Secrets of the Tipi or Teepee or tee pee or Tipiestola (Lakota term): Ray Mears Tentipi Bushcraft northern wilderness t.v. series

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I had a 16' canvas tipi w/liner and poles which was sized just right for hauling on top of my old '73 Ford van without more than 5'-6' of overhang on each end.

After erecting the basic tripod which is lashed together on the ground and raised into place, the rest of the poles are laid together in a specific manner to keep the majority of them out of the smokehole to improve draft. A long rope which is tied to the tripod poles and left dangling in the center is then used to wrap the loose poles tightly together by walking around the outside and "snapping" the line as you go. Four wraps are used and, if done correctly, lie side by side very neatly. The line is then taken back inside and a 3 foot ash stake with a limb-barb hook at the top is driven into the ground with your axe toward the rear third of the floor area in the center or right to the rear of the firepit. The line is then cinched down with a truckers hitch to force the butts of the poles down tight against the ground and it;s really what makes the lodge as stable as it is....the cover pegs do little more than hold the cover down to prevent it from blowing up with wind gusts. This puts the firepit directly under the smokehole in front of the stake and more toward the front of the lodge and leaves enough room to enter through the door and move to either side of the firepit. The wood supply is traditionally kept just to the left of the door and the food supply is kept just to the right of the door.

The front part of the lodge floor is left bare for splitting the fuel for the fire, meal preparation etc. Anything spilled or wood chips, etc. does not end up on the floor covering which is behind the stake and firepit. The liner and "ozan" or leanto roof which covers the bedding area or living room is an added benefit in the winter as it reflects the heat from the firepit back down on the residents.

The liner is used year around to help the fire draft better and keeps the smoke above the liner top. The liner has a sodcloth that the floor covering laps over and prevents drafts.

All in all the tipi is the best shelter that I've ever had the pleasure of living in for extended periods of time. They're great in the wind.....mine withstood a storm with 75 mph wind gusts without giving a hint of going down. Some of the other tent designs in camp didn't fare so well, though.

Hope you can understand this diatribe and it helps a little.

Bon Chance!

Ray Mears Northern Wilderness t.v. survivalist series

 So I real tipi needs an "inner skirt" that goes 3 feet high - and is buried into the ground - to stop outside drafts - but to create external air as an upward draft for the fire smoke.

What does this look like specifically?

The Survivalist: You Can Do It the Easy Way or the Hard Way

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Larry Hager - 2011 - ‎Biography & Autobiography

The outer shell of the teepee lacked a few inches of reaching the ground but an inner skirt about 3 feet high went all around the inside and the bottom of the skirt ...

https://tipi.com/photo-gallery-3-0/

 Wow - never knew about this Inner Skirt secret!

So you tie that inner skirt up around the poles.

putting up the Tipi Liner - vid

It was tied to a liner rope at the top and staked to the outside of the tpi by pulling it outside slightly, under the cover and staking it there! It extends about a foot, flat on the ground, inside the tipi with the stake loops at that one foot mark on the back side of the liner! Mine also includes a tied on Ozan and in all the years we lived in this lodge, it NEVER let us down from lashing rain and hail storms to very high winds and deep snows it did very well in all the aspects a liner is used for!

 So people have different ways of tying off the liner....

the small trench going from north east to south west, for air from the bottom for the smoke hole, they would put grass or gravel in the little trench and the ground cloth cover it the fire pit was move to the door it was not in the center

  Tipi is steep on one side and sloped on the other
 it's A symmetrical on purpose to withstand the east wind

national park service lady narrates setting up a tipi - vid

 Why are they calling it a "native American tipi?" of the 700 native tribes, only about 10 of them used these. And the styles are unique to each tribe. A crow tipi is a different shape and construction than a Sioux tipi. Why do you have to make everything generic "native American" as though we all had one common culture.

Ray Mears Tentipi vid

Fourdog reviews the Tentipi vid

So they use Poly Cotton - the SAME material as my Tent-cabin roof.