It's been a long time since I pitched a floorless tent, but back when I did the usual practice was to build a berm around the base of the tent so that water would run into the trench. But trenching tents isn't very popular, these days. Still, one time waking up in the middle of a stream in the middle of the night will convince you that in some locations it can be important.
I remember waking up like that as a kid at camp. My friend and I were relegated to the floor-less tent since we brought groundsheets (being Wolf Cubs). We spent the rest of the night holding up the edges of the groundsheets around us… Good times!
G’day, Jeff. I was taught years ago, “don’t waste time or money on footprint pads, or floorless tents. Measure the tent floor. At the hardware, buy a piece of sheet plastic large enough to cut out a piece that is 1 foot longer, and 1 foot wider than the tent floor. Fold up 6” sides on all four sides. Miter the corners, and secure them with duct tape (the handy man’s secret weapon.). In camp, using a trowel or small shovel, scrape clean the high ground spot where your tent will go. Remove sticks, stones, pull tabs, pine cones glass etc. Set up the tent, put IN the plastic bathtub FIRST, then pad & sleeping bag. If the bathtub gets a leak, patch it with duct tape. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Overnight campout in a nearby (very large) park, Boy Scout troop, late in the year. We arrived late & were in a rush to get into a major "capture the flag" game with a competing troop so we cut all kinds of corners setting up camp, including no berms or ditches. It rained much of the night, and our "waterproof" tents leaked like sieves (probably because the "waterproofing" was us rubbing candles all along the seams a couple of weeks earlier for the scoutmaster's wife to melt into the material with a steam iron). Even worse, the rain runoff had free reign to pick its path through the campsite; mine was just one of multiple tents with the equivalent of a small stream running end-to-end down the middle. We broke camp shortly before dawn and had the most uncomfortable, most depressing, and most difficult hike of all the years I was in that troop just trying to find the parking lot in the dark. (We'd all burned out the batteries in our flashlights overnight.) Never again did I pitch a tent without first carefully checking where I wanted to put it, and then trenching all the way around it once it was up.
After placing your leaves, find a stick the length of the area you are trying to leaf insulate and lay over them to keep the wind from blowing them away...just an idea. We pile snow on the flaps of our deer camp tents to keep the wind out too. Love your channel...stay in the woods!!!
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Hello everyone ! I would put logs around the openings and then use the leaves to seal them. Greetings from Germany - Northern Black Forest - Walter 👍🏻 👍🏻
I’m back to sleeping under one of your shelter tarps. I started the first week of December last year after I gifted myself one, along with a gum blanket and a wool blanket. Merry Christmas to me. Anyway, my debris bed last year was pitiful but this year I had time to prepare and it is amazing how much comfort can be gained from some leaves. Keep up the great work Dan. A little humor at the intro and then some great stuff afterwards.
Seems like a good way to fill your shelter with hungry ticks. I don’t know what the “non-tick” option would be, but maybe the wind isn’t as bad as the ticks.
We camped ALL over Minnesota when I was a kid. The leaves I've heard of. But my dad also dug a shallow trench around our tent, where the bottom of the wall. If there was any chance of rain, too channel away any runoff from the tent. I've never seen any of you guys do that. Even if it was going to rain. Why not?? Just curious. Good video and great idea. Love your videos. Upstate SC.
i don't think they really camp out much.. a small trench is a good way to do things for sure.. also with this video, the leaves would just blow away in a wind,
One man bivouac tube and a poncho liner will pretty much keep you uptown and no weight to factor. Throw in a small tarp or piece of plastic for good measure.
In our area of operations, there are no leaves. We have Juniper and Pine, so we use cut boughs, or just pack the dirt up. Sometimes rocks too, we have a lot of rocks.
good idea people take wind lightly but wind will play even bigger role against your well being then temperature. ..get out of the wind get out of the wet snow rain get out of the cold...trick to survive even hillside trees etc. work get off the cold ground use mat garbage bag debris wool shawl underneath and wool blanket on top a good tarp to block out wind/ precipitation and a warm fire in front keep extra socks clothing a good fixed blade knife / axe as self defense a good flashlight
Quick tip: an easy and very compact fire starter to pack with you is a pencil and a sharpener. A lot of pencil sharpeners have a magnesium lined blade. Magnesium burns hotter and brighter. Plus the pencil shavings are now your tinder
Great tip! You can also use the pencil sharpener on small diameter, pencil-sized twigs as well (and save the pencil for writing or emergency tinder when no twigs are available). Happy Trails! 🇺🇸 🏕
@@jefftoler9017 Oh yes I have been homeless more times than I can count.. To this very day it's still on the back burner.. I am in arkansas rated this moment.. I was homeless back in two thousand nineteen.. I have been house surfing ever since.. Right now i'm on somebody else's property in a camper.. But if anything happens to the property owner I go exit stage right.. his girlfriend and his family is going to fight over the property.. More than likely I will be on the losing end of it..
@@zeez4178 I have been camping since the age of ten I better know what i'm doing now.. Right now I am in arkansas.. For now I have a roof over my head.. Nothing is shut in stone.. Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time. I just might end up back out there in the woods.. I'm hoping I can get through the winter.. Unfortunately if anything happens to the property owner where I am at.. His girlfriend and his family are going to fight over everything.. Especially this man's family they are beyond greedy all they see is money.. If I had a different place to go till I probably would do it..
I've been here in southern WV, unfortunately most of my time was during the winter. Fortunately though I was raised in the "old" ways where I knew most of what I needed to survive already. No running water, no bathroom etc . But it makes us who we are and when , not if shit hits the fan I believe we're gonna be living quite comfortable if you wanna call it that. I've already acquired myself a slide in truck camper and am going off grid on my choice this time. I wish you nothing but luck in your future and your way tougher than you know.
Also do a squirrels nest. Pile leaves up inside it helps cushion and keep you warm. My ladies group we also if we find a log we can't burn for some reason (green or too punky) we use that too and it helps keep the wind from blowing the side of the tent up. Also check for widow makers up above!
Laying a stick of, say, thumb thickness, onto the leaves will help against wind blowing them away. Doesn’t do much against bears, but works nice against breeze. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Sand works well for the same purpose if you're camping on the beach. Its slmost always windy on the beach, and you can bank it up on the bottom of your tent or tdro to make it go over top instead of under.
I don't go by the calendar. I call it winter when my teeth start chattering uncontrollably when outdoors for long periods. Which means that it's already winter here.
i had a mud flap sewn around the edge of my tarps.about four inches worked but on a MSR tarp tent i had six on it.spread outside i put anything around on it to keep it down.i used silnylon which has no real weight and rain will run off it.
I love that flap idea, make it with openings that snap shut, so you can fill with soil to hold down but able to empty when packing up. Sew up a waterproof base for inside ground cover that comes up a few inches on the side, stick on with Velcro, as they have for grow tents. I'd also wonder if having the tarp tent double layer for adding leaves, grass for better weather protection. The inside walls roll and snap at the top and bottom for adding the leaves and emptying, the outside is whole. That would help make it a longer temp shelter
I've tried leaves and that really didn't help much with the drafts. Of course leaves are going to blow away. I tried trenching and actually pulling the tent sides and tarp sides down into the trenches and that actually worked pretty good. I didn't like the soil all over my nice tent though so I didn't care for the trench method much. So what I do now if I'm spending more than one night out, is just fell a tree approx 4 inch or 5 and cut it to length to lay in the gap of my tarp. That does a pretty good job of cutting down on that 'breezy draft' and doesn't ruin my tarp.
I'll stick to a cheap tent with a built-in floor with a cheap tarp added on top for foul weather! Better for wind and rain! If it's rainy and windy and if the gap around your tarp edges has leaves piled there then moisture (and bugs) is going to get in easier! Also, it you have a campfire and a strong wind blows embers into dry leaves then your shelter just became a funeral pyre! Tents don't require trees to set up either! IMHO, the difference in weight isn't a problem!
I bought that shanty shelter the other day , thank you thank you , I am building a treated pine platform and will erect the shanty over that it should be much like my profile picture when it is all done . I’m thinking about raising side and back walls by 2 foot and then erecting the shanty . Any Ideas Dan ? Thank you for a very durable product no matter how it ends up .
I like all the innovations applied to using tarps. There are some great ideas. But why can't people just carry an equivalent size tent instead? The size and weight of each are probably similar to carry depending on materials used, and the tent already has all of the virtues of an adapted tarp designed in and without the shortcoming of no floor. JMHO, FWIW, YMMV, etc.
great video like always,I am not a pro bushcrafter but do a ton of cold weather bush craft camping in the Northern parts of Saskatchewan Canada I like to us smaller branches placed along sides of tarp to help build up with leaves if we can unfortunately we have mostly jack pine and birch trees so usually we use spruce or pine bows with small branches,what is your opinion on that thanks again KIrby from Sask.
I actually have done that before, it was easy to think of in my environment, but the problem is it attracted bugs wanting to crawl inside leaves, which bugs were venomous spiders. lucky I had a sleeping bag for the night, otherwise I'd be in danger. what would you do to keep them out and away of the leaves inside?
Waterproofing Question! What non-toxic material can be mixed with beeswax (so that bees don't plague the shelter retrieving beeswax)? Pine tar? I have a polyester tent that houses me and 3 dogs usually. One is a bird dog and tries to eat bees.
I watched a video a few months ago, making old sheets into waterproof tarps with silicone and something else. I'm sure Google can find it * old sheets waterproof tarps *
Leaves have a tendency to blow away so to help prevent that use a tree cut to the length and width of your tarp and lay it on the leaves after you remove the small branches. Be smarter than the leaves , 😆.
Making the correct shelter is important. I find minimalist misses the mark , but that is supposed to be an emergency. Get a real tarp 12x12 or a tent . As a fomer service man a 0oncho and a liner and a shelter half can go the distance. If you want less look at the alpha tent. Poncho and tent poles.
With a big tarp you can use part as a groundsheet so there is no gap at all, on the windward side. The Corporal demonstrated a neat one a few days ago.
As a tarp camper for 20+ years, I agree. My tarp always has tie outs, and the bottom is usually off the ground around at least part of it. One thing I do is push some leaves just inside the tarp, then put a small log on top of them. Then I continue to pile leaves outside.
Same trick with tents in snow. I had porches on both sides that had a huge gap to the surface. I build threshold right under the sides. By the way, I would never use tarps instead of tents or bivouac-bags. Total nonsense.
putting piles of leaves.. to stop the wind getting in.. seriously??? a slight breeze will blow leaves away in seconds a strong wind will blow it away as soon as you let go of the leaves from your hand but it's a nice thought to try to help people.. no offence meant
a tent is only good at being a tent. 🙄🙄🙄 the reason bushcraft folk use tarps is the versatility. I can pack my gear in it and put that on a pack frame, I can use it for different shelter configurations depending on the situation. I can use it as a rain fly or sun fly. I can make my own stakes, I can make a bipod or tripod to support my tarp shelter. You’re f’d if one of your tent poles goes tits up.
@@RTFLDGR Tell me about it. They make it seem more glamorous or rugged or something. Why not come prepared already and practice some bushcraft skills along the way. I saw in a link below on one of his videos that that tarp he's using is being sold for around $300 by him
@@paulkachurak7878 How effective is your tarp when it's 25° outside but the wind chill is 10° and snowing? How many sides can your tarp cover from the wind? How long will it take for you to start a fire? If you do build a tripod how long will that take to put it up in these extreme conditions in which you only have about 3 minutes to put up an emergency shelter. I think it would be TREMENDOUSLY easier to put up a FOUR season pop up tent and get out of the snow. I also don't have to worry about being in direct contact with the snow underneath me. That's fascinating that you can make your own stakes🙄🙄🙄🙄. You're f@#@ed up if the pieces of wood fall down in the wind, after you have to cut them in these conditions. I can simply repair my FOUR season tent with gorilla 🦍 tape until the weather improves 🙄🙄🙄🙄
depending on the tarp configuration, all four sides. I can make a fire in 60 seconds. I can make a bipod using a quick lash (see video on this channel) in a minute or so. I can do a full lashing in minutes. I have gorilla tape, too. I can start a fire with it. Bushcraft is not camping. A huge part of it is the fun of making use of what’s around you so that you don’t need to pack everything in, or having to go home because something broke. It’s not backpacking or hiking 20 miles to set up a tent. Look here’s the point, you do you. Enjoy your tent. Have fun in it when it’s 10 degrees out. That’s great. I’ll enjoy my tarp shelter, and browse bed, and wool blankets. I’ll get warmth from the fire as I cook using the spit I just made to cook the trout I just caught. But please don’t be divisive. It’s unhelpful. We can all enjoy the outdoors in the way we want to enjoy it.
This should be common sense. You always have useless info the first time. I was out the wind pick up, and I used that common sense and put the leaves around the edge. Is this your first time
It's been a long time since I pitched a floorless tent, but back when I did the usual practice was to build a berm around the base of the tent so that water would run into the trench. But trenching tents isn't very popular, these days. Still, one time waking up in the middle of a stream in the middle of the night will convince you that in some locations it can be important.
I remember waking up like that as a kid at camp. My friend and I were relegated to the floor-less tent since we brought groundsheets (being Wolf Cubs). We spent the rest of the night holding up the edges of the groundsheets around us… Good times!
G’day, Jeff. I was taught years ago, “don’t waste time or money on footprint pads, or floorless tents. Measure the tent floor. At the hardware, buy a piece of sheet plastic large enough to cut out a piece that is 1 foot longer, and 1 foot wider than the tent floor. Fold up 6” sides on all four sides. Miter the corners, and secure them with duct tape (the handy man’s secret weapon.).
In camp, using a trowel or small shovel, scrape clean the high ground spot where your tent will go. Remove sticks, stones, pull tabs, pine cones glass etc. Set up the tent, put IN the plastic bathtub FIRST, then pad & sleeping bag. If the bathtub gets a leak, patch it with duct tape.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
There's a danger in doing this. If you build a moat around your home, it leads to an indelible urge to build a castle inside it.
Overnight campout in a nearby (very large) park, Boy Scout troop, late in the year. We arrived late & were in a rush to get into a major "capture the flag" game with a competing troop so we cut all kinds of corners setting up camp, including no berms or ditches. It rained much of the night, and our "waterproof" tents leaked like sieves (probably because the "waterproofing" was us rubbing candles all along the seams a couple of weeks earlier for the scoutmaster's wife to melt into the material with a steam iron). Even worse, the rain runoff had free reign to pick its path through the campsite; mine was just one of multiple tents with the equivalent of a small stream running end-to-end down the middle. We broke camp shortly before dawn and had the most uncomfortable, most depressing, and most difficult hike of all the years I was in that troop just trying to find the parking lot in the dark. (We'd all burned out the batteries in our flashlights overnight.) Never again did I pitch a tent without first carefully checking where I wanted to put it, and then trenching all the way around it once it was up.
I sometimes use a extra groundsheet folded up to block or build. Snow wall.
After placing your leaves, find a stick the length of the area you are trying to leaf insulate and lay over them to keep the wind from blowing them away...just an idea. We pile snow on the flaps of our deer camp tents to keep the wind out too. Love your channel...stay in the woods!!!
Einer der Besten hier auf YT. Kein unnötiges Gelaber, keine Effekt-Hascherei, nur konkrete und hilfreiche Tipps für alle, die gerne draußen sind. Vielen Dank für deine Arbeit.
Grüße aus Deutschland.
I was thinkin the same
Add a couple of twiggy branches, will lock it together more stable.
Hello everyone ! I would put logs around the openings and then use the leaves to seal them. Greetings from Germany - Northern Black Forest - Walter 👍🏻 👍🏻
Some survivalists/outdoorsmen swear by the "debris shelter" since leaves can also provide good insulation
We mostly have pine trees, some oak.......Cool video.
I’m back to sleeping under one of your shelter tarps. I started the first week of December last year after I gifted myself one, along with a gum blanket and a wool blanket. Merry Christmas to me. Anyway, my debris bed last year was pitiful but this year I had time to prepare and it is amazing how much comfort can be gained from some leaves. Keep up the great work Dan. A little humor at the intro and then some great stuff afterwards.
Seems like a good way to fill your shelter with hungry ticks. I don’t know what the “non-tick” option would be, but maybe the wind isn’t as bad as the ticks.
We camped ALL over Minnesota when I was a kid. The leaves I've heard of. But my dad also dug a shallow trench around our tent, where the bottom of the wall. If there was any chance of rain, too channel away any runoff from the tent. I've never seen any of you guys do that. Even if it was going to rain. Why not?? Just curious. Good video and great idea. Love your videos. Upstate SC.
I'm curious too.
i don't think they really camp out much.. a small trench is a good way to do things for sure..
also with this video, the leaves would just blow away in a wind,
Someone mentioned placing a branch on the leaves to keep them in place.
It's part of the leave no trace movement, trenches can be destructive, especially if lots of people were doing it.
Phenomenal pointer, thanks COALCRACKER!
One man bivouac tube and a poncho liner will pretty much keep you uptown and no weight to factor. Throw in a small tarp or piece of plastic for good measure.
In our area of operations, there are no leaves. We have Juniper and Pine, so we use cut boughs, or just pack the dirt up. Sometimes rocks too, we have a lot of rocks.
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Leaves 🍂 🍁 are excellent squirrels 🐿️ use them as a home all year round to stay dry.
Keep up the short videos. Great information and that's what keeps me watching you.
Any video from you Dan deserves a like. They are always useful and short.
Way to go coalcracker!
Thanks Dan.always something helpful
Glad to see somebody address this. I can not stand seeing gaps along the edge.
Great tip! I assume you could use a small tree branch or similar on top of the leafs to keep them from blowing away?
good idea people take wind lightly but wind will play even bigger role against your well being then temperature. ..get out of the wind get out of the wet snow rain get out of the cold...trick to survive even hillside trees etc. work get off the cold ground use mat garbage bag debris wool shawl underneath and wool blanket on top a good tarp to block out wind/ precipitation and a warm fire in front keep extra socks clothing a good fixed blade knife / axe as self defense a good flashlight
Be prepared! Evaluate your options. Thanks Dan!
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your information
Quick tip: an easy and very compact fire starter to pack with you is a pencil and a sharpener. A lot of pencil sharpeners have a magnesium lined blade. Magnesium burns hotter and brighter. Plus the pencil shavings are now your tinder
Great tip!
You can also use the pencil sharpener on small diameter, pencil-sized twigs as well (and save the pencil for writing or emergency tinder when no twigs are available).
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@@paulamcclure3402 yesss that’s too!
Pushing the leaves inside makes total sense
The intro blablabla kept me warm... thank you
I have used leaves for insulation myself when I was homeless...
Same here my friend
@@jefftoler9017 Oh yes I have been homeless more times than I can count.. To this very day it's still on the back burner.. I am in arkansas rated this moment.. I was homeless back in two thousand nineteen.. I have been house surfing ever since.. Right now i'm on somebody else's property in a camper.. But if anything happens to the property owner I go exit stage right.. his girlfriend and his family is going to fight over the property.. More than likely I will be on the losing end of it..
The act of using leaves as insulation tells me hopefully you where in a beautiful part of a forest at least. - good for soul
@@zeez4178 I have been camping since the age of ten I better know what i'm doing now.. Right now I am in arkansas.. For now I have a roof over my head.. Nothing is shut in stone.. Unfortunately, it's just a matter of time. I just might end up back out there in the woods.. I'm hoping I can get through the winter.. Unfortunately if anything happens to the property owner where I am at.. His girlfriend and his family are going to fight over everything.. Especially this man's family they are beyond greedy all they see is money.. If I had a different place to go till I probably would do it..
I've been here in southern WV, unfortunately most of my time was during the winter. Fortunately though I was raised in the "old" ways where I knew most of what I needed to survive already. No running water, no bathroom etc . But it makes us who we are and when , not if shit hits the fan I believe we're gonna be living quite comfortable if you wanna call it that. I've already acquired myself a slide in truck camper and am going off grid on my choice this time. I wish you nothing but luck in your future and your way tougher than you know.
I prefer the pole/log method, cut the wood to fit inside your tarp , then push outwards, will fill the gaps, keep the wind out and curious paws too 😮
Also do a squirrels nest. Pile leaves up inside it helps cushion and keep you warm. My ladies group we also if we find a log we can't burn for some reason (green or too punky) we use that too and it helps keep the wind from blowing the side of the tent up. Also check for widow makers up above!
Great idea to always remember to use , i know the last time i used a tarp i did this i will have to keep this in my book of skills.
Thanks Dan!
Makes perfect sense! Thank You!!!
Laying a stick of, say, thumb thickness, onto the leaves will help against wind blowing them away. Doesn’t do much against bears, but works nice against breeze.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Sand works well for the same purpose if you're camping on the beach. Its slmost always windy on the beach, and you can bank it up on the bottom of your tent or tdro to make it go over top instead of under.
ive been using your brown coalcracker bushcraft tarp made by dutchware gear for like 2 years now. its been great.
Double sided leaf protection from the wind excellent
Amazing video
Winter starts dec 21st
Good job.
Cool story bro.
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I don't go by the calendar. I call it winter when my teeth start chattering uncontrollably when outdoors for long periods. Which means that it's already winter here.
i had a mud flap sewn around the edge of my tarps.about four inches worked but on a MSR tarp tent i had six on it.spread outside i put anything around on it to keep it down.i used silnylon which has no real weight and rain will run off it.
I love that flap idea, make it with openings that snap shut, so you can fill with soil to hold down but able to empty when packing up. Sew up a waterproof base for inside ground cover that comes up a few inches on the side, stick on with Velcro, as they have for grow tents. I'd also wonder if having the tarp tent double layer for adding leaves, grass for better weather protection. The inside walls roll and snap at the top and bottom for adding the leaves and emptying, the outside is whole. That would help make it a longer temp shelter
I just had to Leaf a comment on this video.
Aw shucks that was corny.
glad to see someone else who appreciates quips and plays on words.. I'm pineing for the days when more people appreciated tree puns..
Good tip.
Merry Christmas 🎅 Dan
Been missing your feed on TH-cam !
Dan i really appreciate your tips and tricks. Thanks
thank you for this
I like where your at. Looks cool.
You're.
So what. Who care....@@kiereluurs1243
I've tried leaves and that really didn't help much with the drafts. Of course leaves are going to blow away. I tried trenching and actually pulling the tent sides and tarp sides down into the trenches and that actually worked pretty good. I didn't like the soil all over my nice tent though so I didn't care for the trench method much. So what I do now if I'm spending more than one night out, is just fell a tree approx 4 inch or 5 and cut it to length to lay in the gap of my tarp. That does a pretty good job of cutting down on that 'breezy draft' and doesn't ruin my tarp.
Add branches to hold it in place.
Really smart, esp the leaves on the inside. Another awesome upload, Thank you!
I'll stick to a cheap tent with a built-in floor with a cheap tarp added on top for foul weather! Better for wind and rain! If it's rainy and windy and if the gap around your tarp edges has leaves piled there then moisture (and bugs) is going to get in easier! Also, it you have a campfire and a strong wind blows embers into dry leaves then your shelter just became a funeral pyre! Tents don't require trees to set up either! IMHO, the difference in weight isn't a problem!
If there's time add thin branches to weigh down the leaves
I bought that shanty shelter the other day , thank you thank you , I am building a treated pine platform and will erect the shanty over that it should be much like my profile picture when it is all done . I’m thinking about raising side and back walls by 2 foot and then erecting the shanty . Any Ideas Dan ? Thank you for a very durable product no matter how it ends up .
have done this for decades 😀
😊Thanks Dan. Good advice
Whoe great idea!
I like all the innovations applied to using tarps. There are some great ideas. But why can't people just carry an equivalent size tent instead? The size and weight of each are probably similar to carry depending on materials used, and the tent already has all of the virtues of an adapted tarp designed in and without the shortcoming of no floor.
JMHO, FWIW, YMMV, etc.
great video like always,I am not a pro bushcrafter but do a ton of cold weather bush craft camping in the Northern parts of Saskatchewan Canada I like to us smaller branches placed along sides of tarp to help build up with leaves if we can unfortunately we have mostly jack pine and birch trees so usually we use spruce or pine bows with small branches,what is your opinion on that thanks again KIrby from Sask.
I mostly do this depends on the conditions ace tips dude
Dam good idea!!
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I actually have done that before, it was easy to think of in my environment, but the problem is it attracted bugs wanting to crawl inside leaves, which bugs were venomous spiders. lucky I had a sleeping bag for the night, otherwise I'd be in danger. what would you do to keep them out and away of the leaves inside?
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Always put a water trench around your tent . It serves 2 purposes
Never seen a video on how to sleep off the ground in a ground enclosure.
Waterproofing Question! What non-toxic material can be mixed with beeswax (so that bees don't plague the shelter retrieving beeswax)? Pine tar? I have a polyester tent that houses me and 3 dogs usually. One is a bird dog and tries to eat bees.
I watched a video a few months ago, making old sheets into waterproof tarps with silicone and something else. I'm sure Google can find it * old sheets waterproof tarps *
Leaves have a tendency to blow away so to help prevent that use a tree cut to the length and width of your tarp and lay it on the leaves after you remove the small branches. Be smarter than the leaves , 😆.
How do you prevent/protect from ticks? Thx u
Still like it !!!
good tip 10/10
I miss the old triphop intro
If the weather is windly?
Making the correct shelter is important. I find minimalist misses the mark , but that is supposed to be an emergency. Get a real tarp 12x12 or a tent . As a fomer service man a 0oncho and a liner and a shelter half can go the distance. If you want less look at the alpha tent. Poncho and tent poles.
With a big tarp you can use part as a groundsheet so there is no gap at all, on the windward side. The Corporal demonstrated a neat one a few days ago.
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That thumbnail 😂 ❤
Then of course there's the Bigfoot Bed. No tent, just leaves. A lot of leaves in cold dry weather.
As a tarp camper for 20+ years, I agree. My tarp always has tie outs, and the bottom is usually off the ground around at least part of it. One thing I do is push some leaves just inside the tarp, then put a small log on top of them. Then I continue to pile leaves outside.
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Hi, Donald Cerrone!
Same trick with tents in snow.
I had porches on both sides that had a huge gap to the surface.
I build threshold right under the sides.
By the way, I would never use tarps instead of tents or bivouac-bags. Total nonsense.
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putting piles of leaves..
to stop the wind getting in..
seriously???
a slight breeze will blow leaves away in seconds
a strong wind will blow it away as soon as you let go of the leaves from your hand
but it's a nice thought to try to help people.. no offence meant
This.
Im from the Ozarks.
I didn't know tent campin was better than tarp campin?
Ill stick wit my tarps 👍
English please.
@@kiereluurs1243 hillbilly is all ye get.
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That's why you use a tent 🙄
Ive been a small tent camper for decades. I am still trying to understand this tarp obsession by the bushcraft folk.
a tent is only good at being a tent. 🙄🙄🙄
the reason bushcraft folk use tarps is the versatility. I can pack my gear in it and put that on a pack frame, I can use it for different shelter configurations depending on the situation. I can use it as a rain fly or sun fly. I can make my own stakes, I can make a bipod or tripod to support my tarp shelter.
You’re f’d if one of your tent poles goes tits up.
@@RTFLDGR Tell me about it. They make it seem more glamorous or rugged or something. Why not come prepared already and practice some bushcraft skills along the way. I saw in a link below on one of his videos that that tarp he's using is being sold for around $300 by him
@@paulkachurak7878 How effective is your tarp when it's 25° outside but the wind chill is 10° and snowing? How many sides can your tarp cover from the wind? How long will it take for you to start a fire? If you do build a tripod how long will that take to put it up in these extreme conditions in which you only have about 3 minutes to put up an emergency shelter. I think it would be TREMENDOUSLY easier to put up a FOUR season pop up tent and get out of the snow. I also don't have to worry about being in direct contact with the snow underneath me. That's fascinating that you can make your own stakes🙄🙄🙄🙄. You're f@#@ed up if the pieces of wood fall down in the wind, after you have to cut them in these conditions. I can simply repair my FOUR season tent with gorilla 🦍 tape until the weather improves 🙄🙄🙄🙄
depending on the tarp configuration, all four sides. I can make a fire in 60 seconds. I can make a bipod using a quick lash (see video on this channel) in a minute or so. I can do a full lashing in minutes. I have gorilla tape, too. I can start a fire with it. Bushcraft is not camping. A huge part of it is the fun of making use of what’s around you so that you don’t need to pack everything in, or having to go home because something broke. It’s not backpacking or hiking 20 miles to set up a tent.
Look here’s the point, you do you. Enjoy your tent. Have fun in it when it’s 10 degrees out. That’s great. I’ll enjoy my tarp shelter, and browse bed, and wool blankets. I’ll get warmth from the fire as I cook using the spit I just made to cook the trout I just caught.
But please don’t be divisive. It’s unhelpful. We can all enjoy the outdoors in the way we want to enjoy it.
Love your videos and you're so HOTT!!!
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This should be common sense. You always have useless info the first time. I was out the wind pick up, and I used that common sense and put the leaves around the edge. Is this your first time
talk about a long 10 sec video.
Learn to eat raw meat.
Go to the point !!! u talk and talk and talk....
Your shanty shelter needs to be $100
Cheaper... ( you'd still make a good profit )
STOP ROBBING PEOPLE .
sorry, too much talk
Dumdass video.