WINTER SURVIVAL OVERNIGHT! [] Debris Hut w/Framework : No Sleeping Bag

Grass hut with framework that keeps most grass out of the face but you will see what needs to happen with this iteration! Slept a decent amount with no sleeping bag and is more of an established shelter that lasts longer.
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[@Susweca5569]

I once fled a domestic violence situation with no coat on New Year's Eve and curled up in the roots of a huge Cedar tree. I covered myself with a thick layer of leaves that kept me nice & warm.

[@vernbolstad3956]

When I was a kid, we would sleep in the hay barn periodically. Making a hay bail fort is a lot of fun and warm! Even the farm cats loved it 😃

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Sleeping with the farm cats haha! We used to make square bale tunnels in the hay loft, I bet you did as well!

[@vernbolstad3956]

One time I got a coal man lantern from the camping gear to take out there. Lucky Mom caught us and said flashlights only 😆 So we had these old green flashlights with 90 degrees bend we took out there. 👍

[@Susweca5569]

Great memories... I loved making forts in the hayloft when I was a kid, and you could hear the mice scurrying around at night. The smell of a hayloft is still 1 of my favorite smells...

[@Survival-on-land-or-sea]

I think you would have been warmer if you started a little fire inside the shelter with you.

[@wirymarrow9435]

Good idea 😂

[@IdahoSewing]

And the shelter would have lasted 10 minutes.

[@bugsmith9751]

this joke was all over the last debris shelter video, its stupid and i love it

[@peterloichtl4512]

Fire in a straw shelter is nuts

[@slopethegoat5749]

Yea totally 😂

[@sh1sh1maru]

I'll (most likely) never need to build a shelter, but watching this is quite relaxing. And just imagining what I'd do in such a situation is interesting and fun. Good narration, too. Thumbs up from me!

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Thank you so much!

[@mountaineer5596]

Thanks for suffering so I can learn good stuff! Great video.

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Thanks brother, it’s good to look back on more than the moment sometimes

[@JAEUFM]

Glad you mentioned the time it took to build the shelter. You have to take the time to do it right, which means, if you are on the move, don't travel until about nightfall to make camp. You need ample time for shelter building, firewood gathering if possible. Best not to do those things racing nightfall, could injure yourself rushing around.

[@efb16hatch]

This video made me sneeze

[@bugsmith9751]

shelters can always be improved upon, and if you can do so, its always worth while you said if enough people wanted to see you improve it, that you may do a video, but for the sake of lesson and general ideas, if you do an update on it, i would love to hear your ideas how it could be improved in different situations or with different materials as well in survival it all boils down to creativity, and every different idea, big or small can make a huge difference in how you approach a situation based on what materials you have at your disposal

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Another video is coming!

[@rudiandrefrank1031]

You can warm up rocks, and dig them down underneath you.

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Would’ve been nice!

[@BillMartre-uq1gg]

you should weave several blanket with the grass .Tried it out of neccesity and it works

[@sehrgrossesglied5000]

Nice shelter work there , thank you:)

[@redluke8119]

That last video went crazy viral 😅

[@MB_fishing]

such an amazing video

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Appreciate it! 🫡

[@grantkokich6906]

Interesting information on survival in the wild.

[@user-fv2qo8jn7k]

Cool

[@belleventing2327]

I live on a farm and it's not uncommon to find nests that foxes and cats have made in the haystacks because it's such a good insulator! Obviously bales are a lot better at keeping wind off than loose hay but either way animals definitely find it helpful for keeping warm

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

True, they know what's warm!

[@Bambikillers97]

Any bug bites yet lol love the vids man

[@BigPictureYT]

I would think that you would want to point the foot of your shelter toward the wind to minimize problems at the door. What do you think? Also, would it be better to use green wood and form arches, then create a wicker work cage, fill it to the brim with straw inside, and burrow into it, while still covering the outside like you did? It seemed to me that you had a lot of uninsulated space between your body and the ceiling of your shelter.

[@scottfrance1400]

I think a tarp over the inner frame would stop the drafts , also you could dig a trench for your bedding then cover the trench with the grass 😎👍 awsome video though

[@don_lock]

I thought that a bunch of grass and straw packed around you would be a very good insulator, so I was surprised to learn that even with a large amount, like you had, air still infiltrated and the cold got in. I think that lesson is maybe as important as the lesson on building the shelter itself, which is very important - to the point of being the difference between life and death in some situations. Thanks for all the hard work getting to the location, surviving (while also recording), and posting your videos. This was another great one!

[@IdahoSewing]

Yes, debris breaks the wind, but does NOT stop it. That is where a little plastic goes a LONG way. Or, you can use sheets of bark, or a wall made of rocks packed with dirt, or dig a trench, or any other field-expedient that will STOP the airflow. Ron Hood showed the tube tent, which can be easily improvised from a 10x12 sheet of fabric or plastic, and some cordage. Even twigs can be used for stitching edges and ends together. I'm pretty sure that if we stuff this tube with grass, nice and tight, that we could keep ourselves away from the cold spots to some extent. Using a good debris mattress under the tube could help. The classic GI Rain Poncho, over a foot-deep trench filled with enough dry grass, would help. Even two 55-gallon trash bags, stuffed with dry grass, would be quite impressive. One as a leg-sack, the other as a rain-coat with a head-hole in it.

[@don_lock]

@Kevin Hart Well if you have the chance to bring drum liners, then why not just bring a sleeping bag and a tent with a stove. The idea is to survive without drum liners. Or sleeping bags and tents with stoves.

[@don_lock]

@@IdahoSewing Great if you happen to have a 10x12 sheet of something, or time and tools to dig a trench, etc. The video was showing a survival situation without such expedients. Of course it would be nice to have a 10x12 sheet, or a sleeping bag, or a tent with a stove.

[@IdahoSewing]

@@don_lock The fact is, you can't survive with nothing and no work. Either you carry stuff, or make stuff. Carrying stuff takes time and energy, and making stuff takes time and energy. Any lacks will be paid for in health and energy.

[@bugsmith9751]

air will always get in, its just a question of how much and how fast, but in this case i can guarantee that he was pretty toasty even with that breeze if you consider how cold it likely was outside i have slept with barely any shelter on a summer night after just a light rain to cool things off a bit, and it sucked the whole time, meanwhile this guy was probably warmer than i was and hes doing this in early-mid spring, and did the same thing near the end of winter with similar results

[@soundyea94]

love the content

[@forendetta8164]

Thank for video my friend. You are warrior woww

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Thank you so much! Good times…

[@THEROOKIE6666]

A mylar survival blanket doesnt count as a sleeping bag and it can be used on the bottom ontop of your bedding material to reflect all of your heat back at you atleast from the bottom...

[@50shadesofyeh]

Were you at JBER or Eilson? I went to the ISCRC Arctic school course in 2021. It was -43 and I ended up sleeping in a 10 man tent instead of my A frame due to concerns from the previous class having 3 CWI

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

Went through Eilson course and other SERE courses, cold wx is no joke, you really need a good shelter 1st and decent gear to survive

[@jeffsmith9420]

Where are you located? Inland NW?

[@kodiak64]

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but is there any risk of a snake slithering into your nest there? I live in Northern Ireland, we have no snakes of any kind, hence the question.

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

It’s possible however, it was still cold and they were denned up for the winter. We have rattlesnakes around so I was making myself feel better, if warmer out I would check with a stick every time

[@greggminkoff6733]

The temp was 30 inside the shelter, you would have been a lot warmer if you had stuffed your jacket with grass, that includes your arms. The most important thing to keep warm is your core. Also, you made the shelter too large. The shelter should have been half the length. You want to curl into the fetal position. You could have slept like a baby the whole night, had you done these few things. You're trying to teach people how to survive, when you really don't have a clue. Another way is to build a fire before you build the shelter. Make sure you have lots of coals. Spread them out and cover them with 4 to 6 in of loose dirt. That's your bed. Cover yourself with a large amount of grass. That's your blanket. It's better than a sleeping bag. I've done this many times in Sub-Zero weather. It's the way the old mountain men used to stay warm in the 1850s. If you use the old techniques for survival from that era, you'll be comfortable and healthy.

[@johnoverstreet4399]

Damn ..thats a lot of mountain grass you use. But what if there is no trees and no grass and no sticks or limbs and no socks and weigh only 657 pounds with only shorts, no undewear, no socks and no shirt on and Lost your shoes and found a peanut in your shorts pocket and when you farted that when you let off all that gas, that the sound sounded likethunder and could be heard in the next valley over in the next state....

[@SurvivalSchoolHouse]

LOL, that's so funny...

[@Pelpe]

2:40 I’m not allowed to do that in germany. 😐