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Tarp Tips: Double A Frame-add another Tarp-Support Pole Tip

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I show one of my favorite styles of tarp set ups, and adding a second tarp to the first one, also how to put a tip on a support pole to work well with tie outs and cordage. Link to Tarp http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=796

Tags: tarp,tarp tips,tarp set up,camping,outdoors,hunting,PSTL,PST,survival gear,survival shelter

Video Transcription

so here's the PST l and multicam got it set up here as in the same configuration as I just showed you with PST on a blaze orange and as you can see this gives a good amount of space for for our coolers and our gear boxes and stuff like that to fit in here as well as four or five chairs all underneath this thing I was going to show you one other thing but i just described it I also brought the the PST out of multicam with me and yesterday afternoon was kind of sudden coming in here pretty good so I just clipped it to the ridgeline up there on the other corner I clipped up here to the pole on top and let it just drape down at seven by seven just like the orange one over here and it held came clear down to the ground gave complete shade inside of here so it's very nice way to just just hang up a PST with a PST l and make another little deal back maybe I'll just try and show that to you so I'm going to go ahead and show you how I did this it only takes a couple minutes so this is the PST l the PST not a multicam and then it use it in conjunction with the best GL down the other corner here I just pull it up right here hook it on the top of that pole up there and now that right there gives a pretty good amount of shade you know that does a trick just you know even if you had some rain coming in whatever this would be suitable for keep it up from driving in you know it would be the perfect solution but but you know if you got a couple of these tarps you can easily use them together to to a good advantage going to show you one other thing how he did the top of these support poles right here say see right here here's the top of the support pole I cut and all I did here is I took my saw about an inch and a half down and I just cut I just cut a line about a half inch deep all the way around they took my more a knife and I just split down like this down to that cut line and so that gave me a peg sticking up which works really nice for hooking over the tab on my on my tarp right there so that's how we do it so perry peacock wilderness innovation enjoy my time and outdoors like we always do and I hope you get out and have a good time yourself use our gear just another couple of ideas for you ways to use it don't leave home without it have a great day

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