Packing up the raised Bed Camp

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school we talked about this raised bed shelter but kind of called the kinder cabin not very long ago in the video and I slept in this thing overnight not this past weekend because we had a hanging out here but the weekend before that we had a primitive trapping class out here and I slept in this shelter is 22 degrees outside and I'm going to pack the shelter up onto my wooden pack frame now I kind of walk you through that and show you that this is a very easily patch shelter and you can put it on a wooden frame so you can keep everything very traditional we've got a just a lot of back pack frame here that I made it's very simple and design it's got two leather straps on it that have loops at the bottom to put the thing on your back just like that and then you can unhook them very easy to get it off your back one side at a time and it works out really really well we're gonna use this pack frame to pack up the shelter on okay so take this tour if you just flip it over the top see what we got going on in here we've got stink down in the back and I've got my polos out here on my overhang my mascot possum and what I did with this bed was I had filled it with sedge grass right out of this field and I stuffed that thing really nice and thick and that makes a really really comfortable bed for sleeping on and that's slepping this thing just great and this insulation was fine I had dropped that shelter down just about like it was when I first showed you this on video today and I didn't have a fire at all and I was great at that temperature so that worked out perfect okay let's discuss bedding really quick I kept it really simple I carry what I call a pillow bag with me most of the time and I keep anything this loose in my camp that I might need to get out later whether it is a headlight whether it's a fire kit whatever this is gonna go inside my bag but I don't want floating around in there loose I put it in this bag and at the end of the day this becomes my pillow and I can stuff this either with an extra wool blanket shard that I carry or I can stuff it with whatever clothing I'm wearing on the outside like a wool jacket or an anorak and in last weekend's case I stuffed it with my wool anorak my Lester River bushcraft around know I've got two blankets here both of them are a hundred percent wool one of them is a very thin blanket and they're kind of tattered up but I still use them I still love them um these are my oldest wool blankets this one is for fairly thin but again it's 100 percent wool and it can be used for two things and even Horace Kephart said it's better to have two thin wool blankets than one thick one you can trap more airspace in layers that way and I use this one sometimes as a mattress to help battle conduction convection but in this case I didn't need that because I've got that sleeve stuffed with straw so I use this as an upper blanket because you don't need a lower blanket if you've got a good insulated bed like this that's the advantage of that when you use a sleeping bag you're crushing the insulation that's on the bottom anyway so it's really not doing you a whole lot of good the air space is being trapped above you so if you've got insulation on the bottom layer you can get away with using these wall blankets as covers basically and it's going to keep you plenty warm especially if you have to I also carry this one which is a little bit thicker and this is basically about a four point Hudson Bay which means it's a little bigger than a twin and this is a really old tattered up Whitney blanket it's not the Buffalo weight Whitney it's the thinner Whitney and it's a four point but it's a really nice well it's got some holes in it but I don't care that gives it character I love it so these are the blankets that I carry in my normal you know traditional woodsy kit those two blankets work out for a lot of situations with this browse bed they're absolutely perfect and I have no problem like I said it was about 20 to 23 degrees last weekend no fire as long as I've got that tarp over me to trap that heat and again this space right here is very reminiscent if you think about it of a debris Hut you're trying to get yourself into a small enclosed space so that you're trapping a lot of air space and you don't have to heat very much area up with your body heat that is escaping so it's trapping it around you and of course you've got problems with convection coming this direction but it's minimal if you set your shelter up right with the wind 20 warm I was shedding clothes all night long I was down to pretty much nothing but a base layer of minus 3 333 degrees wool at the when it was all sudden down the next morning I had to put all my clothes back on so this is a good shelter and we can put it all on that small frame and that's we're gonna talk about right now a couple different ways of doing that okay our entire system is based on really two things the Browse bed sleeve itself and this oilskin tarp and this is an 8 by 8 10 Smith's oil cloth hardened and I really think that this thing is a little piece of gear I love carrying still nylon tarp on I'm trying to travel light in the summer time and I'm gonna be hammock camping and things like that but if I'm going to be there for a longer period of time I'm going to be sleeping on the ground or in a cold weather environment and I'm gonna be using a raised bed like this I want that heavy-duty tarp that's gonna hold in a little bit of heat and this oil cloth will do that for you it will trap heat that's still nylon will not trap that's one of the advantages of this to the weight the other advantage of this is it can actually be a ground cloth very very easily because it's folded in half now I can throw the Browse bed on top of this once I've stuffed it with leaves and debris open up half and then fold it over and it gives me a waterproof type shelter where I can lay my blankets on top of that fold half of this shelter over the top of me and I have something that is water repellent in case it starts raining and I'm sleeping on the ground and that's a big advantage so I really prefer these oil cloth tarps for that reason especially like I said if I'm camping in colder weather or if it's a longer-term camp than a couple three days there's nothing wrong with sill nylon I love it it's great for hammock camping and it's great for short-term stuff just a quick trek or scout but when it comes to longer-term camps and wintertime camps I will always prefer oil cloth or canvas even if I have to treat some weight for that now there's two ways we can go about this we could fold everything up inside this tarp and that's kind of the method I prefer that way once I pull the tarp off my bedroll is kind of there but the other method you can use that works fairly well too depending on your situation is you can use this Browse bed as your pack sack so I want to show you that real quick because it's something that Scotty kinder does a lot with his and it seems to work out law form so what we're going to do is we're going to disassemble this bed like daddy please we're going to slide it off the frame trying to pull us out of it

and then we'll empty the brows inside you know our sticks together here now we're going to empty the brows inside you'll see how much I had in here as we do

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it was quite a bit of batting inside here to make a really nice soft bed out out

that's why slept so nice of warm was because the insulated value of those grasses now you can use this as your backpack and what Scotty does is he just takes this thing it turns it inside out to begin with and takes one end that kind of twist it up a little bit like this and then puts that to the inside and turns it inside out again like this now he has a backpack bag then he can use to store the rest of his stuff in just like that okay for my preferred method of packing this up and having this bed roll on the outside I'm just going to lay this thing down normal right side out here you can see it's painted a little bit but it still works just fine

let's have some weather to it there for sure and I'm just gonna leave that flat right in the middle of this thing just like this

and then if I were going to pack this bag up with some stuff I would put that down toward the bottom as well but since it's empty right now I'm just gonna stick it inside here so I know where it's at now my thicker blanket goes in here and I want to start it about in half and just run it down the length here just like this and you want to keep all this stuff fairly neat as you're doing this because you start folding things you don't want a bunch of wrinkles in there fouling up the deal [Music]

they'll keep that stuff fairly neat it's like that now we could put our other blanket in here as well or we could choose to have it on the outside so that we could use it like outerwear now we could get to immediately on the fly however I would plan to have clothing on to be able to avoid that so I'm gonna go ahead and put that shard right in here you can see it's much smaller than the other blanket is and they use this one quite a bit as a shard over my shoulders just for a little bit of extra installation installation and you can use that with a blicket pin again try to keep everything as neat as you can while you're doing this pay attention to how far you fold it in make sure you've pulled out this blanket in just a little bit when you come to the other side

you should pretty bill this bill to meet that halfway across there and be about the right width when you're done now really wouldn't matter much really wouldn't matter much when you were done with this if you attach it to the frame this way or if you attach it this way the main problem with it attaching it this way is that you're going to have if it rains you'll have water going down in between things unless you have a flap over top of everything when you're done and you can arrange that as well when you roll it up now you remember I've told you that you could create a flap over this if you wanted to what you can do is just pull off these two and kind of throw them off to the side fold up the front end just a little bit I like that peel yourself a flat back roll into that flap like this and then on your last fold this becomes your top cover just like this you've got a piece of rope there you want to make sure that that's tucked in and you could even just tuck that all the way down and use your very last layer now your top cover like this and that will protect this top side if it's on your frame that way I'm getting any water in that works out really well too okay okay so fold it with the flap like we talked about gives us a package about the size of our frame and again it's going to compress down a little bit

once we lash things up and tie it on here I want to talk about how to do that right now okay now we're going to lash our pack to this frame and there's a lot of ways that you can do this you can put toggles on here if you want to you can use these studs just crisscross it if you want to there's no wrong way as long as the pack stays on the frame what I'm going to show you is the old-fashioned way of securing a load to something like this okay so to secure this load to a frame what we're going to do is we're going to start off on the frame just underneath our rung and we're going to tie a clove hitch on here so we make an X and we run our line through the X and that gives us a clove hitch to start off with then we can dress everything up so it's nice and tight pull it down and it's not going to come undone when we're putting pressure on it just like that okay we want that to be good and tight a stop not on there is a good idea now we're going to pull all this rope through the frame we're going to lay the frame down flat just like this and get the rope out of our way so we can feed things through and we're going to get both of our straps centered on the frame and out of our way and get our load where we want it on the frame once we put it where we want it we need to leave it there because now we're gonna start cranking down on this dude we're going to come across to the other side with the end of our line really quick and go just underneath that frame again and pull it across basically in the center of our load and I would give that a good cinch down you're gonna come back and go through the other side again right underneath that other one right underneath your clove hitch just like this I pull your line through now at this point you want to give this thing a little crank and make sure that you've got every bit of slack taking up on this line just like that now what we're going to do is we're going to take this line and we're going to turn it over itself three times just like this and then this end right here we can jerk tight we're going to come up over the top of our top rung and down and we're going to bring that through that little wind gust loop that we just created by putting those three turns and just like that and that's going to spread that out and then we're going to come over the top of the other top rung just like this pull it down and we're sensing as we go here just like this now this line is going to go down through here because going to be pulled to the side so you'll drop this line down through here keep tension on everything I'm going to drop it off to the side and pull really good tension on that it is going to go down to the bottom rung and back up through so it's going to go here and then back here and we're going to pull that tight just like this okay then we go down to this bottom rung pull everything tight go back up and we can then secure this off wherever we want to I prefer to go only back up to the top rung and you can just tie another clove hitch in that with a quick release on it if you want to to get it undone a little easier just get it out of your way so now you're at the top and just pull this through pull the loop through this clove right here just like this and you ain't get down tight dress everything up now you've got a quick-release clove hitch right there and if you want to you can take that put it over the top and a half hitch just like this and secure it down like that it's not going to go anywhere then you can tie the loose tag about anywhere you want to you from there now your load secured to this pack and you can move things around and tuck things in where they need to be tucked in to get things riding the way you warm to just like that okay guys I appreciate you joining for this quick video today on how to pack up this camp of this raised bed platform the kyndra cabin is I like to call it and put it on to a makeshift or bushcraft that ladder backpack frame and now you're ready to head off to the next location cut yourself a few poles and you're ready for the night again once you gather two brows just stuff the bed but there's lots of opportunities to sleep with this system in lots of different ways from the ground to a raised bed to a tarp or just a tarp on the ground in front of the fire there's lots and lots of options with a setup like this which is why I like it so very much I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for the thing you do for our school for our family and for business follow our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back to another video as soon as I can guys thanks