Warbonnet Hammock System

all right so the tarp system in the hammock system I'm using kind of all three seasons I've got a war bonnet Superfly tarp and I've got the war bonnet Blackbird xlc double layer hammock with the straps that come with it so I'll set this up real quick and then we'll talk about a few things on each one first things first get my strap stuff and there's some other will be what Evers and ants bite might be briar I'll get my straps up I like to get them about eye level or so on both sides just to give me kind of an even hang get my other set out I know this looks like poison ivy over here but it's actually Virginia Creeper all right so that's poison ivy that's Virginia Creeper but I'm not allergic to poison ivy there's about right these hammocks have a little red tag on here the other side is black I don't know if you can see that that little red tag but red is where's my head I remember red red for the head and that's where the head of my hammock is I want to sleep with my hammock up that way run it through the d-rings here they're bringing her out my d-rings on the other side I just go ahead and leave the stuff sack right on there we'll start kind of gauging where I want this hang good enough for me I'll throw a half hitch in there just because even though I think the d-rings are going to hold it this time there's my hammock grab me a couple of steaks and what I think is cool about these is to give me some room and keep it off my face at night because it's got a built-in bug screen which is going to be extremely handy this time around matter of fact I'll zip that up to keep the skeeters out of it but I can pull this out stake it right down same thing on the other side then there you go there's my blackbird system built-in bug net he's got a really good ridge line across the top asymmetrical cut so I can lay sideways in it I can get into it from both sides however this side is using the side that I get into first this other side actually has a built-in gear shelf then I take everything out of my pockets I usually take off my whether we'll fold it up use that for a pillow and I sleep asymmetrically in here with my feet going this way into this foot box and my head going that way really comfortable really good for side sleepers highly recommend this system for sure so that is the Blackbird xlc another feature of this this is a double layer which I'll show you and you can zip the mosquito net off completely and get rid of that if you want it you can also put these inside out and use it if you want to sleep the other way if you prefer to sleep on a particular side but this actually has a double layer at the bottom so and especially cold conditions I'll take a foam sleeping pad and I'll actually slide it inside there so now protect me from conduction or sorry protect me from convection underneath don't really need that right now because it's starting to warm up pretty well here in Ohio so that is the blackboard xlc all right give you the quick tour here here's the d-ring setup so right across the top of the ridge line there to the other side built-in bug net double layer system on the bottom got a full length zipper on this side take you over to the other side of the quick [Applause] then on this side full gear shelf that I could put everything in right there coming on down to my asymmetrical cut here's my foot box which extends way out so that can sleep on my side all the way up to the other anchor point and like I said this is a double layer system so I can put a sleeping pad in here as well and if I don't want this bug net on there I could roll it up and secure it I think this is definitely going to be overkill for tonight but this is actually the Wookiee under quilt that goes to this and this is rated down to zero degrees so it's only supposed to get down to about fifty tonight but I have used this in temperatures in that range without a blanket on top and it actually protect protects you from convection really well so a lot of times we don't even need a blanket by the time we get the tarp over me to trap the body heat in and this underneath kind of wrapped around me to trap that he did a lot of times I'm comfortable in those temperatures with just this but in the interest of showing you what all this system looks like that I use for the four seasons I'm going to show you the wookie underquilt know what's cool about this design as I've got that carabiner on one side keep it up out of the mess then on the other side I've got a simple cordage loop right here that just goes up around the knot right here that traps it in place bring it under and you can see on this only certain parts of it have insulation the rest of it just kind of wraps around and this sits at an angle the same way that I sit inside the actual hammock itself I'll bring that up underneath I like to snap it on up here just kind of bring it up around the sides so I've got my quilting starting basically where I'm laying there's not a lot of wasted quilting on here or extra quilting that you don't really need which makes this a lot more pack of a lot more lightweight so that is the wookie underquilt really really like this let me show you the top clip real quick and the top globe is a little bulkier over there but what I like about this top quilt is it's got a few times on the back here on the Untied that real quick this might take a minute all right we'll come back to that so it's got about a 1/4 sewn foot box in there and then the rest is open you know so once you're inside there and your feet are tucked in this just kind of drapes around you inside and you kind of tuck it up underneath you and then you're under quilt wraps up around the sides and you can tie this around here it's got a kind of a cinch strap so you can tighten it up around your shoulders and it does a pretty good job of staying on and without that extra bulk in the back like you would in a traditional sleeping bag which you're only you're gonna lay on that and smash that insulation anyway and it's not going to be all that efficient so what's a great advantage of the under quilt is it's underneath your hammock so you're not actually smashing that insulation and it does a lot better job of keeping you warm so I probably won't need this this is also rated to zero degrees I probably won't need this tonight but at a minimum I'll put it in there and tuck my feet in it so this system as is you know basically puts me down to a zero degrees and I have slept in it in temperatures that cold and it's a pretty true rating especially because you're not smashing any of the insulation that you're counting on to trap that body heat so it does really well of course I normally have the tarp over that but once I put that on you're not gonna be able to see it it's only supposed to get down to about 50 degrees tonight but it is supposed to start raining tonight so I am going to put my tarp up now for the tarp system superfly tarp I've already got a preloaded with all the cordage I want I've got for the main Ridgeline I've got some paracord some tightly Warriors forward I'm pretty sure it is and then the rest is number 36 Bank line but I've already got everything Hank just like I would a rapid reg line so when it comes to setup it doesn't take me very long at all pull that out set up one side and I usually take this where I've got coverage come out to there and go off about six inches higher do a round turn a couple of half hitches however you want to tie your ridgeline up and go ahead and do so this is just the way I choose to do it and there's one side I'll probably have to come back and adjust that the other side pull that out go back to my poison ivy tree full round turn tie it off with a couple of half hitches leaving myself a little quick-release now go back to the other side and tighten that and tie that off nothing there I'm just going to stake out my corner so I've got kind of door flaps up here these are actually my corners and then I've got some polls that I can pull if I want to right there I typically don't end up using these all the times I'll take these off so this little trees already right where I kind of want it so I'm gonna go ahead and use that and say the steak or not that's pretty flimsy and you can use whatever knot you want on your steaks I typically use round turn and two half inches but you can use a taut line hitch your trucker's hitch or you know any number of hitches all right so at some point in that sequence my battery died so I had to switch that out and I'm not sure where I lost you and I won't know until it edited so I think you get the idea there the ridge line staked out the four corners now I'm going to deal with the door flaps and because it's going to rain today I think that I'll go ahead and tie those off nice and secure so if the wind picks up it's not flapping all night keeping me awake and it won't get any water inside so I'm gonna stake that out real quick pick up right where we left off or wherever I lost you you're caught up at this point so like I was saying sometimes if the weather's hot and I want to take advantage of a convective breeze I'll actually take this front side and put it up kind of like a well and lean to kind of a scoop just scoop that Breeze in but it's going to rain tonight at least it's supposed to I want to stay nice and dry in here so with my hammock in here my underquilt my top quilt and my Superfly tarp I'll be nice and high and dry I won't have to worry about that so this is my war bonnet hammock system in all its glory buddy I probably this would be I think my 40th night this year sleeping in this extremely comfortable highly recommended it's one of those by once cry once you know because you you kind of tear up at the sight of the bill whenever you go to pay for it but you know it's it's super high quality american-made in Colorado so you cry once but you don't cry ever again because you don't have to buy it again because these are extremely durable this thing has been with me for pushing two years now getting close to two years I would say 21 months and I put a lot a lot of time in these so highly recommend it if it's in your budget if not it's okay but it just happened to have been in mine and I spend a lot of time in it so I can tell you it's worth it for me

Channel: The Gray Bearded Green Beret

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Keywords: Ranger, Green Beret, The Pathfinder School LLC, Survival, Bushcraft, Preparedness, Shelter, Camping, Warbonnet, Hammock, Hammocking, Blackbird XLC, Wookie Underquilt, Superfly Tarp

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Length: 18min 36sec (1116 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 04 2019