Poncho Lean To with our PSS

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Another Video in our series showing the many uses of our PSS Poncho. Also shown is the optional addition of our small tarp for gear storage.

Tags: Lean-to,Poncho,PSS,PSSL,camping,Hiking,Hunting,Survival Gear

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Mary with that wilderness innovation I do another in our series of tips and little things to help you get some ideas of using our products and other ways and this is the PSS PSS L our poncho and this is the long version I've set my pot you up here this time as a as a as a lean-to and many times it's not so much about getting rained on or something like that many times your degree of comfort is more influenced by keeping some wind off your that sort of thing so you know this kind of setup here can help prevent the prevailing wind here is typically either north or south and so this right here can give me kind of a little environment back in here without nearly as much wind on me so I could get some protection that way we just show you a little bit about how we set this up and we did again set this up over top of the wilderness mattress and we'll do another video on that by itself but makes a cozy little cozy little bed the fairies very soft and comfortable to sleep on get you up off the wet or cold ground and it's kind of like it's kind of like a spring mattress so let me show you a little about the setup here at the lean-to it's very simple and straightforward so now here you'll see we're doing this thing the same way as we did our a frame type shelter this is just to fork sticks that we're just wedged together here and the basically the effect of the Rope pushing down on them just which is I'm tighter together so I got 11 / seed cord here that's my ridge line I got a separate one going down over here about eight feet to a to a tent stake and we pull this nice and tight and I got that overheads and so basically that's how this thing is showing up and to give tension on the on the because we just went through the tabs that are already on the PSS here and just use the piece of the parachute cord that went around here came back to here and pull that over here tight so it snugs it up along the top okay so you're on the back side what I've done is stake down each of these the two quarters here and I put another stake here in the middle because we do have been prevailing wind at times pretty strong from the south or north very common for it to be 20 or 30 miles an hour and so right now those three do pretty good i'm using the tent stakes that we have half a shot cord on them i do a little close up in a second which gives a little gives a little bit more ability to adjust as the winds change alright so you see down here here's our tents take this the same thing we use on our regular tarps and we supply the tent stakes with heavy shot cord on the nylon shock cord works good hot weather cold weather win or whatever but that gives us a little bit of a cushioning to for the weather so that's what I've got on on my corners here there's the bottom corner that was the middle one and then and up here in the top up here in the top corner that one right there so those three those three guys right there holding down my the bottom of the poncho as a tarp and then of course I showed you the rig here with the hood and you notice also I do have my light poncho has the hoodie pocket on it and so you know that just goes there just like that no big deal just put it on there right now normally if you set up a lean-to you know it's just flat across the middle I like to pull back on it a little bit which gives me a little more shoulder room find it on inside of there and and keep helps keep the wind if it's coming from this direction to from flatten it against me so what I do is I just use the hood that's on the poncho I just bring it down and put it on the snap that's on the chest here that normally you'd do that and cinch down a drawstring just kind of keep the weather out coming through the hood all I've done is just taking a parachute cord down through between the snap and the rest of the hood part itself and just tied that off and now i'm using that i'm using the hood as a pull tab and I've and it works pretty well you and wanted exceedingly you know stress tremendously you're working with this snap here you know at times I've done even another way stick to the snap when I met some I've actually put kind of a smooth stone in the top of the hood drawstring that down really nice and tight and then just and then put my rope around there and pull from their instead of between the hood and the snap so that's two different options i mean the snaps pretty good if you had some really really rough weather you may not want to use the snap i don't know i never had it go wrong on me so i don't know but anyway so that's how i'm doing that and that pulls out like this that i'm gaining about probably close to a foot of interior space you know between the top of the between the top of the edge here and where this pulls up out of there so it gives me a lot more room inside there just by doing this now I've done here I do it a lot of different ways sometimes a fork stick or whatever but my line coming out here and going down to the tent stake I like to I like to come out about the same height or maybe a little taller than the hood and because then I'm not pulling down with it I'm pulling more out or more a little bit up and out and so what I've done here is this is kind of a white let's call it a wobbly stick the nice thing about this is this a fairly it's a piece of birch it's actually fairly heavy for its weight but it's not driven into the ground or anything like that one of the nice things about this is I can pull some decent tension on here and because the stick kind of goes it you know it's not going to fall down because of you know it's you can't and but it's greater distance to try to follow them to stay upright but anyway that the wobbly stick the nice thing about that is as the wind changes and different things like that the stick kind of helps absorb some of the the forces and that sort of thing so rather than cinching down solidly to a snake or something this just gives me a little bit a little bit of cushioning I guess you could say so now you see looking at from this side the inside of where the hood is right there and you see how that's normally see if I would have done that that the lean-to part of this type would actually be resting on my bed right there but because I pulled it back right there that pulls out back away and it actually gives me some space in here where the thing is not resting on top of me so that's kind of a that's kind of a nice little feature a nice a nice way to do that and it's already on there so no I look back why not use it see the cows want to be fed and hear them in the background now there's one other thing here you see the the bipod here that's acting as the this end of support for a Ridgeline and coming down here to the tent stake in the ground and you see that kind of triangular shape right there now if I were to get a one of our small we make a small tarp fire to get a small type and put on there I could actually make some gear a little bit of gear storage out here with that little dinky tarp which you know it has its purpose and that's one of them I could have a little gear storage out of the out of the weather right here along with that other without adding much of anything to my to the amount of gear I'm taking with me I had this is our little comets are small PST small tarp and if I were to use this I could put this over this a-frame right here which I'm going to show you and we can actually make a little vestibule for gear storage to go along with the shelter here and all I'm just carrying is this little tiny deal right here

alright so so here's our little small tarp here look it up inside of there that gives me about five feet wide about five feet deep back in there to still gear or whatever you might want to stash out of the weather or something like that and works very nicely in conjunction with what we got going on here so there's our little shelter on the end there and going right up into our lean to set up that we made with our poncho now if I really wanted to use this type in conjunction I could even rigged this to where you know it came up really close right on the end of that instead of having that gap in there I'm just showing you you know just Oh

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