DIY Medieval Style Tent Pole
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2021
- My take on a 2 piece Medieval Style Tent Pole. A very easy way to add a touch of medieval aesthetic to you camp. Works for Trekking Pole Tents.
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Instead of rope, you could make a leather collar to cover the joint. But rope is cannon and every adventurer should have some.
You could also use a few leather straps, like belts but shorter
"I'll get my stupid rope, I'll get it." -The Boondock Saints.
Just bought my first medieval tent and I was wracking my brain trying to figure out how I was gonna bring 7ft poles on my Nissan Sentra. You sir, just solved my problem. Great video. I'll definitely be doing this.
Also thanks for making it easy! This is something I can do with zero woodworking skills so I greatly appreciate the info. You're quickly becoming my favourite CZcams channel 🙏
This is why I use a hiking staff. Just a simple wooden pole about 5 feet long, bound with 1" copper plumbing caps, excellent for hiking assistance as well as self defense, and I stick a rubber furniture leg cap on one end so as to protect the end and not to scratch anyone's floors in town. I like to use a tarp tent for shelter, and I only need the one pole to pitch my tarp tent in the manner that was very popular in the late 19th Century to early 20th Century. I use shorter versions (48", 30", and 18"--longsword, shortsword, and longknife/dagger sizes) for weapons practice. They were all originally commercial mop handles I bought at a hardware store.
I don’t know how this video was recommended to me, but here I am.
I use the same lashing technique to wrap bows and other stave handles and whatnot. Didn’t realize it may have enough strength to provide for a more practical lashing application.
Been watching your videos since Shad gave you a shout-out. Lord Brooks did not disappoint. Neither did you.
Really glad to hear that!
It's people like you... the ones that go and experiment with things, that give life to what could have been knowledge in the medieval era. I love medieval fantasy and this, this fits.
Perfect tutorial and idea. Thank you. Going to use it on x3 6.5 feet horizontal poles
For the algorithm!
haha thanks!
Going through the back catalogue a bit. Instead of knots at either end of your rope, you could whip them for about an inch - inch and a half or so. Very much the same technique with the loop that you wrap towards. Just instead of the 'crochet' loops at the end, you run the standing end through the loop and pull the loop closed and under the wraps by pulling on the upper free end. Then trim both ends close to the wraps, leaving the two ends looped together under the wraps. For clothesline rope like yours, I have used a fine string or heavy waxed linen thread.
We did this in scouts for the ropes we used for brush camping. Back when Girl Scouts actually did primitive camping (sigh).
This gives me some good ideas for a possible support system for a wall tent.
I love this. This channel possesses so much valuable information I can use in both my writing and real life.
Killer idea love the videos can't wait to see it used in action
Thats a scarf joint, can be made more secure by carving a married divot or two in both flats on the mortises you carved and placed a small pebble stone or bead into the divot, it then becomes a scarf joint. A tenon or two carved in both mortises would do great too, but i would have used your original ‘two pegs’ idea. Great work none the less
Ohh this is going be good can't wait.😊
Poplar would likely be both easier to work with and a little more durable than a pine dowel. Folding saws are also a blessing for any sort of field woodwork, being fairly cheap and easily disguised (unless you can afford an opinel number 12 saw, doesn't need disguising at all). A hole drilled about halfway up your "top" half would also be a good addition, for a right-angled piece of brass rod. Hang a candle lantern (with the candle replaced by an oil tealight for gas safety :)
The addition of a rod or nail is something that I do plan on doing :)
Skill Tree needs these for their green tent
Kit just made something very similar for his new backpack/tent build using a copper pipe!
Great video!
Pretty handy skill to know.
What if you drilled two holes through the scarfed sections, with about a foot of space between them, and used a pair of wood or iron pegs through there that you then wrap rope around in a crisscross motion like on a boat cleat? If you left the pegs long and perhaps carved a notch or forged a hook in the ends, you could have integrated places to hang a lantern or a canteen etc
That's a good idea! Future project!
This is really smart, Thx for sharing it :)
For the same look, I suppose you could just use a metal conduit sleeve and glue rope on that. It would be a lot easier to set up for sure.
Use a clove hitch at the top of the rope wrap to hold everything together while you wrap.
A wedged scarf joint would probably work as well, without the need for rope. Use a hardwood wedge with a pine pole.
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This is a great tutorial thanks!
You could use this method to join any two similar-sized pieces together, as long as you can carve the mortisses... No real need to start out with one long pole.
Two clove hitches top and bottom with small wedges opposite the knot to increase the tension? Slippery hitches to speed take down?
Great videos thanks. Can you remember what diameter dowel you used?
Been looking at doing the same for my 16th/17th century pioneer setup as I dont have access to green wood.
Salutations greetings from Shad
Always wondered if you could do this with a spear
Guess I'll have to test it and find out!
How much weight do you think this would support? Is it sturdy enough for a full size heavy canvas period tent? 😮
Maybe applying some sort of stain to the pole would enhance its pseudomedievalesque aesthetic
Another idea is to use a tongue and groove joint on the wood
Or using metal keys
It does seem like a tent pole would be annoying/hard to carry. Perhaps it could be used as a staff if left tied together? A tall staff. But Gandalf's staff was quite tall.
Could you not have used wing nuts and a couple of bolts? Wing nuts were used during the middle ages. Just curious
I could have, I just wanted to do it this way ;)
another possible way to make these, is get a 2x4 or two, and then do this to the boards with a saw ?
Could definitely be done, less portable at that size I'd guess
@@LivingAnachronism also, square-shaped (unless you bevel it down to an octagonal or oval profile shape ?)
where did you get the dowel rod?
Hardware store
@@LivingAnachronism my hardwarestore doesn't have those...
Look for closet poles. They are available at our building supple store.
walking stick
Instructions unclear, i made a hanging noose instead
hahaha I thought that while I was making the video
Same knot without the wooden center! Also a standard whipping used on the end of ropes. Found in all Boy Scout handbooks!