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!
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Ian Porter , Austin does not need to explain, every body understood what you said and Austin responded correctly to your crap statement!!!! So, you go ahead and move on. And also put a name tag when SHTF so we can by pass and refuse you and your family any help when you start begging, Ok smart guy?! Have you even heard of EMP? I’m sure not, but by the time you choose to respond, you would have “googled” it and say “yes”. So spare me
Will, you mad bro? Butthurt a lil’? That why you jumped in 2 weeks late and try to voice an opinion? While you are cosigning with the forum? Begging? EMP? Deep. Is this how you get your kicks on Friday night? Awesome!
Dude on the left looks like he’s on a laptop in a pillow fort. Not a bad way to ride out the apocalypse.
Oh$#%&!@* I spelled a word wrong. Go back to banging your sister$#%&!@*
Jay, if you’re calling me a$#%&!@* there should be a comma between sister and$#%&!@* If you are trying to say I should go back to banging my sister’s$#%&!@* you should use an apostrophe. And “oh$#%&!@* should have a period after it, not a comma.
What collapse? I will shoot my way out thx
Ian porter is the guy in the survivor group that thinks he knows everything and interrups conversations..or has somthing smerky to interject with all the time that everyone thinks is just the gayest thing ever..that gets on everyones nerves all the time..then goes missing in the woods..and no one cares that someone in the group most likely killed him..and made ian jerky for food.. and everyone rejoices and carrys on with out a glimpse of sorrow..just glee because every sunrise and sunset is just a little bit warmer that Ian isn’t around anymore.. ohh snap! Is that jerky..ya..here try some…i made it outta Ian..ohhh hell ya!! … .. . Man! For such a douche he dont taste half bad!! THANK YOU!! YOUR WELCOME! Did anyone else think this..or just me??
Kim Gludt Riester
Not everyone will die from basic infection, I haven’t seen a Doctor in 10 years other than to get stitches. I don’t get sick often and when I do my body takes care of it. Just because big pharma companies go away doesn’t mean the human race will.
Smart choice, but in certain severe weather conditions a shelter might be more prudent.
Heather Vega
Me and my son built and AFrame and a debris shelter for hands on practice. Looks simple but a lot of work and energy involved. In hot weather it was very taxing. In a pinch I would partially fell a thick leaved small tree to make the frame and shape a shelter through the limbs that face down. Just my 2 cents from actual experimentation
Randall Lewis check this out
Neeraj Jeff lets do this at gurnsey.
Dig a grave.
Israel Moraga de Aragon
Yea I had a survival app, and it had that shelter and others too. Hopefully we can make one for fun and not for emergency hahah
Pretty Neat!
WiFi enabled?
Trenton Spivey
Franco Salazar
Jeff Randell for camp
Breanna Dair Butler
The collapse of what exactly?
Doesn’t hurt to be prepared, its stupid to assume it might not happen.
I agree
i just assume the author meant their home. Gotta have shelter when your home collapses. Of course a little maintenance would prevent it all together but you know how these civvies are.
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Alicia Marie Fulgium TheChief GP
At that point it’s survival of the fittest if you easily get sick and need antibiotics well then your immune system is$#%&!@*and your better of dying so you aren’t a burden to your loved ones
Kevin Bailor your self evaluation of your sturdiness is based on your ability to survive without medical help in an environment where food is fit to eat, water is potable and you are not subject to environmental forces.
You see in the wild there is something called the compounding effect one small injury or fever leaves you far below peak capacity and when your judgement is off or reduced you make mistakes, get slow, perceive inaccurately etc
In other words when$#%&!@*goes down hill in the wild it goes downhill harsh and fast with no one to help you.
Kelson Price
You people realise that people lived 4000 years ago in makeshift shelter, here we are. People lived to be 60 70 years then too. Wow are people this dense.
Grayling Dennis
I just don’t see any of these protecting me from zombies
Currently there are 18 million empty homes in the United States.
Rick Abbott
That’s where I have advantage. I know how to live without a grocery store. I can grow a garden, I can butcher everything from rabbit and squirrel to regular stock animals. Potable water isn’t hard to come by since I live on a well. Believe it or not I’m at the point that I could plug in my small solar panel and barter for a few animals, I could still live. I grew up and currently live on the edge of wild. Not really a stretch. I know where 3/4 of my food comes from as it is. Half of it was butchered, rendered, and smoked by me not the grocery store
Kevin Bailor you fail to understand the limits of your own homestead!!!
If something goes wrong such as a broken ankle or arm due to any number of accidental reasons, guess what, you are immediately hampered and unable to perform most of the duties required to keep your homestead up and running.
If you have to leave for some reason to go out away from your property you may return to find someone else who has taken over your property and will kill you if you try to reclaim it.
How about a massive fire that is encroaching on your property?
You need doctors, police, firefighters, etc otherwise your chances of living to a rip old age is very slim indeed!
Kevin Bailor you fail to understand the limits of your own homestead!!!
If something goes wrong such as a broken ankle or arm due to any number of accidental reasons, guess what, you are immediately hampered and unable to perform most of the duties required to keep your homestead up and running.
If you have to leave for some reason to go out away from your property you may return to find someone else who has taken over your property and will kill you if you try to reclaim it.
How about a massive fire that is encroaching on your property?
You need doctors, police, firefighters, etc otherwise your chances of living to a rip old age is very slim indeed!
Kevin Bailor you fail to understand the limits of your own homestead!!!
If something goes wrong such as a broken ankle or arm due to any number of accidental reasons, guess what, you are immediately hampered and unable to perform most of the duties required to keep your homestead up and running.
If you have to leave for some reason to go out away from your property you may return to find someone else who has taken over your property and will kill you if you try to reclaim it.
How about a massive fire that is encroaching on your property?
You need doctors, police, firefighters, etc otherwise your chances of living to a rip old age is very slim indeed!
Jonathan Viraphol
Dallas Nichols
Mackenzie Lewis
Bo Amundson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P73REgj-3UE
Ian no this nation is already bank rupt and the gov is handing out billions of tax payer dollars to the enemys and it can be for no other reason than to make the usa go full belly up and die and let obama become dictator — it is just time weeks maybe months
Amanda Grenier
I have a shelter. It is my house.