Nature Daddy

a shelter is only as solid as the ground under it.

no music on this one. just the shovel biting dirt, the thud of the posts going down, and the bark peeling off in long strips. the foundation work nobody films, because it is the part holding everything else up.

every survival shelter starts here. level the ground, set the posts, earn the frame.

what sound does it for you, the shovel or the posts going in?

three years on, the roof finally came off.

the original held through three winters of cabin adventures, but it earned an upgrade. we stripped the old tarp, cut twice as many logs for the frame, secured them in place, and laid a fresh tarp over top. this bushcraft shelter roof is twice as strong as the first build and holds heat far better. that is how shelter building goes. you learn what works by living under it, then you build the next one better.

here is to another three years.

what would you have changed on the rebuild?

75 rocks hauled. that builds one wall.

some of these stones run close to 200 pounds. no machine gets back this deep in the bush so we rolled and hauled them in by hand, a few of them a full 300 feet to the site. this is the half wall the a frame bushcraft shelter sits on, and it is going to take weeks of this. hard work, but the shelter will be worth every stone.

what is the heaviest thing you have ever moved on a build?