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- So we've now completely re-upgraded the tarp.
It's an all new system.
All new guy-lines, tent poles.
Because during a recent car camping
expedition in the snow,
the system was destroyed.
It collapsed under the snow.
So this tarp was put together in Australia.
Here's the brand name,
this is the company who make them.
Very good quality, CrocSkins.
1300 550 788.
So that tarp, it's about 600 grams per square meter,
so it's very heavy fabric.
And here's all the new guy lines.
With the Line-Lok cleat.
Very easy to tighten the guy lines
with these Line-Lok cleats.
Step around to the front over here.
Show you what we've been catching this weekend.
We have five buckets filled with yabbies.
Here's one here just trying to climb out of the bucket
or coming up for a bit of air.
There he is, just hold him up so you can see.
Quite a large one.
See if I can find the biggest one,
here's one of the bigger ones here.
Very big claws.
I've got to keep the bigger ones
separated from the small ones,
because they are cannibals.
They will start to kill each other.
Particularly the larger yabbies
will just tear apart all the small ones.
Here's the bucket with the small ones
Just a little one.
Let's come around the front here.
As you can see, more and more guy-lines,
more and more poles.
Now the underside of our tarp is,
I really like this, and it's white.
So the whole underside of the tarp
being such a bright color
is during the night when I've got my light
shining upwards it all reflects down
and it creates this really even lighting system.
It's almost like camping under fluorescent lights.
Just here, we have a large Cherax yabby,
fully cooked with lemon.
Just wanted to say thank you to my friend Mick
in Sydney, from Southern Cross Survival,
another YouTube channel.
So he has a lot of videos about bushcraft,
and we learnt this tip from him,
that's using lemon as flavor when eating your yabbies.
So I'll just show you the size of this yabby,
I'll show you how to correctly measure them.
So hopefully the camera's picking it up.
There's his eye, just there,
and the back of his shell.
So the back of his carapace.
So the correct way to measure them
is from the eyeball to where the carapace meets the tail.
So just hold up the Swiss army pocketknife ruler,
take a measurement.
Camera might not be picking it up
but 52 millimeters in length.
So if he was a Euastacus crayfish
he'd definitely be undersized,
but yabbies don't have any minimum size,
so it's perfectly legal to catch and eat that.
Just wanted to show you our sharpening system.
There's our Mora knife.
So we're using a pretty basic sharpening stone,
this is just a sharpening stone I picked up
in the Philippines,
and I've broken off a small piece of it
to make it much lighter.
So another thing you can learn on Mick's channel,
Southern Cross Survival, is sharpening.
I'm a big fan of his sharpening videos.
Just step back this way, and you can see the,
what she looks like from behind.
Here's my DIY tripod.
So sometimes when I'm in the bush
I put these together.
The little Gorilla tripod.
Just take you around so you can see how this is done.
So one piece of rope holds the whole tripod together.
You can make that any size.
If you wanted you could make a tripod
that's 10 foot long, 10 foot high.
Just here, got a DIY mosquito coil holder.
So it's just a stick with a burning mosquito coil
on the end of the stick,
and the reason I'm doing this is
I want the mosquito coil to be up high,
'cause during the night you get some mosquitoes
just hanging around just underneath the tarp
'cause it's so bright under here.
So just select a stick that's long enough
with a little V on top, stick your mosquito coil there.
I've sharpened the bottom of the stick,
so if you want you can always just
poke it into the ground,
and have them around your campsite.
Alternatively you just light a small campfire
if you don't have mosquito coils
because the smoke from the campfire
will scare away mosquitoes.
So here's our bed.
Little bit dark in there, unfortunately.
But just wanted to show you all our woolen blankets
from the thrift store,
so we're even using woolen blankets as pillows.
Very comfortable way to sleep, actually,
once you get used to the sleeping under woolen blankets.
It is a little bit itchy at first,
but once you get over that,
it's quite a breathable fabric.
Very good for camping trips.
I better show you what's developed here.
You may have noticed we do have this
big white pole on top.
This big white tube.
Just take it off.
Inside the white tube I have all these yoga mats.
Sections of yoga mat,
because we keep all our tent poles,
these steel tent poles
inside the white tube.
So there's the white tube from behind.
And because the tent poles are not the same length
as the tube they kind of move around a bit
but with all the yoga mats inside there
there's no chance of the poles being damaged
as we go over very rough bumps.
Because we are in the bush,
driving around on dirt roads.
So you just have to be careful
the way you pack your equipment inside the car
'cause it does get a bit shaky.
Just go back under into the cooking area once again.
Just wanted to show you another trick
we've come up with.
On our MSR stove
the stove top is not really suited to small pots
so it's very difficult to get the pot to sit there
it kind of falls down
because that stove top is designed for much larger pots.
So I've got this piece of like chicken wire type mesh.
I just keep that in the car
so that I can have any size pot on there.
So that's a tiny little 250ml cup.
Otherwise it would be impossible
to have that sitting in the middle.
But with the mesh there, it just sits neatly in the middle.
Last thing I wanted to show you
before we wrap this up,
just a simple knot I use to tie all these guy-lines down.
So we're just gonna take the tripod over this way.
Just around the front of the car,
just wanted to show you how we tie on
the guy-line onto this bracken tree.
So I've just taken the rope off for the demonstration.
I look for the spot where all the branches are meeting,
this part of the tree trunk
will act as a rope stopper.
To start off,
just over the branch once,
and then this time,
firstly I twist it over
so you're now getting this
sort of twisting effect happening.
And there's no particular order to how I do this.
But by twisting the rope over itself like that
it holds itself tight.
So it's not really a knot,
it's just a way of just wrapping on
onto the bracken tree.
And you can just finish it off.
So that, very strong.
The breaking strengths of these bracken trees
is quite high.
There's still quite a bit of slack in the rope
but because I have the Line-Lok cleat
all I do now
is just pull that down, and it's nice and tight.
Let's point the camera down at the bracken tree.
There's the knot on the bracken tree branch.
I'll just pull that.
It really is quite strong.
Very strong breaking strength, the bracken tree branch.
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