DIY : 2 ways to build a forest shelter

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DIY: Here are 2 ways to build a forest shelter, with youtuber Jacob Karhu

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00:00Hi, I'm Jacob Carrou, we're in the forest and I'm going to show you two techniques to spend a night sheltered.

00:13We're going to use two tools, a saw and an axe.

00:17I'm going to take these two trees here to build my shelter.

00:20I'm looking for a big piece of wood to make a support in front.

00:33And I have tree trunks here to do that.

00:50Now I'm going to take a pine root to fix it to the trunk.

01:03So there's a conifer right next to it, and I know that all the roots are radiant.

01:10They start from the trunk and go to the outside.

01:12So if I draw a perpendicular line, I know that I necessarily end up on roots.

01:17And then I have to follow them by scraping the surface to get them back.

01:25I'd rather say big ones.

01:27This one is good.

01:29There we go.

01:49I'm trying to wrap the root on itself to hold the branch on the trunk.

02:09We're going to need several to secure this.

02:11It's already holding up pretty well.

02:19Now that I have this big pole on top, I'm going to add more branches.

02:30Like this.

02:32I'm going to add the biggest part at the top and the thin branches at the bottom.

03:03Now that we've finished the structure, we've put a maximum of pieces of wood on top.

03:08Now we're going to try to cover the whole thing to make it waterproof.

03:11I'm going to put the pole at the top, and I'm going to cover it from the bottom to the top to follow the rain.

03:41Now that we've finished the roof, we've mainly put ferns because that's what was next to it.

03:50We could have put bark, dead leaves, branches, anything, as long as we respect the bottom to the top.

03:56And when you put 40 cm thick, the roof is completely waterproof.

04:00We took some really basic equipment, not even a string, no nails, really natural elements that we found in the forest.

04:05We preferred dead wood that was really in place.

04:08It avoids cutting live wood, which is green, and it avoids cutting a nature in which I evolve.

04:14The shelter is finished.

04:16I can even spend the night here, dry.

04:20A shelter like this takes more than three hours to build when you're alone.

04:26Now I'm going to show you a faster solution.

04:36Now I'm looking for two trees to lay a tarp.

04:41Actually, it's a tarp to protect from the rain.

05:36The tarp is stretched, now we're going to install the tarp.

05:50I'm also going to make tension knots.

05:54We cut the tension knot in half.

06:04I'm going to find some stakes.

06:18I'm going to cut a stake in a branch.

06:20I use this fork to hold the rope.

06:36And the last one.

06:45This is how I sleep under a tarp.

06:47It protects me from the rain and it's lighter than a tent.

06:55I have a lot of space underneath.

06:57I've spent a lot of time in the woods since high school doing this kind of thing.

07:00It helps me a lot when I go on trips where I take the least amount of things

07:04and I use nature to complete.

07:06If you really want to sleep in it,

07:09it's best to make a good bed on the ground.

07:12For example, to put branches of fir, branches of fern,

07:14as we did for the roof.

07:16So you can isolate yourself from the ground and have a good night.

07:19Once we've built our shelter and slept in it,

07:22it's best to take everything apart

07:24to leave no trace and leave nature intact.

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