Monday 28 May 2007

How to put up a Tarp and Hammock


Personal Project - How to put up a Tarp and Hammock

Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to put up a tarp and a hammock. Find a Tarp that's got many points for attaching rope around the edges and corners - or put your own in. You want one that's light enough to carry easily with all your other gear and very durable, don't get mixed up with a heavy groundsheet.

Now you can make your own hammock as I once did out of string; learning to use a wooden needle and relying on the sheet bend and a few other knots, or you can buy one and learn to use the Evenk Slippery Hitch and the Tautline hitch, or whichever are your preferred knots...
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tags - tarp, hammock, how to put up, knots, shelter, suvival, primitive, simple, easy, online bushcraft, course, camping, voluntary simplicity

3 comments:

Mountainboy said...

Never much of a hammock person... bad experience in the jungle in Belize when I was eaten from below by a squadron of mosquitoes!

Immortal said...

Good things about hammocks
Uneven and wet ground is NO problem
A hammock can be given a roof to keep off the rain
A hammock can be strung in the tree canopy well away from intruders and carniverous creatures

Louise Brookes said...

good and bad in everything, maybe it was your aftershave the mozzi's were after!Question is where do you put your aftershave?

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