Creating a camp; building the frame for the shelter

Description

In this video I build the frame for the shelter at my permanent camp, the shelter type is an a frame and uses a long fire to heat it. the frame used is sturdy and strong providing me with an enclosed space for sleeping & staying warm and additional space at each end for my gear.

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Video Transcription

alright guys so i'm back at my camp again today after the day just kind of doing a bit of a reiki seeing what I've got around and today what I'm going to do is I'm going to construct myself a shelter so there's no trees in this area and directly usable so what I'm going to do is I'm going to construct a free-standing kind of semi permanent shelter i'm going to use pretty much and predominantly natural materials i might use a little bit of paracord in this but i'm going to try and stick to using natural materials because then if i stop coming to this camp i can just leave it and the whole thing will eventually rot away so the first thing I need to do is I need to find some nice straight poles to construct the shelter and we have quite a lot of Sycamore and Hazel in this area so so I'm just had a look around see what there is and so that's pretty much what i'm going to be using so first thing to do is to cut some of those and stands down i might get the fire going while I'm doing that as well because it's quite cold today okay so my next step I've cooked and my sort of upright posts and equipment to create the a-frame to length and I've left these little visa Lee and I'm hoping they're going to be useful to me but we'll have to wait and see about that I may might end up taking them off what I'm gonna do now is just lash them using a bit of paracord so nothing too fancy timber hitch it it's my hands are a bit cold and then I'm just going to take that around here it's a bit awkward to work because the grounds aren't even what helped me once I've got a few lashes in that will stop it moving around and hold it in place I decided to use just para call because there's not much in the way of anything I can uses natural cordage in the area and power cord blasts pretty much whatever anyway however if I'm going to be abandoning the site i do i could take the power cord away because it doesn't rot down ok so this is the brain how it's going to look as you can see it's wobbling quite a lot so what I'm going to have to do is to end pieces into like try positives to give it a little bit of extra stability I thought I'd have to do this but I want to experiment with just the two poles and it hasn't worked out and I've not had a massive amount of experience building this particular type of leading to shelter so it's all about experimenting so all I'm gonna do is I'm just going to put some extra poles on each side of this last them into place and then we're ready to start building the roof ok so I'm just lashing this a crosspiece in I'm not use any particular lation I'm just kind of tighten it so it's you know nice and sturdy in there just by taking the cord around all the Rope all around all the sticks and pull it in tight and kind of looked at it now actually this is going toward me kind of two extra compartment and the end of the show to underneath the tripod so what I'll do is welcome to waterproof it later day I learn waterproof these sides and that's a good place for my pack to go on one side and like my food kit and camera equipment to go on the other side with a bed inside it as well okay so I started putting the end the back frame on this and we'll trim these down shortly so they kind of come just the top here I might leave a couple of them a little long and I still need a few more on this side I might push them to get a little bit further pop it moron but I'm trying to limit the amount of actual resources i'm using because like i said it's got me a static cam and then once I've done that I'm going to put one pole across and last it blasted together just to give it a little bit of extra kind of sturdiness and then that's the frame of my shelter built some of it needs a bit bitter moving around I should be able to get in here with a nice comfortable bed and then I'll still got the compartments at the end I've got my fire set up in front of it here which will if I'm staying out here will be working as a long fire but just for now I'm going to stop and have a brew and summer team because this is quite labor-intensive type of shelter it's expending a lot of energy so if you're just do an overnighter something like this is going to take you far too long to do and but as I've said this is gonna be like kind of a static camp so I want this to stay here so I can come and go as and when I please but for now I need to have a break and a brew and get a bit of energy in me so after kind of scout around the area I find there's quite a lot of other of these sticks that I could use to make a fire but what I don't want to be doing this is completely depleting my resources so what I've decided to do is I'm just going to spread these out a little bit and then I'm going to probably call it a day there I might put a crosspiece across and then lash it on to some of these but that's going to take quite a lot cordage so i'll do what i can now before it gets dark and then I think I'm gonna turn in for the night still got my fire going it's getting very very cold out here but I don't have any much sleep equipment i'm not staying up tonight and then the next day I come back I'll get covered and get it waterproof and then get a bad built into it alright guys so as you can see I'm losing the light a little bit here so what I'm going to show you really quickly it's just what I've done so you can see there so starting at this point here good focus start at this point here I've rigged a beam that goes to right the way across the shelter and ends up just the and what that does is it just afford my whole shelter just a little bit more stability so I don't know whether actually better see me it's a it's gone pretty dark out here and i have been in testing the new camry you listen the montage just like playing around with that and i'm still kind of getting to grips with it so that's taking a little bit of extra time today so it's not all been this would have been you know this is taken as the majority of data to build however if i hadn't been messing with the camera if i hadn't been trying to film it and it taking me just a couple of hours of good solid work but of course you know using the new camera getting things on film and just kind of generally join ad out in the woods but this now is ready to waterproof i'm actually really impressed with it's good it's a really good solid structure as time goes on i'm probably going to add extra bit to it you know lash bit to pieces here and there to make it absolutely like you know completely bomb-proof and what I'm thinking of doing out the front of it is kind of building like a little porch kind of working earlier in there so here's going to be underneath one of the tripods I'm going to wash some sticks to that and make that waterproof and that's going to be one side is going to be for my pack and food and stuff I'll stop animals and things getting in because I'll be right next to it and on the other side it's going to be kind of a tools area or I can keep all my toes together you know as and what I need them it means i'm not putting to start across a lot of the bushcraft tools and things are you know made in clothes and shit quite difficult to especially in this kind of light you know it's just getting dark you put your tools down all over so i'm going to create a dedicated tools area with an inside area of keeping the dry and kind of an outside right point i'm actually work you know it's gonna be a permanent camp and I've got I've got the kind of leeway to do that also what I'm looking for I've got I've got the privilege of being he'll do that because I'm going to be using this camp regularly and frequently so I hope this has been good for you i'm sorry about losing the light and but please you know stay subscribe if you don't subscribe please do hit subscribe and I'd really want people to see the progress of this camp coming on partly because I want to kind of show what I'm doing and partly also it'll be really great from you guys to get suggestions of things that i canna you know that can do here that'd be really nice so I'm going to enjoy the evening by my fire and I'll head back around midnight ish I'm just going to have a cup of tea and get one looks it's gone pretty chilly out everything's got a nice thin sheet of ice on it now because it's damp but it's not frosty yet thanks for watching guys