Overnight in an Emergency Shelter

welcome to corporals corner today we have an overnighter inside of an emergency shelter so stick around before we kick this off I want to address something you might notice a pink or reddish stain on my shirt what happened was I just spent five days out in Ohio assisting at a Wilderness First Aid class and unfortunately I was one of the victims but don't worry they all did a great job now about today's video usually for those who that follow me you know that I try to show one or two or maybe even three skills every single week so I thought today why not change it up and try to combine a few of those key skills that you've seen over the past few months and wrap them all into one long or longer video probably 35 to 40 minutes so you can see how all those skills come together and that goes along with my philosophy of if you're armed with a few hitches a couple of lashes and handful of knots and survival were real you should be good to go so enjoy as usual let's go ahead and kick this off with our gear list start at the top here's that green bag that I was carrying earlier that carried all these items it's nothing more than a rubber lined bag it's commonly referred to as a Willie Pete bag and most people in the military pre-2000 era carried one of those and what was for is it basically gave a waterproofing layer to your alles back next we have a queen-size will blanket one roll of number 36 bank line a beanie or boggin and in case it gets cold I have a sweatshirt with a hood now moving from left to right we have two cotton bandanas those are about two by twos I believe roll of guerrilla tape we have a ridge line this is mule tape it's 1,800 pounds of brake strength I have a pharisee and rod bic lighter a magnifying lens or sun lens next we have more a bush craft black two canteens two is one one is none nesting cup we'll come back to this duck on my left side we have a compass which is a Suunto mc2 Ranger beads or pacing beads I have a headlamp with extra batteries and a redundancy of a cutting tool I have my Victor Knox one had a trekker non-serrated I've zoomed in on this section right here I want to show you that I also have two 55-gallon drum liners that are six mil each so there's one two and something that's not shown it's currently between these two trees over here providing some shade is a OD green grabber all with her blanket we have a bahco laplander folding saw and last but not least I mentioned it would come back to these items this represents the extra items I'm going to bring so other than camera equipment these are the only extra items I'm gonna use while I'm out there of a pocket fishing kit any Leatherman super tool 300 and I two foot by two foot signal panel and there you go real quick down and dirty there's the gear list for the trip if you look at those items closely they represent the ten seas of survivability along with some redundancies means certain items have duplicates or even triplicates now I'm asking myself do I want to walk around through the woods carrying those items in this bag they just walk around with corporals bag of crap or do I want to do something about that and I think I have an idea so in order to assist me in carrying that bag of gear I'm going to create a ladder style backpack frame so I cut five branches about an inch in diameter now I'm gonna do here send the carved notches like a log-cabin notch I'm gonna place these horizontals that are perpendicular to my rails I'm gonna tie them off using a diagonal lash so the first thing I want to do is line it up get your layout take a knife and simply score it on each end where you want you a horizontal or crossing members ago and using my Victor knocks one hand a trekker take the easy route what we're gonna do then the cut into this no more than halfway then go ahead and pop that chunk out then just keep on doing that all the way down the line almost done here now it's down at i/o diagonal ash that's all we're gonna do take our bank line go up underneath we're gonna wrap it around and just like all my videos it forms a seat now go ahead and wrap it around itself to create a timber hitch now I'll pull it tight we're just gonna wrap it around three to four times make sure we continue to pull it tight then I go up around crossover again three to four times a minute finish it off here with a clove hitch go around crossover itself forms an X before we do that let's go ahead and wrap a stick for our toggle and using this as a toggle or a t-handle we're gonna pull it really tight and that cinch itself down now crossover right here with our clove hitch I'm going to go underneath our X pull it tight I'm going to cinch it back on itself and you an overhand knot or pretzel knot right here trim off the excess I finally burn the ends and it's just a secondary precaution it melts like paracord and you push it onto itself there you go place it inside of itself forms a larks head knot now I have to pack straps all right we found some water it's actually about 45 minutes before it's dark and we got some weather coming in check this out that's heading right this way just in that short amount of time the clouds have already moved and they're almost right on top of me so common sense is might be wise to set up camp or shelter right here so I look around here all I'm seeing on this side is a sloping surface now right across from me across these ponds nice flat level area but check it out it's full of mud now if that rain dumps on us those ponds I'm quite sure gonna fill up and I don't want to be over there so I won't be in this general area so right now we'll look for a good shelter spot I'll keep in mind the four WS is my shelter gonna be in the proximity of water yes it is right there so I can hydrate is my shelter gonna be the proximity of wood guess I want to fire say it doesn't rain I want a fire or tomorrow it passes over me and I want to get dry plenty of dead wood laying around here am I out of the wind right now there is no wind but that could change and lastly I'm looking for widow-makers or dead trees check this out of here [Music] that's a big fat negative right there you do not want to shelter anywhere near that thing okay this spot right here looks pretty good to go with respect to our four WS the ground is pretty flat there's a slight slope over on this side but I'm not worried about it got the water right there no widow-makers no wind and wood everywhere so again I think we're good to go however those clouds are right there and I probably got about 45 minutes of light left so it might be smart to make some type of raised bed that way off the ground actually high and dry and have a great idea for that too we're gonna go ahead and kick this off on the tripod lash I mean three of my poles are about four foot in length and two inches in diameter take my bake line when I go around them and underneath just like before and it creates that small little seat and then from here we're just going to go underneath three to five times and then pull it tight and I want to wrap around all three poles no less than three times those are our raps now I want to go in between them and those are called fraps and when I do that anywhere between two and three times I'm going to pull that tight now we're going to do some our crossover here do the exact same thing they'll pull that one tight as well I'm gonna finish off right here with a clove hitch just like before we're gonna cinch it down have the exact same overhand knot or pretzel knot was it to be used as a stopper knot I'm gonna cut and just like before we're going to burn the end yeah it's good to go okay we got to tripod set up cut down to larger poles am i run as horizontals right here it's going to last into my tripod and slide my 55-gallon drum liners over top of those poles and we're gonna make an improvised race bed kind of similar to the one I did a long time ago using my military poncho [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] from this point right here we're good to go so I might actually forego lasting the pols gravity and friction is holding the bed in place just like it did with the military poncho a couple years ago when I film that so right now what I want to do is grab a ridge line or even a ridge pole right from tripod the tripod and then put the grabber all with the blanket in an a-frame style nice to be good to go for the night [Applause] all right so it's dark and I ran out of light so I apologize for that but you can see right here we have a tripod there's the pack frame got my pack straps used as a ridgeline grabber all with our blanket and a frame configuration all the way down to my second tripod and all we do is you stick it in the ground something provides stakes and should be good to go now what's important with this shelter is the grabber all weather blanket has to be on the outside of your poles otherwise if it rains the waters just going to rush right inside and the last thing I want to do is we have a lot of dead air space up underneath here so all these leaves and debris I want to kick underneath there [Applause] as much as I can [Music] outstanding to drop down to about 50 tonight not too cold but with this improvised race bed it should be high and dry and good to go let's get inside check it out let's see overall comfort level one being the worst ten being the best it actually feels like being inside of a hammock and I'm gonna say it's probably seven or eight no BS is actually comfortable and right now I'm sweating because of all the work I was doing however I'm pretty sure that tonight when it drops down to 50 or maybe a little bit less what the wind picks up I'm probably gonna have get cold but with the wool blanket and I insulated the bottom of the 55 gallon drum liners it should be good to go and believe it or not there's actually quite a bit of room in here I'll turn the cam around see if you can check this out extra batteries for the camera so here's my feet now the tarp is not as tight as I'd want it so maybe next time instead of doing a Ridgeline I'll run a ridge Pole but for what it's worth it's pretty comfortable right now it is almost 10 o'clock so I'm gonna say lights out and we'll pick it back up tomorrow morning laters well we survived the night so let me get up get moving around and then I'll give you my critique stay alive and here you can see it did rain last night what we're talking about I'll shake this get those raindrops to roll down see the drop they're gonna go right off outside of my sleeping area you high and dry I'm good to go all night welcome back this was good to go now it's time for my critique like I mentioned last night on a scale of one to ten one being the worst ten being the best this right here was easily an eight or a nine and for me it was the same as being inside of a hammock without all that movement now the one thing I would do differently I talked about this last night which I would run on rich poll versus a ridge line and the reason why is because a poll would view something rigid to pull against which will allow you to tighten your tarp that much more now let's talk about a few things first and truth be told I deliberately waited for two two and a half hours before dark to come out here and set up and the reason why is because I want to try and simulate that day hike gone wrong or somebody's out there maybe they're lost but yet they're smart enough to think I see bad weather coming I might not be able to hike out of here so its shelter in place second I wanted to give you guys a video with a combination of skills that we talked about to show you how it makes up the big picture I think we accomplished that and third I believe in testing myself it's called leadership by example you never want to ask someone to do something that you haven't already done or willing to do so as usual with that thank you for your comments views support thanks for watching get out in the field house to look fine I'm going to catch you next time [Music]

Channel: Corporals Corner

Views: 1,079,821

Rating: 4.8401937 out of 5

Keywords: Corporals Corner, Raised Bed, Emergency Shelter, Poncho, All Weather Blanket, A-Frame, Lean-To, Tripod, Pack Frame, Wild Camp, Camping, Hiking, Roycroft, Ladder Style Packe Frame, Diagonal Lash, Timber Hitch, Joe Robinet, Alone, Survival Lilly, Overnight, Solo, Space blanket, Wool Blanket, Dave Canterbury, Adventure, Bushcraft, Survival, Survivalist, 55 Galon Drum Liner, 10 C's, Survivability, Tripod Lash, Cordage, Rain, Eastern Woodlands, Pathfinder School, Hammock, Stretcher Bed, Storm

Id: 7doy4seli9Q

Length: 32min 15sec (1935 seconds)

Published: Sun May 13 2018