Laavu Shelter

I thought Laavu was like a teepee? The indigenous people of northern Sweden, Samerna, live in those in conditions most people don't go out in. It's called a "Kåta" in Swedish and to my knowledge, a Laavu in Finnish, but I might be wrong here, it's just the way I got it.

 

Would be sweet, I've been looking into making my own tent, but atleast here the material costs would be so high I'm better off letting the pros do it. Would be a good experience though! A real sailcloth canvas tent made for my specs with a woodstove, I'm dreaming away

 

Photo & info, however its out'a stock at this site
https://www.raymears.com/Bushcraft_Product/1310-Vihe-Vaellus-Laavu-Mini-Shelter/

Year-old article; reflective material
https://www.survivalschool.us/new-finnish-reflective-tarp-survival-shelter/

Shoot, why not just go big
http://www.cabelas.com/product/ULTI...VRiWBCh1rRQv0EAQYBSABEgJpYvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds


Go military
https://www.rddusa.com/product-cate...MI1Jrsh_jp2AIVhzuBCh1QRQ4oEAAYAiAAEgJjL_D_BwE

Fold-able shelters
https://inhabitat.com/35-pound-fold...weight-disaster-housing-in-under-two-minutes/

Put your bug-out house in the back of your truck:
http://www.asaluminum.com/foldoutshelters.html

I've found Kevlar sheeting to make bullet-proof tents.

 

In this day and age, if a SHTF event occurs, you bug out, use a tent, somebody wants what you have, you get shot. If you don't have a hard structure, you're 6-o'clock is hanging out in the wind. You get shot.

If you got the money, go big. Go bullet-proof. Go bullet-proof vehicle with run-flat tires. If you armor-plate your own, you still need run-flat tires.

https://www.armoredcars.com/used-armored-vehicles/

https://www.armoredcars.com/vehicles/armored-chevygm-2500-3500-cargo-van/

http://www.askaprepper.com/the-cost-to-bulletproof-your-car/

Build your own bullet proof panels









Peel and stick bullet-proof door

https://www.hardwirellc.com/products/bulletproof-peel-n-stick-door-armor
Toooooooooooo EXPENSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Build your own with large tile & granite (whatever) plate laminations.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl6rRNGfR6o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ4ZD8TWULs

 

I have a black powder cannon. However, it is miniature, miniature. The 12 inch brass cannon is mounted onto the cheeks by two thick trunnions. The trail is shortish, i.e. medium (to scale) just not stretched out like I've seen. The cheeks and trails have all fittings in brass. The smooth-bore is .75 inch which puts it just over 12 ga. This cannon was milled/built by a fellow from Budapest. It is of course a muzzle-loader with a touch hole diameter designed for cannon fuse / dynamite fuse. I once blew a 3.5 inch lag bolt (set into a sabot, of course) into a firelog. The bolt went in about 2.5 to 3.0 inches and at a yaw of 20 degrees. The builder told me to not use over 70 grains of powder but that he'd seen his barrels handle 120 grains. I use FF powder in it. It's never misfired -- good thing, 'cause I've no screw to extract a load. I can use 12 ga shotcups if I wrap a tad of ticking around the cup for a touch more diameter.

Forgot. The wheels go 6" in diameter. I don't have the beasty right here in front of me. The thing is royally heavy. Recoil is such that I must lay rags on the trail and place a big flat rock or paving stone on that -- otherwise the thing flips over backward (using 120 gr of powder).

 

I can go with anything as long as I can keep the bugs from eating me alive all night!! A mosquito bar is a must it my shelter isn't bug proof. When I was a kid we never had a tent. We camped under a big tarp and slept on army cots with mosquito bars over them. LOL, we don't have bears or mountain lions or mean wolves here but we have mosquitoes that can suck you DRY in a single night.

 

As God as my witness, I had a workmate once tell me that he had enjoyed going canoeing and camping in the Okefenokee swamp. He told of the mosquito swarms that were black clouds. He was no sissy, forward air control and all.

But, "fun"? No, excuse me, no fun in being eaten alive. Friend's brother got malaria in Vietnam -- he didn't have fun.

Mosquitoes = bad .... Infected mosquitoes = very bad .......These are not complex concepts.

 

I guess I was pretty lucky. I was probably bitten several million times over the years of fishing in the swamps during the day and frog gigging in them at night while working in the rice fields from sunrise to sunset Monday through Friday. Even when I was home if you stepped outside the the mosquitos would swarm you. I never caught anything from them.

As much as I hate the little buggers I am actually sort of not bothered by them much where I live now. I think it is mostly a matter of volume. I don't even notice a few bites. They don't even leave a bite mark on me now. If I have someone with me to be mosquito bait they won't hardly ever even bite me. When my fishing buddy and I get done fishing and are cleaning fish I never get bit but my buddy often gets eaten alive.

You have NEVER experienced mosquitos like the ones that come up out of a salt marsh like a cloud at sunset. Those suckers bite feel almost like a wasp sting and just plain hurt!! I used to wear a heavy slicker suit with a hood and would tape up the sleeves, ankles and wear gloves and a mosquito hood when I would be night fishing in the summer along the coast. They were literally so bad that they would sometimes kill young calves and only brahman cattle had skin thick enough to live on those coastal pastures.