Country Tracks Episode 10 – Building a woodland shelter
The survival expert demonstrates his skills as he builds a woodland shelter complete with natural insulation and a bed made from a pile of twigs, and Lindsay Cannon goes `island bagging’ off the Scottish coast.
@askstephenmaples survival situations are different buddy pretty much anything goes if it means preserving life. the fire laws are only for England. in Scotland its not a problem and it is aimed at those folk that go wild camping and make a real mess ie chopping into live tree’s leaving rubbish etc etc. @edd542 cheers i ended up using this type of shelter with my son and it is very warm and comfortable so i can recomend it. takes a while to make but worth it !
@madaboutbrens He didn’t lash the shelter together so if there was an emergency you could just push the branches out and get out through there.
@59Gretsch m8 wear was bear grylls from? were was ray mears from? yh answers ur question
Absolutely ridiculous!!! —- “I need permission to light a fire?” WTF IS WRONG WITH EUROPE – If you are out in the woods and in a survival situation, It will be a cold day in hell before some bureaucratic moron tells me I need his damn permission to light a fire necessary for me to save my life…
hey Ray the pole ya had in ya left hand she’s a bit Buggered! Mate
good shelter. how would I make it so water wouldn’t come in through the hole?
this guy builds some kickass shelters
@jebus419 thanks for the suggestion, but I’ve already seen it. I was looking more for something that more than one person could stay in. thats why I was interested in this particular design, it could house 2,3, maybe up to 5 people. Dave’s spider shelter is narrow and appears to be a single sleeper only. If you come across a shelter that can do both, for multiple people, keep me posted, thanks
@Caveman0713 hey i dont know if youve found wildernessoutfittersarchery but dave canterbury has a great video on making a “spider shelter”. very nice. similar to this but closed in and with a fire.
@59Gretsch We are very restericted as to what we do in the UK and as a rule the majority of the population do not appreciate bushmen and think they are insane or weird. Especialy the government so do not put us down because bushmen in the UK have to put up with enough shit thanks!
We are very restericted as to what we do in the UK and as a rule the majority of the population do not appreciate bushmen and think they are insane or weird. Especialy the government so do not put us down because bushmen in the UK have to put up with enough shit thanks!
I would be concerned of burning to death and a narrow escape slit (past the fire) dead leaves and embers could end up being cooked alive. I want to take my son out for his first bushcraft weekend away not sure about this shelter……that said Ray Mears is renouned the world over as a pro if its good for him ? second option is to go all Bear Grylls and make a platform in the trees psml
Please sir, may I light a fire. How sad.
@twinkieboyy14 Then please by all means build one and make a video
i am 9 yr. and i can make it in 30 min.
my question to this whole matter is, what if it were to rain. people I know from the UK say that it is cold and rains alot and if you built a shelter without a roof rain gets in but if you put a roof on this shelter you have to go without a fire and then you freeze to death. Any comments? If any of you have an idea or proven theory on how to make a natural water proof shelter that you can build a fire in please share. I dont want ideas of what I can buy. I am a minimalist and dont carry much.
It feels as if the UK government almost doesn’t want me to enjoy the outdoors…
Having a blanket indicates some level of preparedness so I can only assume that having a tarp also would not have been out of the question. A tarp shelter would have certainly made LNT a lot easier.
sheltering in a pentagon is asking for trouble
Not bad. You gotta see the long term shelter me and my 2 friends made in 5 hours! It’s amazing! I will post it next weekend because we can’t go to it this week with baseball and stuff. If it’s not on my account by nex sunday check washingtonwizkidz channel. It will mostlikley be there
this guy gose into a lot of unnesesary work for making a simple shelter just to stay the night and move on the next day
He’s almost dressed like Robin Hood.
the sticks you found for your fire are a bit too damp, lots of excess smoke there, ya dont want to scorch the wood if if you wish to use that wood again
you can break or cut dead standing trees
I believe their more durible than those that have been on the ground .
most of the fallen wood ends up fire wood here .
and actually it wouldn’t matter what I cut because the city is going to cut everything down anyway all along the river for a jogging trail abt. 12.2 mi. “sucks” I hope I can manage .
im sure that i did. but i was looking for most of my sticks on the ground. but i know that i check a lot of trees on my way. but at most i found maybe 2 branches that were similar to the ones in the video.but ill also admit that im a newbie at this. so my surroundings might not be on point yet. because im still trying to find a good spot to do this at. most of the wood is dead where im at as well. will that chance once summer comes around?