Crazy Korean Chopper!

Well hello folks how you doing? Joe and Scout in the woods today. Got a pretty cool gift I got from a subscriber I want to use and show you. So that'll be the focus of this video. Stay tuned I'm walking to the woods. A ton of trees down back in here. These are all live aspen. I wonder why. It is like a garbage nuisance tree. Where you going? It's this way. This way big guy. Come on silly boy. No joke look at all this stuff they cut down. These are all aspen or poplar. Look at at all it's all open now pretty different here's a here's a oak that's down too i don't think they would have meant to cut the oak down that doesn't make any sense i was gonna wait until i got into the woods to bust this thing out but this seems like a good opportunity to use it check this thing out this is a south korean chopper look at that thing i got it from a subscriber and i've got his name written down i'll grab it here in a minute it's south korean so i'm not really familiar with the name, but look at that thing. It's got that Cecil rope on it, holding it together. This sheath did not come with it. It didn't come with this sheath, but I grabbed one to bring out to the woods. Look at that thing. Let's chop, see how she goes. Do some chopping, some chompering. Watch how it scoots. That dead aspen. Not dead, sorry, one of the live aspen they've cut. This is very green. It should be very soft and easy to cut through. Go back up, bud. See up here? That was an inch and a half thick again green like i'm saying and aspen is that thick right through easy peasy so it's all worked up all right let's see if we can work down a little bit farther down on this this has got to be half an inch quarter of an inch thick okay scout you're gonna you're just gonna take that okay he's gonna knock like oh there he goes weirdo okay back to the chopper you're back are you weren't you satisfied with the piece okay it's thicker move scout this is thicker and it'll get you a closer angle up on it watch out bud too shabby let's go come on man things pretty sturdy too pretty sturdy all right so that's a pretty quick test on just green live aspen that's nothing let's get this back in its sheath i'll walk over head over to the woods proper find some oak and hack up on that with this oak will be the test oak will be the test good boy i'm gonna have to cross on a log here i think that ice is not going to hold me look at all that yeah that ain't holding me go up up scout stay stay good stay there i know well we're gonna cross right now oh scotchy get up buddy get up like a glove like a glove all right we're gonna go that way i think that way we're in the woods finally all right before i go any further i'm gonna give a huge shout out to MVMT movement the watch and sunglass company i'm sure you guys I've seen them all online. 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And now it's time to step up your watch game today. Go to MVMT.com, use JoeRobinette15, and get $15 off, free shipping, free returns. Join the movement. We've got something in here for Scoot Magoo. Can you smell it through the can, Kenya? What a good sniffer you've got. Look at the good sniffer. Make a little brace here for him. on this side so that he can push and try to eat his food without pushing the container all over i'll show you what i got him this is called Blue Wilderness 100% grain free dog oh you're just moving the stick are you so this is a decent food i don't like to really feed him too much canned food but in this case it's really really good food so the first few ingredients are beef chicken chicken broth chicken liver potatoes so the first five are legit and then you're on to like Carrageenan flaxseed and then into other random stuff that I really don't know what they are and whenever you're reading ingredients It's always nice to know what they are. But the first five are legit. Let's open this bad boy for Mr. Scoots. Oh, yeah Oh, yeah. Doesn't that look yummy? He doesn't know what to do. He's over here digging Hold on buddy back up back up. So sometimes I have to give him this stuff called Metcam Let's go back up and that's a medicine for his bones and joints and stuff like that but it's liquid and he doesn't like the taste of it i've tried to put it in peanut butter and stuff for him what i can do it never really works but what i can do is this get him this wet dog food put it in there and he eats it up i don't have any with me but that's okay he can miss today but yeah he's uh he's well worth it you know this is like four bucks a can almost but that's okay it's a treat for him once once a week maybe twice a week i get it for him he's a good boys back to the chopper so a little bit of info on this chopper again it's from south korea i'll try to get you a better picture i don't know if you got to see it pretty good earlier see how thick it is i'm saying that's about a half inch thick maybe quarter inch but she's thick guys and it hooks down has this big like drop that Cecil rope a hole in the pommel there so you can hook the rope through i asked the gentleman oh let me grab the thing with his name on it the gentleman is from South Korea and his name is uh Kim Dong Hoon or Dong Kim Un so I'm sorry if I'm saying that wrong no no disrespect meant at all just me being white so this was from a another little like machete style thing i got from um a guy in Quebec but this fits on there in there pretty good i slide it right down into the handle and i can hook that on my belt and then tie this part on my leg so i think that's what I'm gonna do so I can walk around frickin Rambo style so there you can see it it's on my hip pretty long goes down to my knee exactly and tie this little shoestring part around my knee to have it sit the more snug Quick Draw McGraw went to art school okay so what I think I'm gonna do for today just hang out for the day here with Sco play with this knife this chopper quite a bit I do have an extra little thingy that I haven't had before I wanted to try out I got sent these things called Jiva cubes And they're supposed to be like an instant coffee, so I have been drinking the coffee lately guys I've been mixing it with the the old French vanilla and the hot chocolate It's taking me a little a little bit to get used to it, but I am starting to like it This is what these things look like That's in the focus you can make them in hot or cold and this one is actually a French vanilla style, too So that's what we're gonna do y'all done. What's that good food, or did you just smell my coffee? You smell my coffee cubes. Anyways, so yeah, maybe I'll get a fire going after I play around with this knife. Sit here, make up a brew, and yeah, have some fun with my doggie. It's almost Christmas. Christmas in a few days. Hope you all have your stuff ready for the families. I think I do. The wife's in charge of all that, so I'm pretty lucky. Okay, let's get going. Let's go do some chopping. Don't lick the can, homie. You're going to cut your tongue. Is that good? Is that good? Here, you've got a little morsels in there still. A couple little morsels in there I'll help you out with. My good boy. Okay, that's it. All right, where's the lid? Where'd you put the lid? Inside the can. I brought a chair. I brought a chair today. Nice and handy. Okay, leave it, bud. It's done. It's done. Stop. Crazy? I'm on the hunt for some decent oak that I can use to chop my knife to chop with. But until then, I've come across this pretty seasoned cottonwood. So let's go try that out for a little bit until we actually find some decent oak. I'm gonna have to be careful my dog. He's a little wound up. See how sharp that is, eh? I asked the gentleman Dong or Kim who sent this to me what it was intended purpose was for and there was a language barrier But he definitely said it wasn't meant for bushcraft So that's not too bad. Back up buddy. See how far I can sink it in. Pretty good man for a knife or for a Not an axe, you know, I touched it up a little bit on my just on my strop before I came but like look at that that's not bad man make some shavings so find some oak take off a chunk let's go back buddy let's go back okay I'm gonna keep using my gloves just because the the Cecil for the rope on the hand it's rough so gloves help I might even actually if this is worth it I might replace that with paracord if I plan on using it more often but it is more of just a novelty thing for me okay not quite oak but this is ash this is a dead ash dead standing and it looks yeah damn it is definitely seasoned very seasoned ash so i can use this for my fire we still will look for some oak but in the meantime let's let's um upgrade you know what i mean we'll go from live aspen to dead aspen to ash to oak hopefully scout back up back good boy you are crazy scout it's my own fault he's obsessed with sticks my next dog I'm not gonna throw sticks for seriously maybe I'll have toys at home I'll throw for him when we come to the woods it's not stick throwing playing time because it's too much it's too much let alone the the crying which I can deal with it's the running underneath the falling trees and being all willy-nilly with the sticks he's gonna poke himself in the eyeball he's literally de-limbing this this tree for me okay you need a moment to nubs down at the bottom there's a straight mark that stick bro It's yours. Show him his boss. I think I have found a piece of oak It's really difficult because the oak in this wood in these woods are either live or deteriorated and standing or Fallen and deteriorated and I don't want to do a chop test on a deteriorated piece of oak because that's just silly I've seen people do that in the past and not even make attention to it Like it's deteriorated or anything and just let people think that it's a solid piece of wood people are smarter than you think people pick up on things like that you know anyways what's a chop test if it's deteriorated so here's a piece of oak that looks deteriorated let's check it out i chopped into it a little bit already just to make sure and in all reality in all honesty and truth it is a touch deteriorated on the inside it's solid though like pretty pretty solid so take it for what you will we're gonna chop this bad boy down it might even fall over but we'll end up using it we'll chop it up into pieces to use it for firewood freaking out, well I am, he caught on to it, okay yeah she's solid inside guys for sure, let me take off the outside here, let's go please stop crying, just take it off the outside so you can see the quality of the inside there's two hands, no there's no way, no it doesn't make sense too so Korea, South Korea, I don't know what kind of wood they have there what kind of stuff they have there but it seems to me like they wouldn't really be having too many hardwoods again, I could be completely wrong but this oak is very dense and it's, it's doing well, you know it's a chopper, it's not as efficient or convenient as an axe but that's not what it is right, I can't listen to him cry anymore, so this is coming down probably right from the bottom too not even right, it's a little extra wound up just because he hasn't been out in so long which is only like a week, you got that sure there's a There's a little hollow stump, a little cottonwood stump That's probably enough wood. Let's get a spot clear for a fire Here's my two pieces. I'm not going to need this much wood at all to boil up a coffee or some water for coffee But again, this is just for practicing and playing around. Move. So let's see if I can de-limb these dead ash branches with one swipe Move. Ghost out That's not so bad Leave it, that's mine, leave it Man, this is difficult with you. It tends to bind, this blade. I'm noticing when I'm hitting it into wood It's binding pretty good. Moves go seriously. You got to go. You're gonna get hurt So take this. Look at that Dog management. Yeah, it's still binding pretty good back. Let's go. Let's go back. That's mine, buddy He's all about it, all about them sticks What dude, the struggle is real This one's really the only one with any substantial diameter on it. I'm gonna take these little things off the sides I like it because this thing has a a canted downward like I'm saying like a half moon shape or so it goes in easily To the wood even though it doesn't really have a point on it. Save these pieces we're able to split off I'm not worried about prying on this thing or anything Let's go. It's unconventional. You know, I mean, it's not a knife or it's not an axe and a saw I'm using to split this wood down It's just this crazy Korean chopper. All right, let's try and baton this one. This is the same one was working on pieces off of it so it's got kind of a flat bottom now a better baton still haven't batoned it. Those are good fuel pieces and really even try to split this one down one more time I don't need to but because of the demonstrative and playing around purposes so instead of trying to swing it down like this at it I'm going to bring it up with the, with the uh the chopper like I would with an axe. Okay, we're getting there i'm going to take some off of that big oak now this is that dead standing piece of oak that we grabbed i'm going to take it and i want to chop it maybe like a foot long section out of it bust down some kindling out of it and some fuel and probably only use that much out of it it's not necessary I got all these twigs and everything around and again I was just playing around testing that chopper out okay let's do some proper batoning now I was able to get these two pieces like you saw all the pieces of oak and bat in this one I want to make this point a little more flat so it's gonna be easier chopper guys I really do definitely not gonna take the place of probably any of my tools but it's just really cool as like a play around you see an inside solid oak okay split this one down too so I could use it for firewood but I'm going to split it a different way again so it's already split through so she doesn't want to actually split off or split the whole way I don't know if I showed this in a video I think I did recently if you if you're batoning wood and you baton all your pieces you don't have something heavy enough just grab a couple pieces together it's the same thing so we're looking good on the firewood front. I'm going to go grab some twigs, but this is enough fuel, especially with this stuff. We'll sit here and have a fire for an hour or so. I'm going to make some shavings. See how this bad boy works with shavings. Get that in there. Not too bad, but I need something to catch them because they're not staying on at all. Okay, so I got my little grill case bag, I guess. I'm going to try and land the shavings on there. It'll be the best case scenario for me. It's got this like finger groove this little choil deal here i'm trying to get as close as i can to the blade itself they're not great but they'll work i guarantee they'll work even if they don't there's some natural material materials around here some tenders like milkweed and grass and stuff that i can use to help it i'll be i'd bet money that these shavings would go up though with the fire steel all right this might take a bit there's some some knives like trackers like the heck is it uh Tom Brown trackers. They have this little like part of them where you can do these curlies this way And they work a little bit on this it works a little bit on this it doesn't have this like cord That's what it's called the cord around down here You kind of just pull to make these awesome rufflies rufflies as my wife calls them, but this isn't that all right check this out I got a cottonwood piece much better curls off this thing of course not now look at that some curls actually Actually some curls proper. There we go. Tell me those aren't decent Decent ba-bam those are gonna be the ones I strike with the fire steel for show. Okay, well fast curl action I'm flying everywhere. Okay. This is not bad. This is going faster cottonwood for the win. Look at that ba-bam son Here's the thing the back of the chopper is not sharp enough to start the fire steel at all it's very rounded okay therefore we're gonna have to use the blade which whatever I'm fine with because it's such a cheap blade and uh you know I don't mind if it goes in the dirt it's not that kind of blade for me what we're gonna do is set this up how we need it because it is a little bit finicky now that we have to use a blade so the way I'm going to do it I have two of the solid pieces of oak underneath for a base that'll be a good start for the fire and I got this another piece of oak i'm going to put for a brace so we got a base we got a brace i want to make it so that i can rest my fire steel here pull it like that and then have the the fire going so you know then then have the the shavings catch so i want to pick out the thinnest most airy curls i made put them all together i did pick also some reeds but they're going to be my first stage they're not going to be what I strike my fire steel on because I want to see that I can do this with with um with shavings so I guess my brace is going to sit here I didn't really think about that too much my brace is going to sit there I'm going to pull like this onto that again that's too high okay just work thinking as we're working here thinking as we're working we're going to go like this instead this is going to be the base now the brace will come in after I'm going to put that there and be able to strike off of off of the blade okay are we ready I do want to do it on the bottom half of the blade that way it's not right in the middle and I'm trying to avoid all the ridges on here let's do a couple practice runs that's how it's gonna have to be right like that okay take three all my good shavings are gone now too this will work I promise grabbing the top like this holding it all together but I'm being very careful of that sharp blade on my palm okay well I promised. Okay, maybe we'll have to get grass. Maybe we'll have to do it with grass. Believe it or not The blade's not that chipped up. It'll take like two seconds to fix that with my stone Okay off to get some grass I guess. Run out to the field, drop some grasses. Let's try this now Set it up a little bit differently, I guess considering I didn't have very much success the last time. All right I think it has to be down in there a bit more too. Okay, here we go At least if I get a bunch of shavings of of fire steel in here. I think I can blow it into flame like the last one I almost blew into flames, which is very strange. Yeah, I'm this thing is all chewed up man. Let's try it that way I can't believe this isn't catching what the heck is going on. This is frickin dry grass I need a new fire steel. This is crazy. I don't get it. I don't get this at all at all there we go. Holy crap. It was a little ridiculous. I got her race up there best laid plans all right now that was craziness guys like I've struck the stricken stroke struck I've struck a fire steel before you know I have I swear okay let's check out the damage and see what we can do to fix it alright buddy so let's check out the damage on the fire steel and the chopper for lack of a better word the fire steel was already gouged up some but this really really finished her off so I'm gonna need a new fire steel you can see the hourglass figure on that one starting to happen anyway need a new fire steel soon that's alright probably get myself a firesteel.com Armageddon anyways so no big deal again if you needed to do this like if you were in a survival situation if you needed to do that who cares you know I mean it's still there it still works still use it if you're using if you don't have your knife if you lose your knife or whatever break your knife and you're using I guess you could still use it if you broke it but if you're using a rock or something for your fire steel if you guys have ever practiced anything like that this happens big time a rocks rocks work some shells off the beach work it has to be hard very very hard anyways this is a fire steel come on at Kyle buddy Kyle maybe years ago this is it Actually, this is actually an old Gransfors Bruks axe handle on that, which is pretty cool. But, very old, now she needs to be replaced. So I got my DC4, my Fallkniven DC4 here with a strop. Let's check out the blade, so you can see exactly where I was using it, where all the brown is from the fire steel, from the smoke coming off of it, and then again there. So it did, it did impact it. It did take some little chips off of it. see it let's clean this off I'll wipe it on my pants a bit see it a little bit better I think this way so you can see it right in there so that's not so bad though I believe this is just really like an old like spring spring blade lawnmower lawnmower blade something along those lines and just turned into that chopper so the Fallkniven DC4 you have a metal side like a diamond side and then you have a ceramic side I'm gonna start with the diamond this has been used a hundred times too so the diamond side is a bit um or worn down so it 100% needs the diamond side i'm just going to go in circles oh yeah you can really see it now some chunks over there go in circles and you know what i'm going to do the whole blade so it's all even give it a little sharpening anyway you just want to keep your fingers off of the edge obviously away from the edge i go by sound when i'm doing this so you can different sounds for different angles try to keep it right around there you can spend extra time on the on the grooves if you want I'm really not too concerned about them being there I'm just trying to make it sharp again but if you were to worry about it spend some time here just taking it right down stupid sharp very very sharp so then I would take my ceramic side and really just do the same thing try not to cut your $200 pins and all this is doing is putting a finer edge on it shaving down the burr a bit polishing it up I I don't go for a certain amount of strokes on each side or a certain amount of time or anything like that. I just go until it feels good. Couple times, back and forth really. Throw it on a strop in a minute. Yeah, she's sharp. She's very sharp. There's still, okay, I'll show you. The strop's not gonna take this out anyway. The majority of the damage down there. There you go, you can see it completely. Just a couple little nicks. And I really went to town on that fire steel with this thing. So yeah, no worse for wear, I'm sure. heavy cover canteen nice amount of water in there probably wipe off that mud before i put the lid back on in my uh my grill case i carry a few things now i've switched it up a little bit i carry the old grill i carry my titanium spork and a spatula and I thought my lid for my heavy cover canteen but I guess I have that in my backpack indeed indeed I do I got a little scout here in my cup too okay so I'm gonna set this in the fire let that boil up love that canteen love that titanium man super lightweight throw it in the in the fire throw it down the hill she bomb proof almost there doesn't even really need to boil it's not dirty water or anything but we'll let her boil okay let's check these bad boys out these jiva cubes I got a bunch of different flavors I got like black coffee toffee a bunch of different ones but like I was saying uh french vanilla is my favorite. So the instructions say, open one individually wrapped Jiva cube using one cube per every eight ounces of water or based on your preferred strength. For hot beverage, I guess not water, ounces of fluid because you can use milk too. For hot beverage, heat milk or water until the desired temperature. Insert cubes after 45 seconds. Stir. Your coffee is now complete. Enjoy. Insert cubes and after 45 seconds, stir. Your coffee is complete to enjoy cold just dissolve in two ounces of hot water and top with cold water or milk well I'm not going to do that it's cold outside so I imagine it's the desired temperature now check this thing out smells like coffee look at this so I guess for me or for us the preferred usage of this would be like a backpacking or lightweight kind of thing where you don't have to worry about bulk or size i guess bulk or weight really bulk and size are the same thing All right, let's put this in. Jiva. Jiva? Jiva? Maybe I'm saying it wrong. Jiva cubes. J-I-V-A. Oh yeah, she boiling. Holy. It's darkening up already. That is pretty, pretty cool. Wow. Okay, I guess I can take this off. Probably put my gloves on. Gonna put my gloves on. Fool me once, burn me once, J-I-V-A. Burn me twice. Get burned, don't get burned again. Still loving this coat too. This triple fat coat. Triple fat goose coat I got. grading she dark she dark oh it smells super good that's good happy that my coffee smells good there's a french vanilla and obviously you can add stuff to it if you can use half milk or whatever already smells decent i'm gonna wait a second because she's piping hot all right i was watching a scramble dough video the other day the plane comes overhead i'm like oh freaking marty's getting it too and he's like oh joe's planes over here i had to laugh thanks for the shout out buddy martin's a good good guy he's a real real friend you know a friend in real life an rl i like him a lot i actually wouldn't mind getting together with him martin you want to go camping can i come to your house can i come to your can i come to your lean too i'll drive there let me know let me know buddy would you guys like to see that i'm gonna get together with sean cool i can't drink that yet we get together with sean soon too we have an epic trip planned that'll be really cool haven't I haven't seen that guy in a little bit since I shot the video about his cabin, which is looking amazing right now with all the snow and everything up there. There's no snow right here. We got dumped on maybe like, I don't know, a week and a half ago, and everything melted because I live in Windsor, land of the not winter, not real winter, the soupy winter. The taste is there. The taste is there, boy. It's too hot to really tell. But yeah, so I got that plan with Sean already for late January, early Feb. I want to do that thing with Martin, so hit me up about that, Martin. I got a solo, well, with Scout, I'm going to take my new snow trucker tent that I got, the canvas tent. And I'm going to go for a few days with Scout and that thing. And then I'm also going to go back to that shelter that Mike and I were working on. Maybe I'll bring Mike to that shelter with me again next time. You guys seem to like Mike, which is cool. Mike's a solid dude. 100% chill that guy. Yeah, that's good. That's decent. And there's like, I think there was three cubes in this little box. Oh, four. So if you're looking for them, I don't know if I'm pronouncing them correctly, but it's J-I-V-A. They're made in the States. Oh, that's sweet. Made in the States in Miami, Florida. Manufactured by Norax Noonan in Georgia, and I think they're out of Miami, Florida. So that's really cool. thanks to the guys at Jiva Jiva Jiva for sending me those too appreciate it i'll be using them in probably next few videos actually because cold weather is perfect well i don't know what else to say i don't think we're gonna do much else scouting right we're just kind of chillaxing when's the last time i heard somebody say chillaxing it's chillaxing bro keeping it real by the fire likes it christmas is coming up but christmas is in a few days this is the doesn't Doesn't tell me on there it is. Oh, it held up to the batoning. Of course it did. I'm not surprised, but secondhand is going normally. Yeah, everything's good. Why don't we all do something cool for the holidays? Why don't we all try to just be a little bit nicer to everyone? Myself included, being nicer to everyone. Try and maybe go out of your way a little bit to help your neighbors, or if you can, get a homeless or people in need, maybe a needy family Christmas dinner. We try to do things like that when we can it's important I think it's important for some of the world to be kind and our genre might as well be it, right? We might as well be the kind people we really got no reason to hate, you know I mean all we want to do is camp We just want to go out to the woods and hang out. So there's no real controversy with Controversy no real controversy with that. At least there shouldn't be all right. Just want camp. Just wanna go camping, bro Half your time with Joe and Scout Old train, the old train came in, so you know what really sucks is I just got this camera not too long ago, it's the Canon 80D, 80D, and I'm noticing that you can hear focusing sometimes, I'm not sure if that's just the lens though, but my Nikon I had for, and so that's with the mic in, the external mic inside, oh, I bought a new mic, thank you to the person, I can't remember your name off the top of my head, but somebody donated 100 bucks to it as well, which was very cool, so thank you, I emailed them to thank you, but thank you again, so the mic's back, everything's well, but I don't know if it's just because of the lens, like I was saying, my Nikon I used to have, it would do it, but as soon as I plugged an external mic in, it would stop, and it was the kit lens the whole time, it was the 18-140 lens, and I had that for years, I still have that, I use that as my B-roll camera now, this one I just got, I know it's not a new camera, it's an older camera, but even with the external mic in, I can hear it focusing, so I'm hoping it's just a lens but even still lenses are expensive right lenses are more expensive than the body a lot of the times okay well i don't know how much more i can ramble on i think that's about it thanks guys for watching this video hope you like it hope it was something different playing around with that chopper it's not something normal for me but uh have a very merry christmas treat each other well i hope nothing but the best for everyone thanks for watching i'll see you in the next one goodbye