How To Make a Yukon Chair out of a Poncho - BONUS - Yukon Chair Shelter too

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It's hard to beat a Yukon chair for comfort at camp, it's easy to make with one of our ponchos and four sticks. Using one of our HD Ponchos I make a Yukon Chair at camp, this can be done with any of our other ponchos as well. This chair in True Timber New Conceal Camo is quite nice. This kind of chair is like having a lounge chair at camp, it can be moved about, you can sit upright or laid back, you can even sleep in it. A Yukon chair makes a really nice addition to any camp. As a bonus I also show a couple shelters that can be integrated into the chair. Check out these ponchos and all our other gear at http://wildernessinnovation.com

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well a lot of times people want to know how how does Perry peacock do stuff you know and I don't know why they ask probably ask because they know I'm kind of a weirdo I kind of do things different a lot of times so if you want to know some odd way of doing things you ask me I'm going to show you a bunch of different ways that we use our ponchos this is a Yukon chair made out of a poncho so I'm really excited great to be out here so let's get on with the day man so anyway this this Yukon chair and this is like probably the shortest version you could make I'm close to the ground but I kind of like it that way but that works really well so basically got a tripod you got three pulls this back pole I usually make shorter by about a foot and this makes a chair that I can move around so I can I can make it here and I can take it over there back over there so as you can see here none of these poles are even matched they're not even that straight it doesn't really even matter for length this what we got a little over six feet and I wouldn't I wouldn't go any shorter than that I've gone eight or nine I got eight or nine feet before or ten feet I think case is very very simple to set up the tripod like I say you don't even yeah you really have to know any particular nut I mean we're not we're not dealing with much stress here or whatever and then I grab one of the other legs here usually if the legs hit they have some little knobs or stubs on them or whatever I'll try to take advantage of that saying see there's that little knobs to cure it doesn't matter though it's not going to go anywhere but literally you can just go around here and do a couple figure-eight and really be good enough to go if I do that then I like to at least go around through the middle one or two times so there's those two poles hooked together so that was pretty easy right now I don't really have anything any knobs or anything I can put with this one but doesn't matter so I just lay this thing up here and I'm just going to do like I said it's gonna do a couple figure eights again between this pole and the new one I just added and I'll just come down here and I just come down here and tie this off with a couple half hitches on the backside here and actually you could put this whole thing up just using the cord that comes with the poncho all right so here's the end of the poncho gathered the same the same way you do setting up a hammock out of it so doing the very same thing and I'm just keeping my cord right here I can put this up right side out a wrong side out whichever way I want to do it since this is a camel I want to put it up right side out so I can see the camel so otherwise you'd see the back side so now look at this I'm telling you seriously you don't even need any nuts well not any but so you bring this up here and you can just go like around the back here and do a figure eight around a couple of those through a half hitch around here or whatever you want something couple of those and snug them down that's it okay so that's how you're going to sit into it so you'll see the camel right so I just kind of want to fold it back up okay so here's the other end of the poncho now you see that the cord that was left when we tied off this in we're going to take this pit two pieces left we're going to take one of those and I already know I already know on this one because I've set up before a couple times but I already know about where I want to be okay I'm going to do the same thing on the other side so folding it hat folding it in half here gives us a place where we can put our our seat log that kind of makes the seat out of the thing that's where you're going to sit anybody you want to do here you want to be even so I want to pull that up so it's as high as the other side so it'll be even and then we just post a half hitch through plus another through snug it up it'll be going across right here now you'll notice that I've trimmed trimmed all the stubs and you know the roughness and that sort of thing I don't have to get real particularly I don't really want anything sharp on here and incidentally you can do this with any of the postures I've made I've made Yukon chairs out of every punch that we've got all right so there we are now we're going to dress it out a little bit and the hood right here you just just fold it to one side like that that'll work good and the the edges here there's nothing particular about that but I don't like them to be pinched between these two pieces of wood but other than that and you kind of want to have you want to have a little extra hanging out on both sides here so now Here I am that's all there is to it so here's how you adjust how much tell you just how much lien there is you know if I lay it back more than I'm gonna lean back more or if I push it up like this then I'm going to sit more upright so this is how I can take a Yukon chair and using either another poncho or a tarp I can convert a Yukon chair into a shelter I can be you know pretty much out of the element I'm a little less so with the poncho than I would be if I put a tarp over here I've slept I've slept in these before and very comfortable very nice in the rain nice thing is I can see out if I peel that back you can see the top of the tripod that's holding up my Yukon chair and in this case all I did is just throw the throw the hood of the poncho over top of the tripod and then once then I just I could actually I can actually snap down the hood there and draw that so now I'm pretty well weatherproof and everything right there that is one more one more thing that I want to show you something else I like about the setup is I can take my backpack or supplies or whatever and I can hang them from the tripod back here and whatever I'm using whether it's punch or type overhead it will help keep this is up off the ground and it keeps it out of the rain and stuff like that because you're you're just sitting there it's easy to get in and out then it makes a makes a nice shelters kind of a minimum shelter but it will do the trick so here's a PST oh it makes a nice little shelter over top of a Yukon chair close the back off a little bit so I used the

dot cord that comes in in your tarp kits and put that in the tent stake that way when I go in and out of here I could just pull up like this and go in and out I'm going to just go back to normal but look at all the space I've got inside here like a slick slither back like this a little bit and I'll tell you what I can just flat-out snooze right in here just giving you some ideas so now when you go out this summer try a bunch of this stuff have some fun man it's fun just to take around so you can come up with I better not sit here too long because I want to take me a nap and I got a lot of stuff to do that's so anyway so Perry peacock Lotus innovation having a great time out here camping and take it around a little bit and sometimes that's a little fun to do too