I actually HAD to do this once. it saved my life. I had to use my shirt and pants, but it works!!! thanks for sharing this one. you might have just saved someone's life later on bro.
Good video. No bunch of yapping and yammering on. Just straight forward demonstration and a quick overview at the end. Plenty sufficient for a person of reasonable intelligence to draw something useful from it.
@@sweetcron3819 Those aren’t branches. He harvested the center stalks that shoot up from the middle of the yucca plant when they bloom with flowers on the end. After they shoot up from the center of the plant, they bloom and presumably give off all their pollen, that stalk then becomes very woody, after drying out and you can use them for stuff like in this video. I live in Phoenix Az and we have these all over the place. And of course a lot more once you get out of town. It’s one of the few naturally woody type things around here that you have to help build emergency structures or spears from,… besides the dead spines of the saguaro cactus, which are considerably stronger, but much harder to find. Most survival shows I’ve seen have said the lower Sonoran Desert ( like Phoenix ) is THE most difficult survival landscape. Lack of water, cover/shade, edibles, etc and especially temperature extremes. I’m assuming this excludes atypical extreme places where almost no one lives like the Antarctic and the middle of a giant salt flat.
Something a lot of survivalists don't talk about is that when building a shelter, what do you need shelter FROM? In the desert you need shelter from the sun and heat of the day. But also the cold of the night as well. If you're stationary a shelter that can do both is important. If you're traveling, you need to bring the shelter materials with you. Those burlap sheets you had would travel very well, also in a pinch you could use threads from them to make tinder.
@@benverzijlbergen2968 When certain desert plants bloom (depends on the desert) they can make a giant (2-3m tall) flower stalk that's surprisingly woody. Might be some of those? Not sure though :)
@@JayBirdJay Yes, I suppose he could have found 50 of those. There seem to have been some protrusions cut off on the outside of the "stalks" though. Would that have been its leaves? Would you happen to have a link to one of those desert plants?
@@benverzijlbergen2968 The stalks of agave plants (binomial name: Agave deserti) can grow 2-6m according to the Wikipedia page, and that matches my experience with the plants too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_deserti
In the desert when u cant find any trees for shade you can make shelter from 4 dozen 6-8ft x 1.5" diameter sticks. I guess they grow from a small bush....or they could be hypnotized snakes. Lol 🤙
I’ll take that any day rather than having nothing at all.. You go from a situation that’s pretty screwed up to one that is doing pretty good if you ask me,, that sun can be brutal.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 👍👍
It’s more difficult when the sticks and branches are more varying in sizes and shapes. But that just makes it more interesting to create lol but this is cool
Dude has found a way to make the "divorced after 15 years, midlife crisis in the woods, my kids don't talk to me since I had my meltdown" phase look kinda cool!
Quick means editing out the materials gathering time. I've learned my lesson. I stay at home, drive to the supermarket or a restaurant for food, sleep in a worm bed ,and watch UA-cam.
Thank you, now I know that there's a comments button. Around here I'd probably have to search quite a while to get enough Yucca stalks and I suppose I'd have to use the leaves to tie some stalks together to make them longer... and probably end up using the leaves for the side coverings also, I don't usually carry a shemaug, much less a patoo. In some deserts around me there seems to be a fairly common, moderately strong wind many days... at least common enough for the gas station convenience store to have a wind/sandwall blocking the double door entryway. (Looking at you Mojave) Thanks for the idea
I carry a car door with me when I hike in the desert. It’s a heck of a lot easier to just roll down the window to cool off than trying to find sticks that don’t exist. Jeesh!
It's interesting how there's no trees as tall as those sticks you have and yet you have a bunch of them. You should be using ocotillos or mesquite or Palo Verde or saguaro ribs.
When you see a dude piling up long branches YOU WONDER if he knows what he's doing . . . BUT when you see the doggy taking master of the place even though is not finished yet THEN you know is a WORK well done!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
I have been working on oil wells in the deserts in Texas and NewMex and I have not seen any sticks like this out there. I can get Mesquite depending where I am at but I need a brush axe to clean them up of spines and spikes etc… you would really need to be lucky or prepared to make shelter. In any environment. In the deserts of Texas 60 miles from NewMex deserts they are very very different!
I guess if you don't have 4 blankets with you then you could just break off some branches from the surrounding shrub if it's not thorny (most desert plants are) amd fasten them to the sticks.
What about at night? It gets cold. It gets really cold in deserts at night and often during the day. He needs to expand on this video or alter his shelter for survival in both daytime and nighttime temperatures. I like the way the Indians of the American Southwest did it. They dug holes, got in and then covered the openings with blankets.
South facing shade stay on north side to maintain shadow and build possibly at an angle to protect during solar noon a lean to basically this ones more teepee so more better
Sorry for the late comment but do you think you could show how to make a sewing kit and if you already have could you point in the direction of said video? Thank you for the amazing videos and making us feel like it’s possible to be as cool as you👍
Stool sticks.. afternoon shade side of hills/ mountains and stream side.. Old Billy with a ranch that has both .. Lower Pecos/ Northern Chihuahuan Desert
Dony duster Soy Gonzalo Daniel Fernández Martínez y quería saber si podés hablar sobre el aborigen de la argentina y sus costumbres.Eso es todo y soy tu seguidor favorito hacelo por los nativos norteamericanos y por los nativos de la argentina ❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
If you don't want to ruin the selvage on your cloth, yucca or similar from the prior year should have retted out enough to hand spin/twist cordage. Whenever I would hike, I'd glean cordage makings along with food.
And it’s nice to have some blankets in you back pocket for such shelters. 😊
I actually HAD to do this once. it saved my life. I had to use my shirt and pants, but it works!!! thanks for sharing this one. you might have just saved someone's life later on bro.
Good video. No bunch of yapping and yammering on. Just straight forward demonstration and a quick overview at the end. Plenty sufficient for a person of reasonable intelligence to draw something useful from it.
Super quick! Just got to remember to pack enough cloth
And branches in a land without trees.
@@sweetcron3819 Those aren’t branches. He harvested the center stalks that shoot up from the middle of the yucca plant when they bloom with flowers on the end. After they shoot up from the center of the plant, they bloom and presumably give off all their pollen, that stalk then becomes very woody, after drying out and you can use them for stuff like in this video. I live in Phoenix Az and we have these all over the place. And of course a lot more once you get out of town. It’s one of the few naturally woody type things around here that you have to help build emergency structures or spears from,… besides the dead spines of the saguaro cactus, which are considerably stronger, but much harder to find. Most survival shows I’ve seen have said the lower Sonoran Desert ( like Phoenix ) is THE most difficult survival landscape. Lack of water, cover/shade, edibles, etc and especially temperature extremes. I’m assuming this excludes atypical extreme places where almost no one lives like the Antarctic and the middle of a giant salt flat.
@@sweetcron3819 EXACTLY ! ! !
🙂😎👍
The leaves from Yucca plant can be used to instead of cloth
I love how the dog goes right under as soon as any shadow gets cast. He's like I'll help from on the here lol
Something a lot of survivalists don't talk about is that when building a shelter, what do you need shelter FROM?
In the desert you need shelter from the sun and heat of the day. But also the cold of the night as well.
If you're stationary a shelter that can do both is important.
If you're traveling, you need to bring the shelter materials with you.
Those burlap sheets you had would travel very well, also in a pinch you could use threads from them to make tinder.
A truly well thought out and executed 60secs. Good job
Love your survival and weapon making content!
My only question is, where did you get all of those sticks?
I like how nobody says anything bad about your craft stuff but make shade in the desert we all pounce on you ha. You rock!
As always Donny,another excellent demo tip 4 survival.Good Job Dusty👌
I love how dogs always feel like "oh wow this guy really lives me! Always building me shelters!"
I love watching create something from your surroundings
Smart how you used the rocks to keep the branches from falling.
Love all your videos. I'm in the north east u.s. and I'm outside 90% of the time. My wife hates it. My 3 labs love it
beautifully constructed shelter
I Watched Yurins Video On Quick Shelter & I Really Enjoyed It 🙏😇
Like your simple method, have a feeling ill employ that soon
Thank you for sharing this Donny I live in the desert and you truly never know what might happen in the future
Good shelter perfect for the sun and heat
love how a desert comes with fabric, string, and a dog these days.....
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As a person that grew up in the desert, the hardest part would be finding all those sticks.😅
Edit: the description states the sticks are Sotol Stalks
And blankets...
Yeah, if there are no trees, where did those come from?? I was wondering 😅
@@benverzijlbergen2968 When certain desert plants bloom (depends on the desert) they can make a giant (2-3m tall) flower stalk that's surprisingly woody. Might be some of those? Not sure though :)
@@JayBirdJay Yes, I suppose he could have found 50 of those. There seem to have been some protrusions cut off on the outside of the "stalks" though. Would that have been its leaves? Would you happen to have a link to one of those desert plants?
@@benverzijlbergen2968 The stalks of agave plants (binomial name: Agave deserti) can grow 2-6m according to the Wikipedia page, and that matches my experience with the plants too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_deserti
In the desert when u cant find any trees for shade you can make shelter from 4 dozen 6-8ft x 1.5" diameter sticks. I guess they grow from a small bush....or they could be hypnotized snakes. Lol 🤙
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Ok don't have a clue what u just done but I know you look good doing it!! WOW 😍 fyi gonna watch again LOL
He must have brought the sticks with him to the desert 🏜 😉
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Always bring rope and something to create shade with, got it. 🤙 That was a sick little shelter.
I’ll take that any day rather than having nothing at all..
You go from a situation that’s pretty screwed up to one that is doing pretty good if you ask me,, that sun can be brutal.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
👍👍
This guy's a genius I've lived in the Sonoran Desert 40 years this guy's way smart
This is the number one chanell in my opinion teaches us how to make everything from cratch
Your awesome and awesome video be safe out there 😎👍
Glad I Always travel with Dozens of Long Sticks
Great videos, brother. Sending love from Boise, Idaho
This is pretty cool
Absolutely awesome!
I Love that this masculine Man is just teaching ancient skills without political proclamations or misogynist whining.refreshing👍
Appreciate you watching. Thank for your kind words.
Why did you feel the need to bring that up when he didnt?
Completely and totally awesome dude love ur vids
Thanks
Nicely done 👍🏻
Love the design 🤙🏽
It’s more difficult when the sticks and branches are more varying in sizes and shapes. But that just makes it more interesting to create lol but this is cool
The handy dandy...... Blankie fort.
I love building forts
Cool Pakistani/ Afghan shawl blankets, super useful for a number of purposes!
Little Fynn & Donny chilling in the heat
Wowwww good work
Dude has found a way to make the "divorced after 15 years, midlife crisis in the woods, my kids don't talk to me since I had my meltdown" phase look kinda cool!
Thanks
So awesome
Quick means editing out the materials gathering time.
I've learned my lesson. I stay at home, drive to the supermarket or a restaurant for food, sleep in a worm bed ,and watch UA-cam.
Hi Donnie, as usual you show us something primitive, useful, and has common sense ! Thanks for the video !
Appreciate you watching. Thanks.
Even a wild dog came to visit and appreciated the accommodation.
Thank you, now I know that there's a comments button.
Around here I'd probably have to search quite a while to get enough Yucca stalks and I suppose I'd have to use the leaves to tie some stalks together to make them longer... and probably end up using the leaves for the side coverings also, I don't usually carry a shemaug, much less a patoo.
In some deserts around me there seems to be a fairly common, moderately strong wind many days... at least common enough for the gas station convenience store to have a wind/sandwall blocking the double door entryway.
(Looking at you Mojave)
Thanks for the idea
Thank you
I just stumbled across your channel, I like it so far, good job man
Mo nice 👍
Love it!
Were you able to find all those sticks just by wandering around the desert? Ive gotta imagine they arent super common in such an arid area
They are sotol stalks. Like a yucca.
I carry a car door with me when I hike in the desert. It’s a heck of a lot easier to just roll down the window to cool off than trying to find sticks that don’t exist. Jeesh!
Tipi frame looks good but a suggestion is to try a wickiup or sweat lodge style shelter. They are easier in my opinion
It's interesting how there's no trees as tall as those sticks you have and yet you have a bunch of them. You should be using ocotillos or mesquite or Palo Verde or saguaro ribs.
This are Sotol stalks. Surprised you didn’t recognize those with your vast knowledge of desert plants. Thanks for watching.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family Mr Donnie your a skilled young man
good job
When you see a dude piling up long branches YOU WONDER if he knows what he's doing . . .
BUT when you see the doggy taking master of the place even though is not finished yet THEN you know is a WORK well done!!! 👏👏👏👏👏
lol How convenient. Quick...
Badass no doubt. BTW if you don't have any garments to cover frame, add more sticks and cover with the vegetation. Pretty much a wikki up?
Vegetation is the best option.
I have been working on oil wells in the deserts in Texas and NewMex and I have not seen any sticks like this out there. I can get Mesquite depending where I am at but I need a brush axe to clean them up of spines and spikes etc… you would really need to be lucky or prepared to make shelter. In any environment. In the deserts of Texas 60 miles from NewMex deserts they are very very different!
Stay cool man.
Desert?
Nice to have so much brush there
lucky to find those sticks man.
Mmm desert
I’ll remember to pack-in my tent poles
They are sotol stalks. It comes from an agave like plant. Thanks for watching.
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks - I enjoy your post, thanks for the insight. My problem is living in a high tussock desert
@@4OHz I hear you. Not much out there. Holes would be the best option to get below ground with a covering. I could be wrong
: )
...они все такие
...как будто знает что то, чего не знают все : ) : )
Счастливый человек!Живёт в кайф!
I want to know where he found the sticks to build this shelter at his current location?
They are sotol stalks. Like a yucca, bush much bigger.
cool
Great if those sticks and string are just laying around.
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Now that is a real lean-to.
i feel like if all shit hits the fam this dude is gonna be one of the only survivors
Haha. I hope a few people make through. Finn is not much for conversation. Haha
@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Lol he seems like a good companion , not very talkative though.
@@TheHomelander1234 he’s perfect. Thanks
@Daddy Chill sounds good. Then is likely we will cross paths. Haha
there are more people like him he will not be lonely 🤣🤣
That dog must think his human is so cool just making cozy circle out of things lying around
True!
Dogs a coyote!
What was "laying around"? The long poles and carpets ? ? ?
It would be a great survival tip if them tree sticks actually existed in the desert
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I guess if you don't have 4 blankets with you then you could just break off some branches from the surrounding shrub if it's not thorny (most desert plants are) amd fasten them to the sticks.
Rock on dude
good teepee
What about at night? It gets cold. It gets really cold in deserts at night and often during the day. He needs to expand on this video or alter his shelter for survival in both daytime and nighttime temperatures. I like the way the Indians of the American Southwest did it. They dug holes, got in and then covered the openings with blankets.
At night, when the sun goes down, remove the Patoos, wrap up and go to sleep. Still cold…build a fire.
That’s soo cool 😮
South facing shade stay on north side to maintain shadow and build possibly at an angle to protect during solar noon a lean to basically this ones more teepee so more better
Very cool
Your desert is different than my desert. No such stalks here. Only small dead bushes
I love these jump cuts
Until the camel spiders see your shade lol. You gonna have so many of them in there for sure
Dog was like FINALLY SOME SHADE
WHAT DESSERT
Damn your gorgeous!!
Sorry for the late comment but do you think you could show how to make a sewing kit and if you already have could you point in the direction of said video? Thank you for the amazing videos and making us feel like it’s possible to be as cool as you👍
No way. Chad Zuber & Donny Dust collab when
I'm a flintknapper also, just wondering can you make some toe nail clippers out of some chert?
Didn't know you could even find that much wood in a Desert never been in a desert before tho
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So where did the long thin poles come from? It’s wonderful that you have such good weather to enjoy while making your video.
Tried doing that in Vegas in 117° outside you get shade but you're still going to be sweating and hot and drying up
It’s a thing. Sometimes survival is just improving upon the situation. Heat is heat…heat with some shade…I’ll take it.
good idea to spend the night with scorpions and snakes
Stool sticks.. afternoon shade side of hills/ mountains and stream side.. Old Billy with a ranch that has both .. Lower Pecos/ Northern Chihuahuan Desert
Dony duster Soy Gonzalo Daniel Fernández Martínez y quería saber si podés hablar sobre el aborigen de la argentina y sus costumbres.Eso es todo y soy tu seguidor favorito hacelo por los nativos norteamericanos y por los nativos de la argentina ❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂
If you don't want to ruin the selvage on your cloth, yucca or similar from the prior year should have retted out enough to hand spin/twist cordage. Whenever I would hike, I'd glean cordage makings along with food.