Hands down your videos are the most informative on the web. Your knot tying and teaching skill is incredible. Seriously I can sit here and just enjoy the knot tying. From a technical standpoint the ambient noises that your microphone picks up sets your videos far above from the rest of your peers on You Tube.
I must agree with that one guy that commented about a book for teenagers that you should pursue. You have an excellent teaching methodology for young men and women as well as those Judy getting into bushcrafting. I applaud you dear sir as a scholar of the essentials. Maybe set up a playlist of your videos pertaining to starter bushcrafters and young people. Keep up the good work.
I like the way you put a toggle to separate the bipod an ease the cordage in. I will apply the same in the next bushcraft night out I will do. Tks for all your down to earth teachings: you inspire many of us. -Claude from Canada.
Ahhh finally... Heavy wind and snow!!! This is what I've been looking for in the last few months I've been combing through your videos!! Yesss! This is the one for me! Thank you Sir
P.s. you're the reason I've finally learned knots at 37 years of age. I've tried before. For some reason it never clicked until watching all the videos you make. Like what knot to use in each situation and why that one. I finally feel confident going into the bush with a light leave no trace camp pack. Only wish i wasnt a rockhound too, that's how this all applies to my life, it's going to be quite heavy on some trips on my way back lol i better eat like you do!!
Nice work. Your patience while demonstrating the details, and while explaining the circumstances, is very commendable. Carry on. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Fantastic indeed! When you mentioned that you already explained a timber hitch in another video, I really appreciate your re-review of making that knot - it reinforces how important/versatile certain knots are, whether timber hitch, clove hitch, or others you've used on multiple occassions. Thanks for the great videos!
Excellent straight forward and to the point. In Texas I have been hit by wind and rain from every direction during a single storm. Lowering your entry point can help with this problen. Depending on time available reinforcing the out side with limbs overlaying the tarp can help prevent wind uplift and potential damage from falling limbs being blown out of trees.
I agree with some others in saying you should seriously consider a book and/or a video series aim specifically at youth. Many of the skills you present were once taught in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts however these are very quickly fading from the curriculum of both organizations. Additionally, the membership in both organizations is dropping with few of our youth ever being a member of their respective group. Your book(s) could form an excellent platform for adults wishing to teach these important skills to youth. As always, thanks for the great videos and far more importantly thank you beyond measure for your service to the people of this nation.
Again, another informative video, I have watched other videos where they try to show how to tie different knots. You on the other hand are far easier to understand and to learn from. Thank you for making these videos, I have learned so much.
You changed your recommendation to the Arcturus survival blanket. Much better product. Combining the shelter with a technique you used in one of your builds would help secure It to the ground if you are expecting high winds. You drove stakes into the ground and lashed to the stakes. Same concept could be used here. That's what I love about your videos. They encourage a person to build on a concept combining more techniques you teach us as we go along.
I like plowpoint. A second piece of canvas can be split, draped, tied, staked over the threshold as a front wall/flapped doors. In a dense forest open shelter is great to block vertical weather. Horizontal weather in open exposure can get you. Also a wall of poles can be used.
Great video as always. I always look forward to your new videos. I find your teaching style to be very effective. Straight to the point and easy to understand. I'm learning a lot. Keep up the good work Corporal.
This is great! I plan on practicing this tomorrow. You make everything look so easy! I'm getting there, slowly but surely. Thanks for another useful and well-explained video.
I love the plow point shelter configuration and this has to be the best I've seen. This will be my next project out in the woods. Thank you, sir! Just FYI, during buggy season I use a Friendly Swede bug net with my tarp configurations; kit comes with four light metal stakes to secure the four corners. Works great!
Nicely done again. I prefer a slightly larger tarp to work with, lowering how much I'm exposed to the weather. But the rest is exactly the same. Maybe some time in the future, you could do a demonstration while it's raining, and spend the night under a shelter like that. Filming and commenting on the highs and lows of such a shelter. You could do that in your back yard even, as it's demonstrating a shelter, not an adventure. Just a thought...
Excellent! What I like about the Re-enforced Version you showed us is that the Frame allows one to add a sheet of CLEAR Plastic to the opening and have a Super Shelter for the Winter. Pre-cut it to fit the Opening and add it to the Shelter Bundle. Thanks again and Take Care.
...outstanding. Easy to set-up once you learn the simple knots and lashes. Another one I will be sharing with our Boy Scouts. Another great one CPL K...
Thank you, sir! I've been looking for this explanation and demo for some time. Very well detailed and slow enough that these old eyes can follow along. Well done!
Thank you, a good addition to what to build should you find yourself in a situation and how to stay out of the elements. Good, well explained and demonstrated. Again, thank you
Finally got my stepdad to watch you! He likes David Canterbery's vids so I knew you'd be up his alley! Also looks like that configuration could be used for a debris shelter.
That tarp looks more like a ground tarp. Much smaller than a 3m by 3m. The "lashing" i have seen CC and others do which i much prefer is take about a foot of cord, tie a knot to make it a loop and then wrap the sticks like a windlass to get your tension. Uses much less cordage and does the same job for light to medium duty
Where I camp the wind will shift from all points of the compass in a 24 hour period. I had a standard plowpoint setup with my 10x10 tarp. The biggest gust hit at just the right angle to turn that thing into a sail. I decided then and there that where the wind is unpredictable, and I want to use a plowpoint, it will be reinforced.
Another quality period of instruction. Oooh-Stinkin'-Rah. To the eight "thumbs-downers", go peddle your weakness somewhere else. We don't need any. Stay hard Corporal. See ya in Valhala.
Outstanding presentation. Good explanation of the lashing to bind the bipod together. Have you considered other tarp tent configurations for specific conditions and creating a video on those?
strong, simple shelter - and clear, clean instruction, not a word wasted, as usual. One question; will heavy rain not follow the line of the supporting pole into/under the tarp? would a drip line of hanging cordage before/above the entry top point of the shelter divert rain so it doesn't travel along the pole and get into the shelter? (sort of like the chains they sometimes use instead of gutters to direct rainfall off the roof of houses). Not sure about this, interested in your thoughts...
Yep almost identical to the setup I use , with a larger tarp though, where you stake in the outer 2 corners and then proceed .... ummm ...... I feel a response video in the future . It's a very common setup, but with the larger tarp it's taller and deeper, also there is a good chance of enough left for a door, thanks Corporal for your tyme n" skill to share this with us , if I can find the tyme I would like to share a video response , Peace out OHA ... On hand always ..... check !
Always loved your videos but in my opinion you may need a slightly larger tarp your head didn't look too covered and that could suck the heat out of you. Anyways nice video man!
You've said on a few videos that the plow point is your personal favorite shelter style, but you never go into why. Can you elaborate, or maybe go into a video on the various shelters and the benefits each brings in comparison to the others?
Great video as always. What would be the best orientation of this shelter on a mildly sloping hill to keep the rain from running under the shelter? Or should you angle it so the sides always protect against the wind and just do a trench around the upper side to divert water away from underneath?
I really like this set up. Used it for 3 nights last week using a large tarp. Still learning....looks like, with small tarp, any kind of rain is gonna get you.?.? Use th8s only in fair weather? Thanks
Corporal, I have always wondered, what is the advantage of the plow point shelter? It seems like theres an awful lot of exposure with it from rain and wind. Is it mainly for a tarp of limited size? I would think more coverage and protection from the ground would be better. But I don't really know. Can you explain its advantages?
hey, thx for uploading. I have a question though. Will the handmade ropes that you showed us before in other videos work for these kinds of knots ? or will they break?
I have a question. I'm new to survival kits and etc. What's the best things to have in your vehicle for hot summer days. Due to my accident last July . I wrecked my car in the country I tried to flag people to stop & didn't have a cellphone. No one was stopping sat I back in the car. Doctors & EMT figured due head injury I passed out. When they found me my body core temp was 107. I had 2nd degree burns blisters caused from the sun. I was treated for sever heat stroke & sever dehydration. I was life flighted & was in ICU they said if I was there a half an hour longer I wouldn't be here. What's the best things to have in a vehicle or bag.
Hands down your videos are the most informative on the web. Your knot tying and teaching skill is incredible. Seriously I can sit here and just enjoy the knot tying. From a technical standpoint the ambient noises that your microphone picks up sets your videos far above from the rest of your peers on You Tube.
I must agree with that one guy that commented about a book for teenagers that you should pursue.
You have an excellent teaching methodology for young men and women as well as those Judy getting into bushcrafting.
I applaud you dear sir as a scholar of the essentials.
Maybe set up a playlist of your videos pertaining to starter bushcrafters and young people.
Keep up the good work.
Here, Here, I second that motion. I'd buy one for my youngin.
I like the way you put a toggle to separate the bipod an ease the cordage in. I will apply the same in the next bushcraft night out I will do. Tks for all your down to earth teachings: you inspire many of us. -Claude from Canada.
I learned more about knots in a minute and a half than I did after like 3 years in Cub Scouts/BSA
No shit.. me too........and I made it to eagle
Ahhh finally... Heavy wind and snow!!! This is what I've been looking for in the last few months I've been combing through your videos!! Yesss! This is the one for me! Thank you Sir
P.s. you're the reason I've finally learned knots at 37 years of age. I've tried before. For some reason it never clicked until watching all the videos you make. Like what knot to use in each situation and why that one. I finally feel confident going into the bush with a light leave no trace camp pack. Only wish i wasnt a rockhound too, that's how this all applies to my life, it's going to be quite heavy on some trips on my way back lol i better eat like you do!!
Nice work. Your patience while demonstrating the details, and while explaining the circumstances, is very commendable. Carry on.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
Fantastic. I really appreciate the time you take to clearly show the knots you are using. That is so helpful. Great video.
Fantastic indeed! When you mentioned that you already explained a timber hitch in another video, I really appreciate your re-review of making that knot - it reinforces how important/versatile certain knots are, whether timber hitch, clove hitch, or others you've used on multiple occassions. Thanks for the great videos!
Great job with the video. The visual of you showing how to tie the knots was very effective. Thank you
Excellent straight forward and to the point.
In Texas I have been hit by wind and rain from every direction during a single storm.
Lowering your entry point can help with this problen.
Depending on time available reinforcing the out side with limbs overlaying the tarp can help prevent wind uplift and potential damage from falling limbs being blown out of trees.
always a good day when there is a new cpl vid.
I agree with some others in saying you should seriously consider a book and/or a video series aim specifically at youth. Many of the skills you present were once taught in the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts however these are very quickly fading from the curriculum of both organizations. Additionally, the membership in both organizations is dropping with few of our youth ever being a member of their respective group. Your book(s) could form an excellent platform for adults wishing to teach these important skills to youth. As always, thanks for the great videos and far more importantly thank you beyond measure for your service to the people of this nation.
What a great teacher!!! You break every thing down to simple step's!!! Blessings 😇🇺🇸
I just can't help but learn something every time I watch your videos. Your time and efforts are much appreciated. Give yourself a raise!
That's interesting, I like how you take the time to explain the knots,plus I think I'm getting close with the bow drill, Thanks to you 👍👍👍
Again, another informative video, I have watched other videos where they try to show how to tie different knots. You on the other hand are far easier to understand and to learn from. Thank you for making these videos, I have learned so much.
The way you explain your knots really resonates with me...thanks much appreciated
You changed your recommendation to the Arcturus survival blanket. Much better product.
Combining the shelter with a technique you used in one of your builds would help secure It to the ground if you are expecting high winds. You drove stakes into the ground and lashed to the stakes. Same concept could be used here. That's what I love about your videos. They encourage a person to build on a concept combining more techniques you teach us as we go along.
I like plowpoint. A second piece of canvas can be split, draped, tied, staked over the threshold as a front wall/flapped doors. In a dense forest open shelter is great to block vertical weather. Horizontal weather in open exposure can get you. Also a wall of poles can be used.
Great video as always. I always look forward to your new videos. I find your teaching style to be very effective. Straight to the point and easy to understand. I'm learning a lot. Keep up the good work Corporal.
Ive seen your other videos where you showed something similar to this before, but I finally got it on the knots and tying the poles together!
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good video on shelter.Always enjoy what you show.
This is great! I plan on practicing this tomorrow. You make everything look so easy! I'm getting there, slowly but surely. Thanks for another useful and well-explained video.
I love the plow point shelter configuration and this has to be the best I've seen. This will be my next project out in the woods. Thank you, sir! Just FYI, during buggy season I use a Friendly Swede bug net with my tarp configurations; kit comes with four light metal stakes to secure the four corners. Works great!
Nicely done again. I prefer a slightly larger tarp to work with, lowering how much I'm exposed to the weather. But the rest is exactly the same. Maybe some time in the future, you could do a demonstration while it's raining, and spend the night under a shelter like that. Filming and commenting on the highs and lows of such a shelter. You could do that in your back yard even, as it's demonstrating a shelter, not an adventure. Just a thought...
Excellent! What I like about the Re-enforced Version you showed us is that the Frame allows one to add a sheet of CLEAR Plastic to the opening and have a Super Shelter for the Winter. Pre-cut it to fit the Opening and add it to the Shelter Bundle. Thanks again and Take Care.
...outstanding. Easy to set-up once you learn the simple knots and lashes. Another one I will be sharing with our Boy Scouts. Another great one CPL K...
Thank you, sir! I've been looking for this explanation and demo for some time. Very well detailed and slow enough that these old eyes can follow along. Well done!
Thanks Corporal, your knots are always very beautifully dressed and executed!
Never thought of that. It was outstanding. Going to try this next time I get out.
Nice reinforcement Corporal. This setup is one of my favorite. Especially with a bigger tarp. Thanks for sharing and best greetings from Germany. Azze
Thank you, a good addition to what to build should you find yourself in a situation and how to stay out of the elements. Good, well explained and demonstrated. Again, thank you
Thanks for the set up demo. Outstanding.
Thanks for showing this one. I saw it briefly in your Georgia trip video. Excellent as always.
Semper Fi
Glad to have stumbled across your channel. SUBSCRIBED
Very cool, appreciate you patiently showing the knots!
Good video, and well presented. Your knot tying skills are very good... thanks for keeping the knowledge alive!
Plot point on steroids! Nice. This might be my new go to ice fishing shelter. Thanks!
Finally got my stepdad to watch you! He likes David Canterbery's vids so I knew you'd be up his alley! Also looks like that configuration could be used for a debris shelter.
Really enjoying your videos, Corporal!! Please keep them coming!! :)
Great Video! Thanks for sharing the knowledge!
Another video well done, I will be sharing this with my scout kids, moving on up from the a frame tarp!
Simple and to the point. I like it.
That tarp looks more like a ground tarp. Much smaller than a 3m by 3m.
The "lashing" i have seen CC and others do which i much prefer is take about a foot of cord, tie a knot to make it a loop and then wrap the sticks like a windlass to get your tension. Uses much less cordage and does the same job for light to medium duty
Where I camp the wind will shift from all points of the compass in a 24 hour period. I had a standard plowpoint setup with my 10x10 tarp. The biggest gust hit at just the right angle to turn that thing into a sail. I decided then and there that where the wind is unpredictable, and I want to use a plowpoint, it will be reinforced.
I love those Grabber space blankets. Very good video!
That was awesome. Thanks for sharing
Great. U can also do tripod with one longer stick to make same configuration but stronger. Cheers.
Another quality period of instruction. Oooh-Stinkin'-Rah. To the eight "thumbs-downers", go peddle your weakness somewhere else. We don't need any. Stay hard Corporal. See ya in Valhala.
as always, your videos are amazing. You can make anything seem possible. Great information and video
Outstanding presentation. Good explanation of the lashing to bind the bipod together. Have you considered other tarp tent configurations for specific conditions and creating a video on those?
Thanks for the instruction , well done ! Always great content.
Outstanding as always! I'm going to use this in conjunction with my 10x10 AquaQuest
Excellent video!
That is awsome, This style of setup will come in handy for SAR training thank you.
Thank you for sharing* As always,just brilliant :-)
A great and informative video as always bro. I love to see the shelter making videos!
strong, simple shelter - and clear, clean instruction, not a word wasted, as usual. One question; will heavy rain not follow the line of the supporting pole into/under the tarp? would a drip line of hanging cordage before/above the entry top point of the shelter divert rain so it doesn't travel along the pole and get into the shelter? (sort of like the chains they sometimes use instead of gutters to direct rainfall off the roof of houses). Not sure about this, interested in your thoughts...
Cheers corporal.
Awesome post again mate, I’ll use this set up.
Very cool double c I'm going to make one especially that knot technique to make an improvised bipod for my ak and my mosin nagant.
Nice. Wish them space blankets were bigger! Was playing this weekend doing plow points with space blankets.
Love your videos!
You should have used some of Coalcracker's infamous " #72" bank line for that wrap. Ha ha.
Ya right after I dislocate his shoulder....... lol. Thanks for watching
Thank you.
Grats on 1M subs mate 👍
Thank you!
I lift a pole a bit to make gap for cross wraps. ♡
Well done & relatively simple but efficient.
outstanding and freestanding :)
Yep almost identical to the setup I use , with a larger tarp though, where you stake in the outer 2 corners and then proceed .... ummm ...... I feel a response video in the future . It's a very common setup, but with the larger tarp it's taller and deeper, also there is a good chance of enough left for a door, thanks Corporal for your tyme n" skill to share this with us , if I can find the tyme I would like to share a video response , Peace out OHA ... On hand always ..... check !
Outstanding af
Real good, appreciate it.
Always loved your videos but in my opinion you may need a slightly larger tarp your head didn't look too covered and that could suck the heat out of you. Anyways nice video man!
I am learning Marines speak. 3 to 6 times means 6 times. Every time. Better if your lashing is in the rain.
great tip thanks corp
Outstanding
You've said on a few videos that the plow point is your personal favorite shelter style, but you never go into why. Can you elaborate, or maybe go into a video on the various shelters and the benefits each brings in comparison to the others?
Outstanding, love the vids, keep em coming. Rah!
Great video as always. What would be the best orientation of this shelter on a mildly sloping hill to keep the rain from running under the shelter? Or should you angle it so the sides always protect against the wind and just do a trench around the upper side to divert water away from underneath?
thank you, Teufel Hunden. RAH!!!
Great instruction as always. Thanks.
Awesome. Simple but effective.
Good Stuff!
This is really cool! Good job!
I really like this set up. Used it for 3 nights last week using a large tarp. Still learning....looks like, with small tarp, any kind of rain is gonna get you.?.? Use th8s only in fair weather? Thanks
A great and clever idea!:-)
Thank you
Did you get a new camera? Your overall composition and closeups were outstanding.
Many thanks for this.
bloody nice shelter.
👍👍 catching up
Cool thanks for sharing ...that comes in handy !
I had to give in and just go to the hardware store and buy tree 10ft. wooden dowels . But , this is a perfect set up .
You need a bigger tarp. That tarp just aint enough to cover you. It would be tight for me and I am only 5' 6".
THANK YOU
Nice..
Corporal, I have always wondered, what is the advantage of the plow point shelter? It seems like theres an awful lot of exposure with it from rain and wind. Is it mainly for a tarp of limited size? I would think more coverage and protection from the ground would be better. But I don't really know. Can you explain its advantages?
Here in Newfoundland it's a super shelter 13 months of the year or you die.
hey, thx for uploading. I have a question though. Will the handmade ropes that you showed us before in other videos work for these kinds of knots ? or will they break?
It will work fine, but that was thick rope. Use paracord or bankline. Thanks for watching
I have a question. I'm new to survival kits and etc. What's the best things to have in your vehicle for hot summer days. Due to my accident last July . I wrecked my car in the country I tried to flag people to stop & didn't have a cellphone. No one was stopping sat I back in the car. Doctors & EMT figured due head injury I passed out. When they found me my body core temp was 107. I had 2nd degree burns blisters caused from the sun. I was treated for sever heat stroke & sever dehydration. I was life flighted & was in ICU they said if I was there a half an hour longer I wouldn't be here. What's the best things to have in a vehicle or bag.
Perfection!!!