Shelter Basic Tarp Setups and an E Fire 2

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guys uh a little tarp in front of the camera here I apologize for that as you can see it's pouring down rain right now out here so now we've got to think about we're talking about our shelter off and you're talking about basic stuff what do we got to do to get something set up you get us out of this rain and eventually we're going to start fire but let's worry about getting something up above us right now that we can work under so that we get ourselves out of the rain obviously we can put our poncho on right now I have it over top of the camera keep your camera dry but I can pull that out put that on right now that's going to keep me dry while I'm finding a shelter location and then we'll work from there okay guys if I'm out and a rain storm comes in I've got to set my priorities very quickly especially if it's getting close to nightfall number one my first concern is going to be fire I can put that poncho over me I get myself out of the inclement weather what I'm worried about is how easy is it going to be for me to start a fire depending on how to get rains well I'm looking around me right now and I see a lot of pine I'm spotting right up here to hot beside me over here to my right there is a pine with some SAP dripping off of it lots of lower dead branches lots of dead pine cones lots of small pine over here lots of pine on the ground well that stuff that's up in the air up there is not going to get wet real quick not near as wet as the stuffs going to be it's on the ground so I have to prioritize that and thick can I start fire with that wet pine well if I've got fatwood in my kit it's going to be pretty easy for me to do so I can probably forego the fire in lieu of getting a shelter built first so I've got something to protect that fire as I build it so let's get a ridgeline up real quick between these two trees that is the key element to everything is how fast can I make a shelter how quick can I do my up-downs if I've got my line already set up and I've got one extra piece of cordage right here I'll put that in my pocket real fast I've got my stakes in my back pocket I just pulled them right out of my pack set it on the ground remember one of these lines has always got that bowline loop or some type of loop knot in it

so I'm just going to go around this tree a little bit higher than head level tie that in that's going to give me my ridge line I want to make that high enough that I can work under it yet I can get some protection then I'm going to come over to this pine over here and tie off when I come over to this pine I'm going to move you know as quick as I can possibly move I'm going to put my line around this thing at the same level the other one is I've got some material right here for my fire I've got some dead pine branches on this tree not a problem

take my step off a lot of this depends on how quickly you can tie these knots so if you know that you can do this stuff pretty fast and you don't have to worry about it then you're okay tie my loop in here get my trucker's hitch so I got a good tight line right there I've got my loop here that's where the first corner my tarps going to go and I already know that so I'll tighten that down grab my tarp now I'm going to decide whether I want this thing offset or not and I do especially since I'm going to build fire because it's tarp so easy up down I can get away with a lot of stuff putting this thing up down up down up down and changing things around so I'm going to go one grommet back put my loop right through the tile point again this tarp doesn't have grommets on it it has good heavy tie outs on it they aren't going to rip out on you I'm just going to stick that through there put a stake in it pull it down tight now I'm on the other into my ridge line here again I'm one tie off point up I've got this line all I'm going to do is tie a knot through this thing just like this one of those big hitches doesn't matter what I use I could just tie this thing a knot like this if I wanted to with the two tags sticking through it give myself a big loop or I could tie something more fancy right now I'm just worried about how quick and I get this up and down and this will be pretty easy if I run this through the loop three times I get myself a

SiC I got to control the knot so I'm going to pull the knot down tighten this up again grab another stake open that loop up run my string right through the loop just like this or my loop through the loop I guess is the word run my stake through the loop just like this pull it down as tight as I want to go and because I got a prusik knot on there that's not going anywhere now all I got to do is get these things tied out real quick I got two stakes left I'll drop my corners in the ground real fast just like this boot that thing right down in come to the other side do the same thing okay so once I've got that done now I'm going to pull a couple more random pieces of cordage out of my pack put one in my pocket I got one right here that's where I'm going to grab this flap and bring it out to give myself an overhang and I'm just going to go through this thing I'm going to tie a loop in this end of it and then to the line jam basically bring this whole thing back to a tree now I've got that to a tree I can go through that end of the line jam just like this maneuver that around to where I need it tied that thing off in the same trucker's hitch style knot I'm done now go to the other one okay now I've given myself a place I like to get in here and I can work and I can be out of the weather drag my pack in here if it starts to rain even harder at least I'm protected now I can start moving things around get myself ready to put my bedroll down in here put my mat down put my moisture barrier down put my wool blanket down all those things for the night I can also start to work on my fire my fire lay inside here and right when I get ready to light it I can move it out unless I'm going to change my shelter configuration I'm going to need to move it out of the way from my shelter one thing that's very important to understand is once you get yourself wet and you have to dry your clothes by fire you're going to need a bigger fire small fires I have a tendency to burn clothing boots all that stuff because you have to move things so close to it to get it to dry out you'll end up burning it up if you build yourself a big fire that gives off a lot of heat you won't have to get things near as close to it to feel that heat and dry them out a lot of people don't understand that small fires burn clothing big fires dry clothing think about that one as well okay here's something really important to look at real quick

you see I talked about that hood being off to one side of center of that tarp that hood has got to flop this facing downhill in other words just flopped over facing down so water is going to ruin a sheet over the top of that I have to be cognizant that when I set the shelter up I don't want to turn it the other way because then I'm just asking for a leak it wouldn't probably leak that way unless you had a really good driving rain but you want to set it up this way to avoid that chance all together okay so what we have set up here is kind of a modified Baker type design it's not closed down on the sides like a baker would be but it's got the overhang like a baker would have and then approximately a 45 degree back on it so if you've got a seven foot by 7 foot tarp

you've got two feet of that or so hanging over the top and then you've got five feet going straight down let me get that thing up above waist level we should be able to set up inside there do what you got to do stay dry and you've got an overhang you can actually work a little bit further out from underneath that angle and still keep yourself good and dry and then you can manipulate that angle up or down in the evening time to hold heat in there if you want to okay guys here's what I decided to do um I know just sure's crap if I put this video up and we just show the shelter which was my intention to begin with somebody's going to say hey it's pouring down rain out there what are you going to do to start fire so I figure I'm going to show you how to build a fire in this rain and wet weather right now real quick using the available materials around me because I don't have a tinder bundle I don't have any fat wood with me I don't have any of that stuff so I'm going to have to collect what's around me to make a fire and I'm giving myself a very short amount of time to do that so I'm kind of going to test myself as well but there's plenty of stuff right here we're going to walk through that together we're going to start a big fire right here and then we'll end the video and we'll talk about bedding and how to set up your bedding and things like that in the next video when we talk about other setups for this tarp stay with me guys okay so here's a pond I've got a run a pine sap I see running down this tree well guys we just got really lucky because in the few minutes here that it took me to get this camera set up to get a shot of this pine the Sun just popped out now everything in here still what you can still hear water falling out of the trees it doesn't really matter who are soaking wet conditions but at least we're not getting any more rain falling down on us right now but now what we're going to do is we're going to take a stick I just grabbed the one off the ground here we're going to reach up in there into that soft goo and try to get someone to stick just like this and bring it down okay hopefully you guys can see this and it's kind of in focus this is fresh wet pine sap and it is going to be highly highly combustible material

so this is something I'm going to take right off the bat okay next right here by Mike and I've got this strangler vine full of shredding bark I should be able to take my knife back over the front the blade whatever it doesn't really matter and I should be able to shed that bark down if it's not soaking wet it's going to take a spark really well but combined with that accelerant it shouldn't matter if it's a little bit damp and now I got to collect a handful of that okay here's my next target hanging dead it's the dead pine branch hanging in a pine tree with a million little sticks on it that's my initial fire lay okay guys let's talk about where we're at I'm looking for material it doesn't matter whether I know the name of it or not I'm looking for properties of material this bark is stringy when I shred it that means it's going to give me a lot of surface area to get sparks that means it's going to be ideal for bird nest material or tender it doesn't matter if I know what it is or not all I'm worried about is the properties that it has okay so I'm going to shred that up and process it I've got some laying on the ground right here and I've kicked the dirt out to where I've got to some dry ground here and that's important as well because if I got wet ground I'm starting my fire on I'm already starting in trouble so I'm going to set that right there for the moment then I've got this big ball of pine sap that I put on a leaf that's step two of my fire I have this pine branch that has lots and lots of small dry dead highly combustible sticks that's going to be the next element let's lay those right there for right now I'm going to break every one of those off and use them all of those are pencil size and smaller so they're key elements then I'll break up the bigger stuff and I'll put it in another pile here right beside it does it take a long time to get a fire lay prepped again pine is a primo firewood if you're trying to not cook with this fire necessarily but if you're trying to get something quick and dirty that's going to put off a lot heat pie is going to give you that because pine has tons of resins in it if I break something open I'm going to smell it I want to smell that turpentine smell if I can and again that's the same thing with the pine sap material doesn't matter if I know what it is properties matter is smooth it's runny its sticky now I'm going to smell it that smells like an accelerant like gasoline turpentine mr.clean those type of things it's going to burn okay so I've got another dead pine branch here again processing it down the small sticks go over here pine cones I'm keeping those if there's pine cones on those branches

I'm keeping those pine cones we'll talk about that in a minute there's four or five of them here I'm going to keep those as I'm breaking the sticks off again you don't want to get too much of a hurry with this stuff but you've got to be in somewhat of a hurry it can start raining again any second now and you're going to get wet again right now you're trying to avoid that so get your tinder pile your kindling pile your fuel pile processed but don't take all day about it either you don't have to okay I want to show you guys real fast so you understand what's going on here

the shelter's right there this whole pine is full of dead sticks that whole pine is full of dead sticks the pine that my shelter is tied to it's full of dead sticks there's another one right behind it another one right there I don't have to get a huge fire supply built I need to get a flame right now before it rains again get it sustainable then start collecting fuel right around my camp area okay guys I've tried to get close up on this fire pit a little bit so y'all can see exactly what's going on here so now I've got this bird nest material this fluffy material I'm gonna strike I've got this pine sap these pine cones are going to get rubbed into that and I'm going to put pine sap on these pine cones because that is going to be the initial fuel in my fire I'm going to take some of this pine sap and get it rubbed in there really good before I do anything even with a few of those fine hairs on there that's fine too I get some of those locked in there I don't have a problem with that either I just want a big mess right now a conglomeration okay I'll set that off to the side for a minute and this is going to be covered in furry stuff and I'll set it right on top of the pine cones wipe any residual off my hands with that give myself an initial lay off the ground of material not a big deal again I'm going to take the smallest stuff first and that's what I'm going to build my initial teepee style fire out of and I don't have to get real fancy with this I just got to get something up in the air here so I get something inside of it I have to I can support it with one of my pieces of fuel that's not a big deal either doesn't have to be perfect people strive sometimes I think too much for perfection what we're worried about right now is the time factor on top of the wetness factor and we don't have a whole lot on here but we do have an accelerant we have this pine resin that's going to burn for a long time once we get hot and that's important so if we build our fire lake correctly we get all of our smalls right over the top of our fire lay then we'll be able to add to it pretty quickly I think I'm going to grab one more pine branch of smalls real fast because I've decided this isn't enough and that's okay I'll be right back so I grabbed myself another handful of smalls I'm just going to put them right here on the outside just like this now again some of this stuff is dictated by your skill level if you question your ability to be able to start fire or be able to keep a fire going then you may want to ensure that you've got enough stuff that there's no chance that can fail for me if this thing looks like it's not going to work out right I always have a plan B I can go to I know that I can go right here next to me and grab more stuff now I remember I've got this big ball of pine resident pine cones here as well it's balled up together that's going to be my ace in the hole stuffs pretty wet for sure once I can get that Reza to take off then it's on like Donkey Kong right I might have to worry about it anymore all I had to worry about was getting enough flame up there to get that resin to light up here comes the rain again exactly what we're talking about now I'm going to move that TP right over the top of one of my flame is and I'm just going to let it work situation critical right now you

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putting some stuff around the outside letting it eat it up it's gonna be damp even those in the trees now while this is happening now it's my time to go collect now I'm going to jump on these trees right in front of me and start grabbing sticks off of them need a big sustainable fire right now hmm

okay well I knew that fire is not going anywhere then I can start to relax a little bit now I just go collect more fuel I got that a little close to a tarp line I'm going to move that tarp line real fast no big deal pull this tarp line up real fast that's the beauty of those up/down knots I don't have to worry about it and I'll just move it over and that my friends is the beauty of pine that fire is not going anywhere I got all night before dark to run around here and collect up some pieces of parts thrown by this fire to keep this thing going if I need to but this fire is getting plenty big now so idle up stand is close to it I can still feel the heat standing behind this camera I feel the heat of that fire I need a big fire to dry my clothes out right now before it's time to bed down if that's the case okay guys one Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me to this video today I'm sorry I got off track a little bit but I thought it was a great opportunity to do an impromptu hey I got a pharaoh I the knife I got to make fire right now get a shelter set up what do I do so I want to kind of walk you guys through that even though this was supposed to be a basic series on shelters only but I thank you for all your views I thank you for supporting your time all the comments that you make all the support that you give to me my family my friends my business I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys

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