Tarp Hack, Tips and Tricks -Mantis Outdoors

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today I will be showing some simple additions to your gear that will make your setup a little easier

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hey hey guys doing this William iris Mass outdoors and today we got a video about some tips and tricks on you know how to rig up a tarp and things like that real simple easy very cheap things that it's going to save you a lot of time don't go away alright so you know mine yours are based harp usually has something like this this will even work if you have just the grommet but it's better if you have a loop just like this and all I'll talk about is just simply too little carabiners and you can get these at like Walmart things like that for rather cheap and these will take the load that is necessary for what we're doing you know it's obviously not going to be for anything more serious than you know what we're doing right now it'll just snap right in half but for what we're doing it's going to be just fine so two of these little carabiners we're going to hook two of them right on to the loop just like that just like that all right so as you can see all of it is here is just a stake in the ground I've got a regular flat knotch cut into it and then we have some bank line around it this is number 72 Bank line that stuff's really really thick really overkill to be honest with you for what we're doing right now this application could take way less than this and you'd be absolutely fine all right so now what we're going to do with these two carabiners is we're going to do what's called a you know a guard hitch or you can do the complete guard hitch and I do this every day with my hammock where every time that I'm out and it's dawned on me why the hell am I not doing this with my tarp as well so basically all you do is from the stake that's in the ground the line is attached to that stake you're going to feed that through both of these carabiners just like that then we're going to split the carabiners and we're going to go through the middle of the carabiners just like that very simple right guys all right so look what we have this progress right now it's very easy just to pull that top string and adjust my tarp as much as I want just like that and it's going to get as tight as it wants to and it's not going to go anywhere it's not going to go backwards basically that guard hitch those two carabiners stop that from progressing any further backwards so I can make minor adjustments minut adjustments to my tarp get it exactly where I want to I can even leave it a little bit loose going just the other part get the perfect setting that I want then come back here and tighten everything up get it as tight as I want it's not going to go in and put it back alright so let's do that one more time guys through both carabiners split the carabiners

and this one's actually acting a little squirrely for some reason because it sort of loop it and there we go so we can adjust this and pull this and it's not going to go backwards yes I'm tension line just like that we can pull this and it's going to just stay right where we adjust it right there then to break that we've got to kind of break the tension a little bit and then pull on this loop that's all you got to do but having these carabiners right here is useful in other ways as well okay so it's as secure our tarp - ridgeline nine times I think what I'll do is just put a perfect loop into my tarp you get that little slack and then put the perfect loop through the loop on my tarp throw a stick in there not that big of a deal all right but if I have my clips on there like I had before even both of them doesn't matter at that point all I have to do is just throw the first loop through the carabiner I don't even need a stick you know so I would put two carabiners on each of my corners and then if I have metal loops or Center loop so I'll just throw one carabiner on there because on my Center loop you know like you see this right here the targets off-center because I don't have one end attached at this point but if it's still maybe I got one side tighter or something like that I could you know bring this carabiner over and I can attach it there and it just brings my tarp over a little bit brings the center line and that is also holds true with the center loop sometimes when we tension these tarps the center of the tarp comes way out past the ridge line you know and that might be above where you're sleeping you might get a little drips or something like that you put these carabiners on and pull the center of your tarp right over your ridge line you know the same can be done with these split rings and you can even be more cost-effective that way because you can get even well to be honest with you smaller split rings and this would be even better beyond so this is all that I have so this is what I'm using but you can get these for dirt dirt cheap even cheaper than to carry years are and it can be done the exact same way just feed through both just like this come around the table floss them feed them through both come around the two then split the Rings just like that and go through the middle of it rings just like that and you know this is less awkward then the carabiners are it's a lot easier to you know manage it pull it things like that can be owners are a little bit a little bit wanky a little bit wonky you know you gotta adjust the carabiners a little bit but in my opinion the carabiners are just a little bit more versatile so you know same thing like I said now you pull it it'll hold it won't go nowhere and then to get that guard hitch out is pull on the loop all right so once we're finished and we're on our final adjustments you know I probably would not sleep just like that even though I'm pretty sure it wouldn't go anywhere especially using Bank line I would want some security so what I would do is actually go around one more time and then put a slippery hitch in just like that and then if you want to what I do is I put a slippery eight in what I call create some people call it something too different but that's a slippery eight and then all you have to do is pull both of them and it's out so that's how I would finish it up get ready for pad and it's not going to go anywhere so let me get this out of here and you know being split rings the only thing that's not going to be as versatile for you don't be able to clip it as easy you know you could split the Rings and put it on your original on things like that if you little hectic in my opinion you know maybe call me lazy whatever but you know I would just rather be able to just clip it right on my ridge line what have you my person gloops whatever you know I could still put the person Luther here put a stick in and I got these two split rings I could hang stuff from it whatever what have you you know I was just I in my opinion now it's probably just rather have the carabiners alright guys well thanks for joining us out here on our little camping weekend with the family you know this little hack that I showed you know I'm sure you know there's not like everybody says there's nothing to do right here I haven't seen personally that's probably out there somewhere probably videos out there somewhere but you know I thought of it thought it was cool little hack may save you guys some time you know even the boy can do it very easy to do it's not hard at all and I stopped every time this is a great video just amazes save some base of time and it's it's more versatile in my opinion even though I say that all the time

that's what I was looking for one ounce of wood is versatility you know I'm looking for something that can do four or five things and not just one you know so the tarp loops on my on my tarp they kill I do one thing they can only just figure what turn if I appear beaners on there then it can be attention fries and other things like that so that's probably before when I'm you know thinking of you know what I'm going to add to my gear how am I going to add to my skill set things like that all right guys we'll help you enjoyed Washington video if you did I appreciate it click subscribe down below liking the video also helps me out a lot you can also go to Manas outdoors LLC com4 slash shop go to the Amazon store shop there that helps support me and the channel out appreciate that a lot I hope you enjoyed it again hopefully we'll see you out in the woods