Building a Long -Term Wilderness Shelter - Episode 2 Building in a Blizzard!

I know, eh bud? It's sort of wolfy. What do you think, bud? Got a wall up. Time to build a shelter. Definitely useful now. Necessary even. There should be. As much done on our main wall as we can. The goal is to finish the main wall. We got the same tools except for I brought the Agua 24 instead of the 21. Just for the simple fact that I had a better blade on it. Cutting lots and lots of dead trees last time and I had a all-purpose blade instead of a deadwood blade. Got it correct this time. Egor Gear is one of the best outdoor companies for bushcrafter slash like, I don't wanna say serious, but like expedition type explorer, tripper, adventurer, people. See that one broken off at the top, plumb down right about there. Let's go chop that one. Quite big at the base, but it's got the length that I need and I can chop some off the base if need be. It's not a big deal. There's lots of structural support over there anyways. When I start off, I'm basically trying to create a cut all in line about halfway through the tree. So my first cuts I'm going to do on the same side and try to get in the same spot, roughly. Not like that. Like that, there, and back here a couple times until it's in pretty deep. Then I might switch to underneath, depending on the type of wood. This is balsam fir again. It's pretty easy to chop through. I'm going to go on my knees for this one. come from underneath, do the same thing. Try to make a line all the way across. Now most of that tree is gone. I can switch sides and chop it with my ax, or I can saw it and use this like a notch like you would with a chainsaw. Let's do that this time just to see. It's a bit more controlled that way too. It's gonna fall that way. Hopefully you get out of the way. He's gone like he does. I'm gonna cut like maybe half an inch to an inch above the apex of the notch, where the notch meets itself. Kinda like, you need a measuring stick for the new pieces for the back wall. But those pieces certainly don't have to be that long. So let's figure out how long those back pieces are gonna need to be. The whole idea is the other, this side is gonna go up and match those right around there. I want it to be longer. So I wanna take a foot and a half off the shortest one. Hey Wolfie. It's still gonna be very long as far as walls for a lean-to type shelter. So about a foot and a half. Be safe right about there. And the best part about this is that I get like another 10 feet underneath that I can use a big solid round log. Get to sawing, get to sawing again. Before taking this dead tree down, most of them that I've done, the smart move is to clean off all the limbs. If you want them off anyways while it's standing, it's much easier, you don't have to flip it around and try different sides and get it close to the ground where your ax might go into the ground. While it's standing, nice and easy 360 view, at least as high as you can reach. That one is pretty weak at the bottom, but it'll still be all right for that back wall. With the growth form, easier than going against it, but both ways work for sure, and sometimes you have to do what you have to do. And that's the bottom line. this one you got to do what Randall Pink Floyd wants to do you got to do what Randall Pink Floyd wants to do such a good move okay i stopped filming for a little bit because like how many times you gonna watch me haul wood over but look at this in like a few like five ten minutes i stopped filming look at this there's no joke just getting peppered look at and this guy good times Hopefully the camera survives. As close as I can so I can cut off all the tops the farmers can be. Watch out buddy! Good boy. It looks like something. Seems a bit! On there much more, so I want to fix this step so my foot doesn't accidentally not come out one time. This is one of the pieces of the broken off balsam firs that I'm using for my shelter. That's the top of it, you can see where it would have broken off in a windstorm however many years ago. Enough to make it dead and very seasoned and good wood. I'm gonna start that project using this I might have to cut it down but this should be all I need for it you cut it down I apologize if there is water droplets on the lens I'm trying to keep it clean lots of snow hitting it my snowshoes on or else I'd try her out for you but next time we'll give it a whirl I got to get up there like I said and do some roofing roofing putting these up as a mock to get a feel for it I'll trim them up after Well, he found something we got frozen deer droppings. They're not chocolate covered raisins. That's good. I guess I'm just trying to poke through I take my hat off for a while And then I need to put it back on because my ears ears get cold ice in my water My little boy mustache is frozen too. So perfect. Wolfie's a little tripped out I don't think he likes the wind that much But it's no big deal We'll get out of here in a few hours with him won't make him stay out the night or anything thing that wasn't the plan anyway so build build build can you make my build you make my shelter build I'll stop this one is so big around I'm gonna put it next to the baddest part that's ones I got are all pretty big so I'll stack them up to that one I know standing ball so watch a bit as I possibly can be colder it's almost dark out now it's on the setting and I'm very very I think I might be close to being done for today building the back wall at least I cut a lot of trees a lot of it left out because it was so repetitious do you think I'll get a fire going and christen the new shelter only got maybe one two three four or five more logs for the back depending and a lot of them are still long longer than I need I'm done I'm hungry I'm overheating wolf he's done and here's the other thing I still got to make it out of here and you saw coming in I might not be able to make it in here with my truck for too much longer there's a decent road I have to get down that's not plowed in the wintertime that had that accesses this property and then another good on the property to get back in even close to here where I can hike in and and start building and camping and stuff I do have a sled I do a snowmobile that's getting fixed right now and that potentially might be able to get me in here if we get a crazy winter not even just a normal winter like it's all it was hard Not hard, but it was starting to get iffy getting in here I think I'm gonna bust out a fire have a drink of water of my labor Enjoy my and I calm down look at this clearing I've made this is all the real not real dense But like more like that over there. I've cleared quite a bit here and again have I said They're all balsam fir that broke off in a windstorm. They're all dead standing. I feel good about it You know, it's not like I'm clear-cutting nothing I'm just using a patch of dead standing balsam fir that was broken off in a wind storm. There was ice rain last night. We'll get it going though. Look at this one. Oh yeah. Score. Betula papyrifera. All the twigs have ice on them from the ice storm. I'm just going to split down per piece if I can. I'm going to have some dry inner wood instead of outer icy wood. Asked for anything anymore. Deering Sammy Pucco. Anybody hear of him anymore? Deering, Deering Eyes, John Deering. Quality, custom knife maker. Back in the bushcraft USA days. Man, this wood is so good. You can even, even though it's balsam fir and it has resin in it, and it goes against everything you've heard, you can use this wood for a bow drill. Very, with good results. You can use it with good results for the friction fire bow drill. All right, let's get this bad boy going. Sorry about that stupid thing. I hope I got that on there This is gonna. This is gonna be good. It's gonna have plenty of room like I said I'll even be up more here not that high, but this will all be enclosed Ha the wind switch directions on me, but fire should be over there look at that look at that as I said it switched again Anyways fire will be over there all enclosed. I am gonna build a floor I know I said I was trying to do that this today, but I have to bust my butt trying to get the cover on the top and Figure out what I'm gonna do for a floor I have plans for the roof and I don't want to use any tarps on this one So we're gonna build a proper like I said, it'll take a few trips to get out here But again with not being able to access it I might have to do more work at a time out here and that's okay too and camp out before it's done and that's okay too I just didn't want to blow my load early and ruin the camping thing here when it's not done but that might have to be what it is and that's okay if I can't get in and out of here with my truck it's a lot more involved to get in here and I'll have to stay out here longer to make it worthwhile which is totally cool I don't I don't mind that at all like I said and it's too cold gotta find Wolfie start cleaning up here get out of here we're losing light and I want to make sure I'm able to navigate my way out of here in the deep snow in the dark with me before it's too dark rather it's big it's gonna be a decent size that's for sure the pink in the sky quite pretty this guy really wants to go we're going but never seen him wanna go home so bad lots of fun been a while since I've been out in a blizzard type vibe I'm happy to have done it I'm also happy that no trees came down haven't experienced that in a long time and hopefully I don't get to again you know I will get back with you guys next week for another part of the shelter build hope you guys enjoyed it thank you very much for coming along with me oh see you soon