Shelter Basic Tarp Setups 3

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morning guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school what we're going to do this morning is continue with our basic series on tarp setups and we talked about a wedge or a plow point type shelter we've talked about an open front lean type shelter with an overhang the next thing when you talk about is flying a tarp and flying a tarp means that all four sides or all four corners of that tarp are going to be off the ground and that can be done whether it is in a pup tent type configuration of a square where you've just got that square over the middle of the line and all four corners are ran out or can be used in a diamond configuration where you've got the tarp in a diamond shape and you're got two wings on each side and the two corners pulled out in the middle either way you can fly a tarp flying a tarp comes in advantageous for a couple different things remember that when we're setting up any type of shelter configuration whether it be a natural shelter or a shelter with a tarp the three things that we are trying to look at the three factors that we need to understand our conduction convection and radiation

those are the three things that we need to control or manipulate depending on our environment season temperatures prevailing winds and weather okay so we have our cordage with our loop jam tied in and we're going to put that around our tree that's going to be the first tree at the height we want our ridgeline and that's going to depend on whether you're going to put a hammock underneath this tarp or whether you're just sleeping under this tarp so we're going to put this thing about waist level because that's about what I like for shelter lines now what we're doing is we're pulling this tight against the tree on that loop jamb and we've created a slot right here where that loop Jam locks into it and what we're going to do is we're going to put the first corner of our tarp right through that loop Jam right there just like that pull a stake out of our pocket and shove it in there remember we've got four stakes so we shove that in and we pull this down against the tree that corner of that tarp is jammed in there and it can't move okay so when we come to the other side we'll go ahead and get our step off that we talked about before our arms length and we'll make our loop in there for our trucker since we'll come right around and grab that yank against that trucker's hitch pulling loop just like this we'll lock it in we'll come over the top and we'll pull it tight now that gives us this adjustable loop right here and that's going to be important for our next corner all right now we're going to come down and pull our tarp over the top and right here is the corner of our tarp and we're going to loosen that loop up enough to get it through the loop and the other corner of our tarp just like this shove a stake in there pull it down as tight as it needs to go in this case it just happened to go all the way against the knot but it's plenty tight and then we're going to put one more half it's in here just like we did on our trucker set for security that gives us two loops that we can pull straight out of this line but it's not going to come loose now when we go to tie this thing off in the corners to get our tarp flying or up off the ground it doesn't matter whether we're using a stake or whether we are using a tree it works the same way you've got that end of the line jam loop in one end of your line and you just have a knot in the other end just like we had on our ridgeline and all I'm doing is running this entire line straight through the loop the tie out loop on this tent so basically I have two lines that will move because I have it directly through that loop now I'm just going to take the loop and the jam loop end put it around the object I want to tie off to whether that's a tree or whether that's a stake put the other end through that loop and this becomes my testing loop now as if I were doing the same trucker's hitch that we did on the tree so we'll pull this down pinch that together reach through and grab it and now we have that exact same type knot that we put on the tree with our ridge line on our stake or on our tree or whatever object we're tying off to it becomes a very quick and up and down knot and it's very easily adjustable if I let this down all I do is let the tension off of it I can bring that rope down to get it closer to the ground and just retie that knot again and it takes no time at all to do that so no matter where I want to move that to I've created something that I can use to tighten and retighten or set that thing up anyway I need to to get it the proper height and it's very quick to go up and down or maybe I want to stick it straight to the ground I just want to get this out real quick and shove a stake through that loop I've still got two steaks left okay so at this point we have flown our tarp the tarp is not tied down to the ground on any of the four corners it's up in the air that gives us the maximum advantage that we can take of convection it's going to let all the breeze come through here there's nothing blocking any wind on any four sides we can sleep directly on the ground in a setup like this or if we fly this tarp higher we can put a hammock underneath here we'll talk more about that stuff in a later video but this is a good basic tarp setup the last tarp setup I want to show you in this tarp setup stuff is I want to show you how to make just a tube tent style setup and it's probably the simplest of all stay with me okay you set up your typical a-frame Boy Scout style shelter you're just going to go ahead and run your loop through on your loop jam just like we did before now let's step off the tree a good wedge considering you've only got a seven-foot tarp and just take a loop in the line just like this and put it through your Center tie out loop just like this and then just put yourself a toggle in there obviously if you've only got four stakes you're not going to be able use a stake but if you've got six you can use a stake for this and then pull it tight and go down the other end and tie your trucker's hitch on the other end so on this end all we're going to do is the same thing we did before we're going to step off a little bit here twist our line over pull it through and get our tightening loop our tensioning loop for our trucker's hitch take our line back through it tighten it down on the tree just like that

get it the right height and then again same thing we're just going to go ahead and tie that loop in there now this loop here is going to give you the other end of what you're going to use to tighten your tarp down so on this end all we're going to do is the same thing we did before we're going to step off a little bit here twist our line over pull it through and get our tightening loop our tensioning loop for our trucker's hitch take our line back through it tighten it down the tree just like that get it the right height and then again same thing we're just going to go ahead and tie that loop in there now this loop here is going to give you the other end of what you're going to use to tighten your tarp down so now just throw your tarp over the top just like this come down and take this loop and put it through just like you did before and again if you're only carrying four stakes you're going to have to put a toggle in there so just pick yourself a stick up off the ground and shove it in there as a toggle and you just pull that down tight just like that and that's going to give you a type hitch right there because so when we're done this is what we got now we've got just a regular pup tent style tip that we can get inside up crawl in there and go to sleep this is not going to be near as effective at taking advantage of convection if you're looking for a breeze that's flying the tarp but this will take more of an advantage of trying to keep heat in with a low ridge line and these sides down you're going to stay warm in a shelter like this so it just depends on your environment the weather what you're trying to do and how you're trying to manipulate conduction convection or radiation so that you get the best night's sleep we're going to talk about how to get a good night's sleep in the next part of the series okay both long Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining me here today for another video on basic tarp setups we're going to continue with the series and go into how to get a good night's sleep in our next video I appreciate your views appreciate your support I thank you for they can do for me for my school my family friends sponsors and affiliates and I'll be back another video so as it can guys thanks you