Make a Super Shelter on a Diamond Pitch with our PST

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Super Shelters are extraordinarily comfortable in cold weather. Here's how to make one using our PST. The PST is a 7' x7' shelter, we take advantage of that size by going diagonal and getting 10' out of it. Buy EZ Klips shown in video here http://wildernessinnovation.com/survival-supplies/survival-items/ez-klip-mini-tarp-clip/ Check out our PST's http://wildernessinnovation.com/survival-supplies/survival-items/personal-survival-tarp/

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hey perry peacock here with willingness innovation and up camping on a little well solo outing gear up in the ad in the west desert in the juniper mountain juniper forest and just want to show you a little something I've got pitched right here is our PST that's our piss these are regular sized at seven by seven tarp and PST stands for personal survival tarp designed for one person there's some applications or we can actually fit two people in it depending on how you set it up what of about 20 to 25 different ways you can set it up I've actually constructed this into a super shelter type arrangement here here today and I just wanted to show it to you I use this actually last night I didn't tell I didn't get in here till after dark so I tried to do a little filming last night but it's a little little grainy little sketchy so but I'd redo it again today here just to show you a little bit about the you may have seen one of our other videos where we show up using the PST L or large the large tarp and we did a three to four men's shelter a super shelter like this but this kind of adapting it a little bit differently in order to try to take advantage of the smaller size tarp for one or two people so let me show you a little bit of the details about this and we'll get into this thing okay let's go all right sort of want to do here is uh just show a few features more up close so what I've done is I've pitched the the PST on what I call a diamond or diagonal shape so I staked out the back corner there to the ground and then the opposite corner I tied off up here and I had a wound up I went up using a vertical pole right here just to get a little more elevation than the trees right here we're giving me conveniently they tied that off now the seven by seven PST is ten feet on the diagonal seven feet squared ten feet on the diagonal so we got 10 feet from there up to here and what I've done is I've pitched it about a little more than six feet tall to the peak here because I wanting to leave plenty of room down inside for sitting or kneeling or that sort of thing in the front area and and so I pitched it like that now you'll also notice on here there's a you come back from one corner there's a tie out here halfway between the corner and the middle if you look right over right over and there you'll see another tie out that's the center one the regular PST only has has to tie outs one in the center and one towards towards one corner the large size has three timeouts so but anyway so I tied it out there which if we kind of step back you'll see it kind of pulls the roofline back so I gives you a little bit more Headroom in the front now I also could have used this and I often do use the center one as well and pull back there too and give myself even a little bit more so so there's we try to provide as simple as possible and provide you still as much flexibility so that's how the tarp is set up at stake down here on the corners and the other thing that I did that often we don't do with a with a PST in a diagonal pitch is normally we're bringing the corners all the way out you know just straight off the peak and all the way down well I wanted to use a piece of visqueen that was only four feet wide and a like eight feet long so i wanted my sides to be vertical at four feet apart right here so what I did is I I just tied them off like that and I use some wooden sticks right here and tied off to you see right here I tied off to a tab I actually only I just hung it on a little nub off the stick accident I this side and then I just tied the stick off up here I tied it off to a tree you know that that pulls it out and pulls it back this way to keep some tension on it so that way that gives me a vertical while that's about four feet tall and we're four feet like they say site aside and normally we use duct tape in here on these to secure the visqueen and we just started carrying these easy clip switcher this is like a look the mini one which is their newest one and that one is is basically to give you another tie up point on a tarp without having to have a grommet or a tab in there so we we decided that be a nice item to carry just to give an infinite range of in case you need a tie out in a place we haven't provided one and I just used it here and it worked really nicely for holding that on there very secure and so now I'm going to I'm going to open up roll up the bottom here so we got access and I'll show you the inside now so what I've what I've done in here is underneath I've got my bowels juniper and pine boughs then I put my PSS if you're not familiar that's our personal survival shelter that makes them to a poncho a hammock or a tarp itself and I use that kind of the ground cloth and then I've got and I've got my poncho liner right here and then I've got a actually a phone blanket that I used on top that's what I slept in and now you notice in here the shiny surface inside here I'll see that up close in just a moment that's actually an emergency blanket and we put that in there because we build a fire in front which I'll show you in a moment now we build a fire in the front the radiant heat from the fire goes through the visqueen comes in hits this shiny mylar and then it bounces down inside of here so when you're in here you feel the heat of the fire radiating down on to you very very warm very comfortable

it's easy well below zero to be able to be at room temperature inside this thing so I'll show you that in a little bit more detail in just a second I got a clear little stuff out of here and right now i just opened up the they just open up the visqueen here i got a thermometer hanging in here what about 65 degrees in there now outside were just hovering around the 32-degree mark so considerably warmer just with what sunlight comes in here being trapped into there and ideally you could set the shelter up I'm actually pointing kind of a little more west and slightly south if I were to get in a clearing where I could point directly south this would really be awesome in the daytime whenever you have a clear a clear sky you could be just toasty warm in there during the daytime now let me show you some up close here alright so we're looking up to the peak to the ridgeline inside of here and if you look right here let me slide this down to point it out all for you right here that's a piece of bank line and what I did is I tied it off to the clear down in the bottom to the corner tab that's staked into the ground the other end is tied off up top to the upper tab and then I what I did is I just drape the space blank that their emergency blanket over it and then along the side so you can see I put some little strips of duct tape and that just kind of holds it back in place right there and that's all we do really to hold that thing in place so you see there's serves the inside the sleeping area right there you could you could squeeze two people in there if you needed to

okay then here's a here's an up close on these easy clips right here that we carry what they what I've done here is just folded the visqueen over the edge of the tarp and then I did and then this thing just is basically just a wet wedge type deal right here you see that it's kind of got a wedge shape to it and when you when you shove that in that wedge tightens down on whatever you're gripping and as you can see right here there are some little teeth in there that grip as well this these things hold very well they also make a larger version that we're we're going to carry but this this little small one right here I like for application right now we don't really care about the little tie out that it gives us we're just using it for clamping now that's very nice because quick to do and it's easy to it's very easy to unclamp as well so anyway so that's how we did that now you can see up here this is the the top of the tar penis this doesn't come straight up any more angles over to that point up there so this being a rectangular piece of this clean I have these flaps left over so what I did is I just brought them to the middle here 11 on the other side nissen and I folded them over the parachute cord that's that's holding this tab up and then I just folded them over and i just used an easy clip right there just to clip them down and that makes a very nice seal up there on the top and holds holds these things from flapping around so now you see if we look at the back end of it you know we're staked into the ground here and we go up and then we've made the front kind of flare out and fan out so we have down in here is just for our feet when you're sleeping the front you need room for sitting or kneeling or whatever so it's it's flared out wide and tall and so we've kind of adapted this the diamond pitch to accommodate that on this thing and to give us a really nice wide-area to capture the radiant heat off the fire or the Sun alright so what we've got right here is we've got about four feet between the fire and the front of the shelter really for around here most of the wood that's available that's that's dead is mostly a smaller diameter so probably I could have come up maybe to be three feet off and then fine but but that was that that works good you want your fire to be the about the same width as your shelter so my fire was about four feet wide so i cut cut or broke all my sticks into four foot lengths and then i stacked them up and I I kept kept the logs or the wood about so high on here so I had an ice sheet of flame coming back reflecting into the shelter so that could give me you know 7075 degrees inside the shelter when last night it was down in the in the teens you know 16 18 degrees so very comfortable in there makes it possible to sleep in there without even a sleeping bag and still be plenty warm so that's the lay out here for the super shelter this idea from Morris kahan ski out of alberta canada and and we've adapted it here to our regular size PST the seven by seven PST so this is perry peacock with wilderness innovation just showing you a little more camp fun here gotta love it it's it's just so much fun i I don't know I can't get out here enough even though I get out here a lot take care have a great day I know you