Spending the Day Passing Outdoor Skills on to Youth

Hey guys, how you doing? Today we're going to the woods. I'm in my Jeep right now. We're headed towards Scott's place to meet up with Scott, the guy from my Camping with a Subscriber video. But not only are we going to hang out with Scott, we're going to hang out with his son, Griff. He's a young man who's wanting to get into this kind of stuff. He's been camping in Algonquin with his dad and stuff. We're just going to try and instill some more skills onto him. I got some goodies for him. It should be a fun day. We'll go hang out in the bush and have some food and hang out for the day. So stay tuned. I think you'll enjoy this one. I'll get back with you guys once I'm in the woods with those guys. Alright guys, we're out in the woods. We've got Scott and Griff with us. Say hi buddy. So we're out here in the woods today. It's a pretty cold, windy day, but that's not stopping us. We've got stuff to do, a flint and steel fire to make up some charcloth. So let's get started on that. We'll get up into the woods in a little bit here and get a little bit warmer. So Griff, in order to blow our embers into flame, so we're going to need a tinder bundle. What are you grabbing there? I just found a dead stick, so I thought this would what do you got in your other hand yeah a bunch of dead grass seems like a great idea to me dead plants what another good thing we're looking for is something fluffy so if you look over here we got this these reeds they're called frag mites they're an invasive species and they're super fluffy if you grab a couple of the seed heads there I think that would be a good addition to your grass you don't have three hands perfect okay so what I would do with those is I would not see your cargo pockets there on the side of your pants I'd stuff those seat heads right into there that way when your mom washes your clothes it's gonna get all no seriously I would put them in there for sure we can put Put them in a backpack too if you want them. Stuff them in there? Throw them in the back. Yeah, they're walking through, eh? Their deer prints melted a bit in the ice. Cool. We're still making our way over to the woods proper, but there's a little tiny patch of sassafras, and as we were coming through it, I thought it would be cool to show Griff the smell that the sassafras gives off on their dead twigs. Why don't you grab... There you go. Break it up. off first to release it a bit. Yep, then smell where you broke. What do you think that smells like? There's a pith in it for sure. Yeah, that's called a pith. What do you think it really smells like? Smell it again. Like a flowery thing? Yeah. You kind of get like a citrusy smell. Yeah, like an orange. Yeah, like a candy orange. It's kind of nice, eh? So the roots of it, actually you can make like a root beer tea out of it that has like an old higher root beer kind of taste. It's really, really nice. You don't want to drink too much of it though because there's stuff in it that's not really good for you. But a tea every once in a while, once or twice a year would be no problem. These sassafras trees have leaves that come out in three shapes. One looks like, just like an oval like this. One looks like a mitten. And then one has like three, like three lobes. So they come in very different sizes, different shades, different patterns. It kind of makes it unique. Mulberry does that as well that's very similar to this. But yeah, if you come back in here in the summer, you'll see what I'm talking about. And the leaves actually have a really good citrusy smell. It's a good wood. It's a good wood for burning, for carving. It comes out like orange. Aren't you happy to have learned that, Griff? He's a sponge, man. He's a sponge. Let's tuck this in here. You're contrasting too much. You've got to have your looking good for the camera. It's all about the video, buddy. It's all about the video. Griff, there's a sasquatcher boat. You ever hear about this? That Sasquatch make these things? Yeah. Bigfoot. You know what I'm talking about? You ever heard that? Sasquatches make tripod things? Yeah, man. Let's go check it out. Does it smell like Sasquatch over there? I don't really want to get too close Right, I'm just completely joking about the Sasquatch thing They do say that in the wild when you see things piled like this is from them, but it's not yeah I've seen this out here plenty of times in different spots people do this and then that's about it They'll kind of always just leave it like that, which is whatever Yeah, it's just fun exactly it's better than a tarp or something Right you could wrap it right around it's very true decided we're gonna get a fire going first before anything just to kind of take the chill out so go around cuts collect a little bit of firewood there's an axe Griff you're pretty hyped on using an axe Griff do you have any interest in using this knife over out here check check her out see what she's all about careful it's sharp okay how does it feel not of approval all right well let's go through a little bit I'm sure your dad's already taught you knife skills but we'll just make sure you're careful with it and yeah have some fun with today and no worries but so Scott's showing me up over here, what kind of drone is that again, my next, yeah it folds down to pretty small I'm pretty impressed already going into this dude I guess that's what they do right Terminator stuff that's pretty cool that that drone's not very heavy and it was doing pretty cool stuff so maybe it's something to look into right now we're on the search for firewood I'm gonna go out here and grab some aspen, some dead dry standing trembling aspen, there's lots of oak in here we can use too oak twigs like this a lot of times these pretty dense oak twigs are just laying on the hanging off the uh the oak i'll grab that i'm on my way back in the woods here me uh yeah you're good yeah okay cool yeah we're gonna let griff buck up this piece of aspen with the axe this is a 19 inch whittling axe we've already gone over that because it's such a small short axe we want to be closer to the ground kneeling or at least squatting so that when the axe isn't the axe isn't going to hit us it's going to hit the ground if we miss right we've already got food okay so let me just show you real quick what i do and i'm sure you you're probably pretty good at this already but if you're chopping or bucking you don't really want the log to be moving around too much so put a foot on there yeah but be kind of over to the side so what i do is like put my foot on there and I'm over here and I'm just kind of and you don't really necessarily have to go this way and then that way like you see a lot of people doing all the time with something this small you can probably really just hit it a couple times in the same direction with an axe this sharp and it'll probably chop for you so why don't you give that a shot come on over here careful she's sharp yeah go down a little bit more maybe if you can can you put your knee on the ground or yeah you know like that yeah there you go and then hit it right where the log touches the other log because if you hit it here it's gonna kind of create resistance so when you're hitting it you don't really oh you are left-handed aren't you oh let's switch you around that sorry buddy how do you swing an axe show me okay do it do it yeah you go that way don't you okay do it that way let me see okay let me um when you're gonna swing the axe you hold this way right with your show me how you hold it sorry with your right hand on the bottom okay so when you when you're holding it try and bring your hand down slide your hand down as you're swinging instead of like so it's more of like a motion like smooth try that and then we'll switch you directions yeah keep going hold on there you go more of an on an angle you're good you're good no you're good man you almost got it hard get mad at it yeah there you go buddy okay now let's try the other way because I think you might be a little bit more comfortable the other way so go on that side of it take that sit pad measure where you're gonna swing though because it looks like your legs a bit close buddy maybe move your leg a bit back if you can is that more comfortable for you or no remember hit it hard be confident yeah see right away man very good very good job okay hit it right where the wood touches the the wood yeah yeah yeah there you go buddy you got it very good job yep that's the last one there you go go ahead man step on it do it nice very impressed yep so i put on like the yeah the edge of it there you go right there so griff's made a nice amount of curls for us already just finishing up and we're going to uh we're gonna get a fire going how's that knife working out for you buddy nice nice we're gonna start a fire we've already got our little base down here we don't want to start the fire on the ground it's very wet and cold and all that stuff oh you're doing the platform perfect yeah that's exactly it yeah so put this on top and let that burn yep so what we're gonna do is you're gonna strike your fire still on this fragmite's head but before you do that we want to have our shavings and stuff very close and ready so as soon as you have that on fire you're gonna put leave that leave that on there grab this put it on top grab these put it on top and then we'll start to put the grass on top and our fuel kindling and fuel pieces right after that so you can place that right down on the on the on the wood put your fire steel right down into it but like push down with the fire steel onto the wood scrape hard you already use this you know what you're doing right so this sparks like crazy okay so you can literally just be like Oh, wow. Yeah, this is a good, a very, very globby one. So make sure you can just do it in the air first beforehand. Do it on the spine of the knife. Sorry, I know. Okay. All right, go for it now. Try and put it as close as you can to it so that the spark has farther, I mean, sorry, less, it's the tremor. Why don't you, why don't you plant it right in there and try and do it that way. So put, yeah, exactly. There you go. That's it. Just like that. It's going, it's going. All right. Yes. Grab your shavings quick put them right on right on top yep right now yep grab all those ones put them on top too. Good job buddy. Way to go bud. We'll get that grass on top of there too we'll just wait for a second till this grows a little bit see how the winds pushing it this way that's good because there's lots of curls on this side to catch so drop that right on top you don't even have to be yeah drop that on top too Yep, you're good. Right on top. Nice. Now we'll just move our stuff out of the way. I was just going to say, hey, Joe. Very good, Griffin. Good job, buddy. All right. I'm better than I expected. Not gonna lie. Yeah, very good. No, you did very good. So we need to start getting some logs on here. So maybe... Our pile from here. Yep, some of that. We can try and look for the smaller ones at first. Very good. Yeah, yeah, it'll catch faster that way. Yep. Cheers, lighters. Come on. Enjoying the fruits of your labor. You've not made char cloth before? You know what it is? Okay, no problem. So char cloth is what they used to use with flint and steel, still use with flint and steel, and we'll do that later on if I can get this open. So this is just a tin. We'll poke a hole in it because there's such a tight seal on it. Inside it I have pieces of cut up blue jeans, right? Just normal jeans like you'd wear or whatever. So these are denim, they're made of cotton, and there's a bunch of squares inside there. so the idea is well we're going to char it and then we're going to deprive it of oxygen so it won't ignite like it won't combust into flames it'll just kind of char like like charcoal does you can use the same with this and very uh charcoal like with punk wood or mushrooms and buried underground is the same idea but so the idea is just not giving it any any air to we're gonna poke a small hole in this and put it right on top of the fire and then when it stops smoking we'll take it out and we'll be ready to use it'll only take like five or ten minutes so how are we How are we going to poke the hole in there? Well, I'm just going to use the axe to poke a hole in the top because I used my knife. That's it. That's a pretty big hole, but that's what happens when you use an axe. I'm sure it'll still work. We're just going to put this right over here. It should start smoking on the top, and then when that stops, like I said, we'll take it out. We'll use our gloves, too. We won't touch it with our hands. I was just about to say, did you break yourself? No, no. Is your oven on? I had to do it, I had to do it. Alright, so we're sitting here, Scott's kicking snow into the bacon. Got bacon on, got some tea. We got eggs in the pot there. What do you got going on? What? Nice, you all warm? You got one up on me then. Old Joe forgot to put on his long johns today. Our char cloth is done. We'll check that out here in a minute. I think we're gonna eat first though, cause we're pretty hungry. I'm a pretty hungry boy. It's a nice day out in the woods though. the woods though. Alright, these eggs I think are done. Butter's all boiling off. That's okay, we're going to show this over here. I'm going to use that for a while. Dad's got it. It's all part of the experience, buddy. I got it. We got somewhere to put these. Bam! Look at how thick that is. That is pretty fancy. Whoa, is that a bubble from egg? It is what? A bubble? What? Oh, I see like the metal. Underneath? Yeah. Yeah, that's part of the egg stuff to it. Alright, another one here, another second one. Eggs, cooked some bacon up, brought some pitas, we got our teas, these are all good. Joe is such a professional, his eggs are getting cold as he plays with his camera. That's how dedicated he is. Dedication, alright. There's the master right there, eating his eggs. We got bacon eggs, pita wrap, thank you guys for the bacon and the pita, bringing the whole meal together. Look at that, that looks good. Probably one of my favorite moments of our family trip to Algonquin this August, past August. My daughter, like day five of the trip, I went to pass or something. It was some sort of food. I forget what it was. Dropped into the dirt, right? And I looked at her. I was like, she looked at me. She's like, I don't care. Yeah, I guess. Just give it to me. I can die happy. We beat her down. Yeah, right? Yeah. On her level. When she first started, she's like, oh, you know, there's a pine needle in my tea or whatever. throw it in the garbage that's awesome this works a little hot sauce or something in there too okay so we've got our charcoal char cloth all done nice and black i'm gonna go i'm gonna give it a test all right buddy so i'm gonna do this part of it and you're gonna blow it into flames okay okay so the only reason i'm doing this part of it is because i only have a knife i could not find my fire steel or my sorry my piece of steel for striking it but i will get you one i got to to get one anyway so we got our char cloth the safe way to do it the normal way to do it is with a rock and a piece of steel you can actually use an old uh file if you have an old file at home you can cut it off an old file yep old like uh normal just a file and use it yep a file after you're done work you're just like and then i just got a piece of flint here which is a normal piece of rock which has a sharp edge and is hard so just back up a touch please thank you you're good You're good, you're good, there you go. Alright, you ready? All we're gonna do is pinch the knife so that it's not on my right. And we don't really wanna use a, yeah, you don't really wanna use your wrist, just kinda come down straight on it. Yeah, I'm cutting myself up pretty good. Okay, we got it. You see, she's caught and she's growing. You see that? So what we're gonna do, remember I told you, we're gonna face into, or sorry, away from the wind so we don't get, smoking ourselves. Here, grab it, and I'll bring the camera around. We don't want to breathe in smoke is the point I was trying to make. So, turn a bit more towards me. Yep, you're good there. Can you see it growing? There, I can see it growing. Keep giving it steady air. Try to give it steady air. There you go, yep. Yeah, now take longer breaths. Oh, you got it. Let me see. Good job, buddy. Drop her. Just drop her anywhere. Good job, Griff. You okay? Terrified myself. Are you happy? Did you burn yourself? You're welcome. Thank you for that Griff. That was pretty cool. I appreciate that. That was pretty cool. Just like with the rock starting like how you just banged a piece of metal on a rock and it was kind of cool how Joe did it and he just made it catch on fire and then the Well you made it catch on fire buddy. The blowing sequence was pretty neat. I never thought about that so I'll have to think about that for further trips and stuff so that was cool. Right. Yeah and then you could just add like And then it just lit on fire so that's like I guess a fire starter or something so Yeah you did a really good job. That's cool. cattail or inner bark of other kind of trees like cottonwood or aspen or ash. Just something really fluffy and light. Very good job buddy. Give me a pounder. Bam son. So Griff you've been using that knife a lot today. I think you've been getting along well with it. Why don't you uh why don't you just hold on to it for a while and yeah yeah and see just use it and be careful with it and take care of it. yeah no problem buddy good stuff buddy surrounded you know what else you can do you want to see something cool here leave that right in there okay one sec sorry pass me tell me what we've done already and what we're gonna do we just shaved this little piece of wood into a little wedge yeah and then we're gonna put it down this piece of wood and hopefully split it yeah and uh we're gonna try to split it and see where that goes okay let's do that okay we might want to make another one and put it down farther or if you want we can just muscle through it yeah okay okay let me let me swing that if you don't very cool all right one second all right there you go good job buddy no leaving it no no that's a very good shot you did a very good that was a very good job I'm just yeah I'm just ready we did it very good now we got smaller pieces we can split up even easier look at that wedges for the win we're just packing up to leave been out here all day uh yeah you guys a little sneak peek at my some of my new gear i got a new pack from Malcolm the Hidden Woodsman updated day ruck pretty cool nice orange interior i'm not going to go into any kind of detail right now about it that'd be for another video but just got it yesterday wanted to bring it out today and also you might have seen Griff using my new adventure sworn mountaineer which looks very similar to one that i had many moons ago look at that taper on that tang boy we'll check that out in more detail later on too but just got that in as well yesterday so thanks to Malcolm at the Hidden Woodsman thanks to Cody Adventure sworn plenty more of this to come in the future oh but look at the fire steel look at the fire steel do the honors buddy another one in the books Griff well this was a good time Joe yeah it was had a lot of fun buddy yeah nice uh spending the afternoon with you it was thanks for giving me a call it's uh it's fun hanging out with people you know scouts good company but people are uh yeah you guys don't chase after the trees when they cut them down so they can hire you for That was a D-Roll. That's Joe Revin And that's my dad Yes, we'll give it back to Joe. Get the boogers. Dollars. Thank you. Gotta get that house shut off. Okay, Griff. Perfect. Perfect. Well, guys, thanks for watching. This is our, this is my second video with Joe. This is more of a Griff-Joe video. And, you know what, Griff, did you learn a lot from Joe today? Actually, he's properly cutting wood. Did you learn anything you didn't already know from Dad? from dad okay yeah Joe thanks for helping us out yeah Griff's all the wiser for it and we had a fun time yeah I had a great time too thanks for hitting me up all right thanks all right boys Another one in the books oh well that was a good day it was uh it's cold hey I hope it wasn't too windy on the camera there and the in the microphone that was fun it was fun hanging out with Scott and Griff We're kindling some basic skill knowledge for myself, too. So, thanks to those guys for watching. I got a big trip planned for my next video, so it should be pretty good. I'll see you guys soon. Thanks for watching. I already said that. Stay warm.