Hot Weather Tarp Experiment

hey everybody coming at you live from beside my house now I have for this video it's going to be out in the bright sunlight now I have moved this camera I have spent like 20 minutes moving this camera all over the yard back and forth because there's such a glare on it from the Sun that I can't see anything but the Sun is needed in this video alright so what I'm doing cleaning you down here I don't know if you can see it or not in the background but I've got a rope I got a rope tied up right here I've got a rope tied up from tree to tree all right now I did behind this is what I'm gonna do is for years and years and years I've been wondering about setting up tark shelters in the bright Sun and I've been wondering because of the Georgia hate I've been wondering about is their ways of cooling a shelter and I've been thinking about materials and how they work in installation and reflectivity and wavelengths and all that kind of stuff so what I'm gonna do today and I think it's easier to set this up in the yard at home where I know I've got direct Sun and I've got a little bit more control over this because this is just going to be an experiment and I'm not really worried about shelter designs I'm more worried about configurations of shelters as opposed to the materials now what prompted this is a comment I got and I'm gonna explain that I'm gonna set up three shelters and the comment I got them I'm gonna explain on the third shelter so what I've got for this experiment for keeping cool you know cooling your hot tarp shelter I got three mercury thermometers all right and I got some homemade tent stakes a bunch of carabiners and I have three grabber blankets now first grabber blankets going to be set it with the green side facing the Sun just like you would you know any taller shelter the second one I'm going to have the reflective side facing the Sun okay because I'm going to see if the Sun that's the Sun light sunrise waves will bounce off and be reflected off and keep it sheltered cooler now that was the original idea for the videos to set these two shelters up and I never got around to do it because I thought that might be boring well there's yet a third shelter that is an idea that got the old wheel spinning from a comment someone made it involves the grabber blanket - and a camo moving blanket okay so I'm gonna show you that here in a minute first off I'm gonna try my best I don't know if I can or not I'm gonna try my best to set these shelters up and film them I don't even know if the cameras gonna pick it up because of the bright sunlight but I'm probably gonna have to aim towards the house as I set them up so let's get the first one set up so we can get some shade underneath alright we're gonna set up this first shelter now the idea is just to set it up and I mean I'm not getting real fancy with Torque shelter configurations or shapes I'm just doing a basic lane - to try to see what the temperature will be underneath it once said if that's just your typical of a shelter said Lane toted you would set up and crawl under to be blocked from the Sun so a scoop next door and put up one with a reflective side out you got an umbrella over the camera and the viewfinder sucking I can only hang still only halfway see what I'm filming I hope this ain't a horrible video but the scientific process is going to be useful and I'll bet you since I got camera off autofocus I bet you the silver part is going to make a camera going son alright so there's the second shelter with the reflective side out towards the Sun now for the third shelter what could I possibly be think let's find out I'm recording and I still can't see hardly anything in the viewfinder so I hope it's a video films now first shelter ok tarp just just a tarp shelter green side up second one reflective side facing out and incidentally when I walk in front of that one I don't feel nothing but when I walk in front of that one it literally feels like an oven from the Sun bouncing off it now the third one you may ask yourself Dave have you lost your mind because it is set up with just like the first one the green side up ok now here's where the comment comes in somebody stated on I think it was two videos ago I did the tactical cooler they had the reflective material on the inside and they say if you think about it that bag is a cloth bag and it'll absorb water so if you dip it in the water it can have the evaporative cooling process of the campaign now these campaigns if you take these campaigns with the type of material this is this it's got this fuzzy inner material and then outer is some sort of something I don't know I don't know if it's nylon or polyester or a blend I don't know if there's any cotton in Vault involved in the inside or what but you can wet down the outside of this you can have water in your campaign and wet down outside of this and there's some anomaly that I can't explain that's an some kind of evaporative cooling process that in 15 minutes the water will cool on the inside okay so now that's that's the comment that got me to thinking okay so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to take this heavy moving blanket this camera moving blanket and it's got some sort of a feeling inside of it and it's two lawyers with the insulating type material in it or padding and I'm going to wet this down with a hose and it's going to simulate like if you dipped it in a creek or a like or River and I want to lay it over the third shelter alright and then I'm gonna put thermometers under all furry and wait 15-20 minutes and see what they say and then I'm gonna wait 30 minutes and come back and see what they say all right sound cool so let's keep let's get it done I hate that that cat light on her [Music] that blanket was 30 pounds wet so I'm gonna put it on one on the end over by the pole as you can see if you choose this route the white of that completely collapsed it and pulled the rope over so I had to put a stickler to prop it up and a stick on the inside because that blanket is it absorbs so much water it's so heavy so what we're going to do now is we're going to put thermometers underneath each one and wait 15 minutes so the Sun is no longer directly overhead but we have some sunlight and I'm for my purposes all we need is 15 minutes so and we got a little bit I can see a little shade underneath each shelter so I'm just going to set these underneath each shelter in the shade and sippers the difference now my guess is is if this actually works what you could do is either carry a bucket with you and continuously splash water on your shelter or maybe set up a book and overhead full of water with a drip line or a hole in it constantly dripping keeping it wet so but it may not be worth this effort so we'll find that Sun is no longer directly overhead so I bet this test is going to be kind of inconclusive but I'm on second shift tomorrow so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna leave all this stuff up and I'm gonna come out here around 11 or 12 o'clock when the Sun is directly overhead and see what kind of a difference inside it's cool we'll get some big airplanes okay [Music] it looks like 88 degrees 88 degrees Fahrenheit [Music] yeah maybe all right let's move to the next one now that first shelter was the one that had the wet blanket on it this is the one that's got the reflective side this is 90 degrees 90 degrees so there's a two different two degree difference that's pretty neat all right now this is the one that has nothing but just a green facing out 90 degrees all right so what I'm gonna do what I'm gonna do now tomorrow I've got all three of these set up so imma wait until the Sun is overhead and I'm gonna with that other blanket down on the end and I'm waiting to the Suns have been over it and just baking it and then I'm gonna check these three thermometers again now so far that's very interesting cuz I would have swore that the reflective side out would have made a difference but there was no difference these two was ninety degrees and then the one on the end down there was 88 now the only thing about it is it I don't know if it was the fact that it was wet or the fact that that was extra insulation blocking the heat so I mean i mighta could have put a dry blanket over it matter of fact before I wet it down that's what I'll do that's thinking because the wet blanket is just so heavy and so may see it should dry overnight so what I'll do is tomorrow I'll come back up here when everything is the sun's overhead I'll check them then okay we'll go that Ryle alright we'll go with the regular tarp reflective tarp and an insulated talk about that alright we'll be back out here tomorrow alright day two sons been overhead at least four hours I've been monitoring the thermometers and the results are astounding now mind you normally when I can't I can't under the thick forest canopy under a shade tree I don't do much camping out and open under the ceiling so but I always wondered what the Sun would do to these torques and I've been monitoring these and due to what I found there is no reason to wait down the blanket it doesn't matter so let's go over here and take a look real quick at what I have found let's go over here all right let's take a look at let's take a look inside here now this is just a normal tarp with a green facing out okay all you've got separating you and the Sun is this tarp now let me say this I don't know about in the direct Sun I didn't put a thermometer out but our air temperature today is 88 degrees Fahrenheit okay keep that in mind now 88 degrees Fahrenheit that looks like 98 degrees that's what I'm reading 98 degrees so let's go look into the next one now this next one is the one that the reflective side is out facing the Sun now this material works great in the winter time for reflecting heat back towards you when you have a fire and there was that rumor going around and that everybody's like Oh Co you could turn this to the outside and it would work well let's see if it does a hundred degrees 100 degrees how's that grab you I'm just as shocked as you are a regular tarp 98 degrees tarp reflective side out a hundred degrees inside now let's look at the one just got the cover over it okay now this is on the outside this moving blanket that's on the outside has dried up from the Sun it's no longer what it's like 96 or 97 it's like 96 or 97 yes like 96 all right now the thing is is when you put your arm under here you can very much feel that it's cool so I got 40 minutes left before I go to work so I'm gonna try another experiment okay all right I got to leave in 40 minutes so that gives me 40 minutes so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put this is a black snug pack jungle blanket okay keeps you warm in the winter well why not carry it in the summer let's just cover up this shelter and see if this black insulated blanket drops a temperature in 30 minutes all right 30 minutes now we got a black snow pack jungle blanket on top of our torque shelter I'm gonna come back out in 30 minutes and we're going to check the thermometer to see if it makes any difference at all cuz we've got plenty of sunlight overhead all right all right third in exactly 30 minutes okay I got to walk out the door and head to work in ten minutes so let's wrap this up quick recap this is the shelter with the dry camo moving blanket on the outside and before I came out here I looked at still 88 degree air temperature no no clouds in the sky solid Sun we all right about 97 degrees 97 degrees now let's go back to the one where the reflective side is I say reflective side out well that's a hundred to a hundred and two degrees Fahrenheit unbelievable okay now next is the one that has the black snug pack jungle blanket it's only been on 30 minutes let's take a look at this 98 98 degrees so it's the exact same as the camo moving blanket so what am i gathering from this don't camp in the Sun and if you're willing to carry a blanket in the winter to stay warm carry it in the summer to stay cool in the reflective part it doesn't reflect the Rays back evidently it heats up the inside of the shelter so this is day 3 and instead of wrapping up the video I decided one more little experiment after after the LA Fiasco with the wet blankets in the dry blankets so I came out here early and have set up two more tark shelters pup tent style now that one back there is a single pup tent style tarp over here got to thinking to myself why cover it with a blanket is there a lighter weight option so why not just set up two tarps within our space ok so now what I'm doing is I'm just waiting for the Sun to come overhead and I've got a thermometer in there temperature gauge I've got one laying in there one's laying inside there and then one's laying inside that over there so we're going to see and there's an air space between here so we're we're going to see what if that does any kind of difference I've also got a temperature thermometer on the other side just light on the grass so that I can see what direct sunlight what the temperature of direct sunlight bearing down on you is so this should be interesting alright sun's been out hitting this now for about over an hour well over an hour it's going behind the clouds now which makes for good filming so let's say he's over here check out there our temperature gauges and see what they're selling now I have laid one out I have laid one out directly on the ground out in the summer and it is 100 degrees Fahrenheit right now now make it make it just a little bit hotter when the Sun comes out their Sun just came out we'll check it again now we're gonna check inside here there's that glare all right I'm gonna check inside this single wall tepee I mean a pup pup tent style tarp 92 degrees all right it's a hundred degrees in the Sun ninety-two to two degrees Fahrenheit in the single-wall team so let's say he's over here now let's take a look at the double wall tent now listen let's lower this down just a little bit here because there's something else that I want to show you while I'm here let's take a peek here now let's see if I can see real quick what I want to do is I have an airspace here before I had another experiments I had the tarp or the wet blanket and then I had a tarp with a black snug pack blanket and what I have now here's an airspace and I'm gonna put my arm in here and I'm just gonna kind of get used to what this is I'm gonna feel of it then I'm gonna put my arm in here that's a little warmer now let's pull this back what I have in here is I have a little temperature gauge in here this is different from the other one so let's read it and see what it says ninety-eight degrees Fahrenheit maybe 98 probably so that's in between here that's what that air temps crew is now for the big test is this two degrees cooler at least from that ninety even ninety degrees even now I can't remember what this one was let me let me reach under here and grab this one now what was the single wall ninety-two okay so this proves the same thing I've been dealing with all along okay for whatever given temperature of a single tarp it does not matter if you put a wet blanket on top it does not matter if you lay a dry blanket on top it does not matter if you have an air space with two tarps you're going to get a two degree difference every time between this these three setups and a normal tarp and if you turn a reflective side out it's going to turn like a human oven terrible terrible terrible but I don't know I've learned a lot from this this is pretty interesting so what are old days conclusions old days conclusions on this is if you have to be in the Sun lay something over your tarp you don't let there's no reason to have a blanket in hot weather like this so just go ahead and bring an extra tarp and double it up if you want to I'm thinking within reasonable thought that a triple tarp wouldn't wouldn't matter air flow through it is pretty good though each side you might want to put a bug net on each side but in general no matter what you do you're not gonna get you're not really gonna get greater than two - very difference in the Sun when you block the Sun from coming at you and my advice is is any chance you get to set up under a shade tree do it so hopefully next video I'll be back out in the woods hope you enjoyed it hope you learned something maybe you've got some ideas that I didn't come up with set some stuff out in the bright sunlight set one up in the Sun set up one in the shade for old Dave here all my setups are in the Sun thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one

Channel: Reallybigmonkey1

Views: 55,486

Rating: 4.9127226 out of 5

Keywords: hot, weather, sun, Tarp, Shelter, Survival, Camping, Heat, Outdoors, Experiment, Hiking, Backpacking, Equipment, Gear, Thermometer, Temperature, Gauge

Id: Ks2ro2_CyLM

Length: 25min 11sec (1511 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 23 2019