So, here's what I found when I recently did this: I mixed a solution of silicone and naphtha (1 tube silicone+ about 1.5 qts Naphtha) per another video. I put it in a tub and mashed it all around till soaked, then layed it over a few saw horses to dry - which it did in about 4 hours. I set it up and the nextday put a sprinkler on it that put out a very heavy spray with large drops. Just like a downpour. Left it running for over an hour. The tarp leaked, but not much. A few drops formed in places that were stretched tight, others found their way through the stitches in the ridgeline I sewed in. The stitches leaked bad. But, the places where the tarp was not too tight, it did not leak at all. My conclusion was that thersolution was soaked in when thefabric was relaxed, but several tiny micrsopic holes opend when the threads were stretched when setting up. The stitches needed another treatment, So, thats what I did. While the tarp was still upp and very tight, I used a roller to re-coat the outside, with multiple passes over the stitch lines. After 2 hours, another water test and ZERO leaks. My recommendation is to go ahead and dunk the fabric as a FIRST treatment to get both sides coated - but - set up the tarp and re-coat the outer side with as much as you want. It won't run off, and goes on nice like latex paint. My tarp has been up for the third day, under daily heavy water tests, and no leaks at all.

I’m 100% behind you. KZfaq has corrupted wilderness survival. They changed the name to bushcarft then push gimmicks and gadgets. I prefer things I can use and make that I already have. I would rather call my self a hobo Tech. I don’t need state of the art. Would rather have affordable and easy to make.

I agree with you 200% on the “bushcraft” term and the way channels push all the gear. I am a simple guy and I like things that simply work. Learn your surroundings and how to live from it and you can survive anything.

Pleasure to see you and your son healthy and happy. Thanks for sharing.

Homemade skills are great cos you can pass things down to your children. God bless you and your family, and happy camping 🏕 🙏..Lee

Things don't have to cost a lot to work good. Thanks for sharing the info.

Loved the video - I have dyed some old sheets green and have been debating which method to use - thank you for sharing your method - Loved your precious son being in the video - those curls are awesome- may God bless you and your family !!!

Glad for the revisit! Looking forward to your cleaning game and cooking.

If you test how waterproof this tarp is in the future it could be beneficial to use a tripod to hold your test medium under the tarp, that way you could nearly eliminate the possibility of water from the ridge line. Thanks for the video! You've given me some ideas to improve my own silicon "tarp" bed sheet.

I painted a Carhartt jacket with an acetone/silicone mixture back in the fall. I don't know how well it worked since I never got caught in the rain with it on. It repels snow good, though.

Looking forward for more informative video like this. Watching you is relaxing. Thanks.

Thanks for the follow-up, most people never do them.

I think you should be proud of your channel, I think you have done a great job with it. You've come a long ways from the first video of yours that I saw. And I like how you are honest and up front about things and just being yourself. And of course Brodie is a wonderful addition to your videos. I got a kick out of how Brodie claimed the tent for his own ha ha.

Way to go. You never know how something will work till you try. Thanks!

Thank you for the inspiration sir! I learned a lot today.

Fantastic project - I am inspired! Thank you!

Just happened across your channel and appreciate the no-nonsense down to earth approach .... hence a new subscriber. Keep up the great work.

Glad to see you use this tarp and tell about it. I'm like you I'm a country boy, born hunting fishing and camping. We stayed in the woods all we could. A good knife is a good knife. Keep up the good videos

I like the way you think ! It's not all about what's deemed the best gear or what's being peddled off as what you need. I also agree with you about food procurement. If you can't fish, hunt, or trap game, you're gonna starve. Great video !

I agree with making things yourself and learning all you can about living from your surroundings. Fishing and hunting are good to know but knowledge of the wild plants and mushrooms in the area are good too.

I like a lot of your content. Out of the system, as much as possible. I’m on Social Security & many of your videos have helped. I also keep up with Mike Reed & Uncle Sasquatch.

Outstanding content appreciate what you're doing brother 👍

Nice job my friend!!!! Thanks 🙏

Thank you for this video. Looks like the silicone/mineral spirits treatment worked.

I rarely watch a video from start to finish, but this video was done so well that it's a pleasure to watch. Secondly, I agree with you on the term bushcraft and its philosophy. Woodsman is a far better term. I have been reading a book on a woodsman from 1870 up here in the northeast (Adirondacks) and he certainly did not have all the newest or coolest gear and did just fine. Knowledge, a good knife, a hatchet, a tarp and some provisions was all he carried. He fished and he hunted on the trail and did very well for himself. Thanks for the video. New subscriber.

Great channel very happy you have your son on with you the way it should be.

That little baby boy STOLE MY HEART! He is a little DOLL!

I won't too thank you for all you do God bless you and your son

I love the idea of making my own stuff over buying it. Yes, buying something already made is the easy way, it's just not always the cheapest. I'm not a fan of Polly tarps and want a canvas one, but are expensive. A canvas drop cloth is cheaper, but it needs to be waterproof. Not sure if that's any cheaper or not. But with patience, I can find a good quality sheet at a thrift store so my biggest experience will be the waterproofing. Thanks for the idea.

You live in a beautiful part of your country, lucky lad. I’m English so the term “lad” is a term of endearment. Where I live is also very beautiful, it’s good for your soul.

well a job well done Justin good work

Nice tarp man. The wife and I have a nice heavy duty sewing machine we've been practicing on, now we need to start using it to make more tarps instead of buying new ones. I feel like a silicone soaked cotton sheet with plenty of sewn reinforcements will be way nicer than some of the tarps I already own.

I just found this channel and subscribed withing 5 minutes. This is good content. I watched a good video about doing the same thing by a good guy nighthawkinlight. He mentioned mineral spirits would work, but he used naptha to dilute the silicone. I just sprayed an old surplus dufflebag with some storebought silicone spray, and it smelled like naptha. Naphtha is about the same cost as mineral spirits and it dries quicker. Nighthawk also showed a cool idea for attaching guy lines to the sheet that he had dipped by using a piece of gravel as a "button", which is just tying the cord around the piece of gravel inside the sheet. The rock would be on one side and the cord would be tied around the rock and fabric on the other side. That lets you put a tie down spot anywhere you might need it without any cutting, tools, or permanent changes to your sheet.... Well, now I have to go watch some more of your videos, starting with the tarp making one. I'm glad to have run across this channel! Gotta show some support for a fellow feller from Mississippi!

Little man supervising and I’ll keep coming back to see what he does with those leaves 😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰

Good job on the tarp. The one thing I would do differently is to ad loops along the center line. For a tarp this size, one at each end and one in the center will be enough. You will now be able to hang the tarp from your ridgeline and lower the risk of water infiltration from drips off the ridgeline. Water tends to travel down the ridgeline and drop off at the most inconvenient spots. The installation of a short piece of cordage outside the tarp offers some protection as water will tend to stop and drip off at that point but we have found (under torrential typhoon rains) that a "drip line" hanging from the ridgeline is not always a surefire solution. Enjoying what we see and will now subscribe. Watching from our secret retirement location in Bulacan province on Luzon Island, Republic of the Philippine Islands.

Call me impressed! Thought it was gonna look like a guy hanging out his bed sheets on the clothesline in the woods. Best part was you spending time with your son. The outdoors is the best! Your next project should be making some waterproof silicone over pants from a big gals yoga britches lol.

I haven't seen your videos in a while. Brodie has grown a head taller than when I saw him last. You are doing a good job raising that boy. I was just thinking about making one of those camping tarps when I spotted a king size cotten bed sheet at a thrift store this morning. Then your video came up in my feed. Must be a sign. I was going to use boiled linseed oil and beeswax but silicone may be better. I have heard that linseed oil takes forever to dry and smells for quite a while too. May Yah bless and keep you. Brother.

I like the way you put it out there about all the gear being pushed by some people. I have a couple friends that say they are survivalists. But their idea of "survivalist" is having a generator, buying food from a store, lighting a fire with lighters and fire starters purchased from a store, cooking store bought food on said fire and using other cooking gear that requires fuel canisters, etc.. They don't know how to tie any knots (maybe just and overhand and square knot). They know nothing about shelters, hunting, processing game, gardening, tool making, etc.. When I started talking to them and trying to teach them things they should know, they were dumbfounded; they also seemed to have no interest in learning because they said they have all their gear. I try to explain to them that if the SHTF, they won't be able to resupply with fuel, parts to repair things or go to the store for food. I keep telling them that to be a true survivalist, you are basically down to being a monkey with a stick. You have to improvise everything when you have to get it all from nature. I was taught growing up, and today I am trying to remember quite a bit that I haven't had the opportunity to use in years. It seems that it is all like riding a bike, you can get back on and ride after years of not riding. I still have to get more opportunity to put a lot of things into practice more, but it is all coming back to me. I still to this day have trouble with stone tool making (napping). I can make some ugly tools, but they are functional for the most part. Don't ask me to make an arrowhead or spearhead though.

That view... ❤ Nothing but trees

At least to me survival is about getting along with what is available rather than with what i'd like to have. Thumbs up good Sir.

I have made and used several painters drop clothes like that very way

Very interesting!! I didn't see your video on how it was made, but I want to see how it's made. God bless you and your family.

Thank you

😊seemed to work well enough 😊

In America it is called woodsmanship!!!

Being from the pacific northwest, our rain doesnt come down straight, go figure, lol. So with the wind blowing and whatnot, Im thinking that your stuff sack wasnt dead center of your tarp, and rain probably caught the lowest part, and wicked its way up the rest of the bag. Id bet you a latte had it been put up dead center, it'd be dry. Great video😊

Nice video and nice Dutch army combat 'jacket " ..I got issued the same in 89/90...greetings for Holland 🇳🇱🇺🇸

I'm in the process of making a silicone tarp by sewing two twin sheets, blue in color, together along the length. I'm sewing in 5 loops at this seem and putting 5 loops around the edges, a total of 19 loops. I'm thinking of sewing in a small Paracord line around the edges as well and then dunk the whole thing in the 5 to 1 silicone Naptha mix.

I don’t like running the ridgeline under the tarp as rain can/will run/wick down the ridgeline and get you wet. I use the same ridgeline system with a loop on one end that uses a toggle and a truckers hitch on the other with prussicks to attach the center of the tarp. Simple, quick, reliable, light.

I might use coloured grout for mine ,Camo colours.

GOOD on ya, Dad, for bringing along your Son! Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

I learned to use reflective cord for guy lines and such. Seeing them in the daylight is easy. But at night, they disappeared. A self made trap isn’t fun. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

I like tarps with large loops along the ridge to pass a ridgeline or a ridgepole through - this way the rain can't get under the tarp along an inside ridgeline - maybe you should consider doing this too in a new project. I soaked a raincover for my wife's bike saddle three years ago and it still goes strong, no leakage so far. If it does, I'll simply repeat the process.

Looked like a success

I'm with you on that, you don't have to spend top dollar to get something good. I've found a lot of times your paying for a name. And I do enjoy making something myself If I can instead of buying it. I guess it's the satisfaction of knowing you made it yourself.

you could test it by having it up from the corners and filling it with water and see if it leaks, if it barely leaks in that case then it is good. if it gets damp that is normal since the watter is cold and will atract moist from the air, also water vapour can go through most waterproof fabrics(anything which air can go through.). if you fill it with water which is warmer than the air then you won't get it attracting moist from the air, next to that if you use black fabric it will also warm it in sunlight.

Awesome vid dude thanks. I've got the mineral spirit and silicone am gonna try it on my northface coat n see how waterproof it makes it and how long it stays waterproof👍

Can we store the mixture, or will it solidified after sometimes.?

I've gotta catch that video where you made the tarp. How do you think soaking cloth in Thompsons Water Seal would work?

Really useful, and I really like your approach. Sub'd. Ill watch some more of your videos. Cheers. ATB.

I understand you're looking for a dry spot under that tarf and I expect it to be dry I have a question can these silicone sheets be used as tent jacks for the chimneys of tent stoves by simply cutting a smaller than chimney size hole in it and sliding the chimney through or will it burn up we know that a silicone cookie sheet will work

What are the things that look like nail heads on the parts that are holding your straps on the tarp?. And where do I get those and how do I fix them on my tarp? And is that leather padding?.

For added water repel I wonder if painting the inside of the tarp with a latex paint , I'm gonna try it out on a $9 10x10 heavy cloth painters drop cloth. For eyelets more sucre I'm gonna add some old tire tube on corners and center . I use inner tube for all kinds of stuff ,it's valuable stuff in my opinion to make all kinds of hunting fishing, equipment in a jam. Ect anyway God bless.

Just wanted to point out that where I live, there are lots of hidden sources for food and water for survival purposes but fish aren't one of them. You can hunt but the animals are well adapted to the arid environment and you'll wear your self out hunting them unless you're properly set up for it. That's probably not the scenario or person who will find themselves having to use survival techniques after a mishap.

I'm wondering if acetone can be used instead of naftha and if it will have the same effect?

I like the "Floral Camo". (really)

Nice video, but why you have got on flag of Netherlands on shoulder? Just curious

moisture in the air, Also the wind might be a factor.

Hey just a comment as long as uses of chemicals is being discussed. ......I stumbled on alternative use of Hornady One Shot case lube........I did not have luck trying to use it for its intended application. ........seeing it was a lube that dried and repelled moisture. ......interesting tried it on the surfaces of an old revolver that a pent most of its life in a holster.......it,had very fine pitting and rust ALL over......so,into spayed this one shot on it and am amazed with the result......been 6 maths now, , no,rust.....also sprayed interior of my flintlock same results. ......seems to protect surfaces without grease or oil.....

Any chance you've tested for flammability?

Its not about brands, its about understanding physics .

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for 2 man setup ;)

Ultra light! How many puffers/sherpas? Are you wearing under your "Frogg Toggs"? (Walmart Rain gear.) (And a poncho...) (And...) Somebody boil water!

The bag is wet because the water ran down the rope under the tarp until it hit the bag

Personally I love Tyvek

Were you in the 9th infantry

I bet if you stack some rocks around one side, the deer would come and use it to stay dry. I would, if I was a deer. Lol.

Is the silicone bedsheet still waterproof after a year? 28:50 minutes later.... I guess...kinda. Naphtha works better than mineral spirits. Lastly, grommets require a lot of effort and tear. All you need is a loop of rope around a small rock within the sheet.

I'd like to find me a place in the woods and get me a canvas tent and put a wood stove in it and live in it and live off grid

You can use bedsheets too.

What englisch accent is he speaking?

So glad it's all "drah"...

I'm not into gadgets for things like this. I prefer simple and cost effective.

Watch out for 'em snakes..🐍

I'm aguessin' thars at least hafadozen people watchin nis that don't know what "sopped" his, but I do. You talk like I do. I think your paracord stretched. It'll do that sometimes when it gets wet. I think I would have just tightened up the ridge line instead of all four guy lines, but then, I'm known throughout my county for my laziness. Also, the way you did it left it closer to the ground than I'd like. I like your guy line method, BTW. I've seen folks use the toggles and Prussics for the ridge line but tieing off the guys that way is new to me. Does your tarp stink of mineral spirits?

💯👍🙏💪👀

You and a really big monkey should do a collaboration

@stupid-clever

You should probably understand that by not using the word Bushcraft, you are probably cutting down on viewers. Not because of Any philosophical reason. But because of the algorithm used to look up videos. When people go to look up camping or Bushcraft you will not be on their list. It's kind of like a hashtag. I mean I totally get what you're talkin about. There's a few people out there just in it for the money and they do a lot of reviews trying to sell you something. The part that really bothers me is when they pull out a brand-new knife and it doesn't have a scratch on it and you can tell it's never been used and they start giving you their opinion of it. How the hell would they know if it's good or bad if they've never used it. Big deal that the first time they use it, they can sharpen a stick or some other small task. That doesn't really tell us it's going to hold up. I ordered a $3 knife from China that I'll do that. It doesn't mean I would want to use it out in the woods for any amount of time or depend on it. Dave Canterbury on the other hand actually does have videos on hunting and fishing and he also has videos on how to prepare the food. I mean he's trying to make a living at this business but he does show a lot of things. Some of the other videos are entertaining but don't really show a lot of stuff. It's people like survival lilly that gives it a bad name. Or Joe robinet. Even though his videos can be entertaining. He uses a ploy to get people to watch him because he always has to have a dog in the video. And his dogs aren't really good for much. They're the kind of dogs that go off and scare up a bear. And then come running back to Camp with a bear hot on their tail. The dogs going to be okay because it runs faster than Joe. Come to think of it that might be a good video to watch.

YAK, YAK, Babble, Babble ... good information with a lot of extraneous talking ...

lose the mickey mouse hat silly boy.

They were probably asking how it holds up after a year.... of use. Not a year of sitting in a bag.

Prussic.