Tarp Setups the Foresters Tent and the 4 W's

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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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one folks dave canterbury pathfinder school back out here with another video in our basic bushcraft series what i want to do today is I want to show you how to set up what's called a foresters tent with your 8 by 8 tarp this tent will allow you to take better advantage of your fire and the reading heat and also trap heat inside the shelter take advantage of convection so let me get this thing going here one pack our Roycroft frame get the tarp off of it and we'll start talking about how to set this dude up stay with me okay so when we're selecting an area to set up our camp no matter what type of shelter configuration we're going to use the first thing we want to think about is what's called the for double use we want to look at the direction of the wind are we close to water do we have plenty of viable firewood for the night and are there any Widow makers above us and what I mean Widow makers I mean dead standing trees or limbs that are going to fall on us during a storm or anything like that during the night are they going to fall on top of our camp and hurt us that becomes a Widowmaker so looking around right now we have a large deadfall pine behind us that's going to give us plenty of firewood even to get through a cold night just off that one tree especially if we have a bucks or an axe I have a creek bed down below me that's going to give me water the wind direction generally comes out of the north in Ohio Sun is coming out now man it's going to get warm nice by the warm I mean above 30 degrees but anyway so the wind is going to come off of an adjacent ridge and it's not going to hurt us any because we got plenty of cover right here widow-makers I've looked around above me I've got a pine beside me a large pine beside me that doesn't have any dead branches on it's a good live kind everything else around me is small oaks and hickories and what I mean small I mean stuff this big around or less so I'm in a pretty good location with quite a few Pines around me to get fatwood off of it you get lower branches off up I've got this huge pine behind me I've got water I don't have to worry about the wind

and I'm in no worries of having any widow-makers above me so this is going to be a good spot for a camp tonight let's get our tarp out and set up our forest okay so once I've selected the location I'm going to set up my camp I checked out the 4w and I know I'm good to go there the next thing I want to decide is what pieces of ground in this area do I want to set up my camp and what I'm looking for is I'm looking for something that's not high on a ridge because that's going to be windblown I'm not looking for something that's in the bottom because that's going to be a problem for drains and also the fact that cold air sinks and heat air rises so what I'm really looking for is something in between the two something that's on fairly level ground I'm not going to have to worry about ditching around my tent to keep water out of it or discing around my tarp setup to keep water out of it but at the same time something that's on low enough ground that are not on the highest piece of ground in the area where I'm going to suffer from convective breezes from the wind if I don't have to I want to get the front of my shelter facing southeast so that I can take advantage of that morning Sun when it comes up to heat up my tarp setup and heat up my camp I'm looking at the Sun right now so our shelter should be facing somewhat this way I've picked a pretty level piece of ground

I'm going to go around in this area and make sure that there's no stick ups or anything like small trees are starting to grow up like saplings like the one I've got right below my foot here and I'm going to cut those out sweep the area really good for big sticks or rocks things like that in an area that's about 8 by 8 where I'm going to put my tarp and then I'm going to start setting it up okay so here's what our foresters tent looks like when we're done and I'm going to show you how to set this up real quick it's very simple this is a one pole design so you do have one line coming off this pole and you can run it fairly close to the pole but the idea this shelter really is with these flaps you have a fire out here a little ways away from the shelter and if you put a backstop a log backstop behind that fire except that I've kind of like a nest mix up beating fire that he would have during the night you're going to feed that heat into the shelter and take advantage of convection in there and trap a lot of that heat with these low-hanging flaps and these can be adjusted because you've got extra material here you can adjust these down to where they're pretty close to this line just like this and hold quite a bit of heat in that shelter you have you can also open this thing all the way up if you want to do like this during the day so that you can work inside there and you give yourself a little bit of dry floor area in there for storage on the side with these flaps that are turned in and then of course you'd fill this thing with leaves your brows bed or your ground pad or wherever you chose to sleep in but it's at least six feet deep a little bit longer than six feet deep so plenty long enough for one person to be in there but it's an easy way for you to set up an 8 by 8 in an enclosed type configuration where you're going to get more heat trapped inside that shelter from a fire if that's what you're trying to use to heat the shelter you could also heat something up like this very easily with a candle and it would hold a lot of heat as well ok so I'm going to lay my tarp out in a diamond here to begin with and I'm going to stake out this corner this very back corner okay so here's our tarp the way we had it were laid out originally and we've got it laid out in diamond fashion then I folded this one quarter in to about where my third time is out here on the edge of my tarp just like that okay and that's going to be my tie off point for my Center Pole okay so once I got my Center pole in I just picked my tarp up pull it tight moved up one tie up point from the corner and pull that out to see what that needs a lay folded that underneath to pulled it out fairly tight and temporarily stake that down

so let's push that out fairly tight stick it down my hand for a minute come over here let's take the other side down exactly the same way tuck that in just like that stake it down and then you can make your adjustments from there because that doesn't need to be real tight and then you can make all of your adjustments from there with this ten okay

one thing I want to make sure that I mention here so that we're on the same page is once you gather this material up on the top make sure that the tie out is on the outside of those two pieces of material so you've got them both in there the reason for that is when you drop these flaps down take advantage of that convection you want to make sure and the whole heat in there you want to make sure that you can do that to be able to drop that down we've got to be able to have that on the outside on the inside you're not gonna be able drop it down but that gives you flaps that will better hold that heat in there but still gives you a little bit of an airflow in there and then of course you can drop these back all the way if you have to but I candle at the base of this pole will heat that shelter up really well but for sync of what we're talking about we would want to fire out here you know about one full step away we put a little bit of a backstop behind it and that's what we would heat this shelter up with and because it's in the shade pretty much of a cone back there it's going to hold that heat trapping it inside and not releasing it except out here once we drop these flaps down it's going to hold even more heat so that was the concept behind the Foresters tent and it can be set up you know in a tarp tent configuration using an 8 by 8 square tarp fairly simply ok folks will appreciate you join me I have another short video today on another simple setup with your tarp I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for your comments I thank you for everything you do for me for my school for my family my business my friends and everyone in Philly with the Pathfinder school I'll be back another video soon as I can thanks guys

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