Improvise your own Bushcraft Kit: e1 (Cooking container w bail and lid) CHEAP QUICK EASY!

It's kind of weird. It's a weird backdrop. My knees are exposed. Show them knees. Can you see my head? I feel like this is a strange, strange setup. How you guys doing? Joe here. I was going to do this outside. It snowed like crazy last night. All day yesterday. It's snowing right now. I'd rather do this somewhere dry. I can't have a fire. Can't camp on Crown land. I can't camp on, um, in parks. This is what we're doing. I thought I would impart some knowledge that was imparted onto me about six years ago. or seven years ago by one of my mentors Terry Barney, Iowa Woodsman. I want to get this out of the way right away. I did not come up with this, he did. not come up with this. This is where I learned it from, from him. Check out Iowa Woodsman, IA Woodsman on YouTube. Awesome dude, uh, very knowledgeable. So today what we're gonna do, we're all in the quarantine, we're all bored, we're sitting at home. Let's learn something, okay? This is something that I thought was super cool back in the day when I I learned it. It's a cheap way to make a bush pot, a cook pot, camping, whatever you want to call it with a lid and a bail ready to go for super cheap. This is how this Sierra Cup comes, if you want to call this a Sierra Cup, a nesting cup. I don't know but it's this one that you guys have seen forever at Walmart, a Canadian Tire, at Dick's Sporting Goods, at Menards, on Amazon, whatever, they're like ten bucks. They're stainless steel, you can see this one's been used forever It's been steel wool, Brillo pad, SOS pad, padded up, cleaned up, but still got its scars from use, and I love it like that. So, we're going to learn today how to make a bale, how to make a lid, and how to set this up as your cook pot. Now, a Nalgene nest, I should have grabbed my Nalgene, a Nalgene nest's right inside here, a normal Nalgene, right? So, that's a bonus for it. And then you can get the little pouches that fit on the side of, like, Hidden Woodsman or, like, Maxpedition backpacks and stuff. and they have those little bottle pouches and they fit perfectly so you can put this right in the bottom of the pouch, this in the above it, the Nalgene on top and you're ready to rock. So again you can pick these up anywhere and a cool trick with these, not sure if everyone knows, but these handles do come off. You just pry them open a little bit and they come off super slick. Super easy to do it. Nice and easy. Now you have your pot. It's a good size, you can cook rice in here, you can cook, you can rehydrate dehydrated foods, you can boil water, you melt snow it's obviously for one person it's not gonna last it's not gonna do you too much at once but definitely for a day hike for a survival kit this is on point right here I have snare wire it's not actually snare wire it's more like craft wire it's got this green coating on it that will eventually come off when you put it over a fire it's no big deal now the gauge of this I you I like to use this because it's in all honesty this is all I could get but I do like to use it because it's green it's heavy duty I bought this when I was gonna go on alone we could bring snare wire and I couldn't find any and I was like in a panic so I bought as much of this as I could we all know how that turned out I didn't need to use any of it so this is a 22 gauge and they're both 22 gauge you can use all all the way from 22 to 26 gauge probably but 22 is on point now I want to show you a way and again I learned this from Terry that you can cut this without having to mess around with snips or anything like that right so what we want to do originally because we don't want to waste any let me try to make something like this there's we want to measure the distance around this cup and then double it add a little bit right because we're gonna do a twist we're gonna do a two strand twist and make this a lot shorter than it actually is so to go around this cup once it's about there double that it's about there we're gonna go just a little bit more because we will lose some when we twist it right so this is how we're gonna cut this wire say we're in the bush and we don't have anything to cut with if we don't want to nick our knives or axes or anything axe definitely would work I would use that over a knife you're just gonna twist it right around halfway one time wrap it around your hand on the other side and hold it tight and you can wear gloves if you need to if you're worried about it watch this not work now because I'm messing around so much there we go and it breaks breaks right off breaks clean didn't do any anything bad to me or anything so now we want to straighten it out a little bit look at Why did I yell that part? We have what will become the start of our bight. So we're going to fold it in half. So you have one looped end or one folded end and one open end. And the open end, all we're going to do is we're going to twist it into like a bight. So we want to fold it over a little bit bigger than that, fold it over and then twist it on itself a bunch of times. All right. So my other camera just died. That's perfect. Twist it on itself a bunch of times until you have an eye. you can see that right you do want to kind of get it down as tight as possible just because later on it'll be easier to work with so if you don't again don't have pliers if you do just use pliers if not you can work it off the ground or whatever it's fine so you have that and you want to leave it open again sorry not open you want to come down to the bottom where there's that loop so you have basically like a tube right okay so that's flat now you need two sticks or pens or whatever i I wanna go around real quick down here and find two things that I can use really quick. Shoulda done that before, Joe. We're gonna take the eye part, and you're gonna just run your stick or your Sharpie marker through that, right? And then you're gonna put it on the ground in between your feet. You see that? You got that secured. Just so it doesn't go anywhere, right? That's all that you're really doing now. And you're gonna take your pen or your stick or whatever, and if you have a spool, a spool of wire, I would slide the spool down right there, okay? But if you don't, that's fine too. You can just take your hand and start twisting. And you're just going to twist and twist and twist and twist and twist and twist like you did last summer. Twist in time is here. Do you remember when things were really humming? Oh, okay, I'll stop. You're going to twist a bunch and you're going to create a very strong braid. Something that's never going to just break or come undone. um it's probably stronger than two times as strong as the one strand this is also what Terry was saying don't quote me on that so you're gonna let go there's gonna be a little bit of backlash not too bad look at it and it could use a little bit more twisting so i'm just gonna sit here and twist it's not the most comfortable thing on the hand but it's not a big deal again if you have the spool be uh all the difference in the world and snare wire usually does come on a spool this is craft wire again right all right let's look at that yeah that looks pretty solid okay slide that guy out slide that guy out all right so you can see exactly what we've got this is exactly what we wanted and need we have a good braid down here it's actually really good down here it gets a little loose in the middle and then really good down there again it's fine it's super strong it's exactly what we wanted so this is gonna be an awesome bail for for the pot so this is the bail obviously made it just a little bit bigger than a round so that when it's time to pack it down you can tuck it inside if you don't have an lg or whatever eat pretty easily so that's all fine and then you just need to take a another piece of of wire the same size as this and and hook it up underneath this lip and i'll show you that right now so again can you hear autumn upstairs you're gonna take a piece of wire the exact length you need maybe a centimeter or two a centimeter or two longer you guys use centimeters right over in the states for sure okay so see there's a little bit of overlap i do want a little bit of overlap so we're gonna go right to say there we'll twist it over on itself again break it nice and easy. So this is the lip I was talking about underneath, right? Obviously. So once you get it up underneath there, pretty good. It's going to be solid, but you don't want to put it on just yet because you got to get the bail on, obviously. So you're taking your bail that you made and you're attaching it to either side, I'm sorry, to either side of that wire. It's a little janky here. One second. All right. So it's on the wire and you don't have to worry about the placement. You can you can plate uh mess up the placement after you really just got to get under here and get it tight i might even do that one again i might go try to grab my my my multi-tool we got the only thing is these little sharp pieces after you can fold down if you if you can't cut them off you'll just have to fold them down under there that's not bad all right that's not going to get uh caught on anything or anything like that so look at that oh ba-bam son it's not perfect you know what i mean and the previous one I had wasn't perfect either, but they definitely do the job. Look at that. Okay. So we're basically done that part of it. Just pop your handles back on if you want to. And the handles are nice because they fold in too, making it even more nesting cup. So all you would do now is you would whip up a little pot hanger, which I have plenty of videos showing you how to do that. Hang that on there. Obviously mess around with the spacing and stuff. Then the lid goes on ah so i want to talk about the lid too there's a specific thing for you guys in the states so in canada here we don't have the same size coffee ground coffee cans as you in the states there's a 12 ounce coffee can it's kind of tall cylindrical and the top or the bottom from it fits perfectly on these sierra nesting cups like i'm talking like look at this one it's just off like i can push it on it pops off it pops off again it still works like believe me it still to keep the ash out it still works still works to keep the ash out there it go still works to keep the ash out still works to keep um the heat in you know what i mean it's just not as snug and popped on as i would like right now it's okay so here's the thing we don't have that size in canada or i couldn't find that size freaking six years ago when i made this um all this is is like you take the you take the can opener and you open it sideways instead of putting the can opener on top of the can of soup or whatever you're doing you know what i mean doing it normally that way you turn the can on its side and you cut here so you leave the lip right you cut it on its side so you leave the lip and then it'll pop right on like it's supposed to and then have a good suction again i couldn't find it in canada but i know in the states you guys do have it because that's where i learned it from all this is is three holes uh punched in drilled in whatever to have the steam escape this is a little tack weld little sheet metal tack weld with like a little like um copper wire bent over top of it to pick it up I've made these as simple as drill a hole through it and put a screw in it and leave the screw sticking out and that's that's what I use for the lid to take off you don't need the holes I can you can use a piece of wood even it's it's no big deal really this is no big deal you don't even need a lid half the times but it's nice people like to keep the ashes over the water and and speed up the cooking so you can make a better lid than I have one that actually sit snug on it but that's really making the bail makes the cup into an actual cook kit like when you don't want to actually have to sit your cook kit right on the coals or bring a grill you know what i mean you can make a a pot hanger like that and you again you guys have seen me do that maybe i'll try to link a a video but super easy thing to make and then you can use these for snares too right you can pull them over and now they're stronger you flip this through this now there's double or triple the strength of a real snare right it's going through there and tightening up but i would highly suggest check out Iowa woodsman's youtube channel IA Woodsman um super cool dude legit dude been around forever uh former Sierra instructor my personal mentor friend um yeah good guy all around good guy so I hope you guys are having a good day I hope you enjoyed this I hope this was useful to you right I like this I was super happy when I made this like this was like yeah man like I made some of my own kit like that like people people get a misconception that they see that I have all this nice gear and this quality stuff and it's like I didn't start out that way man not by a long shot I was a Walmart guy I was a Canadian tire guy for you guys in the States again like I'm not like the cheapest of gear you could find JanSport backpack this is what i rocked for years that's why like that's i can't even get that black off i could get off in some spots this is legit what i used you know what i mean so it's like i started off that way for years and i i accrued gear every year by asking for gear for my birthday and for christmas we were not well well to do at all poor poor our whole lives my whole family on both sides will of sight and my side would sometimes pitch in for a certain piece of gear like a sleeping bag for me a 500 dollar sleeping bag for my birthday you know You know what I mean? That's how I accrued gear after. And then now it's my job and it's easy. I get things for free and I can justify buying things because it's a write-off and it's for my job. It's like you buying tools for your job, right? It's the same exact thing. Anyways, I started off this way and there's nothing wrong with this and this works totally fine and there's more connection to you and your gear when you do it this way. I hope you guys have a great day. I'll be back with a real video, camping video soon. They took away the Crown land on me. They took away the public, or sorry, the parks. they took away fires but i still have private land i can camp on so we'll be doing that and we'll have an alternate to a fire and um yeah we'll see you guys soon thank you very much go make this show me tag me in a video if you if you have a youtube channel make this and tag me if you have an instagram account make this and tag me i want to see it have a good day guys forgot did you guys check out my new shirt toilet paper free since 2010 go check out BunkerBranding.com. Another influencer is Joe Robinette. There's a ton of new merchandise. This is the newest one. I thought it was quite clever. I like it. Thanks guys.