Building a Discount Bushcraft Kit Part 4 (Take Down BuckSaw for Ten Dollars)

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okay now this is a piece of wet oak guys all right

I'm halfway through this four inches and it's wet oak what I've got here is I've got basically a takedown buck saw and let's go take this over to another piece of wood real quick and see it in action again

okay another nice heavy-duty piece of oak right there about three inches in diameter afternoon guys Dave Canterbury the Pathfinder school we're going to do today

finish that you saw at the beginning this video was a hand made quickie takedown bucks off okay I'm going to show you how to make this today to keeping your kit this thing was made for less than ten dollars it's a very good item to have your kid it comes in very handy when you don't want to exert the energy of an axe or you're just cutting down quick saplings and things like that these things come in real handy I'm going to show you how to make one of these in about 15 minutes and most of the stuff can be found around the woods in your house to make it with other than a couple of components you'll have to buy at some place like Lowe's and we showed that on video today so let's talk about how this buck saw is made let me take it apart real quick for you and that will enable me to show you easier how it's constructed my son actually made this buck saw today in about ten minutes okay

what I'm doing is I've laid out the components that you need to make this bucks off and really the only thing we bought today was two bolts of wing nuts on them 5/16 bolts with wing nuts and a spare buck saw blade and this was eight dollars and the bolts were about seventy nine cents so nine bucks I've got a piece of that cotton cords that we bought yesterday I've got two pieces of wood right out of my personal space this one's a piece of sycamore this is a piece of bush honeysuckle both of these are would be hand drills that did not work so we're just going to reuse them and then I've got a piece of one by two pine here that we had from scrap laying in the house and I'm sure they're scrap in your house in your garage or any construction site you go to you can find scrap where you could make this just out of stuff in the woods if you wanted to and the only thing that we've really done here is we have drilled a series of different holes in this wood we drilled two holes at the bottom one on each board for our bolt and once those holes are drilled all you need to do is put your bolt through them and you can in essence leave it there and put it in your pack like that to use for later you will then have to drill for more holes in these two pieces of wood and you will drill two of your holes either at the top or a little ways down depending on where you want your rope in this case we have put them about 3/4 of the way up and we put some of the top two just so we'd have adjustment if we wanted it and then you'll just put your rope your piece of rope right through that

and you can also leave that on there when you get when it's all said and done and you can adjust the length of if you need to with a knot like I've done here and I'm just going to leave that on there for right now now the next thing that you have to do is to assemble this you are going to need two more items you need to drill a hole in each one in the center that you can put a stick inside of just like this and then you will need one stick to tighten or twist your cordage

this one is election a little bit too long I just didn't bother cutting it off so what you'll do when you get this into the woods you pull it out of your backpack you will take your blade and put the two bowls on your screws and pull it down at this point it does not have to be bolted down completely tight now I chose to use regular flathead screws on the backside of this because I knew that most people carry slotted tools like multi tools knife blades and things like that so if you really needed to tighten them for something extra ordinarily you could do it with that but you can pretty much get away with doing this by hand now once you've got this configuration you take your Center stick and you place it into your holes that you drilled so now what you have is something looks like this an H basically then you can just adjust your rope over to one side put your twist down stick inside of it just like this and begin to twist it to tighten this up and what this does is it pulls these two basically against this fulcrum and brings them together which in essence spreads the ends out down here where your blade are and makes it tight and you want that good and tight so I twist that thing down till I know it's good and tight and then all you do is put it right behind the stick so that it can't come undone and basically you have a buck saw at that point that you can use one-handed or two-handed just like we demonstrated up again in this video and this bucksaw cost us less than $10 to make it's a good piece of kit the metal room it's going to take up in your pack is the amount of room the bleed is as far as length you could make something like this very easily out of PVC to where you can store the blade inside one of the tubes of your PVC and it will give you better storage that way but if you want to make it add your scraps around your house this is the way you can do that so I want to show you guys that today you take down bucks off very very easy project for you to make doesn't cost a whole lot of money and gives you a good saw option with your discount bushcraft kit one Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school and appreciate you joining me for this quick you segment on how to make a take down bucks all very handy piece of kit very inexpensive and easy to make a very good upgrade to a common man's kit and I would urge you to make one of these for yourself I appreciate you joining me for this video I appreciate your views and I appreciate your support I'm Dave Canterbury with Pathfinder school when I thank you very much