Awesome Tarp Shelter; Bushcraft Survival Camping

Hey guys. First off, sorry about the horrible music in the background. My neighbors are the epitome of white trash, so we'll have to listen to that for the next five minutes or so. I got a sweet new tarp shelter set up I wanted to show. I got the idea from a YouTube channel. The guy's name is Forrester, I believe. He's a British guy. I'll put a link at the bottom of the page. If you're not British, I'm sorry. He's European, for sure. But let's check it out. So this is a 9x9 silnylon tarp, and I have it rigged up in such a way that it's like a modified A-frame almost, with more protection. in my opinion there's a lot right about this shelter it gives you the back wall it gives you three wall protection from elements and rain and gives you this front opening uh for ventilation so you can see it's plenty roomy in here i have my bag on a diagonal that way i'm completely uh protected and if i didn't if i had it straight on i would still be and i could fit another person my gear or my dog my hiking pole is canted off to the side because i'm by myself in here if i If I was here with two people, I'd have it right in the middle. It makes no difference. One of the beauties of this shelter is that really it only takes one piece of cord to set it up. Now, it's set up to an old clothesline, but that would be a tree, obviously. Or you could use a hiking pole. But all the rest is just the tie-outs are pegged right to the ground. So I've got eight tie-outs on there. Sorry, eight pegs on there. Some are wood. Some are a lot of wood. Some are aluminum, like normal. Just a shot from the back to show you how wide it is at the back. And you can see it's pegged right down to the ground like I said pretty tight to the ground, too So there's no real worry of wind coming through that way Or rain or anything like that So this is what you're gonna need in total From left to right, a hank of paracord about eight feet long. There's nine stakes in that bag I was wrong when I said eight there's a nine by nine silnylon tarp and a hiking pole Now obviously any of these things can be substituted the hiking pole could be substituted for a stick that you might round off the top And put like a bandana or a shemagh over. That's what the gentleman who I saw the video from did You could use all wood stakes instead of metal stakes, and you could also use a different tarp It doesn't have to be a 9x9, but I think you wouldn't want to really go any smaller than 9x9 Maybe 8x8, but that's about it. The square I think is is ideal square tarp. First you start by laying your tarp out flat on the ground and pegging out both back corners tight to the ground. Then we're going to come around the front and we are going to pull the two corners into the middle and peg them down together just for a minute. Then we're going to put a pole in the center and peg everything out and open the front up. So apart from pegging down the sides this is basically the shelter that Forester YouTube channel I saw did it. And I like this idea, you're all enclosed. But when I went in there to test it out, it was hot. Very very very hot, no ventilation at all. So instead of keeping both of the tie-outs in the middle here, we're going to separate them. And it's going to take some tweaking, the pole's going to fall and everything, but that's fine. So, push this out to the side as tight as it'll go. So now's where the paracord comes in. You have to tie this front piece out. There's that awesome music again. so when i do this it's just like any other tarp i do i just make a loop pass it through the loop on the tarp pass both both pieces through and just pull them out and that's going to create an easily undone uh attachment just like that we're going to pull our piece of paracord up and tie it off to a tree in this case we're using an old clothesline post but that's no big deal use your imagination tie a quick release top line hitch cinch it up and now we got to peg out our our sides so I'm not gonna lie it does take some adjusting so I'm gonna pull a couple of these pegs out excuse me babe thank you thank you excuse me excuse me so you can see how big it is compared to emerald plenty room to sit up stand up in there it's pretty tight right now this sides a little bit better than the other to be honest with you again you can see there's plenty of room for me in the dog me another person or me and my gear you take the pole move it off to the side if I want to pretty cool setup so I'll put a link to that other guy Forrester's YouTube channel in the description give it a shot man it's pretty cool thanks for watching guys