Cold War Military Surplus for Bushcraft
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Just for clarification for anyone wanting to purchase a Cold War Eastern Bloc Rain Cape/Shelter, this shelter in your video is NOT a Soviet/Russian Plash Palatka (Rain Cape). This is an East German National Volks Army (NVA, National People's Army) of the German Democratic Republic, DDR. Each country comprising the Soviet Bloc designed and produced their own version of a Soldier's rain cape/shelter for their Armies and hence you have the Polish LAVVU, the Hungarian LAVVU (in camouflage) and what have you. An East German Conscript wouldn't probably even know what a Plash Palatka was as they didn't call their version as such and the major difference is that the NVA cape has TWO arm holes whereas the Soviet version has one. I just received two brand new, never used Bulgarian versions quite cheap that were described as being Soviet/Russian Plash Palatkas, but they are not as they have two arm holes which means they were the Bulgarian version. Romanians also have their own version, but considering the enormous size of the Soviet Army, there are still plenty of original Soviet Plash Palatka's to be found at reasonable purchase prices if you know where to look.
Definitely East German Stricktarn poncho as others have said , they are increasingly hard to find even over on this side of the pond so great to see being used 👍😁
Hello, It's NVA zeltbahn from east germany not plashch palatka from URSS (same size, plashch palatka has leather holes and no camouflage line) ;)
Palatka is 180 cm, NVA model is 175.
Lot's or rain Brother, those East german poncho's are great kit! Kempart said it best military surplus gear is readily available at a cheap price.. Varusteleka used to sell them at 30 CDN... And yes the fibres do swell up making it waterproof , I waxed mine to make it a little more robust. IMO there are more versatile than their Russian variants Simply because of the snaps and can button them together, the rain drop camo pattern is great. I've used mine as a ground cloth, drag fire wood on, bushcraft chair, lay it under a single man tent and the list goes on. Excellent video Wanderer enjoy your sunday
When setting it up that way make sure you reverse the direction of the pocket openings to face downwards so rain doesn't drip inside, instead it will run over top of the flap (think shingles on a roof). Same will be true if using it as a lean-to setup (which I think gives a bit more usable space). These also work great as a pseudo bivy cover for a quilt or sleeping bag seup!
Hope things start to dry out for you.
Hood corner to the ground 🙃 for the dimond set up like he had... otherwise, drip, drip drip! There are a variety of ways to set it up as a shelter. 9ne of my favorite pieces of kit. 👍
These are a great option for a poncho/ ground cloth/ fire tarp/ emergency shelter. Three make a tipi style tent. Twelve make a squad tent.
Aside from the quality of the fabric, I think that the poncho, the rectangle with a hole to pass the head through, far surpasses these holes, fewer holes, more protection capacity and better possibility of making a shelter,
That's us in Michigan too. An supposed to rain again tonight. Great video. Stay dry
Nice, but your right, a bit heavy....
Wow when you said TAN that’s really what I was looking for, looking for a rollout tarp for the top of my 91 jeep but I’m needing two of them this looks like something that would very much work for me...
From my experience with these if you lower the pitch it works great. When your laying down
I remember back in the 80’s cross training with German troops and they were still using these. Their packs had buttons and they could turn this into a pack rain cover.
Which German Troops? These Zeltbahn in Strichtarn (English: "Line Camouflage") were only used by East German Troops of the DDR. West German Troops of the FRG used a half shelter tent Zeltbahn similar to the American PUP Tent which later became popular in the camouflage known as Flecktarn.
@@RobertsBulgaria 🤣 This is a three year old post. I had to watch the video to know what you were talking about.
Sorry friend, couldn’t begin to tell you.
This was in mid 80’s and they were guests of the US ARMY. We trained them in desert survival and combat and they trained us in cold weather woodland survival . But in typical military format, we were lacking translators. Luckily most of them knew a bit of English. They had some very interesting field gear. A day pack that looked like you needed a physics degree to use but easy once you’re shown .
@@PreparedWolf34 If it was US Forces then, you were cross training with the FRG, Federal Republic of Germany's BUNDESWEHR. Some great lads I met there.
@@RobertsBulgaria Thanks! That’s good to know. We enjoyed their beer that some how arrived in their supplies and they enjoyed our Jack Daniel’s that always gets sent with us by mistake. 😉
i do love some old military surplus for camping Russian or us works great i will use a ak for my bug out rife and my od green us military gear as well for camping or ether camping great video loved it
What a cool find !!!
My problem with military surplus is that almost all of it is heavy!
Nothing like nature to keep you on your toes...
Blends in well with the forest would make a good hunting blind from the ground a good multipurpose piece of kit thanks for video.
Good video I have one on order if it would get here thanks
I've seen a few videos on this style of rain"cape"/tarp. While they may be fun to take out in the woods and make a simple shelter I don't think they are an effective or realistic piece of gear unless you were in the military at that time and it was issued gear.
I recommend you take a look at the channel "survival Russia". He manages to make it work quite well in Siberia when he is out all day hunting moose, no joke. Cheers!
Peter McPherson Why exactly wouldn’t it work? They work just fine. No need to spend a bunch of money on gear for living like a homeless person.
@@mwirth187 Lars is nowhere near SIBERIA, go do your homework, he is about 600 km from Moscow in Kirovsky Region. Before getting anywhere near Siberia, one has to cross the Ural Mountains and he is located well WEST of them.
Very nice brother Very nice
Nice👍
Beautiful forest 👍 salam bushcraft 🙏
Do you find that braided paracord stretches less than unbraided paracord when used as a ridgeline?
about the same amount of stretch
Dude I fell you I am down south u.s and halls rain is running off to us so ya and we have high water any way
Where was this filmed?