Woodland Survival in the Heart of Europe

This was my first major shelter build upon returning to Europe for the summer. The cool thing about this project was that using green wood was out of the question, and everything had to come from as close as possible because this time I really had to haul everything by hand. Luckily, there were a couple of trees nearby(European beech) that had been toppled by the wind and, as a result, were quickly dying. The loadbearing pieces came from those. The rest of the building material was collected from the forest floor and from a clearcut not too far. The debris roof does a great job at shedding water even though it is not waterproofper see. Over time, this roof has to be redone, because dead leaves will decompose and the roof itself becomes flat. At that point, the roof will leak. It is important to point out that even though you see me use my Tracker knife exclusively in the video itself, at this point in my caveman development I did use a folding saw most of the time. Hence the straight cut. I just wish p