I had received a book for Christmas on some bushcrafty topics. It's not great, so far, and it's more of a general topic book than providing real directions on things. As an example, there's a chapter on shelter, which covers tipis, lean-tos, debris shelters, etc., building on complexity/longevity of the structure until the chapter closes with a brief discussion of a Navajo Hogan.
There are a few pictures in there on construction, and about a page or two, but it's hardly complete. And this is not a shelter that's haphazardly put together. It would require some serious planning and effort to build one. Further, these will stand for a long time if properly constructed.
Regardless of all of that, I've become intrigued with the idea of throwing together one of these things. In all reality, that will probably never happen. However, something about just knowing how to do it still resonates with me. I figured there had to be some better info on the net about how to construct these things.
I figured wrong.
I've found a few sites that give about as much information on this as the book does, which isn't much.
I've also been unable to find anything decent on Amazon.com (at least the US version). Or ebay.
Does anyone know of any good source, be it a website, a book, etc., of information on how to actually build one of these things?
Thanks,
Doc
There are a few pictures in there on construction, and about a page or two, but it's hardly complete. And this is not a shelter that's haphazardly put together. It would require some serious planning and effort to build one. Further, these will stand for a long time if properly constructed.
Regardless of all of that, I've become intrigued with the idea of throwing together one of these things. In all reality, that will probably never happen. However, something about just knowing how to do it still resonates with me. I figured there had to be some better info on the net about how to construct these things.
I figured wrong.
I've found a few sites that give about as much information on this as the book does, which isn't much.
I've also been unable to find anything decent on Amazon.com (at least the US version). Or ebay.
Does anyone know of any good source, be it a website, a book, etc., of information on how to actually build one of these things?
Thanks,
Doc