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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school we recently had a class out here called bushcraft 101 and we did several projects of crafting things from the landscape with materials from the landscape using very few tools in this case you could do this entire project with just a knife or a knife and a folding saw would make it much easier now we use some jute twine to simulate natural cordage in this project so the students wouldn't have to make two three hundred feet of cordage because it takes a lot of courage to do something like this which is why it's important to understand that 5:c mentality and the things you want to carry that are more difficult to create off the landscape and we built a tacks rough here I'm going to show you how to make a thatched roof for the concept behind it and how they're put together and I'm going to put a couple of fastenings together for you so you can see that as well and I'll show you what you can use the Kyser stuff up with off the landscape as well so you don't have to use jute twine or cordage at all if you don't have it with you but bear in mind it would take a lot of time to create that amount of cordage stay with okay so we basically have a half of an overhang frame here we have poles that go straight down from a ridge pole and then we have tiered pulls in here excuse my thumb here here and here and we would tear those poles all the way down if we were going to go all the way to the bottom with this this being a demonstration piece we went half way across this ridge pole and halfway down the ridge pole now what you would do is you would take grasp material in this case we'll use such grass and you would just take a bundle of it fold it over and tie it off and you can see that by doing that what you do is you tie them to these tiers and you start at the bottom and you go up and each one will overlap the next layer so you have a very very thick heavy-duty roof on this thing now if you did not have natural cordage or excuse me if it did not have jute wine or some type of cordage that you carry in with you you could use just simple widdy's or pieces of inner bark to effect the same thing so we're going to go ahead and make one of these bundles and show you how to tied on using a wig so all I've done is we're using tulip poplar for our construction material here as far as our structure goes the skeleton of it I've taken one of those tulip poplar that was leftover piece and I've skinned down past the inner bark to the sapwood and then skinned the outer bark off of for the most part to create a piece of flexible strapping and the grasses that you're using it's better if you can keep them wet they're going to break a little bit no matter what you do but you want to keep them wet and what I'm going to do is I'm going to put one more here that's going to be right on the outside layer here just right here it's going to overlap everything so I can pull this thing up just like this and then come in with my piece of cordage whatever I'm using and I want to tie this thing as tight as I can possibly get it so I'm going to wrap around there a couple three times and really really correct down on this and that's the advantage of this inner bark type Withey is that you can really really get some tension on it and you don't have to worry about breaking this stuff and you want it tight enough that you can get two or three wraps on there and then just get yourself a good overhand knot on there I broke the end of it off right there get yourself a good overhand knot in this thing it's good and tight just like that a square knot or finer reef knot whatever you want to call that we're cleaning that and there you go and that's your next tier level going down and again you build up and this one's basically just a protector for the very outside because you've already filled in this across and you would start again at the bottom and work your way up so that all of these overlap each other when you get done you're going to have a roof structure that's probably four inches five inches

and waters not going to go through here it's going to run down this roof it takes a lot of material to do something like this and you need to bear that in mind because again that's what we talked about with the five seas you carry cover materials with you for the short term because nobody wants to make something like this for the short term this is a much longer term type shelter that one person could spend hours and hours constructing just from the harvesting of material factor of this with all the grass all the cordage and cutting the poles and then putting everything together so you could easily on a large structure like this that was eight feet across and six or seven feet deep probably spend two to three to four days just making the materials and getting things together to put this up and then you would have a good permanent structure all right guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitter in the Pathfinder school I appreciate you joining for this quick video today on how to make a simple grass thatching for a roof I appreciate everything you do for my school for my family for my business all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys