Bushcraft Campsite Work (Part 1)

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Shaine and I work on the woodland bushcraft camp, a bit of wildcamp always does 1 good, we hang out mostly hahaha but log benches and such are on the agenda.

Tags: bushcraft,woodcraft,camp,campsite,fire,firepit,wikiup,survival,primitive,technology,gear,kit,canvas,rucksack,knife,ltwk,tea,coffee,snow,winter,shelter

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let's go guys Mitch need a survival heading into camp I haven't been at this camp and oh I don't know several months so it's gonna be interesting what we find that's my buddy Shane back there yeah just walking through a forest on a path just saw a rabbit skeet passed us scamp it over there somewhere

how you guys doing today hope you getting out in the woods having a good time enjoying yourself spend like zero degrees or so last couple days nice and brisk alright guys now we're in can't

it's usually I put my parachute in that gap right there it's a great living in spot as a wiki go check it out I just move the door out of the way someone's been in here this original apple applesauce pouch tobacco is that chewing tobacco something somebody's trashes in here bro yeah it's seen better days you know she's still standing man yeah 10 months dude I've been almost a year and I haven't put any debris on it haven't done anything it's missing some stuff in the rafters as expected it settles over is it really rotted or anything still pretty good man a lot of Birchy used I see yeah some pine wow that's a lot of man yeah 40 50 but actually the uprights if you see they're not touching so I put latticework in between them all hmm and that greatly reduces the amount to hold back the debris cuz a lot of times and survival books in bushcraft books I see that the saplings are touching all the way around that creates a really heavy structure which is dangerous but it also forces like 10 times more saplings to be used you know so I actually did this in a very you know economic way that was better for the forest by doing latticework I have big gaps in between right so I do about 10 inches in between each one if not then it's literally like they're touching imagine how many more saplings yeah but yeah there's still a lot of them here you can price like two or three people in here but yeah you could definitely sleep three people in here comfortably there's a bed on that side there's a bed where we are is where I as you sleep my bed right here and then a third person could sleep in front of the door that way lengthwise for sure if you had to so I would still there that's cool it's one after ten months man so good burning material to it charred up I think last time I was here and my yeah I did I line the whole bottom the next fire pit with rocks yeah I just dug inside the thickness of rocks and I cobblestoned it I just lined the whole bottom with these small rocks that are about fist sized so the fire was sitting on rock and then I made a single fire on it that day just to kind of settle it in and make it permanent at the embers falling into it get the charcoal burned into those stones and I left it so next time I sleeping it's gonna be even hotter rocks are the other key yeah yeah anyway since the wiki still here pretty cool

standing strong yeah good still sleep in here right now easy how's the smoke exhaust perfect yeah normally I put the the debris all the way to the top as high as I can get it the only place it isn't is a very very very peak and smoke finds a way out on that side it's a eighty percent covered I'd say and then over here behind me public gets to maybe only halfway so that side facing the field so it gets battered one of the more elements so I was hanging out a camp checking it out get some work to do today we have a nice level rendezvous coming up soon in March so we got about a month or so so I mean Shana here we're gonna work on some I don't know some projects maybe work on the camp work on the seating of the living room we have a couple log benches out there but probably going to make a few more

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did you say you made the sheet - my first lecture are you kidding me well this night doesn't have any any shoulders as well as or anything says a hard dog Martha grab - this is a great sheet man you know sandy made a sheath making video have you seen that might even be two parts dude it's like the Bible it's the Bible all the products he uses in what stage you watch him do it you watch him die the leather you know put the waterproofing on the inside of it so it doesn't stain the scale at all cut it everything transcribing start to end how he makes his sheets and you know save his sheets on top notch he teaches you how he makes his sheets on his channel not on the Jack watch let's check it out not that you really need any instruction on it but if you're looking to find more instruction on it check out Sandy's videos yep stand up to the camera hello guys Shanna's show me some of those trinkets and such not even the Sun you can't see anything that's alright it's secret just a Genesis yeah a 3/32 which is kind of what sold me on that night yep LT right man it's kind of a what's this like a burlap bag handle or something yeah it's made by shade tree they make um coffee bag it's call coffee bag I'll give you guys a look this is actually too nice not too I like a look at ya it's like they took them yeah yeah it's it's like they took a burlap bag the old coffee bags or potato bags and they compressed it in epoxy and made a hand a lot of it that's cool yeah I kind of like how people can take pine needles pinecones I mean and make make the scales out of the knives and stuff nice leather work man you did a good job pretty sweet my terrible the first whack at a Madhu yeah took me a long time hold the spark but not super good I find that our mushrooms around here don't you know I've tried for years to make stuff that I was happy with Wow yeah it took 24 hours of boiling that oh my goodness they make hats out of it which blows my mind

Oh Emma do that's good man [Applause]

so still in the box man back to refresh that's still using my magenta one think I might've missed you strike in the Emma do man is that what you did with one steel I didn't hear no no you know I do and that one shooting foul word yeah yep let's say I didn't I don't think I heard the one steel just keep these guys Park so yeah I'll second um make two more benches on here one here maybe change the angle go this way instead yeah so that rock is like behind a bench in the 45 angles will be what's open how you walk in except rotate the whole thing I want to get that done to make two more benches I think I have some logs at the old camp still yeah so I think if we knock them out of the head of the frost and carry him over exactly and then there's a couple large log rounds you know and I'll just I'll buck up some still there do you want to knock off just do the benches while cooking tripod yeah I do somewhere I know I have my guide tripod down on my teaching camp yeah a little knitathon it's like 15-foot tall guide like legit dude you know hello I'm not I don't think I'm gonna carry it all in oh I don't know

we're gonna say that you gonna help me move it no I think it is it is it metal oh no it's it's all sapling me it's all me oh we're done yeah it's like a legit guy tripod yeah either we can have like the cross for buckets hanging on at the time like the classic Tim Smith like epic you know yeah my buddy Derek taught me how to make them and I'm like yeah I need one of those in my teaching camp yeah it seems kind of crazy talk so I had a little down and dirty one here somewhere not had it set up right there so maybe the robber that person was I'd show up

bandits

literally starting a fire on ice yeah I was like should I try to get rid of this so you know what I'm just gonna put a face down I saw that yeah I saw that Larry

yeah I saw one behind your camp that looks sucks suspect I'm looking at that one right there that's like 20 feet 15 20 feet looks like those little tiny trees stopped it

oh yeah nice yeah yeah primo stuff man take it out of a pond and start a fire with it right away bring it out a couple times

totally exactly

underwater you take it out shake it off may have thrown that fire dog in a little too early so sniffing water he that's going though pretty some good charred burn though is that right there that was laying there kind of charred up exactly because it was freezing last time so wheezing a bunch of broke is that a craft line the it's like the 5-11 craft line exactly it's a good nine Dalal nice my pocketknife yeah Jesus okay yeah make this make make some stuff as a technical term stuff yes of stuff folks some pine stuff guys gonna make some stuff see some stuff via fire kind of seem like it's kind of all we do when we go in the woods just keep making stuff right spoons coaxes fires log benches wickiups make it stuff mama wants to make stuff and you go home to you stuff totally

snow

you don't must use that rock for a leg up Alan yeah maybe if we put the bench back and use lay lay something across [Applause]

good quality stuff it's not dry rot at all

yes this is my beater night yeah it's good for 511 yeah I hardly ever sharpen it I cut through cardboard boxes with it just might be tonight man okay Boyd I use it to put templates spoons yeah so after I draw him out in the shipping boxes I carve out car to the car where pockets with it and stuff you know good material then every maybe like once a month I'll put a fresh edge on it maybe sometimes every other month very problematic yeah yeah whatever no big deal music yeah dude hard use it like five to cut through something that I would never use my knife on I use that that's that knife you know like you do that will you're right that's all right yeah my beater all the way back it's my pocket knife exactly roll it back redress it put an edge I think everyone should have I think everyone should have a beater knife I don't think anyone should have you know it's an absolute beater a knife that like you're not you don't baby it you're not scared of it you know you know you don't just look at it at home and polish it up you know we have polish nice too you know I got a lot of pretty nice but everyone needs to have a good beater and a nine dollar Mora for me fits the bill nice poco design and it's a nine bucks man

carbon steel how do you go wrong but a nine dollar poco carbon steel nine dollars to go wrong by not buying it yeah nine bucks guys don't talk about gear Sabo gear gets fun

all right you guys like here what do I have with me today off this is a backpack on the ground this is my oldest dream here we go that's my oldest dream Gambas backpack a woman hand makes these in Maine there it is right there epic just like elephant skin canvas super thick actually designed by my buddy Derek at the woodsman school and guide service he's a Maine Guide awesome bag LT right knife box MIT's military myths amazing got a bunch of stuff in here I can go through all my rig but world war ii ii tool a trenching shovel that folds up with the weather sheet never final my god anymore you might want to check out this military leather sheath man i'll show it to you in a minute you want to see it it's pretty cool anyway so there's my rock I have what I think is the best axe made so far that I found designed by mr. Raymond Mears moves in the UK famous bushcrafter called the wilderness ass thick pole heavy axe 24 inches has his logo of his store you can only buy it from him

well Grandpa's box makes it my buck saw inside here this is a gun sock you know one of my shotguns when I first bought this and then I just I bought another soft my gun later this is a gun sock so it helps protect it keep moisture away things like that but this is my Adirondack no I saw Adirondack this is Adventure sworn excuse me Adventure sworn flux-off show it to you sometime I'll take it out I'll be using it today anyways there's lots of little secret goodies in there yep I don't know I don't know I don't know anything about it but they're not gonna get to look at it today well so what are you running man

a little dunno canvass Rock we got new this is a Norwegian Telemark Rock they've been called the Swedish mountain rock I'm not sure bunch of other companies their countries rather have used it but basically it's it's an ex-military rock canvas two pouches on the side slips between the pouches I think they were meant to carry skis but I use it for my Aksum I saw a little tiny zip in the gigantic lid that kind of poses a problem sometimes steel frame leather and metal everything very we pack Telemark Telemark rock Norwegian Telemark rock you ever see that episode the heroes of Telemark that Ray did no it's actually a series he did he did several shows of his documentary on bushcraft the here was a Telemark look it up it's incredible even has he falls along with the military they have guys go to the same Hut that those guys stated and eat moss ray was with them eating all the moss and all that stuff those guys ate and they ate st. just to see what it was like and they recreated you know what they day they skied that like the I think the same distance everything just to see what it took to do is it's incredible dude you go check it out it gets like oh maybe a three-part series like three hours yeah it's pretty amazing

here was a Telemark ya know it's an awesome pack though but that's yeah that's a kind of the name for it couple different packs like you know the story of the Telemark no oh really so so the Germans had this like Base in the middle of mountains and they were trying to build hydrogen bomb up there circa they had heavy water and everything so the heroes of Telemark were guys that got dropped off like I think by plane and just parachuted like into the wilderness way above dude just like Arctic Circle stuff and literally like had almost nothing for gear and they just I think one guy might have phony ice they didn't in the documentary on purpose he jumped in the ice and everything but um epic dude like they skied crazy miles they had to find this this base and then go in and try to disrupt it and or destroy it

destroy the heavy water one way to come they made it out Jesus super secret squirrel you know no operation man yeah watch documentaries epic yeah

for sure it's incredible what those men pulled off they were they changed the war because there's a German went out Germany Hitler would have had hydrogen bomb yeah which would have changed everything

no that's also might be speaking German today yeah you know eating sauerkraut yeah cool nice Rock I like that looks good it's a nice looking bag like that metal rather than metal uh no flame the back yeah yeah what I like about it is someone like clearly put their initials on here yeah and they actually from what I understand this I was like man did they break it and like fix this but it's actually because this this pack was so heavy that you'd have to put one arm on unclip this and then grab this throw it over your shoulder and clip it on I wonder what they carried inside of it I mean based on what you just told me about that mission probably it's on ammo right again these were for skis and I think the only difference between this one and I think it's called the Swedish Mountain Swedish Mountain pack or I forget is that the this kind of lighter coloured leather was a lot darker and that's how you know it's Norwegian doesn't most a Swedish or whatever the other yeah they actually made a model pack after this too by a company called Voigt I think it's it's pronounced they make a bigger pack that has you know the lashing on the side to tighten it up and then they make a smaller effect that's just like this sure heavy pack but it's durable my oldest dream has that it has me yeah the lacing is on the side yeah so I can I can compress it if I want I can bring both of these together so it literally takes off like five inches of width out of that that's a huge feature you're essentially changing I mean you bring in you know if you have a cube backpack and you're carrying just a little bit of gear like your center of gravity is way far out from your back where you want it to be you know if you're carrying just a little bit of gear you cinch that down that brings center of gravity closer to your back so yeah you know what turns it into a daypack

yeah exactly it really does totally yeah that's some kind of rugged yeah Oh any put hands on the side - not like the military rocks like them with the marine rocks things like that how the how they have what the Molly ropes have handles on each side yeah you know the throne from in our days well he's a military dude he didn't act like 22 years of surgery whatever it is yeah and uh I mean he's he's a big deal in military anyway so uh Mindy into that but yeah so he designed that into his like old-school canvas bag the two handles cuz it's just something that he I'm assuming found really you spend ingrained in him yeah he's just like I need that handle of any of those handles there you know I may have to get inside of the tank you guys noticed when Derek went to Afghanistan do when that when that guy went again he actually are you there they saw you that's who he actually brought a canvas rock with him to Afghanistan there's a picture on his Facebook from like five years ago when he was in Afghanistan with a canvas rock on in the mountains of Afghanistan ceases like you know with his rifle or whatever he had but that dude brought it was a frost River woodsman pack so just he brought that to war dude he brought two wars yeah I think I saw that picture yeah one picture of him just like in his military uniform in the middle of like Afghanistan Mountain

like who does that Derrick Harriott Frieza Frost River back the war I love it

speaking of war this wiki has been through war I think but I could still sleep in it tonight I wanted there's really only effects like yeah I mean it's good and engineering because you can kind of predict snowdrifts where you know if you know prevailing winds you can understand how snow is gonna compile on a roof but for like airplanes it's good because when you're coming towards the mountain if you fly towards the leeward side of the mountain meaning the wind's coming towards you a lot of turbulence that creates I don't burn more fuel because you need that you need more fuel to get to you know that's important to you that you're gonna you have it's such a huge downdraft that's just pulling you down yeah my my uncle retired works for NASA he told me that um it's awesome that like it was a huge percent like 80 percent of the personal planes that crash every year all right because people run out of fuel yeah the massive amount because they're not these are not professionals you know like him buddies were who are doing space missions you know you need to know fuel right and so he said all these guys you know they they don't realize all the variables that go with it so like when you take a turn like your plane falls oh it takes more fuel to keep yourself up every time you can't get turned you burn fuel every time you go up again explaining it to me yeah and I'm really blue I'm well I mean for every you need I think you need you need like 66% more thrust to state level through a thirty degree turn interesting so the higher the angle of your turn the more right and so and so we can be like yeah I think maybe about and you know you just rev it up with rpms at a certain number he would be able to calculate that at his desk before he leaves to know exactly how much in liquid he's actually burning at that moment wait to write with every exactly that and now that weight changes throughout the whole it's like a differential you imagine be able to compute that and he's like oh yeah that's what

what do you mean that's like not only complicated differential equation that explains the weight of a plane that changes as it goes and went I'm just crazy talk and you're gonna need a ton of fuel to take off or a ton of lifts to take off cuz you got a whole Plane full of fuel

takes more fuel for that I mean that speed as you're losing you're gonna you got to let yeah that's great and they can actually you know he can take those numbers to know what that get real information out of that just before easy talk dude blows my mind like he's both he's blowing my mind a few times talking to him another time was uh he explained to me that down at the well what did he call it he gave it like an acronym or something Jet Propulsion Laboratory down down and whoever it is I'm sure you NASA like famous guys who work there I'm out of my league when I talk to talk to my uncle but anyways um he told me that one of the scientists there had made a experiment he wanted to prove a point that light has mass I was like what are you talking about I'm like well I mean I kind of know a little bit what you mean I guess because I've taken mirrors and I've reflected light off my window I was on the other side of my house one day and I wanted to lay on my my warm carpet and listen to records who's that Pink Floyd so I took like four mirrors and I bent a full Sun from a window I bent it I whatever ricocheted it reflected from that room to my kitchen and then from there to the room instead of the house and then behind me I had it bending down and so I had like the picture of the window I could see birds flying by I swear it was like the window but it was in another room somewhere else and I just laid on there after a minute of it warming up it was really cool right except the kept on moving and all the variables every 15 minutes at the moon every single mirror Leland its socked there because the Sun keeps moving right it was cool for like five minutes at a time you know I'm like I'm a genius all the sucks how much it is this sucks right anyways but um he was telling me yeah I told him that and he was like that's clever

so he was telling me that they wanted to prove that like light can move things has mass which I didn't possible maybe yeah I didn't think it was possible they said the way that they proved it was is that inside of a inside of a vacuumed container on the desk so there's no air molecules right so I can get in business it's a vacuum there's no air molecules right and inside of it was like a top inside and it was painted black on one side and white on the other and alternated on the fins and when you put in the Sun it would spin because the sun rays would hit the black and push it and the white would reflect it wouldn't want to absorb and so it moved and I was like dude that would really move he's like laughs of course all by itself a perpetual machine based off the Sun you know motion I was like that's crazy and he was like well think about our shuttles see all those black squares on them all those rectangles and different patterns and that we have on there that's not for looks it's for staring dude mind below I'm like you paint your shuttles for staring he's like yeah he's like oh that's like 40 year old technology it's not a big deal dude my brain like exploded how about a piece of metal floating above my head right now 10,000 feet right seriously I'm like dude you paint your shuttles was theory and it was like commonplace that's like you know day one they learned that he's like Jim yeah yes you wouldn't believe the stuff I could tell you I'm like no I can't look all the crap dude oh you might have seen that I had a gun there next to my pack it's just the BB gun because we're getting ready for lady survival wrong you go coming up I want to set up a BB gun shooting range a BB gun lane and next to it will be one four arrows archery we're gonna set up a full bunch of cans it seems like 1992 all over again like when I was a kid shooting my BB gun yeah out of my dad's you know my my dad's house out of the window facing the backyard I had an elaborate setup because my dad had an acre of land and so I would shoot across the acre you know and I would have at the tree line hanging from branches and going across I mean III would have like two dozen 1824 whatever was whole bunch of cans I also had a box my old Emerson TV box that I covered in plastic completely in duct taped it and I put a target on there that had like all the the grids and everything so you could like like as if your scoring was a competition yeah it's for competition it's for BB gun or for rifle for 22 when I was a boy scout I went to camp Iago and we're all shooting twenty-twos competitions and all that and they let's take as many as we took like 30 of those pages home yeah I used up my whole childhood for my BB gun and so I used the sight in my iron sights deciding my scopes and all that from my window you know and I used to have that set up all winter doesn't matter because it's all waterproof I took a piece of sheet metal and it goes from like a DVD player the top of something if I remember right and I'm just laid in the back put a bunch of towels in front of it hold it up and if they got through the towels my mom wasn't too happy that I hit the metal and fall down and then you know every whatever was three weeks a month whatever I go out there I tipped the box and I cut a little hole in the corner and they all just come out I'm shaking you nut and I just bring my pocket and get all my bb's back and you know it was incredible so anyways we might be able to do that as well so I'm hoping we can we can do that yeah do you ever see those old school actually when I was in the Adirondacks two years ago in the summer I went we stopped in town and we were going to one of these like yard like yard sales like an estate sale yeah and state my girlfriend's brother picked up it looked like it was from the 50s it was painting on it like cowboys and industries guys still here hi oh my god you still have this metal box had like cowboys and Indians on it in a hat it was a plinking box for BB guns okay and it had four targets and you would shoot all four of the targets down and they would clip in to this rail and you would shoot the middle one and it would let it back up oh my god yep and it was angled down so I kept all your babies and everything it stopped everything from bouncing around well I'm just like the brightest era still at the time but you could tell them they sold it was like the brightest blue and yellow and have like 1950s like cowboy on it and stuff it was a cool somebody's on Instagram right now searching as they watch this video oh yeah yeah absolutely yeah I'm gonna restore it refinish it well his accustomed match the paint he could practice shooting for the hunting season he would just use a BB gun and just get his eyes used to focusing on your essay

that's cool yeah anyway so saying I just shoot my bedroom right out the bedroom window

you know in my bedroom nice like from the other side of it you know yeah um Isis you Nintendo boxes which I'm not too happy about now like actually you know I still have one I still have my Castlevania three NES box and it's still in my collection and it's just littered with holes you know just like Trevor Belmont space is gone and it's all belong in the back it's pretty rough I just shoot my Nintendo boxes and I don't all sorts of stuff tapes old tapes I didn't like anymore as to shoot those cuz they like dominoes put a four in a row Nick one they all fall stupid kid game stuff but any of those cassettes that you had to like stick your finger in every wine those are gone exactly that one goes to the rage Oh what you want me to rewind before I return forget about it I still the block eh s gun dude I literally think your retirement oh yeah it does but uh I still have a VHS from Blockbuster you know they're out of business now has the sticker on it Turkey boys movie no yeah my buddy Charlie rented it and then they went out of business so he kept it you gave it to music if coz we used to watch it all and if they ever catched it on the glacis with interests Oh decades later yeah it's like so many firstborn cars what was that company red box or whatever they screwed everybody over I see the Hollywood video was talking on Park Ave yeah they had great movies before you could actually go to a red box and you had to like either call or like go online and you pick out five DVDs they send you five DVDs oh yeah house Netflix used to do that they still marry you I I have some Netflix videos

dude I have uh they came this little thin plastic containers right I still have the Robin Hood with also bra make a list and then when you get five you send three back and you get the next toy yeah I still have couple like Robin Hood and stuff but I never sent back yeah and you know cost us like $35 in fees and whatever else and I'm like that's about the cost of a DVD except I don't have the artwork or the case or anything else okay that's a bad deal I still have it you know it's still in my collection Robinson that's a great movie give it to that one Russell Crowe Kevin Costner read now of course Kevin cough that's the classic one but yeah I was I was really bummed out cuz that that one with Russell Crowe was really good and apparently it only made like it didn't make that much money yeah made like 20 million dollars or something so they were like you know they wanted hundreds of million or something so it wasn't a trilogy I guess and it was cut it off yeah dude epic I was so pumped that they were referring it's like Waterworld man I loved Waterworld biggest flop of all time one of the biggest watts of all time it just blows my mind that they still made money but not enough yeah dude he must cost 110 million dollars to make we made a hundred million yeah we all we only cleared thirty million that's not enough I'm like dude you're making Robin Hood have some respect it's if I had the money I would do it just to make it look right to make the movie I wouldn't do it for the money oh I only make twenty million I'm gonna make another one like Junior you're really gyrating Robin Hood he's like the greatest bushcrafter in the mythical history hey man era go on man you know just splitting arrows seriously but supposedly it's not mythical right Robin Hood was a real dude and England you can even still go to his grave and I really know that oh yeah there's a lot of guys coming yeah what what's the game plan how many people are coming I'm surprised that many people are at down to do it winter camp oh yeah I got a list 1250 a lot yeah that's a lot of people hope for all the suits out this time you do we're trying to get in the sleep out every night you did once at Gary's I think and he did chair oh did he yeah oh that's right yeah I was with a moment it was raining did he actually sleep or or did he have to go for his no he slept over Oh waiting that one time with his dog yeah that was the first time the second time he slept over cuz we kind of that was when it was pouring minutes later huge gust of wind came to rip 30 by 50 foot tart and you were just gone just disappeared in the embers like 20 minutes later really remember I was like I just thought you disappeared we're carving we've got knives just close to us yeah and there's just windy and raining in that news the next day probably don't know I had like [Music]

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