Easy Survival Shelter (Stay Warm and Dry)
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- Tom McElroy demonstrates one of the most basic and universal survival shelters that you can make. If built properly, this shelter will not only keep you warm, but it will also repel a rain storm. If interested check out more videos at wildsurvivalskills.com
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After a few decades of being obsessed with collecting survival and primitive skills techniques, I am putting out these videos to demonstrate the skills and excursions found at my school, Wild Survival (wildsurvivalskills.com). Videos are focused on primitive skills, rewilding, nature awareness, living off the land, off grid living, indigenous skills, shelter building, primitive fire, water purification, trapping, hunting, bow making, flint knapping, primitive pottery, basketry, edible and medicinal plant preparation and numerous indigenous skills.
I began studying wilderness survival when I was 17 in order to have the ability to spend extensive periods of time in nature, seeking out empowerment and without the need for external sources. I began studying in 1993 under Tom Brown Jr eventually teaching for Tracker Inc. I sought-out every old Native American teacher I could and eventually traveled the world living in very remote indigenous villages in the Amazon, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Peru. My school teaches survival and primitive skills, nature awareness, how to live off the land, re-wilding, prepare for disasters. I strongly believe that experiencing survival living changes the way people approach their entire lives.
I've made a bunch of debris shelters, & you are spot-on. I like your rule of adding leaves until it gets too dark to see. I always pile them to a depth of at least fingertips to armpit. Then throw a bunch of wood on top to hold the leaves in place.
As a Eagle..1973..and as a two-time AT trekker, I commend your site..CONTINUE this education..it is needed..
He protec
He attac
But most importantly,
He builds smol shac
Brooke Walters haha
you should have crawled in at the end and closed the entrance for us to see :3
Dyeeeeeeee Sir, Iam confused about something; couldn't he have padded the ground he was going to lay on with some leaves to keep insulation in?
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interesting points ,if anyone else wants to learn about natural shelters survival try Franaar Escape Death Formula (just google it )?
Ive heard some pretty good things about it and my work buddy got amazing success with it.
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Stellar...resssspect! I made them that way for ages. A guy came by and upped my game. At that point where you (and I) stopped, he added what he called lattice (a big leafy branch on both sides); he added a few big leafy branches on the outside of the leaves, added more leaves, and added some more ribbing (bigger sticks along the tent shape) to hold the leaves in. That way, the wind comes, the structure keeps. He told me some guys made structures like that in a storm (not my experience) and they were fully exposed by morning. Another upgrade is to put leaves and such down firstly, because if you're on the hard earth...there's nothing you can do about that frozen ground--or cold ground. So now....years later...i put bedding down, and add lattice on the outside, and bigger sticks along that initial shape. Let me tell you, that structure is disturbingly like an incubator. No sound, and not too much cold. The only thing to fear at that point (my bag, or a big scarf of leaves, is the door) is thinking about some snake catching some warmth in there too, haha. You sound like you've spent some nights out there so props to you Fam, bare feet and all. You just won yourself another fan. The same guy that educated me on this said, we are part of the earth...the more we learn about her rules, the better she can take care of us. That's when it hit me, we're only as strong and successful as we are able to realize our place--at best a kitten on the lap of an enormous mother earth. It makes me think longer about those images of Hindu deities. The earth is the mother. The spiritual element is the father. There are two forms to come to terms with, the world we take on and that 'other'...we are foolish to neglect either parent.
If I’m being honest these shelters feel better than a bed because you are so tired after making them
lmfao he wasnt kidding about the leaves
I live in a area where there is no moss, so this video with leaves helped me a lot.
LOL!
ye lol it looks so cozy and warm
Strucid_ Hype even moss is not dense enough in itself unless you have layers on top of layers
No water gett'in in that thing!
Last night you I saw you on Naked and Afraid. That was really amazing. They said that you survived some of the harshest conditions and your shelter , though not perfect, without it you would’ve easily died. You lost 30 lbs in 21 days...I think that is a record.
I went camping with my cousins and my gf a while ago and they forgot tents all we had were tarps. It was getting dark when we got to camp and we had to walk like 2-3 hours so we couldn't go back. thanks to this video I got to sleep comfy as well as my gf because she helped me set it up while my cousins laughed at my idea... anyway I made it bigger and folded the tarp so that we didn't sleep on the floor. by bigger I mean I played around with this idea and added more stands and lifted the back side as well as extending the roof to the side
03:06 - You mess with me, and not break from my knee... I SMASH you on a BIG tree!
I really enjoy your videos Tom. I have been an outdoor person since I was 10 years old and I too had a desire to live free of the grid and being able to live off the land.
I read many of TBjr's books, many wild edible plants books. My wife and I did many hikes, practicing survival, finding wild edible plants and constantly adding to our
ToGoPacks. CZcams videos and books were very helpful and hands on self-teaching was an obsession of mine. I was always training my mind and heart to be
complete in a survival situation. We camped in New Hampshire at Waterville Valley, along with other NH. The peace of mind that the woods gives to a person is well
worth the effort to learn enough to survive in the wilderness. At my age now I have learned to slow down my pace due to poor health. So I stayed focused on the 1970
Army - Factors for Survival. The "U" in survival says "Undue haste makes waste". (FM21-76) So now I have learned to "wait for myself" with a conscious deeper awareness
which is relevant to survival. Thanks for your videos, they are some of the very best that I've looked at. -Lane Cash-
probably one of the best videos on making a debris shelter...
Did it once and slept overnight once. Thank you Troop 55. Will never forget, but thanks for the video. Confirmed I haven't forgotten. You are spot on that this is a skill everyone should be taught.
Made one in like 10 seconds when I got lost once due to the paths keep leading me the wrong way from what I heard was vehicles. Mostly was a leaf pile against a log on a hill, but made a crude wall. By 2 am it was too cold so I got up and moved, and spoke softly to keep wildcats away.
This is SUPER helpful for my wilderness survival merit badge in Boy Scouts! Thank you
Best video I've seen on this subject! Basic, simple to do and easy to reproduce!
Ok Ive been using this shelter for years and its the best all these other people have know idea what there talking about one thing to remeber is you also need a lot of debris in the shelter as well. Nice vid!
What about snakes?
@@aithunnid pee around the hut, also wood ash often repels snakes
@@aithunnid if you need that much debris for cold weather then there ain't going to be snakes out and about
Good survival video and to be honest I would rather risk limes disease rather than die of cold if stuck in a situation where I had to survive a cold night out in the wild. Only disappointment for me is I wanted to see you actually enter it and close up entrance as you said. It was so small and I would have felt more comfortable if it had been a tiny bit bigger as it made me feel claustrophobic watchig it. Still very useful for someone who needs to survive a cold night.
Thank you for this excellent survival video, This is the only one I've seen that shows how to make a door!
Love these videos. This guy does so much for us information wise for free, the least we can do is all pitch in and buy him some shoes... What do y'all say??
I tried this before watching this video and I can approve that this 100% works
Thanks for showing this to me! I am using this information to build a shelter for my Wilderness Survival Merit Badge.
Same!
Thank you for making this simple and easy to do and understand. Gonna practice this this weekend!
Consider your shelter location also. Consider the surrounding resources, natural blinds, natural windbreaks, elevation, possible nearby insect infestations, termite mounds, ant hills, wasp nests etc.
Great video I'm going to build one with my son soon. I want to start here and get more advanced with him later.
love your teaching method i get a lot of great info from your vids thanks your great
Why doesn't this have more views? It's brilliant!
Good job ! also building a fire close by helps too.I keep my camper knife on me at all time it has a built in fire starter sparker and a mini flash light!!!
I like this shelter as it is quick to build
I could definitely make one of these.
This is cool. I made one a few months ago, best time is in late fall when all the leaves have fallen off tree
Watched this before, watching again
love the y stick method for the frame, ( instead of the fancy tricky knot method with cords or shoelace)
I like that he's barefoot. I'm looking for shelter videos because I wanna stay in the woods for a few days to ground myself, so, I really like that he's barefoot.
Awesome video man. Very cool to see and very informative.
I'm 17 and planning on spending a year in the woods once I'm out of highs school. trying to prepare for it.
Im planning on living my life in the woods and leaving everyone behind
Leafs are all nice and dry. What to do when spring time when everything is wet or rotten. And what to do in winter time? I really enjoy your teaching, you are very good at it. Many thanks for your sharing.
Good video, nice and simple. Hard for me to believe this isn't common sense then again not everyone is an outdoorsman and knows what to do in this situation before panic sets in. People have died in the woods of Pennsylvania from hypothermia. A simple design like this would've saved them.
Agreed, common sense just isn't that common--especially when people start panicking.
cowman1970 im 8 and I'm and I'm outsideman
faultroy oh yeah i can predict that this plane is going to crash let me just bring all my survival tools with me especially a nice coat of course because thats the first thing i think of when i hear survival
Many thanks, been searching for "good survival skills" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Lidacoob Protection Percipience - (do a google search ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my mate got great results with it.
Even if people know this in theory, they don't really understand how long and how much work it is to find the right sticks and gather enough leaves. They will try to find their way home until the last minute when it is already starting to get dark and they are starting to get cold. Then, it is way too late to start on this or any other life saving project. They will be lucky if they can start a fire with a Bic and gather enough fire wood to last even half the night since they will way under estimate how much they need. He might save more lives by showing how big a stack of wood a person actually needs for a cold night. Ten two foot skinny logs, generally speaking, won't cut it.
Awesome video thankyou so much
Nice tips n trik in survival situation. 👍👍
Nice, simple and functional. Some youtubers are building survival mansions
Wow!
Great vid. Nice simple debris hut that could save your life. Thanks for the great tutorial. Have you done any videos on how to make a dakota fire pit?
He never mentioned ground insulation yet we lose most of our heat to the ground!
Pro tip, you can put some thick mud between the sticks so there’s less room for cold air to get through
wow that's awesome! I wonder where this was filmed.
Very good, man
I hate when people leave the huge entrance. This was awsome
Most excellent ‼️❤️💯
Nice "hooch" as we called them in the Army.
In summer I'm building one in my backyard 🙂
Have you done it? :)
Very nice tinder bundle!
great video dude
What if strong wind blew all the leaves off?
Your way is more realistic, most of the time, we are not prepared for fatal disasters 👍👍
Nice video!
I like this guy. Minimalist backwoodsman. The bare feet say it all.
what if the foilage is wet after rain?
Ive never done this before - or at least not like this. And its great information to have! THANK YOU for doing this video. As an observer, I'm thinking maybe line the shelter floor with as straight of sticks as one can find and place a layer of leaves over it for insulation from the ground, and should it rain, perhaps not have to lay in water seeping through on the ground. But that's me thinking out loud. If it's a bad idea on my part - do tell me why. Maybe you know something I don't - after all, you do this stuff a lot more than I would. I'm gathering information for survival should one-day Im left homeless or heaven forbid., we end up in a doomsday scenario, or any event that fits in between the two.
I am in the making of doing this. I started it today and didn't have enough time to finish it. I'm just doing it for fun though but it will be nice to have down pat if I'm ever lost in the woods. I also am using mud. Is that bad for it? I want it to be nice and covered and then I'll also tons of leaves on top of all that. Will it still work?
The bark bowl/basket was rockin. More creative builds please? Pine needle, birch bark etc.?
What should I use in the summer or spring time if there are no leaves on the ground?
What can you use for insulation if you dont have leaves lying all over the ground, great video though!
Yas I'm finally done my homework this vid is awesome XD
All is fun and cozy until a rattlesnake slips in and you will be still sleeping. Happened to my dad when snake started to touch his head. He jumped up and was not bitten- in your case it will be hard not to get bitten.
So what about any insects or things in the leaves, are they just completely insignificant or what?
If you're stuck in the wilderness would you are about some insects that will do 0 harm to you other than being gross?
XtrEm Cique well cant tics give u lime disease?
Check this site
www.webmd.com/arthritis/tc/stages-of-lyme-disease-topic-overview
If you wish to learn more about what could happen if insects bite you, do it on your own time
Not insignificant, as these guys mentioned, ticks are an issue. To deal with them, I check myself twice a day. They can be small but I go over my body and make sure there aren't any on me. If you do this effectively you can keep yourself safe from Lyme's disease. I have been in tick infested woods my entire life and never gotten Lyme's...until last year. If you do have an imbedded tick, remove it from as close to the base as possible to remove the head of the tick along with the body. Tweezers are preferred of course, but do what you can. Keep an eye on the area and if a red bullseye pops up in that area, you have Lyme's! Get your doctor to check it out and get on a month of Amoxycylin.... I took more just to be sure, but thats just me. You can still have Lyme's without the red bull-eyes showing up. If you get aches in your joints and flu like symptoms, go to the doctor and get tested. It all sounds terrible, but in 20 years of staying in debris huts i have only gotten Lyme's once. I treated it quickly, and it went away. Just dont wait if you do have the symptoms...that's where people get into trouble. Thanks for watching.
Linus Adriansson ...in a real survival situation we wouldn't care about bugs, etc... but if you have the means we have been taught,to smoke this shelter...using hot coals and placing green pine needles a top which can be placed in a tin cup so you don't catch your shelter on fire....or a concave piece of wood resting on stone for safety...most green leaves will work but must make sure they are not poisonous as like poison oak....I prefer to use green pine needles ... resting on hot coals for about ten minutes sometimes twenty,,,,most little creatures hate smoke they run away or die...just make sure you do it before you go in for the night.I new people who did it early in the day then went to sleep fourteen hours later and got bit...worst thing in a survival situation is to be hurt or injured..not to mention sick...the shelter if made at least two feet thick will keep you warm.,in thirty degree weather
where did you learn all this stuff? and what book would you suggest for survival
another idea that may help me some day I have a axe cordage and tarp in my backpack the tarp is 10 ft. × 12 ft. I will probably make leen to shelter with back against wind and fire at the front I can see out and not feel closed in have bear spray axe ( hatchet ) and flashlight close by still it will be vulnerable situation
I have a question are you using the tree for support. I need a easy survival shelter because I am doing a wilderness survival with my Boy Scouts of American troop 316 and I am sating it up at night at 11:00 at night in Texas. If any of yall have any advice for me please reply to me. Also I haft to use only a day bag.
Yeah, right. Good luck finding a nice straight ridge pole like that much less finding a lot of nice straight poles for the ribs. Nice to have them all handy in a pile for a demonstration video. I bet he has them already collected when he teaches class, too.
If you can't find sticks in the woods, I suggest you never leave your house.
You can find plenty of sticks but they are almost never straight and uniform like these guys demonstrating seem to have in abundance. It's pretty hard to build a similar shelter from the sticks you actually do find. It would take many hours to find what they start with from a pre-made pile. None of these videos show the effort of actually gathering such sticks.
@@SSanf It's not that hard man. You make due with what you have. The only important pieces are the first 3 supports. The rest don't have to be perfect at all. lol
It seems like the issue of suffocation could be a problem. Have you (and people you know) spent long nights in these, with really thick and complete coverings, and experienced no feelings of shortness of breath, etc.? Or do you perhaps insure you leave at least a small hole somewhere?
There's still lots of air movement, the leaves aren't a solid mass, it must be nearly 80% air in there to make a good insulating matt
I live in an area with a lot of pine trees. Will sticks with the pines still on them work?
Is there any substantial danger about bring dangerous bugs or snakes within leaves - litter and get bitten while inside of the shelter? Any tips to repel them? Nice stuff thanks
If your desperate enough to build a survival shelter I don’t think you will care much about bugs and snakes
What do you do when it get windy? Won't that blow away your leaves?
put sticks over the leaves to prevent them from blowing away as easy. scrub.
+Corey Boebel Pine bows might do the trick also. They're pretty heavy and you wouldn't need many to hold it all together. Thanks
Anytime. Good luck out there.
Sorry for the late reply, yes David and Corey are correct. In high winds just add some stick or pine bows on top. That said, in 20 years of making these things I have never had it be a problem. thanks for watching guys.
How do you keep it from blowing away if it's already windy.?
Great video!
Is oxygen supply a problem, when the door ist blocked by leaves?
he's so right about the insulation it's great while you are moving but I have slept rough and once your body cools down and it started too rain hard it was game over! you won't be concerned about insects but rather than keeping warm instead .
here you have a like
I may have missed it, but was there protection from Conduction? Wouldn't want to be sleeping on the ground!
1911gi45 yeah, i mentioned quickly that you want to stuff the inside with a ton of debris and then worm your way inside. A good deal of that is going to be under you, and yes, you are right, gotta insulate yourself from the ground--I have even dug down a foot so that I could pack more debris under me in a debris hut, but that was in easy to dig, sandy soil.
Awesome! Great vid by the way. Just got back from a shelter building weekend and we had a blast. I gotta agree with you that shelter is an awesome topic and a very important one. Keep pumping out great vids man!
1911gi45 new one coming out soon....and thanks
I live in Tromsø norway so i dont have to worry about ticks because it is too cold for em
Ack! Wanted to see him climb in and close the door behind him! How is it done?
I’m no expert, but wouldnt it be more easier and stronger if u lay a long, thick branch against a tree and then do the smaller ones?
This is maybe a dumb question but what do you do if the leaves are wet?
Doesn't really matter, wet leaves would actually insulate the heat even better since they stick together. As long as they are not so wet that they are dripping into your shelter. You would want to find dry leaves for the inside though to lay on though to avoid becoming wet yourself.
Very cool. But, how do you breathe while in it??
Its not air-tight
When i saw it at 3:15 i thought "that shit wouldnt keep a burning wood stove warm or protected" till it got later in the vid lmao
Different story if you are already wet and so is everything else.. Can use bark as 'tiles' to waterproof.. Anyway and then get up and jump up and down every hour or so.
this might be a dumb Q but, would you not sufficate or something?
Tom Mcelroy-Wild SUrvival is there any chance it can be a bit bigger for two people ?
jesaplaysminecraft make two
Making a bigger one is possible but will not really be worth it unless you are in an extremely cold environment, if you had to I’d just say to build 2 right next to each other with a fire in between them
Yes, it can. You can also build one with a deck out the back and a jacuzzi.
i wanted to see the inside lamo, but great video keep up the good work.
good vids your a beat r you like some survival expert
What about the fire? If I see this, i am not sure if we can set the fire nearby.
What about rain can we put a bit of moss under it to make it even better
for the entrance skeleton would sticking the sticks into the ground help stabilize the foundation?
+Venom Creeper Yeah I do do that and its much better that way. I was a little rushed back when I made this video and unfortunately the doorway suffered. Drives my OCD crazy to rewatch it :). Thanks for watching
What do you do about ticks insects and all the millions of wood ants?.
i tried this and it took me 35 minutes but it was too small but still good
I'm going to use cornstalk instead of the sticks to build a shelter for a baby squirrel!
Where u getting all them leaves at at the same time
i dont have many leaves in my area except in autumn are ferns/Bracken Fine
If it rain will it hold? Will it leak?
Can I use this on a school project site?
would this work as well using pine needles?
+David E Hey David, yes it works great with Pine needles. I lived in a Pine forest for a year and needles were all we had for insulation. I prefer leaves because they shield the rain a little better than needles and can be more comfortable, but that said pine needles are fine.
i am going to try building one up in the national forest in big bear. should be interesting