Get the most out of Poncho Shelters Tips - Slings - Blanket Pod - Bug Net

Description

Our ponchos are versatile enough that you will always use one for something each time you go out. Make the most of these ponchos by utilizing these tips.

Using the NEW Shuttle Sling 1:42

How to use the Shuttle Sling on HD Ponchos 7:29

Turn a Survival Blanket into a Cocoon on a Hammock 12:27

How to use our Slider Bug net on a Poncho 19:27

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Video Transcription

well Perry peacock here with wilderness innovation and I want to show a few things out here about our Poncho's some helpful hints and tips on using them and getting the most out of your poncho so I want to show you first of all today shuttle sling that is the new we did a white we've eliminated now the Whoopie sling the Whoopie sling to the shuttle sling does everything they do in a smaller size smaller less weight easier to use the whole nine yards I do need to show you a little bit of how to set that up so that you'll know how to set up your poncho and a hammock using that setup so here is the hammock kit for punches right here these are the Dyneema slings for all the ponchos except for the HD this 10-inch set is the right set now if you have HD poncho then you need that there's a set that's 24 inches long now these are the shuttle slings for hanging your poncho up as a hammock to a tree you also get two to four-foot tree tree straps you get two of the East and aluminum tent stakes same tent stakes we use with our with our tarp setup we're using these in this case like a Marlin spike to hook the the two parts together here's the shuttle sling and so if you look at it you see there's two parts to it this the blue part is the shuttle and it slides up and down or back and forth on the static line they're both made out of the same Dyneema cord twenty twenty-five hundred pound load rating and so I'll show you how this works but so basically this is just a pulling end right there on the shuttle opposite of that is a loop right here and that loop is where you'll connect to your poncho to set up as a hammock I'm on a downslope so I'm going to hang this a little bit low on this side and so all we do is take and in here and put it through pull that out and that's all it it's all it takes right there all right so I've brought along the punches with me I normally use any one of our regular punches but in my backpack I always keep one of these super UL super ultralight Poncho's in there just because it's really small you don't even notice it's in there and it's really light and I just keep it in there just for backup mostly but anyway but I'm just gonna show you how to how to set up this poncho as a as a hammock right here the Dyneema runners it's got its own over double right here which makes that pretty stiff so what I do is I use take advantage of the stiffness to enable me to shove it through the poncho really easily so right it at each end the head and the foot of the poncho you'll see there's a tube sewn in here and that tube right there is is where we slide our cordage parachute cordage if using that or if you're using the hammock kits and you shove that in there now what I do is put my little finger through one end of this because I don't want to get it in here and have the other end pull out you just you're just shoving some of that sleeve over top of that stiffer end in every so often you just pull back some of it and you notice I'm going to take my glove off so you can maybe see a little better but but I just trying to show you can even do this with a glove it's not it's not difficult now it's a little harder to do with the HD Poncho's because the fabrics you know a little stiffer there we are pulled all the way through now when I first pull it through I'll I'll do just kind of like that just so it doesn't pull out while I do the other end okay so here's the eye of the shuttle sling now normally this law being black but I like I say I made this up in I made the shuttle up in blue just so you could see the difference so now all I do is shove the eye of the shuttle sling through both I should I like to shove it through both of the ends of the runner so you just shove that spike through there and then I just flip that little elastic shot cord around there so there's how there's how each end will be is like that okay so here I am connected I got my other end connected now I just grab the static end and start pulling on it and it's pulling through well that's causing the shuttle you can see it's calling this causing the shuttle part to slide up on the static part you see wherever I let go at it's done I'm not tying untying knots I'm not making other kind of adjustments if I need to let it off a little bit it's that simple I need to tighten it up a little I just pull up like that if I need to undo this all I do literally okay I'm undone now you mate now you may ask well what's the point of the shock courting on the spike well one reason is cuz we make them like this and sell them with our has an option with our tarps or with our tarp kit for Poncho's but here's the other thing because that's on there and I've wrapped it underneath this the spike can't not that it's going to do it anyway but it can't it can't just fall out of here you know it just hits the end there and I can't really go any farther all right [Music]

now I just get in here and relax good to go

he always use your poncho for something you'll either use it for hammock or a poncho or tarp or something you're never going to carry this thing without using for something

all right so here's the Dyneema runners for the HD ponchos see the other the others were 10 inches these are 24 and you need the 24 just because the HD fabric for the Poncho's --is is a heavier fabric so it doesn't it doesn't gather up as tightly as the regular fabrics deuce you could use this 24 inch with any of the Poncho's actually we we put the runner in the very same way and the HD poncho as we do with the others and like I say it's just a little bit takes a little bit more once you once you do it a little bit you just realize you just instead of like with the regular Poncho's you gather up a bunch and then pull it with the HD puncher you each time you shove it forward then you pinch on that and pull it back so every time you shove it you're pulling back on it so they can just shove a stick or a carabiner whatever I want down there just to keep from pulling that far in through every so often you'll shove a little harder on it to gather it a little bit see like that that's what that's what keeps giving you the space to keep going my stick out there's my ends just like on the regular punch up now so what you want to do is securely you don't want to pull these back out what I do is I see this right here is the center strap so I just try to make get that Center strap right there at the bottom on you pull on that and that's good enough right there now I'm even okay so we're the same this the same size poncho as the other one we put up same settings work they loosen up the other end just to make it easier but now you see there we are it up there we go we're set up ready to get in one thing you'll notice here is by using these 24-inch it doesn't gather this down really tight like normal this makes a much easier fit when you lay in this thing it's not gathered as tightly at the head and foot it actually makes them more comfortable lay on the brush one thing nice about the HD Poncho's is who cares oh one of the one of the differences I didn't mention is we do need to tighten this up a little between the other poncho that we did as a hammock and the light the other one in this one because the Onias 10 inch runners this is used 24 so it puts us a little longer so I had a that's why just had add a little bit more tightness to it because the runners are longer remember I told you that the Poncho's are that's part of the poncho shelter system and so we have a fleece liner and a no sneak low core two items that snap in to the poncho and you can wear them with the poncho for extra insulation you can also leave them snapped in here's the hammock to have a line hammock

the fleece works really nice for that give you a fleece lined hammock well you can also the Oh sneak cloak you can also snap around the outside to make an under quilt you can also use we actually have a dedicated under quilt that you can also do that with or you can also take our blankets and and you can hook our blanket up to make a complete cocoon wrap

all right so the first thing you want to do is you put your blanket out and to be honest with you I would only recommend this doing this with the PS PS BL the large blanket just because you got to have enough extra to kind of make everything go around and it's it's doable but it's a little tougher to do with the smaller blankets now so the first thing you got to do is figure out like the large blanket is roughly 7 feet by 8 feet so you need you want the long end running lengthwise with your hammock so all you do is look on here and you when you run down your blanket you'll see you'll see a seam right here see a sewn seam right there none of the fabric is big enough to do all in one piece we have to we have to piece it together sew it together so when you find that that's you just think of it the two pieces or what makes this thing long enough to be eight feet long now this is a PS SL poncho HD so this poncho is going to be eight feet long so I know the Poncho's as long as the blanket so I'm just going to start with my blanket right here at about the end and then we'll do a little connecting here every every blanket comes with two shock cords like this now in the bottom of my bag for my blanket I usually keep a couple of these two or three of these easy clip Middies this is not the small sizes of the middie site and this the size that works best for clipping the blanket to the poncho okay so now that I know that I'm as I showed you before I know I hold my end of my blanket even with the end of the poncho then I'm just going to take this clip and it doesn't matter which way you put it on it's got teeth on one side and smooth on the other but it doesn't really matter put it on there and you just squeeze it and it'll click and that locks it in place this is the side you're going to enter and exit the hammock from that's the side you want to clip this on okay and then you see I'm matching up with the end of the hammock here and it doesn't really matter exactly where you put this I like to put it kind of in thirds basically and all it's doing is holding this edge up for when you get in and out and to just to hold it up there so it'll keep it secure for you so this edge here isn't hanging down oh that's all there is okay that is clipped okay so now so the idea is that clipped on the front goes underneath around up over the top and back down and that totally enclosing yeah okay so so now here's the here's the edge here's the front edge the one we clipped and then this one's the one that goes all the way around so what you want to do you just want to pull a little bit extra over here because you want it to be able to you want this thing to drape over you and to close down over you so once you've got that you can play with this when you set your first one up then you just take the rest of it literally literally just take the rest of it and gather it up okay so I've literally just gathered the end of that then I take my shot chord here and I go around it I haven't snug it up yet so I can kind of do a little adjusting if I want and so when you look at the shock cord right here hopefully and see that I basically just went through the loop that it made you just grab the knot at the end and you zip it pull it down that pulls really tightly around the blanket and that will hold it in place so it can't go anywhere all right so this is literally this is literally a cocoon a wrap this is what we did before we ever did Oh sneak cloaks and and under quilts and all that sort of thing now I tell you this a very very warm way to sleep in this hammock and it's really simple as you can see it's very easy to set up this all of our all of our gear is designed to work together designed to work with the Poncho's you know and the Poncho's as a hammock and whatever else it's all designed to work together this works really well you can use it just like this you can throw I've done before in cold cold weather I've thrown another blanket like a small like a regular size or whatever like full put that inside of here to lay on have all this around me and I am totally in here totally good to go all right so to get inside of here you just lift up this one edge running around the back and you just kind of push it behind you a little bit that's what I do all right so you see now I'm all the way inside and I'm creating my own environment inside of here so that all the this everything here now is breathable so as I breathe I'm not you know air air can permeate this thing but I'm maintaining as much heat as I possibly can inside of here by breathing the air inside of here that gets warmed by me being in here and as you can see I'm all the way inside in a cocoon type situation and it is so much warmer inside here than it is outside already even though I just barely got in here it's really truly amazing and this is actually this is one of my favorite setups it's really nice if you've got a punch on a blanket you can pull this off so easy to put it back on I just shove it I just shove everything near them I love it like that I'm gonna loosen this up just to make it easier to get hung at first okay I got my loop right there I shoved my spike through it take and put my elastic on it like that I tension this thing up because I loosen it remember when I hunted it okay now I just take this end right here and I zip that down snug keeps the bugs out on that end I've got a piece of cordage right here that I just I just tie it up around right above where the spike goes in something like that right there I am now hooked up you didn't hear this everything backs behind me you see you can push that bug nut clear off the end just like that now get in the hammock I just sit up and grab this thing you know this will be the trick here oh yeah I think a good so now I just get out here the end they just draw that up now I just take my blanket

pull it out around me so now I'm all the way inside with the bug net on then to get out of here you just grab the cord lock and you just pull it down here to loosen it take your hands and you spread it like that then you let it just kind of hang down so hangs down underneath your hammock you sit up a little bit and you throw that thing off down to the end of your hammock and bam I'm done that ain't hard at all man