Shelter Basics Raised Beds 2 

My wife was almost persuaded til you said snake. We're back to square one. Haha. Thank you for the great videos!!

Great little plug at the end about not really being able to get away from critters when you're sleeping out. Great series!

your comment on how the mark of a woodsman being how comfortable he makes himself in the woods reminded me of nessmunk..he told of the old woodsman guiding the young men on a fishing trip..how they made a mess of camp ..built big fires..too small a sleeping beds ..attracted bugs ect..and how the old woodsman quietly went about his chores making himself comfortable..good video and great point about being comfortable..safe journeys

Dave, every video you do teaches me something. They are great. Thank you so much & keep them coming Joe

Dave, thanks so much for your channel and the videos. I really enjoy them and have learned a lot form them. You are practical, real and personable in your presentation. Keep it up. God's blessings to you and your family.

your timing is great dave, just finished the re upload and saw part 2 was out. Cheers

Dave, I have been a student of your videos for a long time. I am guessing the question of losing conduction cold and gaining convection cold will be a question by many. I am also guessing the education of a long fire is next. See, I am learning. I have learned a lot from you. Thanks brother. I love the low profile and peak front of that shelter. Awesome. Jeff

really enjoyed the 2 vids Dave, always a joy to learn from someone that has the 'dirt' time that you do.

By the way you talk, it sounds like a busy winter is coming. Good health and high spirits! Cheers from Europe.

Good video! I know the few times I've tried to sleep NOT in a tent, I get a horrible night's sleep. I am not paranoid about bugs, but when they are constantly buzzing around my face and biting me I find it tough to really relax. Also was in a hammock, so that might have been part of my issue too.

Well put Dave. Not many talk about the importance of a good nights rest.

dave this series is one one if the best as you said if your comfortable in your surroundings you will sleep and being there rather than being in the house is the only way //tom

Great video Dave. Sleep is truly important and without it, you're gonna make mistakes!

Dave thanks for all the knowledge you drop on us. Always good to see your vids and im glad i can always come and gain some survival wisdom from you brother.

I guess if the wife's worried about spiders crawling up the legs you could put a strip of pine sap around each leg to stop them.

Great ideas and working of that bed, cheers Brother.

Wood's by my house is very damp, raised bed like this is on my list to do. Thanks for sharing! Rob M.

Dave, I just want to say Im really enjoying the videos & all that your doing. Down at Mill Springs battlefield museum, the have a cut away recreation of a Civil War micro log cabin. Just a tarp for a roof. Sleeps 1-2 people in a bunk, with a small wood fireplace. Id love to see a video of one of these built. Thanks

Thanks for the great, very competent time tested info that can help save my and families butts one day.

Great video! Looking forward to you adding a shelter to this setup instead of a tarp. In the process of building a semi permanent shelter myself so looking for some ideas...

Hi Dave. What I would really appreciate would be a Dave Canterbury 4-season tarp pocket guide that details the best tarps for the season / terrain, depending on the conduction, convection, radiation principles. Quick and dirty designs for us to follow and the reasons why you selected them? I know you have mentioned some of your preferred designs but your expert opinion would help a lot. Just a thought.

Those are nice thoughts about your shelter and I thought of it when getting my sleeping pad and sleeping bag. Those are components I knew was important to my survival skills.

The sit pad could be folded over and used as a pillow as well. I was wondering if those Walmart exercise pads would make a good sleep pad. They are comfortable.

You must have a ton of land to be cutting down all those trees! I'm jealous. Can only imagine how rich the wildlife must be on your property.

Great videos Dave! Really like the series!

Its always fun to wake up to a raccoon sitting on the edge of your bed trying to figure out what you are. At times like that you have to remember that he lives there and you're just visiting.

When my sister served in the 1st gulf war they used to put plastic water bottles on the legs of their cots so the scorpions and spiders have a hard time climbing up into their bed at night.

Dave, with the hunting seasons approaching would you show us what would be good to carry in a pack for hunting? A day pack that is light and efficient for the mountains would be awesome. I would love to hear you talk about the different options for an elk, deer, squirrel and grouse hunter. I am 60 years old and still enjoy hunting all game.Do you think a hunter needs a range finder or glasses?

im sorry if you have touched on this in the past, ive watched all the videos but its over a long period of time haha great work as always.

Good video Dave. Would your raised bed / tarp set up work with a coal bed covered with dirt underneath it? Burn a fire within the framework, cover the coals with dirt and replace the logs on the frame just before bedding down? You would get residual heat rising from below. Obviously you would not want debris under you at that point but maybe an option if there is light snow or rainy conditions causing issue with collecting enough dry debris for insulation...

hey dave it was cool to hear you mention the U.P. of michigan lol i was born and raised in iron river. i love the woods here and i enjoy your videos on youtube. i hope to attend some of your classes in the near future. thanks for the knowledge, greg s

I find that wood smoke helps alot with keeping the bugs off you.

dave you look great. i love the hair. don't cut it just yet. it really looks natural. i'm no where suggesting you turn hippie, but you ought to keep it like that. i'm sure iris loves it. as always, brother, your videos rock, and watching them over the years has really made me a responsible bushcrafter, and resourceful. thank you very much.

Thanks for all the great info. I love this channel and hope to be able to attend a class sometime next year.

Thanks dave great job.

Shelter looks great Dave.. I may have to re-think Derek's tarp now. >_o Thanks for the great video

Great video, very very informative. Something I would like to no, is how I can access all of your videos on RU-vid. I don't know how to search for each of them, and I wish somehow there was a list somewhere. If you have the opportunity please respond and let me know how I can find more of your videos. Thank you very kindly. Your friend, Ray

Great video dave, i will be making that very soon

Fantastic information! Thank you!

You have a lot more hair now than when I first started watching your videos.

Haven't hear you much about snow. Will you continue this series in the winter? Which tarp is bulletproof all seasons?

that seat can also make a good pillow if you fold it over

Something like the GoLite Shangri-La in a more durable form would be pretty cool and still packable.

Redhawk Trading. They sell canvas and oil cloth. Great company and amazing workmanship/quality. To order call, but use site to find what you want.

I hate to ask but I have that exact tarp and was wondering because it did look like it but I couldn't tell. did you have a rope pulling the back of the shelter out and how did you do it if you did?

Dave, on really cold nights would throwing hot rocks up under your raised platform be worth the effort. Or would filling it in with debri be more efficent?

Dave have you written a survival book?

Just curious if you tear these things down after your videos are made?

I can immediately tell who has experience in the woods, and who doesn't by just looking at their sleep system. The bulk of my pack has to do with getting a good night sleep first...

looking like quite the bush hippie there ; )

very informative. thank you

Dave....I went to Dereks's store to look for that tarp. I didnt see it listed. Am having problems finding a good canvas tarp with the loop tie outs. Any place you know of that stocks them?

if you don't mind me asking the one i saw was with you and mike hawk (man women wild) on the out door channel?? thanks for your response

Dave, What do you think of the military surplus pads selling (In my area) for around $15 compared to your exercise mat?

Hi Dave, What type of wallet do you take out into the field with you, if any? Minimalist or the bulky kind? What do you think of the Pure-Minimal wallet posted on kickstarter. please give feedback Thank you

Good stuff

how do you keep snakes out of your bed in the bush?

Thanks.

Haha, on the bush hippie comment. they also have braded hair. Nice tarp. .

really enjoy your videos!

How do you keep the mosquitoes from biting your exposed skin when sleeping?

What about a hammock tarp combo?

hi dave just wondering do you still use the cabin fever cabin and alsowould you recomend a tarp typ shelter for really cold moutin conditions. cheers dave

hey Dave been watching a lot of your videos lately and I've heard you mention your trip to the U.P. several times. I'm a Yooper myself, what area of the U.P. were you in? (May take me a bit to respond to your reply, don't check my RU-vid messages very often)

should you be able to drink rain water immediately?

Thanks pork

If you don't like his video don't watch he's trying to help you and make sure your soaking up the info he's giving you Thanks David your videos are great thanks for taking time out of your life to help us

Good to see you have more self respect than you care for money or fame.

I'm right there with you man... I just did the same thing...

How well would hot rocks under the raised bed work as an additional option?

Dave. If some camper thinks that's going to keep bugs and snakes out of their bed maybe they shouldn't be camping.

on average people need to be asleep for 2 hours or more before they fall into REM sleep and I heard somewhere that they prefer you to get more like 4-6 hours, so it falls into the normal 6-8 hours they recommend for a full night's sleep.

oh ok makes sense lol guess it was just a rumor thanks

permanent means he'd stay there for the rest of his life, semi permanent means he's expecting to use it a lot and it's not his home. think of it like having a house and a cottage, you might use the cottage during the summer, but you're using the house for the other four seasons, so the cottage is semi permanent since you're expecting to return, but your house is your home.

Or they are just "sleepers", I knew a guy that could nap at attention, in the military...called him lucky basta$d....

I think someone needs a hair cut.

You are exactly where you need to be, teaching the public and serving as a role model for anyone willing to learn. It is easy to forget to tell you, but thank you Dave you make a huge difference.

I drag my pack on a sled during the winter, but it can be a pain when travelling uphill, or through heavy deadfall and brush. I will sometimes ride my sled downhill only in familiar areas that I know are safe.

nice video brother. always the small things that can be a big deal (sleep). agree on all counts

Sleep is of major importance in my life for all those reasons that you mentioned. Thanks!

Sleeping down hill :) The Mrs and I camped out for a few days a month or so ago. After 2 nights we started fighting and being grouchy. Wasn't until the third night we realized the bed was on a hill and we where sleeping "heads low".... Can't agree with you more on that. When we switched to sleeping "heads high" we got a decent nights sleep and started working together instead of against each other! A good nights sleep makes a world of difference in every way... Keep up the good work!

I really like the low-profile aspect of the tarp. It would be good for setup on public land for deer season. I'm using a hammock right now, (and I don't think I'll go back). I just take it down in the morning, but this setup would be easy to hide in cover, to keep others from stumbling upon it...

team up with Ray Mears, his shows are very entertaining and even more educational. If you had a production crew that could rival that of BBC's i think you would do as good or even better. JMHO

Thanks for cranking out all the videos. I am so glad I stumbled across this channel. This is the type of stuff I am wanting to learn. Thanks a bunch, and keep up the good work.

Its a little funny to me how people think so much about a small bug or spider or snake but never think twice about getting into a car . I would bet the odds of even being bittin buy a bug ,snake,spider,shark,is much smaller than being bitten buy a dog .Some times the idea of something is more scarey than the actual thing is ,ounce you get past the idea and really understand its one more thing you know and one less thing you have to worry about . Thanks for the video Dave !

Thank you for making your videos available listed in sets or categories which make it so much easier to find and study a topic, or restudy it a year later. It is also much more profitable for people who need data to find your series is internally consistent. You don't change the way you define problems or terms as others often do. Good job!

I made this exact shelter and I wanted to add a couple thoughts. One you mentioned in building it on an incline. Also you can use a lot of crappy wood just make sure the butt/hip has strong wood. I used a blue exercise mat with it and I definetly agree it works well. You can build an overhang the same way you make the bed, just make it taller which goes well with a lean-to.

GREAT klosing thots ; sleep and kritters . we made camping modifications for sleep . kritters we had fairly well :) tiki oil in hurricane lantern thru the nite . not "pack" material , but did work well . i'm working on idea for "packing" because it work so well .

My two cent, for me at any rate, is if I'm not in an area that has a lot of poisonous creepy crawlies I don't worry about them. I hate every spider God put on this earth, but so long as they don't pose a threat to my life I find I can sleep okay. I would be interested in Dave's input.

Thanks for clearing that hammock thing up, Dave. What are your thoughts on the Tentsmiths' Tarp vs. Sarge Faria's? It seems like the Tentsmiths' folds up smaller & might be a bit lighter. Thinking I'll start saving for one of them, but I don't know which one to go with.

This guy is great, i love his information, but oh my God. Could he not beat a dead horse into the ground. I skip threw his videos, and he's still talking about the same thing. Just cut it dowwn a smidge. You have some of the best info out there.

REM sleep usually happens in the last third of sleep... only occasionally will it occur in the first or second thirds of sleep ie over tired or REM deprived... I find though that the better the REM sleep is the better the sleep is.

Just a thought, but are you going to show how to make a long log fire? By that I mean a fire that runs about the width of your shelter... I do not know if that is the actual name for it, it is just what I call them.

Stupid people need to just shut up and not watch if they dont like. Show some respect sometime. The man is taking his knowledge and sharing it and passing it on for free. Go troll somewhere else. And have some self respect.

I don't have much chance to get out in the woods these days, so I really appreciate being able to watch someone who is----especially when there's such useful information involved. Thanks Dave.

Dave in my hometown I am unable to purchase 550 paracord. The only type available to me is fake. The inside of the cord looks like rolled toilet paper. What would you suggest I do?

will the part of the tarp buried start to rot over time? a week, a month? I am unsure how well Canvas tarps hold up as i have never used one.

Really nice tutorial.

Do you not use a tent for the sake of practicing bushcraft and survival or do you just prefer tarp shelter for weight?

Hey Dave what happened to the Lansky diamond sharping rod i was looking to buy one