part two of the tarp tutorial with shook
Of the third person today, we're going to talk about rigging the tarp going off the ends of the D-Rings
Tying some knots [knot] tying some knots use them some tricky little titanium hardware to Rid your tarp
I'm mainly talking about tarps for Hammock camping because that's what I do but most
95% of this stuff will work for ground pitching, [too]
Okay, come here now one thing. I did want to say about tarps. You know right now
It's in a pitch where this is your basic sort of mMM inclement weather pitch
and if you get good [at] tying your knots on and off the end you know a
lot of times you can just loosen one end put your fingers in there and raise your tarp up if it's hot weather and it's
nice
But you still want cover put your tarp up high and spread it out wide you know run these guylines out over to some tree?
Limbs or something like that
But when there's a storm and you need to pitch low [and] tight well then that's what you need to do
You need to pitch low and tight, but trust me [tarps] keep you a lot drier and you would think
We're going to tie a larks head knot
with some of this dyneema spear no tangle line
I'm going to loop it over
Grab my ends like this and for the purposes of video and to make it a little longer
That's probably [ooh] 4 to 5 inches right there
There's the end and here is that in and I have burned that right there
So it doesn't fray now what I do is pinch that very end with this hand [I]
make a little loop [here] and
This is just what I don't waste a lot of line
And then I take the end of my line that already that [will] be the very end of my line push that through the loop
[pull] it through
Make that little knot that way. I have very little left over right here. [you] have [a] simple knot like that
That is your larks head knot, and this is the knot that we'll use to connect our ridgeline
our D-Rings on our tarp
larks head
So [here's] the D-Ring coming off the ridgeline of my tarp right there
And I'm going to take that larks head at end
Put it through the D-Ring take the rest of my line
Pull it through the larks head including my dutch [Wasa] there which we'll show you in a minute
[I] have a little extra line on here
I'm going to cut it to length later, but it never hurts [to] have a bit extra on your [ridgeline]
And [then] we simply just pull that right
[down] pull your knot through and that is your larks head hook to your d-Ring right there
Now some people love tying knots
Some people actually abhor kind knots they abhor it
They don't like it at all so I'm going to show you not here called the timber hitch. Which is really
Barely a knot at all and it will hold your tarp. It's simple to do it requires
No hardware, so let's have a look at that shall we
Where you didn't answer me shall we thank you we will
All right, let's show you that timber hitch knot, so you take your line to the tree?
and
Go around the tree
Maybe go around the tree twice pull your line on around
Here I like to take my line back over
Just to center it up on the tree a little bit so it's not way off to the side
This lines up with my hammock better. I come around one more time
I'm going to loop it [around] one more [time]
And then I come here and I grab a line
Put my finger under it bring it around the side of the tree, and I just start looping
This line around it just kind of twisting it around five six seven times
Trying to get it
To the back side or the side of the tree here where it's got a little tension on [it]
I'll even go one more back here
I'm tugging pretty firmly there, and it's going nowhere. That is the [Timberline] hitch barely a not at all
Taking it out
Just sort of pull it to the front unwrap it
It's quick to undo if you need to
Move your tarp, or adjust your tarp and remember the thing about tarps
Part of tarp life is you're going to be raising and lowering your tarp a lot
There you have it
The Timberline hitch now. We're going to go over [a] knot that [I] tie a lot
I don't know the name of this knot. I call it the filipino package knot
I used to work on cruise ships, and I watch a lot of the filipino staff putting their stuff in boxes
[and] they were getting ready to go home
And [they] would tie this knot
With a loop around to get around all the edges of the package so I've applied it to some tarp time
This is the one I use [when] I'm not using any hardware I
Go around the tree
Let's go
Twice this time I come back around here, and I loop my cord underneath and over
Then what I do is I go behind it right here
And I loop again behind all right that way I can pull it back see what's happening right here
Pulling it back against the tree and pulling it tight
then I come back to the front and
I do a slippery half hitch underneath
Taking my line, and I'm going underneath and I'm coming through with these fingers see them pinching. I'm going to grab that and I pull
like this
So my line is right there make that knot and I can pull through and make this loop here
Longer which is nice because then what I'll do is. I'll take that double loop and I'll do the same thing
Slippery Half hitch, I'm underneath it
I'm going to reach through and grab it just
[kind] of work it till it's tight, and I might even do that one more time
Ends up in the other opposite direction. That's not going anywhere, [then] when I want to get that done. I just pull that out
Comes right [out] and I grab this end and I pull [that] slippery half hitch out watch. What happens right here
comes undone, I unwrap that
that's right to be careful on the tree and
That's what I call the [filipino] package not [my] [got] that Gabby [mahalo] [not]
[good] [in] Mcduck, and now we will go over some tarp hardware made by my friend dutch from dutch. We're gear.com
And it is made of titanium, and he has very many items you can use to
Rig on your top so you don't have to tie knots?
I'm going to show you the tarp fly and the tarp wasps and these are great little items
I will put a link below you can check out duchess stuff. He has videos on how to use it and
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Hello, this is dutch, and this is my top Wasp now right now
I have my tarp pitched with a dutch tarp wasp
If you put it up like that
Kind of looks like a wasp
[it's] a great little way to rig your tarp and that way you don't have to use any knots
So this is what the tarp wasp
looks like
All right, there's a tarp Wasp on the line right there by Dutch where gear?
All right, the little tarp head that's toward the tree and the tail is towards your tarp
So we can slide it up and down the line through these holes right [here]
You can move it up
And down your line what you do is you come to the end
I'm just kind of loosen it here and I take that little bit
I'll give myself a [little] slack through that hole [and] [right] there it hooks around the end of the wasp
And I can slide this
Up and down my line
Wherever I needed it. Let's say I was rigging to this tree out here, and I would want my wasp [a] little bit closer, okay?
Then to tighten it back up what I'm to do is reverse what I just did
So the way to lock it in is you have this part right here
And you're going to take it and get the top line out of the way
You're going to take this part, and there's a little notch on the tail right there
And I'm going to just loop that
over the tail
Like that and then the pressure
of it pulling
Going toward my tarp will keep that knot tight with the wasp [all] right
And then let's continue to show how to hook this up
Now my line has gone out and around my tree and now I come back
To my wasp, and there's a little hook right there that I take my line, and I hook around
This way and I'm pulling that
In this direction toward the tree to tighten up my tarp. That's the tightener
All right, so now when it's tight enough. I'm just going to
Bring it around and hook it under the tarp
under the Wasps wing and
Tighten it up like that, and that is not going anywhere
Running through my tarp holding it nice and tight to this tree
Now this is duchess tarp fly. There's the Wasp and
There's the fly flies much smaller. I found it a little hard to see because I'm a 56 year old man
And if I'm [rigging] my top I got to put on my googly lenses to be able to see them
But I can [see] the wasp and work it very well without the googly glasses if you're someone that likes hardware
They're great and fun to have like [a] little bling on your tarp
[they're] titanium they weigh nothing a lot of people find them handy
I use them just because I like dutch, and they're fun to use but [I] like to switch my methods on tarps a lot
It's the one place. I like to vary my
Groove
Okay, I'm mainly a Hammock camper, but all of this tarp talk
It will pretty much work whether you're a ground camper, and you would set up in a configuration like this
Now this will be meadow camping where you had no trees to tie off to
If you were anywhere else [that] you could just tie off [to] the trees you would just cut
This end here off to a tree that end off to a tree [and] just pitch your tarp low
Of course you could go all the way to the ground [I] like
This style you won't get wet under there. You'll get a little cross breeze coming through you're down low
[I've] had this set up out [here] for two days now. This is my hammock gear Cuben fiber tarp with doors
Cuben fiber weighs almost nothing it's expensive
But it it is a high-tech material I use the shepherd hunk for my [snakes]
Other people like the MSRS and stuff. I like [shepherd] hooks
Titanium and
Aluminum that's my ridgeline shepherd hook right there, and now that has weathered quite a storm and wind
That's had a lot of pressure on it
They're all holding well
But like everything there's an art to [putting] a stake in the ground properly and maybe we should cover that right now
All right, let's talk about stakes. These are the stakes I use. That is a titanium Shepherd's hook stake right there
I have a little bit of blue paint on the end. Just [for] when I drop it. I don't lose it now
We've got it hooked on the Cuban fibre tarp here
Now some people end up putting their stakes in the ground straight like that
[and] what happens is they pull out very easily the proper angle is to pull your ridge line back taut
Really at a 45 degree angle from your D-Ring and put your stake [in] at a nice
[45-degree] Angle or even a bit lower you can see my angle is about right there
For this ground [alright], and this is um the soil is you know I'm right on the top soil here
So there's not a lot of duff on top, and I'm gonna push it in this angle
What I do, then [is] I use my toe
And as I step on it
I'm kind of pulling my boot back toward myself a little bit
Make sure your boot is not off to the side that you're centered on [that] on the ball of your foot and push it in
If you feel the stake twisting stop because you're bending your stake and just go ahead and push that in
to stop
as much as I can
That's pretty good now
I've even got some extra line off the end and if you're near a little root or a stump or something like that
you could take that over and just wrap it around it and that way you've got a little double protection on your
Ridgeline stake one last thing about putting your stakes into the ground now often when I'm
Backpacking and I'm deep out in the woods and I go off to a site
That's a little off the beaten path
A little gorge in particular and I go to put my stake in the ground and there's a lot of forest duff on
The ground Duff is [falling] leaves and just crap
Sometimes it can be you know that thick or thicker
and if you put your stake through that it's going to have no hold at all so just
Take a little bit where your stakes going to go and move it aside, so [you] can get down to the firm Terra firma
That was redundant wasn't it and get your stake in that way so that you're not going through all those leaves and rotten stuff
Called Forest Duff, and then when you pull [that] stake just move the duff back on there
No one [would] ever know you were there. It's covert that way you're all secure and whatever sector. You're in
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