Connect 2 or More Poncho's (PSS) to Make a Larger Shelter

Description

Our PSS and PSSL can be linked to form tarps like 10 x 7, 10 x 8, 15 x 8, 15 x 15, etc. In this video we show the essentials by making a 10 x 8 "A" frame. See these at http://wildernessinnovation.com/survival-supplies/survival-items/personal-survival-shelter/

These are multifunction they can be a Poncho, Tarp, Hammock, Yukon chair, Super Shelter, have a snap in liner available, and can be linked as in this video.

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Video Transcription

Oh perry peacock with wilderness innovation here today Ben and I are up here and want to show you a little bit about the PSS our personal survivors survival shelter but now let's say you have more than one person in your group say you have you know two people three four whatever well if you if you have a PSS with you like Ben has this multi cam on anh all the snow all the snap patterns and everything all match up all the tabbing everything all matches up regardless of what you've got but we can actually link these two together and then I'll say we need to get out of the wind or like block the wind or rain or snow or something like that we can actually get to camp set up camp and ben and i can link our two PSS together and we can make one larger shelter out of it so we're going to show you a little nut right now alright so we both got our punches on so basically all we do to link them together as we just don't snap them

take my hat off here again all right so so basically I've got him on snap now both of these PSS that we have here both these Poncho's are fight they're all fighting white these are both the long version so so these guys are both eight feet long so please stop these together then we're going to be it bends the mathematician so we're going to be what size now can buy a tent peg so let's be like having a tent by a tarp now granted this isn't as good as having a solid you know 1p start but you know we've been out and use them before it makes a huge difference so a lot better than have enough let me tell you what all right so now we're going to show you how we put these guys together alright so what Ben and I have done is we've taken our Poncho's off and we snap them together with the snaps that are already in the Poncho's now as we pointed out these are the long version ponchos three feet long so they're full longer in the back I'll show you why not matter on the regular size everything's even both ways but so what we've done is we snap them down and and as you can see now this this coyote one is actually inside out so the inside is facing up and on the multicam that one is the outside is facing up as normal and that's how you make everything matchup now you'll see the hood on this one is up from the hood on this lenders kind of staggered next again because this is the long version that's a foot longer in the back so the hoods kind of staggered and you can even merge up you can link up along with the regular no problem one of them will just be a little longer on one end than the other so it's not a problem either way so that so the if you want the front of this poncho is this side right here because there's the oh when facing that way when you look at this one the opening is facing this way so basically the Front's here on this one it's there on that one then this is flipped inside out we're upside down ok now we'll string it up for you and we'll kind of show you how everything lays out right so now that we've got them snapped together they've got everything strung out here and this will show you this you'll understand it more in detail but the coyote one on the ridge line is going to be the one underneath the multicam so we string it through the look loops of that one and then I'll show you when we flip everything over it'll give us kind of an overlap Ridge which keeps the weather out on top so we'll show you that now ok so now we're going to flip this thing right side up here so now we've got the I've got the multicam here and you can see will show you another shot here from the other side how the multicam actually flips over the top of the ridge line find it running out of daylight dude all right so now we've got everything flipped out the way we're going to have it here and as you can see our multicam own like we're telling you is the that's why we use two different colors so it's easier to see it's the top one so it overlaps the coat the ridge line and so when we stretch all this out this make this little shed rain or whatever down off this way so we'll come in through the top and and when we stretch all this out will actually pull a little bit harder on the on the back on this one too so that kind of also makes it roll just a little bit more over-the-top differs really bad conditions you could even pull on these guys across here ganda and you know and you could actually pull it out a little more if you need it to once again this is a way to make something out of to Pancho's that's actually pretty nice with just a little bit of riggan you can do it up now on the long version there is there's the center said the snaps are far offset because of the way the layout is so you can either just tie this off to clear this little distance here or the moat are the little mini clips the easy clips that we carry you can just fold it over and just clip that down like that and hold your middle right there so one of these for a buck and a half or whatever it is right there that will hold that or you can do it with a cord either one it's not a big deal i've done it both ways but anyway so now we'll stake this thing out and show you how it all looks there alright so now we've got this thing set up in an a-frame style kind of a pup tent tight deal with our bins punch on my poncho and we're about six feet this way on the public on the on the ground as far as a footprint and of course we're eight feet that way so we got a six by eight foot footprint here which is pretty nice so we just kind of rigged up on these two I chose now we just because the Poncho's have tabs all around here we've got one in the center at each end here then we've got one two three four five along each side so we got plenty of time outs if we needed to stake down some more you know depending on the weather or whatever now may see this hood sticking out here of course you don't want rain or stuff like that get that in there so what we do is is the hood has a snap on the top then there's a chest snap right down here on the poncho so I usually do is go like this we snap those two together then we take the hood drawstring and we pull that down right tight so what that does is push the opening out here so you don't really get any rain and stuff going down in from the hood here so that's how we seal out the hood hole all right now there's one other thing I'm going to show you that we can actually do with the hood here we're going to turn the hood into a tie out all right here's another cool thing you can do with this a-frame shelter I mean you know you got walls like this normally well we can take advantage of this hood right here we can turn the hood into a tie out point this hood is actually sewn on here there's actually four rows of stitching holding it on there that hood is actually very strong so I've loosened them the opening to this just a little bit I've gotta just a stone from the stream and I'm just going to put it up here on the top of the hood and then I just take a rope here I've got a taut line he could use whatever you want

they grew up with this not so use it a lot all right so now once we've done that I'll go ahead and tighten this hood back down again right there so that way we're sealed off pretty well again and now we've got a stick back here so what we're going to do we just pull out just pull out on that deal and for right there just a few half hitches right here just to give you the idea to see now it got nearly a vertical side right here in the middle this gives us a lot more Headroom in here we can do this on both sides of our shelter and that way if you're sitting up in the middle of it you got a lot more room for sitting instead of coming right to a peak like this alright so now the coyote side here as we mentioned this is inside out so this is the inside said see the hoods in here one away we the way we deal with that as we pull the hood to the outside here so we can still draw it down right here and what we do here is a couple things you can do like you can draw that right down tight like that and then if we then if we wanted to do like we did on the other side and put a rock right here we can tie that out you

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alright so here I am inside and as you can see I got plenty of room in here and see normally are if we hadn't pulled this out our walls would come up like this so the wallet be right here but now I've gained another 10 or 12 inches of headroom in here on this side not side B by pulling it out so this makes a nice shelter so I could sleep here band or lover so you have you have your two people sleep it in here no problem again it's not the perfect shelter it's not like a you know one piece tarp or whatever but it actually is actually does a pretty darn good job of protecting you you know you choose a good spot to put your shelter up now you're good to go anyways is perry peacock wilderness innovation just showing you a PSS linking way to put your to Pancho's together then turn into a frame shelter there's also many other ways you can put it up and we'll show you some of those if you know you