I got caught in a summer snowstorm in the Cascades while hitchhiking from Bend to Eugene in the mid '70's. I found a discarded or lost refrigerator still in it's original box. Pulled it out of the box and made a lean to out of the fridge, wrapped myself up in the box. Slept all night without dying. Dying is easy. Staying warm is hard.
@David Earnest Ingenious, and shows how a smart careful mind can save you. People take wilderness trips too lightly, it can turn from fun to ugly quick if things go south. Had a trip to Hellen, GA once go poor, decades ago before the development, the road made a sharp 90° left at the base of the mountain and climbed steeply uphill. A secluded campground sat right off the corner. Well in a rush to leave for the 100+ mile trip I left half my stuff at home including tent, food, water, fishing gear and ground mat. Which naturally I didn't discover till a short time before dark. Not wanting to go back home or make a 200+ round trip I got a idea: I took my 10 inch ' survival ' knife and built a quick but sturdy lean-to with Y fork corner posts for an elevated bed. Made a small fire close enough to help keep warm at night. Cut saplings for a ' cane pole ', green vine strips for fishing line and carved wooden fishhook. One or two big worms from under a rock and I had yummy fish from a nearby stream for supper 2 nights in a row and clean water from the squeaky hand well pump nearby. Had spare cheese, crackers and cooked sausage and pepperoni for breakfast. End of 3rd day back home and shared laughs at my rookie error, learned to make checklist and OCD quadruple check everything several times. 👍
I live in Iran . Our houses are made of stone, brick and ceramic because we don't have wood to build the house. When I saw the wooden houses of other countries, I did not feel safe compared to wooden houses. But now that I saw your shelter, I feel that wooden houses are very strong and safe. Thank you man.🤣🤣🤣✌️
Most of your builds were the things I wanted to do as a kid. I'm nearly 30 but my inner child is so happy to see the things you're making. Thank you for making my inner child's dreams come true.
It's an excellent dwelling I'd have used some of the extra boxes for the floor for added insulation and taped a tarp over the top would definitely helped you keep warm.
Yeah I was thinking the exact same. Could use the heater too if he cut out a place so it wasn’t sitting on cardboard. Wouldn’t have to worry about a fire that way.
In all the thousands of boxes I have sold in my 17 years as a cashier for Home Depot I never realized that they could be being used for something other than to move stuff from one house to another. Thanks for supporting THD. Also those husky totes are the best. We use them for camping. Cheers!
I've made winter shelters for feral cats using double-layed cardboard boxes by sealing with duct tape, then covering them with heavy duty trash bags, trimmed and folded to fit. The entrances had bubble wrap draft curtains. Add a blanket and a plant heating pad velcroed to a side wall, and they're cozy to -20F.
We had a mascot cat in Iraq and built him a cardboard shelter for the miserable freezing winter in the mountains. Its amazing how good an insulator cardboard is. Nice old woobie for a bed for him and the cardboard all lined on the outside with vinyl trash bag to waterproof it. Great home for the cat the six months i was there.
Took me about 60 seconds to start thinking of things like that... and altering the design to suit me. I've lived in the woods most of my life and am always thinking of building things out of odd materials as efficiently and comfortably as possible. I remember being buried and snuggled in the warmth of huge piles of leaves we raked and jumped into in the cold autumn air. They can make wonderful emergency insulation.
I've always wondered about making a shed out of my dialysis solution boxes. I get about 25 boxes a month. VERY , VERY STURDY boxes. I have them recycled. Now, this channel cemented my idea. Thank you.
We did the exact same thing a couple of years ago. Heres a tip....if you fill the boxes with leaf litter it will stay ALOT warmer inside. Its literally insulation...👍
one the reason you tape the boxes closed is to have a thermal barrier and stacking should be like bricks with alternating the vertical seam. These both would have helped to keep you warm.
Nicht ganz richtig, das versetzen der Steine trägt nur zur Stabilität der Wand bei. Die Fugen bleiben ja auch da bestehen. Er hätte zur zusätzlichen Dämmung noch trockene Blätter in die Kisten packen können zur Isolation aber bei Schnee kaum machbar
Ha! Going through the comments I find it interesting that we women often have the more practical and efficient ideas...😎 Offsetting the boxes, like laying bricks, is more stable.
The tape could have been peeled off, most of the boxes broken down and used again. They didn't get wet and they weren't dirty....but then I'm a practical gal... I'd have put them together with single strips of tape like you did later on instead of the smaller ones initially. It would have made a stronger connective bond.
So, if you see how a brick house is made, each row is staggered to keep the vertical joints hold up. When you get to a corner, the next row will be the edge of that box. It will be stronger, and you will never have to put filler pieces in a corner. Plus, you will have nice tight seems. That process has been used for centuries.
It's hard to watch. I build a box fort with my young children and they nailed it!!! This dude shows that you dont have to be a genius to make a shelter. Good thing for lots of Americans these days.
Great! Great! If you would put tarp all around the outside of the structure, connecting with the inside, it's wind, rain and creature proof. Great job!!
Super Cool Experiment! I really liked how you turned the cardboard to box form before building. I can definitely see that providing, even if minimal, some sort of insulation from the outside weather. Filling the boxes with light plant debris. Like pine needles or dead leaf material would provide a significant increase in insulation properties. As the plant matter itself emits heat as it's decomposing. You could also tape and seal sturdy yard garbage bags around each box to add a cheap and efficient weatherproofing to the structure. Very cool shelter idea! Thank you for making it and sharing your experience.
I used to build forts out in the woods with friends, using branches and small logs and rope. Now we're all in our 20s and too busy to spend all day playing but this man has the right idea, off to Home Depot I need boxes!
Imagine if homeless had access to this many boxes, find something to fill them with for installation and something to put on it to “weatherproof “ it! What an amazing idea but why do boxes have to be so expensive?? There is a homeless guy in my town he stays in a corner, been there for em years. City never had him move because it’s only him and he keeps it so clean. Anyhow I drove by 1 day on my way to work and he made a deck and even “fencing” around the deck with a “gate” out of pallets and boxes! He has it all decked out, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Always clean and so respectful!
Could you imagine filling them with say wood chips or strofome or cloth, clothing, sheets for an extra protected insolation in each box. Would be even warmer. Or filling them with cement. And building a structure from them. I have seen so many unique and stylish ways to building shelters. Homeless really know what they are doing when it comes to stuff like this. Hence the many years of being homeless. So I actually know what works best. Air will flow through the empty boxes though. Just so you know. It won't be as warm as it could be.
Thanks a lot. It's 11:30 at night and I should be asleep. Instead I'm sitting here with a pen, drawing pad, and ruler designing my own cardboard Box shelter on paper.
Cardboard is an excellent thermal barrier, especially when the boxes are boxes. As one of the other people said, the extra boxes would have made a good floor -slippy, but insulated against frozen ground. For those who would use something like this, try a single candle - or more if you like Miami Beach😁. The ground being frozen holds so much cold! The candle, along with your own body heat would keep your little home warm, not household hot, but survivable. More candles if needed. Have spent many nights on the Rocky mountains with just a "tarp" . If you have snow cover on the ground, the deeper the better! Good watch
A tried and proven idea; I'd say you really thought-outside-the-box😄. I would cut a little opening from the inside of a couple boxes and create a shelf... You've inspired a lot of good ideas👍
Great idea, fun for the kids, when i was a kid i alqways wondered why homeless people in the city slept on cardboard my father said the insulation it can save you. This guy took it to the next level great job.
Great vid ! The thing about heat retention is, HEAT RISES so reducing its escape upward is absolutely necessary. If you want to be warm then make a TIGHT bubble to HOLD DOWN HEAT. You would have been a lot warmer if you had changed your design by first setting up your location with no trees in the way other than just the two trees supporting your hammock then put a floor of flat boxes down to insulate against the cold ground, and put the walls on TOP of it. Also instead of thowing sticks on top of the walls, stuck the sticks INTO the inside of the TOP of the WALLS for ceiling support, then laid your flat cardboard on top so there was NO SPACE between the walls and the flat cardboard ceiling, taping it down to the walls, then over lapped the tape around your walls and ceiling horizontally to seal the cracks BETWEEN the boxes as well as providing for STABILITY, and covering up all cracks and holes at the bottom of the walls, then left only one adjustable appox 6 inch hole to the outside at the top of your door for ventiation. I doubt you would have needed your heater at all. How much ya wanna bet ?
@@suzettefaircloth5037 That's what I was thinking, too. I noticed he had a roll of clear plastic on his "sled". Perhaps he would have used it in case it rained.
@@lottatroublemaker6130 It's obvious to me Judith was suggesting what she thinks should have been done in the past in order to avoid the need for a heater. I do think, however, her suggestions would be helpful when building a similar structure in the future.
as an aside, for the holes, you could have used the excess tape to cover them. for the hammock hole, keep making a square close in ever so slightly without touching the hammock string. it would have insulated better, as well the flooring needed done probably like people suggested. fern, grass, and then the floor boxes and then tarp, probably the first step.
@Jay Dog LOL.. okay Mr know It All 😂.. I live in Colorado for one. For two go back to your survival instincts 101 class. Or maybe just try to pick up a science book.... Better yet Google it. That seems to be more of your speed. Google cardboard boxes, heat versus cold/ installation. There you go that will help you add onto your "Mr/misses know it all" persona you think you're capable of having lmfao 🤣. @ least you'll have some would a very better idea of what you're talking about.
@Jay Dog what?? What made you think I got the Vac or not?? 😂😂😂 Try to focus and stay on topic Miss Amber Heard. This would have probably been a better time to talk about your dog stepping on a bee. At least it's still in the same range as animals 😭😭😭☠️☠️ Wait.. wait.. either this is Miss Heard or a 7-year-old?? In either case, that's my cue to run like hell out of this comment section! 💨💨💨💨💨 🐝🐾🐩 😭☠️
I agree with the stacking of the boxes. Great job. I also agree with laying a flat floor down, and also adding leaves, or straw, or grasses to boxes for insulation. WHAT A HUGE HUGE DIFFERENCE IT WOULD MAKE, ALONG WITH A SMALL CAMPFIRE AWAY FROM YOUR CARDBOARD HUMBLE ABODE💕💜💕💜
Good idea, except that cardboard will be a mess when the first rain/sleet hits it. Yes, cover with a tarp. I also like someone's suggestion to pack inside with leaves. Tarp the ground too and anchor down. Watch the heater inside or great balls of fire!
Many folks in Oregon now know the comfort & luxury of living in cardboard boxes thanks to the "mostly peaceful protests" of Antifa coupled with brilliant "progressive" local & state government leadership.😉👍👏🥂🤗🤣🤣🤣
I thought I'd seen it all... A traveled outdoorsman returns cardboard boxes back to its original roots in the woods... A wonder that never stops to amaze me the outdoors dining......gets me hungry every time
I once got caught out in a snow storm in the woods ....I found a big washing machine box next to this vacant heated cabin....I slept the storm out in that box....it saved my life !!!
This was like watching a couple of my sons! That was a lot of work to tear it back down the next day! I would have left it there and reused it til it got dilapidated!
Just a tip, When you get the pan hot for pancakes SIMPLY remove it for 30 seconds before you add the batter!!! Set it back on for 40 seconds then remove and flip. Wait 30-45 seconds before putting it back on FLAME. Always add butter/oil/ ghee each time you flip or add batter. Doesnt have to be a ton.
@Quiet Nerd As a former Home Depot hardware associate I feel your pain. People would benefit from our inside ' straight from the product manufacturer ' knowledge if they just slowed down to listen for a moment, we were there to help. Sadly I can't assist anymore as I'm no longer there, but I'm glad I was able to do so for 14 years. Even had a few loyal customers who would turn around and leave if I wasn't there, coming back later or tomorrow when I was.
@@deadaccount6135 sounds like you are a kind soul. We need more people in the world to be more helpful. I encountered a young lady at Walmart neglect to see that a "Handicapped Cart" was moved to its charging station , in fact TWO of them , one at the front of her checkout counter and one in front across from her register. Finally when it was my turn in line I mentioned the empty Handicapped Carts, and how long they had been sitting there , and she said ( Thats NOT my job!! ) ..... I cant even believe there are people like that in this world. I hope she never needs one.
That brings back memories...back in the early 60's Sears and Roebuck delivered my mama her brand new Washing machine...they pulled the box off of it and Oh my I had my own house to play in. For about a week ...then it rained..I cried and cried😂
Thanks for sharing your experience. I was expecting you to add leaves to those boxes for insulation. And adding dirt to the first layer of boxes for stability and insulation.
Corrugated cardboard is actually a very good insulator because it has air trapped between the layers. It's air that does the insulating. Same principle is used with fiberglass insulation. The fiberglass just keeps convection currents from moving heat around so it escapes. It just doesn't hold up well in rain and snow.
Great idea! One thing you could have done is cut out the inside facing side of one of the boxes and created a shelf for your gadgets. The cardboard you cut out could be pushed up against the other side of the box to still provide you with some insulation from the outside. I think I would have brought a tarp big enough to cover the whole thing just so I could stay there longer without worrying about anything getting wet. I really like the boxes because if it was extremely cold or windy, one could always fill the boxes with leaves and sticks.
I was horse wrangler for a hunting guide in Athlon, B.C. in the'70s. In the Fall it got down to 10 below zero at night. We'd pull off the wool saddle pads from the horses, put our army surplus mummy sleeping bags down, and sleep. Warm and toasty. Don't need no fancy cardboard!
The “double pane” effect of the boxes is brilliant. Maybe fill the boxes with duff, but at the very least fill those holes of light with duff. I’m curious about what loss on the roof and ways you might be able to improve. Very cool project!
It’s nice to see someone with special needs functioning so well and trying to fit in. You are a very good example of what the handicapped can do if given the opportunity.
I made your dinner tonight. I added meat and a little seasoning. I’m not an adventurous person with food and honestly that’s probably why I run on low energy and a kinda hopeless attitude towards life. Just something as simple as making your meal I am filled with joy and an appreciation of life. I know this isn’t what your video was about but it just had a huge impact on me. Hope you are well.
I enjoyed watching how you built your structure out of boxes. That was a very clever idea. It made me wish i was young again so i could try it out for myself. But since i can't turn back rime, i will just say THANKS for including us in your building and camping process!🌝👏👏
Make it bigger, fill the boxes with insulation, install a little woodburner in there, wrap the whole exterior in real tree camouflage tarping, flex seal the roof, and live in it for awhile. I would like to see how that would turn out.
Great video ... actually this technique has been known and practiced since the beginning of time by homeless people especially in poor countries. They collected cardboard boxes to make their shelters, because it is found everywhere and light to carry and easy to form ...
You should make a shelter out of small square bales of straw, or hay. Talk about warm and cozy inside. We used to make forts in barn hay lofts in the winter, just your body heat would warm them up.
I use square bales of hay or straw to make my winter dog house. I have a partial sheet of plywood to lay on top. Then fill the inside with loose hay and bank the outside with snow.
Perhaps, on your next cardboard adventure, (if you are so inclined) you could wrap plastic around the boxes, for not only added insulation, but also for more durability in the case of strong winds.
Please look into small stoves and how you could use metal pipes with a few flexible pipe connections, to have heat inside using the outside air and storing that heat into a mass of dirt. If you want to make it permanent, you can even mix cement into the dirt, then turn it into a thick play-doh-like mixture or though dough, then in time it will harden like rock. 10% cement, 20% water, and the rest local dirt.
Lightweight plastic boxes might be useful in snow, sorta like a smaller HESCO barrier. Instead of filling them with dirt, use snow. With a tarp for a roof, you could probably throw a shelter together pretty fast. And you don’t have to worry about it collapsing on you while you sleep.
HELLO QUIET NERD, It would have been easier if u had opened the box completely to form ur walls and used the flaps to make ur roofing, door, peep window, and crack sealer than taped it all down. To weather proof when ur using materials like that spray it down with water resistant proofing spray or used the spray foam that helps from water and wind coming through, also to help from being blowin over used either a good size rock or tree log or even some dirt inside the boxes as a weight. I used to build forts, airplanes, cars, etc out of cardboard and other materials when I was little. I even made a 3 story clubhouse lol. I loved doing stuff like that, after my g-paw taught me how to build and entertain myself with my first box house, I would go all over town with my radio flyer wagon and gathered materials to build stuff in the yard, even would build things for my friends at their house lol. OH BOY WAS THEM THE FUN GOOD OLD DAYS! when I was kid lol 😄KEEP ON A BUILDING!! MUCH LOVE❤ FROM COLORADO
A fun video featuring a wildly impractical and expensive idea. For the price of the new boxes and the tape, you could get a fine tarp, get money back, and have a longer-lasting shelter. Of course, many of us have thought about how much fun it would be to make use of the insulative value in box cardboard and like products. I'd weatherproof the outside roof and walls of my version and provide for natural light and ventilation. Maybe I'd borrow the plastic wrap idea and the cardboard box idea from you to make a camp and then live in it to see how long it would serve my needs.
I freaking loved this.. Since I found your channel about a week ago I've been enjoying your content and watching your older videos.. plus it feeds my inner nerd lol.. The freaking duct tape falling from the tree I just couldn't stop laughing 😂💀😂😂
@@QuietNerd I'm surprised the duct tape stuck to the cardboard and the cold cold weather. I've tried gray duct tape to seal boxes of books in the summer and the tape doesn't want to stick. Is your black duct tape extra sticky? Are you in Michigan or Wisconsin or something? I'm watching from Delaware
Really? Cardboard? Really weak. A stunt at best. My family building teepees in 1500s maybe before. Indigenous people smoke you 100%. Maybe igloos and teepees. My family in the 1800s for sure. Teepees better than cardboard. Learn to hunt. That takes hunting. Not tape and cardboard. Sad effort. Do better.
You're the first guy that I feel needs a producer for his videos. The latest one you have is a riot because it makes you feel like you are cozy and hanging out with you. I guess I don't care so much about the way you build stuff as to what you do with it.
Check out my other shelter builds! ua-cam.com/play/PLvZsVI4nsqr_QuQuQKMFsRrQ1oWBCq2Gx.html
Quiet Nerd, could you tell me what kind of knife it is you have there, i love that knife, I want to get one. Who is the maker?
@@sct3339 I believe its called the "old timer sharpfinger" hope it helps! - Cheers
Maybe next time..can put some grass inside d box to make little bit heavy..
TWO WORDS ON KEEPING WARM IN A BOX. STYROFOAM SLABS
I'm sure he left all that shit behind too.. no wonder our planet is fucked up
I got caught in a summer snowstorm in the Cascades while hitchhiking from Bend to Eugene in the mid '70's. I found a discarded or lost refrigerator still in it's original box. Pulled it out of the box and made a lean to out of the fridge, wrapped myself up in the box. Slept all night without dying. Dying is easy. Staying warm is hard.
@David Earnest Ingenious, and shows how a smart careful mind can save you. People take wilderness trips too lightly, it can turn from fun to ugly quick if things go south. Had a trip to Hellen, GA once go poor, decades ago before the development, the road made a sharp 90° left at the base of the mountain and climbed steeply uphill. A secluded campground sat right off the corner. Well in a rush to leave for the 100+ mile trip I left half my stuff at home including tent, food, water, fishing gear and ground mat. Which naturally I didn't discover till a short time before dark. Not wanting to go back home or make a 200+ round trip I got a idea: I took my 10 inch ' survival ' knife and built a quick but sturdy lean-to with Y fork corner posts for an elevated bed. Made a small fire close enough to help keep warm at night. Cut saplings for a ' cane pole ', green vine strips for fishing line and carved wooden fishhook. One or two big worms from under a rock and I had yummy fish from a nearby stream for supper 2 nights in a row and clean water from the squeaky hand well pump nearby. Had spare cheese, crackers and cooked sausage and pepperoni for breakfast. End of 3rd day back home and shared laughs at my rookie error, learned to make checklist and OCD quadruple check everything several times. 👍
Why would you want to hike to a dump like Eugene? That place is a total failure. Bend is a nice town, should've stayed there.
Napolean. "DEATH is easy dying is hard".
So THATS what happened to my damn fridge. Thanks bro! Mystery solved 🙏
@@Whats-It-To-Ya To make people like you cry
Some boys never outgrow building forts. Thank goodness for that.
i'm 66 years old and have a site picked out to build me a sandbag subterranean fort, but yeah, you are absolutely right!!!
I live in Iran . Our houses are made of stone, brick and ceramic because we don't have wood to build the house. When I saw the wooden houses of other countries, I did not feel safe compared to wooden houses. But now that I saw your shelter, I feel that wooden houses are very strong and safe. Thank you man.🤣🤣🤣✌️
It's like doing what we've always wanted to do as kids....and adults, but don't actually do it. I salute you sir! Keep up the fantasy!
Imagine being a kid and finding this when playing outside. Hours, upon hours of non stop fun.
Right!!!!!
Hope it was just all cleaned up
yes exactly my thought as well I loved building huts as a kid. Great fun!
Not for today's kids, they'd want a WiFi connection after 15 minutes.
@@yardleyj9391 sad but true
I’m impressed that you found a tape tree. Especially one that still had tape fruit on it in the winter. :D
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Well, there are rubber tree plants...LMFAOO
They were ripe too! Ready to be used. Absolutely perfect :D
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Ever clever in her design, thank goodness Mother Nature made sure to put that Tape tree right next to the Box bushes...
Most of your builds were the things I wanted to do as a kid. I'm nearly 30 but my inner child is so happy to see the things you're making. Thank you for making my inner child's dreams come true.
Lay the boxes like brick, so that they interlock instead of the stack bond that you did. Much stronger. I like how you used the trees to anchor them.
Also overlay the corners to really lock it in.
It's an excellent dwelling I'd have used some of the extra boxes for the floor for added insulation and taped a tarp over the top would definitely helped you keep warm.
with heater on or nah?
@@auston911 i wouldn’t go with the heater. I feel like it would be too much of a fire hazard with all the cardboard
My thoughts as well
@@jollygoodbeard13 Me too
Yeah I was thinking the exact same. Could use the heater too if he cut out a place so it wasn’t sitting on cardboard. Wouldn’t have to worry about a fire that way.
I have watched thousands of hours over the years of people camping in freezing temps but I've got to say, you definitely get an "A" for originality.
:D Thank you!
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Homeless people use boxes and newspapers all the time, but this really elevates all kinds of ideas
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In all the thousands of boxes I have sold in my 17 years as a cashier for Home Depot I never realized that they could be being used for something other than to move stuff from one house to another. Thanks for supporting THD. Also those husky totes are the best. We use them for camping.
Cheers!
I always go into the woods with a pallet of Home Depot cardboard boxes!!
Would have used the tarp for the roof and the extra card board for the floor. But still, it’s a really cool little hut.
I've made winter shelters for feral cats using double-layed cardboard boxes by sealing with duct tape, then covering them with heavy duty trash bags, trimmed and folded to fit. The entrances had bubble wrap draft curtains. Add a blanket and a plant heating pad velcroed to a side wall, and they're cozy to -20F.
Did they stay dry?
Thank you! I just feed a half dozen or so feral cat!
You are wonderful!
We had a mascot cat in Iraq and built him a cardboard shelter for the miserable freezing winter in the mountains. Its amazing how good an insulator cardboard is. Nice old woobie for a bed for him and the cardboard all lined on the outside with vinyl trash bag to waterproof it. Great home for the cat the six months i was there.
What a great idea
this was so peaceful and calming, and nobody got beheaded
Your videos remind me it’s ok to stop, slow down, and smell the roses. Do what makes you happy. Keep up the good honest and fun work.
Maybe stuff the boxes with leaves and then wrap it with plastic for your next shelter? Great fun watching your videos!
Plastic roof would work for rain.
Took me about 60 seconds to start thinking of things like that... and altering the design to suit me. I've lived in the woods most of my life and am always thinking of building things out of odd materials as efficiently and comfortably as possible.
I remember being buried and snuggled in the warmth of huge piles of leaves we raked and jumped into in the cold autumn air. They can make wonderful emergency insulation.
good idea actually would be semi safe and the wrapping would essentially keep it water resistant
@Jimmy Long yea newspapers or hay
Stuff the boxes twigs and leaves and than stack it plastic wrap it good all winter
I've always wondered about making a shed out of my dialysis solution boxes. I get about 25 boxes a month. VERY , VERY
STURDY boxes. I have them recycled.
Now, this channel cemented my idea.
Thank you.
Totally do it :D!
Male sure you video it!
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Iv thought about making one out of plastic 2ltr milk bottles, we go through so many 🤣
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I see you think outside the box. Video is relaxing :)
i really hope home depot sponsored this video. the amount of places that will give you all the cardboard you could want for free are staggering.
We did the exact same thing a couple of years ago. Heres a tip....if you fill the boxes with leaf litter it will stay ALOT warmer inside. Its literally insulation...👍
Yea It would have been warmer but I didn't want to have to forge for all those leaves ha
@@QuietNerd Bugs
@@joelonzello4189 it's winter
@@jonathanshaw4559 Rodents ?
@@joelonzello4189 he's only there for one night...
one the reason you tape the boxes closed is to have a thermal barrier and stacking should be like bricks with alternating the vertical seam. These both would have helped to keep you warm.
Yes alternating the stacked boxes would be good IF you had the ability to seal the cracks both inside and out while maintaining stability.
Nicht ganz richtig, das versetzen der Steine trägt nur zur Stabilität der Wand bei. Die Fugen bleiben ja auch da bestehen. Er hätte zur zusätzlichen Dämmung noch trockene Blätter in die Kisten packen können zur Isolation aber bei Schnee kaum machbar
@@judithwake2757 you mean like worth duct tape?
Ha! Going through the comments I find it interesting that we women often have the more practical and efficient ideas...😎
Offsetting the boxes, like laying bricks, is more stable.
The tape could have been peeled off, most of the boxes broken down and used again. They didn't get wet and they weren't dirty....but then I'm a practical gal... I'd have put them together with single strips of tape like you did later on instead of the smaller ones initially. It would have made a stronger connective bond.
Good thing that the tape tree had fruits in winter
So, if you see how a brick house is made, each row is staggered to keep the vertical joints hold up.
When you get to a corner, the next row will be the edge of that box. It will be stronger, and you will never have to put filler pieces in a corner. Plus, you will have nice tight seems. That process has been used for centuries.
It's hard to watch. I build a box fort with my young children and they nailed it!!! This dude shows that you dont have to be a genius to make a shelter. Good thing for lots of Americans these days.
I think you should make a shelter combining boxes and plastic wrap. Best of both worlds! 😁
Bubble wrap 😂😂😂😂
Stay Hella warm in that!
I have a new idea coming up soon gotta plan it and time it. It will be awesome!~
@@lisalee2885 Bubble wrap is great and has been used to keep people warm in crisis situations…😊
That is a great idea
One thing I am happy about is you took everything back with you! it is appreciated that you cleaned up instead of leaving trash like most do.
Yeah okay come to Colorado jackasses
That's what I thought
When was this
@@johnathanworkman1173 what did you think?
This is what happens when you get a nerd that likes the outdoors. 😂 this was very entertaining i loved it.
I always thought it would be neat if they made giant Lego blocks say 8” x 8” x 24”. That would make a really nice shelter.
They do! But it’s not lego brand.
Great! Great! If you would put tarp all around the outside of the structure, connecting with the inside, it's wind, rain and creature proof. Great job!!
Good points! I'm glad you enjoyed :D. Thanks for stopping by!
@@QuietNerd For longer/colder stays, I would fill the boxes w/leaves along with a tarp.
@@michaelwaller7365 I would fill the boxes with more cardboard
I would fill the boxes with spray foam insulation
@@michaelwaller7365 that's a smart idea. It also gives them a little more weight so they don't fly away so easily.
That proves that everything you need to build a house is at home depot
lol
This proves everything you need to build a home is at U-Haul!
Haha
I wouldn’t call this a house, at least not after it’s first heavy rainfall… ☺️
Could have incorporated the Saran Wrap on outside keep dry and aluminum foil on inside keep heat in and better light
The human being surprises me with what he thinks and what he does. Crazy stuff.
I’ve noticed how whenever you have completed something you always give it a little pat pat at the end. Lol. Cute
Super Cool Experiment!
I really liked how you turned the cardboard to box form before building. I can definitely see that providing, even if minimal, some sort of insulation from the outside weather.
Filling the boxes with light plant debris. Like pine needles or dead leaf material would provide a significant increase in insulation properties. As the plant matter itself emits heat as it's decomposing.
You could also tape and seal sturdy yard garbage bags around each box to add a cheap and efficient weatherproofing to the structure.
Very cool shelter idea! Thank you for making it and sharing your experience.
This is what I was thinking to! Insulation or packing peanuts but they are expensive now lol
This totally looked like the adult, cardboard version of a blanket fort 😂😮
Nice name
Blanket forts never get old!
Box house from boxes for kids.made for grandkids. They loved it.cats also !oves these box houses. Cool. Ha ha tearing down.
I used to build forts out in the woods with friends, using branches and small logs and rope. Now we're all in our 20s and too busy to spend all day playing but this man has the right idea, off to Home Depot I need boxes!
Imagine if homeless had access to this many boxes, find something to fill them with for installation and something to put on it to “weatherproof “ it! What an amazing idea but why do boxes have to be so expensive??
There is a homeless guy in my town he stays in a corner, been there for em years. City never had him move because it’s only him and he keeps it so clean. Anyhow I drove by 1 day on my way to work and he made a deck and even “fencing” around the deck with a “gate” out of pallets and boxes! He has it all decked out, kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. Always clean and so respectful!
Strategic place to build with those Trees acting as supports and he cooked a Delicious supper to boot👏🏼👏🏼
What you NEED in there is a nice toasty FIRE!
Grizzly discovers you at night.
Grizzly: Hey, I didn't know these things came in boxes too! 🐻
Could you imagine filling them with say wood chips or strofome or cloth, clothing, sheets for an extra protected insolation in each box. Would be even warmer. Or filling them with cement. And building a structure from them. I have seen so many unique and stylish ways to building shelters. Homeless really know what they are doing when it comes to stuff like this. Hence the many years of being homeless. So I actually know what works best. Air will flow through the empty boxes though. Just so you know. It won't be as warm as it could be.
Thanks a lot. It's 11:30 at night and I should be asleep. Instead I'm sitting here with a pen, drawing pad, and ruler designing my own cardboard Box shelter on paper.
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Cardboard is an excellent thermal barrier, especially when the boxes are boxes. As one of the other people said, the extra boxes would have made a good floor -slippy, but insulated against frozen ground. For those who would use something like this, try a single candle - or more if you like Miami Beach😁. The ground being frozen holds so much cold!
The candle, along with your own body heat would keep your little home warm, not household hot, but survivable. More candles if needed. Have spent many nights on the Rocky mountains with just a "tarp" . If you have snow cover on the ground, the deeper the better! Good watch
How so
The boxes are made out of corrugated board, which is a good insulator in itself.
For the floor could have put the flat boxes under the tarp to avoid slippy
A tried and proven idea; I'd say you really thought-outside-the-box😄. I would cut a little opening from the inside of a couple boxes and create a shelf... You've inspired a lot of good ideas👍
Great idea, fun for the kids, when i was a kid i alqways wondered why homeless people in the city slept on cardboard my father said the insulation it can save you. This guy took it to the next level great job.
Great vid ! The thing about heat retention is, HEAT RISES so reducing its escape upward is absolutely necessary. If you want to be warm then make a TIGHT bubble to HOLD DOWN HEAT. You would have been a lot warmer if you had changed your design by first setting up your location with no trees in the way other than just the two trees supporting your hammock then put a floor of flat boxes down to insulate against the cold ground, and put the walls on TOP of it. Also instead of thowing sticks on top of the walls, stuck the sticks INTO the inside of the TOP of the WALLS for ceiling support, then laid your flat cardboard on top so there was NO SPACE between the walls and the flat cardboard ceiling, taping it down to the walls, then over lapped the tape around your walls and ceiling horizontally to seal the cracks BETWEEN the boxes as well as providing for STABILITY, and covering up all cracks and holes at the bottom of the walls, then left only one adjustable appox 6 inch hole to the outside at the top of your door for ventiation. I doubt you would have needed your heater at all. How much ya wanna bet ?
Agreed. Also put tarps over everything so the rain / wind doesn't destroy everything.
@@suzettefaircloth5037 Yes ! He would have had a warm cozy night in a down pour or blizzard. Without a heater.
@@suzettefaircloth5037 That's what I was thinking, too. I noticed he had a roll of clear plastic on his "sled". Perhaps he would have used it in case it rained.
@@lottatroublemaker6130 It's obvious to me Judith was suggesting what she thinks should have been done in the past in order to avoid the need for a heater. I do think, however, her suggestions would be helpful when building a similar structure in the future.
@@grinning_owl - Which is why I said to her: «Couldn’t agree more!» 🤗☺️
nice. this reminds me back on my Army days, sleeping outside in the tents and eating MREs. lol
This feels like an episode of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. I'm sure Fred Rogers would have loved this adventure.
as an aside, for the holes, you could have used the excess tape to cover them. for the hammock hole, keep making a square close in ever so slightly without touching the hammock string. it would have insulated better, as well the flooring needed done probably like people suggested. fern, grass, and then the floor boxes and then tarp, probably the first step.
Cardboard can literally save your life if you're sleeping outside.
Jajajaja
That's facts.
@Jay Dog LOL.. okay Mr know It All 😂.. I live in Colorado for one. For two go back to your survival instincts 101 class. Or maybe just try to pick up a science book.... Better yet Google it. That seems to be more of your speed. Google cardboard boxes, heat versus cold/ installation. There you go that will help you add onto your "Mr/misses know it all" persona you think you're capable of having lmfao 🤣. @ least you'll have some would a very better idea of what you're talking about.
@Jay Dog J-Dog.. be a good boy and go sit 😉 that's enough of trolling around the block. Go home, back to kids tube.
@Jay Dog what?? What made you think I got the Vac or not?? 😂😂😂 Try to focus and stay on topic Miss Amber Heard. This would have probably been a better time to talk about your dog stepping on a bee. At least it's still in the same range as animals 😭😭😭☠️☠️
Wait.. wait.. either this is Miss Heard or a 7-year-old?? In either case, that's my cue to run like hell out of this comment section! 💨💨💨💨💨
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I agree with the stacking of the boxes. Great job. I also agree with laying a flat floor down, and also adding leaves, or straw, or grasses to boxes for insulation. WHAT A HUGE HUGE DIFFERENCE IT WOULD MAKE, ALONG WITH A SMALL CAMPFIRE AWAY FROM YOUR CARDBOARD HUMBLE ABODE💕💜💕💜
The Ultimate Box Fort. I love going in my kids box fort when they build one out of boxs and pillows.📦😂
Awesome video. 😎👍💯
Good idea, except that cardboard will be a mess when the first rain/sleet hits it. Yes, cover with a tarp. I also like someone's suggestion to pack inside with leaves. Tarp the ground too and anchor down. Watch the heater inside or great balls of fire!
I once spent an entire Oregon winter in a shelter i made from shirt cardboard and Scotch tape.But you did much better. Loved the video!
Many folks in Oregon now know the comfort & luxury of living in cardboard boxes thanks to the "mostly peaceful protests" of Antifa coupled with brilliant "progressive" local & state government leadership.😉👍👏🥂🤗🤣🤣🤣
@@danielschear556 So true!
I thought I'd seen it all...
A traveled outdoorsman returns cardboard boxes back to its original roots in the woods...
A wonder that never stops to amaze me
the outdoors dining......gets me hungry every time
Always dream on!
I once got caught out in a snow storm in the woods ....I found a big washing machine box next to this vacant heated cabin....I slept the storm out in that box....it saved my life !!!
This was like watching a couple of my sons! That was a lot of work to tear it back down the next day! I would have left it there and reused it til it got dilapidated!
Just a tip, When you get the pan hot for pancakes SIMPLY remove it for 30 seconds before you add the batter!!! Set it back on for 40 seconds then remove and flip. Wait 30-45 seconds before putting it back on FLAME. Always add butter/oil/ ghee each time you flip or add batter. Doesnt have to be a ton.
Man don’t even use syrup he just doesn’t care😂
I never realized how heavy a bunch of boxes were with nothing in them until now
In the great depression people used cardboard as drywall. It was cheap and insulated well
@@ozarkprepper1718 Thats right! I had forgot about that!! They did.
They weren't empty...they were full of possiblity. 😁
@Quiet Nerd As a former Home Depot hardware associate I feel your pain. People would benefit from our inside ' straight from the product manufacturer ' knowledge if they just slowed down to listen for a moment, we were there to help. Sadly I can't assist anymore as I'm no longer there, but I'm glad I was able to do so for 14 years. Even had a few loyal customers who would turn around and leave if I wasn't there, coming back later or tomorrow when I was.
@@deadaccount6135 sounds like you are a kind soul. We need more people in the world to be more helpful. I encountered a young lady at Walmart neglect to see that a "Handicapped Cart" was moved to its charging station , in fact TWO of them , one at the front of her checkout counter and one in front across from her register. Finally when it was my turn in line I mentioned the empty Handicapped Carts, and how long they had been sitting there , and she said ( Thats NOT my job!! ) ..... I cant even believe there are people like that in this world. I hope she never needs one.
That brings back memories...back in the early 60's Sears and Roebuck delivered my mama her brand new Washing machine...they pulled the box off of it and Oh my I had my own house to play in. For about a week ...then it rained..I cried and cried😂
Ahhhh the great outdoors and burnt pancakes what more can you ask for!!
I feel like I'm watching a kid make a fort in the backyard.
You are.
You are.....😅😅😅😅😅😅 #goodtimes
Especially the foods he's cooking wtf 🤣
Thanks for sharing your experience. I was expecting you to add leaves to those boxes for insulation. And adding dirt to the first layer of boxes for stability and insulation.
I laughed when u said u were already tired. That's exactly what I was thinking!
that's an adventure, good job following the pack it in pack it out rule to keep it clean
Corrugated cardboard is actually a very good insulator because it has air trapped between the layers. It's air that does the insulating. Same principle is used with fiberglass insulation. The fiberglass just keeps convection currents from moving heat around so it escapes. It just doesn't hold up well in rain and snow.
I became hooked after the Ice Aquarium video. We are definitely bro's in some manner. This is exactly what i would do. thank you.
Your welcome! Keep on keeping on!!
Great idea!
One thing you could have done is cut out the inside facing side of one of the boxes and created a shelf for your gadgets.
The cardboard you cut out could be pushed up against the other side of the box to still provide you with some insulation from the outside.
I think I would have brought a tarp big enough to cover the whole thing just so I could stay there longer without worrying about anything getting wet.
I really like the boxes because if it was extremely cold or windy, one could always fill the boxes with leaves and sticks.
I was horse wrangler for a hunting guide in Athlon, B.C. in the'70s. In the Fall it got down to 10 below zero at night. We'd pull off the wool saddle pads from the horses, put our army surplus mummy sleeping bags down, and sleep. Warm and toasty. Don't need no fancy cardboard!
The “double pane” effect of the boxes is brilliant. Maybe fill the boxes with duff, but at the very least fill those holes of light with duff. I’m curious about what loss on the roof and ways you might be able to improve. Very cool project!
It’s nice to see someone with special needs functioning so well and trying to fit in. You are a very good example of what the handicapped can do if given the opportunity.
Wow
What?
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What you mean?
What do you mean trying to fit in ?
Great box house lots n lots of fun for kids
I made your dinner tonight. I added meat and a little seasoning. I’m not an adventurous person with food and honestly that’s probably why I run on low energy and a kinda hopeless attitude towards life. Just something as simple as making your meal I am filled with joy and an appreciation of life. I know this isn’t what your video was about but it just had a huge impact on me. Hope you are well.
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽😂😂. That was fun to watch. Especially taking it down. Pasta looked delicious.
I'm glad you enjoyed it :D yea taking it down was fun and a lot easier ha. For me pasta is always good lol I can eat it all the time
You would be an awesome dad. Don’t you know a kid would love to help make this cardboard cabin and sleep in it!
I too, know the joy of being Inside the box! Truly, a Box can save your life. Treat it well, and it will never let you down.
Came across this video he's so creative it's amazing how so many people have great ideas God bless you from Massachusetts love the sunset beautiful
I enjoyed watching how you built your structure out of boxes. That was a very clever idea. It made me wish i was young again so i could try it out for myself. But since i can't turn back rime, i will just say THANKS for including us in your building and camping process!🌝👏👏
Can’t wait to see your finished setup and how you do all night and if it stays warm enough love the idea 🥰💜🥰💜🥰💜🥰💜🥰💜🥰
Another EPIC Camping trip! btw that Pasta looked delicious!
Make it bigger, fill the boxes with insulation, install a little woodburner in there, wrap the whole exterior in real tree camouflage tarping, flex seal the roof, and live in it for awhile.
I would like to see how that would turn out.
Maybe use leaves for the insulation.
Tyvek the outside 💯 💯
Great video ... actually this technique has been known and practiced since the beginning of time by homeless people especially in poor countries. They collected cardboard boxes to make their shelters, because it is found everywhere and light to carry and easy to form ...
def do more unique shelter builds!!!
Reminds me of when we used to play forts as a kid. In the 60s.Being girls we had flowery cushions and curtains, lol.
You should make a shelter out of small square bales of straw, or hay. Talk about warm and cozy inside. We used to make forts in barn hay lofts in the winter, just your body heat would warm them up.
I use square bales of hay or straw to make my winter dog house. I have a partial sheet of plywood to lay on top. Then fill the inside with loose hay and bank the outside with snow.
Loved everything about this video. Creative and adventurous. Outdoor cooking is the best. Be safe.
Thank you - Cheers!
Thankyou for having the boxes facing the same way for use crazy folk lol 😆
Me thinks that the overnight survival genre has jumped the shark
You are a wonderful escape for me! How absolutely fun!!!
Perhaps, on your next cardboard adventure, (if you are so inclined) you could wrap plastic around the boxes, for not only added insulation, but also for more durability in the case of strong winds.
And additional protection from moisture
Yay! You remembered the oil! 😊 I love how you always have pancakes for breakfast. Great build, beautiful sunset. You are awesome, as always. ❤
Cheers!
Please look into small stoves and how you could use metal pipes with a few flexible pipe connections, to have heat inside using the outside air and storing that heat into a mass of dirt. If you want to make it permanent, you can even mix cement into the dirt, then turn it into a thick play-doh-like mixture or though dough, then in time it will harden like rock. 10% cement, 20% water, and the rest local dirt.
I came here for the soldering, but I’m staying for content like this😬👍🏻
Sweet :D
Lightweight plastic boxes might be useful in snow, sorta like a smaller HESCO barrier. Instead of filling them with dirt, use snow. With a tarp for a roof, you could probably throw a shelter together pretty fast. And you don’t have to worry about it collapsing on you while you sleep.
It’s the pancakes with no syrup for me😂😂…great vid!!
HELLO QUIET NERD, It would have been easier if u had opened the box completely to form ur walls and used the flaps to make ur roofing, door, peep window, and crack sealer than taped it all down. To weather proof when ur using materials like that spray it down with water resistant proofing spray or used the spray foam that helps from water and wind coming through, also to help from being blowin over used either a good size rock or tree log or even some dirt inside the boxes as a weight. I used to build forts, airplanes, cars, etc out of cardboard and other materials when I was little. I even made a 3 story clubhouse lol. I loved doing stuff like that, after my g-paw taught me how to build and entertain myself with my first box house, I would go all over town with my radio flyer wagon and gathered materials to build stuff in the yard, even would build things for my friends at their house lol. OH BOY WAS THEM THE FUN GOOD OLD DAYS! when I was kid lol 😄KEEP ON A BUILDING!!
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A fun video featuring a wildly impractical and expensive idea. For the price of the new boxes and the tape, you could get a fine tarp, get money back, and have a longer-lasting shelter. Of course, many of us have thought about how much fun it would be to make use of the insulative value in box cardboard and like products. I'd weatherproof the outside roof and walls of my version and provide for natural light and ventilation. Maybe I'd borrow the plastic wrap idea and the cardboard box idea from you to make a camp and then live in it to see how long it would serve my needs.
I freaking loved this.. Since I found your channel about a week ago I've been enjoying your content and watching your older videos.. plus it feeds my inner nerd lol.. The freaking duct tape falling from the tree I just couldn't stop laughing 😂💀😂😂
I'm really glad you enjoy my videos! I though the duct tape would make someone smile :D I'm glad it did Tanks for stopping by!
@@QuietNerd I'm surprised the duct tape stuck to the cardboard and the cold cold weather. I've tried gray duct tape to seal boxes of books in the summer and the tape doesn't want to stick. Is your black duct tape extra sticky? Are you in Michigan or Wisconsin or something? I'm watching from Delaware
Lol I'm doing that now
Really? Cardboard? Really weak. A stunt at best. My family building teepees in 1500s maybe before. Indigenous people smoke you 100%. Maybe igloos and teepees. My family in the 1800s for sure. Teepees better than cardboard. Learn to hunt. That takes hunting. Not tape and cardboard. Sad effort. Do better.
Nothing in this channel will help you in a serious situation! Hauling umpteen boxes of cardboard into the woods? Be serious😒
Lol, i love how you shook the tree and the tape fell out like Animal Crossing.
You're the first guy that I feel needs a producer for his videos. The latest one you have is a riot because it makes you feel like you are cozy and hanging out with you. I guess I don't care so much about the way you build stuff as to what you do with it.