Shelter Build Completion Quest to get on the Alone show

[@beardedarchery3576]

Awesome

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

youll be making as much netting as is allowed in the water, out of the cotton rope net hammock and using the rest of the hammock as a wing on the weir. Part of the tarp will be used to line the 6 gallon basket that you'll weave on-site, out of roots, vines, withes, etc. that you'll have split and soaked for that purpose. You'll stone boil 5 gallons of water at a time in a pit, lined with the tyvek bivy. . You can stone boil food, or kebab it on skewers, fry it on the shovel-blade, put it on ashes that are on hot coals, or bake it an earthern or stone oven..

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

the remaning half of the tarp, the bivy, some of your clothing (at first, cause it's 50F degrees and the water's even warmer, for a while) can be used to make a baited net weir, with stick and stone 'wings" which "guide" the fish into the trap. The netting that you weave, after unraveling the hammock, is best used as a seine, altho it CAN be used as a baited gillnet when you're not using it as a seine. Eventually, the water will get too cold to wade in. Then you'll have to use the 3 pairs of coveralls as debris-stuffed pontoons. Sew and tape their seams and lash them and the backpack to the 4 corners of the outrigger logs on your log-framed rafe. Only 8 small logs are required to craft this raft.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

when you know how to not need a fire inside of your sleeping tent and how to make that tent with very few, small poles, you have no need of an axe or saw. The saw edged shovel, once you make several different lengths and configurations of handles for it, does all the wood-processing you need. That's a huge savings of time and calories.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

if you pack ENOUGH dry debris between 2-3 layers of tarp, it's WARMER than any sleeping bag. It's just a question of how thick of a layer of such debris you use and how to seal the edges so that the air between the tarps is "trapped:" It's AIR that insulates you, not goose-down. The tyvek bivy is worth a lot more than any sleeping bag, cause it's unaffected by its getting-wet. When you have enough netting and know how to use it, you'll catch FAR more fish than you can with hooks and line (especially pike when it's cold) Pike will bite thru your line and cold weather makes fish dormant.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

you dont need or want the sleeping bag, ferrorod, bow,, cookpot, paracord, axe, saw, belt knife, gillnet, fishing kit or snarewire. You want a slingbow, with 3-piece, takedown arrows, 6 of them with flu flu fletching and judohead blunt tips. you want the reflective tyvek bivy, XL size, the reflective tarp, the 2 person cotton rope bivy, the big roll of Gorilla tape, the block of salt, the rations of pemmican and GORP, the saw edged variant of the Cold Steel shovel and the modified Crunch multitool.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

The Innuit and other natives did not have steel saws, axes, metal wire, metal cookpots or knives. Yet they survived in Canada for millennia, at MUCH colder temps and for MUCH longer times at those temps, than the participants on this show. You can do without those things obviously. It's SO MUCH faster/easier to just use tarps and debris for your shelter, guys. Debris shelters suck. they soak up rain, drip on you and your food and gear. They get very heavy, threatening to collapse and smother you in your sleep. You're not allowed to puncture or cut up the tarp that the producers give you and you've GOT to have a tarp you can cut up and the tape. The producers tarp is needed when you have to work in the rain and to cover your piles of firewood, dry, loose dirt and dry debris. It only takes half of your 12x12 reflective tarp and some of the Gorilla tape to make your sleeping tent.. You need the salt really badly, unless you're on a sea coast, of course. The rations keep you going for 9-10 days, By then, you should be catching plenty of fish to mix with your cambium.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

you dont have to have more shelter for the first month than a tent made of half of your reflective 12x12 tarp and some of the big roll of Gorilla Tape. 3 hours to make it, with most of that spend on getting the poles and stakes. Practice cutting it out of clear, cheap sheet plastic at home and assembling it in your back yard, or at the edge of down. Use permanent marker to lay out the outline of the tent on your tarp. Ditto the 2-3 pairs of pants that you'll also make out of it, but only one pair is needed right off the bat., Save as much of that tarp as you can. It and the tyvek bivy will be part of the "wings" of your baited net-weir.

[@mikeyheltonjr]

Man that shelter is awesome! The cobb looked like it turned out great too just remember to heat it till it is dry all the way through. A few days of fires early on will do that for you though. Caleb did an awesome job as well and it looks like there will be another generation of survivalist in the Fortney family.

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

@mikeyheltonjr Thanks Mikey, yeah Caleb loves bushcrafting. He also loves to go caving.

[@mikeyheltonjr]

@@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz I haven't been in a cave in years. Maybe we will come across something like that in cohutta.

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

@@mikeyheltonjr That would be cool and can't wait for the adventure my friend.

[@mikeyheltonjr]

@@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz me either!

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

it's 50F when you launch in mid september. Water cools off more slowly than air, so you'll still be able to wade in such water, for a week, maybe 2 weeks. A 6x12 chunk of the tarp that remains to you, after you've made your sleeping tent. Cut it into 4 strips and use it to make 48 ft x`.18" of membrane usable to make the weir

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

any time that you're going to be in or on water, have a fire, hot rocks, dry debris, dry clothing ready to get yourself dry and warm in just a very few minutes if you start to shiver., or the thumb to pinkie-tip dexterity test tells you that you're getting hypothermic. If you really go at it, with the two rations and salt to help you stay energized and hydrated, you can have a goodly amount of fish to eat and fishheads/guts to use in the stake and log bait box for bears. Set up your tree blind 10m from the bait box and 3/4 mile from your camp, That leaves it 1/2 mile from the edge of your little 2.5 sq miles of allotted land. A bear with an arrow thru its vitals aint going 1/4 mile, much less half a mile. A 200 lb bear, fat for winter, offers you 200,000 calories if you eat all of the blood, organs, brain and marrow. That's enough food to lose NO weight for 60+ days of holing up in your shelter. Bears are not going to ignore the stench of 50 lbs of rotting fish parts when they are trying to fatten up for hibernation. You WILL get some

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Thanks for all the advice.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

animals can't gnaw thru cordage that is holding them 5 ft off of the ground, guys. So you dont need snarewire when you know how to have a split, fire-hardened, springpole, lashed between 2 stakes. Nettiing can be used to wrap around stick "box-frames" and used to catch rabbits and birds, It's not in the water, so there's no limitation on how much netting you use in that manner. Netting is far more effective than hook and line fishing You' can have 20x as much cordage and netting made out of the rope hammock than you can take as a gillnet and paracord.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

You can catch 100 lbs of fish in 2 weeks, no problem, probably in the first week. This is why you can't be bothering with a primitive shelter. It's not going to freeze for your entire first month. It's not going below 20F for the next month and only be really cold at night. Therre's no reason for you to be outside of your sleeping tent at night, or morning, either, actually. If you know to dice, boil and the fry cambium, chew it, then spit out the fibers, it can add up to 25% of calories to your rations. The rations total 10,000 calories, so you can have 12,000_calories. You dont need any food for the first two days, because of your normal diet and "pigging out" on fats and protein the 2 days before you launch. 3 weeks before you launch, put yourself into ketosis, so that your body is accustomed to using fat for fuel. Eat 2000 calories per day, days 3-8 and you can do without food for day 9. By then, you'll have caught plenty of fish. As time passes and you dont have much to do, you can (and must) replace the clothing and tent part of your weir with sticks and stones.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

if you dont know 5 ways to make fire, easier than the bow drill, you dont belong on this show, at all Fire roll a strip of your shemagh, using rust from your shovel as an accellerant. Bury some coals in your ashes and youll keep your fire "alive' sor 12+ hours, Then you re-make some coals and bury them again. As insurance, bust open some rocks and create some charred piunkwood, , which you store in a tarp and tape bag, with some resin, fat-wood shavings, and scrapings, and ashes. As more insurance or if you cant find proper rocks, make a big pump drill. with removable spindle-end and dove-tailed in contact points on the fire-board. Then those vital pieces of fire-making gear can go into the tinder/punkwood storage bag.