A short video going over the main design principles for a lean to debris shelter. I’ve seen lots of photos and posts online where people tie the ridge pole to trees or even put the ridge pole on the wrong side of the trees, so I thought I’d do a brief video showing how I […]
Recently I made a video showing you how to interlock the supports on an ‘A’ frame debris shelter. This time around I’ve given a few hints and tips for positioning the ribs on a debris shelter. Take a look. We look at positioning the ribs on a debris shelter on our 2 Day Bushcraft Course, 5 […]
I try to avoid using cordage when constructing a debris shelter due to the value of that cordage. A few simple design/construction principles can completely remove the need to use cordage. In this short video I demonstrate using a couple of ‘Y’ shaped sticks and how to interlock them to provide structural integrity. We spend […]
I’ve written plenty of posts in the past on the topic of debris shelters but those posts have been concerned with ‘text book’ shelters. So in this video I’ve taken a look at real life debris shelters using natural resources such as crooks in trees and fallen trees. The advantage is that this approach reduces […]
I was talking about using forked sticks for debris shelters at the weekend on our IOL Bushcraft Competency Certificate training course and thought that I’d do a video expalining the difference between a forked stick and a ‘Y’shaped stick. Intrigued? Take a look. We teach about using ‘Y’ shaped and forked sticks for debris shelters […]
I’ve written previously about building an A Frame debris shelter in this post from 2014 and it’s a good post (if I say so myself). But a debris shelter that we built 8 years ago finally gave up over the winter so Nicola and I replaced it a couple of days ago. So I thought […]
