Winter Shelter Ideas by @cahlen on 3Speak
I'm planning to build a dugout shelter using mostly scrap material in order to survive the brutal Winters in my new location. I'm looking for your input on my current plan. --- DONATE: CONTACT: SUB...
Tags: #survival #offgrid #minimalism #life #lifestyle #freedom #nature #construction #diy
Hey everyone, Kellynne here, and today I'm going to give you an update on what I'm thinking about building for my winter shelter. So for those you don't know, I'm in a new location, and it's about to go into winter, beginning towards October here, and this place is famous for its brutal winters, and like a few years ago, we got down to negative 40. and it stayed cold for a long time, okay? And once it snows and gets cold, it pretty much stays that way until spring. So I need to be ready for it. I was kind of thinking, you know, I lived outside for three years. It got pretty cold, like negatives, Fahrenheit's, right? But, you know, some people are basically saying, this is a different situation, Callan, you need to have a shelter, you need to have warmth, or you're not going to survive. And so, anyways... All the people who are, you know, concerned have made me concerns, so now I'm concerned. So anyways, we finished the outhouse. We're halfway done with the irrigation test. We've got all the trees out. We just need to dig the ditch and we'll have that done probably today. After that, I think I'm going to start focusing on the shelter. I already was planning yesterday what I'm going to do, and I think I figured out what I'm going to do. So I'm just going to describe that to you, show you a few things. There's nothing really done yet. So it's not a whole lot of visuals. But I want to see what you guys think if you think this is going to work or if you think there's anything that I should do differently. But it's going to be a lot of descriptors, which sometimes don't come out in people's minds is what I'm trying to describe. So I'll try to do the best I can, okay? Okay, so like I said in the last video, this, all this wood here, this is basically what I have to work with. and I have a little bit of money thanks to your donation, so I should be able to get some other things, but I would like to mostly just use this stuff. So what I'm going to do, this is a 7 by 9, so this is 9 feet by 7, and this is this way because I'm going to be using pallets, which I can get from free to, can get for free from local stores, okay? I'm going to use the tractor, I'm going to dig this down, three feet down into the ground, okay? I'm going to use these poles over here, which are all a little over six feet tall. Okay? We've got more than I need. And I'm going to put them in the corner over here. So this is going to be the front. The wind is generally blowing from this direction. It's going to be slanted up, okay? So there's going to be a pole here that'll be over six feet, a little over six foot and over six foot. Back here, it'll probably be more like four feet, okay. So it'll be poking about a foot up over the ground here, be poking up a couple feet above the ground over here, and there will be a roof that comes up at an angle, and it'll overextend a little bit, okay? So there will be two pallets going this way. This will be the side up. This is the short side, is 40 inches, okay? I'm going to stuff it with rocks, which I will not have any trouble finding. I might put on the backside aluminum insulation, but people are telling me I should really worry more about thermal mass than the reflective insulation. Plus, the installation will be fairly expensive to buy to cover all the walls. I might just do the ceiling. Okay, so these are two pallets I have right now. Two pallets going this way, dump rocks in it. Two pallets going this way, dump rocks in it. One palette going this way, and then a half-pallet space here. and this will be the door, there will be a ramp coming in to the door, okay? So I'll be able to walk in, and then to get back here, I'll have to get down low, okay? Then in this corner, I'm going to put the wood stove. I'll go over and show you a couple things. Okay, so there's a $110 wood stove that's pretty big that I can get on Amazon, so I'm going to order that with the gift card you guys sent. This thing is totally flat even on the backside. That's going to be what the stove will sit on. Then this thing, which is fairly long, will line the walls in that corner. Okay? So, and we, they have the tools, they got the tools that you need to cut this thing, allegedly. I haven't seen them, but I think he has, like, a torch and stuff, and he also has other tools you think would do the trick. So that's what I'm thinking for that. Okay, back to the hole. This probably won't be where I put it. I might put it back against the hill there so that we can have a drain, which flows out to the hole in case water gets in. Then there will probably be a ditch going this way, maybe a ditch going this way and this way, and a slight lean this way and to the back so that it goes to the drain, okay? Or maybe that way to the drain, so I think I'm going to sleep right here. Then, so there will be a layer of gravel here. so that the water can easily pass through. So after it's down three feet, I'll probably take a little bit more and put gravel, and wherever the drain is, probably, you know, gravel going to the edge of the field here. Okay, so then there will also be a full palette here, and then I'll cut a pallet in half, and it'll go here. So the other half I could probably use for the door. That's what I'm thinking here, okay? So now here we're getting to the unconventional part. So there's going to be, right, the poles, there will also be a pole here, okay? There will be a pole, you know, here's the full pallet, here's the door, there will be a pole here. And that's what I'll use to put stuff across, you know, the frame or whatever, the supports for the roof. Then for the roof, I'm thinking I'll just use more pallets. Although the problem will be that... the pallets will fit right in between them. So I have to, maybe I'll just put it like a, on top of the poles, maybe a bigger support so that they can actually, that these can actually reach. You guys get what I'm saying? So they don't just fall down in. But anyways, once the pallets or whatever wood, flat wood is put on top, it on top of that wood will be the aluminum bubble wrap insulation. And then to put on top of that, I'm thinking the... basically the gorilla all-weather permanent tape, which actually gets stronger in UV, and I've used it for a lot of different things, and it's really strong. The issue with that is, you know, it's 7 by 9, so that's, what, 63 square feet? I think one roll is 9 square feet, so I'll need to buy, you know, like 8 rolls to do that. But we're 10 bucks each, you know, it's not very cheap. So anyways, that would be the most expensive part will be... the bubble wrap installation, and then that super strong tape that will go over the whole thing and make it look like a roof and wrap and hold it all in there. So anyways, all the walls will be held together with paracord. So I'm just going to wrap paracord onto the poles, you know, on the top and on the bottom. And I don't think I'm going to dig the poles down, but maybe I will. After I get this down three feet, I'll maybe get a postal digger and dig a little bit deeper. but I'm not going to set them in concrete or anything like that. I think that if they're just tied to the pallets, which are full of stone, that the wind won't pick it up, right? And the roof will also be tied, the top pallet will be tied to the pallet below it. Okay, so I don't think the wind's going to be able to take it anywhere. And I forgot to mention, so all the pallets will be sticking up, you know, like half a foot out of the ground here. and that's so I can put up a berm. So there's going to be a berm going around the whole thing. Basically, I'll just push dirt up against it so that water can't flow in. So anyways, that's a shelter idea at the moment. I'm curious to know your guys' thoughts. I'm wondering, like, when the pallets end and there's the roof. On the far end, there's only going to be a little bit of space, half a foot maybe. but on the front end there's going to be, you know, maybe a foot and a half, two feet or something like that. So, like, what should I put in there? There's lots of wood. Maybe I should just use this wood. Maybe I should cut a pallet and fill that with rocks too. And then I'm curious to think, know what you think about that roof idea, or maybe I should just, you know, buy a single thing of OSB. You know, I think it's bigger than 7 by 9. I don't know how much that costs, but it's probably less than the... then the tape cost, like if I have to buy enough tape, it's going to be close to $100 to cover the roof. But if I put OSB down or particle board on top, I'm probably still going to need to cover that with something, so I don't know if I'd really be saving myself any money. So a lot of people are concerned, they're like counting you to drop everything and build your shelter as soon as possible. So right now, it's currently still getting up into the 70s. We just went through a few wet days, but it's going to be back too dry. and warm for, you know, at least we, I think really, this could be built within a couple of days, right? If I had all the materials, you know, just digging the hole will take me a couple of hours, putting in the pallets and tying them down a couple more hours. Putting up the roof might be a little more complicated, so anyways, here we got a train coming. It's a short one today. So people say, oh, you're in between the road and the track, it must be annoying. I actually like it, you know? I like that, this road, I mean, it's busy during certain times of the day, but, like, at night, it's basically not busy at all. And at night, the train rarely comes through, and when it does, it's not very disturbing. And I like, like, when the train comes, it's like this cool event to, like, sit down, watch the train, wave to the conductors, so anyways. Let's see, is there anything else to mention? Anyways, I think that's pretty much it. I'm just looking for ideas. You guys see improvements or if you think this is going to work, share your thoughts, okay? So, thanks for watching, and I'll see you guys later.
@jacobtothe: Video isn't loading for me at the moment. Check out The $50 and up Underground House Book by Mike Oehler. It should be available used on Amazon, AbeBooks, etc for around $10. Prices are a few decades out of date, but the design and construction ideas might help.