Comments on: Learn To Build Shelter For Any Survival Situation

By: h

Mon, 06 May 2019 00:11:02 +0000

In reply to Frank Vazquez. Take chainsaw chain, cut it in half, and tie string through the holes on the teeth.

By: h

Mon, 06 May 2019 00:08:49 +0000

Yea in my mind I have a bad feeling I’ll be homeless someday, and more than for a night.
Stuff like this helps a lot. A brown or camo tarp with a bug net is pretty good but I’ll need a PO box and hopefully at least a flip phone and medicaid in case that time comes.

By: Frank Vazquez

Frank Vazquez — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 15:48:33 +0000

Specific tools are suggested for certain shelters, but it seems to me that a better option than a multi-tool to cut wood is a folding saw or even a short hacksaw with a muti-purpose or wood cutting blade.

The saw blades on multi-tools or Swiss Army type folding knives are only 3-4 inches long. I think it would be a lot easier to use a short saw or a folding saw.

The second thing, is a pair of hand held pruners or pruning shears. Either the scissors type (They say it makes a cleaner cut) or the anvil style. These are great for cutting up small, thin lengths of wood for kindling or for small stoves.

By: Judy

Judy — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 23:32:12 +0000

Scouting programs used to teach a lot of these skills in primitive camping, a lost art that needs to return. Most kids want to learn how to build shelters. Sending this along to my son for the grandkids. Thanks.

By: Antti

Antti — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 15:46:56 +0000

Very nice shelters, except one of them.. Don’t ever go under the roots of fallen tree. You can never know how rotten the trees are and how firmly the root stands upright. If you are under it when it collapses, those critters are the smallest problem, because then you are in a subterranean shelter, for good. I’ve seen a couple of times how such a trap is triggered. Believe me, in a quiet forest even just the sound of the collapsing roots is creepy.