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.