Tarp Tips: Making Do Using Mods

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At a camp on a recent holiday we set up quite a few Tarps in different ways, this video shows a few of them. Also we make a larger shelter by merging two smaller tarps. http://wildernessinnovation.com/survival-supplies/survival-items/personal-survival-tarp/

Tags: Survival,tarp,hammock,poncho,training,camping,shelter

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alright so right here I put up a little bit different pitch of a regular PST seven by seven tarp Oh pitched on the diagonal over top of a long poncho psl so it's a eight feet long when it's stretched out like a hammock and it's it's similar to the way we've done a lot of them in the past but I want to show you one little difference that gives us a little bit more room inside of the thing now you can see see right here this is actually the tarp and the very there that's the tab in the very center of the type right there and then this tab is the one on the diagonal halfway between the corner in the center so what we did is we we pulled up here and then we pulled up right there so that kind of gives us a good peek on here and then then we guide out at the at the other corners on both sides like this right here the foot end is tied back to the same tree as the foot end of the hammock and then the head end of the the head into the tarp is pulled back to the tree here just a little bit above where the tarp is tied off to the tree and a little bit below where we guide off the ridge line for the top right there so that's pulled back there so that gives us tension head to foot the other corners give us the other way now what we've done the next thing we've done is taken the tab that's halfway between the corners here you notice we have a nose who have a tab there then we skipped a tab then the next one here we've tied that back to a tree here to pull out on it and I'll show you a view of that which shows the effect of that so you see instead of having the instead of having a straight line from here down to there by pulling back right here what I've done what I've done here is I've opened up the inside of the canopy here so it gives us a lot more Headroom you're not brushing up against the the tire for anything like that it's pulled back away from you pretty good I'll show a view from this other side then I did it a little different just to show you something here on this other side and you know this is a little bit taller than that side so it's not identical but yeah I could have trimmed it off a little bit i'm not that picky but thought i did is instead of tying off to a tree because there isn't a good one too tight here I just gotta stick those light on the ground put the set of that tab over there tied me a parachute cord to hear down to a tent stake and pulled it back so now you see when we look up inside of there it tapers at the foot into it to a small to a small end diagonals to the end on the head end it fans out so it's gets bigger and bigger out here the head end which gives plenty of space underneath there you know so you got spacing put stuff under the under the tarp gives you plenty of headroom in the in the hammock and everything plenty of elbow room and like I say you're not brushing up against the tarp in the night now here's a more standard pitch out that we did with one of our old MARPAT PST seven by seven again and we notice how we pitched our Ridgeline high but little over probably six and a half feet off the ground ran our parachute cord through the diagonal tab and then we just put a stick through with a shock cord right there to pull up on the center tab a little bit which it just gives you a little more inside space now and then this one we've just anchored down on the on the two corners side to side down to a tent peg foot in we've got tight off to the foot end of the tree there and now what this does this one we've got I can get up in here this one we've got a pretty good amount of headspace in a area inside of there because we guide it out wide down here and we've tied it off tall so we got a good amount of room the tarp that's in there right now set up as a hammock is is the tan PSS so it's the regular length 7 foot long set up as a hammock but now you see what happens here is is the end kind of roles in right here kind of rolls down so it actually you know in maybe some gusty kind of windy weather gives a little more protection to your head in then the way I did with the multicam here just a moment ago where I where I lifted these up and pull them back so it's essentially the same setup but I let this I let the front kind of hang down a little bit to give a little more wind protection

okay so I was Terry's wilderness innovation we've got made little shelter at the campsite here it turned out to be a lot more rainy than we thought right now fan on and stuff so all we had with this was a couple of our regular seven by seven types of PST so we did Lee put two of them together into end and then we just put four quarter poles and some support poles in there and tie to guide it all out and everything and turn it into a 7 by about 12 or so shelter 12 or 13 and so we're pretty good shape there so you can see right here we overlapped the desert digital over the over the coyote it's overlapped 11 tab length on the tarps and then so it goes back up into there and then we've made it be a little bit taller here so any rain won't run back underneath the overlap but we'll come back this way and the way we hook them together I mean we could have done a lot of different ways we're just using what we've got here and how we did is see there's the desert digital here and in the coyote here we just pulled one tab through the other one and just pull the tent stake through it to hold it we did that and we did that in both places and then we put this support pole up into the corner reinforced area of the coyote then up inside up inside we've got our our tent stake bags going up to the velcros on top on the desert digital and on the coyote down there then in the middle we added one more because we needed another little support in here to kind of help hold this edge up here solely we seal it from rain you know coming back this way so we put that one up there we put a tent state bag over it 'nor isn't any velcro there so we did is we we a shock cord to secure it off to the to the center line tab on that type right there so that worked pretty good so that gets us are set up so each corner each corner pole we've got guide out you know about 90 degree angles apart roughly so I've pulls tension on everything we got a kind of circus tent top on there look how everything hooks together and it's may not be pretty but hey it works we've got a good nice good steep pitch on there so even a pretty good rain will will come off of there and we just made the best we could hear I'm the cement pad here at the campsite and so that's our little that's our little just a little kind of a tip here for putting to PST's together by overlapping i'm 11 tab length and forming them into a larger rectangular