Tarp Setups and Research for System Development

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks Dave camera at the Pathfinder school back guys with another video in our basic tarp setups for basic bushcraft before I send you this setup I want to tell you that I do not recall ever seeing this particular setup of a tarp being used before does that mean that no one's ever done it it absolutely doesn't because chances are someone somewhere along the line has thought of this before I did and that's the funny thing about bushcraft and survival there's very few new ideas it's just that things have either been improved on jumbled around a little bit or changed to fit a certain person's system and a good example of that would be the five season survivability a cutting tool combustion device a cover element a container and cordage those five items have been in existence and carried all the way back to 3500 years ago owes to the Iceman he had those five items on his person along with his bow so does that mean that OSI invented it probably not because someone else showed him or told him and when I developed the five season 10 season survivability I looked at several things and one of the things I looked at was Otzi the Iceman but looking at that you can't take it at face value you have to understand or analyze why those items why those particular things and if you look at them carefully you understand that a they take a specialized skill level to reproduce B they take specialized material to reproduce C they're probably going to be the things that most directly affect your survivability in some way shape or form whether its core temperature control or building something to help with core temperature control so those five items are nothing new the list of 10 items like the 10 sees nothing new but it's not something that was developed in the 70s it's not something developed in the 60s it's not even something developed in the 50s it goes beyond that as far as I can see from research there are there was a list of 10 essential items to carry that was put out by a club called the Mountaineers from the West Coast in the 1930s and that list is printed on the Internet

revamped a few times and there's also another contemporary list of those items aren't listed on our website so 10 items is not a new concept the 10 C's is a new concept and the items within the 10 C's are a new concept if you ask nests m'q back in his day what would be one of your preferred fire-starting choices he's going to tell you matches but if you ask me that today in 2013-2014 what I want matches is one of my main fire-starting elements absolutely not I'd rather have the butane lighter a ferrocerium rod and a magnifying glass because in this day and age we have that technology that makes a lighter a lot more viable to use than a stick match so those things have to be thought about when you're doing your research and your dirt time and those two things are brothers and they have to be understood you have to do the proper research you've got to go back and read from sources from the old days I don't read very many contemporary sources on bushcraft and survival because most of them are just reprocessed information from old stuff that worked for that individual person what I want to see is what was back then and how can I adapt it to work for me because what works for me may not work for the guy who wrote this book may not be from the guy who wrote that book does that mean their books aren't worth buying or worth looking at absolutely not

but what I choose to do is first research the old stuff and then move into the contemporary so the only book that I've really spent a lot of time reading or a lot of time analyzing the contents of is bushcraft by Moore's Kohan scheme that's probably the most contemporary book I've sat down and analyzed what's inside that book to see if it's viable for the Eastern woodlands that I live in compared to the boreal forest or more ski and ski lifts beyond that the books that I look at were written in the 1920s and 1930s the late 1800s the mid 1800s and I'll give you a list of authors that you can look at on this video real quick that you can look their names up and find some of the sources whether it be by hardback or paperback books off Amazon Project Gutenberg places like that are all places you can look to find these books so if I dig out my glasses here real fast

I have a list written down in my pocket of a few of the authors that I have researched and read about and look at their material to kind of develop some of the things that I use in my system today or that I use to affect my survivability or to smooth it okay I'm gonna go through these real quick for you guys

Bernard Mason George Washington Sears Ernest Thompson setting Horace Kephart Frances chili Daniel Baird Philip Fagan eat crêpes Ellsworth Yeager Hamilton Gibson Warren Miller and then you can go into people like more skiing ski but that's getting in more contemporary all of these authors that I just gave you the names of our authors that wrote books from the 1800's to the early 1900s early turn-of-the-century time period pre-1950 basically and those are a lot of sources that I look at because I figure that those guys that was the Golden Age of camping back in the 1930s and even in the late 1800s to the 1930s that was kind of the Golden Age of people are starting to get weekends and going out camping and spending time away from the civilized world so those guys developed some very good ways of doing things and that's the things I look at when I go beyond frontier era mentality and then I meld those things together to get where I'm at today so let's talk about this shelter real quick because there's no name for this shelter it's not like it's the Pathfinder shelter it's just a configuration for an 8x8 tarp that I came up with that works really really well there's reasons that works well I'm gonna explain them to you today so stay with me guys okay so let's talk about this shelter real fast why I like it why I think it's a good shelter and how I set it up this is an 8 by 8 tarp by tent Smith's com it's an oilskin tarp it's about 200 bucks but you can call 10 Smith's and you can order one of these tarps now

the area that's on the ground here in front is half of this tarp the four feet of this tarp is out here on the grammar that's important to understand we're going to use that in a minute all right so basically in the back of the tarp you have the top of the tarp that is on a Ridgeline so if we've got four feet of it on the ground then we have basically two feet up and two feet across and I have staked it down write it up mid point of the tarp in the middle and because this one has tie out on the outside of the middle of the tarp I was also able to stake it down in the center there and it's takedown on the end there and then it's just ran over a ridge line here between two trees now the front of this tarp is pitched in a downward angle it's pitched in a downward angle for two reasons number one to shed rain number two so that it will hold heat the back of that shelter for the most part is almost straight up and down now let's talk about what we're going to do with this four feet we got hanging out in the front what I'm gonna do is we're going to use this four feet of shelter for not only our browse bed but also our moisture barrier stick under there so we're going to figure that we've got two feet out to here and what we're going to do with this this in this case I'm going to use a real heavy wool blanket shard and it used this quite a bit and if I fold this thing right just about half like this just a little bit less than half it gives me something that's longer than my core that protects me from conduction and I can put that all the way up against this just like this pull it down just a shade and I can do the same thing with I can do the same thing with leaves here I can just stuff this with leaves all the way out to this midpoint and I'm gonna push this up against the side a little bit just like this to get it inside my two foot then I'm gonna take this and fold it over the top and I'm gonna stake it down back here and I'm gonna stake it down here

all I'm gonna do in the backpack there use that same stick that I've already got in the corner I'm gonna pull that stake just like this holding that corner put both of those through stretch it out hammer that down now I'm going to do the same thing on the other end and out here I'm going to come here and pull this taut so if I've got leaves in here I pretty much have those leaves trapped okay so what I've done is I've created a two-foot-wide browse bed and moisture barrier using my tarp in here like I said I've got a blanket to battle conductivity here but I could use browse in here just as easily if I wasn't carrying a wool blanket and because this shelter has a downward slope it's going to shed a lot of rain this is doubled over I'm not going to get rain to my shelter the overhang is a little bit beyond the front of this Browse bed because it stretched tight and a little bit of an angle here that's going to keep rain from coming in here on my bed the less space I have to heat in between me and this back wall if I'm trying to do this in a winter time and then better off I'm going to be guys I appreciate you joining me out here today for this quick shelter setup video in this discussion on learning research dirt time and things like that because as I said they do go hand-in-hand and I would encourage you to look at some of these older authors from back in the day and look at what they have to say and kind of glean and develop your system as I have from ancient learnings are from learnings of the past if you go back and look at part of the reason I developed the 10 sees the way I did and the 5 sees if you go back and look at the Mountaineers list from the 1930s of their 10 essential items that they told people they should carry for emergencies they had extra water on the list but nothing about the container that water was in was it metal was a stick it wasn't specified if I'm in a environment where there's going to be a lot of snow and these guys were mountain climbers I'm gonna want something to be able to melt and process snow in the long run extra water is not enough I'm not going to carry four or five gallons of water but if I've got snow all around me to melt to make my water or ice to make my water then I have to have that metal container to put into the fire to be able to process that water and little things like that that you can look at a list and glean from your own understandings of I know I've got to have this but it's not on this list so how do I work that in those are the things that you need to do to do your research do your dirt time to understand what you need what works for you and build several different types of shelters and find out what's going to work best for you in certain environments certain times of the year I would say this shelter concept I just showed you would be good for almost any time of the year in Eastern Wieland's of Ohio doesn't make it a great shelter somewhere else I'm Dave Canberra the pathline our school I thanks for joining for this video I thank for your comments I thank you for your views I thank you for anything you do for me for my school for my family and everyone that's a filly with the Pathfinder school and self-reliance Outfitters I'll be back to another video so as I can thanks guys you