Camp Gadgets & Lashing Projects

Troop 413Jay KruemckeVersion 1.004/18/23

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.

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

Round Lashing

Used to lash two poles together (constructing a flagpole) 1.Tie a clove hitch round the bottom pole 2.Wind the rope around both six or seven times 3.Finish with two half hitches round both poles. 4.The lashing can be tightened by driving a small wooden peg between the poles

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.

Whipping

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Ladder Hitch

Simple Gateway

Free Standing Gateway

Easy Free Standing Gateway

Two Flag Gateway

Covered Gateway

Lifting Gateway

Gateway with doorbell

Tower Gateway

Troop 16 Gateway

Swinging Gate

Covered Gateway with swinging gate

Two Door Gateway

Turnstile Gateway

Lifting Gateway

As the gateway is raised the bars draw together

Camp Gadgets - Furniture

Table Table with seats

Camp Gadgets - Furniture

Table with seats Chippawa Cooking fire Stand

Camp Gadgets – Summer Camp

Bulletin board holdersTrash bag tripods Lantern Tripod

Camp Gadgets – Safety

Tool holder

Fire pail holders

Camp Gadgets - Kitchen

Simple Washbasin Three compartment sink Kitchen Workbench

Towers

Signal Tower Triangular signal towerTen Minute Tower

BridgesMonkey Bridge

Friction Bridge

Tarpaulin Raft

Fun Gadgets

Chariot

Strophanger

Rope Swing

Catapults

Ballista

Two Man Catapult