HD Bushcraft Video-Building a Large Semi-Permanent Shelter, Outdoor Cooking

Work on the shelter today, get a fire going, cook up some food. It's a nice, chilly November day. It's November 12th, it's right around zero Celsius. It's a nice, crisp day, I'm glad to be out here. Basically all I'm doing here, putting cross poles in an A-frame style, and I'm going to lash it to the ridge pole using a Canadian jam knot. I did that on all the other sides too. Then I'm going to run a pole underneath this tarp, from this log to that log over there, and then I'll be able to stack logs leaning the short logs against the pole that's there so I don't have to get big long logs for the whole way. It's solid. You can see in there I've got the cross poles in like I was talking about. Just take it around. So that's the one side of it and the other side across. So far what I've done with my bed. So now I want to get two long poles to go from the top to the bottom in the middle to hold the tarp out. A little trailblazer saw I haven't used in a while. They work good. My blade's just getting a little dull on it, but that's to be expected after years of use. Unless I can get a new blade. You really got to wrench these things tight. Got to cut this a bit shorter so it'll fit properly. I've got to go cut a pole for this side because this side's on more of an angle. It's longer. After I reset it up, it's not the same pitch it was before, so I don't have a pole long enough to fit it. So I've got to go cut one. I found this dead ash. All the ash in my area are dead. probably don't need to cut it it's super tall and i could probably just push it over hung up on a little branch you can see i cut it and i'm measuring it now and it's gonna fit fine there's a i want to fix up the top so there's no splinters or split ends there so it's not gonna poke through my my tarp so there we go it's all framed up now with the middle frames like the ribs there just to keep the the tarp from pulling in too much and uh yeah obviously see these cross pieces like I said so I can lean stuff up against I think I'm gonna make a little bit of lunch get up on fire going to cook up some bacon and eggs from the field that's what I'm gonna start with probably shavings on that should go up nice and easy I might have smothered it definitely smothered it she's going now though so biggie that's two o'clock in the afternoon now and I'm starving so I made some food on my favorite thing to cook in the woods bacon and eggs this is a 10 centimeter Billy can and I'm gonna cook an egg in the in the dish part of it and i'm going to boil water for tea at the same time so all i do is i wrap in a couple paper towels put it inside the billy can and it's fine so i'm just going to crack I myself like pepper on my on my egg so all i did just put a little baggie with pepper in it it's good pour water i don't know halfway into the billy can how until it's halfway full that's plenty actually i don't even need that much maybe a quarter full throw that back on take it over the fire so all i did was tie a stick to my tripod and left a bunch of oh it's spinning left a bunch of knobs poking out that way i can switch the height if i want it down lower i can do that too low high and two on each that way i can cook more more than one one at a time that's been cooking for about five minutes let's check it and see if it's done nicely poached but i gotta cook my bacon now so instead of this coming off it's just going to get moved up to the upper notch keep it warm i don't like to cook my bacon on flame at all because it ruins it in my opinion if the flames are touching it so i like to wait till my coals my fire's completely coaled up my Dutch grill my wife got me not extra thick she said it was extra thick but it's not saying it on here so yeah it's thick that's good the thick bacon is better cooked this way doesn't shrivel up so small that'll take I don't know five or so minutes to cook on this heat by then my egg will have cooled down a little bit if it's too cold I can always just drop it down and warm it up on the coals again but it should be fine so four pieces of extra thick bacon and egg some tea and that'll be it for me for lunch you can see this wood that I took out is smoking a lot I'd like to get some of that smoke on my bacon so I'm just gonna put it around the fire not directly under the bacon but right around the fire so the smoke goes on to it more onto the bacon more I'm calling that bacon done dinner served so perfectly done there's a little bit of water in there from how much condensation was in there boiling but that's fine totally done cooked and with the rest of the water that was in the Billy can I I'm just gonna throw my tea ball in there get some steep tea and throw the lid back on let that sit while I eat my food pepper really helps it's my favorite a nice day to be out in the woods I I feel very relaxed right now. I was a little bit bummed out when I got here. I found the shelter was down, but whatever It's bound to happen Well, guys, you probably noticed I changed my channel name. A while back, I changed it from my old, like, four-year-old name was JosephAllen19. Joseph is my first name. Allen is my middle name. 19 is the date that my birthday is on. So, a while back, I figured I'll change my name to my real name, which is JoeRobinette. And now I added Joe Robinette bushcraft to it I think it'll help people find it if they're just searching bushcraft, which I'm not gonna lie I want people to find my channel. I'm doing this so that people watch my stuff I want people to be able to learn some stuff from me I want to just show what I'm doing and maybe give some Inspiration to go to the woods and I've had a few comments on my channel that people have said just that which is great That's the bottom line. That's what I want it for I'm planning on being out in the woods a little bit more now That it's cool weather I'm going to be doing some winter camping I don't know, if you guys have anything you want to learn Or want me to show I can try and do it I don't know everything, I don't know half as much as some of the other guys on YouTube But I get out and I try stuff Which is cool This is a first for me doing this setup I got the inspiration from an Iowa Woodsman video That and also a Mors Kochanski book, Bushcraft I'm sure everybody's read that book Um, yeah, it's just a little, little lean, little A-frame setup and I'm going to actually throw a lot more debris on it, close off the sides or whatever. I'm just going to be, this is going to be a work in progress, especially if people are going to come here and mess with it. I don't really want to put too much time and effort into it at once. If I come back and it's destroyed again, maybe I won't set it up again. Who knows? My bed's completed. I just have to pound in the stakes to keep it all secure. I hear something cracking. Oh, it's not too bad. I can sleep over here. Except for my middle piece was rotten and is broken. No, it's basswood, I should have known better. I pound some stakes in to keep my bed together, and I couldn't do that with the tarp on there, so just easy pop it off in two places, now I have access to my bed. So I pounded my stakes in on all sides, I've got my base secure, and now I just want to get these logs so that they don't move too much, and I can't pound stakes in because of the location of the base logs, so I'm going to just Canadian jam the hell out of it. The Canadian jam knot is a constricting knot. I've already done the other two sides. So basically you tie an overhand knot for a tail, a second overhand knot before it and you don't close it up. You just basically run it on diagonal through the piece of wood underneath it and then through the piece of wood you're tying, you run your tail through the loop and you just wrench on it and that's on there. There you can see the construction of the bed. Four big round logs on the base, cross piece. two big long ones going across two other cross pieces and then the bed that's a good two feet off the ground I'm comfortable when I sit on it pretty sturdy it rocks a bit it ain't going nowhere though so we're good see my back wall is almost done it's just logs laid up against the cross piece I tied up laterally I'm gonna put some bark on the outside of it it's not gonna be airtight no matter what but that's fine I'm just trying to trying to get it closed in a bit i'm not sure what i'm gonna do with the front yet i might leave it open i might put like a piece of clear plastic down like a super shelter style i don't know that's gonna be it for today guys i uh it's almost five o'clock and i gotta pick my wife and daughter up go home and have some supper but i hope you enjoyed the video like i said this is just just the start of it i plan on coming back and working on it a little bit probably do an overnighter in it hope you enjoyed it hope you learned something and uh see you on the next one