longer Pole being the ridge Pole and then of course you know my two poles going down and I wanted a true tripod lash on this one because I want this Ridge pole to be on top and I want it to be supported by these two bottom poles rather than have it underneath and supported by the cordage because a semi-permanent shelter you know I got to be thinking about especially you know in September in the Adirondacks I got to start thinking about heavy snow leaning down this and this is extremely solid once it's all tacked down and that sense this oilskin tarp is fantastic to use but got my tripod lashed and I used those toggles for buckles right there right there right there of course a couple down the middle and then same thing I've got going on up here going on in the back except it's a different lash back here of course I've got it staked down on all stake points I just carved out some tent stakes you saw me do that earlier then back here I've got a two pole shear lash to create this bipod and this bipod is locked in with this toggle and I'll show you a close-up of that but overall got a relatively low pitch but it's a man-made material as far as the oilskin goes so it's going to shed just fine it's not like a natural shelter you know where I'd be worried about a higher pitch to pitch that off and it has a natural slope back this way so it'll shed water back and away from me so pretty happy with that and that is solid as can be once it's all put together I'll show you how I did that backside real quick so back here on the backside I've actually got a two pole shear lash just to form this bipod and that's not actually secured to this ridge pole at all it's hard to do a tripod lash on both ends you would have to come in and do like either a square lash to one of these or you could put it underneath if you really wanted to but I want this on top so what I did was this tie out point that comes through here I've got a larks head going through with my fisherman's loop going to my toggle that's actually coming underneath the bipod and then it's buckled in and I'll show you how to do the buckles and how I do this kind of knock right here this stop cut this it's kind of like a snake notch basically but I want that bank line to set in and what I do is I pull that tight and drop it down in there and that holds tension this way and then that is tight and that's what's actually pulling up against the bottom of the bipod which cranks this down so it's made for a quite a solid joint right there once everything staked out so that's what I've got going on in the back side simple traditional tripod lash up front to pulls your lash in the back and then this is actually held on by the tension as that loosens up I can kind of adjust the bipod in and out same thing with the tripod so that's what's going on back here I'm going to give you a closer view of this buckle system so we made the toggles earlier and that's just a larks head going through that's a fisherman's loop where the larks head going through the actual tie out point of the tarp and that's on the toggle with the middle of rope clove hitch basically what you're doing is you you're coming around your anchor and then using it like a button so you go through one way go through the other and you basically have just buttoned yourself in all right create a window right there I'm going to come up slide it in one side and then slide the other side through just like a button now I've got that secured but I want to drag it down here and put some tension on it to pull this tighter so I'll pull it tight slide it down into that stake notch I created and that'll hold tension this way to make this fake knot just like any snake notch which the way the tension is going to be that's where you're going to put a stop cut and I put a stop cut in with my gone boy and then I just took my knife and I actually did an angled cut in to meet that stop cut and you know you can use a baton if you need to you can take off a lot more meat that way and hit to that stop cut or you can just take your time and carve it out by hand whatever you want to do but that's what I've got going on right there and I did that all around any place that I was using this toggle attachment system

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Length: 18min 21sec (1101 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 10 2019