Simple Fencing

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitter in the Pathfinder school and where I thought is you today is show you a simple way to make fencing and I was looking at a green woodworking encyclopedia the other day and I looked at a fencing called piling I believe is the way it's pronounced in the UK that they make with staves and wire and it's a very simple process that can be transferable easy enough over to the Eastern woodlands by using some type of a heavy-duty cordage like a paracord or mule tape and then just straight saplings that you have cut to length for the height that you desire of your fence and it's a very very simple process a very quick process it's also a process you can use to recover the cordage if needs be so that you can make a fence not only to keep something inside but also to keep things out from around your camp if you chose to do that but I think this is a very effective way of making a fence and it's very simple it's very quick and it's very easy to understand stay with me I'll walk you through okay so this fencing that we're making right now we've just cut saplings and these are all poplar saplings that are approximately three and a half foot high just for demonstration purpose and then I took piece of mule tape and stretch them between two trees and the basic concept of this is that you double the paracord or the mule tape or whatever you're using as your cordage around the tree and then you use a windlass to put X amount of twists in the line and then you slide poles in those twists slide it up twist it again with your windlass to put another poll in slide it up and you can evenly space your poles by the amount of twist that you put in the line now you'll have to have a loose end of the line on one end so that you can give yourself slack as you need it because the more you tighten this up obviously the tighter is going to be so you're going to have to slock up the ends a little bit as you go to allow you to put more twists in the line without breaking it or something like that depending on the cordage that you're using so let's kind of take this apart real quick and then we'll look at it again and I'll show you exactly how this is done so the first thing I've done is I've taken two pieces of mule tape one below and one up higher and I've wrapped them one time around the tree and then taken them to the other end and just tied it off in some fashion I can get undone as this starts to tighten up and I started with a little slack in both of these lines and the easiest way to do this really is to take your sofa windlass device like this and start at the bottom of the top it really doesn't matter which way you do it come in here and twist the line one two three four five twists is what I did on the first one six seven eight we'll put them a little further apart this time so we've got eight twists in the line and we take one of our staves and put it in and we let it rest for a minute and these will become more stable as we go and then we're going to do the same thing here one two three four five six seven eight twists of the line open that up drop this one in pull on our windlass and then we can kind of shift things over so that that's tight then we'll come back over and do the same thing again and you can see the lines twisted in one direction now so what I'm going to do this time is I'm going to twist a line in the opposite direction so this last time I went forward this time I want to twist it the opposite way so I'm looking here I'm going one two three four five six seven eight and I put another stave in right there and pull this out come to the top and do the same thing one two three four five six seven eight and this is going to get tiger as we go so don't worry about it if it's a little bit loose right now and it's not going to stay loose very long you could also make these staves so that they were pointed on the top or pointed on the bottom so that you could drive them into the ground if you wanted to now as we get further further along this fence is going to become much more stable because you are tightening up this line every time now as this line gets tired the job of getting these where you wore them it's tougher and tougher so now you're going to go to the other end probably and loosen these lines up give yourself a little bit of slack so that you can't continue on okay guys well this is just a real simple video quick how to make a fence but for instance can come in handy for lots of things depending on how close together they are depending on whether you're trying to keep things in or keep things out and if you're trying to keep live food so it doesn't spoil this is an easy way to build a fence for all types of uses in bushcraft fashion while you're out in the woods even if you're at a camp that's not going to be there for a long period of time because you can recover your cordage from this easy enough I appreciate your views I appreciate your 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