Bushcraft Shelter - The Tinkers Tent
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Here is a video about how to build a quick bushcraft shelter. This type of shelter has several names, one such name is Bender, which I'm sure that I will get some stick for on RUclips but it's ok, it's all good fun. The shelter uses interwoven hazel sticks to create a frame that skins, canvas or a simple tarp can be thrown over to create a simple shelter. For more free bushcraft info please visit our website at www.northwestbushcraft.co.uk
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This has to be one of the best informative videos I have watched. These shelters resemble the type used by nomadic peoples in the Arctic and by Russian troops with their Plash palatka poncho capes in the forests even during their harsh winters.
Way back in time- I think it was 2014, a man resurrected a very old design for an overnight shelter- it was called a bender.
Thank you for creating this video-it is a great idea and a tried and true design. Simple, easy and doesn't use a lot of natural resources to create what for most people is a temporary camp. Well Done !
Well done!! Gr8-Grandpa says when making this shelter frame..always use the bark off your saplings/ cut in strips, soak for flexibliltiy and use for cordage. That is how he remembers the ole timers doing it back in 1930's when he was a younging.
Loving all the old time Photos&prints !!
Cheers ;-)) Great stuff
I guess I knew you could build a structure in this way but never gave it any further thought. Seeing the pictures you showed gives you the sense that's it's a successful method. Job well done. Mike
I use to make shelters like this when i was younger its good to see it coming back lol
Hi Foggy, yes pal, it's a really important skill to keep alive and a lot more functional than a lean to/debris shelter.
All the best
Ade
This is a great simple shelter that is structurally strong and efficient in construction, materials and time. One of the iconic structures used in antiquity and thank you for keeping the traditions alive. This is my go to structure for shade in the south west desert regions as well as reflective warmth from a fire in the north west forest regions of the USA, just the best shelter one can make.
ive done a lot of camping and study on bushcraft but this is the easiest and smartest system I've ever seen friend!!! keep up the good work!!! this will be the next project I will teach my 11&12 year old students!!! thank you and look forward to more of your bushcraft wisdom! James in central Michigan USA
I'm 22, want-to-learn/do ,woman this is great !! a shelter even 10 year old could make thanks
Great video!
I use willow instead of hazel but the result is the same.
Quick n easy shelter.
This was great information! Loved the photos especially.
My son (14) and I went out to the forest near our apartments today (we've never been camping) and began building one of these. We got the frame up, but not covered yet. Ours is closer to a 3/4 dome, though. We don't want to use a tarp to cover it, because we want it as invisible as possible (because it's probably against somebody's rules for us to build/leave any kind of structure behind). So we'll be weaving in some pine branches as our walls/roof next time we go out there. We're excited to have a little place to go "get away" and relax in the forest, yet still be close enough to home to go back whenever we feel hungry.
Marialla
..... You can add naturals over th tarp to break up th outline.. 3/4 of a dome will give more protection..
One of the best for shorttime bushcrafting, very easy to build, very primitave. I like this.
Hehehe...he said "bender". Ok I got it out of the way. Great video. I don't think I would go out into the woods without a tarp so this video gave me another great option. I can't imagine having to spend so much time gathering debris and wood to spend the next 2-3 hours building.
I like this , with a small tarp you could hold up quit well and when you leave , it can stand and still be part of the environment for you to visit again n' again .
Excellent, and love the slideshow of vintage pictures. It gives me an idea. You could one of these just for your campfire, cover with a mylar survival sheet...the cheap kind, and build your fire in the opening to reflect heat.
I Typed "How to build a Bender?" in the search and your film was top of the list. I know how to build them but I wandered if anyone had made a video about it. and here you are :)
Just came upon this. Well done, sir, much more economical in many ways from the usual leaf strewn, dark place that takes five people three hours. The historical pictures were wonderful, more ideas. Looking at their faces they must have led interesting lives. Hopefully not gone hungry. Now subscribed, ta.
Love the Video. I built one like this last winter. Mine however was a complete dome structure. I was very comfortable in 32 degree weather and high winds to. We even use this as a sweatlodge too. BINDER love it !
Very cool shelter. I've build similar by using saplings that are still rooted in the ground. Just by trimming the branches and bowing the tops together in a very similar fashion.
That design that you showed looks great as well. I'll have to give that one a try!
Just found this by accident, one of the best most practical videos , that i have watched to date, Cheers.
I've spent many a night in benders back in the day...1980s and 90s, with "New Age travellers" . We usually built them as complete domes covered by old fashioned canvas tarps. I was taught that when you've built the frame, you should be able to hang your body weight from the centre without it breaking. If someone was over-wintering in one, they would often make up a floor of old pallets, and even rugs on the floor, sometimes with a wood burner inside.
You're right, the longest part of the build is gathering the poles (hazel or birch). After that it's easy.
Very nice video, have read about this type of shelter, and seen pics. of them, here in Canada some of our First Nations people used this style of shelter with slabs of Birch Bark that could be rolled up and traveled with. I have read sometimes live trees in small groves would be bent over and used without even being cut to form the frame. it was nice seeing you do it. Thank You
You shouldn't fear using the word bender, it is one of the traditional words for that type of structure. It fell into the realms of taboo when in the 80s and early 90s the work shy soap dodger that went by the name of "new age travellers" started putting them up all over the countryside to supplement their untaxed uninsured vans to avoid paying council tax. The tinker tents have to my knowledge always been also known as benders. Nice video, good information to the background of them and loved the slide show obviously done your homework.
im really impressed with this I guess if you can find longer poles you can make a larger more permanent shelter while you built a cabin, thanks for sharing
I LIKE THIS SET UP NEXT TIME I'M OUT IN THE WOODS FOR A WEEK OR SO I'LL HAVE TO GIVE THIS A GO
Really appreciate your showing this. I have passed it on to a friend or two. Agree completely with your point that most survival shelters are way to complex and labor intensive. I have a 12x12 kelty tarp I am going to try it with. This is probably how the dome tent was invented (maybe)
I love these old pictures
That reminds me of some shelters I have seen in Africa. Thanks for sharing.
Your'e right Adrian, from my research these types of shelters have been used on every continent at some or another. It's not hard to imagine the link between this shelter and a Mongolian Yurt or the North American Indian Teepee.
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Ade
I did enjoy this, thank you so much. There was a "clothed and confident" chapter on Grierwolf channel where they challenged each other to build a shelter off the ground and this made a lot of sense. Let there be closer tree's and a few more branches to make an above ground bed and this would work nicely. More snakes here in the US to be concerned about, and with some mint for flea's and ticks and such under the bed, this is so much easier than gathering leaves and large branches to drag. Very nicely done
Excellent! I am glad to see someone keeping the skills alive.. many of my folki lived in Benders and Vardos before coming here to the USA.
Hi and thanks for taking the time to watch my video. When did your relatives move to the states? I'm always interested to follow the movements of Romany travellers as my own family settled here in England in the 1800's.
Ade
+Northwestbushcraft The majority of my ancestors have been here from the early days of the colonies..although I do know a lot of other Romany families immigrated much later. I have found that I still have a good many Romany cousins still living in the UK and Ireland..I found them after I picked up the hobby/addiction if genetic genealogy..lol
Excellent. I will be teaching RAF cadets this on my next basic shelter building course. Many thanks.
Really enjoyed your video, I myself being a traveler have used this type of shelter in my younger days. I loved the pictures you showed (may have even been some of my own folk), great choice of music too!
thanks for sharing.
I've built a few benders over the years. As you show, they are quick and easy to assemble with the most basic of tools. I tend to just carry a machete and a means of making fire.
going to be making one of these on my next outing... so much hazel where I am. thanks for sharing.
Great video mate - a very fresh (although very old) perspective on what is normally thought as being primitive shelter building. regards.
Nice one Ade. I think you're right historically in respect of the construction verses calorific outlay. It would make more sense for those on the move constantly probably following a migratory food source to travel light and without causing too much disruption to their environment. I imagine the hazel construction; simple though it is,would prove quite resilient. Thanks for that mate. Keep it up.
Noel
some of those longer tinker tents in the pics remind me of the old covered wagon tents used here in the states in the 1800s. Great upload.
Great and quick shelter, especially when you need shelter instantly..
Great video. Thanks for showing.
Great video. I have seen this type of shelter but never made one. In the scouts we learned different types of primitive shelters built a few mostly lean to. Thanks.
Ade,
Great video. It brought back some old memories. I was in the Scouts 50-something years ago and learned to build one of these. Our two Scout leaders were both school teachers but had the traditional woodcraft skills. Oh - and they both called the shelter a BENDER! In those days the word had no other connotation.
Best wishes,
Noel
Ahh, The Bender...
I've mostly known them to be used by [new age] travelers here in the UK, and I once helped a friend build a bender for her to live in. This was in the Mendip district of Somerset.
Thanks for this video... I had actually forgotten about the humble bender and how quick and easy they are to put up. A very necessary piece of knowledge in an SHTF situation !
Very Smart People those tinkers! Efficient, Easy, Sturdy, Flexible- I know that all structures have their place, but when I saw this I can't imagine why you would build anything else given the resources. It could be easily modified for internal fire(the old photos), or extended stay in a hammock. I live in the SE USA so I like to be off the ground due to ticks, etc. but the time saved making this and building an off the ground bed makes it worth it. tarp or no tarp. thank you sir for sharing this knowledge, I will certainly put this to use.
Thank you for your kind comments and for taking the time to reply.
All the best
Ade
Great video Ade! I have never ceased to be amazed at how much promotion there is out there for debris shelters, even though they are time, energy, resource and calorie intensive! This type of shelter that you demonstrated is far more representative of a common sense approach to protecting yourself from the elements. Fantastic job mate! All the best!
Hi Ade, the life lone rule of KISS, works, this shelter is perfect for either a long or short stay, as you can migrate anywhere & just set-up in a very short space of time, being able to transport the wood with you means you can quite simply pitch up anywhere,
thanks for sharing this great video
atb......Barry
Hi Jed, Thats my point exactly mate. I think some of may be to do with the instructors, they can fill a day easily with getting students to build one, easy money for the instructor. Thank you for the kind comment (and not taking the micky about the bender name!!) Ade
Essexplodder bjb Really well put mate. Ade
Northwestbushcraft
I agree with you that is a very good shelter. after you throw a tarp over that it's as good as any tent. and if you had an extra tarp you could even put a floor in it. and I also believe if you think someone else might use it you can leave it up just take your heart with you and some other camper to use it. it would probably last for a good while. for it would only take a minute to take it down and would leave very little evidence that you were ever there. good job thumbs up
We used to build a dome frame with small ditch round the outside, cover it in a heavy tarp and bury the edges in the ditch, of course leaving a doorway. Nice and snug and warm.
Thank you for your knowledge. It is a wonderful thing to share and not allow it to be lost.
Thanks for a very informative video and the old photos were just a revelation. Nicely done.
WOW, very simple, effective shelter.
Will definitely be putting this to use.
Last debri shelter I built, took roughly 4 hours and had had just enough room for me and my pack.
Thanks for sharing.
Subscribed with all notifications.
Great video, very informative and useful.
And don't worry, I was too busy laughing about "hairy-arsed hunters" to chuckle about "benders".
34 years ago a young hippie showed me how to make one nice one mate
Another informative and enjoyable video Ade, I, and I am sure many others, appreciate the thought and detail you put into these videos (I was particularly fascinated by the history and images) and the straight forward, pretension free approach you have developed, delivering these videos makes them a pleasure to watch.
Good on you and thanks for sharing.
Bushcraft bender bravo
Looks nice. It seems you can drape a very lightweight painter's cloth over this and have a water tight shelter in the wilderness that can stand up to decent amount of wind or snow. I like the fact that you dont need big trees to build a shelter. I guess someone can take tent poles and make the basic shape if you dont have the trees. Good video.
Have lived in these for extended periods! We would always make the door arch, then an extra long spine pole, with "ribs" joining up to the spine, and your horizontal ones if we had the time or wanted it more permanent. Lots of twine to tie it, army or lorry tarps on top, with blankets under the tarp when possible. We sometimes slept 10 or more in them through the winter with no fire and a blanket door. Cosy! Oh, and when you cut the bender poles, make sure it's away from the bowl or the root, so that rain is channeled away, not running in and rotting the remaining hazel.
Still alive and kicking in the traveller scene in the 90s and beyond. www.travellerhomes.co.uk/?s=52
Excellent video! Really glad you showed the historical pics of the real deal in use.
I think you hit the nail on the head in stressing the amount of energy involved in making a shelter.So many of these videos fail to mention just how long & how much energy it takes making them impossible for 1 or 2 people to build before darkness which is the aim.I thjink watching someone building a shelter on video belies the fact that they have planned to do it so may have already have gathered & filmed themselves gathering matierials before over a period of days (maybe).That doesn't take away anything from the usefulness of the buiding information just the reality of building it
Excellent. The gypsies in Ireland used to call these 'bough tents', if memory serves. Great vid mate ;)
Thank you for that, it certainly sounds better than "Bender" lol All the best - Ade
Very nice video, and I like how it can be tailored to the terrain in which someone might be in. Thanks! :)
Simple structure and simple video. New subscriber from Colorado! I might try this with willows.
Great shelter, but am I missing something here? If you're carrying a tarp, then save time and effort by using a tarp in the traditional way. If you're carrying skins, canvas, cloths, etc., then you must have the means to carry them as they are heavy. And if you have none of the above, then you will have to create a debris shelter!
Great channel btw!
Awesome video and a take on sheltering that most people may not think about.
I get that this is an older video, but more like this one needs to be made, thank you.
I'm in the states but I know what you mean about the " bennder" word... I've heard it before.
Two things about that.
1) Anyone giving you stick about using the historical word just because it offends their modern sensibilities doesn't deserve your wisdom. and
2) I've started making it a common practice to weave the lateral branches in... now I call it a Woven Shelter or Woven Hut. Hope this helps!
So simple I will be using this build. Thanks for your time.
AY! Bahco Laplander. I use the same folding saw. It's extremely cheap, I was even laughed at by the guys who all use Silky. I also own silky bigboy, but Bahco Laplander is one of the best and the quality is incredible. On their knives also.
Great video Ade, thanks for sharing with us. Hazel is such a fantastic resource - so many uses and the more you take the more it replaces!
What a brilliant video and demonstration Ade, i've never seen this type of shelter and so found it very educational especially with the historical context to it. This is the type of bushcraft i'm falling in love with, no fluff or gimmicks, rather it's traditional and functional. Thank you for sharing this Ade ~Peace~
Nice work mate used these a couple of times and work brilliant
Fantastic video. Thanks for your time and effort to make. Cannot wait to try making one of these.
Also loved the slideshow, great how you could turn one into a tunnel tent style shelter for a group.
Nathan Angell thanks again for the positive feedback. This video is quite old now, seems odd to see myself with a beard lol
Good video and some great old photo's, Thank's for sharing. Atb Glenn.
Thanks for the kind comment Glenn.
All the best - Ade
Great idea for something a little quicker than the usual bushcraft shelter. It might not work so well in Ontario here where we have lots of rock in the ground (Canadian Shield), which makes it difficult to dig or make any large holes. Thanks for the vid!
You're absolutely right buddy. Any shelter has to be matched to its environment and resources at hand.
Thanks for the kind comment.
Ade
very nice video. quick, easy and simple.
Nice BENDER made from STICKs.
Really enjoyable video Ade. Welldone . Your are better off making a bender than going on a bender. The hangover can be nasty.
\On my mothers side of the family going back several generations they were Romany gypsies. My mothers maiden name was Frankham. Maybe thats why I like this sort of thing?
Sandy
Hi Sandy, hope that you are well fella. You and I have spoken about my history before and you know how important I feel it is to keep these traditions alive. Thanks for the support. Ade
This is great. I have often made and used these simple shelters myself. They are easy to make they are strong and truly nice as far as fast, easy, dependable, smart. I like them a lot and give you the thumbs up on this video. Good work great video for people who want to build a good overnight shelter without a lot of fuss. Nice job
That was for me a very informative video, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Thankyou for sharing. Much Appreciated.
God Bless
Thank you for taking the time to watch the video and for leaving such a nice comment, it's very much appreciated.
All the best
Ade
Great vid, I have seen a few similar versions of this but your way of doing it is really easy, I could pitch up quickly almost anywhere and expand on this anyway I felt if I needed to. Thanks Dan
Great video! Loved the old photos! Google+ has me subscribing again for some reason. Happy trails!
Hi Tom, how are ya pal? Yeah, I don't know what is going on with Google at the moment, I just don't get it pal. Thank you for the kind comment on the video and your continued support.
Ade
nice to hear a lancs accent for a change :) the shelter looked good and like the tinker reference and pics
Oh dear, have I developed a Lancashire accent, not bad for a Southern boy who only moved here 7 years ago. lol
All the best - Ade
excellent video especially liked old photos reminded me of some of my ancestors .also great music leep up good work
I really like this video. One of the best I've seen on the topic. I liked the historical photos too. Some of those benders appear to just have blankets draped over them. I guess they might have been felted or boiled in oil and wax? Anyway, km wishing we grew hazel here in Australia. I'll have to experiment to see what local plants can be used to replace the hazel.
Alotta Reading: Have you ever read books by Louis L'Amour, an American Western writer? He explains a lot of bushcraft in his books. You can use any pliable wood or even branches from a tree under which you shelter. Just bend the smaller branches toward a center point, tie them together. Thatch with smaller cut branches. If you need a fire in the later scenario, just build a small one for coffee and a pot of food, then put it out before you go to sleep.
Nice work! Thanks for sharing.
Nice haven't seen many here in the states talk bout these quinzee shelters not a full but half quizzed great video take care brother
great video, I have built one of these shelters in couple of my vids, did not know I was doing a bender, lol... lovely picks at the end, cheers
Hi there mate, the question is, if you had known it was called a bender, would you have admitted it lol
All the best
Ade
Northwestbushcraft well maybe, lol
Very much like the wigwams of the Native groups of the NorthEast US and Eastern Canada. Good work.
Great video, thanks for taking the time to share this with us.
Especially enjoyed the photos at the end. Thanks
Assuming you have a tarp or large canvas available, this would make a fantastic framework. I can see this being excellent in coastal tropic locations with broad-leaf palms.
However, if you're caught bereft of any cohesive large coverage, the protection of a regular debris shelter should still be appreciated. It's a different shelter for a different situation
Great video. I love history and really appreciated the extra photos. Thanks for putting this together.
Excellent video.
I like the weaving method requiring no cordage.
But then again, I suppose you could use cordage.
Then when you feel like a bender, you can really "tie one on."
Seriously, though, that was an excellent bit of history and knowledge. Thank you for sharing.
,Shawn
Great video and traditional pictures , great stuff blessings.I,ll have to try thi8s and share it with my family .Thank you .
I loved you video and the pictures that you showed. This seems so much easier than a lot of other shelters that I have seen. I don't know that we have such bendable / supple wood here in the U.S.A. It would be worth it to look though. Great video.
Great video, nice and easy to watch and remember for when you are out in the field. Nice tip about the hole making stick. I'll be trying this Soon. Thanks for the video.
Great Shelter form. Thank you for your presentation.
Good video, enjoyed it. I wouldn't worry about the PCness of terms. Bender is descriptive. You should try using descriptive of medieval tent with Belled-ends in polite company. It's great fun. Those traveller/gypsy tunnel benders/wagon covers are featured in imagery of medieval markets scenes and of course Wild West wagon covers.
Hi Ade
nice job and nice to see you back
Mr Powers, how are you sir? Hopefully I will be getting a lot more videos on now if teaching, shows etc allow. All the best Ade
Thanks for the interesting video. Would like to see the actual labor of weaving the sticks around the dome etc., rather than the pretty slideshow. Maybe others have little interest? But it helps illustrate little techniques and skills that the producer may take for granted, but some of us beginners are still trying to learn!
I enjoyed the presentation. A very practical design for a quick tarp structure. I enjoyed the old prints and photos depicting variations. Our Woodland Indians made some similar permanent structures in the East Coast areas of the USA. This may be totally useless here in Arizona where certain areas even trees are in short supply. Thank you again. I like your small axe. Gransfor Bruks or Wetterling I am guessing.
great video ade . great shelter mate . that shelter offers alot of protection for the weather well done mate . atb mo
Hi Mo, thank you for the kind comment. These shelters really are easier to construct and more versatile than a lean to/debris shelter.
All the best and looking forward to meeting you and gill in July.
Ade
That's fascinating. We built shelters almost identical to this when I was growing u in the mountains of Kentucky. No one knows where they started, but Tinker's roamed those mountains a hundred and fifty years ago, making regular rounds, mending all sorts of things, even pans and kettles, trading, etc. This makes me wonder if that where the idea fr those shelters started?
Believe it or not I used to live in a bender back when I was a new age traveller. Toasty warm with a wood burner in there.
Hi there buddy, thank you for the comment. I'll bet it was quite the experience living in one. My grandmother used to tell me all sorts of tales from her childhood about them.
All the best - Ade
Northwestbushcraft Ade, I am in Chester, not far from your accent dude...
my bender had a burner made from a gas bottle with a hot plate, the flue was flexi pipe. Bed was a mattress on two blue pallets. Kept the bedding dry by using an everlast double glazed window out of a skip. I leant it against the frame east facing and hitched up the tarp in the mid morning. lots of rag rugs and ammo boxes for furniture. aluminium road sign bent behind burner and it sat on four small quarry tiles I found in a ditch. My hazel poles I only cut in the spring and they would last a year of moving home until I needed fresh ones. Actually managed this without owning a vehicle as I could put a box here or there in my mates trucks and buses lol.
Thin aluminium sandwiched either side of hole in tarp for the flue. I camp round Cheshire with a couple of faces off of youtube. Just been indoctrinated into hammocking after years of ground dwelling.
Good video, thanks. Love the zombie in the background at 10:08! ;-)
A couple of thoughts... First, as you select the site for the shelter, mark out somehow where the inside floor will be (put down some branches, a tarp or whatever) and try then not to stand or walk on that area so as to avoid breaking up damp ground and making your pitch muddy.
Second, chop off or somehow cushion the bare ends of the horizontal branches at the front of the shelter, so as to avoid getting one scraping across your scalp (or worse, into your eye) in the dark; nothing worse than that when you return to the shelter after the obligatory midnight piss, eh!?
N
We don't have hazel here either so I'll have to try this with alder or willow. I had to look up what a bender meant. Odd that we have a term in the US with a similar slang meaning that meant originally "a bundle of sticks." Not a word I use though even to refer to sticks.
Ade this is a great instructional on the "bender"! joking aside my friend all your vids are very informative and easy to watch...
you also make these instructional vids achievable! Thank you for taking the time to make such quality vids....
Thank you for the kind comment Clinton. My aim is to make bushcraft accessible to all, regardless of ability or finances. I really want to bring bushcraft back down to basics and "old school" skills if that makes sense pal.
All the best
Ade
Northwestbushcraft Yes, it makes a great deal of sense. Even if I hadn't seen your video, that comment, alone would be enough for me to subscribe to your channel. "regardless of ability or finances", "bring bushcraft back down to basics" - *Old School Skills* Well said. Have adopted a phrase used by another friend, in a different situation, that fits what you're doing so well. Making Do With What You Have.
great structure Im going to make one or two of these really close together so that a few of us can use the same fire. really enjoyed this.. your doing great. liked and subscribed