Roycroft Pack Frame Part 3 Using Shelter Components

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okay guys for sake of purpose let's say that we found a location that we want to set up our camp for the night we've got two trees right here actually - the trees that we practice building shelter on here at the Pathfinder school in our classes so this one going to set it up and remember that we're only going to use the components that we have on our pack frame for our shelter and our cordage we don't want to have to pull anything extra out everything else should be our safety net towards that we're gonna have to use an emergency or something we need to build or make not shelter or shelter stuff is already set up our pack frame that's important to understand so let's get this pack frame off again real simple one loop drop here pull our axe out set it to the side bar however sock over here and we are ready to start taking components off of this pack frame for our shelter starting with the cordage just the ridgeline alright so first things first we need to take our rope off of here remember Slipknot Slipknot at this point we could take this one out if we want to that was loose not that we have that's just holding our quarters together we could also pull that out this point if we want to

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didn't take much time to do this okay so now we have a Ridgeline let's get that set up because we're gonna use exactly the same knots for a Ridgeline that we used water pack frame okay so we've got our piece of rope here let's cut our into the line bowling in it on one side right there we're just gonna wrap that around the tree pull the remaining cord through about waist high to start and that is gonna give us a self tightening knot basically around that tree that when we pull against it it's only gonna get tighter okay we get to this side of the tree we're gonna make we're gonna give ourselves a little bit of a measure here about a foot or two foot and a half something like that and we're going to put our Slipknot in just like we did on our pack that's going to be our tensioning not for a Ridgeline we'll pull that through we'll crank that down and then we're gonna put our trucker's hitch on there exactly like we did with our pack so we just throw a lope a loop over the top of that pull the line through the loop and then we have again a loop knot we can just yank out quick release it's the same exact knot that we used for the pack frame the same exact knot that we use for the waist strap on the pack itself the same thing you're gonna use these same knots over and over and over and over again they're so easy and so effective any extra chords I got I can just want it up and stick it somewhere for the moment we're gonna use this loop here in just a minute so I don't want to let it go too far I'll just tuck it right in there for now okay so here's our blood knot that we had and we pulled that loop off of our backpack if you'll remember we had that on a larks head so if we were going to put that make a larks head knot we would just take that and pull through one time and that would make a larks head exactly like what we had on a pack frame but we want a prusik nice so we're gonna go one two more times around making it three wraps and what that's gonna do is we pull that tight it's gonna make a knot that will slide up and down the rope but if I put tension against it it doesn't slide very easily okay it'll still slide because it's knots really meant for two different diameters a rope but it doesn't slide very easily when you put pressure on it this is where the point one corner of our tarps going to go okay guys so now we're gonna begin setting up our target so we're gonna grab this thing long ways the foot direction and this is where toggles come in but I'm just gonna pick sticks up off the ground for this works just as easy first thing we're gonna do is let's drop this rope out of our way so when I get confused by that real quick we have this loop that's our quick release loop we're going to put that loop through one of our corner for one of our corner grommets and we're going to put a toggle in there and then we're just gonna pull it down tight on top of that toggle you guys are getting a little bit of a freebie here that's exactly what we teach in the pathfinder school for five minutes shelter with an emergency space blanket okay once you've got that you're good now if you want to get that out there all you gotta do is work it it'll come right out but it's gonna be nice and secure if you want to you could come over here and put a sliding half hitch in here on one side just like that just for extra security and then get the rest of your rope out of the way we're gonna do again is we're gonna put that loop right up through our tarp put a toggle in it pull it down tight just like this now if you want to you can wrap it in behind it like that that way if you're pulling against that string you're not getting separation like this very simple just put that toggle on that side then we're going to grab two more of our projects and that's what we're going to use for the back now we have two more grommets on the top of this and we have more prusik loops remember we had sex so if we wanted to we could take two more prospects and put them on here and use these loops right here or these grommets I should say just to give us extra tightness in both directions just to keep this tarp from moving at all in the wind or in the breeze and I'm just picking sticks up off the ground here I'm not really getting particular about my toggles you don't really need to and then I can just tighten this one up from that fighting this one up to there and then I can do the same thing on this other side I've got one more right here then I can use the same way just tighten that thing down grab a stick off the ground shove it through and I'll pull this toggle the other direction so now I have one going this direction I have one going that direction I have the torque being pulled that direction on that corner and it's tight on this corner but now I've got it pretty secured to my line as far as wind flopping it around very much okay guys two more projects we get those running off our frame remember we had six and all I'm gonna do here is I'm going to put a toggle in this corner so that I'm putting stress across this corner not directly on that directly on that corner right there if I want a half hitch this around a couple of times I can do that to get it closer just loop it over the top like that and it's takes like I said you know you can carry snakes or you can make steaks it's just a whole lot easier to carry them okay guys so there it is simple tarp simple up simple down simple knots everything that we used to put it up with other than the two stakes which we could have cut those real easy with our axe came off of our pack frame originally our prospects are tarp itself all of that was part of our pack frame and that's important now you have something that is multifunctional and that's important when you're putting anything together don't just build something with a single purpose in mind it's not just a pack frame it's also all the components I need already ready to make my shelter so if I've got an emergency situation I've got to make shelter fast all my components are right here ready for me to use them I appreciate you guys joining for this video and thank you everything you do for me for my school for my family I'll be back another video as soon as I can guys thanks

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