Camp Gadgets & Lashing Projects

1. Camp Gadgets & Lashing Projects Troop 413 Jay Kruemcke Version 1.0 4/2/2014

2. Square Lashing • Begin with a clove hitch round the upright and tuck the end in neatly. Pull the clove hitch very tight, and take the long end over the crossbar, round the back of the upright, and over the crossbar again. Follow the same course, being careful to lay each cord alongside the one before and to pull tight all the time, until you have been round each part three times. Then take two or three frapping turns behind the crossbar and in front of the upright. Finish off with a clove hitch, pulled very tight, round the crossbar.

3. Diagonal Lashing i) Start by tying a timber hitch around both poles and pulling it snug. ii) Make four tight wraps around the spars, laying each wrap neatly alongside the timber hitch. iii) Make four more tight wraps across the first three. iv) Frap it three or four times and finish it off with a clove hitch

4. Round Lashing • Used to lash two poles together (constructing a flagpole) • Tie a clove hitch round the bottom pole • Wind the rope around both six or seven times • Finish with two half hitches round both poles. • The lashing can be tightened by driving a small wooden peg between the poles

5. Tripod Lashing A Tripod lashing is made by laying three spars alongside each other, with the center spare pointing in the opposite direction to that of the outside spars.  i) Tie a clove hitch around one outside pole. ii) Loosely wrap the spars five or six times, then make the frapping on either side of the center spar. iii) Finish the lashing with a clove hitch around the outside spar.

6. Whipping Step 1 Step 2 Step 3

7. Ladder Hitch

8. Simple Gateway

9. Free Standing Gateway

10. Easy Free Standing Gateway

11. Two Flag Gateway

12. Covered Gateway

13. Lifting Gateway

14. Gateway with doorbell

15. Tower Gateway

16. Troop 16 Gateway

17. Swinging Gate

18. Covered Gateway with swinging gate

19. Two Door Gateway

20. Turnstile Gateway

21. Lifting Gateway As the gateway is raised the bars draw together

22. Camp Gadgets - Furniture Table Table with seats

23. Camp Gadgets - Furniture Table with seats Chippawa Cooking fire Stand

24. Camp Gadgets – Summer Camp Trash bag tripods Lantern Tripod Bulletin board holders

25. Camp Gadgets – Safety Tool holder Fire pail holders

26. Camp Gadgets - Kitchen Simple Washbasin Three compartment sink Kitchen Workbench

27. Towers Signal Tower Ten Minute Tower Triangular signal tower

28. Bridges Monkey Bridge Friction Bridge

29. Tarpaulin Raft

30. Fun Gadgets Chariot

31. Strophanger

32. Rope Swing

33. Catapults Ballista Two Man Catapult