Overnight Camp, Natural Shelter -Primitive Meat Smoker Build, Drying Salmon, Beef Update on Tripper

Look, it's the Baird Brothers, they're at my fort. Oh hey, we heard that there was a fort back here. So we wanted to go check it out and see what it was all about. Right, yeah, I just heard that there's some Baird Brothers in the area. It's pretty comfy. Just your friendly neighbourhood Baird Brothers. Alright, so we've got Jim, we've got Tad, and what are we going to do today, boys? Well, I think that the plan is we are going to preserve some meat. We're going to smoke a full salmon, we've got to clean it out. a big hunk of red meat too and we're gonna build a smoker we're basically a smoker over the fire to preserve it and we're gonna sleep out for one night and maybe build a shelter tarp shell or something like that depends on what kind of materials we have around and preserve some food and have a good night hopefully should be a good trip yeah yeah I'm looking forward to it I think what I want to do is when we're smoking the meat is do a little hot smoke that's It's just delicious to eat right away and smoke some overnight for preservation and hopefully get into that shelter. That's gonna be pretty good, but we'll see what we find. I got a full salmon, like just a beauty fish. So it should be, it's gonna be worth it. We're gonna stuff our faces. These guys were a bit north of here. They're coming back through. They said, you wanna get together? I have fish. I said, all right. So we came out to the fort. It's gonna be a good night. We'll cut down a few trees. We're gonna put the smoker right in here. We're gonna try to get some bark. Yep. Try to peel some bark off to line the smoker with. We'll get some bowls on there as well. And get some meat. So Jim's injured his hand pretty horribly on a trip we had to evacuate recently. And so he's going to be tending the kitchen and me and Joe are going to be doing the man's work. I chopped my hand nearly off with an ax, guys. That's a miracle I'm out here and not crying in bed. We might be able to split down it. If you want to use wood as something, we can split something down and use wood as like a plate too. Build like a table, like two logs side by side. That'd be cool. That's a decent fish, eh? Is that for you, buddy? Well, I wouldn't mind a piece, no. I wish I pulled in one of those steelhead. The ones I saw were bigger than that. It would have been perfect, eh? Because it would have tied in so well. Right. That's a hunk of meat. Careful not to hammer that. Here's the picture thing I'm talking about. That's a stripper. Yeah. I think the one right here, Jim had it. Yeah. Should I cut it down? Cut her down. Oh, yeah. There's a ton of hardwood back there. Oh, yeah. There's a ton of hardwood back there. Oh, yeah. There's a ton of hardwood back there. Oh, yeah. I think one right here, Joe had it, yeah. Cut her down. Oh, yeah, there's a ton of hardwood back. I completely forgot. There should be action there. Cutting it so that I don't go through the skin. I cut it all at an angle. Do they add all the dirt, too? Yeah, well, it's just pine needles. It's like, you know, seasoning. Look at that beauty. And what kind of sand did you say that was, Joe? This is actually Atlantic. So I'm basically going to hang this on the smoker just like that long, and i'm going to try to do the uh red meat in the same kind of way and that'll free up more space on the rack if you have longer pieces because it dangles if you have little pieces you run out of space pretty quick and the slits in it is to allow the smoke to come in yeah so you want to make you want to make the slits so that the smoke you know makes contact with more of the area and the heat it's all it's almost more just the slow heat than than it is the smoke right you know um and a lot ways right so you don't a lot of people think you need to make a really smoky fire you actually don't you want to make a small fire with hardwood but it can be bone dry it doesn't have to be wet because or else i mean it's going to work either way but it might taste too smoky so i'll show you how i'm going to do this all right so i'm just going to make a thin slice right along the top nice and thin fillet knife great thing to use and then right to the edge and then flip it like that right you got some curtains yeah meat Minnesota meat curtains that was on their men's league hockey team name all right so these two actually I didn't really do these properly I'll show you again here so that sometimes you're gonna have to run into sinew and you're gonna have to cut the piece short but you got to make sure it's thin or else the meats gonna spoil Christopher McCandless style yeah that's exactly that's what that was his downfall yeah and then I'm gonna cut try to cut it close to the edge or it's still got to be strong there Jim and I were just exclaiming that it's mostly mosquitoes here not too many black flies which is a plus and handle that I'm sporting my RevolutionRace pants today the guys hooked me up with tons of gear I highly suggest to check them out I'll put the link in the description so like Fall Raven but better look look bug screen on my vents where's the bug screen on your vents Fall Raven you doing okay Tripper a little warm get you some water big guy There Tripper it's coming on quite nicely dude It looks just heavenly I kind of You know what I'll eat it everybody good dog here There's some water buddy need one more log and we're good think Ted's got some spruce roots cooking up Mission for paddling for a while then back up buddy. Okay It's okay. It's just Ted. It's just Ted It's Ted His name's Ted Ted Bear He won season four of Alone with the other Tripper stop Holy smokes, buddy You've been here Tripper they've been here for hours, so he wasn't barking at you when you pulled out the meat Whip up this tripod I'm just gonna tie a couple double double overhand knots a couple wraps a couple fraps It doesn't need to support anything structurally We're just smoking some meats We have the meats. I'm going to smoke them Flashing, Jeff. Thank you. Have you ever built a straight, like a standard teepee before? Like on a small scale, yeah, just messing around. But I've built like a couple of brush teepees to camp in and stuff, mostly in the wintertime. Kind of like a wiki up? Yeah, exactly, a wikiup, 100%. Cool. Yeah, they're fun. A lot of head space in the middle, but that's where the fire goes. Yeah, and there's something to be said about a conical shelter, like a round shelter. It always feels nice. I guess that's kind of a good point, eh? Because everybody's kind of got their own space. Everybody can see each other sort of thing. Right, you're always... And then you all have a... Communal. You're all by the fire, eh? Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, it's nice. They're fine. I actually wanted to do that with Tripper this spring, but maybe we'll do it this fall and rest up a bit. I can't believe how much weight he lost. I know. You know what I thought? I'm like, oh, he must be much younger than I remember. No, he freaking got so sick from that medicine, and that was it. I noticed, like, it took like a week for it to happen, too. and then wouldn't eat, it was bad. I told Emeril that, I was like, man, he might go. I thought that's how bad it was, but. All right, yeah, it was rough. I saw that, I saw your thumbnail, I'm like, ah, she's probably all right. Mm-hmm, of course, yeah, he hurt his paw or whatever. Yeah, I guess you just had your fingers crossed, eh? Well, yeah, and then, exactly, and then, like, it's like, I gotta let people know, too, why he's not gonna be in the videos and stuff, but. All right, this should be good. Hugs for everybody? Yeah, I mean, here after the application. Yeah, thank you. So we'll put this up right over top of that basically, huh? Want to get a wider shot of this? Yep, yep. I mean, I've done one of these. I've just left it in the woods and gone back and just. Really? The other thing you could have done is lashed it. This is going to be better. Just let the top stick out. But this is going to give us like way more. Yeah, bro. That doesn't look good. Yes, yeah. Taking them down. You know, if they're like eight feet long, that'd be great. yeah ideally but we could probably get away with like five or six because remember we could cover we could cover the top too a bit we don't want too big of a hole of course but you don't want too tight of a hole either right yeah we can use spruce boughs and everything it doesn't even have to be so before i use like a beaver uh wood so so like uh birch and probably like you know aspen and stuff like that from the dam so it was damp Jim jim's got that fish clean i've got the tripod I built heads up getting some spruce roots to lash everything together still I believe Trippers digging, but here's a really old maple and I can get some nice pieces of wood off it and pretty dry All these in here to starting it nice and bone bone dry stuff You know it's super cool to have all these resources right around hardwood from conifers birch fun stuff. What are you doing? It's counting out the steps So long if you get the birch one comment that is Ted's motto safety last It's starting to go bad and the bark starts getting a bit brittle. Oh, you're doing a good job of it regardless Oh, I suppose if we have enough we could sleep under it As much as I'd like to stay there and get that footage for you guys. I have not seen Tripper in 20 minutes and That's probably the longest I've ever gone without seeing him he's glued to me always so I gotta go see where he is Tripper what are you doing where were you always knows his nose is full of mosquitoes okay so an update for Tripper he oh we left him here with the food oh it doesn't look like he ate any the the medicine he got on to help his paw made him severely ill we think we almost lost him and he wasn't eating or drinking for days he lost a ton of weight he's doing okay now but he can't be on that med cam so we'll see how uh we'll see how it goes with his paw on his leg my Tripper up in there no like you see that the lines yeah right here this yes that is the bore yeah 100 and it's down there too everywhere it was like that it was hard yeah it was dry and dead and the bark splits that's right that's why i was half dead yeah yeah because normally like from when Windsor that the whole all the wood is that yeah like on top of each other But like even to see it like this looks it's not this summer at most right. Yeah, well, they're getting up here. That's true This is actually in the city The parks people are going around and cutting them all down no matter what to just stop help stop the spreads You know so in Windsor they did that probably like ten years ago, and they cut down oak and everything Yeah, I know. I don't know if they're inexperienced, or they just try to get rid of everything, but that's nice though eh yeah yeah, so I just put it so it is like I think what's happening here this pitting isn't that's not the bore no but it's the tree dying and it's kind of losing moisture or something because i found the ones that were dying were like this and the bark was harder and more brittle you know so that's what i noticed where otherwise it's kind of just smoother like there's a bit of that but not really so i just threw it in some water over here make it more flexible nice and uh yeah you see there that's where the bore is so it's just dry yeah yeah there's another one up there this one I don't know what happened I just blew it but for a smoker that's great I mean for a roof not so much dude it's solid that's really you just layer it for a roof too yeah we hit this fire lit for a couple reasons just to start it going and get the bugs away so got some birch bark some twigs you know a bit later oh the wind the wind prevail this is pretty much where we wanted a pretty good dead nut center I'd say dead middle of the teepee. I guess when you're used to lighting a fire with ferro rods it's pretty easy to do with a lighter. Oh the old lighter man, she'll never let you down. Leave the seasoning on. The balsam fir seasoning. We need a couple lingonberries to go with it. Lingonberries. Old school Ray Mears fans will understand that one. Lingonberries. Lingonberries. Delicious. Dead. You good? That wasn't a yes. This will actually just start the process too yeah without any kind of covering on it for sure well yeah definitely get the flies off and keep them off yep but even in the camera here I can see the smoke come up and definitely covering those like I mean this is how they just make jerky too is they just open air yeah like and so that basically it's just sun-drying but the smoke's just getting rid of the flies and give it a little flavor that's right yep yeah man smoke is a decent flavor for sure. I was mean to that guy. It's only so much a man can take. Timber. We need, I guess Jim can't, but to try to rip, because it's pinched, I might have to cut it under there. Okay. But if not, we might be able to just rip it out. Shimmy it out? Yeah, probably not, but yeah. Well, now that Ted's done all the easy work, I'll come over here and do just joking this is obviously lots of work that ted's done down here well jim and i are up there stoking the fire chatting away pleasing sound yeah there's some little pokies eh oh my god what is he doing he's digging a hole in the mud he's sitting just like deep in that mud good boy joe pull back on it kind of just rock the tree with your foot um we can pull it out this way just straight out yeah because the ground's mushy under it and And we managed to do that before. I thought I was a little muddy, Tripper. Hey Tripper, hey Tripper, hey Tripper. He's ignoring me. What's he doing? Trying to get away from the bugs? I think he might be cooling down. Yeah, trying to get away from the bugs. Pretty buggy, this is a pretty buggy, right? This is the buggiest fin so far. It's a little moist in here, yeah? The bugs like to moist. What about like this? Moist speaking. If I can, uh. Moistly speaking, moisty. What if I can go like this? You might have to saw it. You might have to saw it. But yeah, saw it apart. One sec. Okay, now do it. No, no, no. Yeah, and this split part doesn't matter. Just go with the bottom. No, that's fine. That's beauty. Yeah, man, a few of those. See, this one's much, the other tree was drier. Yeah. And that's why I threw it in the water. It might split like this, so. Show it to the camera. That is pretty slick, man. Grab mine too, yeah. Man, that was wet. I'm soaked from doing that. Underneath that, like very wet. Look at that. Beautiful, dude. It's thick, eh? It's like an inch thick, almost. The Bark Brothers. So how many pieces do we have? All right, shut up. We wanna hear this wonderful sound. Locked up, it looks that way, yep. The darker on the bottom. Good boy, Tripper. Didn't eat any of the meat. Here, buddy. Good boy. Yeah, there you go. There you go, huh? Now you got a taste for it. Weirdest thing, three people in Wawa. I thought it was someone else. Obviously, there's a Jim Beard doppelganger there. Oh, yeah? Yeah, that's so weird. I mean, started talking to me, just like, oh, thanks for giving my husband a tow. And then one guy goes, hey, Bill, how's it going, buddy? You going fishing? Nice new truck. I'm just like, I'm not Bill, but you're number two, and I thought I was, you know? Yeah, I thought you were Paul Bunyan. Yeah. Let me actually just get a quick shot of this meat before we hide it. Yeah, no doubt, eh? This is beef. Good boy. Good dog. This is really good. Yeah, it is. We're having the backdrop of the forest here. Definitely not cooked, but warm. It's probably just the smoke on it he likes. Yeah, he's not shy. No. Little fatty bud. Was that fish this time? No, that was just the fat, but it's raw. He's turning his, what kind of dog? We'll cook that up a little for him. A little more, it's not too, that's too rare. It's not to his liking. It's not medium rare. It's blue, it's blue, it's not. Send it back. Yeah. Speaking of boys, it's gonna, we're gonna have overlap or what? Maybe try to hook the edges just around the, Yeah, the problem is it's too wide at the bottom, right? A little bit more and I can hook it, yep. She's kind of splitting in the middle on us, though. Split it, you think? No, no, that's good. I'll grab another pole. Just use those poles. Right, what are we thinking? Oh, we're not even gonna shoot. You know what, we can peg out the bottom, too, if we want, I got all these pre-made pegs. We're back in the woods. Do you want me to tie this one off? Like, should I tie it off like here? Slick. Yeah, they're... My tent pegs were one time with my kids, so I just made them. Teachin' the young ones a little bushcraft, eh? little bushcraft here and there not surprised yeah another peg there yep they're probably whittling spoons as we speak like that gap there we could probably just cover with the bowels hey yeah I imagine anything just to stop the area right pieces do we have we're using these pegs to solidify the bark into the ground which is pretty slick working out pretty good actually you know we can just peg peg stuff like this to each other I guess we don't really have to that looks great yes I would assume so tie them off like this it's looking a little rainy out so I think we're gonna get this tarp up and cook up some steaks it's 530 so it's supper time we're gonna probably do up a separate fire just so that I can continue to smoke Ted's getting the last piece Ted's been a champ getting all these pieces of bark get this tarp up try and get a little bit of a dry spot we camp out here tonight yeah thanks for having us Joe thanks all around Yeah, it's just nice to find people that enjoy doing this ----, you know, and then, like, because you can't do it with people, it's like, I've been doing this alone for a long time, and it's just, like, it's so much more enjoyable when someone's here. No, it doesn't, no, it just, it's, yeah, it's just, it's nice to talk to someone, you know I mean, it's nice to share ideas. Yeah, like, like-minded people, and then also when you're trying to do a video, if you just bring your buddies, you can't really do a video. That's right. Oh, we're kind of working with this tree here. Let's get there for me. So this is the the borer here There's evidence of the borer that's killing all these trees. Unfortunately. Yep. It's all about how it looks Yeah, very cool No biggie. Look at this smoker Dila smoker Piastre résistance of it actually that looks hey hold on stay there ted do that again please do that again Ted perfect thank you one more time for me ted one more time for me sorry yeah oh buddy that is beautiful that looks really cool that's how they do it that's how they do it yeah you guys want me to throw these steaks on Are you going to film that and do that? I'm kind of picky. I don't want to watch somebody who sucks. I don't like most of them. There's this new show called Space Force and it's making fun of obviously Trump's Space Force but it's freaking, what's his name, dude from The Office, Michael Scott. It's the dude from The Office. Steve Carell. He's the main character in it and he's this old army lieutenant. It's hilarious. Lisa Kudrow, Phoebe is the wife. it's pretty good but yeah so Seinfeld just got so many good I have to watch like this plastic there what's the deal with everything the new Chappelle stuff is pretty funny yeah look at that spread we're at what do you got there wild leeks yeah wild leeks and some spinach I'll throw a couple burger patties on that peace i'm good beautiful wild leeks are amazing i love them like a perfect blend of garlic and onion that's right that's exactly what i said they're my literally my favorite thing my burger's done i got a couple patties on here some wild leeks some mustard some spinach a big old bun from home big old bun oh smoky on point all right man i feel so short around you jim i just feel like well joe it's like an unwritten thing amongst tall people that if you see another tall person let's say you're in a public area or something like that like a shopping mall for example and you see them coming you both you don't really make eye contact and you see them and then as you cross you stand up straight because we're always bent to talk to you straight and you just glance at the top of each other's head to quickly judge who's taller and then you just keep walking and when you're not taller do you feel a little crushed uh yes because like everybody's like you're so tall like that's what that's what we got us tall people everyone's like you're so tall like that's so important to us we want to be we want to be the tallest people ever of course and uh yeah basically yeah it's it's the truth tall people tell me if i'm wrong have you experienced that let us know in the comments that was great that was really good all right folks well it's about 10 15 in the p.m now we're just relaxing fire's still going in here and fishy and meats are drying this has been a pretty good day boys amazing day yeah yeah man it's been really good yeah everything worked out this is this is a long wait though i'm telling you it's good i'm getting hungry watching this stuff slow smoke right so we're gonna split it up somebody's gonna sleep there a couple people sleep under there i got trip or i got tripper uh tent over there somewhere so everything will be all right but uh it is raining she's raining she's raining pretty good now trippers uh ko'd for the night i think but uh we're gonna throw some more wood on that fire because it's not quite a fire anymore hey tripper are you just uh you making yourself comfortable on the bed there buddy just uh i was thinking of sleeping there tripper there's probably enough room. I'm getting kind of tired. Look at those eyes, eh? Just like, Can you move over, bud? Hey, Tripper. Just at the foot of the bed? We're talking to you, sir. Come on, buddy. We'll post up in this little baby tent, me and you. Nice and close, okay? And you know you want to get in there more than I do. Just wait a minute. Oh, this is going to be a tight squeeze, Tripper. Tight squeeze with Tripper. Alright, well, Tripper and I are squeezed in this little Coughing This little cocoon Of dryness and warmth Alright guys, we'll get with you in the morning Sweet dreams Good night They're all on the outside Most of them at least 6:45 in the morning, pretty good sleep Rained for most of the night so that always helps Got the dog in here with me still I gotta get up here soon and get out of here I got duties today I didn't know these guys were coming until yesterday So I had to have to be in the Sioux by 10 in the morning So I got to get up try some of that meat wake these boys up and get out of here brave the mosquitoes Come on tripper. Come on good boy. How was that sleep big guy sleep number a million? Okay, you're good Come on, buddy. It's limping on a nice scene to wake up to you're pretty comfortable on it Jim can fit there then you all know I'm not exaggerating how on how long it is. It's actually Well, I'm six foot five, and so this has got to be at least another foot longer than me, no? Oh, we're golden, then. Yeah, that's pretty good, man. Yeah. How's this going in here? It's going to be lofty. Lofty? Yeah. How'd you guys stay dry and everything? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was actually pretty nice because this is, like, so open. Yeah. It wasn't a driving rain, right? so it's just like you feel like you're completely outside but not getting wet it's kind of it's very uh calming yeah yeah like a freeing feeling nice hi buddy good morning if it wasn't for ted i'm like i'll get up and put wood on the fire and then i just passed out hard and then i guess i woke up thinking i just caught the fire before it went out but it turned out ted had already put wood on it three times before that i don't know what we would have done without ted on this trip really look at that's so cool to wake up to though to see this just the whole scene the smoke coming up yellow you know you guys check out the meat at all i did the top of it got some uh rain on it okay throughout the night yeah a little bit so it's not gonna smoke to where it's like uh gonna be more preserved like so it's not really jerky but it's gonna be more like the stuff you buy in the store that's gonna last a few extra days for sure but it's also uh uh just delicious right probably should refrigerate nice but it's definitely cured so very cool weird i guess it was pretty funny it was like just something that like but uh we have let meat smoke out all night give a nice return to the fire with the wood and uh we're hoping and uh we're hoping that uh it's done we don't think because of the rain getting in that it's going to be preserved pretty well and uh likely you have to leave it on for another day this way to get it preserved but uh we're excited to eat them either way it's probably preserved for you know a few days the way it is right now and uh definitely one thing this would do is keep all I'm looking forward to having a little snacky-poo here snacky-poo you heard the man snacky-poo is happening everyone's done it just I haven't seen it on YouTube I've only ever made them on a small much smaller scale same same principle yeah yeah the big reveal look she's dry under there too actually the ground is quite dry. The other thing we're gonna do is we're gonna lay this bark flat for Joe so you can put it to use again. Maybe I'll put it on the roof. Oh that's nice and flat too there on the area. Probably the heat dry today. Nice that's pretty slick. Oh the meats. Smoked salmon man. Oh smoky. Oh damn Pretty good That's a good texture Good consistency That's the thickest piece right there Oh yeah That tastes like It has a hint of store bought jerky taste to it honestly Yeah Need like a cracker Or spread some of that salmon on A little paste Yeah totally That's great Look at that See the water though It would have been done more if it wasn't raining But it's done enough to be smoked salmon So there we go Fantastic boys Great success or what? mm-hmm yeah success delicious really good turn around just stay exactly like that yeah yeah look at this one this is more one of the more thin ones that was down near the fire it's like it's real jerky yeah and nothing on it just smoke here yeah nothing on it just a smoke we use all maple all hardwood and like Jim was saying none of it was wet none of it was rotten it was just some punky just dry hardwood and the heat comes up and smokes it dehydrates it you want to take that home Joe what's up this piece what's um you like the boys now Tripper giving them foods he can't get it in his mouth he doesn't like the fish he spit it he's had a second guess that one he's looking at where he decided that he liked it do you hear the noises he's making he's like oh piggy good boy Trip hey we can put that that meat back on you hey bud he's skinny crispy yeah like the skin is all right go this this tripod I like how light it is crispy definitely crispy I gotta piggyback on something that Ted just said the food's done it could use a little bit longer for my liking personally it's a little bit um not as jerky as I would normally do it but we were kind of rushed yesterday meat didn't get on till three or four we think and it's about seven or eight in the morning now so ideally we leave it for another half a day another day and it'd be perfect but yeah we all got to get out of here these boys got to drive home too so it's good to know good good little lesson to learn and some of the practice and lots of fun we had a good time man I had a really good time this trip there's something really cool about the thought of like having food and no refrigeration and actually preserving it you know and this is how you would do it and you know you got to be a little patient take a couple days but you know you're not gonna starve to death if you ever in that situation and then just in this situation you just have fun with it and you get recipes and make it taste good you know and so you get better at it and the trees that we are using the bark from Ted took off we're dying their ash trees anyways the borer was in them so we're gonna reuse the bark for the shelter too for the fort what am I saying what is this not a shelter Even, like, you could just cut, like, little shingles out of it with, like, heavy scissors and do something. All right, so we got all that bark with some logs laying them flat, so that's really helpful. Well, it looks nice now that it's all cleaned up. I think we're going to get out of here, take a couple more shots, then hit the road. Take a couple more shots. I really think I'm cranking them up. You ready to go or what? All right, guys, we're going to wrap this up here. Thanks a lot, Jim and Ted, for coming. it's just a ******* awkward triangle all right you want to see you stand in the middle you stand in the middle the album cover the album cover there we go all right yeah it was a good time thanks guys for coming i appreciate it thanks guys for calling me letting me in on this uh yeah no problem good little last minute plan there man it's my favorite way to do things last minute all the time um hope you guys enjoyed this we did some things that you don't normally see on my channel maybe you learned something about smoking meats and fish and yeah we just had an all-around good good camp out so thanks for watching guys and this won't be the last time you see these guys with me I'm sure we'll see on the next one check out the channels Ted Baird Jim Baird adventurer adventurer yeah how to blast there it was cool to come check out you know Joe spot is for you do this wicked project had a really good time check out his channel Joe Robinette and if you haven't heard of it which you probably have and yeah so I agree really cool just looking into the smoker and seeing the the fish and the meat just drying there it just makes your mouth water and it just looked like pretty authentic thing that we managed to whip up to do that works just as well now as it did 5,000 years ago so great times and looking forward to the next trip real quick a lot of people been asking for updates on Tripper as you can see He's out here. He's not up to his normal health, but he is doing just fine And he's taking a shine to the beard boys after they shared their meats