Hammock How-To PART 7 Tarp Rap .... Essentials For Noobs & What-Nots

[photocowan]

thank you for keeping me from working almost ALL day! what kinda coffee you makin?

[shugemery]

@photocowan A goog lolly-gag I hope. Instant espresso in the woods.....

[wilcoxtube]

Shug - you absolutely crack me up. Thanks for all your vids - very informative and keep me smiling! Hey - noticed you brought 2 stoves on this trip - is that typical for your winter excursions? Especially with all the other stuff you have to carry??

[shugemery]

@wilcoxtube White gas stove for melting snow for water and meals and a very light alcohol stove for hot drink and breakfast from the hammock in the morn. My winter kit is ever evolving with each season

[zekehooper]

love your songs dude! What do you do for a liveing? You would make an awsome teacher. I've laughed alot watching your vids.

[shugemery]

@zekehooper Thanks feller. I am an entertainer for my bread and butter....and I do teach a circus class at the U of Minnesota with my wife.

[simsghost]

i threw up in my mouth a bit when you ate that spam...

[shugemery]

@simsghost Haaaaaa...too funny/

[pumile0812]

Great videos - thanks a lot for the effort!! One question concerning your video technique: How do you film freehanded? Do you use a helmet camera or do you attach your normal camera somehow on your head/shoulder? Thanks for the help!

[shugemery]

@pumile0812 I put my headlamp on backwards and stick my camera tripod into it. Backwoods tech!

[7wt]

Shug, you sir are a national treasure.

[shugemery]

@7wt Just a man having fun. Thanks

[mrgoodwrench76]

Your halarious man, love the videos. I'm still a little new to the hammock scene and your work sure helps me advance much faster. I apreciate the effort.

[kengray]

that spam was the worst thing i've seen on youtube and that includes the camel slaughter house and the Traditional Mongolian Method of Goat Slaughtering ....80)

[shugemery]

@kengray Camel spam........

[TheWoodlandHippie]

I LOVE MINNESOTA!!! Best for hammock camping!

[TheWaggaBloke]

Just wondering Shuge NO FIRE???? I all ways have a billy on the boil... natures heater gose a long, long way in the cold. Mate!.. Rod

[shugemery]

@TheWaggaBloke Not on this trip...... I seldom do make one when solo. Just too lazy sometimes but this year I am when I get out.

[shugemery]

@R1200cPhoenix They are tricky to sew ..... I cut double silnylon patches and sew them on. that is tricky with all the tarp on the machine.

Then seam seal them.

[etekballer14]

what is spam?

[brassloope]

That was a cool!! A lot of laughs and showing us how its done. Kick Ass!

[wildside126]

r u irish just curious

[shugemery]

@wildside126 ..I am as Irish as Murphy's Pig. Born there.

[doulos1129]

where did you get your hammock tarp?

[shugemery]

I made it ...... want to buy one try Speer Hammocks, JacksrBetter........

[ikemouser9]

Wow shug thanks for the laughs! love the irish and redneck accents.

[shugemery]

I got both in me. Thankee Ike.

[dlilngn]

My favorite thing about being in the woods on an early winter morning is when the sun starts to punch through and you hear the trees crack as they warm back up. Ahhhh, the simple things. Thanks for part 7!

[shugemery]

You got that right. Morning in the woods is the only time I love the morning .... get up and mess about.

[EconoChallenge]

Thank your for answering the question I did not ask. I get frost on the inside of the tent no matter what I try.

[shugemery]

Less on double walled but tarps .... almost always. I kinda like it.

[OkieBS]

5 stars again. great vid shug.

[shugemery]

Mucho obligato.

[nuckkingfuts]

5/5 again shugster , way to go sugar nipples.

[shugemery]

T'anks ...... and my nips say thanks too

[welsh58boy]

whoow buddy

[shugemery]

Whooooo Welshman!

[jlepore]

hugerrrr

[mporba]

you sayed huger hah!

[shugemery]

I did...... giggle

[canteencorner]

No matter how rough of a day I have - I pop on a Shug Video, and all is right in the world!

[shugemery]

That is mighty fine to hear...... makes this stuff worthwhile.

[leetshots]

"to appreciate nonsense takes a great interest in life"

;)

[shugemery]

That is a right goodie!!!!!!!!!

[BigTVideos]

I only wish the folks I pack with where as much fun as you, they think I'm crazy, I can live with that. You on the other hand, just plan nuts and "that's the way uha uha like it". Another great job. You the Man, the spam Man

[shugemery]

I go alone. You can see why!

Thankee......

[MeanJRod]

MMMmmmm....

Tarps Make me warm in me Heart

MMMmm

great video shug...

[shugemery]

Aaa-rite den........

[ChristianBackpackers]

Hey Shug, I sure enjoy your vids, but I'm a bit confused by the logic of wearing a short sleeve down jacket and then wearing separate down sleeves.

Could you elaborate a bit on that for me?

Thank you

[shugemery]

Oh .... a logic query!

Well ... it falls under the multi-use gear agenda.

I like the jacket with short sleeves as I don't need them on my forearms all day. The sleeves keep my pits warmer. I add the sleeves if needed later in the day. I use them as a pillow or put the add on down sleeves over my feet in the quilt for sleeping in real cold.

Use the sleeves as a muff from time to time. Lots of options there. Options .... love options.

[atomspace]

Great video, thanks a lot.

[shugemery]

My pleasure.

[snede2112]

Good stuff. Thanks Shug for the entertainment and helpful information.

Keep 'em comin'

[shugemery]

Y'elcome.

[hoz49]

When snow camping I'm surprised you don't use a pulk.

[shugemery]

I did last year. I got a video named -26º minnesota Hammock Quest. I pulled one.

This year wanted to get ALL my gear on my back.

[echodawg]

Classic! You rock! 5/5

[shugemery]

I roll as well ...... downhill.

[wall2rockclimber]

great stuff again matey, really lovin that tarp!!

i want it!, im coming for your shuuuuugggggg!

[shugemery]

I will e-mail you directions.........

[Gabbos]

Shug, the only thing I love more than your videos is the music that accompanies them!

Well done sir, I hope there's more to come!

[shugemery]

I am just pickin' for fun and no profit!

[outithewoods]

I Love these videos, Thanks mate.

[shugemery]

Thanks for that.

Gonna watch the mike out-takes......

[Ggreenvideos]

I watched, I listened, I learnt ! Really! Oh...and I enjoyed, as always! I love SPAM All the beaks and claws and stuff...hehe! Once again, 5 big shiny stars :o)

[shugemery]

Spam has got some weird stuff in it .... but ever so tasty in the piney woods.

Thankee.

[Bustertb]

Oh!...had a question. Why did you bring two different stoves? You had to pack fuel for both, right?

[shugemery]

As to that .... I bring the Mini-Atomic alcohol stove only for "breakfast from the hammock"... quiet, no flare up in the silnylon tarp. which is VERY flammable. MA weighs less than an ounce. Bring 1 ounce fuel for one breakfast.

It is my very favorite time of the trip .. laying in the hammock enjoying the morn.

[Bustertb]

Another informative and entertaining video. Thanks for the video Shug!

[kilermn]

you make me smile!

[shugemery]

Cool.

My life's curse is the Jester gene........

[sraike]

Oh my, you ate the Spam right out of the pack. Cold even. Yuckers! I have to fry mine up in my cup, add instant grits and water. Then all is good. 1:12, do that deer things with your hands again :) Thanks Shug, another great one!

[shugemery]

Spam and grits!!! Yeah.

I will do the deer thing again .... fun. Ultimate deer fighting.

[MrCableguyken]

I have some material on the way, and as soon as it gets here, and the sewing machine is out of the shop, I am making a hammock, tarp, and snake skins...all with the help of your vids. Great work Shug!!!

[shugemery]

Atta boy. Sew feller sew.

[medicjimr]

Great stuff again shug I wish I could sew. You make some nice tarps.

[shugemery]

Not hard to learn........

[steveandrews2]

Rabbit tracks? Deer tracks? Yeah - those were Yeti tracks if I ever saw any! You wouldn't want a Yeti bashing into you in the middle of the night either. No sir!

:) Great as always Shug! Keep 'em comin'!

- Meteor

[shugemery]

Rabbits scare me. Yetis don't!

[cdltpx]

Try to look for potential flash flooding too a storm can drop rain many miles away and the run off will hit your valley with great force.(summer etc)

You could avoid the frost if you install a heater to your setup the heat would rise and the tarp would catch the heat and prevent the frost. I would be fearful of burning my equipment. You could maintain awoodgas stove but then when would you sleep?

I bet you could build a delivery duct from emergency blankets get 2 cold either woodgas or WE.

[cdltpx]

To make it work you would fire up a wood gas stove away from all your camping stuff that could be damaged with flying ambers. Then after the stove has a nice pile of ambers you place the reg clothes dryer duct ring over the vent and you would have heat for quite a while.

Alcohol stove would work cleaner and immediately as long as you allow air could suspend like they do with a hot air baloon? I bet you could build this 2 lbs or less.

Velcro tabs to attach your duct base under the hammock?

[cdltpx]

Measure the length/width of your hammock it could be tended to while in hammock the dryer tube would probably handle any ambers a woodgas would make. After you got it going those ambers will keep going quite a while toss a few finger sticks on and the fire would last pretty well. Use a fabric with a high flashpoint near where the dryer tube is mounted perhaps a nomex patch 1'x2' I guarantee you would be able to pack one less item to sub the weight and remove moisture from your structure.

[shugemery]

you got to do a video on this ........

[shugemery]

That is deep man!!!!

[shugemery]

I am just to lazy and under-achieving!

[cdltpx]

Hammocks should have central heating. I would sleep in a hammock in the cold if there was no other way but there has to be a better way.Home we have the heat set on 60 at night and I am wrapped up tight I have a comforter an electric blanket then a sleeping bag on top. I don't do cold so well. Trucking I hopped out went indoors and hopped back in.

Age 16 Guthrie OK winter oncomming they said it isn't cold just wait I said "yeh sure" I hitchhiked home to Louisiana that day.

[cdltpx]

You are not Lazy nor an underachiever you are an artists. If you are going to do something you have to have a passion for that craft in order for it to inspire you. I can see once you get that passion Royal Armies could not stand in your way. It is exactly why we enjoy you and your videos of your life in the Autumn of your years.

What am I talking about you're a lazy old clown that hangs out in the woods trying to look like an oversized tomalle. Not a bad hobby very peaceful.

[cdltpx]

Went to the hardware store and I am going to give this idea a go homefully I don't get burned up in the process.

[Lebrown32]

Pineapple - I had the same thought. I was certain this would contain the tarp rap we're all waiting for.

Great video, as always, shug. The tarp you are using is a speer tarp, correct? I can't remember if you said the winter tarp was DIY or not. Thanks for the hard work - you know, camping and having a blast and stuff :)

[shugemery]

The winter Tarp in my DIY .... the other on the end of the video is the Speer. More Speer tarp next video.....

[RallohE]

Way to go pal ... another good night in the hammock. Man I bet that moon was magic on the snow that night.

Good info and great out takes! Wish it didn't take so long for them to be available on the iPhone.

[shugemery]

Gods nightlight.

[pineapplenewton1]

shug your next tarp *Rap* should have a rap in it.

[shugemery]

I am on it! Yo'