Combine Ponchos to Make Larger Shelter - No Extra Connector Strips Needed

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Make sure everyone has a Poncho - go without needing a tarp. By combining one or more poncho's you can easily make a tarp like shelter. To buy a poncho or for more info http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=1935

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with another with somebody else and you both have have our ponchos well you can easily rig up something like this in right here and as you can see the colors don't even have to match he actually even the sizes don't have too much makes a little easier if they do but they don't have to so you can have a PSS and a PS SL how to work fine together or even an XL you just have to shift them around just a little bit but it works really great and as you can see here I've got a pretty nice size shelter easily i could have two people in here with gear no problem at all and you can do this without bringing a tarp with you at all you can just like if it's rainy or whatever you can just wear your ponchos when you get your campsite you throw up yourself a Ridgeline and they kind of get everything ready pull off your ponchos and drape them over the ridge line and stake down the corners and you've got yourself a tarp set up without taking anything with you other than what you already had on you get out say you're out hunting or whatever you and a partner or whatever you get out a ways and you're scouting around and you don't feel like coming all the way back to base camp or whatever you both got your ponchos we'll just throw them up like this and then you're good to go regardless just got your shelter you don't have to go back so let me show you a little bit about this shelter and how I put it together there's two these are incidentally these are both p ssl punches so they're the roughly five by eight sighs and you see i pitched them with the hood facing down and there's the snap that is on the hood that fastens down to the chest area of the poncho so you just put that down there and I've got kind of drape like that in any water or whatever just run over that not now both of these Poncho's do also have the hoodie pocket which doesn't matter at all as far as the as far as the shelter goes here but let me show you how I've kind of stake this out so I've used our tent stakes with the shock cord on them now alternative you alternatively you would likely use the titanium ones instead of the ABS because the titanium will fit right in the same bag that your poncho comes in but even even a thought these will these will generally fit in there or where you can throw them in your pack or whatever but so so we're basically doing is is I've come down here and and the one of these lays underneath the other one so I did the kit the coyote one first and I just pulled it down I staked one the far corner over there just to kind of hold one end where I want it to be then I pulled across like on a angle like this about a 45 degree angle so I'm pulling this way to give me some tension against the Ted stake I'm also pulling down this way to give me some tension up over the top and and so then the next thing that I do is I put the shock cord through the tab here on this one and this is laying over the top and then then going down into there

and now so because of the overlapping that that gives me a pretty decent storm seal so I don't really have to worry that much about it now depending the worse your weather or whatever you may want to have instead of a hand with storm seal or overlap you may want to have you know twice that much or even a foot of width which you know narrow your shelter up but it will give you a more leak resistant area in here but because of the way I've done this right here I'm actually lifting up on this and I've created this lip kind of goes up upwards inside of here so anything here is going to want to run down rather than into here so so that gives me a pretty nice little setup there so you see and pulling this way with the on the one pulling that way on the other one and that crisscrossing right there is helping to hold my overlap in place which gives me a seal against the rain then on the far corner over here I've just staked that down just straight out so because your your seam or your joint here where the to Pancho's overlap each other is right here in the middle you want to you want to write here either have this a little bit higher a little bit low so you get plenty of drainage and you just kind of want to watch how the two parts how the two come together just to make sure that you're you're getting a situation where water isn't going to run on e in on you so you have to adjust the up and down on this a little bit and this is actually kind of flat on top if I had flat very much of a rainstorm I'd want to either drop it down a little lower well I'd want to raise it up a little higher so I create a little bit of a peak there and I would buy depending on how the storm swirling around to find I'm getting quite a storm swirl around here I probably want to drop it but you know if it's just kind of coming straight down or coming in from the back side and I might want to raise it up a little bit and have a peek on the front but that's very easily adjustable so that's all you got to do you just kind of watch that and and we have an overlap up here and I'll show you how I did that with the easy clip midi so not the small size the mid the MIDI size the larger one and well the small would work but because the the end of the Poncho's here is has already doubled over and I'm putting two on top of each other I got four layers I like actually I got more than that but it's a little thicker they either one would actually work I just I just have a little it's a little bigger so I just want to use the MIDI actually and then on your outside corners here on your front edges you want those to be a little bit lower than this right here so that water and stuff is going to want to run off to those outside edges and so so you see right here you got a pretty darn nice little setup and like I say it doesn't take five or five or ten minutes max to put this thing up and then you've got a footprint we got a footprint of nine feet wide and and we're about I mean I'm talking ground footprint not how big the Poncho's are themselves my ground footprint is about nine feet wide by about seven feet deep so seven by nine shelter just out of to Pancho's that you probably already got on you anyway you know so why not do it ok so now I'm just going to give you a little overview on top you see right there I've put a toggle through the ridgeline like I often do that allows me to pull tension right there and that's plenty good for what I'm doing right here if I needed more ideas a prusik loop quarter right here this is actually tied off with bank line right here and tied off to a very small about inch and a quarter little sapling right there and I like to do that often times because the small little saplings the tie off to give you some some cushioning so what's that actually works like a shock cord now right here there's MIDI clip and so that clip right there is clipping the to Pancho's together at the at the bottom end here and and also giving us a tie out point to use some cordage to tie it back and I've got about a hand width of overlap right here just like on the back which generally speaking that will give me enough protection to keep rain and stuff from coming in on me I'm even as is being fairly level like I say if i needed to i could raise the center up a little bit to give me a little quicker draining then over here on this corner i've just used a stick and basically this stick i left a little log and then I put it in here and then I just raised the Rays this corner up or down to where it seemed to be sloping right and then I just secured it off so I could easily raise that up and down at anytime I need to okay one of the one of the last things i want to show you here this is really kind of unnecessary but oftentimes i like to be able to pull up on a little part of lean tues and stuff just to pull back a little and give me a little more headroom and just to tie kind of tighten up that middle section a little and what I've done here is I'm just using a just using a stick and I've I've got it on an angle I mean I could shorten it up a little and make it go pretty much straight up and down but and I just kind of opted for that right now but so what i did was this is just a stick that has a little nub on it right here and i cut it off right here and just kind of smooth the edge a little so how many anything poking up into my poncho so it's you know kind of a smooth edge this little nub that sticks out actually hooks on to the tie out tab right here and that makes it so it can only stick out so far and so that keeps me from pushing too much pressure on here because this toy out tab will only let it go so far it's all I do is just kind of snug up a little i'm not trying to but i try to put a ton of pressure on it or anything like that just enough but you see that right there that gave me about a foot more Headroom right there so I mean the head of my sleeping gear is right here

so if I'm right in there I gives me a little room for head and shoulders and getting in and out and all that sort of thing there's a little there's a little tip you got you at a companion going out and you both have Poncho's which that's getting pretty common lots and lots of our customers are are buying their own poncho and then getting another one for a spouse or a son or a daughter or whatever or friends getting one too so they you know both have them all two or three or whatever and actually and we're actually right now it we're right close to twenty percent of our sales are repeat customers coming back for more gear after they've already got some and many many of our customers have bought five six seven eight times or more and like some of them tell me they think they've bought everything we have I don't know about that but anyway but anyway happy customers out there really liking what we got going on now one other trick that I'm not even showing you here does this is only to Pancho's put together now there's no reason in the world I couldn't accept I couldn't do it right here cuz I have enough distance but fight a little more open area there's no reason I couldn't add a third or fourth pine show just like I did these and extend this thing all the way out you know and make this thing 20 feet long so i have a footprint of 8 7 by 24 7 by 15 so i mean hey it's a great piece of gear very nice for preparedness lets you know say you got a family saying you got a mom and a dad and two kids or one kid or whatever and and you have at least two ponchos maybe three or four and those are in each of the each of the bug out bags or 72-hour kit bags backpacks whatever you know you get somewhere you you don't necessarily have to have a separate tarp we're really big on shelter at wilderness innovation it's one of the most important things you've got to make sure that you can maintain your body temperature you don't want to get too hot so this can be shade you want to be get too cold so this can protect you from rain and snow and wind that sort of thing so this these things right here and we try to make them as versatile as we can so you can put them up as many ways as you can imagine and give yourself whatever kind of protection you need for whatever area you're in and so so anyway just a little tip having a good time I I love tinkering around with these things it's just a blast hey and you know that's one of the cool things when you go out you try different things like this if you're preparing to for apocalypse or whatever to bug out or whatever the case might be you know whenever you go out camping try putting some things up like this and experiment get to know what you can do what you can't do and what works the best and then one that when the emergency comes that you really got to have it you've already got experience with it you know you already know some ways you can put this thing together and you already know the tricks and the tips and all that sort of thing you can put this thing up in five or ten minutes be all secure and ready to roll so to close this thing off this is perry peacock with wilderness innovation showing you some other cool ways that you can use our poncho shelter systems use some of our gear if you don't have some already it's easy to order just get online www innovation calm and get under under shelter just see the drop down right there and just look at our poncho shelter systems we owe and we do appreciate very much your comments we appreciate when you share our videos around and stuff we appreciate when you like them all these things help us to have more exposure and to be able to do better to get the word out to more people and and it helps to keep us going so we can provide you with service years down the road as well so keep it up we love it have a great day be say

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