Tarp Setups Modifed Plow Point

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okay guys well I came out here today to show you another tarp option and I left this tarp up out here the other day that we used and it's been pouring down rain for a solid 14 hours it's just now starting to let up a little bit and I had a lot of people trying to tell me that this was not a viable option

in rain so I wanted to come out here and prove that wrong right now as you can see I did not drop the pitch of this tarp at all but what I did do is when I set this tarp up originally I set it up facing north or northerly instead of southeast because I knew that the wind was coming from a different direction sometimes you have to mess with those for w's to get what you need I'm not going to have the wind and the rain blowing in on me all night facing the wind just to get a southern direction so I get Sun in the morning if there ain't gonna be any Sun anyway so we're gonna look out here as you can see on this tarp there is about 1 inch of area sweat on this tarp on this side and virtually nothing but a few drops or splatters on this end and that is 8 feet long okay there is absolutely no water inside that shelter it's bone-dry and there will you be sleeping so you're not going to get wet in a shelter like this even in a downpour if you set it up correctly I wanted to follow up on that because I've seen a lot of guys saying oh that shelter won't work in the rain that shelter won't work in the rain well I know for a fact it will so the proof is in the pudding okay so I'm taking that shelter down this one to show you the only dry place out here that's where that folded bed was laying and shelter was over the top of it that's the only dry ground out here right now afternoon folks Dave Cadbury Pathfinder school but I thought I'd do today to show you another configuration of a tarpon this configuration is called a modified plough point it's a modified plop you don't have that angle at the front everything right here is wide open and gives you a lot of room on the inside you can see I've gotten a ridgeline high enough and I can sit up in here and sit for down rain all day long I still have a lot of room in here to work and a lot of things to do and this thing is way deep I mean I could lay down in here with no problem and I would be anywhere near to finding a shelter that goes way back in here again this is an 8 by 8 10 Smith's oil cloth part dust archive you used to date to be honest with you I'm going to show you how to set this up it's a really simple concept but it is different in that it gives you a lot of open space you could actually from this tent pretty easy if you got a Ridgeline that crossing me like I do right now and you weren't burning fire something like that you can sit right here all day long and hunt this Ridgeline from right here in this tent and never get wet so it's a really good configuration for a lot of things but for a camp set up even with two hunters you could put two people in here pretty comfortably without a problem and your gear and sleep two people in here if you need it to in under an 8-byte target one diagonal icily one diagonal this way if you have a small child you could put them right in the middle no problem you can put three people into this tarp now you're not gonna have a lot of room for gear at that point but for one guy and his gear this is a ton of room under the seat by tarp in this configuration so let me show you how we set this up because it's real real simple okay alright guys so if I were setting up a plough point type shelter I would take my shot my tarp and lay it out in diamond fashion on the ground I would take the corner put it up to a tree or whatever I was gonna put it up to like this let's take the other end down and that works okay no problem but it doesn't give you as good of visibility as a shelter I'm about to show you so what I've done is I have moved back from the corner one tie out point to tie out points and I've used my prusik line on my ridge tie by Ridge the hiked I wanted it tied my prusik to it and we're going to stick through it

same thing on the other side now I could have used the loop on this truck or set just as easily and shelter would have just been moved over a little bit I want to kind of Center it in this clearing because I knew it was going to be deep so i centered it up on the line a little bit better and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to take this flat for this diamond flap here now I'm gonna put it underneath the line underneath the ridge line and pull it back over the top like this and lay it back in the back at this point I wouldn't have anything staked out I will just have this line taut this line taut and the back corner stay completely out

okay these tarps have tie up points in the center of the tarp in this case it's running diagonal there's one here one here one up there what I'm going to do is I'm going to take a line and run it from that corner of that diamond but I flipped over the line I'm gonna run it through the center tie out just like this it would be a little bit off-center that's no big deal then I'm gonna bring this up to a tree to lift this Center like this now I've got my loop in the line here for tensioning I'm gonna come up high on the tree I'm going to go through my loop my testing loop and make my trucker's hitch right here move this up as high as I want to moving on the tree pull tension down against that loop just like this make my truckers heads right there and that will pull tight against the ridgeline and make the tarp tight against the ridgeline it also pulls up the center ok so once I've pulled that Center up now it's taut now I can go ahead and stake out all these other areas tight to the ground and that will give me the configuration that I'm looking for ok so now that I've pulled that Center up you can see that's what the inside of the shelter here to match the ridge line here so now I have plenty of space to sit up and saw here move around get my daily chores done feed my fire that's right outside my shelter that's another advantage of this I can take advantage of that long fire or that self feeding fire throughout the night they heat this shelter up now there's nothing wrong with moving these sides in a little bit if that's what you wanted to do just pulling up the stake on the corner and moving that in is going to change the configuration of this quite a bit it's also going to give you a little bit of slack in your wall at that point but it will hold more heat in or trap more heat that way if you're using this by yourself so basically what you've done is you set up you know I call it a modified plough point but it's it almost looks from the front like a wheeling style lien and that's pretty much what you're going to get other than you're going to get that pointed back instead of the square back of a wheeling ok folks on Dave Cabras path iron school thanks for joining me if another video out of the day on basic tarp setups in our basic bushcraft series

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