10 Things to do with a wool blanket #3 Back pack

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The 3rd video in the 10 things to do with a wool blanket series. In this video Fozz of Forrester Bushcraft demonstrates how to use your wool blanket as a pack for your kit. This is a brilliant method for reducing the weight of your pack in a traditional way. if you use this method you negate the need to carry a heavy & robust back pack, it is very quick and very simple to pack your gear this way.

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Video Transcription

hi guys what we got today is number three use of your wall blanket today what I'm gonna be showing you is how to turn your wall blanket into a backpack okay so we don't just need the wall blanket for this obviously there's cook additional things that go with it but the most important thing is to make sure you've got a reasonable amount of cord to do this because that will form the strap to the bag and it will hold it all together so I've got slightly different or blankets what I'm usually using slightly large you want slightly lighter weight one and this is actually a woven wool blanket which is slightly better for this but any more blanket will do so long as it's the relevant size so to do this what we'll do is start by actually opening the blanket out I'm gonna completely open the whole thing now there's a couple of ways you can do this here I'm not gonna show you an extensive way on how to pack this I'm just going to show you one very simple way of using it the best thing to do with so I've open the wool blanket out now now one way that I've seen people do this a lot at the time is actually to have the tarp all and folded into a thin strip down the middle I'm not going to do that today because I want to show you a method of doing this we tarpaulin and your hammock apat up I've not gotten extensible my idea to put in it because I am only demonstrating how to use this technique so the first thing we do is I'm going to bring both corners sorry both edges in towards the middle well actually fold it in about thirds not the middle so they're gonna be slightly overlapped

so I kind of got kind of like a sleeping bag kind of thing that I could get in that I've got one or two that's not what we're gonna be doing today then the next thing I'm going to do is I'm just gonna fold one end this is going to be my top end so my bottom end was gonna fold that over on itself the reason for that will become clear shortly okay so that's fog up now so you've kind of got this boxed rectangular kind of folded system so the next thing to do to actually pack my stuff into there what I want to be doing it's just opening those out again slightly so I can still see where the folds gonna go but what I'm going to start doing now is actually loading must often so there is my three meet of my Freeman tarpaulin packed in my camping hammock which is gonna escape from his back so they're down at the bottom this is patent they're gonna be the least accessible things in there and the next thing it's a piece of know going to put in is I'm gonna put my toes in and just mushroom like this is just to poke it out to show you my stuff I'm getting there

now I could get a lot more gear into this pack if I really wanted to as I said I'm only demonstrating today and it's better for you to kind of learn the basic principles of this and then go away and test it for yourself so next thing I need to do is I need to pre prefer where my bag straps are going to go so I've got a length of paracord here and what I'm going to do is I'm gonna fall that in half and put a large not to at one end like so my bit that I fold it over the end just gonna unfold that for a moment took the cord in half way and fold it back over onto itself like so so the knots come out one side and I've got a loop at the other back what I'm going to do off for now I'll probably need to readjust that so that will actually fasten up over itself shortly then we'll fold this in back in on itself make sure I get the right way around all over and then I'm gonna fold this top end back on itself just like so like I did at the other end and I'm gonna roll starting from the bottom I'm gonna roll it towards the center try and keep it as neat possible I'm gonna do the same here and then what I've got now is a nice little envelope for my axe to sit in so that is nice and easily accessible for me in a moment so I just need a little bit more cord just cut off here before doing the video and this cord is gonna actually hold the whole thing together so for envelope in yaks facing outwards I've got the axe blade facing outwards because if this didn't have a case on it it was facing in that's gonna wear and tear on that blanket so that's accessible not a little pouch or little envelope kind of thing and then the tricky bit it's just getting that cord all that tight nice really tight not in there just a past an overhand knot doesn't have to do anything too fancy loose I'm gonna cut the cord dirt and do the same on the other side as I said there's quite a few different ways of doing this I've seen it done with webbing before the cord and that seems pretty a pretty decent method of doing only webbing at the minute but the webbing because it's wider actually gives you a much better kind of grip on the wall to stop it coming undone at all this is a really traditional method I believe it's called a Hudson Bay pack which is traditional of the the voyagers and the people who did the canoe expeditions and explored kind of northern Canada although might be no liccardi I'm not see well up on that stuff so if I'm wrong please do correct me to learn new stuff so max is accessible just there then get to it I can pull that out if I need to oh sorry push that out by the handle and it'll pop out this side just tie that quad off so shortening it keep out the way keep it nice and neat I also means I'm not gonna confuse it so the bit we put in originally it's coming out of both sides here just gonna put that loop over there just said that's too far too wide and just that my shoulder a little bit from either so just adjust that a little loop always make sure you get it right I suppose one thing is what you could do with this method is using Cobra weave you could make a much more comfortable strap for this okay and I'll stick the link up for you just make a big 1/2 in there that's a nice slip knot tie in one thing I will suggest I said about the Cobra weave because I've only just got thin paracord here that is going to dig into my shoulder slightly also the alternative method because this is doubled over if I've done it a little larger I could actually I don't think this one's gonna be big enough use it like a proper to handle backpack but mine's not big enough to do that today there's not much weight in there anyway it's there you go one wool blanket backpack thanks for watching guys