My Super Shelter

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Don'tkillbill

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This was made a over a month ago and is still in perfect condition.


Mors Kochanski's favourite shelter is a super shelter. I made this one similiar swaping out the clear plastic for cheap tarps. The clear plastic as most people know lets in short wave radiation.

Let me know what you think. Don't be shy checking out my other videos. They are a mix of bushcraft and firearms videos.

http://youtu.be/Z3c3kg2ZkAA

http://youtu.be/1xwZGEe1yy8

http://youtu.be/eu35cswU--o

http://youtu.be/nnkRpMp6894

Let me know what you think and maybe what you'd do differently.

Bill
 
I enjoyed your videos :thumbup: Looks like some hard work, but the shelter sure came out great and should last you well for many months I would think. About how long total did it take you to set up?
 
I think I could do it in 4-5 hours depending on what materials I had. 2 people working together could do it in 2-3 hours and have a pile of fire wood for the night.
 
I'm getting a server error when trying to open the video's. Any chance of uploading them to YouTube?
 
For my taste I can only find merit in the ax as a mallet to drive your pegs in. Aside from a reduction in hammering power I would be way more effective at doing that with a saw and a billhook than an ax and hatchet combo. I would sequence differently too. Doing the sides first gives a natural overlapping sequence like putting shingles on a roof. Plonking a tarp on the apex first and then trying to weather the sides in is more haphazard, although I did notice the overlapped the right way round in the end.
 
I admire your initiative in making the videos and I enjoyed watching them. First, here in the states shortwave radiation refers to @ 10 meter ham radio communications. A better term is infrared radiation or IR.

In a true survival situation you would probably have a lot of your building supplies collected and in the near vicinity. I'm pretty visual and seeing the long and shot edges of the tarp would help in making sure I was making the frame of the shelter the correct size.

I'd be tempted to put the mylar survival blanket next to the bunk to more effectively reflect your body heat back to yourself.

I agree with Baldtaco-II that putting the sides on first is the best way to lay the tarps on the frame.

Now, you just need to spend a weekend living in the shelter to see how it works.:)
 
This one was put on here with good timing. I have a grove of popple trees that I have wanted to use to make a shelter out of for a project with my two boys. The quonset style was one of my thoughts as well as a dome or tepee style. I had decided not to do a shed style with vertical poles and diagonal roof lines. The one piece I was wanting to solve was how to make a base besides just setting the pole ends into holes in the ground. The bed rack was also something I had not gotten to in my thinking so that helps to see it and have some idea of what I could do to keep from being on the ground. Thanks, you helped me from wasting time with moving ahead on this.
 
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