Tarp shelter #1 Single pole tent Style

Description

In This Video Fozz from Forrester Bushcraft shows how to put up an open fronted tarp shelter using a single pole.

This set up is perfect for low impact wild camping & can be used both in a forest or on open land.

Having a low profile this shelter is also excellent for covert camping styles. It is sturdy in all but the very worst of weathers and was constructed using a 3x3 tarpaulin from DD Hammocks. a review of which can be found here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR9enc_pkbE

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Video Transcription

hi guys what we've got for you today is the start of a new kind of mini series that will help to look at and which is looking at different types of shelters predominantly ground-based shelters so today sorry there's a just requires just landing right on the left of the camera and today we're going to be looking at a my really basic ground tarp setup for you and to start with in this little series we're going to be looking predominantly at using tarp or the tarpaulin that I'm going to be using more often in lot to start with is this DD 3x3 tarpaulin if we fantastic for getting used to these different type configurations or different setups but as we progress on this and I'm gonna start looking at some different types of tarpaulin so some canvas ones looking at doing some stuff with a Polish larva and then eventually working towards natural shelters and then eventually some more long-term shelters for you so today we're going to be looking at a really simple setup for this which kind of effectively creates your tent with your tarpaulin and all you need is your tarp a few 10 pegs and a pole we'll talk a bit about each individual part as we go through the process of actually setting it so the first thing I've got to do is I've got to select an appropriate area to put my tarpaulin onto so the area I've selected and for setting my tackle is this area you can see around me it's it's in a forest so that affords me a little bit better protection but this setup will also work in more open ground or moorland field places like that but I've chosen for us because this is where I you know it's where I spend most of my time and the ground you can see is really flat it's a very very flat area there isn't much in the way of stuff on the floor as a few bits of stick and things which can be really simply cleared out and for where my tarpaulin is going to go there are no route to anything in the area which is gonna cause me trouble as I'm trying to sleep and I know the space is wide enough my tarpaulin to fit into so let's get started with setting this support so the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to clear the area a little bit and just get rid of some of these sticks but I can do more as I go on but the first thing I want to do is I want to completely open up my tarpaulin and set it out where I wanted so I'm gonna do that now and this kind of affords youlet but I'm doing this this way and allows you to ensure that your tarp and your set up are going to fit in the area you have selected so take my tarp out and I'm gonna put the bag the pouch because these things really easy to lose that's a proper pain if you don't have them so fast on my flag I'll move that to one side and then completely open this tarpaulin up on the ground there's a square tart which makes it a lot easier because doesn't matter which edge I have worse long as it's arranged how I want it

okay so now I can sit my tart bit where I wanted to go elf it out back a little bit it fits really snugly into this little space here and then what I need to do then is really peg out the two corners that I want to be the back of my shelter now they need to be pegged in pretty securely so I've set that I'll help where I want my camp but are you going to be so my next stage is I need to work out with with side I want with the front which side I want to do this part now ideally what you want to be looking at is you want this central line on the CD hammock which has the attachment point on the back on the outside the hammock to be running from front to back along the center so I've got that set up the way that it's facing now the way I'm facing used to be the front and first leg out the two back corners of my tarpaulin and get that back edge really nice and taut and then I'm just shutting my bag out of the way so there's one peg in and then the next one I'm gonna use to collect old

part of the weight so pulling that back edge really tight making sure that I don't move where the top is okay from this point and then needs to fit my central pole which is going to be at the very front and center here so I've pre-cut the poem and the way I've got the pole cut is I know that roughly the correct size for it is about whether this necklace sits and then it's just about an inch possibly lower than my shoulder it's quite a hard thing to get used to you kind of just learn to judge over time how our biz your pole needs to be it measures it against yourself there's probably some mathematical formula on how to work this out but I don't know what that is so I do apologize for that now the next thing I've got do is a lot of tax to die lines to this central attachment point we use a couple of high pitches they work really well

nice needs to do and I aren't going to come and dawn randomly on their own now another thing I've done on the pole is that I have I've attached sorry I have cut a very small split down the center of it in which this attachment point is going to sit just to hold it in place and stop it sliding down one thing you might want to do especially be doing this for a long period of time is you probably want to just wrap that split to stop it run any further down the books the purposes today I don't we need can we lift this up click the pole straight but we'll adjust it later on I'm just going to put that attachment points into the split in place then and roughly peg these two out these two guidelines out and we'll adjust them more appropriately a little bit later on but the main thing at this point is just to get

standing up so that pole does want to fall down why you doing this week does not worry too much about it we can sort that out later on the main aim here is to get it stood up so that we can get the the respite are pegged out so what's the fall that way stick that texting pull the master first button put two knots on the first skyline before black already just this whole feels pretty sturdy but who's been full bottle I didn't fall that way I'm just gonna help like so I'm not gonna leave your guylines as we are go a little tired of ain't where I want them the main aim here is just to get that full standing book so once I've done this I'm going to peg the two corners out and get everything nice and tight so I'm repect

two sides out making open we're nice and tall the cakes come out bit of problem using this feed wire pegs and cuts down the tent pegs aren't amazing the other tenants they spin around on the ground which is why generally I tend to prefer making myself a little more than ones and upon sight okay when things like that happen

don't panic you'll fix it as you go along you put the left peg in now making sure that all the edges of this a ring taunt you want to keep it taut well for any type of TARP or tent the more tore your setup is and the better it will be at shedding rain so now what I will do is just adjust these two dye lines of the front to the central pole to be pretty much where I want them so I'm going to bring the guylines to just tear apart just to be a bit further away from these ponies so a nice level way camping because I hate tripping all the guylines sue I've gone here wrong things do go wrong every now and then have tied the same guy lining twice Rock the error I do like to lead young states in because everybody makes them okay three times that one why is it both I hope colleges fold take this out sorry about this guys some of the guy Lancelot

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just outcome where that corners to avoid myself tripping over it now you can see it still a little bit got a little bit of sag on the inside so we're just going to fix that really quickly just using an extra guy line alright guys so as you can see this this shelter would be functional as it is however in really bad weather conditions this is a little bit fatter it's a little bit saggy towards the edges and I want this a little bit more taut made just for my own peace of mind so the way I'm going to achieve that I'm going to for the sake of argument and we're imagine these two trees out here and with these two trees what I could do is just take two lines from this attachment point here and tie them to these two trees but for the sake of argument n the knot here I'm actually going to use another poles which I put and a point on the end I'm just gonna drive this into the ground in line with this central point we use my axe to do that I need this to be quite sturdy so luckily I've got nice soft ground here excuse the back okay that's pretty sturdy there and then I'm going to take this guy line on this point and hook it onto this pole here and title

side everyone it's not a tax it's been a bit awkward

and just touch that on there and you can see now that really opens everything now that pole is pretty sturdy that's that's quite quite important and that gives me a ton of space on the inside so let's have a look inside and we'll talk a little about the pros and cons of this particular type of setup so as you can hopefully see from the camera it's a bit awkward to work this out with that particular camera I'm using but hopefully you can see that this affords me quite a lot of space on the inside it's got really really good copper it's really taut its solid it'll rock this isn't going anywhere at all and and it also means I have a nice a nice open front and the reason I like this is because in this space here if I was camping on this I'd clear the floor and this word had my bushbox doing my cooking it's not particularly in bad weather a very very small fire out there don't want anything too big because it will get too hot melt my guidelines and put little holes in my tarpaulin but on the inside I put a small ground sheet and I can get myself right in at the back if it's really bad weather so I can because I'm quite short I can get right in and I can sleep right at the back here kind of lengthways but if I was a taller dude I could get in kind of this way and sleep here there's an absolute ton of space for me maybe another person and our gear in here so tons of space for just me and my gear but for two people two people would be quite snug in here admittedly but you would fit two people in here with equipment has got an open fronts from the worst of weather and it really bad stormy weather some of the water might come in but to be honest if you're at the back of this you ain't getting wet and it doesn't mean that when you wake up in the morning you can have a look at the world outside there as well if I wasn't filming this this would have taken me roughly five six minutes to put this whole thing up give or take a bit of time for making pegs or the pole at the back but as I said you could use the trees if you wanted to or even a walking pole and extra guidelines there's there's a few different ways of doing it but I wanted to show you the main setup as always I hope this has been helpful for you I hope you've got some some use out of this and keep posted and we've got a few more types at UPS coming up for you thank you very much guys