I got your package Shawn, now I need to decide if I should wait to open it in spring! I get the sense that I'll be planting the contents!!!! Thanks again Shawn, you're a class act. Best part about these videos is you pack so much information into such a short amount of time. Brilliant.
It's too small for a fire, but there's one cool thing you can also do with this type of shelter. You make a big fire outside, and you dig a hole inside, in the middle of this shelter. Heat a few stones in the fire until they glow, and just roll them inside the shelter and throw them into the pit you've dug up. If there's enough rocks (about 10 is probably enough) they will give you smokeless and flameless heating through an entire night ;) And since it's well insulated, maybe even beyond that time.
You are so correct! Year ago my brother made a sweat lodge and we did exactly as you said. It was a freezing night in December and we built a large fire outside, heated up some big rocks, then brought them inside and put them in a large pit. The rocks were glowing dull red when we got them out of the fire. The amount of heat coming off those things was incredible. Within a few minutes that sweat lodge was VERY warm inside Then it got so warm that we started stripping off clothes. It worked great!
Thanks for replying Billy! I'm planning to build a sweat lodge this winter too, and then go ice-bathing. I love the feeling this kind of extreme temperature switches give you :D Also really cool to see that Shawn has done later exactly what I described :P
This is a great shelter! One that even a young person could build to stay out of the elements. My kids will love building this with me. Thanks for showing it withstanding the elements
Watching Alone right now! The first guy that was a "wilderness instructor" went home in a day, the next "wilderness instructor" just cut his arm with an ax and as called in, now he's going in! You and billy Berger need to go win that half million.
You two are definatly the real deal, I'd love to see you on that show, have you sent in a request? Maybe we could all do a write in and ask for you two if you think it would help.
good convo you all, I know man, I think that too, but most of these folks that go out there kinda know their stuff and it just eats 'em alive. I'm not sure how we'd do with next to nuthin' and stuck out there a couple months, I think we would be kinda haggard,. most can 'survive', they are eating worms and stuff, some can 'make it' and I'm not sure who could 'thrive', would like to think most bushcrafters would. Kinda using mountain man/trapper mentality, I'd like to think I could make it pretty good, it sounds like fun. Since I'm about Dick Prenneke's age, don't think I'll be getting dropped out of a chopper in the 'glades any time soon! Be safe out there and always make sure someone knows where your at when your'e in the boonies : )
Another fantastic video Shawn!!! Great job on that shelter...man that thing looks really good! I've seen lots of cattails near my home on the Chattahoochee River, but they aren't nearly as tall as the cattails you guys get out there in Oregon. Looks like I need to move back out west!
How long did it take you to build? It would be interesting to see you wear a calorie tracker like a FitBit or Garmin Fenix3 while doing this or other primitive skills. On a sedentary desk day I am in low 2000s but when hunting have been 6000-7700 calories in a day. The average over a month is key, but it is enlightening to see how many calories you would need to procure in an active survival situation.
Great instruction. In the mountains where I live there are 5 stone circles 12' feet in diameter 30 " tall. The Indians would make a structure of willow like your inside the circle .
Can you elaborate how to put (weave) the 2nd thatch around the top(roof) . The vid was very short about how the heavy ends were weaved around the top and how they hold in place.... good vid, thnx
Good job man, I live in Tucson AZ, not likely to find to many around here but there are a few places, i grew up in the Midwest and a lot there and I'm familiar with the uses. Out here is a whole different thing when building a shelter, enjoyed watching your video and will sub and watch a few more even though been Bush crafting long time and make alot of my tools such as knives etc. I learned a man can always learn something new from another man if he doesn't think he knows it all. Thanks again!
Shawn love your videos - just so people know , here in N.Y.S. it is illegal to harvest cattail on state land without buying a permit from the state D.E.C. ! I just don't want people to get in trouble !
Thanks for the interesting video. I live in a Cattail rich environment and will try this next fall. Im building a quinzhee this month for my yearly winter camp...
Just found your channel. L+S+B you are doing a good job with your explanations and the video to back it up, very practical and no missed steps. Lots of vids miss steps and usually the most critical part, not yours. Thanks much! and Merry Christmas!
Great video as always Shawn! In a survival situation, would you be able to use green, living cattails? And in the winter could you use dead cattail stalks assuming they don't break? Thanks for the video!
hey Shawn woods,can you show us how to make flint knapping tools made from nails,mainly because I'm having trouble finding a clear tutorial on making them.
Does the shelter still work if the coattails are green? If not then I might be dead before they dry out. But the shelter looks really nice. Enjoyed the video. Thank you for sharing.
hello shawn I'm a huge fan of your videos and the arts you are preserving and teaching just finished my first self bow out of a Chinese pistache and I have a lot of stave material and would like to find a way to maybe send one your way to see what you can do with it simply a thank you for all the time and effort you put into your channel and your crafts I'll be moving to Oregon this year and I can't wait to give some bow hunting a shot thanks a gain for everything!
Wow Shawn I will do that sometime! I will try to mail the package soon because I am going to Texas tomorrow and I might try and collect some Texas flint. Thanks for the awesome video. As always, your friend Mason.
I like to make up words too. lol Also, this video is very helpful if you're stranded in the small fraction of the U.S. that has a high concentration of tall cat-tails like that.
I've built numerous native tule/cattail huts never see the upside down cattail layer on the second layer. Where did you come up with this? Looks like a marsh wren nest. Willow bark works the best for securing the willow poles but I guess this is a quickie "survival shelter". What happened to sticking with historical reproductions?
Hallo, gratuliere zu dem schönen Haus. Leider musste ich beim Schneefall sehen das der Eingang an der falschen Stelle ist. Ich habe mit Indischen-Springkraut und Brennnesseln ein sehr ähnliches Haus gebaut. Nur das ich zwei wende geflochten habe und den zwischenraum mit Laub aufgefüllt. Den Eingang habe ich wie bei einem Iglu gemacht. Auch an einen kleinen Rauchabzug. Die Feuerstelle ist ein kleines Loch, das beim schlafen mit einem flachen Stein abgedeckt wird. Wegen der eigenen Sicherheit durch die Brandgefahr. Ich wünsche noch allen im Winter noch viel Spaß beim ÜLT (Über-Lebens-Training)...! MfG Lexa Gorrchen Hello, Congratulate to the beautiful house. Unfortunately I had to see in the snowfall that the entrance is in the wrong place. I have built a very similar house with indian-spring-shoots and nettles. Only that I twisted two braids and the interspace filled with foliage. The entrance I made as with an igloo. Also to a small smoke exhaust. The fire place is a small hole that is covered with a flat stone when sleeping. Because of their own safety due to the fire hazard. I wish you all a lot of fun in the ÜLT (Über-Leben-Training)! MfG Lexa Gorrchen
I never realized how sharp obsidian actually was until I went on a volcano in turkey and brought a 2.5kg piece of obsidian and when I flintknapped with it I cut myself bad, I don't know how you don't get cut.
