Raised Bed Emergency Shelter

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afternoon guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school what I wanted to do real quick is just give you a segment from my latest udemy course that I'm working on called basic survival and it's a course that's going to teach you pretty much everything we teach here at the basic class in Ohio - the hands-on - they know you're not doing that right do it like this but the information will be virtually the same in the end we teach out here there's a shelter that really was shelter by my buddy Scotty kinder who's an instructor here at the school he uses this shelter quite a bit in conjunction with a canvas sleeve for the bed and a large 8 by 8 oil cloth tarp by tenseness but I've adapted this design which is not a new design by any means to fit the emergency kit that we recommend people carry at the Pathfinder school so you have two six mill drum liners and you have one grabber emergency space blanket that creates this shelter so you have two tripods that are lashed together and a couple piece of emergency kit you're ready to rock and roll now again this is an emergency shelter if you've got all of your kit you may still want to set this up because maybe it's raining and you want to get off the ground you have no way to do that you didn't bring a hammock with you you were planning on sleeping on the ground you can set this up get off the ground put your sleeping bag in there put your wool blanket in there put your big tarp over the top of that you brought with if you want to or maybe you got wet and now you need to dry out you need to get warm you can still use all of those same things but you can combine this space blanket in there to create more of a convective warming from a fire that you have in front of it so even though it's an emergency type of shelter it's a very good shelter to understand that you can use in conjunction with the modern gear that you have or the normal gear that you have I should say or you can use it with your more traditional gear like my buddy Scotty kinder does so I wanted to give him a shout out real quick and now we'll get on with the segment okay the sheltering phase is where we're going to start putting together a lot of the skills that we've talked to up to this we're gonna be practicing our not craft our lashings putting together and being able to manipulate those heat loss factors that are going to enable us to create a microclimate so that we can't control our body's core temperature using the items within our kit this setup here that I'm gonna walk you around in just a minute and talk about there's a very simple setup that's not real labor-intensive if you've got a good song you're gonna have to cut your poles but then you have to tripod lashings and pretty much that's all the work you have in this shelter other than putting it together and staking things out we'll talk about that as we walk through the shelter but what we've got here is we've got both of our six mill drum liners on the bottom of this shelter I'm gonna go ahead and pull the stake out of the ground which is just held by a marlinespike hitch really really simple to get car to wooden stakes this bed scenario so we're just taking two logs and we friction fit them on the tripod legs I'm gonna position this camera a little bit better so you can kind of see what I'm doing here but all we've done is we've cut the bottom out of both of these garbage bags overlap them on these two logs and then drop these logs friction fit right down onto this tripod there's no tying involved in that the only time it's done is the tripod lashes and then one cross pole over the top just sitting there to put our tarp over and you've got a pretty decent bedding situation here that should easily enough hold up to you I weigh 220 so it'll hold 220 pounds and it's a pretty good comfortable bed to land now you're laying on plastic here so you're probably gonna want to put your wool blanket in there if you're carrying your proper kit you've got that wool blanket you could put that on there if you had a sleeping bag because you had your normal camp gear and it was an emergency and you were setting this shelter up you could obviously put your sleeping bag on top of this as well but it gives you something that's off the ground so you're not having to worry about anything that's creeping and crawling around in the ground moisture that may be in the ground conductivity from the ground the only thing you have to worry about what this is convection and in a cold weather scenario you'd want to set this tarp up to manipulate that convection and put a long fire out here in front of the shelter one step from the ridgeline and then put some type of backer on that fire if you can so attack convective radiant heat rises up through the shelter and you can change the position of that tarp on the backside to be lower to the ground and attach it to these tripods so it reflects heat up and around inside the shelter in fair weather you can't set it up the way we have it now so the tarp is just covering the shelter to give you a covering at night it's going to trap a little bit of body heat but you're going to get some convection through there but that's not a big deal as long as it's not really cold outside and you can always have a fire out here no matter what to trap some radiant heat inside the shelter so it's a really really quick and dirty shelter system but it gets you up off the ground it's more complicated than the other shelters that we talked about but again if you've got just a few extra skill levels being able to tie lash and bind you can build a structure like this very quickly this is about a thirty minute shelter build at the outside if it's always doing this shelters we measured out our distance to about the width of our space point we've got a seven foot space blanket here in length five foot and with

a normal one that we carry our kick and I just tied it with a square knot or reef knot on both sides and it flips it over the ridge line here and at the moment I just got two wraps around this other side but this is where you would pull it out and stake it you can also put poles there and just take it out higher if you want some type of an overhang especially if you how to fire in front of it you had fair weather that would help you trap a little bit more heat on the inside the other good thing about this shelter is because you've made it with these trash bags you have a tube here that tube can then be stuffed with insulation like leaves or grasses without battle any conduction problems that you may have so this is a very very simplistic shelter that doesn't take very long to build it doesn't take a lot of material than what you have in your and again what we talked about with our knots and lashings all we did was come out on this cord a little ways put a Marlin spike hitch in here pull it taut and stake it in whatever distance we want to use to get that shelter out a little ways away so we can crawl inside of it easy enough when we're ready again we could stake this further out with a couple of poles up and have it up like this in the air if we wanted to and you can choose whatever setup you want that's conducive to the situation and the weather that's the good thing about this shelter it's highly flexible as far as what you can do with it and how you can manipulate you can also drop that space blanket over and down in the back side tie it to the bottom rungs and set up to the cross run then you would have heat that you could trap from underneath and bring up in a cold weather scenario was

and still fill the bags with insulation if you chose to guys I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for our school for a family of our business all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys