Super Shelter Modified for the Eastern Woodlands Part 2

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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going through this plastic and reflecting off the blanket but it's being held inside that shelter by the plastic so you've got a little bit of a backstop here that's made out of log just to keep all of your stuff all your heat from going out it's kind of reflecting it's not going to reflect it call these reflectors they don't really reflect heat they kind of hold heat more than they reflected when the log blog is heated up you're getting some benefit from that heat so you're almost evening at the log wall life is really never Flushing anything off they reflect the heat it would happen in circles and it does so I think basically just holding Center your heat into these logs and you need a very small fire but it needs to be the length of this shelter that way you've got the same amount of heat at the back as you do at the front and you don't need to feed it a lot and you can take just like I've got in the throat here you could actually roll this to the inside instead of I've gotten roll to the outside for this demonstration but if you had just rolled on the inside theoretically you could just lift this up and feed the fire without having to get out of the shelter okay but the key is is to trap that heat inside but you've got to give yourself a little bit of release for the carbon dioxide so you've got you can regulate the heat inside there by opening up these sides a little bit and letting some air flow in and out of there what I want you guys to do is I want you to take turns getting inside the shelter just get inside from that end I want you to feel what it feels like inside here because the shelter like this weighs less than 2 pounds that you can carry in your pack all you have to have is a 2 or 3 mil 9 button this is a 9 by 12 I think painter start from the hardware stores 4 bucks and the space blankets like 20 bucks roll that up add some cordage and as long as you got your axe you know even if you get into a crappy situation you can sleep through the night like this and what we're going to do tonight is I would like to build one of these for every two people staying the teams that you were in the other day when you did the nav exercise and one person can stay out here beside the fire and feed the fire while the other person sleep for two or three hours and then you guys can switch out that way that person never has to get out of here to feed the fire until they're going to be out of it for a couple hours the disadvantage to me with a shelter like this is number one it's got to be stinking cold because when you get in this shelter you're going to feel it's probably 75 in the shelter

now and we just started this fire twenty minutes ago so it'll be 90 in here within no time at all it's going to be 90 degrees inside the shelter you're not going to want to sleep like that and then get out of that to feed the fire and get back in and get out and get in and get out because going to catch pneumonia you know I would much rather be comfortably cold when I'm sleeping you know and be fifty to sixty degrees and you can control that a little bit with this fire and as the fire goes down it's going to cool down inside but eventually you're still gonna have to get out of that 70 or 80 degrees that you've got in there and feed this fire for a little while to get it built back up then crawl inside if we do a team exercise tonight well one guy sleeping one guys feeding the fire you guys will be better off by thinking there's plenty heat right here for the guy who's feeding the fire you know you can sit here and walk around and keep his body core temperature regulated easy enough just like this that the guy sent here is going to sleep like a baby so I want you guys to do is kind of take turns rolling the night in the shelter get in there for two three minutes or until you can't stand it anymore and then get out with the next guy in so you understand the power of the shelter you can use this slit here as a thermostat you'll move to you on this crack this open my warm is out Dave oh my goodness I can sleep like a baby in here man well you not to take turns the other problem you've got what shelters like this you have to regulate it conversation okay if you're just using plastic and mylar you're going to have condensation inside that shelter anything what you put in there for material like leaves for the ground for your leaf bed or anything like that you need you really need a four-inch leaf bed inside the shelter compressed the only way you're going to get true be able to battle conduction thoroughly gets that forage is a compressed material in there to separate you from the ground otherwise the grounds going to start robbing heat from you so you got to put a pretty good sized pile leaves they're about this high before you lay on it then it's going to crush name so I generally just fill that thing up two trash bags will be used I think when Jeremy now we use to full 55 gallon bags of leaves inside here and this wash it down we thinking brother Wow too hot for me in here that's the way I am Madison way too hot of a shelter for me with you but for someone who's not used to being out the cold well for someone who is not prepared for emergency you know maybe you got wet or something like that to build a shelter or to be able to build a shelter like this

can do a lot for you on a really really cold winter's night okay we're out here on day three of the intermediate class this is the instructor camp over here and this is what I would call a proper wood pile for the night you got about a pickup truck load over there and we got a long fire going all right here which instructors probably just sleep beside the fire on the ground we're not going to set up too much tonight because we got to keep fire watch everybody else but my concern is that the rest of these guys and then working at four-man teams don't have near this much wood hey you doing Sarah good well Matt Mahoney over here getting this fire going working on some fat wood right now there are a lot of hot wood and fat with a Ferro rod to start their fire tonight starting ice and shelter set up good sized wood pile going here not quite big enough but they're still collecting they got a good pile leaves inside that shelter they're going to go with the super shelter concept tonight one person in one person out another shelter over here is not even close yet it's going to be one person in one person out so you'll have two people feeding the fire while two people are sleeping should be a pretty easy night if they prepare correctly all right we got about a tenth of a truckload of wood here and a little more wood over there one shelter set up in here with a space blanket underneath it underneath the oilskin tarp clearing out an area for a fire this guy's got a nice thick wool blanket from Pennsylvania he's gonna be nice and toasty tonight no matter what two young boys here from Indiana trying to get it rocking on little to nothing but that's okay that's what it's all about get that mylar blankets set up get a fire going get a bed of leaves in there and they'll be all right they got a wool blanket all right boy so what do you think how we smoothing it over here totally smoothing it you got in our thoughts making some hot chocolate nice nice so the nice long fire going there you get two big old pile of firewood a super shelter on that side and a modified shelter over here with a space blanket inside of an oil cloth big leaf bed in there man oh man right here I can feel the warm Canada well you guys got this pretty well locked in I mean you don't have much cross breeze on your fire

but it's locking a lot of heat in because you got to block over there and block over here so you're locking a lot of heat and then you're sitting around the fire you're smoothing it man yeah Holly good job boys thanks good job so we're here at the old instructor camp let's talk about smoothing it look at the coal bed aside meat net faint frying pan yeah Holly nice loooong fire we laid out here let mark like a bunch of codfish on the beach here later on look at this Mara side me yeah holy master chef Christopher wick on the skillet mr. boxer in the background over there Jeremy Janie setting up his camp there so young man how come you're out of the super shelter there just woke up or you it was too hot in there um I are laying down yeah yeah harder laying there okay well they're never what how's miss ii-era doing there she been stirring still awake how warm is it in there Sarah that's all right it's pretty early B fall asleep nice and warm over there good yeah how we doing over here they're smoothing a camp really great you have acres bundle wrapped up here I don't even need a friggin baby brother long as we can you're good for tonight nice so you guys aren't even basically using the shelter just smoothing it right outside there's nothing wrong with that guy yeah I was wet at all I did just dry good good good lucky here what's going on boys fire was too big huh yeah it was almost bad just definitely to sleep in there but it dried my socks out like that

that's lesson learned we'll know better next time

that's fucked definitely warm in there though innit oh my god yeah drive you out everybody

Zonk out maybe antigen in turn anyone off yeah yeah but um sock of the rich man and look at the launch of the heap is holding one o the Cal do I do out here we are at the instructor camp a little after 5 o'clock in the morning we're off Stern up here fire still rocking rolling Chris hooking up some coffee over here on the old tripod the would-be fire pile from last night as went from a truckload to about five or six logs so got a good big fire here that we just Stoke to back up so judge the wood just about right for the night I'd say

smoothing it writes about six o'clock the instructor camp or getting ready to get all the folks up out there and super shelters buddy Kevin Baxter over there pulling assignment getting against the tree they're hunkered down I've been sleeping right here on this little blanket shard all night you dressed properly for the weather you got to get fire you really don't have to have a shelter starting to get some pretty good snow right now Jeremy Jane Chris Widger camped right there together go over see how everybody's doing this morning hey Dumas more sir good sir do all right last night no problem good Monsieur how did you do last night yeah I'm very good how come

cold how was that shelter with it warm enough blanket was warm enough Matt how'd you do buddy stumbling out this morning you all right last night share this only what second time you've ever camped out your life well you picked a good time to do it that's for sure how'd you do last night young man good yeah all right nice white covering on the oilskin this morning you guys do all right last night yeah get some sleep good nice still got one guy in the shelter over here one guy stumbling out over here not too shabby all right getting ready pack them up still got plenty of firewood left that's a good sign yeah nice nice you