5 Minutes to Better Bushcraft Tripod

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afternoon gods I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school and what I thought I would do is start a small series today of short videos that I can add to as we go with my buddy Cole cracker at Cole cracker bushcraft has got a series I think it's called three minutes to better gear and I think that's a pretty good idea for a series because you can add little snippets into that series over time that are short and sweet to the point so I thought what I would do is a series call five minutes to better bushcraft and it will be projects that you can complete in five minutes or less that will add to your bushcraft knowledge and your camp comfort at the same time so what I thought we'd do is we'd start with cooking type implements and we start with a simple tripod stay with me so what I've collected here is three poles about one inch in diameter and about four feet long one of them happens to have a fork on the end that's not necessary I have a piece of cordage here like utility cordage it's about six or seven feet long now I'm kind of going to assume that you've already watched the videos from my instructors like corporals corner and you understand some of these knots we're going to start off with a simple timber hitch which means we're wrapping around a loop and the line basically to form sort of a slip knot that's friction he'll just like this in place we're going to wrap three wraps around with our utility cord just like that not including our initial and then we're going to go between and do three flaps so we've got our wraps on here and now we're going to go ahead gum around for the top so we're not crossing anything up and we're going to do three frapps

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and we're pulling these tight every time again this is a five minute project we're trying to get this done fairly quickly and simply it's not something that's going to hold a lot of weight it's only going to hold probably our pot over the fire but at the same time we want it to be secure they come up from the bottom and this time we're going to come up through the bottom side so we're not crossing our lines on the backside and you'll have to separate the legs in front of you to get this to happen really easily got my stop not caught there there we go one pull it down tight and to pull it down tight and three pull that down tight we're finishing on the bottom so since we're finishing on the bottom we're going to finish with a clove hitch so we'll go around here and create an X come back up and drop our line through the center of that X just like this tighten that clove hitch down and dress it up see we got plenty of room to tighten it up here and that should give us a simple tripod and so now in five minutes or less we have created a simple tripod that we can use to suspend a pot over the fire cook with if we need to or anything like that you'll have to kind of stretch it out a little bit it's kind of a turn-on yet because all your lashings are really tight the best thing you can do is point the ends of this just stick them in the ground if you want to you've got some cords hanging down here that you can easily take something and put a toggle on it with a Marlin spike hitch and put a small toggle in there just like that - either suspend your pot over the fire by the bail and then you could adjust the legs of this tripod in and out to reason lowered over the fire or you can put another apparatus on here and just tie a loop it into the line which we'll talk about in the next we're going to talk about a pot hook that we can make in five minutes and we'll just tie an overhand loop in the line like this and connect our pot hook to that and so there you go simple 5-minute project simple five minutes to your better bushcraft we have a tripod now and we can hang our pot or something like that over the fire to cook with and it was a very simple project no muss no fuss cut down three saplings cut them to length

tie them up utility cord it's a done deal and the cord is easily recoverable and that is part of this whole thing is can we recover our cords are are we time permanent nice and by using the timber hitch and the clove hitch we didn't tie any permanent knots that we can't undo very readily to recover our cordage I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for anything you do for our school for a family for business or our sponsors and structures affiliates and friends I'll be back to another video in this series as soon as I can thanks guys