Single Willow Tarp Setup with our PSTS

Description

Using just one willow as a support makes a very quick setup time. It's really easy to adjust as well. In this video we show the setup with our New small tarp the PSTS, but it works well with our standard tarp the PST. I just needed a little shelter from an on and off drizzle and the setup in the video was perfect for that.

Check out the PSTS http://wildernessinnovation.com/shelter/personal-survival-tarp-small/

or the PST http://wildernessinnovation.com/survival-supplies/survival-items/personal-survival-tarp/

Tags: tarp,willow,PST,PSTS,shelter,survival,camping,hunting,outdoor gear

Video Transcription

hello this is perry peacock with wilderness innovation just doing a review on a demonstration that I did on our on our new little Smurfs as a setup that can be done with the small tarp or the standard PST as well we call this the single willow setup it only takes one willow to support it so let me show you how this is done first of all like for this for the small tarp this virtual oh that I found works very nicely to work out for this kind of setup so basically you just want to trim any any little twigs and stuff off of it to get to give it kind of a smooth surface and everything and I chose one about two feet longer than the tarp is so the small tarp size is five by five so it's seven feet diagonal slide shows a 9-foot willow now what I'm doing here now is is in this ground here I just need to I don't really have a way to drive the the willow into the ground so I just cut a little bit bigger piece and I Drive it in with my with my hatchet and so I'm preforming a hole there that I can drop the the willow in to support the tarp so I just kind of hollow it out just a little bit and then we just slide the willow down into that hole and this has got a this area right here has a lot of gravel in it so it doesn't take a whole lot to support it and you know you just kind of do it based on wherever you're at whatever works good to hold it and you see now that it's in there gives a lot of springiness and so so the the willow support gives us the springiness and the adjustment and you can kind of see the angle that I've got it set out there which seems to work pretty good all right so the regular or the this version of the tarp the small version is is five by five so it's seven feet on the diagonal it does come with everything that the larger tarps have just you know appropriate quantity four tenths takes three Hanks a parachute cord and two shock cords and it comes in a corduroy bag and we just done roll this we just don't roll the there's the shock cord there that can be handy we use that I'm going to use that to tie down actually the lower end here and so we just unroll the the tarp and and shake it all out and get ready to set it up here and I'll show you something that I'm looking for as far as as when I set this thing up here in just a moment here now the tarp does have to tie outs in the on the top side of the tarp and so I'm just locating those here now so there's the one diagonal one and here's the one at the center and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually the willow that I'm using is a small enough diameter that I can actually slide it through the tabs otherwise if it's a little bit bigger and sometimes you may need it for the for the for the regular sized tarp if you use on that or if your willow is too big to slide through there then you know in that case just tie it off with some cord and right here this willow is just just small enough I can slide it on down there I didn't put the the loop on the very left hand corner on your screen through it because of the fat end of the stick down there the ground it's a little I thought I was going to get a little too fat maybe to go through there properly so and you sat though I'm having to work at just a little bit here but but who works pretty nicely I mean as you can see it's pretty slick it's easy to do so there's the there's the tarp all strung up here on the on the on the willow and and up the at the upper edge there's a little bit of a not wear a where a little twig was cut off so I just hooked that end up there and that's what holds it on so it's very very slick very easy to do in this way and wouldn't be that much harder if you had to tie it off you know if you had a little bit bigger willow but you see our the willow with its springiness is what's going to aid us in in setting this thing up now that I've now that I've got it fastened on the willow the next thing is to anchor the two corners down i anchored the one corner two of two a piece of dead driftwood log in the in the creek in this other end I'm tying off here with a tying off here and running over to a stake that I've driven in the ground over here as you can see i'm getting probably seed a little ripples in the water there it's raining off and on on me here as I as i'm doing this setup and that's the reason i had put this thing together so i could kind of sit down relax have a little bite to eat and everything and and not get rained on like it's kind of doing off and on all day long here so i just tie this off to the tent stake with a taut line and now notice as i pull that tight notice how the how the willow pulls downwardly so the more i pull Todd on the sides I can actually spread the side out and make it wider and at the same time it pulls it down makes it lower so that's how I can easily adjust my height and my width is by how I pull the the lines on the side now ridges I'd tied off to a stub on the on this log and I didn't like how that was sitting up setting up a little higher than I wanted so I just drove the tent stake into the driftwood to a solid more solid portion of it and just tie my line off down here to the tent stake with a couple half hitches cup like a slippery half and then I've got a taut line on the end that's going through the tarp so i can i can easily adjust the tension on that up there and i get this thing just I want it now you know I've got it a little higher here you know it pitched in the front of it if I wanted to if was a little more stormy or depending on how things are going you know I could pull that down and make it a little bit lower and give myself a little more protection so you know it's very adjustable that's one of the cool things is the the willow provides the tension all the time so you don't have to worry about there's the water droplets beating up on the dwr finish on the tarp there but but anyway yeah so the so it's very adjustable with the with the willow there so just tightening the corners adjusts your adjuster shelter so it's very simple to keep track of you see the multicam is hardly visible looking down the stream here you know just 100 feet or so away now here I've pulled this coyote colored one down a little bit lower and just to kind of show you if I if I guy it out pull it down a little lower it spreads it out more which gives more overhead coverage on me now if you do the if you use the regular PST that's seven by seven ten feet diagonal that's more than sufficient to to do things to do this set up for you so you know this is kind of the extreme situation but it's nice it's you know it's a very light setup a very small profile to pack in your pack so you know it works really nicely that way and it's very doable so this is perry peacock with wilderness innovation showing you the one willow set up with our small tarp it works just as well with the regular sized tarp I'm down here down here by the creek I've got a little stove going underneath the multicam tarp here by the creek and get ready have me a little lunch you guys all have a great day and enjoy the outdoors since again perry peacock wilderness