Pole Frame for Tarp Lean To PSTL Tarp Shown Easy Set Up

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The PSTL Tarp is versatile offering 50 or more ways to set up, this is a very simple and stable way to use it.Tarp Info http://wildernessinnovation.com/?p=796

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hey perry peacock here with wilderness innovation now I'm out here today up in the foothills of the mountains the mountains up behind me to this direction or you know around 12,000 feet of the the top along the ridge peaks there and we got snow milk coming down the creek right here and today's been little rainy off and on and we got forecast for more rain coming so that means I've got to do myself up some kind of a shelter as the afternoon goes on here so i can be ready for the storm when it gets here so i found this spot right here and think i'm going to construct a lean-to with one of our tarps are multicam p stl the large ten by ten tarp so i'm going to show you a kind of a way of constructing this i'm going to do a lean-to with a little awning on the Fred so let me show you a little bit about what I got in mind here all right now when I look over here I got a couple of cottonwood trees and the kind of almost grow together at the bottom and then gradually separate I can stick a piece of a log in that gap right there in the feet on one end and then on the other side over here I've got a couple branches here that kind of fork right there up against the trunk of this juniper so I can jam a piece and the other end into here and then that'll be my ridgeline a ridgepole for my lean to set up so back in the sum of these clumps a brush some of this is uh some brush maple we got some willow Cottonwood back along through here and but we do have some old trees like this piece I'd hit that his father died and falling down I can get my son saw that off and then we can utilize that so I'm coming along here and just kind of trim it up the anything sharp I don't have to get all the bumps out of here I mean these tarps are pretty tough really now you notice as I'm doing this I'm nicking up on the handle good bid on this hatchet because I really doing this kind of thing I probably should have done on the ground but anyway if I'm out here like this and I got a swing and i miss and come down here and hit me so i'm just using the weight of the head of the hatch of itself and how it works just fine so we'll get all this cleaned up here we'll be ready to lay up our poles here okay so I've now got 33 Walpole's here leaned up against my ridge pole and on top of this is where i'm going to lay my tarp so what I want to do here is I'm going to clean up these poles here and get them ready so that we can lay the tarp over here when you get into lemming something like this and typically what you want to do for ax safety basically is to be you want to be trimming with your body on one side and your hatchet rocks on the other side that way any slip kind of deflects off of there so there we go and you don't have to get everything off I mean these these tarps are tougher than you think so I just got to get the worst of it off and I don't have to have it smooth as a baby's butt or anything like that but I do usually try to feel it with my hands anything that's pretty sharp then I take that off so I got one more to go one other one other little tip of ax or hatchet safety is is remembering that in our days most of us are not Lumberjacks like some of the guys in the past and the older times so for safety if you feel your arm or your hand getting kind of fatigued as you're chopping or whatever stop and take a break that's a lot of times when the big accidents happen is when you get fatigued and lose control so if you feel like coming about take a breather for a minute remember you're not Paul Bunyan all right so now they've got my poles all cleaned up no sharp edges now take my saw I'm going to trim these poles oh just two or three fingers longer than the ridge with bridge pull and they'll be ready to go all right now if I want to I can last these poles on to here with some cord or all of our tarps come with three sets of shock cord this is the shortest one and there's one half again as long as this and one twice as long as this that all comes with our tarps and generally you will use them to help string out our tarps or whatever into put on them and in a way that gives a little shock absorbing for the wind but I can also use it right here in lieu of tying a piece of cordage or not and so I just pull this cord snug just pull the snug it's got a cord lock right here built into it i slide that up there now that thing is not going to go anywhere so I can do stuff like that and not even tie any cordage it all on here okay let's get this thing off strung out here now this multicam tarp here is the first multicam tarp we ever made and it sold it has been this tarp has been through the wringer it's had a tough life but it's still hanging in there doing well all right so now I'm just going to kind of trim this thing up a little bit and i'll probably i know the steak steak these corners if i can this ground is really rocky if not i'm going to pile some rocks on it but one or the other i got to secure this back in and then i'll go up front and snug that up all right now all of our tarps come except for the small all of our tarps come with the set of six tent stakes like these ABS steaks right here and they come with a shock cord in the eye up here too because sometimes you want to use them in here instead of going right through with your steak you might want to put the shock cord through there to give yourself a little bit of tensioning in the wind but today it's going to be going right in here so I'm really matter today ok so now I'm going to take the corner here look butterfingers I'm going to tie just time you little not in there and I'm going to go back around this tree right here and that old juniper I want it to be able to pull a little bit that way so that so we're always pull a little tension to the outside I'm going to throw a quick little tot light in here so that I have an adjustable nut sit that down all right there's that we do the same thing on the other side maybe one in the middle if I need it well I'll do something in the middle for sure well I'm glad to be underneath my cover here because it is raining I don't know if you can hear it here on the sound or not but but anyway it's good to have my lean-to built up here I want to give you a little just a little info on on the set up here I mentioned before it's nicer if you can to use some poles with a with a tarp set up a lot of the old-timers used to do that with their canvas set up to get out somewhere and they'd cut some poles and use for support or whatever but these these these poles are inside so if I get some heavy weather whatever when that bears down on the on the tarp and everything like a heavy wind trying to make a sail out of it or whatever it can only push down onto these poles as far as it can and then the poles resist that it just helps the tarp can handle it it just helps keep the tarp push back here more than they get pushed in a little bit by the force of the wind it's very quick to set up i mean this probably took me probably took me 15 minutes longer than setting up a lean-to just with cordage and tent stakes so it really didn't take that long to do and it's a very nice little setup here i might even take a nap during the rainstorm for a little bit now i've also got my multi-purpose gear bag i often use the compressor bags or whatever I've got with me off and use them as this makeshift pillows la my my felt hat on to there because it gets comfortable but so I mean I got it I could sleep right here easy this is actually pretty nice and cozy see a little bit of rain dripping off the eaves of the awning right here and cut him over on that side but I'm good to go here very nice very very nice so here we are inside the shelter you can see the see the poles up here look it over to the far end and let the foot in but you can see how the how the polls help to support the shelter keep they keep that back away from you pretty good so if you're getting a wind pushing in its not coming down against you like not like it matters that much but you know ideally you like it to be kept nice and taut and that's what these poles up put these poles up here help to do that Ridgeline really gives you a nice straight line there for your awning to hang off of and that awnings only not even maybe that's probably close to a foot but an awning like that can make a whole lot of difference in a lean-to a lot of times people may clean tues that just ends at the ridge pole but if you can put a little bit of awning out there you'll be absolutely astounded by how much additional protection that gives you it helps to keep any dripping from happening farther out from the entrance so it's not splashing you know so it's not you know splashing on the rocks of the ground right here and back up on to you so that little awning makes a huge difference at least in my experience here's the shelter it a little bit more of a distance and you see that thing blends in pretty nicely really and it really does a nice job I got a really cozy spot here by the creek again loving it outdoors having a great time exploring around and showing you guys a few things that I must surround with what I come out but I hope you have a great time in the outdoors I hope you get out as many times as you can enjoy the heck out of it take our gear along it works really nice try our tarps their release are really great work really well and here is just just another idea of how you can use them and have a great time be safe take your family out enjoy the outdoors this perry peacock wilderness innovation