Hello, everybody. Shoot here to talk about [taps]
Think about tarps as they are your shelter and your protection when your hammock camping or whether you'll just lay it on the ground
like a worm
on a hot sidewalk
The Hammocks can be confusing enough on their own
But a lot of people get perplexed when they get to the tarp nowadays. There's a lot more to tarping
To tarping this is my hippie name goo carpet namaste first off. We're going to talk about the [tarpon] porch mode
Found out that. There's a lot of people that never did any tarp camping
What's wrong with them? They've never tarp camped so right now
This tarp is pitched in porch mode
Anyone to end up is a little bit higher so I can sit in my hammock which by the way is my war bonnet
Blackbird Hammock
And my frank and quilt under quilt underneath and I can sit out
underneath and still have a view
outside
Whether it's a storm or a lovely day, I much prefer tarp mode over a lot of modes
Seems to be the way I set mine up the most
You're going to need your hiking poles or sticks or something to raise it up sticks work, just fine
We come on the [back] side of the tarp
And I just have it rigged down in regular tarp mode now the main thing you're going to need a tarp mode
Is your hiking pole or a stick from the woods and a little bit of a longer?
[guideline] to go out you can run the [guide] line from your stick or hiking pole way out
What will happen is you'll get some lift off the ground when the wind blows
I've shortened mine up a good bit and that does not raise up too much
When the wind blows to spend the night in a storm out in the dark scary, Pineywoods. Oh dear
[oh] look at the deer poo, and you'll know what I mean
[I've] got this in which is my entrance normally that's the foot end of my hammock a little bit higher
Then this end down here that way the water won't collect and it will run right [off]
down this way
Now I slept out here last night in a big crazy storm. We had rain
Thunder lightning all night getting ready for an upcoming backpacking trip to an undisclosed location
[but] a location not a lot of people go in video
It seems because I can't find any video on it, and I bit up there a long time ago
But I haven't been up there in a while
So it's time to get back up there again the dimensions of this tarp
Are [10] and a half [feet] across the [ridgeline]? Which is that very top part and
From here to the other side on the back
It is three and a half feet on each side so that equals seven I
Made this tarp out of sill Nylon
And I wanted it kind of small one of the sides a little bit short
because I like to lay in the woods and porch mode and
That way I get a little view and my favorite thing [to] do is lay in porch mode in a storm
I'll be sitting in my hammock. Just watching the rain fall out in the woods now
Normally a tarp is pitched down like this called a frame mode
that's probably how you want to pitch it in a storm or
Most people pitch stairs like this for privacy as well because one thing you lose a little privacy when you're in ports mode
Speaking of guidelines and have I spoken up them yet. No I have it people often ask on the four Corners
What is a good length for your guidelines well?
That's up to you what I normally do is use about [four] to [six] feet on the backside
And sometimes the same in the front and I carry little pieces that I can add to it
Which I'll show you when I get time if you'll just be patient
I'll get there because I can't do it all at once because I just thought about showing you so I just mentioned it now I
Got to do it
But I would say in the in the front
you know if this is normally the side you're going to use and
That's something you're going to have to figure out because you'll always set it up backwards and your long lines will be on the other
Side [of] where you want them, but you just take them off and put them on the other side. That's part of tarp Ii
Have it a little bit longer and that way you can set up in the porch mode because you need a little bit more line
So let's do some porch mode right now
the [pull-up] mistakes
What I like to do is just wrap my lines on [at] one time
But because it's windy I'm gonna go a little short. You [don't] want to go this short
maybe
about that angle right there I
Come down to my stake. I'm going to pull my stake
Grab my hiking pole, and I'm gonna wrap once or twice three times a lady
And you can see here if I come out
Long I have a lot less tension on the line, but I'm going to show you something here
You'll notice
That this will flop up and down a lot easier if the wind comes up under there
And you'll often get that thing happening. I hate when that happens
So I would recommend on a windy day coming in a little closer
At an angle something like that
[tie] [my] Marlinspike which I'll slow [down] for you in a second
Stake that in sugar the dirty fingers let's cover that Marlin Spike Hitch
What I'm going to do put my finger down and make a loop up like this with this crossing here
Maybe this is because I'm left-handed. I don't know then I'm going to put my fingers through there and come up and grab this
So that I have this like that let's repeat
pinch it
Loop over [the] top right here
Bring your fingers through as you bring this up pull the top line through put your stake in there
pull that
and sneak into the ground
Nice thing is when you take this out. You pull your stake out and the knot comes right out. [oh]
like a magician
whip roll in
Lock bang
stick
Why not the porsche mode?
Sometimes I like to call it veranda mode [I] like to sit [on] the Veranda with Miranda
She's not my wife. [hey]. You know what I haven't done with you in a while. I have not done this to you
Right here, you'll notice that I have what's called a tensioner on there a piece of shock Cord
But what happens with that and we're going to cover this later if my tarp loosens up which it often will in certain weather
this line
right here
Which is a spectral line?
Commonly known as spear note angle line will Slacken, but the shot cord will keep my tarp tight
All right, [I] want to show you here what the tarp tensioner looks like let's pretend that is the corner of the tarp
And you have your line with some [shock] cord there
and when you set your cord
You pull it so that it's as tight as the shock cord and as the tarp loosens up which [sill] nylon will
this happens
all right, and that keeps your tarp tight [I]
Got to hurry the cops are coming now on these tarp tensioners
This is not something I invented
[no] me sure but the third person shook shook sugar tea sug sug sug sug did not invent this I actually learned it on Hammock
Forum [stock] net that's right Hammock forums dot net if you want some information on tarps
Hammocks anything to do with hammocks and anything how to do pitching a tarp over a hammock with all the most modern techniques
I mean techniques that I'm not even [going] [to] cover here in this
Because what I'm going to show you is just pretty much what I do because that's how mine. Set up
Maybe a couple of other things, but go there and do some research
Research research research on your own it's the best way to learn remember failure
Is an option if you fail, then you will remember the lesson that's right goof it up once or twice
And it will lock in your brain and the next time you'll know what to do believe me. I am
The Pharaoh of failure what we're going to do
We got our shot cord standing by that's about a nine nine and a half inch piece [of] shot Cord [I]
Think it's eighth inch I'm just going to say it's [eighth] inch [I] have the ends of it burned
So it does have just a little bit of a ridge there, and that's very helpful
I'm going to make that first little loop like [this]
See that it's just crossing over that way
I'm going to pinch it to make it a little bigger
Just for the purposes here and a pinch it and hold it there grab my other end. I'm going to twist this
so that it comes over and
It crosses in front of itself
All right, so this one
This end is running behind
This end is running in front
and then that goes right behind that
double loops
boom
Then I insert
The shot Cord and I will
pull that in together and
That little knot right [there] my friends will be enough to hold that
Now we'll go down to the other end
Throw some slack in and we'll repeat that whole process
I'll make my loop. I'll make my second loop tuck it behind
Put my shot cord in pull it tight
Yeah, this little version right here. I learned it [from] head change for you on Hammock for them
There's a was a tutorial there on that and that my friend so I'll pull that
Snug
And there you go your shot cord tensioner. I
Think they're great on sil nylon. I actually use mine [on] my cuban tarps to bang
So coming up in the next parts of this series
we'll look at some of my [cuban] tarps - that's my cuban tarp without flaps this would be called Sort of the
Cuban tarp with flaps, and this is my winter tarp that I use that has Velcro doors. It's made of cilantro
Kolmad it's a heavier duty tarp that I trust in the snow
These are so light. It feels like I'm holding nothing in my hand
They're expensive
but if you're really looking to save weight then they're worth the cost if you're just getting started in camping or
hammocking you May
Just want to go with something like a sil nylon tarp right there if you'll look down in the description box below this video
You know [what] that is, [right]?
Just take your eyeballs move down under the video and it says about the video or whatever there'll be some links in there
I'll even put the links of making your own tarp if you want and as much info
[I] will not do a video on how to make a tarp. [I] repeat
I will not do a video on how [to] make a tarp because to be a lot of cussing [oh]
Yeah be a lot of colorful expletives going on there, and I don't think I'll ever make another one
I've done my tarp building
I proved to myself I can do it and now there's so many great tarp vendors out there that I will just buy from them
Because my time is valuable because you know I got some napping to do on the next part of this series
We'll start covering rigging the tarp
What is going to go over some tarp stuff and hopefully when you get out there and rig your tarp?
You'll have a good idea of where to start and then from then on. It says finding out what you like to do
How you like to rig your tarp what your favorite way [is] how to center it over your hammock bla Bla bla [ad] infinitum?
diddly-Dee diddly-Dee shush shush uh
All this chatter makes me thirsty
I
Love it you who juice box yeah?
[going] to sit out here in porch mode have me some boiled peanuts
but down in North Carolina for a short spell
Got me some raw peanuts
Came up here [involved] with some because here in Minnesota. They don't know about the boiled peanut
Most of them don't care for it
Just the ultimate lollygag
You got to sit around and work
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