My Dog Scout and I head to the woods to camp overnight, using only items from the Dollar Store The $10 Dollar Store Survival Challenge, or like $11.50... I make a neck sheath from cottonwood bark, build a supershelter with grass, and items from the kit. and lots more. This is only part 1, I still have almost a full hour of video for part 2. coming soon... Tripple Fat Goose Down Coat https://triplefatgoose.com/collections/mens/products/logan-mens-lightweight-down-jacket?variant=43432500038
Joe attempts a \"dollar store survival challenge,\" spending a night in -5°C weather with gear costing only $11. Accompanied by his dog, Scout, he uses budget materials and natural resources to construct a \"super shelter\" designed to trap heat from an external fire, emphasizing resourcefulness and safety while navigating the limitations of low-cost equipment.
Hey guys, thanks for tuning in.
Joe here, I'm with my buddy Scout.
I've got a lot of crap.
I'm in the woods.
We're gonna do a dollar store survival challenge overnight
or camp out in the woods with just this gear
that I have in front of me.
You'll have to pardon my little prepubescent voice.
I'm a bit sick and my voice has gone to whack.
I'll go over everything I have in detail later on,
but right now I wanna get into the woods
because it's really windy out here.
I'm freezing cold.
It's been snowing.
It's negative two right now.
It's gonna get down to negative five tonight.
Very cold already.
but anyways like I said I want to go through all this later
but right now I want to make a
carrying case so I don't have to carry this stuff like a fool
so I have 10 garbage bags in here
watch out big guy and I can reuse them as long
as they don't get stretched out too bad from this
but they say they're heavy duty
so I'm not I have a four liter bottle of water that's not
gonna go in there just
because I see it going wrong
so all my gear now I gotta find a stick
tied around that I carry it over my shoulder like a hobo
and I'm gonna have this on the stick too
like a hobo I said hobo now full disclosure I
do have some other items scouts with me he did not
ask to come he wants to be here
but he did not ask to do this survival overnighter so I brought
him food I'm not gonna make him go hungry
and I'm not gonna share the one piece of food I have with
him so I've got a bag full of scouts kibble whether
or not he eats it that's
another story so that's going
in the big garbage bag too because I don't want to
carry it in my cargo pocket anymore
also I have a couple more things I have one
big piece of paracord this will
not be used for any part of my shelter or
anything I'm doing I promise this is purely
to tie Scout up at night because
there's tons of coyote in the area and deer
and he likes to go chase them so this is
for Scout to tie up at night on his collar
that's I've done this side I do
have one extra battery for my Canon
and I have an extra memory card these Canon
batteries are lasting a lot longer than
my old Nikon batteries so two batteries
should be fine for overnight
and then the one thing that I do have for me
that's not in the in the survival challenge
and I don't care is wet wipes
and some hand sanitizer for my bum bum
the hand sanitizer is not not for my bum
bum the wet wipes are don't put hand sanitizer
on your bum bum it's not a fun
time they cut a bunch of locusts along the trail here
so this is still green
but it was dead or it was cut on the ground
I thought I was gonna have to
double up my garbage bag
for this but I don't it's fine get all the air out of
it and do one of these make it super
strong where I'm going to attach it to
the pole at they
should put it on the
side that's not all
splintery tie it one
more no no that's mine Scout what
are you doing big guy go get your own okay there
There we go.
Nope, back up, back up.
And that goes over the shoulder like a El Hobo.
Oh yeah, I can walk like this, no problem.
Okay, time to get off the trail,
time to get in the bush proper.
Come
on,
big
guy.
My goodness.
That was fun.
That was a lot of fun.
Didn't get wet or sweaty.
At least I'm warm now.
Oh, there we go.
Yay, I'm a quarter
of the way there.
You gotta be careful, man.
He's all cut up, see that?
He's all bloodied up on the top of his nose.
It's okay, you're fine, you're fine.
running through the woods, trying to chase deer,
running into stickers and brambles and what have you.
Oh, big stretch.
Okay, we're almost into the woods proper.
Right behind me is where I plan on camping.
I gotta check it out.
I know this spot very well,
and I know there's natural building materials
and stuff that I can use here.
I'm sorry, I'm gonna try to look at the lens.
People keep telling me,
stop looking over here, look in the lens.
When I'm looking over here,
I'm looking at myself in the LCD, LED, in the screen.
Wanna try to do that.
Okay, another few minutes walk,
and then hopefully we'll be where we're going to set up for tonight.
Just on cue as the
train blows its horn.
This is the exact spot I was imagining coming to.
I knew this tree had fallen a couple years ago
and is on that kind of diagonal fall.
That's going to be my shelter.
It's very good, very good to have a grasp
of what you want to do before you get out.
Normally when I go camping and stuff, I'm not around my house.
a lot of the times it's a new area
or a new spot in an area i've been i don't have time to scout it
out but this general area was different it's near
my house i've been here a hundred times i know
what to expect and know where the building materials
are for this kind of situation for
this kind of exercise you definitely want
that so yeah the plan
is to make this into my shelter
i just want to make sure it's
that's pretty solid pretty solid we're only doing one night here so
it's not gonna be anything permanent I'm
gonna tear it down when we're done let's
dive into what I brought
and why I need to lose this jacket first man I'm it's cold
it's cold outside no doubt
but I've been working up a sweat and I got on layers
right because tonight's gonna be cold
I don't have any kind of sleeping bag
sleeping pad nothing like that it's all natural
so I do have long-sleeve shirt
beater sweater coat wool socks long
johns fall Raven kebbs I got my gloves
and I got a toque my boots yeah anyways okay let's dive
into the stuff the bag
held up very well actually having a hard time untying it
but dollar store garbage
bags for the win apparently there we
go first up probably one of the most
important things is water I got
this four liters of water from the dollar
store was either this or a liter
or four small water bottles for all the same
price but i opted for this because this was the most amount
of water i do need this for scout as
well he does have uh there's some ditches
and and stuff you can drink from but he tends to not go
too far from me and at night i'm not finding
my way out to the ditch it's far from here uh to the
creek the ditch whatever you want to call it
so at night you can drink out of this in the daytime
we'll walk down to the ditch yeah the bag bag is no worse for wear
and i know like a lot of you
guys probably big deal it's a bag
but out here doing this kind of stuff every single little
piece of thing matters it's all very important well look
at that not as
durable as I thought the bottom did get ripped up
a bit still usable for what I
want to do but duly noted okay
so I'm not sure if you guys have heard of
the challenge scope can you please go
over there so you're not in the camera bud
thank you lay down bud right here lay down
with me lay down good puppy dogs
there's a challenge it's probably super old now
a couple years old by Wrangler
star I believe who originally came up
with it the rules are arbitrary in my
opinion but whatever if you look
on YouTube there's not a lot of people who
have actually done the challenge
and and spent the night out there's a lot of
people who went to the store and bought the things
and said what they were gonna
do Malcolm the Hidden Woodsman is one of them
and then there's some like popular
one that they're not even camping
and they did it so anyways I'm gonna do it
my way I'm gonna show how I feel
that you can utilize certain things from the
dollar store for a very good benefit
to make you very comfortable out here the
The rule was ten dollars, I bought eight items,
it was probably eleven bucks if I'm being
honest with tax and everything, but I didn't know how else to do it.
So you need to eat, one of the rules was you need to cook food,
I think they wanted you
to cook two meals, I'm not doing the exact rules,
two meals and have like a waterproof
container and some other things.
My rules for me, around ten bucks, come out here,
make as comfortable a shelter as you
can and eat some food, I don't care.
Anyways, my food, I was super lucky,
this is one of my favorite soups ever, Primo Rough
Stick Beef Barley Soup, and it has a pop top,
so I was going to do Uncle Ben's Rice
because they had that there as well,
but this is much easier, and it has a pop top.
The only reason I was going
to do the rice is because I didn't have a can opener, I don't
have the money, the $10 to buy the can opener,
it doesn't come into, it's not a good purchase
for this.
Anyways, soup, and to cook it in, it's this bowl, metal bowl.
A lot of you are probably thinking,
why don't you just cook the soup in the can?
Well, there's a good reason,
because it's lined with plastic, and it's not BPA free,
and as soon as you melt that plastic
into your food, it's super bad for you.
That's why, like, dented cans are really
not good for you and stuff like that.
Back in the day, I think it was okay to do that,
just, you know, throw your can of beans on your fire.
It's just not. It's not, okay, now, I'm not going to do it.
You guys do whatever you want. I highly discourage you from doing that.
That's why I went to the extra trouble
and spent the money on buying the bowl. So soup goes in the bowl
One meal and that's not gonna be till tonight bro.
About five o'clock. I've got my garbage bags that you already saw
I used one I have nine in here and one extra here
I took out my toilet paper my dog food my paracord
and my camera stuff a separate
I got a knife a cutting tool.
It's gonna help me building my shelter quite a bit. So this is a
a full tang. I was surprised I was able to get full tang.
I looked hard. There's a couple that
I looked at, longer ones and stuff,
and the tang stopped like a quarter of an inch down the handle
and that would have broken in a second.
So yeah, I kind of like the way this one has the handle on
this one. We'll see how it goes.
It's a three and a quarter inch blade. I got some jute twine. I've
got three rolls of jute twine and it's the real stuff.
It's not the poly stuff, so it can help
with the fire i don't know why the focus
is not focusing on that three rolls of jute twine 118
feet total i got four boxes of matches my fire
is not going to be an issue and my last thing
the thing that is going to be the savior
of the trip plastic drop sheet look at how big that is
where does it say 8 by 12 all the other ones i could find were 7 by 7
or 7 by 8 8 by 12 but it's
only it's very very very thin i don't know where it says it's very thin
so i think i'm gonna have
to double it up my plan is going to be to make a super shelter
and uh line it with grass and all
that stuff and that way i will be warm i'll be comfortable
but this needs to not melt next to
the fire so i'll probably have to have the fire
a little bit farther back and double this up in
the front okay that's all my gear like i said 11 bucks maybe
but i don't care so let's get to it
Okay,
so
what I
want
to do
is
have that be my entrance, my door,
have a flap or a garbage bag blocking that and then go down just
as long as I can lay probably about here, block that off as well.
Scout's not going to sleep in there.
It's going to be way too hot in there for him.
I know that so he's going to have to sleep outside of the shelter next
to me. I can tie him up to that big tree too which is cool.
So I'm going to sleep. I want it to be small
so it keeps the heat in right about there
and then right at that nodule.
So I'm going to stick a rock, I mean I'm going to stick a stick in,
leave it, leave my stick alone.
Let's go try and take it.
So there's my foot marker and then right here, what's up buddy?
So I got my places marked.
8 by 12, yeah she's really really thin
so I got to be careful,
oh yeah I got to be so careful with this.
I want to make it just to the bottom here in the
front so that I know how much I have to drop down.
I'm gonna get a small log and roll it on the bottom like normal
Yeah, it's coming together and on the back.
I'll use some garbage bags cut open lined just to keep
More warm air in there, and then I'll cover I had
a plan of covering it with a thermal wall already
I'll use logs on the back, but before I put the logs on the back
I'll put the garbage bags lining the back that way it's gonna trap
the heat in there even more so since we are improvising
and I am going to be putting
thatching and logs and stuff on here later
on I don't really feel it necessary to tie this on too
much but I will kind of tuck it in and secure it until I get
to that point kind of like doing that
in these woods there's tons of oak and cottonwood
and they shed their limbs quite readily and they're
all over the forest floor here
so it won't be too too hard to get some thatching material and some
logs obviously I don't have
a saw to cut these up
so I'm gonna have to break
them I'll probably use
the two
tree
method
where
you
kind
of pry
it and
start
throwing
my
grass
on
all that and everything on the inside I'll roll up
the other side and be able
to thatch
make
a bed and
all that
stuff
still
after
but yeah
okay
guys
I've got
my rough ribs down my rough back wall I want
to fix up the plastic a bit tie it
off and make it taut
because that's not very much room right in there as it is
so I'm gonna pull the plastic out
a bit even tie it down here I think make some
buttons and tie it down
and then start to fast get my grasses my thatching
material it's coming along I'm actually having
a lot of fun doing this I've had
the idea to do this for quite some time now
but it just never happened so
actually probably about a year look at that that's gonna work out just fine
his garbage bag is a little bit
of a seat to get me off the wet ground here
Okay, so my knife. Time to get my knife out. Back up. Back up.
If I have time, if I have time, I plan on making a sheath,
like a disposable sheath for it. Back up. Cottonwood bark.
Yeah, man, actually, that's pretty good ergonomics.
Let's see if she shaves. Let's see if she shaves.
You can see my arm hair. Do I even have arm hair?
Do I even have arm hair?
Oh, she shaves. No, it's hard to see
My little boy arm hairs. Yeah, cool. You're gonna get this silly
Twist tie thing off of it. But yeah, man pretty groovy
Feels good in the hand no hot spots, you know,
it's like a Wharncliffe or like a sheepsfoot blade, too
It's not like this like that my obsession over
this cheap knife is done
I'm gonna get us some twine out of here. Let's go.
How does like does that smell like food to you?
Does that smell like?
No, I didn't actually really want you to take my twine from me.
Okay, so we're gonna make some buttons on the
Plastic and we're gonna tie it off to the shelter. Just gonna make some
pre-tied
Small little pieces of rope that way I'm not wasting
or trying to cut as I'm going. I need three of them
I need three pieces make the third one a lot bigger
because I have to go around the big
Thing up there. I am gonna tie it down just so that I have more room
So just like in my last video,
we're gonna make a button using some duff or earthen material
I got a stick in there. There we go
So again, just a couple double overhands will work
for you or a clove hitch
And all I want to do is tie
this I want I just want to peg this down, right?
Like I just I just don't want it flapping around
So even if I have to just loop it around this and tie it off of itself
That's that's actually pretty pretty good. That's what I want to do.
This twine is very very thin sometimes you can get pretty
Substantial twine, but again, this is dollar store dollar store action.
Here's what I mean. I already got a hole gotta be careful
It's in a good spot. It's down by the foot.
It's no big deal, but you gotta be careful with this crawl in here
Test out the room. It's still gonna make a bed right?
I still have to put dead grass on the floor dry long grass
on the floor the ground even to make a mattress
I got plenty of room go there plenty of room
I could even put a stick kind of holding
that out from me a little bit all right cool
Plenty of room head height too nice.
This is turning out pretty decent pretty decent doing all this work
Haven't cracked my water yet.
You got to stay hydrated right watch out big guy.
I'll get you something in a minute here, back up
Ah, he's obviously thirsty
and I don't want to walk down to the ditch right now
So I'm gonna let him drink out of my cooking bowl.
There we go. What's this big guy?
Get your get your dog drool back up over here.
Get your dog drool all in my bowl
I really see the blood on his nose.
He's killing that killing it big guy.
There's more where that came from
Don't worry. It's time to get my thatching materials
I have to hike out to the field and cut a bunch of dead grass
I'm really worried about using this knife without
a sheath like I'm out there. I'm cutting the grass
I need to grab it, either put this knife down.
I put it in my pocket, or you know what I mean
I lose it. I get cut. It's just not a good situation either way
So I think I think before I do anything else.
I'm gonna try to make a cottonwood bark sheath for this
So let's go hike. There's a dead cottonwood over there
Let's go hike over to that and try and pry up some bark
and try to make a crude sheath out of that
Oh, yeah, okay. This is gonna be a perfect piece look
at that got a whole big long piece
I can definitely use this this is definitely a good piece to use nice
See what I mean even here
I brought it over here to measure
and now what I have to carry it just carry it by itself with this
There's not not safe. It's not good not a good practice not a good idea
Let's go try and whip up a sheath today, sit
on the ground in the woods and make something
We're making a sheath get over here, buddy.
Go on. Let's go seriously. Thank you
so the idea is I just make a hollow spot
in between two pieces of bark big enough
for my knife blade and a little bit
of the knife itself which isn't much and
then I wrap it with twine
and then make a little like a lanyard I can wear it
around my neck
so that will be very helpful for today everything I'm doing
there's been a bunch of times where I've reached
for my pocket my pocket knife
or sorry reach for my belt knife uh
and it just wasn't there i don't need to use this for like
batoning and stuff that's not the intended purpose
like i said there's tons of wood dead wood on the
ground and i'll have to really rely on just foraging
and scrounging my wood um because no
saw no knife right no no decent knife
so if i put it in like that much i can use this whole piece of
bark for both pieces so i'm going to cut
this directly in half right there just going to score
it a few times on either side and i should be able
to break it pretty cleanly that's the idea anyway
i don't want to break it and not be able to use one of the pieces
because this is both really
really solid like this this one piece of bark
is very solid it would go well together so there we
go nice and clean clean break
so we'll use that like that sandwich together it'll be big don't
get me wrong it's it's gonna be huge and clunky
but that's okay go on i can take it off when i'm
I'm not using it whatever let's go man
killing me buddy you're killing me this
coat is a new coat for me it's super warm it's called
a triple fat goose
coat I'll put a link
in the description where I got it I'm really loving it I
love the color and I can wear it around town it's
not too too outdoorsy but it's
very very durable so walking through the brambles
and stuff it's it it holds up
really good yeah I want to mark it normally you'd use like charcoal for
I want to get it in past the first finger groove,
but I'm just gonna use dirt
Where so I know where I need to be careful
on this side know where I need to cut or even hollow out
I guess I'm gonna just flip it around
so I don't cut my finger when this is just rough
Obviously, but you kind of see the outline of the knife
This is blade
has no tip on
no curve on it
Obviously because it's that Warren Cliff style it goes the other way
so it's kind of hard to do these cuts
I got to go work against a log or something
can't work like this on my legs.
Wish the blade had a sweep to it, a swoop to it.
The good thing
is I don't have to take a lot of material away
from the cottonwood bark for the blade, just for
the handle. And as it's going, I'm not making much progress.
But the handle's down near the end here,
so it's easier to work anyway, which is good.
This cottonwood bark, you can use it for a lot
of different things. I've used it plenty of times
for a bow drill socket, like a bearing block. I've
seen people use it for spoons
because it's super easy to carve if you're learning how to carve this
is a great thing to use uh what else uh bobbers
for fishing uh just tons of stuff knife sheaths
i've seen this used by Terry Barney
and is Turley for uh impromptu knife sheaths that's where i got
the idea from i believe Morris Kuhansky has it
in his book too bushcraft but that's without the
knife sticking out or the blade going
in at all i wonder i'll go grab the other piece and see if
that'll work better that way because if that's
the case i can always cut off the excess right
if it only goes in there i can cut off here
and i'll lose a bunch of weight and i can even trim
up the sides and stuff too either way
but no it just doesn't have the grab it'll just fall right
out so i do have to get the uh i have to get
the handle in there a little bit and i should start
actually doing it on this one too
so it's in both cut cut down a little of both as opposed to just
one. Okay, I'm going to do that.
I'll get back with you.
So we're getting there. You can see
that I'm halfway through the bark
and I don't want to go too far or else it'll compromise the
integrity of its strength. I'm going to go more on this one now.
Hard in the bark. Go hard in the
bark. What I've been doing is making these like cut lines,
these guidelines on either side. And
then that way when I'm gutting it out,
it's kind of stopping there, which is proving to be pretty
helpful I'm just really gonna concentrate
on that okay I'm pretty happy with it so you see the fit
there it's pretty decent I haven't wrapped it yet
right I haven't wrapped it with twine yet but
I can get it back in and it has pretty good
retention so I think I want to call it there
it's kind of hard to get back in but anyways I'm going
to call it there I'm going to tie it up with
uh jute twine and hopefully we'll see how she goes I think it'll
be good I think it'll be good
I stuck it in there when I was just putting it
in kind of stuck in the top there so maybe I'll
hollow that out a little bit more before i before
i tie it up get a nice long piece of twine make a
little neck knife well neck carry
as it were just wrap it tight
as tight as i can at first i tried
to cut like i cut one end off you can see
that i thought i could just cut it clean and snap it off
like i did before i couldn't have to shave it all down i
was too afraid of breaking the the bark
it wouldn't break it wouldn't snap off easy
when i started like hitting it off the log i just could
imagine it freaking shattering after doing all
that work making the sheath so i stopped and i
carved it all out and it took a very long time way too long
so we'll worry about that other piece
after i don't even care about it
but if we're sitting around the fire tonight and i've got
nothing to do i'll shave it down
pretty decent and then i am going
to tie like i said neck knife
on it so what i'll do to do that is i'll i'll tie oh
the sun the sun's coming out i'll tie uh
twine to this side of the twine go around to this side
of the twine just have it and i won't have
to worry about it choking me
because the freaking twine will break with any kind of pressure all
right there she is man i just gotta tie the neck piece
on but pretty solid dude pretty pretty solid
I'm gonna worry about it coming out at all just putting it back
in is a little difficult, but I can handle that okay
So to tie my neck piece on, my neck carry part on, I'm gonna do this
So I want to take just how I tie my tarps, my ties for my tarps really
so I got my my running out of
My twine I want to fold it excuse me. I'm gonna send the loop through
Underneath and try and pull it out. I guess this try and pull it out
relatively close to the top
because I don't want it to start swinging like
hanging upside down or sideways
or whatever you put it at the top you have
a better chance of it hanging straight
so pull it all through and then here's
my running end still right I just kind of pull it tight
and then she's on there
you know I mean I don't have to even tie it
or anything I can't do this with
that's with this side because I need
the the full end to pull through but I can
tie it off and it'll be just fine all right pretty happy with it
Well, bam son pretty it up later on but there we go.
All right, let's go get our grass
I'm gonna use the gloves too
because the grass will cut your hands up real good
Oh, did you happen to see my sweet neck knife I got?
Oh, yeah, I just just whipped it up in the woods
You know no big deal
I'm still looking in the screen still looking
in the viewfinder out into the field of grass
I've used this stuff as thatching material in the past.
It works great. Keeps you warm. It's
relatively easy to gather to take some time
but the effort is not very very
much we are grasslands part
of the reason I picked the location where I did
to you know I can't have my shelter out here
in this grass field or and have a
big long fire all night long it's just dangerous
but in the woods there see my
shelter it's close close proximity
to this grass best of both worlds I'm
tucked away in the woods away
from the wind have the building materials there
have building materials here ba-bam ba-bam
son scout found fresh fresh deer
poop glossy it's so fresh shimmer
and shine poop divine anybody I've been
raining the past few days they are a bit damp
but that's where my garbage bags
are gonna come into play one of the one
of the ways those garbage bags are
probably one of the better pieces
of kit I think
is about perfect for the grass
Yeah,
I got my first
bundle done.
I'll bring
this go
back over
to the woods.
That's right.
They're
only about
Realistically not exaggerating maybe four more
of those should be enough. I think that's not so bad
I can do that this knife this knife
and sheath combo working out phenomenally.
This knife is really good for cutting that, it's pretty good
I'm happy because it's not good for cutting much
of anything else with the blade shape
but I always thought they look cool
the Wharncliffe, the sheepsfoot style blade
shapes but I'm glad I never bought
a real like bushcraft knife that has one
maybe some people like them but obviously not for me it's not working
out a knife with a swoop like a belly is
ideal okay off to get more that's what I
thought of the other thing that you're supposed
to have in the arbitrary rules
for the the $10 dollar store overnight challenge
was you're supposed to have
a way of lighting like illuminating illumination device
a flashlight something like that i don't
it just wasn't important to me to get that so what we'll
be relying on tonight for for filming and
for lighting and everything is fire
and because i'm in the city ambient light which there's a lot
of so i'm not too concerned with that rules i'm
a rebel you know born to break them rules
arbitrary YouTube rules all
right second haul here
bigger ticks are another thing you got to be concerned about
doing this it's why i've waited so long in the year really
one of the reasons but as i found out on my last trip
which was earlier this
month and farther up north ticks
are still around for the year so
gotta be careful lots of tick checks for me
and the dog you want to get home
but the good thing about it here
is i've never seen anything other than a deer tick so not too
big a concern really i mean sorry a dog tick not a deer tick a dog tick
which aren't the bad ones
I was told in my last video they were deer ticks
good haul good haul Joe I'm huffing and puffing
guys I've got three so far two there one there I'm going
to uh take a break and from collecting
it and start thatching because I think three will
do the back maybe four but I think five total
uh including my bedding and everything
so I have three I think I could do the back with that
keep looking at myself uh yeah
so let's do that just drop them here this isn't how I'm going to
thatch them or anything
so oh cocoon I want to put that back out in the field the old cocoon
put aside for now it's not all about killing ants
all right put that there yeah so anyways I just
kind of dropped this here it's not like I wanted
this is how I was going to touch it by any means
lots of grass already though pretty pleased
with that this grass is hollow it's a very good
insulator we're going
to start at the bottom
work our way up just like
normal you can weave
this
into mats and all sorts of stuff
but I find if you just pile enough on you're more than fine
this stuff is great pine boughs
I mean sorry spruce boughs
and like balsam and conifer and
all stuff like that all conifers you can use evergreen are great
but it involves either
chopping a bunch of limbs off of trees
or chopping a bunch of trees down and
it's not always easy or allowed
or even it's pretty frowned upon to be honest this
grass is a good alternative it's already
dead very very renewable and it does a
good job it's come along pretty well very
well I'm super happy with it actually I
don't have to worry about any rain any rain would
be snow at this point so
will be just fine so i'm pretty much done
that patching i used all of that straw every little
last piece on the back so you have to get a couple more uh arm loads
but let's take you around check
it out pretty impressed pretty happy pretty annoyed
with that train in the background here
we have our lounge mutt protector
of the garbage heap garbage heap
is really it's it's really
covered you can't even see any plastic
from the back maybe a tiny bit down near the foot but
See what I mean, just a nice grass pile
with lots of coverage. Oh man that train
Nonstop, so I'm gonna have to pull that back
and get to working on the inside
It's one thing I do want to get is all the grass that's hanging over
this end here like stragglers up and out of the way
Too, I don't want to catch any spark
and have it travel all the way up to my huge tinder bundle
I'm gonna be sleeping in it
Safety, safety is number one.
Like this up here, this is like all curlicue,
dry, dry, dry grass, three times as dry.
Okay, this will be my pole that I need to keep
to keep the plastic down.
So I'm gonna put this over there
so I don't confuse it and burn it
or break it up with the plywood or whatever.
Now normally in this time of year,
I'd leave whatever was on the ground already down there,
leaves and whatnot so that I can get extra warmth
or a buffer from the ground.
But because I wanna have so much grass,
it's not a big deal.
I'm just gonna clear everything out
because I wanna get, like I said,
whole clear area again so I can have my big fire.
I'm gonna have to have a long fire in front of me
that'll have to go all night long
to keep me warm enough inside my super shelter.
That's how the super shelter works, right?
It gathers, the heat passes through the plastic
and it gets trapped in there.
I don't have the luxury of a space blanket,
so that's why, again, I've already got this.
This plastic down in the back
is covering literally three quarters of the back of it.
I only really have to put up a black garbage bag over here.
We'll see how it goes.
I might end up cutting one open
and lining the whole thing because it's black
and hoping that the black color will retain the heat.
I don't know, but it's worth a shot,
and I have an extra garbage bag or two to do that with.
Let's get to it.
I love
these
woods.
the ground is nothing
but soil it's just just straight soil stuff you would even
buy topsoil so having a fire right
on the top overnight big lots of coals and
lots of wood is no issue
I might pile these up hey
that's not a bad idea I
might make a bed for tonight
that's what I'll do I don't know if I'll use
these because there's all sorts of sticks
and stuff that'll poke through
but I am gonna make him a bed
so that he can lay on stay up off the wet ground
always thinking Joe hey big
guy he'd be good watch
this oh he stops he stops
right away whenever
I say out whenever
he's biting me play
I will keep all
these leaves in a pile just in case I need to use them for thatching or
bedding or anything this reminds me
of raking leaves at home when we do we just
did the other day we'll have to do it again
because the trees not still empty
but uh we have Scout and Emerald out in the front doing it
and they're both jumping in the leaves so
much that it's actually like counterproductive
but it's very fun good memories very good memories
for me for all of us well warmed
up as you can probably tell
stripping down some layers
although
the wind is kicking up now too
which is counterproductive oh i'm getting hungry i'm
getting very hungry i think Scout is too
so i'm gonna give him his kibble i am gonna use my bowl
again i'll just rinse it out really good want
some see he doesn't even want you want that look
good boy here it's the same stuff
in here you want it man doesn't even care he's all about it
he's sniffing all right i moved some stuff over
there he's sniffing all around like crazy trying
to get at it and give it to him he doesn't care
this is why i don't bring him kibble you guys
watch eastbound and down how many of you watch eastbound
and down if you have and you liked it
i may have a good new have good news for you
although i may be late with that too there's a
new show, a newer show.
There's a show called Vice Principals and Danny McBride's in it
and he produced it and created it and all this stuff.
And he's in it with, I don't know
the name of the other guy. But there are two guys,
Vice Principal of his school. I think
there's two seasons. Anyways, it just ended.
Very, very good show. I liked it a lot. Yep,
public service announcement.
Number one. Everybody gets one.
It's nice to be out here with Scooty
Magoots. I don't even dare try and make enough room for him.
There is actually at the head.
There's enough room for him to come in here
if he wanted to, but it's going to be way
too hot man his double coat there's no way it'll
be much hotter in there than it'll be out here
i am going to make like um i'm going to make my bed
and then i'm going to make something where
i can crawl into if i need it like like a thin layer
of grass inside a couple garbage bags that
i can put on top of me can bury myself into if i need
to um just for extra warmth i'm hoping not
to need it because i'm sure it won't be very comfortable
but i'm gonna do it anyway and then
I'll make a little pillow and all that stuff.
So I've got lots of stuff to do still with grass and building.
And I have to collect a bunch of firewood with no saw.
So that's literally walking around.
Oh, my goodness.
I got my clothes on.
Walking around and picking up wood off the ground.
But like I said, I have four packs of matches.
Getting a fire going is not going to be an issue.
I have dead grass.
I have twine.
I have twigs.
I have everything I need.
I don't even need to use my knife at all for that.
I could use some earplugs, though.