Overnight Bushcraft Camp With My Dog Pt1 Tripod for Boiling Water Scout's Birthday, Pit Cooking.

Hey folks, Joe here with Scout. We're in the woods. It was Wester Scooter's birthday a few days ago. I wasn't able to get out on his specific birthday, but here we are a few days later. Scout turned 10 on October 8th. So he's an old man. Come here old guy. Come here old dog. But he's doing alright. He's doing alright for 10. So it's a beautiful day over here. It's like 6, 7 degrees Celsius, which is around 44 Fahrenheit I believe. So what the plan for today is we're going to set up a tarp shelter. We're going to camp. A little Scout and myself. I've got a lot of goodies for Sco for his birthday. We've got some stewing beef for him and some beef short ribs I believe. So yeah I've got some good food for myself too. A pork tornado, some potatoes. got a decent sized backpack it's a new one for me from MyTrail they used to be called GoLite i've had a bunch of GoLite products in the past they went out of business MyTrail took over so this is a MyTrail 50 liter pack yeah got some got some creature comforts i'm excited i'm happy to have some time out here with my buddy so i gotta get a fire going real soon because i want to try to do some underground cooking and for that i need to um have a fire going for a long time so what I think we're gonna do empty the backpack set up the tarp find a spot to make a fire make a fire no water where I am I had to pack my water in for me and the dog what's up big guy kind of tarp shelter we're setting up today because I need for Scout and I I'm gonna do an a-frame tarp shelter I don't need the fire in front for warmth and I want to just be covered and have the dog in with me so nice a-frame I'm going to use my pre The cord that's pre made up for this with toggles. I can show you that in detail real quick here This cord is reflective might be called night eyes. It might be called something else. I'm not a hundred percent sure I can't remember Kyle my buddy Kyle actually made this up for me when he Gave me that tarp that I used in my last video the silnylon tarp So some of you know about this already, but it's always a big question. I get it's worth going over These toggles that are pre tied on here. They're already on here They're made from aluminum arrow shaft just cut and ground down and then there's holes in it Connecting it to that then the way it's attached to the rope the cordage is it's just on Prusik's Prusik's are super easy to tie there's tons of knot videos out there on how to tie a prusik knots So that can slide and then but it also tightens when it needs to get tight right here Tautline hitch real quick around it once right you take that running and leave yourself a little bit of space on the running end up once through up twice through and that's on the inside and then you're gonna take it and go once on the outside and then just pull it tight okay and now that's going to adjust that's where it will that's going to adjust how you need it keep this piece longer probably I don't know 35 or 40 feet long because I know this is this this piece that has the toggles on it is dedicated to be my shelter ridgeline so I'm not going to be using it for any other purposes I'm not gonna be cutting it I'm not going to be hanging food with it or nothing so I want to keep it a little bit long because I know that's the length I will need I don't want to go any longer any longer than that's just ridiculous and any shorter you might not have enough so there she is good there nice and taut but we are going to loosen it back up after I've got to clear the ground away here of leaves sticks rocks before I put my tarp up finally look at the fall colors love it i see right off the hop sassafras basswood sassafras sassafras maple sassafras rocks those will come in handy and he's off crazy dog you're crazy no place like home right so this tarp for those who don't know is a very very old school tarp this is a bushcraft outfitters coyote ripstop 10x10 this isn't still nylon but it is bomb proof i've had this one of my oldest pieces of gear for sure nice and easy your toggle goes through your tabs nice and easy i swear there we go toggle goes through the tabs that way you're not tying anything specifically to the ridge pole or the ridge line and you can tighten or adjust and this is important because you don't want a saggy tarp you want to have to try and reef on things and tie them and lose tension and everything as it's going so already tied on real good i actually am going to tighten the ridge line itself tiny loose behind it hello hello how you doing bro it's about time to cut some pegs for my tarp and i realized i didn't have my knife or my fire steel on me just got here not too long ago so i'm gonna do all that stuff now gear up as it were i got a new knife a my newest bushcraft outdoor purchase got my buddy Jonathan Deering I have a knife from him before I don't know that his books are open or not but either way he was nice enough to make me a knife and it is pretty cool man pretty cool this is a Deering woodchuck and it's in convex so this is the second real convex knife I've had the only other real convex is a Turley but she's beauty look at this look at the flat black handle on it you can't even see the pins sorry you can't see the pins or anything he did all flat black pins and lanyard tube for me with the floating white liners really really really nice i haven't used it at all i haven't touched a piece of wood on it so anyways came with a really nice sheath too thanks john appreciate it buddy let's go you need to back up buddy this is it's virgin cut dude like butter in all honesty okay that was is sassafras and they're not the most dense wood but still two little cuts and threw it pretty happy with that okay so let me make up some some pegs real quick the ground is so soft that i'm able to just stick them in so there's one and i can make two out of this another good way to do it if you don't want to try and cut all the way through just score it around like this so i got three there make up one more so i've got all these tie outs with paracord already tied to them and that's been like that for years but I can just slide the peg through the tab be much easier for me that's what I think when I do a ground sheet and everything today got this one for scooter so we'll have something to lay on what's up big guy but it's probably going to be big enough for both of us I've never even opened this up yet been in style today boys and girls good boy okay this is luxury man this is a big old tarp probably a 10 by 5 something like that come good boy lay down yeah okay plenty of room in here man plenty of room in here for us it's been raining for the past few days so I was really concerned about being just in a mud puddle in here that's why I brought this for mr. scooter not not to lie for myself too but I have a sleeping pad and sleeping bag and everything I'll be up off the ground I just want to make sure that he was up off the ground too so we're all good this is all set up i still have my sleeping pad and my blanket to put in here but i don't need to do that anytime soon what i do need to do now is go and start a fire i need to also dig a hole next to that fire a substantial hole find some rocks break those rocks up into smaller pieces push the coals from the fire into the hole continue having a fire in the hole let the coals build up die down bury it put my food in bury it let the coals die down put my food in it bury it and then let it sit all day it's already one i didn't get out here till noon gotta do that now i found this really nice piece of hickory dead standing very very rare to find dead standing hickory a lot of the times it goes to crap before it before it falls yeah this one's good to go leave it this is not for you leave it leave it i'll give you one no drop it man jeez louise i'll give you one right now let me have my own woods happy birthday don't spend it all in one place kindling so i was told last time i used this on my last video that there was an easier way to do this so try that i got scouts uh food bowl here or my food bowl i have two bowls i don't know who's who will use who's right now but i got a bowl here regardless i'm just gonna collect my fat rope shavings from it i don't need much i don't think oh you still see that yeah i think that's probably plenty then i'm just gonna buff them up my hands uh before i strike them again i'm just doing this because i'm trying to go quick little cat hairball don't clean those up every day split pushing it really down into it like i normally do there we go normally i'll set the fire steeling you know what i mean you do know what i mean because i've done it because i've done it a hundred times so again i didn't really even do too fine of kindling at all no shavings and all pencil or even bigger than pencil thumb size in some cases it's nice it's nice not to have to go through the whole process in my area i don't have birch bark right i don't have pine twigs i have small twigs which i can collect and stuff i still have to make like a shavings or grab some grapevine bark and stuff that like that stuff will work but yeah it's kind of nice to use something pre-made for a little bit a little change there's still some of that hickory left i didn't use it all up and i need a really good strong digging stick i figure what's better to use than hickory little hickory stick this goat's got his eye on it too hey where's your stick i want to try to take the thickest part of it actually you know what down here it kind of hoops up like a spoon i think i'm gonna cut it right off after this knot on a diagonal i'll cut it no big guy i'm about to cut my hand super dense because it's on a knot there i turn and the grain's going every which way got it so i got Got my little Gransfors Outdoor Axe. Gotta be real careful right now because the goat's going a little crazy. So I have two options, right? I can make... I have two options. I can make this part my handle and get a good purchase. Goat goalie down, dude. Dig like this. Or I can shave this out and use this more like a prying spoon. Which I think that's what I'm going to do. So I'm only going to take a little bit off the inside here and make it look sharp to me. Okay, pretty good. Let's see. Let's see how sharp she is. It's all dead hardwood, hickory, like I said. Okay, I'm going to dig that hole. Now, kids, always remember, resheathe your knives, put your Axe Maxx back on your axe. Public service announcement one. I want to be able to rake the coals in and out of the hole, so I'll leave a good distance. I'm going to dig a nice pit right here. There's going to be some roots, some stabs of grass roots that come up. This is probably one here. I'm going to grab some for tea later on. but this kind of ground here is a perfect substrate for this just straight soil like there's no watch out buddy it's soaking wet soil sandy a little bit sandy let's go you gotta give me some room homie what are you doing keep going dig dig dig dig thank you cooperative effort scout whenever if you want to teach a dog to dig it's probably not what most people want most people probably want the opposite but whenever I saw him digging in the woods I would say good dig and I'll praise him for it at home he's never really dug a hole so it's not been a bad thing perfect sassafras sassafras root close to that fire sassafras root right there so I'm gonna keep as many of these as I can while I'm digging this cooking hole you can tell by the smell what are you crying about homie hey dig then dig good dig I feel like you're just putting on airs now okay just going through the motions or what yeah don't take my digging stick that's what this is all about my stick's getting a little dolled out i'm making progress i've got a bunch of sassafras roots way more than i need now for uh for tea later on show you my show you my whole progress i keep all the dirt try to keep all the dirt next to it here it's hard there's lots of roots this way either eating super late tonight excuse me i don't know if I should do that with all these roots here conflicted you see all this right you can see all that in the camera i know in the coniferous woodland and pines and stuff like that you're not supposed to do this i'm supposed to have the fire on the ground and what would make these roots any different i don't know i have no idea i expected there to be roots but i didn't expect there to be this many just congested right here so i think what i am going to do for this time is just to play it safe i'm going to throw the dirt back in and cook on top of the fire and then just do a a little bit more more research if this is a dangerous thing to do or not i just don't feel i feel comfortable doing it that sucks i got a pork tornado so pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon and put in tinfoil and put underneath there and slow cook it but maybe i just cut it up smaller and do it in tinfoil on top of the on top of the coal maybe next time next time i don't think i had enough time either to actually cook that food like that so that's another good reason not to do it i uh yeah i don't want to feel rushed so anyways now that i have some time i'm going to build a I brought a little para-chair, I'll show you how that works, and then I think I'm gonna give Scout some of his food because he's wandering around like crazy, so we'll get that, I gotta get a tripod tied up, I already have some poles over here. So this is my para-chair, tiny, silk nylon piece of material, comes in a bag, we'll get more to that in one second. So what I have here is three pieces of wood, three logs, about wrist thick, and they're not all the same length two of them are about six feet long ones about eight feet long the middle one is the eight foot see that one but i have them all arranged so that the bottoms are all together because it's going to be standing on the bottoms surprisingly enough i'm going to go around i'm going to tie it just a normal knot to keep them in place i'm actually going to try and save some of this cord because quite a lot of it on here quite enough of it i mean so double knot it's on there now right what i want to do now is go wraps and fraps so oops wrap it tight because i'm not holding it tight i don't want now fraps inside in between sometimes it takes a little minute to get it through there so this is just tightening it all up together two camera system loving it my player is a smoke vest the para chair i'm sure some of you guys have seen me use this before had it for years again i believe kyle made it for me what a nice friend kyle is all right So, it's basically a big bag with a drawstring at the top. You tie this off to the chair. Then you put, there's a sleeve in the bottom running this way. You put a stick in there, and that's your leg support. So, all you've got to do is tie this up at the appropriate height, probably right around there. It's draped down right about there. And then I can still adjust it after as well. Now I've got to get a long piece that I can tie to these pieces that's sturdy. All right, I've got this old piece of maple I've used before. Perfect size. and it is very sturdy so now the only question is how high up to make it make my seat probably a bit high i'm probably going to have to adjust the the legs anyway so i'm going to tie it right there anyway i'm trying i'm trying to film excuse me oh they don't care so for these ones super easy wrap it a couple times and do the old shoestring knot the old granny the old overhand on top it's short you might want to do a double knot so she don't slip out on you but normally that's pretty good let's see let's see full chest side down there we go oh nice and comfortable the only problem is my feet are about five inches off the ground the smoke's going in my eyes i gotta resituate the whole chair but uh yeah nice comfortable there is about a billion birds in the sky right now or in the forest chirping chirping wait on all right so of course because as I move my chair over here, the wind switched directions and is now coming this way, but she's all over the place. She's all over the place. My foods, so for me, I've got pork tenderloin cut up in three, wrapped in bacon, like I said, so that's a pork tornado. Tornado. Some butter, got some shallots and stuff, but for Mr. Scout right now, oh, Mr. Scout's getting the hookup. Got a bag of meat. I got a bag of meat for Mr. Scout. What I have here is some stewing beef, chunks, some pretty decent size. I got six of those, seven of those, and then I have some beef short ribs for Scout. What I'm going to do now is give him the beef short ribs. They're raw. There's a little bone in it too, but he'll be able to crunch that bone, eat the marrow, clean up his teeth a little bit too. This is Mr. Scout's part of his birthday present. Emerald bought him a brand new squeaky ball, which he really likes. Hold on, bud. You got to show the people at home. This isn't just bone. This is all meat. There's these two little tiny bones here. So this is all meat it's a good hunk of meat this would do him did i mention the thing about the smoke so i think that cost me like seven dollars total to the short rib so that's plenty he's not going hungry he's gonna have more food than he needs again he's getting spoiled a little bit oh it's nice it's very nice all these leaves are still green up on the trees i was showing you those leaves earlier on the ground and so only the sassafras and a couple other trees will turn there's it It looks like summer in here when I look over at the trees. It's October 16th. That's crazy. That's absolutely crazy. I'm going to have to get up north again soon. I'm taking the family. I'm taking Will, Emerald, and our two nieces, two young nieces, up to the Bruce Peninsula. So I have to get home from this trip tomorrow early in the morning, which I'm just by my house now, edit this video, have this video ready to go by Friday, because then Wednesday and Thursday we're going to be up on the Bruce Peninsula in Cypress Lake Campground. We're going to check out the grotto and I remember there being lots of frogs and turtles around this time of year up there a couple years ago. So it'll be cool to show the girls camping with four girls. Scout's not coming. There's no room in the Jeep. Camp out tonight, and then I'll do some more stuff with him later on. In the winter and the fall and stuff, it's the time for him. He's got that long coat. He loves it out here. Okay, my fire's dead. Not dead, but it's not going good. I need to go cut a bunch of good firewood. I've been throwing pretty crappy stuff onto it, actually. Man, the sun is coming behind a cloud or something. So I'm gonna go run and try and find a good piece of firewood. Well, I'm gone I don't want any chipmunks or raccoons or squirrels or anything to get for my food So actually hanging it from here would be even better. Can you see that? You can hang it right there and lock it in there. I love the woods this time of year man. I absolutely love them. That's maple too and that saw is ripping. I'm gonna boil up some water and make some sassafras too and this little tripod is gonna help me do that. Alright, so I'm gonna try something new if it works it'll be pretty cool. I got this piece of clean wood I batoned it down from a piece piece of clean maple and then made some notches in it What I'm going to do is tie it on here And I'm going to try to boil my water in my heavy cover canteen hanging over the fire using this method I'm gonna stick this in the top of the canteen and then turn it like a fish gouge or gorge When you try and fish like that double double knot at least on this thing double knot at least on this piece He's gonna need a drink. I've got Scotch water in here You can have that whenever you want. I got this maybe just about halfway full of water. A heavy cover canteen. My lid's going to go right next to the Scotch water Water bowl so I don't lose it. Get this hung up on there. Again, I stress that I used a clean piece of wood. So in and hung on. Okay, so in theory, this should be pretty good. I just kind of wrapped the paracord up here on this other, but it wouldn't burn while I was waiting to do that. It's pretty sturdy, though. Swinging it all over the place, and it's not nice. Some more up in the books old Joe now to clean off those sassafras and if I want to move it or if I feel Like it's not it's fine where it is, but I feel like it's not