Simple Camping Plow Points Part 1

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school what I thought we'd do today in our simple camping series is we would talk about a couple simple ways to set up a plot point type shelter and I've done videos in the past using a plot point design shelter I've probably even done videos in the past on how to set one up but because this is a simple camping series and this is probably one of my favorite tarp setups I want to show you how to set this plot point shelter up both with an immovable object like a tree that you can tie it off to or if you don't have trees available I'm going to show you how to cut a sapling down and use a single pole to affect this shelter as well and a square tarp works best for this although you can use a rectangular tarp and you can do some folding to make it a square or you use the longest part of it as an awning like we did in the video with the white tour in this series we had a rectangle part set up as a cloud and we had the extra material on the rectangular side has an awning off to one side what I've got here is my normal fed roll and I carry my equipment in lots of different ways and I show lots of different looks so that people can decide what they think is best for them but for conveyance purposes if you have a four-wheeler if you have a horse if you have something that you can easily carry a bed roll on and a bed roll type setup like this works out very well and basically this is just at 8 by 8 oil cloth tarp with two Pathfinder wool blankets rolled up inside some ropes and stakes and we're going to pull this out we're going to set the shelter up first freestanding with one pole then we're going to go off into the woods here set up more of a hunter style type camp in our simple camping series stay with me ok the first thing we should probably talk about is this bed roll because the way it's set up now it's rolled up in a fashion that if I want to just roll it out and sleep on the ground I can do that so unrolling this bed roll we have a couple ropes in here if we pull it all the way out like this

the configuration that we have here is very simple we have the tart basically folded in half here and your sides are over here like that and these can be left tucked under this side would be left tuck under if you were going to sleep in this configuration and then this would cover over you to give you that ground cover this blanket would be the one that you would roll yourself up into like I've done in many of the wool blanket videos and then I have another blanket here at the bottom that's the same size but it's basically rolled up in a folded up I should say so that only covers the core area of your body and it's double thickness probably one two three at least four layers of this wool to give me a ground pad per se to help battle conduction from the ground and then I would just roll up or swaddle myself into the large the other wool blanket here opened up and lay on top of this so this would be a very easy ground sleeping setup just like it is right now and then you just pull this over the top of you for extra warmth to trap heat so that setup works really well for something that's on the fly but again like I said you're probably not going to want to carry this bed roll on your back very far because it does have some weight to it you're probably looking at 20 pounds between the two wool blankets and a tarp and the riggings for the leather strap is probably 20 pounds but if you had a horse a sled a canoe some type of advance like a Rokon or ATV this is an easy quick convenient setup if you get to the point where you just want to camp for the night really quick you don't want to set a bunch of shelter and mess around this comes undone it goes back together very very easily and it is a workable scenario for some pretty cold temperatures and you can always build a long fire one step away and take advantage of that heat as well throughout the night what we're going to do is we're going to kind of move these blankets out of the way for the moment I'm not going to get them too far unfolded here when I put this back together

but I'm just going to kind of fold them up out of the way for the moment you get the tarp and that's what we're going to use the Sun shelter and once we did that we would use this configuration on the ground directly or we could put some type of a vapor barrier on the ground like a trash bag an emergency space blanket or some type of gum blanket if we were trying to be very traditional about it but in that case I would add a gum blanket to the setup which would add probably another three to four pounds to the setup but again with conveyance you really don't have to worry too much about that but these two wool blankets are the really versatile part of this thing because there's so many different configurations you can put them in to sleep for the night ok let's first talk about the stick or the one pole that we're going to use and what I generally do is I'll cut a green sapling that is I want the fork to be right ahead level on that thing

I like the peak of a wedge type shelter a plot point type shelter to be fairly high if it's a normal camping scenario if it's really really cold outside then I might drop that peak down a little bit to trap more heat now the other component to this is just a toggle I love toggles this is just a heavy probably one inch and maybe one inch and a quarter Diane or stick that's about eight or ten inches long and I'm going to use that as a toggle in my V in my fork to hold up my tarp and my ropes my support ropes guylines are going to come out from that as well I'll show you how that sets up right now now I generally carry two pieces of some type of cord your rope that are about two full poles or a little over twelve feet or right at 12 feet long and I do this for a lot of reasons because I can use these in different ways to set up different shelters but if I need the one long length like for these guidelines or for like a Ridgeline then I can just connect them together really quickly with an easy fisherman's knot that we've talked about in some of our other videos and that will give us a single piece of cordage that we can use like this so we're going to tie that fisherman's knot in here and that's going to give us two tails

that are about 12 feet long and then we're going to come up here we're just going to offset that not just a little bit and we're going to put a larks head knot into this toggle just like this a simple larks head knot is all you need and this is going to go through the corner of our tarp all right so here is the corner of our tarp on the diagonal if I'm using a square tarp and I'm just going to take this lark side this whole thing put it up through one of my tie out loops or stake loops just like this and then put my toggle through it just like this and now what I've done is I've not only toggle off my tart but I've also got to rope lines here to use for staking out this tarp at the same time what's going to happen is when I put this one pull up this one pull will catch just like this put the ropes on the outside the toggle to the inside just like this and it will be set up very similar to this when it's all said and done with one guy line going in each direction away from the pole itself okay the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to come down here to this corner and I'm going to pull it away from everything and stake it in now the first tool I make is a baton because especially if I'm hitting metal stakes I don't want to do that with my ax and a wooden baton comes in really handy for a lot of things around camp so it's generally the first tool that I'll make now once you have your tarp spread out you've got a stake in the back holder you've got this setup if you simply come up here and stand this pole up it will draw the corners in of the tarp to about the point they're going to need to be staked for

you can just come down and set this back down and temporarily tack those for those of your outside corner okay so now we just need a couple temporary loops on our line to do that we're just going to come up here and double the line over we're going to wrap one to the inside like that

and then we're going to come around the outside and use that as a stop bite with a slippery that's just like this what that's going to do is that's going to allow that rope to be tightened up but it's going to come undone real easy as well you can clean up pick this up just like this stand this straight up and pull it out and figure out about where we are and you can see we need to make some adjustments to our stakes and that's fine but for now it will allow us to pull against this side and put a stake in the ground here pulling on one side of the corner just like this and again I'm not driving anything home yet then come over here pull against the other side real quick they put the second loop in the ground like this now I've got something I can look at so okay now I need to make my adjustments all come over here to pull this tik tok looks like this that was going just about all the way in at this point they'll do the same thing over here now with a setup like this what I generally favor is my fire on one side of this diamond door this plot point I don't want it straight out in the front I want it off to one side out of here so I'll just go one step from here and I'd have my cook fire out and here somewhere it's far enough away from any ropes in my tarp that way but I also have basically three sides catching that heat going in yes you've got some heat escape here and up here but you're still going to get some reflectivity in here as well and I just find that it works better that way for me because it allows me a bigger open area with no interference of the pole to be out here cooking and then get back into cover if I need to and things like okay so let's talk about this stake loop that we put in here that was temporary now if we want to we can come in here and just pull this out and we've gone right back to the beginning point of our slip knot that we always use so we can tighten this thing up come in here go around our line three times go around both lines one time just like this and tie that same slippery hitch in there and now we have a knot that we can move that's self tightening and all we do is put a couple extra loops in it so it makes a real simple system that you can use to move things around if you need to it's going to come undone real easy when the time comes as well okay so let's talk real quick about this natural rope for a minute obviously this does not going to last forever because it's a natural material so it's going to be about a season if you're using it a lot but if it's rolled up in a bed roll it's going to last for a long long time if you leave it out you leave it set up it's going to rot away fairly quickly so you have to replace it often but the advantages of this are a it looks more traditional I really like that be it also gives you a tinder source an emergency because it is a natural fiber but one of the things I really like about it is I'm a big fan of these Yuko candle lanterns and because this is a rope I can actually separate those fibers and slide that hook in between two of those leis just like that and virtually hang that Lantern anywhere I want to on that piece of rope and it's good secure it's not going to slide up and down the Rope on/off - where do I put any toggles or loops or anything like that in there and I can hang it anywhere I want to on these ropes as close to my camp or as far away or out here by where I'm working on the fire wherever I want to along the length of any of these ropes this lamp will hang very comfortably even on an angle without sliding and I like that okay so let's talk about pulling these metal stakes again I never pound the eye into the ground because I can just take a doubled up piece of rope throw it in there wrap my hand around one side of it I've got the loop on the other side and just lean back to pull the stake I'm not pulling with my arms I'm not pulling my back I'm basically just leaning back with my weight the ant got steak out of the ground it's a really simple way to pull these metal steaks and that's why I like these so well they're robust or heavy-duty they last forever they're easy to drive and they're easy to pull out