It's challenging knowing what type of shelter to build when you're in need of one. So much depends on your existing conditions, building materials, and the tools you have with you.
It's important to consider whether it's safe enough to search for materials before constructing your shelter.
But you also need to take the weather and climate into consideration — will a mud hut keep you safe from the rain? Probably not. Will you be wasting precious time looking for grass to thatch your roof if you're currently stuck in the snow?
And what else is there to build with? These are all vital questions you should ask yourself prior to making a shelter. Most of the time building a shelter will be about improvising, and remembering which shelters are the easiest to make depending on the SHTF situation at hand.
One of the best tools you can carry is knowledge. Knowing your options ahead of time, based on your surroundings is the key to surviving. Check out the slides for some excellent examples of primitive shelters!
Get started with the slideshow link below:
Ty Burleson
https://youtu.be/jjMXtvEerlA
Max Jordan
Jenna-Leigh Kirby
Cory Maloney
Good thing I was a Seabee in the Navy.
I’ll keep my van down by the river.
Pretty handy and I already know what I’m building well eventually
Rick Thompson
Mario Mucino
i build shelters regularly….in various places….inaccessable to most…..unseen by experienced……..live long and prosperous humans…..
Talking about the collapse of society as if it were an inevitability is a cop-out. Society will only fail if we all give up. We have the power to change anything in the world we don’t like. It may be difficult, but what in this life isn’t? Start by being the change you wish to see in the world.
Go back to sleep
Suuure… the tin foil on your helmet is loose
Bless your little heart.
Lol you are one of those people who think you are enlightened above the rest of us, as if you know something more than the common person. So tell me, why are we irreversibly doomed?
O hell, I hope I am the first to die! Screw all that crap!
^^^because ppl are greedy and stupid by nature
Not one of these is survivable. No use ports!
USB*
I’m staying at home. Y’all can go and live in hole in the ground.
True, but what else is new? That hardly equates to the downfall of society. I guess worst case scenario…
Gun ports and a good field of fire……………
But is there WiFi?
We will have to practice this next time we’re out in the wild Hunter Tuck and Kelly Luttrull Tuck
this sight is all jammed up with adds Die Hard Survivor SUCKS !!!
I’ll just take a jungle hammock so I can stay on the move.. A permanent shelter will eventually be compromised.
Need a solar charger and some power banks for your GPS unless the satellites are compromised. Need short wave capability also.
Modern societies don’t fail, they just go through the occasional revolution. In either case, better to be prepared.
Danny Castillo
I guess we all live in fox holes then, right!!
Really? And if an asteroid slams into the planet how do you plan on doing a damn thing about it? If one of the MANY weaponized viruses gets loose and decimates world populations, how do you plan on stopping that? As a Boy Scout we were taught to BE PREPARED, that’s all prepping is, BEING PREPARED, it does NOT mean we are giving up on a damn thing, just being prepared if$#%&!@*hits the fan……….dumbass.
Lol$#%&!@*off with that$#%&!@* You prep because you live in a constant state of paranoid fear. I bet you probably were one of those people that thought 2012 or the zombie apocalypse was going to happen. Truth is, you are just a scared little man that likes to feel secure so you keep a bug out kit handy, when in reality, someone would just come along and take your$#%&!@*away from you in the event of a real emergency. So you can take that “dumbass” comment and shove it up your$#%&!@* No one cares. Go back underground in your safe space and wait for the end of the world.
Victoria Brooke for Jonah
Go away democrap
Who is a dem?
They laughed at Noah the whole time he built that boat.
nope and half the people will die with out it
My brother and I built a Salish 33 yrs ago on my cousins property that still stands to this day. Just an FYI, we were 13 & 11 at the time.
Joanna Petke
FM 21 76…..geez
I’m still laughing at noah
Ian Porter, I for one don’t use things like this for “the inevitable collapse of society”, in case you didn’t realize it, no matter how they package it, it can be useful. I like to hunt, what if I were to get lost and need to spend the night in a storm? What if I survive a plane crash with a few people? How about if one of those cruise ships that have been having issues sinks? Or what if your home is destroyed by a natural disaster and you have to wait 6 months for FEMA to get off their$#%&!@* or your insurance to pay out? Not to mention, I just like to camp, building a shelter with what is on hand saves me from hauling more$#%&!@*into and out of the woods? Try to see the big picture instead of getting snarky with those you think you are superior to, or maybe just try to learn something new for a change.
Someone please tell me what SHTF means.
s**t Hits The Fan
*chance favors the prepared mind*
Ian Porter hey$#%&!@* MY safe space was under a fucking parachute as a paratrooper before your sorry$#%&!@*was even born, so please, crawl back in your hole and shut the$#%&!@*up. Little scrawny whimps like you love to be an internet thug because in real life, face to face you don’t have the balls to do anything noteworthy, you would probably curl up in the fetal position and whimper if some serious$#%&!@*ever came your way.
Matthew David Hummel forget it man, Ian Porter is just another metrosexual, he’s a republican in all liklihood, if the$#%&!@*ever did hit the fan, he would be the first one thinking he was entightled to what supplies you have been smart enough to put up.
Enjoy the circle jerk, guys
Your mom does