Survival Blanket Under Quilt Sleeping Pod for Hammock

Description

Our Survival Blanket is easy to convert into an Under Quilt or Sleeping Pod on a hammock such as our Poncho Hammock (PSS). This video shows how to do it and a few tips.The blanket is breathable but water repellent, so properly set up it can be used without a tarp in light rain.

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Video Transcription

all right so this is how we how we start out set up your hammock and this is actually a little bit looser than it was earlier because I've slept in it all night but basically you set up your hammock normally normally when we set up our hammocks with the PSS our poncho we normally set them up most hammocks drape a good amount we normally set them up fairly like why started out yesterday I was about like this so I'm almost almost horizontal across kind of the top of you're not really tight but just kind of kind of like that now when you get in it'll kind of drape a little bit and that's normally how we do and then when you get in there you don't have so much of the banana effect you're actually sleep fairly fairly flat I'm going to leave that end I'll hooked up because it's it's all the same thing that you do on both ends basically what I found out is and I'll show you a close-up on our website and we just use a couple of those on the I call this the entry side this is what I'm going to get in and out of the hammock and so what I like to do is I like to clip the blanket in a couple spots here on the on the entry side just so it kind of holds so it just kind of holds everything together a little better and then when you're in it this side doesn't tend to to side down much on you because the back side is going to go up over the top and around to the front I'll show you that in a minute but I found the easiest way to put this thing up is on each end I go to the foot end and do just what I'm going to do here at the head end I'll move the camera over a little closer so you can see it I'm actually going to I'm actually going to secure this the head end

around so it's all the way around the hammock that I'm going to secure it off with this shot cord and you get two of these come with your blanket so I'll show you how I do that I found what you do that you're you got this blanket on there it's fairly tucked around the hammock then it's easy to come back and put the clips on it so harder to put the clips on if everything's laying on the ground and you're trying to hold everything all in place at the same time it's much easier to put it on you can do it either way but I found this is easier now the blanket I'm using today is the tall so that's a PS it's a survival blanket PSB t4 tall and so it's eight feet long and six feet wide so it does really nice for going all the way around me and and flip it down the other side the eight feet I I can do the seven feet I'm five foot ten I can do the seven foot I like the I like the tall one a little better because for me it gives me just a little more a little more room at the head and foot you know because it comes all the way here almost out to the end of the of the poncho so what we do here

you notice how careful I am about throwing things on the ground what you want to do basically is this side here is your entry side you pretty much just kind of want to leave that let that be like that I just will take a little fold or something right there and then this side here is going to come all the way around the bottom of you so that your underquilt

comes up over the top and going to lay down like that so all I do is go like that hold everything together here and then I like to let this part here now the more you pull it around like this when you secure this it'll actually make this this edge that you get in and out of it just kind of drapes over you the more you pull it back this way then the tighter that seal will be now you know if it's not too bad a weather like you know wasn't bad here got down in the you know mid to high 30s last night so not bad and this is all I need for that kind of weather and so I just kind of did it a little more gobbed it up a little more like that so this is kind of sitting a little higher and if you know I just flips back a little easier if you want to have your head open so you know that's just a little little trick for if you really because this thing right here I can actually bring it all the way underneath and clear up around again and if I do that when I get in there that's going to make a very tight seal on that pod that we call it sleeping pod but I just normally I just do something about like this right here and then all you do is take your shock cord you try not to drop it and the shock cord has a cord lock on it on the end here so are you gonna do you want to make sure that you want to be back about a hands width from the end so you have enough material to really grip and just pull right up on that pretty snugly and then grab that cord lock and just cinch it down and now now I know I'm on there then I'm hooked up now let me show you how we put the little clip on here so I'll just flip that back temporarily for now now you can probably see this here's a easy clip right there and I I used to put like four of them on here but I found that I found that a couple of them is plenty good so all I do is go like that and this mostly it's it's kind of this middle section it just helps hold it up and don't worry about this kind of being saggy right here because once you get inside of that inside of here with all your body in there kind of comes out of there but what I do with these things is it has one side one side here has teeth on it and the other side is just a wedge and so I like to I like to put the teeth side on the outside put the wedge on the inside and so we just just wherever you wherever you can get to and the nice thing about securing the ends here like I did down there is it makes it easier to put this thing on here so how you do is just shove it down until it goes shove it down tug goes all the way on then you just push down on this clip right here and that just makes a wedge and that wedge just kind of that wedge just kind of holds everything on there now originally when we were making the blanket we put tie out some tabs and a lot of that sort of thing on it which all that was kind of nice and good but the problem is I can use this blanket I can turn it 90 degrees and use it that way and have it be more times more of a wrap around me or you know there's so many different ways I can use it I rather not have to put a gazillion little ties and junk like that on there so basically now at this point we're ready to use it so how you do to how you do to get inside as you just open it up like that get in there and pull the cover over which I'll demonstrate here in a second and that makes a very nice cozy deal last this morning earlier we started with a pretty good strong wind in here and this this thing stayed over here really well I didn't have any didn't have any problems with it you know with this thing staying on there all right now I've taken my boots off I don't a lot of times I get in the hammock with them on I just try it out if I have my boots on in there I try not to push down with my feet in there because now that your heel you start biting in like that on your hammock that's a lot of that's a lot of pressure in a small area and I haven't I haven't tore one out or anything but so what you do you just get in here and what you're in here you see how this stuff here just kind of helps hold this edge up a little bit and then to get the rest away in it you just pull over like that just let her fall down like that now now I'm in and I'm in my own little world here so you see right there that does pretty nicely for me it does a good job I could I think oh I know when I reclip but I didn't clip it as far up as I that should be up like that actually I mean it doesn't matter I mean I could leave I could leave it off but it's a little nicer to put it on there you could even use a clothes pin or I don't know whatever you want I just I like this part right here to be fairly fairly even

but anyway that's all that's all you do I never started doing this until recently I normally just got in here but you just drape this over you yeah now we're in here ready for a sneeze now now this stuff is this is this fabric on the blankets is water repellent and what it is it is very breathable so it'll keep out a little bit of wind because it's pretty tightly woven but but it's you know if you got a pretty stiff cold wind you might feel it you wanna you may want to be under or kind of with the tarp draped around your something like that this does the trick pretty well for you blanket which is which is seven instead of six feet wide at seven feet and it's eight feet tall so with that one there's actually two ways you could do on here one way is I mean the standard way doing like this it would give me it give me a little more drape drape ability to drape around or sometimes instead of draping this over the outside sometimes I bring it into the side of me once I get in there and I kind of tuck it down under me and then I'm and then I'm rolled in there like a like like caught like a corn dog and a hood dog so I mean that's kind of the other thing the other way you can do it or like the 7x8 the large you can turn it and go seven feet tall and then you can actually make it so part of it having this be an edge part of it can go inside of here and then go up around them back so now you have kind of a layer that's in around you you're laying on plus layer underneath plus what comes up over your head so you know it's just your imagination whatever you want to do with it this works very nice I've used this down to down to like the third in the 30s and stuff like that with with just climbing in with just my underwear on you and been just fine and with with long johns and a little long-sleeve tee and stuff like that I've gotten down into the end of the 20s like this on the hammock so so I mean I that's just with one just the one blanket you know if I got give it's colder while you can always add a second blanket and have a have a double layer and you can get get right right on down in there we'll show you some of that later but I just wanted to show how you well you can kind of wrap this thing around to to to make kind of a sleeping pod with the under quilt in your hammock and then this is all you just take this stuff here with you you're good to go for your sleeping so a perry peacock gotta get out here and cut some wood now get some wood for wintertime snows Snow's not been gone from here for too long but it's time to start getting wood so I don't have to do it all at once and the in the fall but I love it out here I try to make it a even getting wood I try to I come up on a time of day before and do some camping mess around a little bit kicked around a campfire and then I do my work the next day so anyway take care have fun enjoy the outdoors and I'm gonna go to work here if I get my boot on thing there we go take care