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My first rendezvous set up

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This year I went searching the property for suitable poles and settled on some cedar I found. Peeling them was real easy! I just cut a narrow strip and wedged my tomahawk under the bark and in 10 minutes, one pole was peeled and ready to dry.

The cover is a simple $26 10oz cotton painters tarp that I waterproofed with linseed oil. Linseed oil did a fantastic job at water proofing it!

Its simple, but it keeps my trade blanket covered over and the heat off our heads.
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I keep looking at that setup and thinking to myself "how could I make all that into a travois " ? As a way of hauling it out of the meadow.
It would be easy if I eliminated 3 poles and went with a diamond fly set-up
 
Your linseed oil treatment will make a waterproof cloth. You do have to be aware that your tarp is not fireproof. With reasonable care, you will have good comfortable camp.

Use the red barn oil paint to simulate the iron oxide color for a waterproof period tarp.
 
Good looking first setup there man. You're leaps ahead of where I started. Keep posting pics of your journeys.
 
That set up is a lot better than my first rendezvous set up....,

I didn't have the proper camping stuff and didn't know there was a modern camp off from the "traditional" campers, so, this was mine...:D

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Dave,
Nice, very nice, but I hate to tell you.........The boys most likely won't like it, cuz it seems a little off period correct!:p
Flintlocklar
 
Funny.....just over the border in Michigan, "cedar" means "cedar". Cypress grows in southern states, doesn't it?
Well yes, Balled Cypress(Taxodium Distichum) does grow in the deep south, and it is a true cypress, thats what most people think of when they think of cypress. Cedar in Ohio refers to two trees Northern white Cedar(Thuja Occidentalis) wich is a false cedar and is actually in the family Cupressaceae(cypress family) and the Eastern red Cedar(Juniperus Virginiana) which is actually a juniper which in turn is in the cypress family Cupressaceae.
How these trees got the name Cedar is early Europeans mistakingly thought that these trees were cedar, which are found only in the old world. Later on they discovered that these trees are infact not cedars, but are in the cypress family.
You being in michigan should have both the same Eastern Red Cedar and Eastern White Cedar, with the latter being more common in the more northern reaches of the state.
Confusing,,, isn't it, glad I could help you out!
NWT Woodsman
 

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