New Sleeping system! :) (pic heavy)

[Bushcraftsman]

WAASSUUUPPP!!!

After a very boring week at work last week, (I finished all my work a week early but wasn't allowed to move on to the Lathe training section of my work until next week) So I got bored and started thinking up ways I could make a semi permanent shelter, that I could go out in and spend a night whenever I wanted and all Id need to take would be my tarp and some rope to form the shelter. After some mulling over of a couple of rough ideas I came up with this:

(quickly drawn on a notepad so its not the best drawing ever, red indicates the tarp, black = wood and blue = wrope/string) I also drew everything square for quickness obviously in reality they're all round.

I was happy with it so this morning I was up at 8:30 and out the door by 9:30 to walk up to my woods and test my idea

The area underneath would usually be cleared but this was just a tester and to build the initial frame.. what do you think!

now I have seen it what im thinking of doing is using two tarps to give more head height...something a little like this, excuse the awful drawing done in a minute on paint. for display purposes only haha...

I was also thinking of closing the open end in the night just by putting a tarp draped across the gap?? and then having my new wood burner (shown in this link HERE) at the end that has a stick wall with the chimney going out, this would allow adequate space for any fumes like carbon monoxide to escape and yet I think it would give us sufficient heat to keep warm?

 

[Shewie]

Interesting idea, we've done similar things around the group tarp before. Stacking up plenty of dead pine branches does an amazing job at deflecting the wind and rain.

A big old truck tarp would finish that off nicely, that way you could have a fire in there too

 

[Bushcraftsman]

yeah the wind was howling today in the woods and when I was inside I could barely feel it! it's surprising how effective just stacking up a few sticks really is! what's a truck tarp? and well the open fire isn't really necessary because of me using that stove, and i'm guessing that would stay warmer for longer even after the fire goes out because the metal would retain its heat?

 

[redandshane]

Nice one I have been experimenting along very similar line during the summer and have my eye on a spot a bit higher in the woods where I often go which may be ideal.
I used an IPK sheet and was pleasantly surprised by the large space I had to spread my stuff in;which is a luxury for me and a change to how I hammock camp.
Personally I want to stick to one tarp and one groundsheet though