10 things to do with a wool Blanket #5 Emergency shelter

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video Number 5 in the 10 things to do with a wool blanket series. In this video Fozz of Forrester Bushcraft demonstrates how to make an improvised shelter by suspending your blanket from a low limb of a tree. Whilst this is not the most effective shelter for long term camping it is a very quick and effective way to stay warm in an emergency situation. This method uses two spruce cones & some paracord along side the blanket.

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hi guys what we got for you today is the fifth thing that you can do with a wall blanket what we're going to do today with it is make an emergency shelter shelter will be building isn't something that I want to be spending an extended period of time in it but if you're caught out in a storm it's cold or whatever this is a really useful little technique for creating the temporary shelter which will keep you reasonably warm reasonably dry so a distance the wall blanket will also have two short pieces of cord just standard 550 paracord and I've also got two large coats uniform attachment points just now to be large cones could be pine cones can be rocks could be a few coins and you feel that you'll see what they're for in just a moment but that's what we'll do first so the first thing I need to do is I need to find someone to suspend my blanket but the blanket can be suspended as going to create a dead earth basically to get inside of and keep warm and reasonably dry it dry for a short period of time so I'm going to use this brunch okay it's quite a bendy brunch but as I said this is kind of an emergency situation thing and I haven't spent all day looking somewhere because we're treating this like an emergency technique I've just picked this one which seems reasonably enough and I haven't spent all day looking for something perfect so first thing I need to do is I need to fall attachment points in in the fabric of my blanket that's going to use the large cones it's not work in the same way as we created buttons or the decloak or coat method in one of the previous videos it's all I've done is I folded the blanket completely in half along gets kind of horizontal length and I want to keep that as neat as I can so I've got those two corners together this will be much better with a bigger blanket but I'm working with what I've got and all I'm going to do is going to put that large cone in the corner there

and then with a clove hitch around that using one of my pieces of cords you don't have to tie a clove hitch I'll throw the link for you dead-simple really handle it although I use it quite a lot it's really useful so where's my comb goner so I just pull that around it's a little bit early there we go one attachment point that isn't going anywhere so I'll keep that nice and neat over there and then I'll create attachment point number two so just bring those two corners together again grab my other large cone a bit small actually together

so same technique again pop the large code in the corner make myself a clove hitch

toilet clogged it tight around that attachment point of course that one might be the Justin we'll get to that in a moment so the next thing to do is me to suspend this from between okay so I'm going to take my first attachment point now I need this blanket hanging down it's not really long enough to format the tarpaulin it needs to be as close to the ground as I can get it so let's have a look at how to do that but now my attachment points are in as I said this one might need readjusting but we'll stick with it and see how it does allow you to work out where I want to actually attach these two top points to this branch so as I said it's not the most ideal branch in the world what I want to work with it because it's an emergency

style situation thing so I'm going to start by tying the first one that's close to the base the tree as I can that's the place where the branch is least likely to break so take my first attachment point and I'm just going to simply lick the rope over and hang it so close bottoms a buckle near the ground closer we'll put a couple of half hitches in

hold up just now to sport loads away is on your wall blankets not not heavy and there's that concealer so the next bit was the point on this branch where is likely most likely to actually break off so bring this around here so you're probably gonna see this brush dip quite a lot

hopefully not great though more as the branch goes up I'm going to need to make sure what my cord is long enough to allow that blanket to reach down to the ground otherwise it's going to drafty in there visit what you want so so that should be about right for me they're a little bit lower I think and then again I'm just going might seem a bit low and saggy go home force some emergency shelter decided to keep you nice and warm and actually move that a little bit further along and the smaller this is inside the better but I don't want it too taut so the next thing I need to do is that obviously on its own isn't that we've books used to be so got two large flat rocks here and I'm going to put them off to one side and I don't need to do this because you can actually tox on this point a little bit easier see I've got all this space underneath maybe for blankie which is going to

a space that can warm up and kill people so these are on the back sake of the video so you can see open it out a little bit place that there the place this one here okay so you can see this is starting to work out now though this blank it's a little bit more ideal for it's a little bit small and I have got a second one so I'm going to do the second blank it is I'm actually gonna place this as a role map on the ground inside for me to sleep on keep it reasonably narrow double it all over to really insulate me from the ground so I've actually got four layers of wool underneath me there and I'm going to lay that length way along this won't fit the same way then what I do is took the additional edge of this blanket underneath the one I'm using the ground map in it and my weight will keep all that in place just like so that might not look like much but that is going to be an excellent warm emergency shelter so to get into this I'd probably come in from the side get myself down back out the way and I can pull that right over and then tuck it all in want some inside actually that is quite cozy

so you go you've got a kind of emergency shelter it's not the best in the world but it's just another technique you can use for one that I would quite like to practice a little bit more with it's quite cozy and warm in there it's very very dark it's going to keep the bugs off me because they're quite it's quite difficult to get in where it's all folded over and I'm nice and insulating on the ground using my second blanket ideally for doing this you're going to want some blanket that's maybe a few feet bigger than this one particularly of your tall guy unlike myself would you know what that's actually pretty comfortable quite after that that's pretty cool so there you go one emergency shelter using a wool blanket

then just took it all in and you good to know thank you all for watching guys