Building A Primative Winter Survival Shelter With Only An Axe. 1

Well, welcome to Canada if you've got to try and navigate through any any bush You know, this is what you're gonna have to deal with in a lot of places anyway, unless you're up on a hill or something, but if you're down low and wetter areas You're gonna have to try and navigate through this You know, this is a nice little open spot Well, it looks like there's from here, but that's alright There's nothing really leaning over that way We're kind of in a maple Spruce balsam. There's some poplar in here And all the odd white pine I'm looking around. There's lots of Lots of dead stuff. I'd have lots of firewood The only spot I could really see To make a nice little shelter Without too much difficulty. I don't have any rope or anything. Now if you're stuck in the bush with just your axe You'd be looking for a tree like this Now what I don't like is it's leaning Towards where I want to make the entrance So it would probably fall on me And then you got this half here which there's you know, there's already moss and Stuff growing on it. So, you know, it's rotten inside good windstorm could knock that over and Follow me. Well, I don't want that You know, it's leaning pretty heavy this way and on this side You got this tree in the way. I'm really Good chop it down, but then I'm gonna have a stump in my in my shelter you know, there's lots of wood here, but There's too many big trees leaning. I don't really like this situation. So I'm just gonna keep moving There's not really any pristine spots to build a little shelter either. So I'm not Gonna run out of firewood. So So that's nice, but it's it's a little too broken off. It's a little bit too rotted for me. I Would not want that falling on me at night time I'm not getting out of that That pinches you you're stuck. That's pretty thick Axe blade you can see that so two axe blades, whatever that is 12 inches So we'll just keep pondering So we come to a good little spot Where I have a combination I can be kind of selective if you look around there's mass amounts of firewood Squirrel tracks, hungry. You can always set a little drop here if you want to. Rabbit tracks too. Not much of a highway, so Looks like it just went by once Not worth setting a drop there or a snare This is our property. So we've got a trail through here. It's kind of getting grown up now It's been a while since I've been through here Good spot for partridge in the fall right here. So we're gonna keep moving and try and find ourselves a good little Spot to make a shelter find an overglow and tree or something. I Got oh Well, the sun's high in the sky. So it's probably only two o'clock. Lots of time doesn't get dark about 637 Lots of time So Seen this on the road Not gonna build it underneath that because I know for a fact that's been down for years You know, there's lots of sticks and limbs and stuff to Keep it up if it ever did break at the top, but I'm not even gonna risk that because we have this beautiful spot right here It's fully open It's pretty easy to build a shelter and there is nothing except for that tree It's a hemlock that ain't going anywhere Or a tamarack. Sorry It's been dead for a while So we got nothing overhead. No widow makers Possible ways to die. I like it. So we're gonna use that as a reflector wall for a player So I like this spot because well, it's got a natural heat reflector for the fire I don't have to build that which is nice. It does go down a little bit there Whatever So we'll put that up there nice and safe Well, first thing I'm gonna do is get rid of all this snow Try to Probably gonna be a few limbs I'm gonna do a bit of measuring first Stand up. Oh, that's cold. Ha ha Stand it up backwards. So I only need it about this high really there Give it another six eight inches That snow out of my back before it melts. Oh It's cold Use that maybe All right, a couple more of those. We're good. Oh, yeah, I got a couple couple poles here about the same length Those on You know pretty simple kept a Y in it kept a Y in the other pole Lock my ridge pole in there. You know, that's not going anywhere Batteries died because that's what happens cold weather All right, can you see that whole thing? Not really. Hey, I can't pretty simple Got it resting on that side Pretty simple. I'll just leave an opening up here Let the smoke out Should keep us pretty warm Hopefully that shade you can guys can see that so I'm gonna go get some poles I guess finish her off And take a step See the truth From a distance you can tell Meant to be our door I I'm just gonna take some smaller limbs and intertwine them here Connect them all together make them a little bit more secure Don't want her falling over on me so Got this half done. I Got it all framed in anyway so it looks like pretty gappy, but I'm gonna take all those limbs That I cut off All the sticks and I'm going to intertwine them Sew them in together That should make it pretty strong Won't be falling down and then I'm gonna take spruce and balsam limbs I'm gonna shove them in there like shingles Got this end closed off a little bit. I'm just gonna put some bowls on this side now Have our little fire in there. I'll just keep that very end spot open Don't need a big fire in there Probably have the door over here, I guess Don't want to be walking on the fire Now we're gonna start weaving them So I'm just taking these long spindly sticks, and I'm just weaving them back and forth Changing up every row I get every row I go a little tricky at the start So hopefully you guys can see what I'm doing here takes a little while, but Each stick doesn't go very far That ain't falling over when it's done We want to get these pretty pretty tight together. You know we're gonna want to stick spruce boughs in there, so Trust me. That'll be good and strong once that's done Then we'll do the other side Well, hopefully you can see that slow but steady so around here I Just taken all the branches from the trees And I just I wove them in there pretty basic So I guess the next step is to go get some balsam and spruce limbs put them in there Maybe I'll grab some birch bark to try and keep them in bigger sections They'll act as shingles. I don't think you're gonna get anything better than that Okay, so what I've done. I've went and got some branches now some balsam branches these ones are and I'm just weaving them in I'm kind of trying to keep them curled up See that Trying to keep them curled up so the water runs down them and away from the shelter Not into it. I'm starting with the end that I cut off first and Just weaving them in Making sure I get all the holes covered don't let any wind in Get as much rain out as possible Keep it out I'll just work my way up All right, let's go get some more. We don't want too many holes You don't want the rain coming in Or snow whatever we're gonna get And you can always throw leaves and fire everything else on top of there multiple layers Get it out about two feet You doing all right Should be plenty warm in there. I'm done so all's I'm doing is putting it underneath the sticks I Wove through and just pulling it back over pretty easy Covers up a large chunk. You know this is getting pretty thick Pat it down a bit Looking good Okay, so all as I'm doing on the end here. I'm just taking the balsam limbs and weaving those in Like so It was pretty quick once you get on to it. I was here yesterday and my camera died Unfortunately went through a lot of batteries yesterday for some reason Must have been the cold I guess Just give you a little shot of the end Like that'll be alright so Probably about an hour's worth of work left. I guess I Don't know how long I did that hour hour and a half, maybe Wasn't too bad only with an axe so Not much wind gonna get through there Lots of time left. What do we got? You know two hours, maybe there it is a This side framed in I think I'll put the door there Easy to get the firewood in and out don't have to crawl through the hole Little fort with it should work good. We'll see