For colder climates, there was a video showing how to make the firebox lower on one side, then having the air flow pulling the heat and smoke through a tunnel under the floor and then to the chimney. That way you get a heated floor in your shelter.
In 5 years: sitting on my roof at night under NODS. I’ll be drinking my stash of bourbon and plinking at..uh…zombies, yeah, zombies. Also wondering what I have left in my trade supplies to get a good fresh cigar
The technical term for that is called "Building a half-assed house". By all means, if time, tools, materials (including a pane of glass), and weather conditions are thusly mild, do that.
Blinded on three sides, weak, subject to cold and flooding?
By building below grade, it ensures all water drainage and cold movement will be into that structure. If one had the means to do what was shown, why not build a low-wall foundation, and raise the entire structure up, and bank the lower walls? And if trees are so plentiful, why not build on a platform a couple of feet above-ground? Or even higher?
There's any number of ways to skin that cat in a temperate forest, but this one isn't notably helpful, and not very well-thought out, as far as I can see.
I've seen rainy afternoons in Georgia that would turn that into a soggy, muddy mess in a couple of hours, and repeat that process every day for months. And then, winter would set in. You build with mud in places that are dry as a bone. Not places where it rains a lot. And if you've got straw and water, bake the bricks, and don't stop until you've gone up several feet of wall. Also, that fire whateverTF-it-was is poorly designed for either food prep or water boiling. Critical fails unless this was a two-day hunting stop with a cooler full of food. In which case he spent a whole day just building the thing.
If you're going to build a hasty shelter, spend less time on it, so you can maximize fishing, trapping, hunting, gathering, and firewood collection, since it's all about heat and food calories and potable water after that. Grade for this one: D+.
If you're going to build a more permanent shelter, build it much better. Grade for that: D-
pretty cool for backup. we have a house in a good location,(quiet and way, way off of the road and away from towns) easily defendable but we have a camp tent/house set up behind the house a 1/4 mile behind us the river and another set up across the river for hunting and camping in the fall. i have always encouraged everyone to get into privative camping. it's peaceful and quiet and a good way to test your prep's to see what works and what doesn't before you really need them. try it first from the back of your car or truck and then move further out. best of luck to all
City hall: "building permit denied, you don't have a fast EV charger".
ReplyDeleteWeak structure. As seen on TV!
ReplyDeletePulls cold air in the front sucks the heat out back through the chimney
ReplyDeleteFor colder climates, there was a video showing how to make the firebox lower on one side, then having the air flow pulling the heat and smoke through a tunnel under the floor and then to the chimney. That way you get a heated floor in your shelter.
ReplyDeleteThe poor man's rocket mass heater uses the soil under your structure as thermal mass.
Deletehttps://www.notechmagazine.com/2014/03/crimean-ovens.html
Used in hospital tents in Crimean War and advanced field hospitals in our Civil War. Kept the tent warm and dry.
Best part is a single large burn runs hot, nearly smokeless and keep things warm for hours.
In 5 years: sitting on my roof at night under NODS. I’ll be drinking my stash of bourbon and plinking at..uh…zombies, yeah, zombies. Also wondering what I have left in my trade supplies to get a good fresh cigar
ReplyDeleteJust find a cave and save your precious energy.
ReplyDeleteI am impressed, not S!
ReplyDeleteThe technical term for that is called "Building a half-assed house".
ReplyDeleteBy all means, if time, tools, materials (including a pane of glass), and weather conditions are thusly mild, do that.
Blinded on three sides, weak, subject to cold and flooding?
By building below grade, it ensures all water drainage and cold movement will be into that structure.
If one had the means to do what was shown, why not build a low-wall foundation, and raise the entire structure up, and bank the lower walls?
And if trees are so plentiful, why not build on a platform a couple of feet above-ground? Or even higher?
There's any number of ways to skin that cat in a temperate forest, but this one isn't notably helpful, and not very well-thought out, as far as I can see.
I've seen rainy afternoons in Georgia that would turn that into a soggy, muddy mess in a couple of hours, and repeat that process every day for months. And then, winter would set in.
You build with mud in places that are dry as a bone. Not places where it rains a lot.
And if you've got straw and water, bake the bricks, and don't stop until you've gone up several feet of wall.
Also, that fire whateverTF-it-was is poorly designed for either food prep or water boiling.
Critical fails unless this was a two-day hunting stop with a cooler full of food.
In which case he spent a whole day just building the thing.
If you're going to build a hasty shelter, spend less time on it, so you can maximize fishing, trapping, hunting, gathering, and firewood collection, since it's all about heat and food calories and potable water after that. Grade for this one: D+.
If you're going to build a more permanent shelter, build it much better.
Grade for that: D-
My 2¢. YMMV.
Good analysis. LOTS of other building materials available to build better, stronger, faster. Even in an emergency!
Deletepretty cool for backup. we have a house in a good location,(quiet and way, way off of the road and away from towns) easily defendable but we have a camp tent/house set up behind the house a 1/4 mile behind us the river and another set up across the river for hunting and camping in the fall. i have always encouraged everyone to get into privative camping. it's peaceful and quiet and a good way to test your prep's to see what works and what doesn't before you really need them. try it first from the back of your car or truck and then move further out.
ReplyDeletebest of luck to all