Shelters That Fit in Your Bedroll - The American Frontier

[Music] when you're out in the wilderness trout nee outdoors probably the most important thing you need is shelter and I've got Dan wool whack of coal cracker bushcraft and we're gonna be talking about shelter and campsites and all that what do we need to think about with campsites right off the bat well when you first get into camp in the evening you want to start looking around at a few different things first we want to think about our location of exactly where we're gonna set up camp because it's important that we understand wind direction we don't want the wind blowing in our face especially when we're using a tarp shelter we also want to look up and look around and make sure there's no dead trees that can fall on us and injure us while we're at camp we also want to make sure that we're in an area that we have plenty of firewood for colder weather and we also want to make sure there's a water source closed so if it becomes a more stationary camp we have a good supply of water that we can bring into camp rather than trekking further out probably other kind of dangers in falling trees what else kind of comes to mind so we want to make sure that we're not an area that can flash flood if we're close to a river and it was raining we don't want anything to flood us out we want to look around the area for any type of poison ivy or poison hemlock that might be in the area so we're not laying in that all night if it's the summertime we need to think about snakes and depending on what region were in we need to also think about animals and do we have protection from that if something's going to come into our camp so what about our spot here so this looks like a pretty good spot we were looking around here right before we started this video no widow-makers so nothing that can fall on us we have water source not too far away good supply of firewood all throughout here so I think that we're in a really good area so what do we need for our shelter so this shelter is super simple it can get packed in your bedroll all that we have is a tarp and a few pieces of rope and that's all we're gonna need tent pegs and toggles we can make right off to landscaper great so let's get started so let's look at our exact materials we've got here so we have an oilskin tarp okay this is a square tarp houses big is 8 foot by 8 foot okay so this is a good size for not only one person but you put multiple people under this if it's really in climate weather right and then what you're holding we have some hemp rope so that'll always work well I have a little bit of twine because in the backcountry you might not always have a lot of rope so you got to make do so we'll use a little bit of cordage and then one thing I didn't bring with tent pegs so you have to make that off the landscape so two styles of ten pages you can make is take a whi branch and just cut it in this fashion when you drive it down it'll hook it in place the second is just a straight stick with a seven notch cut and this will work just as well and I always like to also have some toggles which are just straight pieces of wood just to pull some sections of the tarp out okay and how much does that tarp away you know I'm that tarp weighs about three and a half to four power yeah so you're not carrying too much it that'll fit right in your pack yeah and a good thing with the tarp it's super versatile which I'm going to show you in a second so not only can you set up a lean-to configuration but we'll look at a plough point for more adverse weather conditions the first shelter that we're gonna set up is up lean-to and this works really well just for all types of weather conditions we just want to make sure when we set up that the wind is coming back we went to shelter to take the brunt of the weather right so in front of the lean-to then we can set our fire and we'll have a good open area that if it's adverse weather we can work anything like that so the the way we set this up is we come from waist level everybody's going to be a little bit different but around waist level is best there are a ton of different ways you can work your cordage to actually tie this up but I'm going to show you a really easy way today so waist level we're going to just take that thinner piece of cordage and just wrap it around the tree like this and we're gonna tie a basic shoelace bow right on here alright so we can untie it quicker we can untie it and we can be on our way with it really easy now we're gonna come across the front of this and we're gonna grab a second piece of our hemp rope and we have tie out saan here so I'm just going to run it through one of these tie out points [Music] and I'm gonna bring that to this tree same setup on this tree I'm just gonna pull that nice and taunt wrap it around and tie that shoelace knot again and we have the beginning of our shelter set up next we need to put the temp again so John if you want to pull your side first to get a good in conchae nice and tight and back there you go go and then I'll tighten my side out real good and taunt now as you see we are starting to have a shelter but that middle sag is gonna be a little bit of a problem though with rain or whatever yep so I'm just gonna take a toggle on my center tie out point with an extra piece of rope and I can run that back to a tree that's really close here right and then when I pull that you can see we got a lot of lift on the inside so it gives us gives us way more room and it's gonna help run that water off of there and this could just get tied off real simply however you wish to tie this off and then we have ourselves a nice easy shelter that's quick to set up and easy to set up that looks great now we already had the lean-to set up tied off to one tree so I took the rope down now we can actually just stake out the three corners and lift the center and we have a plow point configuration for a more adverse weather so the first part of a plow point is always the back corner away from the tree you want to get good tension on that so I'm gonna stake this out first pulling it good and tight and driving that stake in and then both of us can stake out each side just in a diamond door configuration and then simply again see we have that little bit of sag I could just bring my rope around a tree that's in the back begin to lift that up and that's going to give us more hype inside to do whatever we need to do while we're in the field and probably this arrangement of having a tree right here is really important is there other any other thing we can do if we don't have a tree just in the right look if we don't have a true we can always put a tripod right in this back section and run it over the tripod that would help tremendous so we could have a tripod here and it's our temporary triggers our temporary perfect Oh dan I want to thank you for bringing these important skills these techniques for making shelter with just the bare minimum of materials I mean just a tarp a little bit of rope a couple of tent stakes cut from the woods thank you so much for bringing these important things to us if you're interested in learning about how to survive in the outdoors about bushcraft about woods and surviving in that kind of situation you definitely want to check out his youtube channel coal cracker bushcraft he's also got an outdoor school tell me a little bit about that yeah that outdoor school is the Appalachian Bushman school of coal cracker bushcraft so we're located in eastern Pennsylvania right in the heart of Appalachia mountains so we'll put a link down in the description section so that you can go and find out more information about that thank you so much Dan bring this [Music]

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Length: 7min 16sec (436 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 26 2018