What a useful piece of kit. I bet you'll be toasty in there especially with a small fire . I'm sure a lot of those "Tarp shelters " you see on UA-cam could be done with a plaid. Interesting, right I'm off down that rabbit hole...
занимаюсь шотландскими горскими танцами, и интересуюсь культурой той эпохи про которую ты рассказываешь. молодец, так держать! привет автору из России, Республика Башкортостан, Уфа, южный урал!!!
I've got x2 kilts kicking about. Only real use for these is weddings which I cant stand and drinking sessions. May cut them up and make a teepee instead. Good work mate :)
My guess would be that a bender would be more likely as it would provide more ground space and the ability to simply drape the plaid over. I was once told by an old chap still walking the drovers roads that they used to carry a piece of waxed cotton rolled up and worn around the waist or crossed over the opposite shoulder to the plaid for use as a rain shelter, ground cloth and waterproof and I don't know how likely that is but it certainly sounds practical. Good to see someone trying to work this stuff out btw. History and culture are living entities that shouldn't be lost. Thankyou.
Very good. Thank you very much. They probably made several different type shelters, much like we do today with tarps. Love the small cooking/warming fire inside !
Just thinking bout this .... they probably would seek better cover from the elements so waterproofing wouldn't be too essential... Also 3 men two plaids for shelter and a third for warmth inside .
If you’re herding cattle around the hills and know you’ll be spending nights there how about rolling up a wool blanket and waxed cotton sheet together to carry with you. Waxed sheet for top/ wool blanket for bottom of tipi. Then you keep your kilt on.
Interesting video. I’ve had the opportunity in my lifetime to have known a few people that were very interesting. I hung out with a modern mountain man a few years ago and he showed me how to build shelters out of different things that I would never have thought of. I’ve also slept in a TP lodge made of canvas and another one made of honest to God buffalo hides. They’re very heavy by the way. The trick in making a shelter with anything like blankets is knowing how to layer them along with branches. I’ve seen a shelter called a sweat lodge with blankets overlapped on it. They had to build the main frame first then they enter least the branches between the main support members of the structure then they laid other branches over that to add a sort of grid or framework that was much more tight and then they put the blankets over it and layered them in such a way to give maximum coverage. I’ve used a tarp over a shelter but never blankets. I usually make mine low profile so that there’s just enough angle to shut the water but of course if you’re going to build a fire inside it The conical TP profile works much better and then you have one stick that you can move as what they call the flap steak or the flap pole so you can open and close the flap at the top to let the smoke out or redirect it when the wind changes direction. It’s a fascinating way of living. Once upon a time our iron age ancestors knew how to do this and we have forgotten it. It’s always fascinating traveling down this road.
As always, your vids v interesting, you have a lovely gentle style of presentation, thank you. Kilt shelters,: I seriously doubt any warrior would use their own plaid to make a shelter. (a) cold) (b) vulnerable to attack. You have well demonstrated that the bloody things are time consuming to put on. They must have carried extra material. Also, if you are running from someone you have stolen cattle from, and have to post watch, you wouldnt leave the watchmen out all night, even if the summer nights are pretty short. You’d take a nap, then take your turn on watch. So you are looking more at a temp shelter than a long nights sleep. Tipi vs bivvy? Tipi gives much better wind protection. Rain? Who wants to put on a wet kilt, while being attacked? Yes, the treatment, which sounds like felting, would shed some water. No it is not waterproof. I think ‘water resistant’ is the term you used? Ha ha! This is Scotland!!! BTW wool naturally tends to felt - the fibres mat together. I would be surprised if the Scots had not devised some sort of waterproof covering, or knew places of shelter (but then their enemies would know them too). Or maybe they were just very tough like Wim Hof the Iceman. If that book has no references, I would just treat it as a work of imagination Kids: please do not light a fire inside a home made tipi, covered with an acrylic blanket, in the garden!!!
Excellent stuff man!I was hinking about the post at the entrance to your teepee. If you could find a piece with a "Y" shape to it and placed it upside down at the entrance, you would then be able to get in and out of the teepee easier and without scraping yousef on the upright branch. Just a thought...
That system could make a shelter but it has used the blanket and the plaid so if you sleep inside you would lie on the ground. Lying on cold, wet ground is unhealthy and in some cases dangerous. You could cut evergreen boughs to make a sort of ground cover. Also I am not sure of the safety of having a small fire therein. Old, OLD English cottages did not have chimneys. The smoke seeped out through the thatch. One reason was that smoke going directly upward, through a concentrated hole, creates a very hot spot that can catch fire. Wool may not be very flammable but I imagine it could catch fire if it got hot enough. Native American teepees were much larger and they had a slit near the top rather than a hole at the top for smoke to escape.
This is a great video. I always look forward to see what your videos are going to be about and what type of historical information that I'm going to receive from your videos. Have a great day take care
I love that idea and I have to figure out how to use my tarps to make a shelter where I can sleep in. We don't have plaid material here in the United States where we could use it as a shelter, but we do have wool blankets to use and I am going to buy more of them if I can find them in an Army/Navy store, or online.
Early trappers over here did that with canvas tarps ground cloths or hides. Tippi frame hides ties to frame fire in center, I've done it a couple of times it works well. Or just like the solders in the civil war used a ground cloth to make a lean to.
Nice effort mate. I like the fact that you just give things a go. Either way, we all learn from it. I like the idea. Makes me want to go and build something. Haha. Also, they are British military camo shorts aren't they? My son has a hat in the same pattern. Take care mate.
As someone who likes going to the outer Hebrides of Scotland for camping, is there a way when I get myself a great kilt to make a tent shelter out of it without using sticks to make the tent. The tents that I've brought from trespass I've had some problems with them when it rains up there as well as accidentally breaking the tent.
I know you gave the name of where you got the material for your Great Kilt. Would you be kind enough to share again???? Love how you could make a teepee shape encampment out of your Great Kilt & Blanket!!!!! Interesting that your Great Kilt is also water proof!!!!
Does Scotland ever get warm (or even warm-ish) summer nights? I live in a not-too-dissimilar climate in the American Pacific Northwest, and we get some summer nights that would be perfect for sleeping out in a snug shelter wearing just a long nightshirt. Those'd probably be great nights for gallivanting around cattle-raiding, too. :)
@@FandabiDozi Thanks. So if had your jacket or a wool shirt or tunic with you, and it happened to be a warm night, then maybe. It might help if you needed to get up in coldest hours just before dawn anyway, in order to make your getaway with the cattle in question. :)
So, if you wore the kilt during the day and set up camp for the night, the process of pitching the tent would leave you VERY cold. Think I'd make a lean-to and keep the kilt on. Guess if you had a buddy with you, the tent might work out since you could share the remaining kilt and body warmth. Let's face it though, there are times when friendship has its limits.
Yeah it's true. I say in the video I got the idea from a story I read. They didn't specify exactly what they did, but maybe they had spare blankets or just snuggled up! Haha
@@liamcanavan5970 Well, for me personally, it's not an issue of "fear", it's more about the other guy's hygiene. But, if it were necessary for our survival, sure. Anyhow, doubt I'll ever have to face that situation.
I imagine instead of waisting so much material to make a high but narrow cone, take three long poles, cut two in half , lash two short pieces to each end of the long piece and you have a basic A frame. Use two plaids to cover it , two more on the ground , with a group of four, two men sleep, one man tends the fire by the opening to the shelter, and a fourth stands guard beyond the range in which the fire ruins the night vision. In this manner over an 8 hour period each person gets four hours of tent rest, 2 hours of semi rest by the fire and only 2 hours of standing guard in the cold. If the weather is dry the shelters can have a shallower slope and three men can fit inside, and with more men and shelters you can develop a grid layout of fires and shelters where the men may average only 2 out of 8 hours on watch or even less
Tom, you've sent me off on a wild goose chase looking for "School of the Moon". It must have been a very small print-run, because few copies are available any more and used copies go for between 400 and 500 USD. It sounds like a fascinating read, but sadly, it is far too hard to locate. :( Anyways, thanks for the series of informative videos!
Don't you think something like a little pup tent would have been more efficient? Pretty sure you could have made one with just the plaid and used the wool blanket for warmth. Also I've been trying to find a video explaining what you're talking about with making the wool waterproof.
hi, thank you for your video, I learn a lot ! I'd like to know where did you get your kilt ? I'd like to buy one for my father but I d'ont know where. I live in France, so if you know some website, please tell me. Thank you ;)
im no expert about what they did but i have never heard of scottish people using a teepee , i would think it would look like a curved branch type thing,,when i was younger i was down at dunoon and tinkers had contraptions on the shore like tent s,they were made of long bendy branches and plastic or canvas over them,so thats what i think they would do, and i think highlanders did fight in battles bollock naked the mad bs that they were , atb
A economic use of your plaid and blanket. As ex military I would seriously doubt a warrior would remove his plaid for sleep as a night attack could send you off into the night completely naked and vulnerable to nature. No, a warrior would remain in plaid and take his blanket and stretch it out by it's four corners about knee high with a very slight pitch at one side. By keeping your plaid on you will also have covers to keep you warmer.
They were definitely naked. The nudity would serve as a defense mechanism in case the owners of the cattle caught up to them. No one wants to fight a naked guy.
When are you going to go steal some bovines? Just kidding of course. 😆 There use to be a lot of that happening in the US but it was a good way to get a free rope dance lesson. It actually still happens you just hardly ever hear about it. Now days you don't get hung for it. They'll send you to one of their slave labor concentration camps instead. I really like your videos. It's cool to do things the way our forefathers did imo.
Не знаю поймут ли меня тут.. Использовать собственную одежду на типпи нецелесообразно. Гораздо лучше делать укрытие из одежды убитого война из враждебного клана 😏 Если, конечно, по шотландским понятиям (традициям, законам) это допустимо..
Once in a wee while, the field generated cover does the trick, cheers!
A tiny tent with a couple of naked smelly Highlanders trying to spoon me?
Thanks, but I'll stand guard!
his next video has to be "how to rustle cattle in the Highlands and not get caught".
Reivers, why did it have to be gorram Reivers :-D
Warmth is warmth in a survival situation.
A couple? Then you might be the filling of a "sandwich". Spooning could be only one of your worries. The mind reels and the tent's warming up.
I love these ancient highlander videos! Please make more!
drock55551 Thanks buddy. I should have another one coming soon, my friend is editing it for me this time so not sure when it will be finished yet :)
Can't wait!
What a useful piece of kit. I bet you'll be toasty in there especially with a small fire . I'm sure a lot of those "Tarp shelters " you see on UA-cam could be done with a plaid. Interesting, right I'm off down that rabbit hole...
занимаюсь шотландскими горскими танцами, и интересуюсь культурой той эпохи про которую ты рассказываешь.
молодец, так держать!
привет автору из России, Республика Башкортостан, Уфа, южный урал!!!
I've got x2 kilts kicking about. Only real use for these is weddings which I cant stand and drinking sessions. May cut them up and make a teepee instead. Good work mate :)
My guess would be that a bender would be more likely as it would provide more ground space and the ability to simply drape the plaid over. I was once told by an old chap still walking the drovers roads that they used to carry a piece of waxed cotton rolled up and worn around the waist or crossed over the opposite shoulder to the plaid for use as a rain shelter, ground cloth and waterproof and I don't know how likely that is but it certainly sounds practical. Good to see someone trying to work this stuff out btw. History and culture are living entities that shouldn't be lost. Thankyou.
Tom just has legendary den stats.
Very good. Thank you very much. They probably made several different type shelters, much like we do today with tarps. Love the small cooking/warming fire inside !
Just thinking bout this .... they probably would seek better cover from the elements so waterproofing wouldn't be too essential... Also 3 men two plaids for shelter and a third for warmth inside .
If you’re herding cattle around the hills and know you’ll be spending nights there how about rolling up a wool blanket and waxed cotton sheet together to carry with you. Waxed sheet for top/ wool blanket for bottom of tipi. Then you keep your kilt on.
Love the blanket pin. I really enjoy your videos
Interesting video. I’ve had the opportunity in my lifetime to have known a few people that were very interesting. I hung out with a modern mountain man a few years ago and he showed me how to build shelters out of different things that I would never have thought of. I’ve also slept in a TP lodge made of canvas and another one made of honest to God buffalo hides. They’re very heavy by the way. The trick in making a shelter with anything like blankets is knowing how to layer them along with branches. I’ve seen a shelter called a sweat lodge with blankets overlapped on it. They had to build the main frame first then they enter least the branches between the main support members of the structure then they laid other branches over that to add a sort of grid or framework that was much more tight and then they put the blankets over it and layered them in such a way to give maximum coverage. I’ve used a tarp over a shelter but never blankets. I usually make mine low profile so that there’s just enough angle to shut the water but of course if you’re going to build a fire inside it The conical TP profile works much better and then you have one stick that you can move as what they call the flap steak or the flap pole so you can open and close the flap at the top to let the smoke out or redirect it when the wind changes direction. It’s a fascinating way of living. Once upon a time our iron age ancestors knew how to do this and we have forgotten it. It’s always fascinating traveling down this road.
BTW Thanks to you I learned about midges (did a Google search). I don't know what good it will do me but now the info is stuck in my head.
A very versatile piece of kit. Looking forward to more.
Another brilliant video as always and incredibly interesting.
As always, your vids v interesting, you have a lovely gentle style of presentation, thank you.
Kilt shelters,:
I seriously doubt any warrior would use their own plaid to make a shelter. (a) cold) (b) vulnerable to attack. You have well demonstrated that the bloody things are time consuming to put on.
They must have carried extra material.
Also, if you are running from someone you have stolen cattle from, and have to post watch, you wouldnt leave the watchmen out all night, even if the summer nights are pretty short. You’d take a nap, then take your turn on watch. So you are looking more at a temp shelter than a long nights sleep.
Tipi vs bivvy? Tipi gives much better wind protection.
Rain? Who wants to put on a wet kilt, while being attacked? Yes, the treatment, which sounds like felting, would shed some water. No it is not waterproof. I think ‘water resistant’ is the term you used? Ha ha! This is Scotland!!!
BTW wool naturally tends to felt - the fibres mat together.
I would be surprised if the Scots had not devised some sort of waterproof covering, or knew places of shelter (but then their enemies would know them too).
Or maybe they were just very tough like Wim Hof the Iceman.
If that book has no references, I would just treat it as a work of imagination
Kids: please do not light a fire inside a home made tipi, covered with an acrylic blanket, in the garden!!!
I really love this 💜
Hmmm plausible and resourceful.. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
Excellent video, I think a hooped bivi using willow would also work
Fascinating, absolutely fascinating.
Excellent stuff man!I was hinking about the post at the entrance to your teepee. If you could find a piece with a "Y" shape to it and placed it upside down at the entrance, you would then be able to get in and out of the teepee easier and without scraping yousef on the upright branch. Just a thought...
MrTatts64 Thanks man :) yeah true, if you could find a forked branch the right size that could work :) thanks for watching.
Or you could just use 5 or 7 (or any odd number) of branches.
I would never do this with a valuable kilt, but it's a neat experiment.
I carry two great kilts. One to wear and one waterproofed with lamb fat for shelter.
Really? How big and how heavy is your shelter one? Thanks for sharing :)
Did you ever get an answer...
Cool home for kids.
That system could make a shelter but it has used the blanket and the plaid so if you sleep inside you would lie on the ground. Lying on cold, wet ground is unhealthy and in some cases dangerous. You could cut evergreen boughs to make a sort of ground cover. Also I am not sure of the safety of having a small fire therein. Old, OLD English cottages did not have chimneys. The smoke seeped out through the thatch. One reason was that smoke going directly upward, through a concentrated hole, creates a very hot spot that can catch fire. Wool may not be very flammable but I imagine it could catch fire if it got hot enough.
Native American teepees were much larger and they had a slit near the top rather than a hole at the top for smoke to escape.
This is a great video. I always look forward to see what your videos are going to be about and what type of historical information that I'm going to receive from your videos. Have a great day take care
Tressa Zimmerman Thanks very much. Glad you are still enjoying them. Take care :)
I love that idea and I have to figure out how to use my tarps to make a shelter where I can sleep in. We don't have plaid material here in the United States where we could use it as a shelter, but we do have wool blankets to use and I am going to buy more of them if I can find them in an Army/Navy store, or online.
Early trappers over here did that with canvas tarps ground cloths or hides. Tippi frame hides ties to frame fire in center, I've done it a couple of times it works well. Or just like the solders in the civil war used a ground cloth to make a lean to.
Nice effort mate. I like the fact that you just give things a go. Either way, we all learn from it. I like the idea. Makes me want to go and build something. Haha. Also, they are British military camo shorts aren't they? My son has a hat in the same pattern. Take care mate.
As someone who likes going to the outer Hebrides of Scotland for camping, is there a way when I get myself a great kilt to make a tent shelter out of it without using sticks to make the tent. The tents that I've brought from trespass I've had some problems with them when it rains up there as well as accidentally breaking the tent.
I know you gave the name of where you got the material for your Great Kilt. Would you be kind enough to share again????
Love how you could make a teepee shape encampment out of your Great Kilt & Blanket!!!!! Interesting that your Great Kilt is also water proof!!!!
Check out my QnA video, i have all the links to my equipment there :) Thanks for watching
Does Scotland ever get warm (or even warm-ish) summer nights? I live in a not-too-dissimilar climate in the American Pacific Northwest, and we get some summer nights that would be perfect for sleeping out in a snug shelter wearing just a long nightshirt. Those'd probably be great nights for gallivanting around cattle-raiding, too. :)
It can get warm nights, but very rarely warm enough to not at least have a jumper or something wrapped round you :)
@@FandabiDozi Thanks. So if had your jacket or a wool shirt or tunic with you, and it happened to be a warm night, then maybe. It might help if you needed to get up in coldest hours just before dawn anyway, in order to make your getaway with the cattle in question. :)
loving these videos mate.
So, if you wore the kilt during the day and set up camp for the night, the process of pitching the tent would leave you VERY cold. Think I'd make a lean-to and keep the kilt on. Guess if you had a buddy with you, the tent might work out since you could share the remaining kilt and body warmth. Let's face it though, there are times when friendship has its limits.
Yeah it's true. I say in the video I got the idea from a story I read. They didn't specify exactly what they did, but maybe they had spare blankets or just snuggled up! Haha
Don't worry most guys have trouble pitching a tent in the cold it's nothing to be ashamed of
People wouldn’t be so afraid of th naked body of others back in the day
It's situational. Warmth can be survival at times.
@@liamcanavan5970 Well, for me personally, it's not an issue of "fear", it's more about the other guy's hygiene. But, if it were necessary for our survival, sure. Anyhow, doubt I'll ever have to face that situation.
I think It would have been more of a bender tent or tinker tent cool idea though
Would they have used a static line configuration ya think?
you could waterproof an old bedsheet for this kind of use.
What is the tartan pattern of your great kilt?
I imagine instead of waisting so much material to make a high but narrow cone, take three long poles, cut two in half , lash two short pieces to each end of the long piece and you have a basic A frame. Use two plaids to cover it , two more on the ground , with a group of four, two men sleep, one man tends the fire by the opening to the shelter, and a fourth stands guard beyond the range in which the fire ruins the night vision. In this manner over an 8 hour period each person gets four hours of tent rest, 2 hours of semi rest by the fire and only 2 hours of standing guard in the cold. If the weather is dry the shelters can have a shallower slope and three men can fit inside, and with more men and shelters you can develop a grid layout of fires and shelters where the men may average only 2 out of 8 hours on watch or even less
Tom, you've sent me off on a wild goose chase looking for "School of the Moon". It must have been a very small print-run, because few copies are available any more and used copies go for between 400 and 500 USD. It sounds like a fascinating read, but sadly, it is far too hard to locate. :( Anyways, thanks for the series of informative videos!
I wonder if they would have made a bender tent!
love the videos. I love wearing my belted plaid. I'm curious about this process of walking. Do you know what it entails?
I've been wondering what you can do with a single piece of cloth . Now I know
If you use three forked sticks as the base tripod, you don't need to lash them together.
Awesome! really helpful thing when you hiking! BIg LK1
Don't you think something like a little pup tent would have been more efficient? Pretty sure you could have made one with just the plaid and used the wool blanket for warmth.
Also I've been trying to find a video explaining what you're talking about with making the wool waterproof.
YOU ARE SO COOL 😄😍
Really want to know more about Scotland!!
Ya' kilt this video! Good job!
are you in scotland in these videos? it looks so much like my home in the western north carolina mountains.
e-Mo Tion yes he is.
Love it!
I think it would have been more likely for them to use them like tarps such as a lean to type shelter
hi, thank you for your video, I learn a lot ! I'd like to know where did you get your kilt ? I'd like to buy one for my father but I d'ont know where.
I live in France, so if you know some website, please tell me. Thank you ;)
Warmth would come from the small fire, also it would dry out the wet from the inside out, also insulates when snowing
Where can I get a belted plade
Do you have survival kits for sale
Basically, a tipi made out of an old picnic blanket.
im no expert about what they did but i have never heard of scottish people using a teepee , i would think it would look like a curved branch type thing,,when i was younger i was down at dunoon and tinkers had contraptions on the shore like tent s,they were made of long bendy branches and plastic or canvas over them,so thats what i think they would do, and i think highlanders did fight in battles bollock naked the mad bs that they were , atb
Maybe thats why some ancient cultures were known to go into battle naked?
which clan plaid do you use?
It's described as a generic plaid with no affiliation implied or intended was mentioned in another vid.
Be well
A economic use of your plaid and blanket. As ex military I would seriously doubt a warrior would remove his plaid for sleep as a night attack could send you off into the night completely naked and vulnerable to nature. No, a warrior would remain in plaid and take his blanket and stretch it out by it's four corners about knee high with a very slight pitch at one side. By keeping your plaid on you will also have covers to keep you warmer.
I would have thought s ridge tent would have made more sense
Yes...one ridge and two Plaits would be better...
They were definitely naked. The nudity would serve as a defense mechanism in case the owners of the cattle caught up to them. No one wants to fight a naked guy.
Wouldn't want to wrestle with him but sword, spear, etc.,.no problem.
Goog
if it was for one person it was probably more of a A-frame
When are you going to go steal some bovines? Just kidding of course. 😆
There use to be a lot of that happening in the US but it was a good way to get a free rope dance lesson. It actually still happens you just hardly ever hear about it. Now days you don't get hung for it. They'll send you to one of their slave labor concentration camps instead.
I really like your videos. It's cool to do things the way our forefathers did imo.
One question...is this your own tartan...from your surname
Не знаю поймут ли меня тут..
Использовать собственную одежду на типпи нецелесообразно.
Гораздо лучше делать укрытие из одежды убитого война из враждебного клана 😏
Если, конечно, по шотландским понятиям (традициям, законам) это допустимо..