small cabin?

[GreatWhiteHunter]

ok so heres the scenario.your out in the woods chopping wood,and your cell phone goes out.you can find your way home and decide to try to make some shelter.you already have the wood chopped for the cabin so you decide to try this.you only have your axe,multi tool,and a fire starter could you do it?what other tools would you need?

[crashdive123]

Scenario #2 - head on over to the introduction section and tell us about yourself. Thanks.

[wareagle69]

Scenario #2 - head on over to the introduction section and tell us about yourself. Thanks.

sheet crash you slay me
any who that is a breeze, if it was in the winter would be even more fun some of the trees i cut i would make a fire reflector with and the others make a lean to with all the logs, in the canadian wilderness in the winter those are the three items that you never leave home w/o. in my on going study of fire this year winter is my last quarter to study so i have pulled some decayed birch from the bush that still has the bark intact and will use my flint to light the punky wood staye tuned to my ongoing fireskills thread to see how this works out tommorrow

[crashdive123]

Don't know that I'd spend the time (months) building a cabin for my nights stay. As Wareagle said....a lean-to, cover with pine boughs, fire for a nice cozy night.

[GreatWhiteHunter]

but if you had to,say to were stuck in the middle of canada,1000 miles from a town would you?

[tsitenha]

First build your immediate shelter (lean-to as said) and gather wood for the night (lots) after that make whatever proper plans you need to for the next day, week, month. Building a cabin takes a lot of work, make sure that you need to stay there to use it, not just to build it when you could be making your way home.

Yes I could (build a cabin), over a period of time but immediate shelter first.

[crashdive123]

but if you had to,say to were stuck in the middle of canada,1000 miles from a town would you?

So is this scenario #3?

[Sourdough]

What is a cell phone, is that a prison thing??? And why would you care if it worked??? Is your health, safety, comfort, somehow tied to some thingie that did not exist the day you were born 19 years ago.

[Sourdough]

ok so heres the scenario.your out in the woods chopping wood,and your cell phone goes out.you can find your way home and decide to try to make some shelter.you already have the wood chopped for the cabin so you decide to try this.you only have your axe,multi tool,and a fire starter could you do it?what other tools would you need?

This must be another night time reading test. Your phone goes out...who cares. real men don't need no stinking phone.

You CAN find your way home (Thats nice) now you have a no brainier decision, Daa go home, or build a new shelter, gee what to do, wow, what to do.

[crashdive123]

Just a question about scenario #1 - Do you have any idea how long it takes to "chop" enough wood for a cabin?

[Gray Wolf]

scenario #4, bring an extra battery, very small and super light weight!

[sh4d0wm4573ri7]

agree aint building a cabin unless Im staying put good long while lol
Lean to will suffice over night fire and reflector

[DOGMAN]

If my cell phone went out, I'd immediatly activate my personal locator beacon, and activate search and rescue personal to come and rescue me. Even if I was in my front yard!

If I was 1,000 miles from the nearest town in Canada and I lost cell service- I'd probably have a heart attack!

[Sarge47]

Likie Crash said, intro 1st, info 2nd. Otherwise you're just being rude dude!

[klkak]

- Out chopping wood

- Know the way home

- Cell phone dead

- Load wood into truck

- Start truck

- Plug in cell phone to charger

- Drive home

- Unload wood in the morning

[klkak]

How did we go from out chopping wood to being lost in the middle of Canada a 1000 miles from the nearest town?

OMG! I hate stupid questions.

[Sourdough]

Why are you chopping wood, for exercise...? Use a good Bow Saw, less work, less waste, fits better into stove. Axe wonderful tool, Bow saw much Goooder tool. And safer to operate.

[Sourdough]

A real man don't need no tools. Why when I was young we would catch 60 pound Beavers with our bare hands, and lash them to a pole so they were 24" apart. Then roll a log over to the beavers, and then step on there tail to start them gnawing. Why we could lay in 5 cords of neatly cut 24" long birch firewood be for lunch. You look kind of skeptic I see, and your thinking how did you drag the logs that weighed three ton. Well in the old days what with no tools, we just find some 14' tall grizzle bears, put some woop'a$$ on them and hitch them up as a team to drag logs. Real man don't need no tools.

[crashdive123]

OK - I'm ging to be serious here.........well sort of. While the axe, multi-tool and fire starter are very good things to have with you, and while most of the people here would do just fine for a night having only them - most would probably just die. I know, I know GreatWhiteHunter - you are probably saying - not me - I got skills. Skills are one thing, but smarts are another - anybody that places themselves 1000 miles from anything with the equipment you listed lacks the smarts part and is just going to die.

[Rick]

Fortunately, I called the phone number in the paper. He's delivering the wood, cut and stacked, tomorrow. Dang, would you look at that? My cell phone just died.