Solo Wild Camping in the Woods - Bushcraft Bed & Small Tarp

Oh hello world ones, I've come to play in the woods today and I'm going to have a go at making a bushcraft bed. So I've brought with me today to the woods a few tools to hopefully help me make a bed or at least something to sleep on. I've got my lovely new axe, this is a granforce brick which apparently is very good. I think she's totally beautiful, she is called Rose, get it? And my beloved silky saw. So I've got a lovely little clearing here, I'm going to clear some leaves away to make some space for a little bed and then start looking for some wood. I think this might work, let's saw it down. Yay! I'm going to use my sleeping mat to see how long I want this bit of wood. So these two are going to be the frame for my bed. So what I'm going to do now is make some stakes on each corner, sort of hold these in place and then we'll see about getting some smaller branches across the top and the thickness of these guys with the branches on top it's going to keep me off the floor, hopefully keep me a bit warmer. So I've got eight of these now and they're going to be my corner stakes that hold down the frame of my bed in a corner, so I need to put some pointy ends on these so I can whack them into the ground. Nice little point, I think that'll do for that one, let's do the others. So I've got all of my stakes whacked into the ground, I probably should have made them longer so that I could tie string at the top as well, I didn't really think of that but I think they'll be okay for this. And now I've got to find wood to go across the top of here to make the bottom of my bed. So I've got lots of wood and I'm gonna have to saw it down to the right length to go across. If I slip on it, it doesn't even budge, it's so much stronger than I thought it would be. Let's finish it off. I have cut my thumb already though, I wasn't even using the saw, I just went to pick it up with the blade. Ain't it beautiful? Let's test it out. It's so sturdy, I can't believe how sturdy that is, that's amazing. So I was going to tie some of these down to the big ones here but I don't think I need to and I can't really do that anyway because I can't get paracord underneath. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to layer this up a little bit with some smaller branches and I'm going to chuck some leaves on top and then I'm going to finish it with a layer of moss hopefully. Okay, leaves! I'm gonna stick some lovely moss on now, make it nice and soft. That's so comfy actually, whether it'll be comfy to sleep on or not is another matter entirely but I'm loving it. I'm struggling to find any more moss now so I think this is as floofy as I'm going to get it, hopefully it'll be okay. So I've got a little tarp S, small tarp, that I'm going to try and put up in a little lean-to using my trekking poles just to cover my little bed area in case it rains in the night, which it might. I cannot believe how well that has come together, I'm really really happy with it. I'm not going to be sleeping on it as it is I'm going to be in my bivvy bag to stop bugs and ticks and stuff crawling all over me so I think it'll be okay. I don't know if it'll be warm enough, if it doesn't I've got my trusty foam mat here that I can use as well but I am going to try it just as it is and see what the warmth is like. It's definitely time for dinner, chilli today and a nice fresh baguette. They didn't have rolls so I've got a whole baguette. Oh I forgot I bought this, look it's a blackberry and raspberry bramble G&T, it's very nice for the start of autumn isn't it? Brambles! 15 degrees currently, feels a little bit chilly actually, that's I think the first bobble hat of the year. Oh yeah, feels weird having a hat on. I think it's supposed to drop to about 10 tonight so it's going to be a bit chilly. I've got my bed set out, I've got my leviathan tonight. I didn't want to sort of cheat and bring my big floofy Rab 900 winter bag because we're only just going into autumn so I wanted to bring a season appropriate bag and test out how the bushcraft bed does and I couldn't really do that if I bought you know like all my winter stuff and hand warmers and all that stuff so I've got nothing like that, just got my leviathan, got my bivvy bag and I've got my pillow on my wonderful little bed made of sticks. It actually looks really cosy, I'm excited to see if it does keep me warm or not. Hot drink and bedtime soon I think. Floofy, oh there you go, there you are. So I have managed to make a bit more space under here by attaching some paracord to this centre tie-off point and pulling it out to a tree behind so there's a bit more headroom now. I feel that's quite nice and sheltered actually, if it does rain I think it'll be okay. And there are some friends about, I've had a little spider trying to get in my bivvy bag already and there's some little beetles going about on the ground so I'm going to be wearing a bug net tonight. Even though we're not in prime bug season anymore, I think I'd be too worried about stuff coming out the moss and the twigs and the leaves into my mouth while I'm asleep. So I'm going to be rocking this look, which is amazing. I think it's going to be a nice night. All right, I'm going to try and get in there. I don't know how that's going to work actually. Oh yay, comfy. I just hope it will keep me warm enough but, oh comfort-wise it's gorgeous. I'll see you in the morning guys, let you know how it goes. Good morning guys, it's a lovely peaceful morning in the woods and I have had nine hours of sleep. Yeah, nine. I actually can't believe that. Not only was I comfortable, I was warm. I was actually too warm. I had to take some clothes off. Oh, just such a nice sleep. I feel so nice and rejuvenated this morning. So yeah, building this little bushcraft bed was one of those things I thought, well I'm not going to be able to pull that off, but I'll give it a go anyway. But I did pull it off actually and I can't believe how sturdy it is. Look, it just doesn't budge. It's amazing. So I've got chocolate coffee this morning, as always, and a lovely chocolate twist that I've eaten half of already. So it's a chocolate breakfast. I did wake up a few times in the night. One was with the crows, that must have been about dawn, and a few times there was just such loud rustling and running around. I don't know what it was, but there was some creatures about. So I'm going to finish my coffee and then I'm going to get out of here, I suppose. So thank you bushcraft bed for keeping my tushy warm, for being so cosy. It's been awesome. Thanks guys. See you again soon. Bye.