Building a Large Shelter | Ex-Royal Marine | Using Tarp to Build Large Outdoor Shelter and Classroom
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2022
- Tarpology | Showing you the best tarp configuration for my outdoor classroom, with tips on how you can make it last all year round!
We'll be showing you how to rig a parachute and how essential it is to helping the day-to-day life of running of Hidden Valley Bushcraft.
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Best video I've found on rigging a parachute as a shelter. Thanks for taking the time to make this.
Nice one nick, undamaged parachutes have become as rare as rocking horse s#!t at the moment!
Northern Michigan here, 15-20 mph winds, -11C and getting my pack put together to go hammock camping tomorrow night 👍
Great vid Nick, I’m due to replace mine shortly.
Shame I missed you at the Expo!
Hello from British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦👍👋🌎♥️6C rain, same for the next week 523AM still dark
I love watching the videos nick, thanks for keeping us all entertained over the weekends!
Steve from Kansas USA. Last week didn’t get above freezing all week. This week in the 60s-70deg F all week 🤪.
Great video, I’ve never seen this being done before. Thanks again.
Hi from New Brunswick, Canada. A sunny day with a high of -10 Celsius, with over 230 cm. of snow since January 1, 2022.
Lots of snow here in Canada!
In Laos, SE Asia (where I am based to instruct anti-poaching teams) Weather is sunny, 33 Deg C. We have three seasons. Hot rainy summer monsoon, cool dry "winter" & then hot - hotter dry until the rain starts again. (BTW, we use pebbles instead of your wood noggins)
Always a proper joy Nick..🤙STRENGTH To STRENGTH Have a Awesome Sunday
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When it came to making that cut, the guys face was priceless 🤣 well done 👏 not easy. Dry on the east coast of Scotland, but wind chill. X
Nick, thank you for showing us how you keep your classroom in great condition. i am from North Queensland in Australia and we have 2 seasons, May - October (no rain, perfect for camping) November until April (wet, so wet you will be lucky not to have leaks in your house and it when everyone buys new camping gear)
The cabin looks terrific! We’ll done! Hope your classes are growing and wish you much success!!! I’d love to hop the pond and join you someday.
Another great video... The chute looks great, but I've got a bit of OCD, rather than cutting the chute, that small tree would have met a saw. 😂
Great Video, Nick! Like always!
Such an amazing outdoor classroom idea!
Very cool!
Another good watch Nick. Weather report as requested, here in Western Australia (work), finished off hottest summer on record, yet Eastern states (home in New South Wales) floggin down with rain and major flooding across Queensland and lot of NSW. Cyclone tracking off the Northwest WA heading for the Pilbara. Be a shame if I can’t fly back up to work. 🤣🤣 Tad of a contrast to your place mate. Look forward to the next instalment. Keep up the great work mate. 💪👍🤝🦘
South East NSW expecting the heavy rain n the next day or two
Great info, thanks from the states!
Nice work,Nick.
Looks great.
Regards
Nick, great vid mate 👍 So many different bits of useful info here, even if not using a chute. Site looks good, great job 👍🌟😁 Oh, by the way. I live in Louisiana in America. Right now our weather is cold windy and rainy. Usually Jan.,Feb., and first part of march are like that. Temps vary from warm muggy or cold freezing days to cold wet or moderate clear nights. But hey, if ya don't like the weather around here, wait five minutes it's apt to change. Won't be long we will be in the hot and humid point and hurricane season will begin and run till November. Starts cooling down around October, but could have days that can get hot. Christmas one year was 31.6C. Anywho, take care, stay safe. Hello to Finn and Mum.
Nice job Nick. Always a great job from you. Appreciate you and running the camp. Keep up the good work! Pete from Minnesota.
That's really cool you did a great job
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 maybe
I work in a forest school in Shropshire. This looks an excellent idea for us. Always look forward to your vids. Keep up the good work.
Definitely would've struggled doing that on your own 🤣. Looks awesome!
Just started watching your channel and it’s great. I’m sure many have said it before to you but thank you for all you have done and all your achievements. Keep making the videos and I wish you every success in the future. Good luck and take care. James
Weather, Well being Scottish and we are often told of this “ Sun “ thing that other nations get, I’m 48 and have seen it only twice :)
11:20 - Nice and sunny here in Auckland New Zealand :)
Weather here in the midwest has been warm then to cold with snow and ice now sunshine but still a bit cold.
Great video Nick. Weather is very damp here, with significant flooding in some parts of the country.
Sometimes smooth round pebbles can be used to create an attachment point in a chute/tarp/sheet, or a knot tied in the material.
Hi Nick, I have bought a parachute buy it has been slashed on purpose before selling. Do you think it can be repaired so it can be used as a canopy. What would you mend ripstop nylon with? Thank you so much for all your videos! Richard
Love that workspace! One thing that may have been a help is some decent fabric scissors
A very difficult process to get the parachute up takes some doing ,we had the same when we put a parachute up in the woodland and we had 6 guys helping us a few swear words but we got there some very helpful tips from yourself will use next time great video thanks for sharing ♠️
It ain't a real project until there's a few swear words.
@@earndoggy You're right there
At my local ecotherapy group some twunt keeps nicking the parachute, so we have to take it down every week. Putting it up and taking it down again has become quite smooth with all the extra practice though!
The weather in the North Pennines is calming down a bit, but it's devastating to see how many trees we've lost over the last 2 months.
I'm from wonder lake il! / USA And it's like 43 F .and snowy and icy!
I've often thought of doing a tipi or even a wigwam with one of these. Just for fun.
"There is a trick to help keep your parachute shelters stay up.." I am guessing that parachutes are available at Tesco there now? Here in Canada we can't go to Canadian Tire and pick one up so easy to make one. ;) Nicely explained, as always. I was wondering how you were going to deal with that tree without reducing the effectiveness of the cover.
Thanks for that Nick! Now, where do you get your hands on a parachute 🤔.
I suffer with similar memory problems and you inspire me to to take time out outdoors and that really helps get through the week 😅🍺
I like your channel I subscribed!
Sunny, but cold here in Wisconsin.
What's the plans for the old chute? Is there a cool way to bushcraft/recycle it? Brilliant episode dude. All the best
Had a tailoress at BATUS years ago who made jackets out of the old parachutes 🪂, pullover and front zipper types. I was actually impressed by how warm I was in the one I got.
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 ah makes sense
Great video Nick. Need to do the same thing in my woodland in a month or so. Where did you source the parachute from? Same question, actually, for the basket too!
Nice one me owd 👍
Love videos and information. I took your advice and got a surplus Bergen. It is ok state, needs a bit of TLC. Is it normal for the water proofing on the inside to feel tacky? Any advice for fixing it? I have given it a wash with Tecwash but it has not helped in anyway!
Raining in the Pacific Northwest of the US
Enjoyed the video as usual, always interesting to see behind the scenes. Was just checking out your website but there's no bookable events on there at the moment, will they be up later in the year? I'd love to do an overnight course this year :)
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Flippin heck, that's great news for you, not so good for me lol
in the Netherlands we have 4 seasons in 1 day
I have to say, that it wouldn't have occurred to me to use a parachute for a roof like this. At most, I might have seen fit to use a MASH-style canvas tent for this, but more likely would have turned to something even more "old-school," like a yurt, or a tipi, or some kind of pavilion.
I have an old large 'chute, had it for years, used to use it at festivals. I was wondering if you could have got away without cutting it, mine has internal loops every other seam and we used to make a 'slice' by folding the 'chute around the branch/trunk and lace up the loops and use them as tie-outs also. saying that it wasn't a 'permanent' structure like yours. 😁👍
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 It's been many things in it's life with me including shelter, hammock and sleeping bag. It resides in an old canvas kitbag, I should give it an airing! 😁
I always wondered how the shelter worked!
I am in Dallas Texas, the weather is ridiculous, this week it's freezing, the week before it was hot. Next week it will be warm, up to 25 C. And so it jojos on. And no spring or autumn. Which is very sad.
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 And in summer, which lasts about 8 months, it's blistering hot and humid.
It's such a relief to just watch your videos for the normal weather ;)
Hi Nick, Awesome video as usual mate. One quick question for you. Where do you source your parachutes from?
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Thanks for the reply Nick - they are becoming harder to find these days eh.? Plenty of pricey bespoke tarps & retrofitted canopies about if you can afford them...
I would love to have a parachute for my Scouts but I don't it is worth the effort sadly.
Darwin top of Australia we just had a cyclone skim past us to the west and the East coast is flooding along the coast of Queensland and New south wales.
nice,what if you tape the cut side with duct or gorilla tape
Nick. You do not have to find the end of the Parachord every time, just pass the knot of the loop through the loop and Bob's your uncle!
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 When your minds on filming it's easy to have Blonde moments! Just let those old farts that were helping you know that we only had wooden ladders for decades before Aluminium! We got on just fine! Nobody died!😂😂
How does this do with snow? Southern Alaska here, multiple feet of snow per winter.
What have you done with the old parachute? I am in need of that cloth...
Nick did you use the old Chute for any thing or was the fabric too far gone.
Where did you get the parachute from. Thank you
Did you do this before the recent storms? And if so, in how many different languages did you swear after the storms?
if you loop the cord and poke it thru other loop your ready to loop yer noggin without help :)
-3c feels like -8c, 20:12 Medicine Hat Alberta
No such thing as bad weather just bad clothing 😉👍
Is that a C9 or a T10 chute?
Hi Nick. I'm not sure how to message you directly. I'd like to attend your Woodland Warrior course. But I'm not Armed Forces personnel. I work with adults with mental health difficulties. I'm happy to pay for costs if that's a workable solution?
Nick, how about instead of drawing the end of the cord threw why don't you just put a bend in it and pass that bend over your 'noggin'? Just saying 😉
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 and more farts as we get older, I assure you of that.
jo if U have no use for old paraschute send it to me ill recicle it;)
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Ever feel like a little kid again putting tarps and stuff like this up? I know i do abit. No girls allowed under the parachute fort 👀
I would have cut the tree but why cut a tree in a bushcraft video?