Making a Quinzee Winter Survival Shelter

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let's mention eight a survival recently we had a storm come through and drop a few feet of snow so today we're gonna talk about building a Quincy don't go away

okay so I'm going to build it in this area right here and this cluster of trees it's going to give me some good protection against the wind whipping through and more snow coming down from the top so first thing I have to do is tamp down my floor plan basically I'll have to do my footprint so I'm going to get going on that I'll get back to no okay so it stamped all down and now from this point what I'm going to do is throw the snow come all around do a big pile big mound to start your structure and you can do this with your hands your feet a flat rock or split wood now this is up you know obviously many things you can use to pick snow up I'm going to go ahead and use my rope World War two shovel right there okay so this is where I'm at after a half-hour shoveling

it's my little li tool and it's very important to keep track of how long it takes you to build a shelter because you have to get it done in three hours because of the rule of threes you know you have three hours before exposure becomes a problem your life for the most part so one of them building a shelter I'm always gauging and making sure that I'm not gonna have any issues if the need arises for me to build it in case of an emergency all right so keep that in mind when you work on your shelters now that's your survival shelters all right it's a viable shelters now your long-term shelf is you know I'm not going to build a cabin in three hours obviously can I bust out a lean-to yeah shuriken and bust out of Quincy sure I can you also have to make sure that you understand the tools you use to do it you know I'm using a chainsaw I can bust through some trees pretty quick but if I'm just using my hands in emergency situations building a lean-to might not take me hour and a half two hours like it does of my axe so if I decide my pocket saw or even just my knife and I have to put on through everything it might take longer so if I can build that and say an hour hour and a half I know even if it takes me two times longer to complete all my tasks I can still get it done in three hours and it's still a viable survival shelter it's very important so if it takes you six eight twelve hours to build a debris Hut you need to work on how to build it faster you need to learn how to cut corners and become more efficient and still get the job done high-quality shelter and a low amount of time okay well I can easily sustain me for a few days no issues so now I'm going to do is mark out my section for my door and I want it facing where the Sun is going to be okay so rises in the East sets in the west so I'm going to want it facing that direction and I really want I really want to get Sun around eleven o'clock ten o'clock so it won't be exactly East it won't be directly in the middle and we just shy just off to the left all right well I'm gonna mock it out you get started and we'll get back to you okay so I mean my selection my door is going to be right in here so now what I'm going to do is let this set and let it recrystallize and I'm going to go collect evergreen boughs and this area seems like that's going to be pine so I can make a bedding and a whole floor I'll get carpet I'm going to put inside okay

such that on my door and I started by going down about six inches so I reach the fourth floor so that way the cold will sink down before I start digging up and I'll have a little a little cold sink right here so I don't wind whipping right into me I'll be a little elevated and now the next step before I really get in here and do my cavity is taking sticks and measuring out roughly about a foot you want to hold that far and then you want to stick them in and what that's going to do is make sure that I have a uniform thickness throughout the whole thing that's very important so I'll save out there now I know what I'm digging if I reach a stick I need to stop so I'm going to go around put sticks in the whole thing and start hollowing it out okay so now I've hollowed out the inside and I'm going to put a pile of pine boughs in there and I'll show you guys that looks like right now this is what it looks like on the inside and again this is a natural shelter so every morning I'd wake up and add more pine boughs to my bed until it stopped compressing so it's about six to eight inches minimum so I can get up off of the the cold ground all right I'm going to show you guys inside hang tight all right so now I'm on the inside and you want to make sure that you make it small enough so your body can heat the shelter so you want to think of it as like a snow debris Hut because obviously I'm not gonna use fire with the shelter getting out of the wind and I'm going to warm it up with my own bodies insulation and again I need to keep adding this pine boughs to the bottom try to increase the insulative properties of them is it going to compress the more the more I sleep in this so like I said every day you just keep adding more and the more comfortably shot yourself it will be okay now so as an ultimate goal what you want is you want to create a cocoon where you feel you have your compacted 8 to 10 inches on the bottom right that's your floor but you want to fill this whole cavity inside with pine boughs so you have to actually move them aside and solid like a wall move them aside just to crawl in then you pull them over yourself and in front of the door so what happens is so you have like a nest inside there absolute thick nest packed so it's hard to crawl into your shelter and that's what you want you want to be so dense in there and so so strong that the wind can't reach you so you almost build like a pine debris Hut blanket almost really inside where it's like a cocoon alright so that's the ultimate goal as you keep adding you go all the way up to the ceiling and then you just you have to work your way in and you pull it all over yourself and cover your door now obviously there's still going to be some airflow and that's important so you don't have any problems of carbon monoxide anything like that building up lack of oxygen having all all of that all over you and once all cocoon it will keep you warm that's that's critically important

well it's been Mitchell native survival appreciate your views comments and support and I'll see you in the next one take care