The Spider Shelter Part 3 Finishing up and heating it up!

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morning guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school our shelters went through a night now so all the debris that's on top has had a chance to sell you know with the heavy area to do and stuff and it getting cold last night everything's settled down pretty heavy so now we want to put another layer on top of this but before I do that I'm going to throw some sticks and things like that on top here some vines and then I'm going to throw another layer debris on top of it just to hold everything down in case of high winds it's pretty protected right here but just in case it also give it a little bit more insulation now the other thing that we need to talk about here we've got our mat laying over here we're going to trim it down a little bit a a lot of guys we're asking about heating this thing on the inside and my plan at this point is to dig a small Dakota stove in here and be able to heat the inside of the shelter I've got myself a digging stick here that I'm going to use to start getting a hole built in here I'm going to try to get a camera in there see what we can do to get down on film for you we're going to trim up our mat and get some more debris on here get the shelter a little bit more livable today so this will be part three in the spider shelter series stay tuned to stay with me we're have a good time today guys hold tight

I'm really doing these vines is this kind of lay them on Commodus shelter sort of like a netting I guess it's gonna hold this stuff down and on here and then I'm going to pile on top of that

okay guys now that we got a pretty good layer of vines all around the shelter on top of it and again that's for weight mainly we're going to put another layer of debris on top of this now I've already got some piled up over here I got to get a lot more but stay with me my gosh that's a next layer that I'm gonna put on over top all these vines there's a lot of what I call choke debris in this that means there's a lot of sticks pieces of vine you know just chance the dead boiling off the ground that's okay because all that's going to add weight and that's what I want I want to add weight to it right now

they'll give me better insulation and also hold the shelter together better in foul weather like I said if I picked a pretty protected area not much wind is going to come to here anyway so it's not going to matter but this will just give me a better insulated layer and when it does finally snow and snow covers the top of this shelter man that thing will just be like an igloo it'll be so warm in here so let's get this choke layer on top we'll go from there sir her look let's get some more okay guys one of the questions was asking me yesterday was whether I was going to put leaf litter inside this shelter and the answer to that is no and the reason for that is because I'm going to have a sleeping mat in there on the floor and the fact that I'm down a sleeping mat either on the floor reason I really don't want leaves in there because I'm going to fire in there if I have fire and leaves in there that I'm just asking for trouble right now I'm just going to trim the sleeping mat up a little bit and this sleeping mat bear in mind it does not have to be you know six feet long it has to be long enough for me to lay on it comfortable and keep my upper body and upper torso off the ground if my legs hit the ground I'm not that worried about that all of this thing's long enough me to fit my upper torso on that's all I'm really working about more debris for the show okay we're inside the shelter here and I'm just laying on top of this space blanket to keep off the ground I don't want to lay on my sleeping mat right now and wall around on it for no reason so I'm scooping out some leaf litter and seven here real quick and this belt area right here I've got the other side of that belt in my back and this belt area right here is where I'm going to build what I hope is going to sustain heat in this shelter and you can see I'm stretched out all the way in here right now and my arms right here at the front door so I got plenty of room so what I'm going to start doing here is digging I've been in a fire pit right here and hopefully I'm not going to get real lucky and run right into a root right the bat but if I do I do those and will tell you there's an absolute ton of roots in here and you're gonna have that and you just gotta work with it cut them off as you go with your knife and just keep on stroking everything takes time okay guys in this Dakota fire hole here one thing I want to prevent is any flames for coming up into the structural area this thing's best I can you're not gonna build a big fire in there anyway you're gonna build a pretty small fire so I went down by the creek bottom but I had a couple pretty good-sized stones and I'm gonna take those stones and I'm gonna put them right up in here against the structure just like this and bear him a little bit in there just to keep the flames that are immediately there from getting anywhere near my structure pound this hole down real good right here and then put them in hang tight I'll show well my plan was I putted a co2 fire hole in here but now I'm not sure I want to do that because I've put a couple rocks in up here and yeah just not sure I want to go to the hassel I'm trying to dig down underneath the dirt up out you get two co2 fire hole because I'm not sure I really need it the fire is pretty close to the doorway here and it's so nice and cozy in here right I'm sweating in here right now it's 45 degrees or 40 degrees outside

and I'm sitting in here sweating and underarmor I'm really not working out hard to make me sweat it's just warm inside the shelter and I know if I put a fire in here it's gonna be really warm and I think I don't even really need a door on here so much I may make one just in case it gets really really cold but I think I could forego that and just keep a very small fire in here and the smokes going to go out between these sticks and out and up through this door and I've got the fire pit so close to the door I don't think I really need to worry too much about it even if I put a mat over this doorway I think the smoke was still escaped enough and it's not going to hurt me at night even without the Dakota fire hole so I'm gonna start a fire in here and see what it looks like let me show you what this pit looks like right now okay guys we're inside the shelter here completely now I can't get the tripod in here there's only about three foot of headroom in here but there's my pit I've got a couple rocks stacked right up against the walls right here just to deflect reflect a little bit of heat back in and keep any flames directly from getting right on the walls right there and the pits fairly shallow is probably only eight inches deep but I'm not going to build a big fire in there anyway you wouldn't want to there's a couple other tricks I've got up my sleeve I may show you in another video

as far as sleeping on the shelter at night but you can see back here up stretch completely out and I've still got a little bit of room back here behind my feet this thing is nice and cozy and warm and there's no doubt about that

so let me see if I get a fire start in this pit we'll see how the smokes going to roll in here I want to smoke this thing out anyway that's a good thing to do when you build a shelter smoke it real good to get all the insects and bugs to kind of go the other direction here's what we're watching I want to make sure I want to see how high my flames are going I want to keep that under control because you don't want that stuff getting into your roof so really what I'm trying to do is build a bed of coals down here without getting a high flame and that takes constant watching this thing but once you get that bed of coals Internet heat and you don't have flame you can heat this shelter up really really good you just got to pay close attention to what you're doing it first all right fellows here's a view from outside the shelter sitting here got the fire going got a nice bed of coals built up inside there got a good foot and a half to foot maybe from the flames to the walls there I tell you right now it's getting nice and toasty in there and finally I was trying to Cameron there cuz I seen spiders just going crazy trying to get out of there once it started that fire was funny but anyway when did you guys see this when go outside take a look to see how the smokes rolling out of the shelter okay guys I think you can see that natural chimney effect where that smokes rolling out of the top of that shelter right there there's an awesome sight guys I mean early in the morning that would just be phenomenal to walk and see that in the woods and it is as just absolutely cool

okay guys I've got my sleeping mat in there now better coals let's get inside this bad boy well guys I've got to tell you it's hot in here man

it's hot

see if I take us camera off the tripod bring inside here so you guys can see what I got there's my little bed of coals burning my fire pit right there back in my shelter back there you can see legs stretched all the way out back there got my mat right here and laid down on you got plenty of room right here in the front got plenty of room for my backpack right here at the doorway a little area for heat here got a small shelf right here if I decided I was going to cook in here something I could do that if I wanted to

got my digging slash fire adjustment stick right here a couple pieces of kindling and I'll tell you what guys this is cozy this is cozy okay guys I rolled my mat up and laid it to the side of the shelter on the inside just kind of waiting for these coals died down inside before I leave to go edit this film I thought you guys would enjoy the finish up on this shelter and see the things I did to make it what I thought was a liveable type shelter you can see now I've piled a ton more debris on top of this thing on top of the vines and with the vines and more vines and this is a good sustainable shelter back up here a little bit so you can see it a little bit better from the outside I'm Dave Canterbury pathfinder school and hope you guys have enjoyed this video as much as I've enjoyed building the shelter and shooting it did get a comment yesterday from a gentleman talking about how I really haven't shown a lot of shelter building videos and I apologize for that I guess I figure sometimes shelter is kind of a no-brainer but it's really not you know it's important it's as important as fire and I concentrate a lot on fire in my videos and at my school but shelter is very important and this is a good way to build a nice sustainable shelter that will last for a long time

of course you have to maintain it but it'll last for a long time very useful to you it's very stealthy in the woods it's well camouflaged abused for a hunting camp or something like that works out real well for that so I really appreciate your support I'm glad like keep shooting videos for a little while longer anyway

and I'll enjoy doing that for you guys so stay with me for the next video thank you very much