Underground Bushcraft shelter, Wilderness survival shelter, Warm shelter with fireplace in winter 

40 years ago, while hunting on the edges of the Australian outback, we came across an almost identical in-ground hut. We called them shepherd's huts, a temporary home until the homesteader / squatter, built a more permanent structure. It kept the scorching sun off you, and the dirt fireplace was ideal for cooking with off-ground dugout shelves for beds. The wooden / dirt canopy was exact to your build and was cozy, warm and a partial safe area from bush fires. Excellent video mate.

It may even seem ironic to dig a hole in the ground in a survival situation. It may have the appearance of a tomb, but in these weather conditions it is the best alternative to stay alive! I really enjoyed your video!👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I wish I had beautiful soil like that in my garden. I could grow anything!

As someone who used to dig burrows as a kid and try and make a tent out of it. This pleases the 7 year old within me.

efsane bir fikir olmuş barınak için. çok teşekkürler ilham verici bir video

Top class. I think that's the most homely shelter I've seen anyone make in the wilderness. Our ancestors must have felt so cosy in their shelters sometimes.

I'm a former log cabin builder from Northern Minnesota (pencil pusher now, I'm 60). Back in the day we used axes and chainsaws, there was usually no power to the site until the building was complete. I like the concept for a dugout survival shelter in the right environment, but up north we have bedrock (glaciers scraped off the topsoil) and even in early winter, frozen ground. Go too deep in the woods and you'll have a root network that will have you sawing all day. Right place and season, though, and I think this would work and be an effective shelter. A good warm camp for a few days, but may not be worth it if you're on the move in a climate warm enough to dig. Still a cool video though, and not a bad idea for staying under rifle fire in the deer opener or otherwise.

What an amazing job you did to set up for the night and I'll be watching more of your videos whenever they are added to your list, cheers from Australia 🇦🇺

Walking in the wilderness away from the utter madness society has produced. Bliss.

Спасибо, за подсказку, как выжить. Урок поучительный, полезный, интересный и прекрасное укрытие на всякий случай.

Отличный вариант 👍 На юге России казаки так и осваивали земли: копали 2-3 соединённые траншеи, делали А образную крышу над ними, крышу застилали камышом, травой и засыпали землёй. Это было временное жилище на период постройки дома из глины с соломой. Потом при вспашке участка для поля с него приносили камень, им выкладывали стены и временное жилище превращалось в хранилище урожая и заготовок, называет погреб, в котором почти всегда постоянная температура 👍

Very convenient spot with nice soft dirt, no rocks and all those trees the exact right size.

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The dugout style shelter is the only way to go if at all possible. So much warmer especially in the north country. 👍👍

Awesome. Never fig a hole like that in New England - rocks and stones.

Земля хорошая - песчаная !

Look! Another RU-vid channel where nobody talks and explains what they're doing! Exactly what we all needed!

Замечательно окей класс я впечатлён удачи вам.

In a friend's backyard we had almost 150 of on Ground forts!!!! Like I said we dug about 150 feet in all directions sometimes 6-foot deep so you could stand up, sometimes only 4 ft deep and average of 3 1/2 ft wide, so you could lay a piece of plywood on it!!!

Shelter dibawah tanah sungguh sangat bagus dan hangat buat tidur, kami terinspirasi dengan video ini, hari ini kami baru menemukan Video anda, kami dari Indonesia hadir untuk mendukung anda💪🙏👍❤️😘🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

Love that idea 😀. I've yet to find a riverbed that didn't have river rock all through it. I'd like more dirt like him 😀.

Dude......dug out ....we can see the backhoe tracks.........and the limbs....chain saw marks.........oh never mind that was one that i dreamed I built...............great job..............

Great video!

Great experience outdoors. Wonderful video thanks for sharing

Nóc hầm chữ A rất kiên cố Người lính việt Nam 🇻🇳 rất hay sử dụng loại hầm như này❤❤❤❤

If I met someone in the forest with a spade digging a long hole like that I'd run for my life 😀

yine harika bir iş çıkarmışsınız.Yemekler de çok güzel görünüyor. Şömine detayı🥰 Emeklerinize sağlık 🍀

Отличное укрытие,а главное огонь внутри!👍👍👍

I'm envious love it

I do so love this underground bushcraft, because you can stand up in it comfortably. Some are so small you can't stand up in them.

Love your dug out shelter, and the fire and food you cooked, tasty 👍🏻💞 Thankyou for helping me learn 💪🏻🙏🏻

Yeah these huts are awesome, my partner and I made one of these and slept in it for a week just for the experience, it was brilliant. We lined the inside of ours with a tarpaulin . We did a fireplace like that too, it was so cozy.

This is the most wholesome and inspiring video ,that I've seen in a while Excellent presentation, ...Had my attention from the very start . It is a very comforting thing to live in such intimate harmony with Mother Nature .

one has to wonder how many days it took to build this.

the house is awesome

This is great. Until a hard rains. Then, it will be a swimming pool!

I laugh to myself when I watch these "Dug Out" shelters, all of them, other than roots, are fairly clean digging, where I live, the ground loaded with rocks, good size ones, it would take well over a day+, to dig that, where I live

Very nice Video. Thanks.aim sri lanka

I just watched your video. That’s a great idea. I’ve watched many video’s where leaves are used as insulation against rain water and keeps heat inside. Thank you sir for showing us how it’s made

We call these dugouts in Australia ,my brother and I made one as kids, it's a lot of work, I remember thinking that as a 10 year old ,but if you want to keep a low profile it's definitely the way to do it, we used to hide there when our father was looking for me or my brother when we'd been naughty ,worked for awhile,it's important to have some way for small animals particularly snakes to be able to get out, and raise the sides two or three inchs to stop it becoming a mini lake, we used logs and old roofing iron for the roof the logs worked well as they gave us a 360° gap so we could see around , the height we dug too was the height where we could bend over but still walk around you could go deeper if you are more enthusiastic about digging,

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Very cool. Until it rains

There are some possibilities for short-term survival in such constructs, but many of this type of video feature a brown, clayey soil, workable stuff but very different from the black, friable soil in this region. The shelter's roof in this video would also be useless in a rain or even a light snow. With some kind of impermeable cover and door and soil that doesn't crumble this shelter could make a fun hideout or getaway spot for camping, reflecting, and observing nature.

Super, I really like such a shelter, I've been thinking recently whether I should make one myself Your video helped me thank you and I'm subscribing

Outstanding talent!

Wonderful video thanks for sharing!

정말 좋은 힐링 동영상 입니다. 잘 봤어요

Harika bir video

bravo omule

You have made a very fine shelter. It looks to be made 'quickly' but I know it took a deal of experience and effort. In the end, you made a cozy shelter in which to spend one or several nights!

Hi friend The dirt looks good. It's good soil to dig with a shovel :) You must have built a lot of muscle in your body from shoveling dirt up to your waist. That fireplace is something I really want to try, but here I need an excavator to dig as much as I do :) Today's dish also looks so delicious. i really like your cooking 안녕 친구 흙이 좋아 보입니다. 삽으로 파기 좋은 흙입니다 :) 흙을 허리까지 퍼 올리는 동안 당신의 몸은 매우 건강해졌을 것이다. 저 벽난로는 정말 해보고 싶은 것인데 여기는 저만큼 땅을 파려면 굴삭기가 필요할거야 :) 오늘 요리도 너무 맛있어 보여요. 나는 당신의 요리를 정말 좋아합니다

snow certainly melted quickly

just outstanding! enjoyed the video!

Çok güzel olmuş elinize sağlık

Very nice! More than enough to survive.

हिंदी मात्रभाषा Love from India.

Great video thanks.

Love your shelter style 👍💐💐

That was a smart shelter, there are is one aprovment that could help. Do not sleep at the lowest point. You can avoid that by digging less deap on the side you are to sleep on. That apart i do think the shelter works but it is a lot of work for a night.

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No doubt about it it's definitely alot of work but he got lucky with picking a sand pit to do dig in. I like it just need to find a sandpit of my own lol

Always great except when the ground is frozen.

Cool!

My son watched this video with me and he thought it was me! Great work. Love the video.

Wow, the soil inside looks so fine. It looks like staying there would leave you incredibly dirty. I don't mean in the unhygienic sense, but literally that it looks as though dirt would get everywhere, haha! Very cool shelter design.

Ez egy fedett sirhely az erdoben! Amugy tetszett volna ha nem vagy ennyire igenytelen!

Nice soil. Even frozen it crumbles easily.

Chthonic life! Awesome 👍🏼

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There's No Way the digging in my area would be this EASY. I didn't see One Rock

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Very good presentation and craftmanship

Nice.

Very nice job! Just one piece of advice, take it or leave it. All exterior doors should swing to the inside. Interior doors as well lf possible. It wouldn't take much snow or mud who knows maybe a dead animal up against your exterior door and you're now trapped inside.

Does this style radiat the heat throughout the shelter well? Plus how do you like the pack shovel and would you change anything about it? I see you have a separate pick for digging. Great plan

The problem is the earth walls trickling down onto your sleeping bag/ platform..Need a decent military pick and shovel.

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Love the video. Nice shelter. And yes...if you are working steady you can build this in your timeframe. Forget the haters....you made a great shelter and showed us how you did it. Outstanding.

Amazing video ....turned out brilliant well done..

It always turns into a cooking show.

Cool shelter.

The video was good all that old talk about snow an if rain fall humm

Top show amigos meu amigo 👌

Saludos desde California, my friend, that was 🔥 amaizing.

Thats a really cool shelter.

Хорошо но в один световой день, не построиш такую хижину

Interesting project but I don't see it as practica/fully thought out in an emergency situation. You have a shovel, mattock, lighter, cutting board, and grocery store veggies. Why not a tarp or three, or even a cheap roll of dropcloth plastic? Plastic or tarps over the roofing cover before applying brush/dirt would be the ideal waterproofing for the interior as well as a vapor barrier for heat retention. If building it as a long-term structure (weeks to months of use), it'd be best to invest the time and effort into making a rudimentary kiln to bake mudbrick shingles for protection from the elements.

Excelente

I ❤ U bro

Все здорово, но зимой так не выкопаешь))

فكره جيده للمطر في الصحراء

Build mantap💪💪💪

Well done my friend.

Great narration. So interesting.

Probably not much rain there that would flood really quick so you have to do it on the top of the hill maybe? I can also dig a tunnel to let the water out?😮❤😅

Big trouble if its rains otherwise great temp shelter.

It would make an awesome bath tub if it rains.

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Bravo tres bel abris magnifique

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