Amazing Wilderness Camp Cot - Simple Raised Bed Bushcraft Shelter

Learn how to build a simple raised bed bushcraft shelter. Add your own tube bed and tarp and you are ready for a comfortable night sleep in the wild. Please remember to remove your shelter when you leave and naturalize your campsite. Bonus! This design is simple to take down and remove.

First Bushcraft Night Out There -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk7dM95_uaU

WoodenArrows Channel -
http://www.youtube.com/user/Woodenarrows

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http://www.canada-camps.ca

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[bushnblade]

that paracode to take some tantion is a good idea!

[EconoChallenge]

@bushnblade The fabric used for this proto was heavier than I would like to use. The next one will be made from a lighter nylon fabric. I think the para cord loops will be even more important when we try it out.

[henchman99942]

I am commenting.

Do you need the ridgepole? Could you instead use a ridge line starting with a tent peg in the ground maybe 10 feet from the base of the first tripod, moving up at an angle to the tip of the first tripod, continuing to the next tripod (ridge), then back down to a tent peg 10 feet to the outside of that? This would keep the tripods in place. They could not move in or out or up or down.

I might have trouble finding poles that long... is all I'm saying.

[EconoChallenge]

@henchman99942 If you put spikes on the end of your tripod legs and drove them into the ground, it would prevent the two bed rails from squeezing together until your bed is on the ground. The ridge pole does the same job. You might get away with jamming two short pieces in the top of each tripod. Then securing that with your ridge-line idea.

[EconoChallenge]

@druface12345 I made this. 3-4 years of sewing chairs every winter, you get really good at it. For me I can get the fabric I use at a store called Fabricland. I just happen to have one in my home town. In the US I am not sure you have an equivalent chain store that sells fabric. I have seen several online stores. Perhaps that is the way to go. I have also heard that some Walmart stores carry fabric. Not here! I plan to make a few more camp cots for people to test out.

[druface12345]

@EconoChallenge So I re-watched the video and saw that you did mention putting a pad in the cot. Sorry i missed that.

You did say that the idea came from the SAS manual, but did you make this or buy it? Were do you find the material to make this stuff?

[MrHatManS]

I may have to try this some time

[EconoChallenge]

@druface12345 I will now. Thank you.

[druface12345]

Great idea! Have you tried a sleeping pad in-between the layers instead of leaves?

[EconoChallenge]

@ecoshiacom It is one of the principals of leave no trace. Leave the site as natural looking as you find it. I do have three test shelters I have left up. Two on private property and one on public lands. The last shelter we left on public lands was turned into fire wood buy the next group using the site. I think your idea would be great for a private wilderness campground. Leave the shelter frames and just bring the cot and chairs.