Another good one! Bravo. Thanks Andrew.

Nice temporary hammock shelter Andrew, with a tarp over u this would be considered a SHELTER. Most definitely better then sleeping on the ground. Nice video sirt.☘️👍😎

Good one Andrew 👍 much appreciated 👏 Cheers 🍻

Awesome video 📹, Andrew!! Thanks 👍

The fact that you appreciate us watchers is enough for me to "like" your videos (I'm also subscribed) and I think you are genuinely appreciative of our feedback/comments etc so I don't mind commenting. You are genuine and you're very knowledgeable in what you do. So you are easily one of my favourite channels.

Shelter definition is a place to get away from weather or danger. If you need to get off the ground due to the sapping of body heat or bugs, snakes whatever it falls under shelter definition. Also remember your clothes are your first line shelter

@Eidolon1andOnly

8 ай бұрын

Pretty lose definition of shelter if we're being honest. If I set up a store bought cot,which accomplishes the exact same thing as this improvised hammock, I doubt that if you asked 100 people if they'd call it a "shelter" that more than a small handful might say "yes."

@TheLastBoyScouts

8 ай бұрын

Amen! I see all these dumb critics not realizing those simple facts. Pretty sure Andrew knows what he’s talking about 😂😂😂 I don’t think they want to compare credentials with his. Great video brother, I appreciate the simplicity and ingenuity.

@felgercarb-mu5rc

8 ай бұрын

Thank you Andrew

@TheLastBoyScouts

8 ай бұрын

@@utubesurfer71 I think your perspective is very narrow. I highly doubt anyone in unfavorable weather would just do a simple bushcraft hammock. An extremely skilled survival instructor just taught you an option to use in favorable weather conditions. But then again, common sense isn’t so common these days and opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one 🤠🍻😂

@MarilynStangl

8 ай бұрын

Let's play nice, everyone's entitled to their opinion! One man's trash is another man's treasure!

One of the best reasons to consider this a shelter is to get more people to be active in the comments discussing what is and is not a shelter. Haha. Good stuff as always either way.

You threw me calling it a Shelter. As a Vine Hammock, it's very creative. Down here in Central Florida, you dont want to be sleeping on the ground if you don’t have to. Great idea. I need to give it a go on my next outing.

@williammccaslin8527

8 ай бұрын

I don't have a problem sleeping on the ground here in Cen. Fla, but my tent zips up tight, so nothing can get in

@greyscout01

8 ай бұрын

@@williammccaslin8527 Ha! I get it. I don't like tents.

Loved it man, but also looks like you can apply the same principles to make snow shoes as well.

@Eidolon1andOnly

8 ай бұрын

You definitely can.

@Eidolon1andOnly

8 ай бұрын

​@@utubesurfer71Weird. Your comment is invisible. Only way I could see it is because I switched the comment section from "Top" to "Newest."

Thats pretty cool! These type of "practice" projects hone your skills! This would be a good one for the kids! Thanks for sharing, Steve

I definitely love the idea, of combining the net hammock, with a tarp rainfly overhead, and perhaps a mylar bed sheet, under layer, if not something like a bivvy bag with a sleeping system. But a survival blanket tarp, to sleep on, and a tarp or survival tarp to sleep under, Lifted off the ground in this subtle hammock. Love it.

@eyegnieesllA

5 ай бұрын

Yes because then you'd have a shelter. A hammock on its own is not a shelter lmfao

Awesome course of instruction thank you sir...!!

That's a new one for me. Thanks for the info!

I thought I’d seen it all. I was wrong. Great video!!!! Thank you!

@johnbrett9929

7 ай бұрын

Yeah . Too right. This would make an extended trip out bush comfy.

Awesome improvised hammock!

Great idea.

I like hammocks !

Well this is content for contents sake. Have to keep the KZread algorithms happy.

Very cool project. Enjoyed the great instruction and creativity. Nice work sir!

That was a really good video on building a bushcraft hammock but I'm confused on the shelter part.

@worm_vaquero

8 ай бұрын

He's adamant it's a shelter, he said it at least 36x, shelter from bugs and everything else found on the ground?

@Eidolon1andOnly

8 ай бұрын

Because he's using the loosest definition of the word possible.

As always… thought provoking… Hmmm when I think of a shelter…. I think of overhead cover… So I looked up the definition of shelter… It also includes protection from danger… I think this video is definitely fulfilling that definition.. being a typical female… I like the idea of being up off the bare ground 😊 … Being a child of God, I think of how God provides me shelter from harm… He does that in many different ways.. May God provide a shelter for all your viewers, and you , Andrew.. in these unsettled times… 🙏🏻💕

@johnbrett9929

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Cindy...God bless you too.

In my area, I have slept on the ground with no tent, just a bivy, and wake up in the morning with a few slugs slugging around on me. They are harmless but kind of gooey. Sleeping in this improvised shelter, off the ground, seems like a fun project.

I wish i had a male figure in my life as a kid to show me this stuff. Thanks for the knowledge you share Andrew

I'd like to try that but I never see these types of vines growing in my area. Another homerun brother!

Great video. Appreciate the lessons!

Dam, it's a good idea to make a field improvised hammock. Nicely done on showing how to make it!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🪓🔪👍👍

fantastic, Andrew

Thank you very cool shelter set up!!!

Thanks Andrew, first time I seen this hack done like this, enjoyed this video, very informative

used the word shelter 40 times,, watched it twice and had the wife count on round 2, that was awesome - "Hand over your license and insurance right Meow!"

Thanks for that very helpful and much appreciated and needed 🇺🇲👍

Great job 👍 super skill

Sir, T Y again, Skipper! I am thinking about saplings that I have encountered in the subarctic. Small willow and possibly poplar will supply supple saplings of some strength without too much seeping sap such as that always found in limbed living spruce saplings. I have been considering carrying 100 feet or more of paracord, & this video confirms the value. I like the parang, but usually carry a short bolo machete, a small kukri, a big bowie, an axe, or a hatchet. A poncho, an oil tarp, & a bug net add a lot to this sort of shelter. Anything to sleep off wet ground/permafrost. Likely you will be sleeping with firearm. You want to be prepared to present arms without falling out of bed!

That is a pretty cool idea

Husband said ,"Now that's comfortable n entertaining as well that's why we're watching keep up the good work"

Thanks Andrew

Nice tip going to have to do that for my kids next time out

Outstanding video

Excellent.

Good idea

Man, this rack is "tailor-made" for use in our tropical environment. A wipe of bug repellant or deploy that compact bug net (you did pack them, right?) and you are set! I have commented before about some of the critters you may encounter on the ground or in the air here in the tropics. Avoiding contact with skeeters that carry malaria or dengue fever is a must. Our Philippine cobra and especially the Samar cobra should be given due respect. They are more aggressive than other cobras and they are both of the spitting variety. I think we have a winner here. Up off the ground away from snakes, scorpions, and ants. With repellent, bug net, or smoke, you can get some rest in relative safety. Can't wait to cut some bamboo and practice this one with our young 'uns. Thank you for another great post.

Thank you, Andrew!

Simplistic, yet effective; love it! Thank you!!!

Off the ground away from snakes and bugs. Add a poncho and you could stay dry in rainy conditions. Thanks Col.

❤❤❤ great video man

Love the ingenuity

Looks like a "Monkey Bunk" to me! Up off the ground? Yes. A comfortable night's sleep? I doubt it. But hey, thanks for sharing.

awesome stuff as usual!

Great addition to the knowledge tool shed. Thanks again sir.

Outstanding job sir. Thanks.

Good one

Great video

I dig it

Corporal Kelly sent me. Nice content.

Remember to make sure that its grape vines . Some poison ivy grows on a very thick vine. If the vine has red hairs adhering it to the bark its poison ivy.

@paulamcclure3402

8 ай бұрын

Excellent point! (I could see where someone could get confused with an old poison ivy vine.) Thanks!

@peterbogart4531

8 ай бұрын

Hard to be too careful about coming into contact with poison plants. I believe that Andrew is more resistant than the average woods loafer. Not I. I have had poison ivy rash and do not plan to get it again. God help anybody who gets it in the eyes! Some areas have the plants, and some don't. I believe that some areas have both kinds of vines. @@paulamcclure3402

Awesome video, ty

Im late to this video, but is there an improvised shelter for side sleepers/ people with respiratory issues at night like apnea. Im thinking a tri leg a frame chair that you can lay back in, but not be completely supine so that you can still breathe. Then if shitty weather comes you could throw a poncho or tarp over top kind of like a teepee. Can you see what Im building in my head? Thank you sir. God bless you and keep you wherever you roam. 👍🏻

Interesting stuff!

Good video Andrew, thanks for sharing, God bless !

That was an amazing project Andrew!!!!

Cool stuff. Didnt know this.

Good video, but how can you call this a "shelter"

@Eidolon1andOnly

8 ай бұрын

Right? I have never seen nor heard of anyone calling a hammock a shelter.

@frikkiesmit327

8 ай бұрын

Agree. Cause i understand a shelter to be a structure that gives shelter against rain and wind. Like a lean to shelter. This is just a hammok from sticks and rope. My luck i would get stuck. I would rather start early as possible and cut extra wooden poles and get twigs and leaves and create like a lean to debree shelter and a raised bed .

@worm_vaquero

8 ай бұрын

He said it 36x, pretty sure it's a shelter

@Medicmike911

8 ай бұрын

If you lived in the south or a jungle you would consider it a shelter.

@americanpatriotbill

8 ай бұрын

@worm_vaquero he can say it 1000x , doesn't mean it's a shelter man!! Look up the word "shelter"

I'm guessing you could run another line just far enough above to drape a poncho or just cover yourself with it for additional warmth or to stay dry. A space blanket might work ok.

Very cool Andrew! 🤜🤛

Learn something new every day 😂 Thanks for the video

Great variation andy .try some tome useing 3/8 ths rope for the frame and weave .or paracord to weave

I seldom cut a grapevine and never one that large ! If I can carry that much paracord I can carry a pocket hammock. I always carry a pocket first aid kit in a fishing lure box . It holds several 4x4's and plenty of bandaids and medicine packets . With a pocket mirror for trash in the eyes it's small and very versatile. The pocket hammock can serve as a very nice chair also and goes up a a minute or less . With a Sawyer filter and a water bottle it's good for a long time stranded in the bush. Just a suggestion. Always good information here. Thanks.

You could've given the professor a run for his money on Gilligan's Island, I'm sure your skills would've impressed Ginger and Mary Ann, I wonder if Gilligan's still the Skipper's little buddy. On a desert island in the Pacific you'd be the guy to have around.

Great video Ranger. Thank you. An idea, anyone who has time and spare 550, could create a cord hammock in advance. If you have the option to use a less stretchy cord in place of the vines, perhaps a humble polyester twine. Similar to nylon in many ways, except with minimal stretch. So it could make a decent frame for the net hammock. Roll it up inside a drum liner, to prevent any knotting/tangling... And you have a net hammock to add to your kit. Bonus points if you can bring a sturdy ridgeline for it.

I like this but, I'll bet I'd fall out of it at some point 😂

Your videos are great, very postive and informative. T: Pete

Fantastic. Andrew, you make it look easy, but it's not. Big AL

Quite an engineering feat Andrew!! WAY beyond my capabilities though.

Noice knoif!

Andrew, the hammock doesn't work like this because the vines are pulled together in the middle due to the pull to their length, which causes the hammock to lose width. You will need at least one spacer in the middle between the two vines, but more spacers are better. If you want to demonstrate how something works, then please do it right. Thanks

Tried it and it was so uncomfortable! No chance of getting any sleep. Ended up using my 550 cord to make a net hammock, lots of knots but no cut cord, and it was miles better. Stout beam at either end and mattress of leaves. Best of all, it rolls up easy for portage. Much better option in my humble opinion.

Kudos on the hammock!!! Seems like a good tool for the mental tool box. Shelter I do need explanation on why is this a shelter. I am just a lil unknowledgeable… I was under the impression that shelter is a covering thing. Still great video kudos to self knowledge and education. Thank you

@donaldeugenealford4080

8 ай бұрын

A ridge line sand a tarp, shelter done.

@lantose

7 ай бұрын

It’s certainly a shelter from the cold ground or insects, snakes, etc.

I feel like this is more complicated and time consuming than it needs to be. A simple debris hut would be easier, use far less cord and likely be significantly more comfortable.

That's great but I don't see how it's shelter. A bed, a hammock or what not, but definitely doesn't provide any shelter whatsoever. Still pretty cool technique and looks comfortable. Could also be used with some form of shelter for sure.

Remindsme of going thru LRRP SHOOL

Looks like I’ll be sleeping on the ground 😅

@NikosKatsikanis

8 ай бұрын

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Give me a net hammock, some rope, two trees, maybe a tarp to stay dry, I'm good 👍

It doesn’t look too comfy but it does get you off the ground.

@martinbeagley4481

8 ай бұрын

You could always make it wider and use a dustbin liner full of leaves to make a cushion

Better hope it doesn't rain 😂

What can you say about this one? Not a criticism, just an observation. It was rather narrow. But, it achieved its goal which was to get your 4th point of contact off the ground. Now, in an orderly, proficient Ranger style manner, did you perform other tasks that will be edited for future videos while on this outing? As always, job well done and THANK YOU for all you do to inform, instruct and entertain.

I've watched a bunch of your videos the past 2 years, thanks for all the tips and thank you for your service! Question. I've been looking for a compact and affordable fishing kit thats more capable than some hooks and line when i found something called a yoyo reel or an automatic reel, any tips you could share on this? Do they work and are there better options for a kit for someone with little fishing skills? I found them on ebay, 3 for 20 bucks. Seems like a perfect kit item being compact and affordable but i'd like to find out what credible people like yourself think about them. Thanks again bro.

Cool hammock. Curious how much cord you recommend for the part you lay on? Seems like at least 50 ft. Curious if you like that parang better than the Condor Bushcraft parang?

Learn a lot from your videos, can you do a different climate lie AZ or NM? Keep up the great videos.

I seen on your channel your highly experienced and decorated. So thanks for your service, I admire it and wish Myself I was able to do it. Any way I wanted the opinion of a professional and I hate these guys out here pretending to be and teaching others survival tactics. That is despicable to me to play with peoples possible life or death, now im trying to learn good n true tactics as much as possible. An I will continue to watch the Videos to learn as much as I can. So Also thanks for the content, but as a survival expert if you was putting your life on it then, what book of survival would you recommend? Or Books? To cover what’s needed not just to survive an say get rescued which is great to know but to thrive? To cover foraging, bushcraft, survival, shelter and ect. I plan on buying Some land and homesteading an want to prepare as much as possible before I transition. An honestly there are too many different books on this by authors that write articles for a Living and will say something works because someone else did. An I don’t have the money to spend on possible garbage and still feel unsure and unsafe. So again if you can respond and Recommend I greatly appreciate it. So which would you recommend and also is there any of those “pocket books” or manuals you would say is worth keeping with/On your person? Especially a foraging/edible plants one? Remembering all the plants, type, name, looks is always the hardest to me. Thank you for your time and for your services. NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES--- MOST WEAR MILITARY CAMO WITH A NAME NEVER GIVEN OUT.

Hey! I have that parang.

How did it sleep ?

My brother that not a shelter. From what can you shelter yourself from with it?

Trust

Well that's a thought anyway

Jungle training hammock huh, at least thats what I was taught it was for. Get off the ground from the creepy crawlies, or snakes. Thx for the vid Andy

Excellent improvised hammock but I don't think it will keep any precipitation from giving me hypothermia.

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Interesting, but looks a little too uncomfortable to me. That parang is useful. Thanks!

It's a hammock!

Andrew, how you saying this is a shelter? more like a sleeping system!