Top tip: Ball up a shemagh, or cloth and wrap it round the end of your home made tent pole. Even your trimmed edges will create substantial wear over time.

I was lucky enough to find a size III and then a SECOND size III, I love these things for the versatility. A ponch, a hooch, and with two halves, the full tent. My wife and I spent a couple nights in mine, plenty of space. And they do not need water proofing! The cotton swells if it gets wet, and the fabric tightens itself up becoming water proof. I spent a VERY rainy 3 day weekend in my untreated lavuu and was dry and toasty!

It's great to see the Lavvu out in the forest . I Love the polish Lavvu it'sa great shelter. im glad i got one a few years ago size 2 . They are hard to find now .

Thanks for the info...and as jay jay said I just bought one myself and am ready to try it out.

Watching the video, I was inspired by your idea about staking and then putting in the pole. Instead of putting in all the stakes and then the pole, how about putting peg only in the back and then put in the pole. Holding onto the front, you can provide enough tension to put in the front stakes and then proceed around to get the rest.

Brilliant mate, keep uploading

Hey jez, I'm rewatching some of your brilliant vids on a very wet cold Sunday, the sound of all the birds singing and the sun shining love it. Hope you and your girls are well mate 👍

Thanks for that video, just bought one from the link you gave!

This is awesome been looking fir one of these tents 🏕 awesome review

Hello there, how blessed you are having a woodland to play in, I have to pay to camp in a field with the amateurs. You did say in your excellent vid that you'd leave a link to a man in Manchester who will do upgrades on the lavvu, let me have his details please as I'm dying to get mine sorted before winter. Great video, clearly explained and very useful, thank you, Mike.

Very nice footage and landscape. Big like 👍 from me! I love camping, fishing, hike too.Keep on!!!

Polish tent - good idea! I have the same one. All the best for you. 🌳🌲🦅

Great review, thank you.

that was a very good video thank you

Learnt a good couple tips there! Cheers man 🍻 I've been out with mine once now and I coulda used those quick setting up tips! 😉

Nice wee review mate I not long got myself a lavvu size 3 looking forward to getting out with it. Atb Wullie ✊🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Subscribed Sir, i like the video and the polish Lavvu. Hope to get one. Have a good day and see you on your next vid.

Got mine about a month ago had it up today waterproofing it .wanted canvas even though it's a bit heavier

Got one not used it yet , I'm defo getting it out

Good video all in all. Personally I prefer to pack out the halves individually for versatility. I use my lavvu half as a poncho regularly during local storms and cold weather.. My day pack load ill take a half with cordage, pegs and no poles for a lean-to setup. My 3plus day solo load out I add the 2nd half and 2 telescopic tarp poles(3-8 feet) as trekking poles and tent bipod. With a partner she can take the 3rd and 4th poles for trekking and a quad pod setup. Additional mods I'm looking at is a separate tub with at least a 16 inch wall, a canvas baker insert, a removable stove jack for the arm hole, a camo net heat shade, and a bug net setup. Obviously not all pieces go every time depending on the season.

Hi great location lucky man , yet again another lavu demonstration how not to fit a lavu the correct way around , you have it inside out as many others do. There are double thickness shoulder flaps and water proof pocket flaps, it will be waterproof if you assembled it the CORRECT WAY .

I've owned a size 2 since before they became the next fad. It was too small but I've just managed to get hold of a size 3. It is an amazing shelter don't get me wrong, extremely versatile - It is not worth £200 and even £100 is absolutely pushing it. But as with all fads they will lower in price over time. Mine cost £30 many years ago. Never used.

Hi.. Thanks for sharing...

Like the clarity and simplicity of your film, thank you. I have a Lavvu (size 2) and another which is a mis-match of size 1 and 2 halves. They both work fine but I use the complete size 2 as the tent and use the single size 2 half from the other, to build a porch area by slotting the peak over the top of the erected Lavvu and then positioning it so the chimney from my stove goes up through two sets of arm hole (tent and porch canopy lined up). I then use three lightweight telescopic poles on different heights to lift the canopy round and over the door to give much more living space fro grotty weather days. (Sounds far more complex than it is and you can easily cut poles on site to reduce what you take out with you). Simple paracord lines and some spare pegs (or cut pegs) and bingo! It looks great too as there is a lovely shape to the porch thanks to the curve of the poncho half canopy. That way I can sit under the open tent and canopy and stay dry or shaded depending on the conditions. I use a small pack-away chair so there is plenty of headroom and a low lightweight camp cot just fits in as well. (I have a bad back and rubbish knees so look after myself!) Not a back packing set up, but for vehicle camping with a wood burner, it makes a great little solo expedition set up and there is nothing like the sound of gentle rain on real canvas and the smell of wood smoke to relax you! One very simple mod requiring no faffing or sewing to make the door quick and easy to open and close is the purchase from Amazon, of some cheap stainless steel bulldog clips designed for clip boards. They are wide and have a decent spring in them. I use 5 of them to close the tent quickly. It pulls tight and is pretty much water proof if you line the flaps up carefully. In any emergency with the stove or just needing to pee in the night, I can get out fast and not worry about those tedious buttons! The extra canopy (which could be a tarp BTW) ensures no rain gets on the door area anyway. Like you, I am truly blessed in having some private woodland I have permission to use which has been a life saver during lock-down. One thing, I don't do any social media and certainly not Facebook, so how would I get in touch with the man in Manchester who does the mods?

That my friend, is a cool funky kettle. I'm gonna guess old camping aluminium? I dunno, I just like it

I've got a set of all 3 sizes. I like them a lot. I prefer to make a tripod and set it up outside and over the lavvu. I put a rock or something in the peak and tie it to the tripod. No center pole. Good job.

Nice video mate. Thinking of one for semi perm winter set up. Video was very beneficial to help make decision. New sub 👍 ATB.

Where the heck do all you guys get your own “private woodland”? Amazing. 😖

It basically seems like the "Alice Pack of tents": It looks a bit shit at first glance, and fails a lot of metrics by which people will judge equipment these days, yet it is good, and it works well. Im a firm believer that 90% of survival is your actions. People can talk all day about a certain product being 17% lighter or 24% better at repelling water, but having a robust and practical tepee like this is basically 90% of your "dying from exposure problems" dealt with right there. Maybe I seem a bit flinty but I recently found myself in a situation where my comfortable trek degenerated into a potentially hypothermic scenario in the space of a few minutes. I now pack a polythene survival bag in my kit for emergency situations. Im sure MANY companies would like to sell me better more high tech jackets, underlayers and other expensive products, but the reality was that the experience made me realise that I needed a giant orange polythene bag to climb into if I fucked up, and at that point "condensation" aint no issue I need to be worried about. My point is that this tent is not perfect, but that 10% of "not perfect" aint going to kill you (Despite what the hipsters on tent channels will tell you) The 90% of goodness will work all the time. Great video and thank you. I can tell from your black kettle that you are the real deal.

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I've got a size two and I'm same hight as you and I love my lavvu but 100% there's no spare room in these tents with a air mat which is probably why he's turning into a mini bell tent with the skirt, I've had mine since they were like £30 for new old stock and yes it's still unmodified but honestly tomorrow my button in center section from bushcraft Spain should arrive and I can't wait to go play with it

Excellent thanks brother! Just subbed you 👍🏽👍🏽😎

Great demonstration of the lavvu! What is the make of ground matt you have there? Cheers!

plastic shipping box protector. It's a little plastic piramid that you can use to make an internal frame with 3 poles, it works for me

The trouble is, you set it up so tight you could never have closed the doors. Either that was the first time you’d ever erected it, or you never shut the doors. But that rather defeats the point of putting in a wood stove, doesn’t it?

Hi! Good video. Sligh note. In polish we don't have and use that word: lavvu ;-). We speak Polish for it: pałatka (read: p.a.w.a.t.k.a, better check the pronunciation of a word on translator) Lavvu.. is a Sami tent, a kind of tipi, lower tipi, more resistant to strong wind and this is a word from the Sami language (Scandinavian Lapland). Funny journey of words, verbal/naming mess. We (Polish people) made the military raincoat which is called "pałatka" (two are made into a tent), and there is a word for it in English: tipi, tepee but almost everyone calls it: "lavvu" - Sams tent. So the name "polish lavuu" give's U polish sams tipi/tent ;-)

Loved the video buddy just got one myself and just subbed you🌲🔥🌲💚

Hi mate, cracking video. I'm just wondering if you could send me the details of the chap who can modify them? Thanks again

Quick guestion. Are the ponchos large enough to close them entirely or do you need a third one for the "door hole"?

Would anyone recommend waxing the canvas to make it last longer?

BLUE BELLMURDERER! LOL

Does anyone know size/weight of the material. I’d like to make some additions to my lavuu and would like to match the material.

Hi friend I have a lavuu but it not as one... What is the best way to connect the two side together am new to bushcraft trying to find a good video to, show me how it done... Also great video mate keep it up..

How come you dont use the included pole? Seems more lightweight and portable? Or is it just for aesthetics?

great video well explained, i like your stove what its it called or do you have a link? cheers

Nice video 👍👌, iwas wondering do you have a modified polish lavvu for winter and one un modified polish lavvu for summer weather? I put a triangle hot water blanket inside with two holes in the bottom for tent pegs so I don't turn my lavvu in to char cloth.center pole anchors the blanket on top and stick thru armflap and cord to pull lavvu further away from heat source.g stove double wall stove pipe tent protect tent even better with a insulation heater pipe blanket .sewed it together on wife's sewmachine before she seen me.sorry I don't have any pictures .best regards Ken

hi can you let me know the link to get mine done I need a skirt put on mine and a zip .ive got a stove jack

What's size would be ideal for a short man I am 5ft6

Good video I have one Didn’t get the pole with it how long is the pole for it thanks

Sorry I gotta ask, where's the link fir where to send off for modding? Need mine doing :)

Like the video! Just subcribed. ATB Sam Adler

I've been looking at these lavvu's I recently bought a titanium stove. I have the canvas french military pup tent from the UK but, hesitant to put stove in it. Thinking its to low. Curious of your thoughts. Great review 👍

Its too hot tent for summer?

Do you need to have a ground sheet?

ive got the same stove they are good art they .were are you my frend im in kent

Hows best to waterproof one please mate?? Im getting one for my carp fishing on the river in winter

Use a tennis ball on top of the pole

Are you using one or two of the lavvu's?

Do you distribute in the country of Morocco?

How do you keep the sides of polish lavvu from turning into char cloth when you use stov e ? I understand about stove jack.what about the radiat heat from stove? Ken

hi , how long this stick ? 1.50 cm or 1.60 ?

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ive been waiting for its arrival over a month now. damn you covid!!

Change of name ? X

your video only showes the lavvu being set up INSIDEOUT!! the flap you have on the inside is a rain cape. and it is suposed to be on the outside. you put the inside of your poncho faceing out, and the outside, faceing inside! would you turn your jacket insideout before you out it on? dont worry, 99% of youtubers set up their lavvu wrong, so your probably just following bad information. its an easy fix. but its similar to setting up the american poncho shelter with the hood hanging down on the inside.

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