stay warm everyone

@TUKByV

6 ай бұрын

Greetings from Ft. Lauderdale!

@apar1560

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, VERY informative 👍 HEY, what us that over shirt/ jacket are you wearing ??? Brand / Military name/ where to acquire ??? Thanks 63 yr old banged up, patched up, like to stay warmer. Thanks, Alan in 🇨🇱 Texas

@MiClLC

6 ай бұрын

Do you think it's possible to rig an underquilt beneath a cot?

@jamesbowen5573

6 ай бұрын

I use the Gatorade bottle when I don't have my military pee jug. It's probably better using the Gatorade bottle so you can throw it away. Because when I come home I have to clean out the military one and spray it out with alcohol and Febreze plus if it gets too cold it might freeze and you might ruin the damn thing... so yeah big gatorade bottle is definitely the way to go. I carry that military one in my car though it's small enough I can put it in my pants leg and use it without anybody knowing what I'm doing outside of the car period of course I do it when I'm alone

I'm 75. We had a pot bellied wood stove in the livingroom. When it went out the whole house was like we were outside. Dad put hot bricks at the bottom of the bed and a big ole feather tick that kept us toasty warm. My sister and I slept together for warmth. It was nothing to wake up to find snow drifted across the bare wood floor. Dad had a bucksaw hooked up to an old Farmall tractor to saw wood for us and our neighbors. Our house was right beside the woods. We had an outhouse and a chamberpot! We were poor, but Dad always kept us warm and well fed on whatever he and my brother could drag to the house and butcher. I remember it like it was yesterday. Each kid had chores to do. We had a Victrola and records that were scratchy, lol. We lived through it...

@pujo28

6 ай бұрын

You not only lived thru it, you lived the good life. I wish days were a lot simpler like back then. The world is backwards. God bless

@ricdonato4328

6 ай бұрын

We had a coal furnace in the basement, it heated the house and our water. At night we would fill it, then turn down the dampers, come morning it was cold as ice throughout the two-story house. We would go to the basement, open the dampers and stoke the furnace, throw in more coal, shovel out the coke put it in the skuttle, carry it to the alley. That was in Chicago, now I am 80 years old. Oh, we had gas lights throughout the house; dangerous, and a few electric lights as well. Parents and grandparents cooked on a wood and coal stove in the kitchen which was more of a mud room. Fond memories.

When I worked disaster services for the Red Cross, we gave clients 2 wool blankets. One blanket was folded over to use as a mattress, and the other blanket went on top. I worked pretty well.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thanks for the comment

Very good presentation and explanation at each step. That is something we have come to expect from you. - detail with explanation AT EVERY STEP. No one even comes close to you. Thanks for all you do.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

I use the same setup, but with 2 packing blankets to cover and drape the cot. This traps the air under the cot. Then I start the night with a usgi medical wool blanket under the toe box of my sleeping bag and up to my waist. I use my fleece jacket as a draft guard. This works great for cold nights with my Boy Scout troop during polar bear camping.

It's 3:00 am for me to answer the call , being 62 years old I understand completely, Thank You For All Your Teaching.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

You are very welcome

for the Shiver Wolves

Great advice, especially the trick to keep your pillow from falling off. Thank you!🛌💤👍

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

You bet!

Good tips all day, Blackie! I have piled blankets on my mattress quite a few times to keep warm, fortunately a thick mattress that held the heat I put into it! Solid info as usual, my friend....

SOME of the Harbor Freight packing blankets used to have polypropylene sandwiched in the middle. Polypropylene is what the military long handle underwear was made out of back when i was in... and it was good at keeping me warm.

I'm 55yo. I recall my parents having to use kerosene lamps to warm the house. My two brothers slept on the bed and I had a cot. Some cold mornings were harder to get up. Thank you for the tips. God bless.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching

I love what you do Blackie. At almost 69 I guess I’m a silver ‘roo’ (kangaroo). As a bike hiker I don’t think I’d manage this lot but for out in the backyard…..perfect.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

hang in there !

Thank you... this was more informative than a lot of other channels I've watched for this subject matter... very informative, well presented... you just earned another sub....

@jwgbmp40

6 ай бұрын

This is a great guy and has done some really great vids in general but specifically for us older guys! Enjoy.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thank you and welcome aboard

I learned these tricks as a kid also. Great you’re sharing them not many folks our age came up the way we did. I’ve learned a new one since then, and that is to use a long sleeve T-shirt over the pillow and tie the arms on.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

good idea

I slept most of a 10 year experience of Civil War reenacting sleeping on the ground and a few times on a cot. Being that most of the time when I slept on the ground, it was just what I carried in and I will tell you, I will take a cot any day.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

it is a improvement

Hell of a video Blackie I needed this man. Matter of fact I'm going to try this out this weekend on my back porch. I love the hammock camping and can't wait to go again but as you know I bring my grandson quite a bit which means me using a cot. And this has been my biggest weakness is trying to stay warm Thank you for sharing man Hope all is well!

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Glad I could help

I went through this about 20 years ago when I was hunting in Georgia. I purchased a Slumberjack cot and mat they kept the sometimes below freezing at bay and heat my tent in the mornings with a Mr Heater , I was traveling by truck and was able to haul everything to established campsites and then go hunt. Miss those days .

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

good memories

Thanks for showing us this great system. It should really be warm!

Another great set of tips based on experience. You have skills that someone with privilege wouldn't have grown up with. I followed you along in my mind. Just as I snuggled down in that warm cot, my first thought was, dang I wish I'd have watered the tree first. 😂

Great stuff Blackie. Another tip is to boil enough water before bed to fill a Nalgene bottle and place it down into the sleeping bag about thirty minutes before bedtime. Just make extra sure it has no leaks. This warms the whole thing before you get in and helps to keep you warm all night. Thanks for all that you do my friend.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Great idea

Great video. Learned a lot and will apply. As being a former civil war reenactor, we used to carry the big mouthed Gatorade bottle as a privy at night instead of having to get up and hot the tree line or Porta John's. We called the Gatorade bottle "Mr. Thirsty."

Excellent tips Blackie. I wish i would've known these when I took my grandson camping over new year weekend. Thanks for sharing brother 👍

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Much better than sleeping on the rocky ground. 🎉

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

very true

Hell the depression lasted into the mid 1950s in Alabama. Granny used to put flat irons on the woodstove. Us kids got under the covers. She'd wrap those irons in newspaper and sometimes our wool scarves. Once under the covers at your feet they'd stay warm well after you fell asleep.

@waynehendrix4806

6 ай бұрын

My father had the same experience in the 50's up here in PA. Plenty of wrapped warm bed stones, and frost on the inside of the bedroom windows. Not a full depression, but lost his father at 12 yrs old, and with 7 kids in the family, times were tight. He had quite a work ethic from that. I had it easier, but the stories always humbled me, in case I had to live the same way. Nobody was playing games on their smartphones.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

yep it was hard times to be sure but we made it just the same

If you're buying a a cot, consider where the cross braces are going to hit you when you're lying on it. A metal brace directly underneath your hips can be very uncomfortable. Get a good pad or be sure the braces aren't directly under bone. Another great video. Thanks Blackie!

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

i hear ya i had a cot years ago that always dug into my back

Hello Blackie! Great setup, saw this for the first time and I have to say it is very well thought through👌! Thank you for taking along and sharing🙏! All the very best from Austria 🤠👍🏕🔥

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly

Foam roll or folding mat works well with a cot especially if you wrap it with a wool blanket…Winter tent tricks from Germany and Michigan…Have fun stay safe.

Hey BLACKIE thank you as a “silver wolf “ I really appreciate all your knowledge excellent Job Sir

that was a great idea for visual understanding of what happens to you and your blanket on a cot!

Empty Gatorade bottles are your friend......😘 Excellent information, Blackie. ✌️🇺🇸

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Yes they are!

I have a Teton XL Outfitter cot with their thick foam mat that attaches to the top, it’s overbuilt and a little pricey but I’m 6’3” and 250 pounds, flimsy cots are no bueno. I was in the middle of a 10 day back country Idaho elk hunt many years ago and the cheap aluminum frame cot the outfitter had for me in the wall tent gave out in the middle of a cold night. If you’re a big man you need a stout horse and a strong cot. I’m casually in the market for a canvas shelter for my cot camping setup, maybe a Wheelan lean-to or a baker style tent.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

sound advice

Thanks Blackie! "Love dis silver wolves bidness!" Good stuff!

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

happy birthday brother

Thanks Sir. I learnt many of these skills (without instruction) in the Australian Army in winter. You just put the icing on the cake with this post.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thank you

Excellent information my grandmothers home had one fireplace ,, a block ranch house .. bedrooms didn’t have heat so whatever outside was I think that block wall lowered it another 5 degrees. Lol

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing

The towel trick is great , I didn't know that one. You said the cot was like a hammock but you didn't mention that you can put an under quilt on a cot just like you can with a hammock.

If you've got something to put under the cot, do that. Fill that space. I've used trash bags, filled with leaves. I still sleep on my Army cot, I have for years. Same set-up. Harbor freight moving blanket, cold weather green sleeping bag. Get some foam exercise (pt) mats

My wife dosen't care for hammock like I do, she uses a kamp-rite cot tent. It costs about as much as a low/medium priced tent and is a viable option.

As thorough an explanation as anyone could ask for. Thanks

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching

I have a Tent cot XL and love it !!!! the tent cot and a 10x10 tarp strung up and you have the ultimate shelter !!!!! ..... I put a furniture pad or wool blanket with a foam pad under me during the cold to insulate me......

I’m going cot camping next weekend for the first time and this video helped a ton. Thanks for the info and keep up the good work brother!

Blackie, Great Information, Tips and Tricks how to warm in on a cot in the winter time, Thanks for sharing. We Go to the woods to smooth it and relax ,enjoy the outdoors.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Very well done and thank you for the info. I will put it to use!

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Please do!

Thanks for very helpful info for all us silver wolves. Stay safe

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Thanks, you too!

Another great video - thank you !

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

My pleasure!

Thanks, Blackie!

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

your welcome

Good info as always

Great information

This is a wonderful series, Thank you Sir!

Comfort takes work. No matter where you are.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

as a wise mentor once told me it takes no effort to be miserable

A very thorough setup. Great job, sir.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

Hi Blackie , greeting from Australia 🇦🇺, thank you for your time to make these videos.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching

Don’t forget to eat a piece of chocolate 30 minutes before bed time. The fats and sugars will help to keep your body generating heat while digesting the chocolate.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

true

@TUKByV

6 ай бұрын

I'm sold.

Good video Blackie, thanks for sharing YAH bless brother !

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching

You need to tell your viewers about how heavy the quilts were. You lay down covered up and there was no rolling around. Yep Mr. Jack Frost visited many a night in the house. A side note. You should share your knowledge of a chimney fire and what it sounds like.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

we had home made quilts some were made with 4 u.s.army surplus wool blankets inside

I'm 65 and I've been sleeping on a Field & Stream twin size cot for over 8 years, of course I have a 2" gel pad that covers the entire surface. This setup is just as comfortable as any bed. I just don't know why i didn't get one years ago. There easy to move around and if you decide to go camping you already have a cot available. If you're young and move around a lot, get a cot then you won't have a cumbersome bed to tear down and move.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

done right they are very comfortable

Good information Blackie, thank you. I think the coldness I've been was in a cot done wrong.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Sorry to hear that

I have used tin foil on my cot and duct tape the tin foil then I put my pad down and my world War 2 down on top and before I go to bed use 4 12 hour hand warmers in the sleeping bag and zipper it up and cover with my blankets

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

interesting

@waynehendrix4806

6 ай бұрын

Did you add any barbecue sauce?

If you lay something under your pad like you’re moving blanket and let it hang over the side to the ground all the way around your cot that’ll keep the air from moving around under the cot as well

Happy New Year!

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Dude! happy new year to you as well

Cot, military isomat, and the thermarest 3 inflatable pad they gave us to test..... best damn sleep i ever got over seas. Put the iso on the cot and the termarest on top of that.

I grew up much like you, my grandmother would pack us in blankets, would not move all night after got warm spot.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

lol yes we stayed in that same spot all night

Blackie I had a Walmart cot just like that and regretted it for months after the camping trip. A quality cot from Cabellas will not destroy your back for weeks like the Walmart one does.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

good to know

My legs are bad, so I have a big tall cot. Worth every penny for me.

Good video. In other videos I have seen where folks purchase Reflectix. They use that product as their underlayment saying it reflects body heat to the body.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

Great point!

Tip: Use a dozen layers or more of newspaper under the mattress. Newspaper is a proven insulator. When you finish with it you can put it in the fire.

Good Evening ! I've used a sheet of Reflectix under the pad for years. I don't sleep in a Shitty bag either though ! TAKE CARE..

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching

I have set up a similar bed . I love my yard sale wool blankets I have six blankets for less than 20 $

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

good score

@FredFreiberger-pk6wc

6 ай бұрын

@blackoracle69 it took me a couple of years to get them I grab them every time I find them they are my emergency and camp blankets also daily use

Those are great ideas. Once you get older you can't roll up on the spot you want to spend the night and throw down your bedding and crawl in. Old timers use to say you need to do some house keeping first. I would say you should think the same way if you get stuck in a car in the cold. I have slept in my van when temperatures dropped at night. I had one of those packing blankets to lay on because it's always there as well as a canvas painter's tarp. I had rolled up in the blanket and about 1 I was getting cold, grabbed the canvas and pulled it over me. Snug as a bug the rest of the night. If it had been colder that packing blanket would not have been enough even doubled. Really could use three of them or a insulating pad, even if it's one of those blue excercise mats.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

i find if i do not take the time to make sure the bed is fully set up for the night its gonna be a long night

Great video Blackie. Only thing is I am going to be careful about drinking Gatorade in the field…. 🇺🇸 🇳🇿

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

yep not too much

A trick I learn on the a t use a tee shirt on your pad with pillow in th tee shirt

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

good idea

A couple candles under the cot can do wonders. Use clay planting pots for safety.

Blackie I’ve been following you for 10 years. I don’t think you’ve aged a bit in that time.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

lol feel like i have

@robertedwards741

6 ай бұрын

Always enjoyed your vids. Hope you never quit

Hey Blackie, have you seen the one man chuckboxes that some youtubers have made out of Stanley lunchboxes? Some of them are works of art, well worth checking out.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

i will look

Hi Blackie! How about using a big plastic sheet, starting on one side. draped over the cot, under the legs and up the other side and over the top, then down again, including doing the ends the same way from same large sheet. That makes a box of mostly trapped air under the cot with loose ends under the mattress? Sounds like an easy compact $10 fix to the air transport problem.

One thing that I used in the winter in the army was to stow my duffel bags under the cot to fill the dead air space and stay warm

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

true

I feel like we all just got tucked in by Blackie..... any advice on the usefulness of the 70's era US Issue bag weather covers? I have one here that has never had a field test. I'm moving into the Gatorade phase of life now too. I don't think I can generate the orange kind yet. Great advice.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

lol thanks for watching

You need something to reflect your body heat back into the sleeping bag

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

you can add a emergency space blanket under but it will be noisy

@earlshaner4441

6 ай бұрын

My friend using a survival blanket makes to much noise for the other guys in the Canvas Tent my friend so this is why I aluminum foil

I slept on a cot for 8months in a rental room. Back and neck probs for weeks afterwards.

@waynehendrix4806

6 ай бұрын

I did two litters of pups with my yorkie on a cot. She demanded my closed office with the pups. She demanded a meal at 2 AM. About 3 weeks each time. My back did not do well during that time. It' like sleeping on a rock, even with an air mattress. I don't advise a cot for anything but a camping trip.

Would poncho liners used as under quilts like that hammock camping work?

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

yes they will

Can you convert a haversack into a concealed carry sack?

@blackoracle69

Ай бұрын

it would be easy to add a holster inside

in my company in the army infantry only a handful out of a hundred of us could put a cot together by hand.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

they can be a pain esp. if they have not been set up in a while getting the cover to stretch can be tough

You forgot to mention some of us live in the Desert and don't have the Trees.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

very true

I want to buy your black powder stuff how do I do it?

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

go to this site its a sop and candle company but look at the things they sell and you will find gunbutter and bullet butter go to handmadebyc3gac,com

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

www.handmadebyc3gac.com/product/gun-butter/242?cp=true&sa=true&sbp=false&q=false

LMAO there's a few of us silver wolves that don't have the option of using a gatorade bottle, it's butt freezing time no matter what.

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

lol

Dude, why don't you just cut out the middleman and put a piece of plastic over the cot before you put your inflatable mattress and or padding on top. You immediately stop all air flow especially if you let it hang over to the sides and over both ends. You'd have to be car camping for a setup like this. I haven't used a cot in a long time. Mainly because my car was my parents from the 1940s or 50s that weighed a lot and was bulky AF. I bought a caught a few years ago but I only use it for guests. I bought an Italian Naval hammock and outfitted it to be a very cool cot, just slide a couple of poles through the straps on the side I attached, and then put them over two small tripods. The one time I've used it in the field I had two 55 gallon trash bags I laid over it has a wind barrier From Below. And I have a roll up foam military pad and an inflatable military pad that I carry and use. And I didn't have any problems of course it was only in the low 40's. If I had a couple of wool blankets and a down blanket of course you put the down on top there was a light rain so I had a military tarp directly on top of it but it was so lightweight it did not compress anything and kept me dry I did tie off the middle to the top of the tripod to keep it from raining in my face.

Bottom line: layers

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

bingo

By th time I got myself tucked in, I would have to pee.

Well if a person is that comfortable camping to where he or she thinks they have a headboard that just means they took to much with them camping, Might as well stay home

@blackoracle69

6 ай бұрын

thanks for watching