4 Tarp Setups utilizing our Stake Bags

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All our tarps come with special tent stake bags that can be used to put up the tarps using poles, in this video we show how to do four of many set-ups, also some tips on tarps are included.

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today you have one of our tarts are you thinking about getting one just tell you a little bit of some other functionality about the tarp and for today I want to talk about the tent stake bags that come with your tarp now if you do have the old style bike probably a little more than a year ago or so it came in kind of a square bag with the velcro patches on the bottom and so nothing wrong with that we just made a change I think about a year ago and now it's a cylindrical bag of course the bag color matches your whatever your tarp is so I'm just using this one for contrast here from our hive is from our high vis gear and so now they're a cylindrical shape with a round velcro patch on the bottom and now let me show you how you can use that and how you can turn that to your to your advantage now to think anybody else has that on their tent kids now on your tarp you've got of course so it sewn on nylon tabs all the way around the edges and and also you have one in the very middle right here and then and then towards one corner we have like this is the pstl the large tarp ten by ten so on this and we have three tabs a center and then one right there one there and then off to the corner so we have three what we call three Center in inter tabs now oh I want to show you now on the underside of each of the central tab Thursday there's a velcro patch sewn in and so the idea and I'll show you in a second the idea is what you dump your tent stakes and cord and all that out of here you can take that velcro stick it to that velcro and now now right there that gets a little tube and we'll shove a and we'll shove a stick up inside of there and so that will become our Center pole that way we can do this without worrying about harming our tarp or having you have like a grommet hole or anything like that in here we can use whatever we got so that way you can tie off from the top if you have trees available or if not you can use a pole and stick this way so that way each of these tabs that are in the center portion can be accessed either from above or from below so let me show you how we lay that out I'm just going to kind of stake this thing up real quick and then I'll show you the setup all right now since I'm doing a diamond pitch here then I'm gonna stake the far quarter which I've already done and then an end to the to the corners diam perpendicular to that one basically and we'll put the pole in towards the other in the what I want to do a lot of times all of our tent stakes that you get come with the shock cord on them and that means I can use the tent stake solid just like this which out which I do at times especially if the weather is very heavy really windy a lot of times I'll do that and then I might do one or two with the shock cord I just kind of base it on what's going on but now I can also put the shock cord through the loop like this and then I bring up over the bottom of stake and now if I go like that then I've just got one loop of shock cord and it will give me a lot of stretch and not you know not a whole lot of tension but it'll give me a good amount of stretch now if I want this to still have short cord but I want to be stiffer then instead of passing it over the head of the stake I'll let a hook under the stent stake hook right there now I've got four pieces of shock cord I still have stretch but it's much different so if I want to do that and if then I just come out here like this and go in there and then I'll pound that down here now often times when I'm setting up a diamond a diagonal pitch or diamond pitch type tarp lot time I won't drive the cords all the way in until I kind of do some final adjustments especially the ones on the two sides so let me go ahead and get the other enough and then we get our pole in there and I will do some adjusting all right so now if you look at the RP STL the large tarp here you'll see that we've got see the profile up here and then it's good of going straight from that point down to the end we actually put a second post inside which I'll show you that that goes to the velcro piece inside the the Center one so you have another we have another one right here but I went back to that one and so what that does gives us a nice tight Ridge Ridge right here up on the tarp so we can pull it in really nice and tight tight kind of keep everything up and I'll show you we'll take a look inside and I'll show you how I did that I want to show you another thing or two here okay now you see right here this is a this is the two Center tabs along along the long edge for a couple of Center ones instead of using you get six tent stakes with each tarp the with each of these either the PST or the pstl you get six tent stakes right by using about a two-foot long stick here finger diameter and put that through my tabs right here just put one stake in the center so now I can pull down on that whole section with one tent stake and kind of hold that out for you know so it's not flapping along in the breeze or whatever and I don't have to fashion me up a steak for every one of these so that's just a little idea here what I did on this side is I put say I got the shot cord wrapped around as if it's a double wrap so I got four you can see I got four shot cord lengths around there so it's as if I went through a tab but I went around the stick instead and then and drove that in so that way that gives me still some shock absorbing action here and I also am able to stake out a larger area with one tent stake when you look inside here you see I with doing it this way I can fully stand up inside this tarp and I've got I can even reach all the way up a whole arm length

I'm 510 I can reach a whole arm length and barely touch the top of the inside right here at the peak so now I've got plenty of sleeping area back in here I can put some gear in the front sections here a little bit I can put a stove or whatever right here wherever a little you know gas stove or whatever kind and and also if I need to stand up for to change clothes or any that sort of thing I can fully stand up right here actually I like this I'm 510 I can be if I can be an arm's length from the from the edge of the tarp back in here I can still stand inside of here without my head hitting the top in fact I still have about that much space on top of my head at this point so this kind of pitch I really like typically if I do a diagonal and I kind of call this it's a kind of a forester style because the front kind of comes in instead of like a regular diamond your tart goes straight out to the edges this way we're folding the edges back under a little bit here it gives us a little bit more relief and a little more protection so anyway that's why I wanted to pitch it up this way so anyway this is very roomy in this configuration here

you know of course we could easily sleep to people with gear if I elected not to put the center pole in here we could sleep three people in here and be fine with gear also but it's kind of kind of depends lean-to style some of those styles we sleep five or six we show you the stake bags here this one right here is one of the square style the old style and and each whenever you buy a tarp from us you get three have these shot cords that have a cord lock on them right here see that if you can see it there's a cord lock on there so you can cinch it up with the cord lock and tighten it up so how we did is drop this bag over the stick that's about shoulder height of me right there and nearly stick the velcro I'll even show you here is the here's the velcro patch right there

now you notice if I if I just leave the diagonal pitch and don't put that in there I mean it's fine it's no problem but just pushing that up like that just a little bit if I don't bring short here if you look kind of down the sides right here you see how the sides kind of side just a little bit but look soon as I stick that up there straight line so it tightens up your sides gives you a nice sharp sidewalls gives you more that gives you more room inside and so you see to to stick that on there all you do is just line up the velcro's stick it on there and then and you just kind of push it in to tension it up a little bit and you're good to go that's all there is to it and now with this you know you have to worry about some stick poking a hole in your tarp or anything well reinforce right in there and everything so you know it gives you an option of using a stick on the inside now this is the big one up in here pitar one may use an orange one so you can kind of see it this is the round style right this is a new kind now your your tarp still comes with the three shot cord loops but with the round style we found most of the time the steak bag has a drawstring on it so you could actually just just tighten the drawstring around lock down the cord lock and normally that's all you need to hold that on there and you're good to go now you see I'm standing on the ground I'm reaching up so to me I'm barely I barely touched the top of that so I've got a lot of a lot of room inside of here so we did is they we brought these two tabs together the next ones out from the corner that's I'd be like bringing these two together for example we brought those together and tied those off right here together sometimes I put a carabiners through there untie it off and then this piece right here can just hang there you could tie it off to the to the center pole right here if you wanted to but normally what I do is I just just to keep it out of the way a little bit you could you can actually play it on top - you want to put it underneath sometimes I do this so here's the here's our core our front corner flap that we folded back and we just pulled one of the tabs through the other one dropped fork stick through there and see like that and then that thing right there keep it in place we're good to go okay now you can see that I've made all change the layout I didn't change any tent stakes I didn't I didn't change anything really all I did is took the pole it was right here and I cut off let me show you I cut off about 12 inches of it but you know so much they cut off that much of the pole I moved it back from the it was at a tab right about here and moved it back to the next one and I just put it up in there took me about two took me about three or four minutes I'll total to move from being the tall about seven feet of the peak down to about six feet right here at the peak now the other thing that it does is you see our or sleeping gear comes to about right here so it puts all this stuff out here in front of it it drops our front profile a lot and so that gives us a lot more weather protection and still have an open front let me bring the camera round to the front and show you how it looks there all right so if I look at a front profile here see I can still I'm five ten I'm five ten I can still stand up right right right and sit right inside of here at the peak without without a problem I'm really not squished at all

so but that gives me almost like a little vestibule in the front of here that can help me help me close this off from storming us that sort of thing I have even done where I loosen my cord here just a little bit and pull these in effect on my V I'll show you which blows your profile even more so there's there's a lot of things you can do to make this thing more you know good for storms that sort of thing depending on what your weather is I like to be as open as possible but I need to batten down the hatches I can all right now I just changed the configuration again so this is the third time I change that the actual the actual time to make each change was just three or four minutes so now what I did was this time was originally the corner is now folded down here I went to the next tab back put the tent stake there so I moved back this far fold that way I could fold this down they didn't change anything about the tarp setup from the from this pole all the way to the back nothing has changed on this setup but now you see unclosed down considerably further now I've only got I'm not even waist-high the size of my doorway so so now I've really now I've really closed that down align and and as you can see that there's there are so many little there are so many little tight little things you can modify in this setup you can sit here all day long and tweak different things and change and modify the setup to meet your needs but now I still have all the same amount of sites the space inside that I had before but I'm much more closed off to the weather you

all right let me show you a little something here all right this is our corner dab for when we fold over that the peak of it that they wouldn't see this is the gusseted corner right here now sometimes depending on how your tarp is torqued and situated it's not as convenient like I can put this through here like I showed you before down here and put a stick in there and that's fine but you know this is kind of pulling up on here a little which doesn't hurt anything it just makes a little baggy so normally we have we do carry on a website these mini easy easy clips and it's kind of you see it's a wedge it's a wedge shape it's a wedge shape right here that wedge shape slides into this here there's some teeth on that side that slides into there underneath this cross strap and if I put it in there right

but you see this little gap right there as you push it in that wedge just pushes down tighter and tighter so it's very easy to tighten down and if you put a cord through here when you pull on it you see this back piece as the is the piece that's inside the window so the harder you pull on that with a cord the tighter it makes us go so that's their their motto is the tighter the tighter the pull harder to pull the tighter the grip so what we do if I didn't want to go down then use the tab I just go like that right there

and we use these like crazy anytime we want to clamp a couple pieces of TARP together or if we want to you know put another grommet point somewhere in between a couple of these that's what we do I always carry some of those but like I say I really like the little Lowepro you can drop a few of these in your pocket never even know it so they're very light very slim and trim so this is Perry peacock with wilderness innovation just showing you some tips on using the tent stake bags to support your your tarp in the middle if you want to and just a couple other pitching tips so I hope you enjoy your time out if you have our gear hope this helps enhance how you use it if not maybe I ought to get some our gear it's I don't know about value for the money I don't know if you'll find anything any better in the in the tarp business with it with whatever you with all the extras you get with our tarps and everything and the sturdiness and all that they're tough as nails man they're good and they're still reasonably light so take care enjoy your time out like I do and have a great day