This is what I mean about just sitting in the hammock when you're in porch mode
Now files out in the woods and not in my backyard as if you watching the rain hit leaves
This is how I like to sit in porch mode under my tarp
It's all quick tip here [for] when you're pitching your tarp on the ground like this
[and] you don't have a friend to help you if it's just you [and] the solo it can be kind of tricky
[the] best way to do it. Let's just imagine that the wind [whoa] is just howling this direction [all] right?
well normally what I would do was take this end of my
Ridgeline and I'd run out a little bit of line
And I would stake it down that way the wind is blowing your target is way, but it's not blowing it away
And what you want to do in this wind is grab one of these corners come out with your line
Three or four feet and stake it into the ground firmly, but fairly and maybe do the same on the other end then
your tarp should
Be down like this then grab it and pull it up and go ahead and run out
your end
ridgeline and get that in the ground
even better is to loosely stake out the four corners by atome run the line out three or four feet kind of loose so that
at least you can get your ends up in the air because if you try this to do the ends your tarp will just keep
Falling over tarping is something that takes practice
[so] if you get out in the field and get a little discouraged you know spend a day and practice pitching your tarp in various
configurations, it's fun, and
It's dorky and people will mock you for it now
We're going to talk a little bit about the continual [Ridge] [line] or some call it the continuous Ridge line
You can see the ridge line is running over the top of the tarp here
it's hooked onto the D-Rings with pressing knots which means you can loosen your tarp up on this line and
Then tighten it up
like so
You do that from both ends
Thank you tarp, right up
That's mainly handy for ham occurs
Ham occurs, that's mainly handy for people that use hammocks because then they can
Center their tarp over the ends of their hammocks now. I personally don't use the continual Ridgeline. [I] tried it just wasn't for me
no [particular] reason
[I] just like going off the
Ends of my D-Rings I can center my tarp fine that way along with the adjustments of my hammocks
You know come see come saw do what you want to do que sera Sera
however, you top, Utah
so the pressing not slides up and
down the line
And has pretty good hold I have five wraps on that [knot] so shall
We tie that Prusik knot up close some people call it a prusik knot
I just can't bring myself to say that that's like saying Mexico
instead of Mexico
We're going to tie the Prusik knot
And that [is] about whoa. That's probably three and a half inches from here to here so [I] just made a little loop
call the bight and
[what] I'm going to do is I'm going to go around my
Cord now and like making a larks head, I'm going to come through it
And loop here now. I like my not to be up toward my ridgeline
We're going to make a series [of] loops if you'll just focus on these little loops here
I'm going to just keep looping through the middle
all right, we'll try to keep these little in loops as
clean as possible
So now you see I've wrapped it twice
I'm going to wrap it again. That's three wraps. You can just keep spreading it out like that. That's four wraps
All right, and then you try to get your wrap so that they go to the inside of the knot and stay neat
Nothing better than a neat knot all right spread that out, and I'm going to do one more wrap
Just because I'm in the mood for five today
Just because you're watching
you [got] five wraps just
[like] that and then when I'll pull it tight
Give it a little pull
Squeeze my wrAps in pull it tight
And that's the knot that will slide up and down the line the Prusik or Prusik knot
Now to hook the tarp from the D-Ring to the continual Ridgeline
Which is this part it goes to my press ik not?
I use an s boehner right there that hooks right to my tarp D-Ring
That makes it really easy for me to hook this system up
Now this is the end of the ridgeline
[I] put on first with the continual Ridgeline I go around the tree and
I have a s boehner just hooked onto my line there, and I just hooked that right around my line
And we'll go to the other end and tighten it off
So I come to the other end since I don't have a tree here
I'm just going around [a] J-hook. Let's use our imaginations and pretend. That's a tree. I'll go around the tree
I'm going to come back to this loop up tied here
It's a knot called the Trucker's hitch and yes
I'm going to show it to you up close and personal I'm going to come through my trucker's hitch with this line
[again] this acts like a pulley [system], and I'll go back to the tree
tie a slippery Half hitch or to
Tie slip a half hitch or two. That's enough
That's good for you to learn why you're out in the woods cause that knots going to do you some good you hanging your top?
For that trucker's hitch I'm going to take my line and here's the end of my tarp right there
This way's going back toward the tree. I'm going to make a loop like [so]
I'm going to grab my line come back through it
Make this knot
right there
That's going to be my pulley system come to the loop. I made with my line coming from the tree
Which is this hand I'm going to go back through that
And then I can pull that
Towards the tree
And that tightens up the tarp
We pull this back toward the tree
And then I tie my slippery Half hitch
Once or twice if you tied [that] Trucker's hitch correctly when you're done
You can simply just pull the [nut] through
like a Magic trick
It disappears
Learn it use it. It's a great nut become a trucker drive that 18-wheeler. [what's] going on out there good, buddy
Now one of the best ways to kind of hank your cord up. I like hank. [I] mccord as I do this sign. Yeah
and I grab my
Cord
And I'll do what is called a figure eight wrap
I'm just going to hold that end up here just to keep it there and you [wrap] sort of a figure eight
type
wrap
Goes on awhile anyway [when] you're done
You can simply wrap your cord up like that, and it's real easy when you take your cord out when it's done
It's just it's a really good way to do it and it
It's not going to prevent knots because nothing prevents knots, but it helps keep the knots to a minimum
So what is a [snake] [skin]? This is [a] snake skin right here
This is half of one there'd be two halves on my tarp that will come together
That wraps my tarp up so I can have it deployed over me and not
Put it out
If I want to and it's a make sure tarp a little easier in high winds to set you can just let out one half
At a time - [made] out of mosquito netting but you can make it out [of] steel nylon anything you want okay?
So I'm all done in the locale
I'm in and I want to pack my tarp up generally I grab I grab my two corners
And [I] kind of give them a light roll like this
And a [pretendin] is really windy so I'm keeping the other end of my tarp [staked] down
And I pull my snakeskin gone like this you can kind of see that my tarp is
Sort of secured so now all I got to do is do [that] on the other end let those go and if it's really windy
I just have that much tarp flapping pull my snake skins in
so I use that same figure eight knot of
Wrapping up my [guidelines]
When I'm not feeling too impatient when I'm packing [my] tarp away on the trail. [I] wrap it like that
Then what I do is I just put [a] couple of wraps on and I slip this right back through my D-Ring
and just kind of hook it and
That keeps it fairly well wrangled when I stuff it into my snake skins
So now I'm pretending that it's not a windy day. I pulled my stakes my tarps laying loose
I'll come to this end I
Just kind of bunch mine up
[hold] one half on
Come to the other end as you can see my guidelines are not wrapped up a little dirty secret about sug
[I] barely ever wrap mine. I just let him flop free I
know
Feel a little shameful take all of them. I sort of toss them in like that give it a little twist
Sometimes you get a little snake skin bubble here
Gonna do that do it?
It ain't a perfect science
And then I'm going to take my end that has the bungee cord wrap that over that end of it cinch it down
Having it in mesh. Does not really help your tarp dry out even if you hang it on the back of your pack
There's only so much surface showing believe me. I've tried. I know I've been there
I did it didn't work good idea though nice to think about it didn't work
[so] [the] really cool thing is if I'm at Camp, and I have my hammock pitched
And I don't want to deploy my tarp yet. I think it might [rain]
I just do this and this is hanging over me ready to go
So what I do want to let my tarp out. I'll just
Slide back one end of my snake skins again, if it's windy. I'm only dealing with one end of the tarp
They're out like this
And then I go to my staking
This is just the way I like to do my tarp
Great thing about tarps play with your tarps figure out the way you like to do it
I don't care if you use clothesline or however you do it a couple of people have already asked me
Do you need a fancy tarp no go to?
Walmart or any home store or your hardware store get a 10 by 10?
Plastic tarp like it over your wood pile run your line
I don't care if it's clothesline any kind of string you got put it between two trees get it as level as you can
There your tarp over that sort of tie it off work the best way you can get [your] tarp rigged up
It's a little heavier, but you got a tarp to get out there
So you got no excuse not to get out there?
But I got a link below of where you can buy some
So check that out if you [want] yourself some snake skins for your tarp
And if you don't, I don't mind just water it in a bag cool by me
This is my little tiny tarp sack that I made for that tarp and my tarp with mistake skins will fit in to the bag
Now I've got my snakeskin here
And I'm just going to kind of do a little back and Forth accordion fold on it
like that
And just cram that into my stuff sack, if you don't use a you know
Snakeskin or anything and you're wondering if you fold your tarp or cram it well
I'm no expert, but a lot of people say if you keep folding the tarp in the same place you get a line
I'm a [krammer] just cram it in there
There you go
Everything's right in there. That's about [11] ounces of tarp Snakeskin line
Sug, can you use [your] snake skins with a continual ridgeline? Why sure you can there Youtube viewer
Get it full them this way and your ridgeline will just be over the top of your snake skin
Everyone you deploy same thing if you still on the top. So that's how that works
Storm is coming wind is blowing you got your tarp pitched. Let's pretend. The wind is this wall
Blowing through the end of your tarp now. I designed this tarp so that I could close my ends off
To stop the blowing rain or the wind a bit now if I really want it. I could get those more clothes, but
It I'll do it [a] lot here. Just be lucky. I did that and if we go around
And look inside, and I have hung this way in the hammock
I've still got a fair amount of room in there
It is [a] little tighter, but that is the tarp life hey, you ever stayed in a little small one-man tent [now]. That's tight
This will really keep the wind and the rain off of you. I could do both ends if I needed to but I never have
And I know you're saying look. Oh, could you tell us? How you did that? I'm going to show you
These are to grow gain
tabs I sewed right into my
Seam line there hey they've really held I did back them with just a little little something there to support it and
I have one right here, too
Just in case I needed to do this in there about
24 inches from the corner of my tarp
Again, I put those in
Roughly 20 to 24 inches and that was just a guess, but that worked well for me
so I'll just run a line down from one to the ground and then I could just take my
Guide lines and just cross them and form my doors there
That's truly a handy feature on a tarp
There's this going to be times where you set your tarp up
And it's blowing against the side the wind shifts, and you do get one of those rains that may blow in
Good enough to go do that usually I do it for the wind I've never had
But one time rain really blow up under my tarp, and it was just one of those crazy storms
That was so big that I actually took my Hammock down
Quickly and packed it in my backpack and just going to waited the storm out
So when you get the camp, and it's a rainy day, and you get there in your a tarp camper
And you use a hammock. What do you do?
Well really just [however] you carry your tarp try have it as handy as possible get the camp get your tarp up
Get under your tarp hang out if it's a really big storm
Don't put your hammock and your under quilt and stuff up yet
Just just hunker down and wait it out, and you can get under there and get situated
But just just wait and take shelter and enjoy being in the woods because that's what it's all about I mean
Well, that's about enough for me
I've got some other stuff to do now like I say if you have [a] question ask me if I know the answer
I'll show it on video
If I don't I'll just pretend you didn't ask me all security sector seven hunker down for the night top Lie
It's a good laugh. It's a good laugh like my good wife