5 Wooden Tools

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school what I'd like to do this morning is continue talking about five wooden tools we alluded a little bit to the five wooden tool theory when we made this Stumpf anvil that I'm sitting on now and it's not quite completed yet I still have to do that but I want to do it on videos that would not be the first tool that would make I'd make other tools ahead of that and I want to discuss those tools as well as the total five tool group that you can make very easily in the woods today on video so stay with me guys okay so let's talk first for a minute about this 5x5 survival series we know that there are five survival priorities we know that there are five C's of survivability we've talked about five metal tools and five maintenance type tools that you can carry in your kit and grouping things in numbers of threes and fives and things like that goes back to ancient times number grouping is a very ancient technique for putting things in a consolidated basket that are easy to remember five is a very historically important number all the way back to biblical times so what I want to do today is I want to talk about five wooden tools and once you're carrying those five metal tools into an area to build a camp or whatever you're going to do you can then use those tools to build five easy wooden tools that give you that much more versatility in what you can do around your camp and while you are out trekking okay what we need to understand about these wooden tools is they can be as simple or as elaborate as we choose to make them depending on how much we're going to use them in the length of time that we're going to be in one location a stump anvil like I'm sitting on now could become a total work bench area for your camp or it could be as simple as a cut-off stuff that you're going to use to sit your tail end on in front of the campfire maybe sit your cup of hot cocoa on processing firewood split down some kindling and things like that but there's a progression that these tools should be made in in my mind we're going to talk about that first so the first tool that I would make in the most simple

tool to make is the rabbit or throwing stick or digging stick and it's a combination tool that's a no-brainer to create we're going to find a piece of hard wood and you're going to want to cut this live most likely that would be about one to one-and-a-half inches in diameter and about axe handle lengths that will be comfortable for you anything bigger and diameter than that is going to be difficult to throw it's also going to be heavy this will be plenty heavy-duty to do the things that you're going to want to do until you can make another tool which we'll talk about in a minute so constructing this tool very simple I cut it off the length I cut a wedge on one side with my axe and I chamfer the other end now what is the multi functionality of a tool like this well think about it for a minute and you'll probably come up with things I'm not even going to say first of all it's a digging stick I don't need a shovel to dig a small latrine hole or a fire hole because I can use this as a digging stick I can also use it for digging stick for something like a coyote well if the need arose I can use this for poking things around in my fire if I want to I can carry this in my belt because it's fairly small pull it out and throw it like a throwing stick or a rabbit stick at game if the opportunity were to arise I can throw it at things that are up in trees to knock fruits and things like that out of trees I can tie a string around it in t-bone fashion and throw it over dead branches up in the trees to pull them down to me and get dry firewood I can use this as a spud to remove bark from a tree during the right season of the year for constructing other tools in camp and that's just a few of the things that you can do with this simple stick so by cutting this piece of wood and making two very unalaq cuts to this thing a simple wedge and chamfering the end like a tent stake you have a very multifunctional tool that you can carry with you and use around camp you can also use this until you make better ones as a wedge if you were to get your knife stuck in a piece of wood and you couldn't get it out you could

drive this in from the top to open it up like a wedge with another batoning device so that you could get your knife out so it's a very very multifunctional tool it's the first tool that I make when I settle down into a camp for any length of time the next tool on our list of five tools that I would make would be a wooden mallet or Maul and if you look at the illustrated encyclopedia of colonial tools and frontier type tools this tool is called a striking maul this one is made from a piece of hard wood and I'm finishing it as I have time with my carving knife but what I've done is I've taken a large piece of hard wood and I have cut a saw kerf around it stood it on end on my anvil in stump or on the ground doesn't really matter if I don't have my handle stump made yet and I have split off with my knife by '''but awning the sides and then began to carve it down to something that is smaller in diameter in the handle but much larger in the head and this crook knife will help me to round this handle out and make it more comfortable and ergonomic for my hand over time but I can hack something out like this which is exactly how I made this with just an ax and a saw and it will work just fine but now I have a large heavy green wood mount or Maul that I can use now for a baton because it's much heavier has much more forward momentum I can use this on the back of my axe to drive notches and things like that like we did in the stump anvil video I can also use this to drive wedges to split wood once I've made wedges I can use it to drive my spud into the side of a tree to remove bark I can use it for pounding tent stakes I can use it to kill an animal that's in a trap all of those functionalities can be done with this wooden mallet or Maul okay so the next tool next simple wooden tool that I'm going to make in progression is going to be a very simple staff again I can make this as elaborate as I need to or as simple as I need to the key to this is that it's made out of a nice green hardwood so it's not going to snap if I need to use it for a lever that it is quite a bit longer than I am tall so that's above my eyes when I'm walking because I may choose to make this a spear point I may need it to ward off predators or things like that in my camp later I may choose to make this into some type of a fishing or frogging gig possibly from the smaller diameter end so that I can use it then to hunt and fish with I may also choose to just split it open and put a dividing stick in there and lash it into a fork so that I can then use it to pin animals down with on the trapline and things of that nature it can be used as a tent post it can be used for water crossings as a third leg it can be used to move debris on the trail where you're walking in case you're worried about snakes and things like that to knock spider webs out of the way as you're walking down a trail that you don't have to walk through them if it has a fork on one end it can be used as a steadying device for your rifle your shotgun depending on what you're carrying for hunting in the woods and again it can also be used to kill game at distance very easily so it's a very multifunctional item it can be used around camp as one of the legs of a tripod if needs to be again like I set a pole for your tent or your tarp it could be used as a cross member between two trees to hang camp items off of or dry your blanket on it has lots and lots of functions and it's very very easy to make

I can't reach up into trees to knock down dead wood and things like that to possibly

get out a bird nest that I want to collect as tender material or to scrape pine sap off of a wound that's way above my head in a pine tree so the last tool and our five wooden tools is a wedge and again we had a wedge on the front of our original tool the throwing stick a router stick but it's barely long to be used as a wedge this one is about 10 inches long 8 inches long and you need four or five of these you can make them different angles as far as the wedge itself you could make some of them with only wedges on one side and some on both you want to chamfer the top you want them made out of hard green wood and you can use these for lots and lots of things from helping you to separate the kerf to fell a tree to free up a knife or an axe is stuck in a piece of wood that you're splitting out for firewood you can use this to split a long stave down if you're making dimensional lumber or a bow stave you can use this as a progressive spudding device to remove bark from a tree there are again probably a hundred uses for this all the way up to things as elaborate as carving a simple block plane body putting some type of a chisel in there and driving this wedge in to use it as a block plane so there's lots and lots of things that you can do with wedges wedges are one of the five simple machines but this wedge is also one of the five most versatile tools that you can make it would very easily for the long term so we've taken a look at five simple tools that are very easy to manufacture that are all multifunctional and will allow you to create other things and that's what's important in bushcraft and wood craft is being able to take five simple metal tools create a few other tools off of the landscape and then be able to create anything that you need beyond that from the landscape itself and I think that this progression in this 5x5 series will help you to do that I appreciate you joining me for this video I thank you for everything you do for our school for our family for our business for our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back to another video soon as I can't thanks guys