Thanks for sharing. The only thing I would of done differently, is to build a slanted wind brake above your nest. Makes. Big difference with the pine boughs added to the grass in layers.
its hard to create a perfect shelter when the sun is almost down, you have to work with what you have just as much as with the time, but not a bad suggestion over all
Endlich mal eine sinnvolle Überlebensstrategie!Wenn es kalt ist und du überleben willst,brauchst du nicht wesentlich mehr!Es wird nicht übermäßig Komfortabel sein…aber,im Winter stehe ich lieber schlecht ausgeruht,am nächsten morgen,auf als erfroren zu sein!Gutes Video…Danke dafür!!!👍🏻
Obviously you will never ever make any shelter to make you as warm as 70 or 80 degrees. But the thing you are trying to do is make it as warm as you can without the air taking your body heat off you, to allow your body to use as little energy as possible. And that is the name of survival...
The key to a survival situation is to get out of the wind and to stay dry. By staying dry and out of the wind a person can deal with very cold temperatures. If you get wet and exposed to the wind, you may well succumb to hypothermia in temperatures between 40 and 50 degrees.
I've regularly camped in Colorado in early May where it gets down below 20° F and been uncomfortably hot with basic gear just by knowing how to utilize my environment. I'm old now so I can't completely roughneck it, but I've learned to travel way lighter than all my friends when camping. Leaves more room in the jeep for guns, ammo, and fishing gear
Just like a mouse nest - creating a micro-environment to hold your body heat and slow heat loss. Also, to protect against wind and rain. Also, helps to conceal from predators. You need a source of water too.
When I was a child I made a small framework using chicken wire, covering it with approximately 1’ of hay. It was quite warm, probably because it was just large enough to squeeze inside. Your shelter jogged my memory. Thanks for doing what you do.
When I was a bag of bed bugs I didn't discriminate who I slept with. The Amish, the illegals, the gools, and the people sleeping outside of a house. Good thing I'm normal nowadays.
I've slept under spruce's in snowy conditions. There's often a pocket underneath the base of the stem so all you have to do is to isolate the ground and you almost have a finishes shelter.
Maybe something like this if you had a 9x12 plastic dropcloth to place over it and stake down to stop the drafts? I can see that working very well actually.
You can buy emergency ponchos and mylar blankets that weight next to nothing and are cheap like $1 that work real well. I have a couple of each in my camping and emergency gear. A thin dropcloth would work great also. Peace.
But toting a tarp around is not a true survival situation.. Its just a poorly equipped camping trip. Apparently you didnt get what this video is about ..a true survival situation to get you thru. when you have nothing but 2 hands and the clothes on your back.
@@gaz8686 well, this was in January, 1975, during the most violent blizzard our area ever had. 85mph winds, killed a bunch of people and a lot of livestock. People in sleeping bags died.
I made a similar shelter during USAF POW Survival School (SERE) in the mountains north of Spokane in Feb, 1972. No sleeping bag, just a poncho. I froze my bony ass off, but it could have been worse. And I survived.
What I like about this, is I can seriously imagine doing it. There are some great survival shelter videos on RUclips, all of them well beyond my abilities without practice. Except maybe, just maybe, something like this 🙂
Lol, nice! Glad you got some value. There are some ridiculous shelters out there, they shouldn't be labeled survival, there's a point where it should be labeled homesteading.
@@SurvivalSchoolHouse exactly right. Ive seen tons of so called survival shelter videos. But vast majority are nothing more then camping videos, ..bring along food, ferous rods sleeping bags tarps..etc.. Very few actually illustrate a true survival situation where youve got nothing but your own 2 hands and the clothes on your back.
Most of them are "janky," to quote the video. People who bought a hand saw or axe on Amazon and think chopping poles the same length all day is how it's done. I look at those shelters and they just look cold. Fine if you're keeping a fire going all night, but not for a good sleep in a cold camp. This is actual bushcraft. Not some kid building a fort or a lean-to, but a practical nest that kept the worst of the cold off him. A decent improv for the landscape, and a lot warmer than some kid's fort or lean-to, that doesn't trap any of your body's heat. I think with minor tweaks, you could've been quite warm and slept through the night, bladder permitting. I'm not going to pretend to know what those tweaks would be, but I think he's got the right idea for that situation, and he would've survived. If he'd gotten more snow, he probably would've been warmer.
@@JackFrost008 Heh. A lean-to is much better cinematography. An A-frame blocks the best camera angle! But seriously, I'm more about always having the right clothes for every (informal) situation, especially wet situations. And in an actual survival situation, I want to be lazy about shelter. If I have the proper clothing, I don't need much in the way of shelter, and I'm parceling out my calories like a miser. The conditions that scare me the most are cold and wet at the same time. I always take waterproof tops and bottoms if I'm "out." First rule is to stay dry. Don't leave home without it.
I can only imagine taking a walk in the woods and you see this apparatus hanging on a tree, and as soon as you want to take it a guy pops out the grass nest saying "MORNING TO YA LIL FELLA!"
You better start this project ,no later then NOON !!!! BUT no one should venture out into the wilderness unprepared !!! A day pack , needs Night stuff !! TARP IS A MUST !!!
The man is really inspiring by doing shelter survival in winter. Especially for people who live in tropical country who have the dream to experience such a thing.
You don't want to experience extreme cold it's not enjoyable frostbite and hypothermia are real dangers the cold is a killer even for people who are used to the cold
When I was in the USA, I camped and hunted about 40years. I enjoyed your video, because you are talking common sense not like others. In the winter time, especially with snow on the ground I would wear on my feet cotton socks and wool socks. Would make my feet sweat and be cold. The trick I used was to change out my wet cotton socks, and my feet were happy again
I read a book when I was a kid about a girl and her goat getting stuck in a blizzard. They borrowed into a haystack and the goat ate the hay and she drank the milk. The snow formed on the haystack and acted as another form of insulation.
If you pull down the branches you can mack wind brake help keep the snow off you too start at end of the branches bottom put a log on it then pull down the next one so on
If you can find them, place/stack rocks and logs around your sleeping bag strategically. These items will raise the draft above you because the wind can’t blow through them.
Rocks tend to retain cold temperatrure unless heated with indoor fire. Better use logs or dry branches. Wood is a much better insulator than rock/concrete.
What about building what you did, then add the branches over it to keep the wind out? I know it’s more work but in a several day survival I’d think it would really help.
With a bigger hill, maybe all around the tree you could have more chambers for more ppl or for storage, for changing positions if one side is better covered for rain etc
Il faut au minimum une couverture de survie,car je doute fort de ne pas pouvoir garder la chaleur du corps 1 nuit, l ecran de paille n est pas assez dense.
Most people would be surprised how easy it is to fall asleep outdoors with a little bit of comfy padding. Back when I did landscaping, me and my coworker were prepping a job site cleaning it out. The guy bringing out materials was delayed by two hours and we didn't have any other work for the day. Got up in the truck bed with a bunch of tall grasses we had had cut down. Laid down for a second to enjoy the nice spring weather and accidentally fell asleep for 30ish minutes. Was a pretty refreshing nap
This would be useless to me. I wouldn’t be able to sleep thinking about the countless spiders or other biting insects I just made a bed with. I’m not afraid, but I wouldn’t be comfortable either.
you gotta consider the fact that it was already too cold for those bugs in the first place, spiders and ticks arnt going to infest that if it was already freezing out
My issue would be not realizing when it's time to give it up and start building a shelter. It takes several hours, and leading up to those last precious hours of daylight, my mind would be telling me to continue moving in the right direction until civilization is reached. A weed whip would have been great for raking pine needles and cutting grass. Probably do well cutting small pine boughs too. That's all it's good for though. A time saver if needed, but a hinderance if packed along for nothing. Maybe a decent machete would serve all those purposes, plus more chopping chores around camp, plus be less of a hinderance to carry along.
Wonderful idea for survival. Some warmth, but if your feet are cold it affects your comfort badly. Remedy: always carry two plastic grocery bags. Wrap over your socks and put on shoes. You will sleep well with warm feet through the night.🎉🎉🎉🎉
thats utterly stupid... if you could teach a flawless way not to get into a survival situation then it would be common knowledge, considering the only way to guarantee never getting lost in the woods is to never go in the woods... well, i doubt people are just gonna stop going into the woods just to avoid a chance of getting lost survival lessons are intended to help increase your odds of survival IF something goes wrong, while hoping that you will never need to use the skill in the first place, much like how people learn martial arts or proper gun safety to defend them self, but they probably arnt hoping to ever need to use the skills think before you spout something as dim as "just learn how to not get lost! its easy!"
simple and effective, thats all you need in survival Edit: MY GOD there is a shocking supply of ignorance in this comment section, ranging from claiming its fake, to thinking that this grass collected in cold weather would be filled with bugs... this is the very reason why survival needs to be taught in the first place
This is bringing back (mostly) fond memories of SV80 in Spokane in February 1989! -20F under a parachute shelter on a pile of pine boughs :) It's great to see a real expert posting and not another Altoid-tin packing armchair survivalist. Keep it up!
I don't remember my class number, I went through in Feb, 1972. And all we had was a poncho and a couple of cereal bars. The only good thing was that immediately after this, I went to Homestead for parasail training in the warm waters of Biscayne Bay.
Thank you Greg! I remember those days, getting out of the tipi was the toughest part! Your comment means a lot and great to hear from another bubba. 02-02
I did the full course; survival, SERE, and POW, back in June / July 83. Then it was on to Eielson outside of Fairbanks. Having grown up backpacking in the Cascades the main thing I learned was how to make things out of parachute cloth. Oh, the fond memories of rabbit eyeballs served up raw. Had my first of many MREs there as well.
Love the channel Leif! I had to sleep on the side of a mountain after killing an elk WAY too far away from the truck in Hells Canyon. I didn't have as much grass as you did, but I was able to build a warm enough bough bed to sleep comfortably through the night. This technique is very effective.
You don't want a fire near you when you are sleeping in a grass shelter ... one spark while you are sleeping ... yeah not good. However, heating up some rocks and moving them to the foot area to keep your feet warm could be really helpful
Awsome video !! Great way of using what mother nature has to offer , I would have never thought of building a shelter with dried grass ? I bet it's hard if you have allergy issues
Im frowning here, i think if you'd of collected enough material to begin with and stayed in the shelter rather than getting out every hour and not sleeping for more than 3 hours you would of been more successful. If you'd of just stayed awake and moved around all night you'd of still survived?? I think you could of done it better?
I had to do this when I was temporarily lost in a coastal dune area here in South Australia. I could only break off green leafy twigs, which worked but I needed A LOT. And it wasn't as cold as you were there. But it worked, and I got at least some sleep and didn't suffer from hypothermia.
Love these beds! Starting point for any primitive shelter, imo. Beyond keeping you alive, they're actually comfortable. Which will allow you to actually get some quality rest. Great demonstration. The only thing I would add is some discussion at the end about improving the function by always carrying a poncho and a woobie/bivy/space blanket with you. The poncho/woobie would be the best as they would be part of your clothing, and the woobie is breathable (+ insulating). Poncho covers the top (wind block and keeps debris in place). The woobie, etc, makes a taco inside that makes getting in and out more efficient. The space blanket downside obviously is that it doesn't breathe, so condensation would be an issue. Again, great video. I'm glad to see these practical solutions are starting to be seen more on RUclips.
our ancestors were in a hell of a lot more places than just europe during the ice age, but i can bet they used stuff like this a lot, there just wouldnt be much trace to really prove it considering the materials used
This video essentially covers the worst-case-scenario: You're out in the open during winter, you have warm clothes, but no tools, no tent, nothing... and you need to get through the night with only a few hours preparation. Will it be a cozy night? No. Will you make it through the night? Well, your chances are significantly higher with this knowledge than without. And this is a very good foundation for emergency survival, that can be improved with some modest means. A small tarp, for instance, wouldn't do you much good on its own in this situation, but when you make a debris nest and use the tarp to improve it by protecting it from wind or rain, it gets much more effective.
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This is a fine scenario: an Average Fella who has read a bit about bushcraft goes out for a winter walk. He doesn't have a belt knife, saw, or ax with him. He doesn't have rations or a hydration system along 'just in case." IF he brought a friendly dog, they could help raise the temperature inside the debris nest. Speaking for myself, I would bring an Ontario Survival machete. Use that to speed up collecting supple lower limbs and slicing reeds, grasses, or cattails. Making 'hot rocks' would help.
years ago i spent the night in a pile of hay. it wasn't bailed or anything, it was just laying there in a pile. oh, and that night it was forecasted to be -20F i had at least 5' of hay above me maybe 2' uncompressed below me and the pile was probably 12' in diameter. all i brough in there was what i was wearing and a bed sheet to help a little with dust. i wasn't cold at all. slept pretty good too mainly because it was so quiet in there.
99% of ticks approve of this style of shelter.
Isn't it too cold for ticks??
And actually I'll take 3 ticks instead of freezing to death
@@tonieigentor7893 you are correct. the only ticks that survive through particularly cold winters are the ticks on animals such as deer.
😂 before the video started I was thinking the same thing.
Better than dying of hypothermia
The rule of thumb in the Northwoods is if there's snow on the ground, there's no free ranging ticks to concern yourself with.
Thanks for sharing. The only thing I would of done differently, is to build a slanted wind brake above your nest. Makes. Big difference with the pine boughs added to the grass in layers.
RIGHT! Interspersing layers of pine with layers of grass would limit the compaction of the insulation.
its hard to create a perfect shelter when the sun is almost down, you have to work with what you have just as much as with the time, but not a bad suggestion over all
Endlich mal eine sinnvolle Überlebensstrategie!Wenn es kalt ist und du überleben willst,brauchst du nicht wesentlich mehr!Es wird nicht übermäßig Komfortabel sein…aber,im Winter stehe ich lieber schlecht ausgeruht,am nächsten morgen,auf als erfroren zu sein!Gutes Video…Danke dafür!!!👍🏻
looks pretty cozy
Thanks for sharing this nalage it might just save some one life 🙏👍👍
Wonderfull rodent nest. Beware of the nightly bites!
Use nature to help you too... find a stick and rake, don't use your hands. Don't know about the wildlife where he is, but try and avoid stingy things.
Good stuff this. Keep it coming!
Thanks, will do!
Should have a fire close by for extra heat
Very very close ?
Don't look that freezing cold to me normally when people say cold I imagine you can see your breath and the crunch or the ground
I've been in that cold a lot, especially Alaskan survival training, this was still close to freezing most of the time and dangerous with no shelter.
Obviously you will never ever make any shelter to make you as warm as 70 or 80 degrees. But the thing you are trying to do is make it as warm as you can without the air taking your body heat off you, to allow your body to use as little energy as possible. And that is the name of survival...
The clothing needs to be adequate.
The key to a survival situation is to get out of the wind and to stay dry. By staying dry and out of the wind a person can deal with very cold temperatures. If you get wet and exposed to the wind, you may well succumb to hypothermia in temperatures between 40 and 50 degrees.
The real key to survival is always having a marriot or hilton booked, thats how I roll
I've regularly camped in Colorado in early May where it gets down below 20° F and been uncomfortably hot with basic gear just by knowing how to utilize my environment. I'm old now so I can't completely roughneck it, but I've learned to travel way lighter than all my friends when camping. Leaves more room in the jeep for guns, ammo, and fishing gear
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Just like a mouse nest - creating a micro-environment to hold your body heat and slow heat loss. Also, to protect against wind and rain. Also, helps to conceal from predators. You need a source of water too.
Good points! I drank from puddles close by off camera and should've showed that!
You don't conceal from predators. Sense of smell will get ya. Food you eat.
mouse nest haha
Plenty of water , it’s snowing
@@benjaminc8789 he might not have a pot
We make similar shelters in Texas. If it's really cold, we bring a fat girl with us. They're even easier to find than fatwood. 😉
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The snow would make it warmer bt cutting off drafts...
When I was a child I made a small framework using chicken wire, covering it with approximately 1’ of hay. It was quite warm, probably because it was just large enough to squeeze inside. Your shelter jogged my memory. Thanks for doing what you do.
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When I was a bag of bed bugs I didn't discriminate who I slept with. The Amish, the illegals, the gools, and the people sleeping outside of a house.
Good thing I'm normal nowadays.
Gathering grass for this type of shelter seems a lot like the formula for getting firewood…..when you think you have enough,collect 5 times more.
I've slept under spruce's in snowy conditions. There's often a pocket underneath the base of the stem so all you have to do is to isolate the ground and you almost have a finishes shelter.
Maybe something like this if you had a 9x12 plastic dropcloth to place over it and stake down to stop the drafts? I can see that working very well actually.
You can buy emergency ponchos and mylar blankets that weight next to nothing and are cheap like $1 that work real well. I have a couple of each in my camping and emergency gear. A thin dropcloth would work great also. Peace.
I was thinking the same thing. I carry a poncho for a shelter if needed and used with the grass nest it would keep me very warm, I think!
But toting a tarp around is not a true survival situation..
Its just a poorly equipped camping trip.
Apparently you didnt get what this video is about ..a true survival situation to get you thru. when you have nothing but 2 hands and the clothes on your back.
If you had some pillow cases, you could stuff them with grass to make a pillow
@@debbiecurtis4021 its a survival scenario..not a camping trip
A time is coming where these skills and knowledge will be treasure
If you keep gambling and drinking the time is very near for you
We had a family friend insulate herself with newspapers while in a truck for almost 3 days during a blizzard. Worked.
Just like Ino the movie
2012, all this is basic
@@gaz8686 well, this was in January, 1975, during the most violent blizzard our area ever had. 85mph winds, killed a bunch of people and a lot of livestock. People in sleeping bags died.
I made a similar shelter during USAF POW Survival School (SERE) in the mountains north of Spokane in Feb, 1972. No sleeping bag, just a poncho. I froze my bony ass off, but it could have been worse. And I survived.
Nice! Great point, a lot of times it could be worst for sure!
Thanks for keeping it honest and real. Being out in the woods is not like it is in the movies.
What! Movies aren't real!?
I thought forest Gump was real. Are you going to tell me there is no Santa Claus too?
Unless its the movie Dersu Uzala which shows exactly this.
I'm glad to see you wearing gloves while working on that shelter, very important to keep your flippers safe.
Let me rephrase, while you were pulling that grass, that is a good time to get a slice on your fingers or hands.
Absolutely
What I like about this, is I can seriously imagine doing it. There are some great survival shelter videos on RUclips, all of them well beyond my abilities without practice. Except maybe, just maybe, something like this 🙂
Lol, nice! Glad you got some value. There are some ridiculous shelters out there, they shouldn't be labeled survival, there's a point where it should be labeled homesteading.
@@SurvivalSchoolHouse exactly right.
Ive seen tons of so called survival shelter videos. But vast majority are nothing more then camping videos, ..bring along food, ferous rods sleeping bags tarps..etc..
Very few actually illustrate a true survival situation where youve got nothing but your own 2 hands and the clothes on your back.
Most of them are "janky," to quote the video. People who bought a hand saw or axe on Amazon and think chopping poles the same length all day is how it's done. I look at those shelters and they just look cold. Fine if you're keeping a fire going all night, but not for a good sleep in a cold camp.
This is actual bushcraft. Not some kid building a fort or a lean-to, but a practical nest that kept the worst of the cold off him. A decent improv for the landscape, and a lot warmer than some kid's fort or lean-to, that doesn't trap any of your body's heat. I think with minor tweaks, you could've been quite warm and slept through the night, bladder permitting. I'm not going to pretend to know what those tweaks would be, but I think he's got the right idea for that situation, and he would've survived.
If he'd gotten more snow, he probably would've been warmer.
@@harrymills2770instead of a lean to, make an A frame shelter, 2 lean tos facing eachother on 1 pole across the top 😊
@@JackFrost008 Heh. A lean-to is much better cinematography. An A-frame blocks the best camera angle!
But seriously, I'm more about always having the right clothes for every (informal) situation, especially wet situations. And in an actual survival situation, I want to be lazy about shelter. If I have the proper clothing, I don't need much in the way of shelter, and I'm parceling out my calories like a miser.
The conditions that scare me the most are cold and wet at the same time. I always take waterproof tops and bottoms if I'm "out." First rule is to stay dry. Don't leave home without it.
I can only imagine taking a walk in the woods and you see this apparatus hanging on a tree, and as soon as you want to take it a guy pops out the grass nest saying "MORNING TO YA LIL FELLA!"
I watched this video twice.
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I just finished watching a second time too.
Small tarp over top of that would make it a really good shelter
Had this vision of illing the ENTIRE area under the tree full of grass, making a hole and crawling in! I want to try this
....build a tight fence of branches before filling it with grass and burrow in like a rabbit ?
You better start this project ,no later then NOON !!!! BUT no one should venture out into the wilderness unprepared !!! A day pack , needs Night stuff !! TARP IS A MUST !!!
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oh cool. it's bill burrs younger brother teaching me how to survive in the wild on my own. much appreciated. cool video :)
The man is really inspiring by doing shelter survival in winter. Especially for people who live in tropical country who have the dream to experience such a thing.
Thank you!
You don't want to experience extreme cold it's not enjoyable frostbite and hypothermia are real dangers the cold is a killer even for people who are used to the cold
I guess its different for us with cold winters to experience a night in a tropical Environment with palm trees and Coconuts
When I was in the USA, I camped and hunted about 40years. I enjoyed your video, because you are talking common sense not like others. In the winter time, especially with snow on the ground I would wear on my feet cotton socks and wool socks. Would make my feet sweat and be cold. The trick I used was to change out my wet cotton socks, and my feet were happy again
I read a book when I was a kid about a girl and her goat getting stuck in a blizzard. They borrowed into a haystack and the goat ate the hay and she drank the milk. The snow formed on the haystack and acted as another form of insulation.
Just don’t bump your fero rod on you knife by mistake! Did you use a combine harvester to get that grass off camera?
We hope you brought some good quality wool under layer and gore tex breaker. But Norway approves!
If you pull down the branches you can mack wind brake help keep the snow off you too start at end of the branches bottom put a log on it then pull down the next one so on
I'd be itching for the next 100 years, as allergic as I am to grass, hay etc. 😂😂😂
YEAH: as a farm boy, the baling season always left us coated with dust, and with dust up our noses.
It’s more like a nest to me ✌️
Snuggle nest with grass lol
This is like if Bill Burr decided to be a survivalist instead of a comedian.
and get spiders and other creepy crawlers all over you with that bush
1, its freezing out, there are no bugs... 2, would you rather freeze all night?
So practical. And can be made without cordage, without much except the tree for cover and grass. Nice nice video.
so weve reached the point where we have a goofball in camouflage clothes, laying on the cold ground for thumbs ups. Smfh!
Also works in inner city/suburban environments. Trash piled up makes a great shelter and there's always a variety of supplies.
This is true. Never thought of that.
Sir, are you gonna use that cardboard?
Newspaper - Hoover blankets.
@@rallinrallen8040 I use cardboard to crawl under my car when working on it.
Soiled diapers have an R-4 rating. That's a bonus.
If you can find them, place/stack rocks and logs around your sleeping bag strategically. These items will raise the draft above you because the wind can’t blow through them.
Rocks tend to retain cold temperatrure unless heated with indoor fire. Better use logs or dry branches. Wood is a much better insulator than rock/concrete.
Called wind breaks
Go to finnish army! We all have slept in snow with standard wintercamo suit calle lumipuku. Terrain you show is LUXURIOUS!
Loved watching this. Excellent advice, that could save a life sometime.
Appreciate it Benji 🫡
@@SurvivalSchoolHouse Thanks, take care.
Watch the movie Dersu Uzala by Akira Kurosawa. Same shelter
What about building what you did, then add the branches over it to keep the wind out? I know it’s more work but in a several day survival I’d think it would really help.
Maybe strip bark off fallen logs to build a windbreak. I'd like a fire if possible.
With a bigger hill, maybe all around the tree you could have more chambers for more ppl or for storage, for changing positions if one side is better covered for rain etc
Too dangerous for a fire.
If I’m in a survival situation, I don’t give a SHIT about the environment.
Yeah he went overboard with the rambling on about nonsense
Can I smoke inside ?
If you would like to see your afterlife
Il faut au minimum une couverture de survie,car je doute fort de ne pas pouvoir garder la chaleur du corps 1 nuit, l ecran de paille n est pas assez dense.
It's a way to get out of the cold on a cold winter day when you have nothing. Thank you for teaching me.😊
Most people would be surprised how easy it is to fall asleep outdoors with a little bit of comfy padding. Back when I did landscaping, me and my coworker were prepping a job site cleaning it out. The guy bringing out materials was delayed by two hours and we didn't have any other work for the day. Got up in the truck bed with a bunch of tall grasses we had had cut down. Laid down for a second to enjoy the nice spring weather and accidentally fell asleep for 30ish minutes. Was a pretty refreshing nap
Nice, those can be the best naps
This would be useless to me. I wouldn’t be able to sleep thinking about the countless spiders or other biting insects I just made a bed with. I’m not afraid, but I wouldn’t be comfortable either.
you gotta consider the fact that it was already too cold for those bugs in the first place, spiders and ticks arnt going to infest that if it was already freezing out
This was great! Reminds me of the time when I was a child and played with hay. BTW when grass is being decomposed by bacteria it also emits heat.
That unemployed friend on a Wednesday
My issue would be not realizing when it's time to give it up and start building a shelter. It takes several hours, and leading up to those last precious hours of daylight, my mind would be telling me to continue moving in the right direction until civilization is reached.
A weed whip would have been great for raking pine needles and cutting grass. Probably do well cutting small pine boughs too. That's all it's good for though. A time saver if needed, but a hinderance if packed along for nothing. Maybe a decent machete would serve all those purposes, plus more chopping chores around camp, plus be less of a hinderance to carry along.
This gets the, "Good Stuff, No Fluff" seal of approval.
Someone will come across this and claim it's a sasquatch nest.
Lost in the wilderness I built one of these out of pine straw. It worked for a night. Great video. I often wondered if anyone else used this shelter.
How did you find your way back?
@@ProdriveGT A car horn in the distance
You could combine this shelter with a tarp on top to seal it
This just might keep someone alive who has watched it. Good job….
Tldw; cover yourself with a bunch of stuff
Wonderful idea for survival. Some warmth, but if your feet are cold it affects your comfort badly. Remedy: always carry two plastic grocery bags. Wrap over your socks and put on shoes. You will sleep well with warm feet through the night.🎉🎉🎉🎉
you wont sleep at all with all that trench foot going on.
ALL THESE “SURVIVAL” CHANNELS CRACK ME UP! The best lesson to teach is never get into a situation like that anyway😂😂😂
thats utterly stupid... if you could teach a flawless way not to get into a survival situation then it would be common knowledge, considering the only way to guarantee never getting lost in the woods is to never go in the woods... well, i doubt people are just gonna stop going into the woods just to avoid a chance of getting lost
survival lessons are intended to help increase your odds of survival IF something goes wrong, while hoping that you will never need to use the skill in the first place, much like how people learn martial arts or proper gun safety to defend them self, but they probably arnt hoping to ever need to use the skills
think before you spout something as dim as "just learn how to not get lost! its easy!"
Sounds lovely but what happens when 1 million ticks start biting you.
you stay warm, thats what happens, but my bets are considering there was still snow on the ground when he started, i dont think ticks are a worry
Nice work!
Thank you! Keep up the good work with your channel! ruclips.net/channel/UC0_N8Z45LhuJ3G1k8bJGoAg
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simple and effective, thats all you need in survival
Edit: MY GOD there is a shocking supply of ignorance in this comment section, ranging from claiming its fake, to thinking that this grass collected in cold weather would be filled with bugs... this is the very reason why survival needs to be taught in the first place
At least credit scablands scavenger if you're gonna copy and paste his video
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I’d hope he’s referencing the Smooth Gefixt video. Scablands has way more loyalists 😂
You could have built a shelter the same time it took you to make your nest
I'm guessing that compressing the pile with branches on top will help to shut down the drafts.
Yes it could've helped!
He said I got up and went to the bathroom. What bathroom you went too 😂😂
This is bringing back (mostly) fond memories of SV80 in Spokane in February 1989! -20F under a parachute shelter on a pile of pine boughs :) It's great to see a real expert posting and not another Altoid-tin packing armchair survivalist. Keep it up!
I don't remember my class number, I went through in Feb, 1972. And all we had was a poncho and a couple of cereal bars. The only good thing was that immediately after this, I went to Homestead for parasail training in the warm waters of Biscayne Bay.
Thank you Greg! I remember those days, getting out of the tipi was the toughest part! Your comment means a lot and great to hear from another bubba. 02-02
@@maxsdad538 the poncho was an extension of our body! Now I’m glad they have lighter materials but using a poncho always brings back memories
Altoids tin with tampons, cordage and painkillers but no knuckle bandages and needless for cuts and slivers.
I did the full course; survival, SERE, and POW, back in June / July 83. Then it was on to Eielson outside of Fairbanks. Having grown up backpacking in the Cascades the main thing I learned was how to make things out of parachute cloth. Oh, the fond memories of rabbit eyeballs served up raw. Had my first of many MREs there as well.
I always thought it would be good under a tree. Thanx
Love the channel Leif!
I had to sleep on the side of a mountain after killing an elk WAY too far away from the truck in Hells Canyon. I didn't have as much grass as you did, but I was able to build a warm enough bough bed to sleep comfortably through the night. This technique is very effective.
Thank you CJ! The things we do for elk hunting...all worth it. That must have been an epic hunt.
If the elk was still warm you could have slept close to/ half under the elk.
@@simontenkate9601or beter still, cut open its belly, and crawl inside that...
Hell's Canyon in WY?
@@sunofpeter2 Idaho/Oregon border
Could've put some grass around the backof the tree as well to stop the wind from coming through to your head area?.
Yes, good idea, more grass would've helped in that area
That's a great shelter, obviously having a slow burning fire nearby whilst you sleep would make it really comfortable.
You don't want a fire near you when you are sleeping in a grass shelter ... one spark while you are sleeping ... yeah not good. However, heating up some rocks and moving them to the foot area to keep your feet warm could be really helpful
Lemme just build a massive kindling pile next to a fire and climb inside
@@lancedolan I'm from the UK. It's soo wet here 11 months of the year. It didn't occur to me.
@@lancedolan😂
Too much words and too less work
All Americans are like this
Great video, great info. Realistic, no nonsense. You survived! That’s the goal! Thanks.
Thank you, I survived and glad that I slept some
so you really believed that he slept ther ?
You are amazingly resilient but really glad I watched this as you never know when you might be lost etc.
Thank you Susan! You speak the truth, you never know
I have slept in pine needles below freezing. You can pile them up 3feet deep and crawl in. We have long needle pines
You should make a video where you weave grass into mats/beds/blankets that you can spend the night with.
Snow can keep you warm 😂
Awsome video !! Great way of using what mother nature has to offer , I would have never thought of building a shelter with dried grass ? I bet it's hard if you have allergy issues
Yes it definitely could be!
Sneeze or die? Quite the choice.
why would it be a problem if its dried? Allergy works only if its alive and pollen
Im frowning here, i think if you'd of collected enough material to begin with and stayed in the shelter rather than getting out every hour and not sleeping for more than 3 hours you would of been more successful. If you'd of just stayed awake and moved around all night you'd of still survived?? I think you could of done it better?
I had to do this when I was temporarily lost in a coastal dune area here in South Australia. I could only break off green leafy twigs, which worked but I needed A LOT. And it wasn't as cold as you were there. But it worked, and I got at least some sleep and didn't suffer from hypothermia.
Dursu Ursula, Russian movie has a scene where he saves himself and a Russian officer survive a blizzard, the straw pile was haystack size.
So.. Bigfoot didn't build it?
Love these beds! Starting point for any primitive shelter, imo. Beyond keeping you alive, they're actually comfortable. Which will allow you to actually get some quality rest. Great demonstration. The only thing I would add is some discussion at the end about improving the function by always carrying a poncho and a woobie/bivy/space blanket with you. The poncho/woobie would be the best as they would be part of your clothing, and the woobie is breathable (+ insulating). Poncho covers the top (wind block and keeps debris in place). The woobie, etc, makes a taco inside that makes getting in and out more efficient. The space blanket downside obviously is that it doesn't breathe, so condensation would be an issue.
Again, great video. I'm glad to see these practical solutions are starting to be seen more on RUclips.
Yooo i didn't know bill burr did survival videos. So cool!!
I wonder if our European ancestors used techniques like this to keep warm in the ice age in Europe.
our ancestors were in a hell of a lot more places than just europe during the ice age, but i can bet they used stuff like this a lot, there just wouldnt be much trace to really prove it considering the materials used
They just exploited other people's ancestors and took their heat.
This video essentially covers the worst-case-scenario: You're out in the open during winter, you have warm clothes, but no tools, no tent, nothing... and you need to get through the night with only a few hours preparation.
Will it be a cozy night? No. Will you make it through the night? Well, your chances are significantly higher with this knowledge than without.
And this is a very good foundation for emergency survival, that can be improved with some modest means. A small tarp, for instance, wouldn't do you much good on its own in this situation, but when you make a debris nest and use the tarp to improve it by protecting it from wind or rain, it gets much more effective.
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This is a fine scenario: an Average Fella who has read a bit about bushcraft goes out for a winter walk. He doesn't have a belt knife, saw, or ax with him. He doesn't have rations or a hydration system along 'just in case." IF he brought a friendly dog, they could help raise the temperature inside the debris nest. Speaking for myself, I would bring an Ontario Survival machete. Use that to speed up collecting supple lower limbs and slicing reeds, grasses, or cattails. Making 'hot rocks' would help.
He's not going to to some gimmick, janky(?) shelter... Wait...what? It's going to be usefull.
years ago i spent the night in a pile of hay. it wasn't bailed or anything, it was just laying there in a pile. oh, and that night it was forecasted to be -20F
i had at least 5' of hay above me maybe 2' uncompressed below me and the pile was probably 12' in diameter. all i brough in there was what i was wearing and a bed sheet to help a little with dust.
i wasn't cold at all. slept pretty good too mainly because it was so quiet in there.
Thanks for doing this for us. Those of us who are wanting to learn need more guys like you.