Cold Weather Lean-To (Video & Transcription)

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Number of speakers: 1 (Shane)
Duration: 10 min 43 sec

Cold Weather Lean-To

Shane: “Hey! whats up YouTube? Shane here with Lonewolf Survival and just wanted to let you know this is our Holiday episode so Happy Holidays!! This week we are gonna be demonstrating a cold weather shelter improvised, inclement weather shelter out here and we’ve got some basic materials set up. Everyone does the lean-to system and they use natural fall and stack leaves, bamboo or cane or whatever that is. We are using two tarps and we’re gonna make an improvised, cold weather lean-to complete with a radiant fire deflector in front. This is all gonna take about 30 minutes to knock this out.”

“So, I’m gonna show ya, if you look over to my right here we have some of our materials up, put out. We are cleaning up this area behind us. Paul and Dan are getting that prepped. We are gonna go ahead and get our ridge poles and support pole in place and then we’ll be back and show you exactly how we’re gonna skin it and how we’re gonna actually weather proof this thing. So we will be back in just a minute.”

Directions to Paul and Dan

“So, what they’re doing right now is putting in the main support pole. They’re lashing the pole between these two trees. This is gonna be the height of our lean-to which is about shoulder high for me. As the lean-to goes back it’s going to get narrow and that will be the sleeping area. This is going to be our common area here where our gear goes.”

“So when you’re putting these ridge poles, your main support pole up, the weight of the pole itself is going to push down on the lashings so you can lash as many times as ya want. Normally you’re gonna carry some sort of para-cord some kind of chute cord or anything you wanna use. We are using nylon. Some yellow nylon cord something that it is visible on camera. This stuff is cheap. Not good for long term use because the fibers star breaking down with use. Para cord or something a little more strength and integrity. For right now though you can see the actual lashing.”

“Then what I’m gonna start doing is start cutting the cordage for the support poles off the back side. These don’t have to be very long. It’s simple.”

Direction to Paul and Dan

“So all I’m doing now is just lashing my ridge poles down to my main support pole and this is what the tarp is gonna skin to. I’m only using three because that is all I need. One important thing you want to be sure to do is make sure your spacing is fairly even and make sure the distance from the top of the pole to the bottom of the pole is pretty close to the same. We’ll secure the bottom down in just a minute. When you’re lashing, it’s the same technique. You’re doing it the exact same way as you were before when you were lashing down. The main support pole itself, you just cross over and then come back and then you’re gonna tie that off. You can lash as many times as you want, as strong as you want. It depends on what kind of weather you’re in, if it’s high wind you may put a little more lashing on it. Actually put some weight sticks on the bottom and lash them down. This is pretty solid and is gonna work pretty good for us tonight.”

Directions to Paul and Dan: Moving the tarp over the top. Must watch.

“Okay so we are back and as you can see we’ve already lost light. Getting dark on us so we’ve got some area lights so we can show you what’s going on. A lot of times in this situation you’re not gonna have this option. You’ll be working in darkness. We still have to get a fire going. We’ve got the roof on here and our sleeping area. We’ve got it staked down on the side. We’ve got a little more to do. We’ve got to get our heat reflector up on the front and go ahead and get our fire area out. Dan and Paul are gonna get a fire going and then we’re gonna show you how we bed down in the night. We raked all the leaves in our front area so we’ve got a good bedding underneath this tarp to keep us up off the ground. Some padding and a little bit of heat. It’s suppose to get down to about 48 or 50 degrees tonight. Not super cold. If it was getting colder or we had some kind of rain we would go ahead and close in the sides a little bit more. But, we’ll show you a couple other things you can do to tighten this up for the night.”

“So we’re back and it’s getting dark fast. So what we are doing now is this is an emergency solar blanket. It’s one of the heavy gauge ones. We are using it as a reflector. So we are gonna tie it up a little bit and this is gonna be our fire area here right in front of our lean to and what is gonna happen is the heat is gonna hit the reflector and its gonna throw that heat back our way. We’ve got some plastic we are gonna put in on the sides and tuck in a little bit. When we are done we are gonna come back and show you the finished product.”

“So what we’re doing now is Dan had a piece of plastic in his bag and we’re gonna use this and put it on the side for a little heat reflector. All I’m gonna do is take this and drape it over and stake it down and tuck it under. Put a couple sticks in it to act as a side piece for this. That way I don’t have to get a lot of dead-fall and stack a bunch of brush up. This is just for overnight set up that we’re using to just keep us out of the elements until we pack up and head out tomorrow. So, we’re gonna get a fire going and get this tucked in and we’re gonna show you how the fire reflector works. We’ll be back in a few minutes.”

“So we’re back and got our fire going. We have our reflector up and the shelter is built for tonight, feed her up good and get bed in and get ready to head out tomorrow. So ya can see it doesn’t take a lot of materials. You don’t have to cut everything down in the woods, you don’t have to carry a lot with you. All this is carried in two back packs. We got a decent shelter for tonight that we can pack up and take with us and it’s mobile. We move to the next area we go. So, not complicated, it’s not rocket science. So this is just an example to show you what you can carry with ya and how simple it is to put together a basic structure with a decent fire shield. Like I said, it’s going to get down to about 50 degrees tonight and we’re gonna be fine. We got our bags with us so we’re gonna be good to go. We’ll summarize up and be back in just a minute.”

“Okay, we’re back, we’re bedded in and this is where we’re gonna be for tonight.We’ll pack everything up in the morning and head back out on the trail. Like I said, something simple you can put together. The three of us can sleep real comfortable in here. Not real bad weather. If it was we’d tighten it up some and put a front on it. No need to for tonight.”

“As always, Lone Wolf Survival, I’m Shane, Dan and Paul and have Happy Holidays!”

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