Waching daily Dec 1 2018

Hello. My name is Tom and maybe you remember us being here

when we had been building a shelter here

and also the Yukon stove.

We are here after some time and we have decided

that's it's time to fix some things

so that we can come here during the winter.

Yes, it is true that we have not been here for a long time

actually almost the whole summer.

The only thing we did here was that we planted blackberries here

but unfortunately they did not get enough water

so they did not survive.

Here you can see how our Yukon stove looks like.

When we last used them, we made the mistake that

we had one wall that was made of stone

which exploded due to the heat ..

.. I want to tell you to be careful and not to use stones

where you know that fire will burn.

We've heard about it earlier with my colleague, but I thought that

the stone was strong enough

but I was wrong

you really have to pay attention to this

to avoid exploding it right in your face

which could be really dangerous.

As you can see, it cracked completely in two parts

so we'll have to fix it and do it in another way.

.. so today we have to fix it.

As you can see, we are working on the Yukon stove.

We have already managed to remove these stones that have been around.

My colleague brought this mud here

that is from the nearby swamp

and we want to somehow improve these walls and

to improve the holes so it does not look like this because

earlier the fire got smothered by these roots and

we want spend some time working on it and see how it will eventually look.

The soil is dry here so

we just brought this mud that we had to dig deeper in the ground

to find a mud that is wet enough

because it did not rain for a long time around here

so we can smudge it on the walls here and build

it a little above the level of the ground.

The first phase is done

we have modified the Yukon stoves.

We have only the foundations because

we have to let the mud that we put there dry out

.. and the stones we used were the same because

they did not explode. Only one exploded that was

quite thin, and we will put some clay on them

so hopefully it will be better.

So on the time-lapse video we've been filming .. .. you've already seen or soon will see ..

that we had a little trouble getting water here

so we actually used body fluids

just like Bear Grylls, but we did not drink it this time

but we used them to build a stove.

So I'm up here to look at our roof from above

you will see the shots on my camera that I have on my forehead

and check how it looks. I see that there are some holes but

I think that if there was a big rain, som drops would appear inside but

I think we would be more or less dry

So .. let's go inside ..

We have little light here, which is good because it shows us that

we sealed the holes. My colleague worked on that

fixing the vents

and I have prepared a pocket knife here

on which is also a small ax and a hammer

which was give me by the e-shop chladnezbrane.eu

and with this knife I decided to try to cut some of those branches here

a saw is also part of a knife

you probably will not see it now, but something is piercing my back right now

we'll try to get rid of it to make it more comfortable here We might also get another wider bench here

because this one is slowly falling apart ..

.. not bench really .. rather a board ..

So we'll see what we can find next. Now we'll continue

let's look at the roof .. here is a cobweb ..

so let's see what we can do now

Even though one might thinks this knife is quite small and

the saw there is useless, I think it's quite good

I'm more concerned about not to falling into

those Yukon stones where our urine is.

It saws quite well.

We decided to start here because

we usually bumped into this branch with our heads

so we're making it a bit shorter

- Can you? - Yeah.

- That's quite long

As you can see right here we are completing this "wind wall."

The problem of this shelter was that the wind was blowing from here in the winter

my colleague who sat in the shed on the right felt it most. I almost did not feel it because I was sitting on the left

so we decided to build this wall

which will at least somehow eliminate the wind

.. and it will make the fire not that visible in the stove

because one does not want to attract attention with fire

that you want to be inconspicuous, for example to be able to watch wildlife

The colleague here is carrying more branches ..

we have to put some layers here and think of it because

we can not just lay them down, it wouldn't last long

we will think about it. I have a rope here, I'm going to tie the main branch

to make sure it holds and then we will continue.

We are trying to make use of what nature has given us.

We actually used this living branches of this tree for this wall.

We suppose and hope that this wall will be filled up with leaves, and that will fill many of the spaces that we have here

and we will not have to give anything there, and since they are alive they should theoretically stay strong for a long time.

So it's the end of the day and the end of the video. As you can see ..

We have finished the wall, good enough for now

next time we will continue. Here we have the Yukon stove

which we also have to finish

since mud and stones are done and the mud must dry out

and next time we would definitely want to take a look at the roof

Today's colleague has checked it outs so it's coming next.

We've also filled some holes that you can not see anymore

because there is a bark and different new branches

so it will not rain inside that much, it will not blow inside so much.

Another thing is that this wall serves mainly to avoid

the wind coming here, hiding the fire, and it's also a good camouflage

And I would like to mention that here we have a beautiful and new bench.

I would also like to add that we hope that

the leaves on the branches will grow by the next spring

and that it will cover all of it. That's why we left some details unfinished

there are still gaps here ... we're still working on it but

we want nature to work on it.

So for today it's all goodbye and we're looking forward to

the next video from this shelter. Bye!