Bushcraft Knife Skills, Unknown Visitor at Camp, 250k Sub Giveaway

Hey folks, Joe here. Thanks for tuning in. I'm with this crazy guy. We're out in the woods here. Seems like I've had a visitor since I've been last here. My rocks are all rearranged, different spot, and the most telltale, I was written a note on this piece of wood. Okay, so I got here. I could tell things were different already. He started to put up a little wall there. He tied something up. My shelter looks different. And then this. Hello, my name is Mark, I am into the outdoors as well here till the end of March, hope it's okay I crash here a couple times, he leaves his phone number which is not my area code here, so the area code like I said here, take this area code is not uh from here, from where where I live and he says he's here till the end of March, which is kind of confusing for me uh I don't know Mark, if you watch my channel or if just kind of found this place there's this old water container that he wrote dry wood on and stuck a bunch in, I had some stashed here previously he must have saw that and did that it's a little strange, I don't really care too much but it is a weird feeling, I'll tell you that much but anyways whatever, no big deal, I'm gonna rearrange my my rocks back to the way they should be and um cut down whatever he put up and then get to enjoy my day out here, cook up some food, excuse me, and uh we'll go over some bushcraft knife skills, I want my rocks the way that I had them, a three-sided fire pit, man what the heck with the big ones on the back to try to push the heat back to me we're at like nine negative nine degrees today celsius this is here for some reason and what what is this maybe this is a table at one time okay well chill man that's strange very strange okay now that i feel like master of my domain again getting a little warm got the old fall raven granite shirt on a wool jacket okay so yeah let's look at my new knife and let's play with it let's beat it through some wood sounds like some fun eh i've used this knife a few times i had it on one other video this is the tradesman the adventure sworn tradesman they got their adventure sworn logo on the spine down near under the handle so when you're scraping a ferro rod or whatever it's not going to scrape off there is desert ironwood burl with orange G10 liners they might be micarta i'm not sure i think G10 and then you can see here this is a 1/8th thick 1/8th inch thick and it tapers down to probably 3/32nds right around there this is his take on a french trade knife a very popular design that's been around for a long time and it's proven so you can see the ergos but adventure sworn has the best ergonomics uh barnum uh in on knife handles look at that it's like a i'm trying to keep it in focus the blade is about five inches long and it's very very wide at the bottom you can see like bigger than like an inch and a half scandi grind shallow scandi really pretty knife and the thing about it is i ain't afraid to beat this thing up we're gonna we're gonna cross baton today we're going to baton we're gonna stab this tip is quite thin i have no reservations about plowing through some wood um yeah great ergonomics like i said beautiful looking blade beautiful handle the sheath is just as good what i've come to expect from adventure swarm so it's in the it's in the sheath sorry just poked myself in the eyeball a good sheath should hold your knife like this not let it fall out and then when it's time to pull it out still be relatively easy to pull out scout you can't you can't you just taking my firewood again came with a matching fire steel fire steel loop on the on the sheath the fire steel is desert ironwood and orange to match my knife what i do to keep it secure put it in take a little piece of shock cord go around it like that twist it a little bit and it's not going anywhere i can use this knife as a dangler i can take this dangler right off or i can dangle it like that either way i like adventure sworn a whole lot i've been good friends with cody the uh the owner for a long time so let's go oh we got we got a little adventure sworn logo on the back there okay let's go beat the crap out of this thing i want to make a fire so i did bring a saw i didn't bring an axe at all so i could use this a lot but let's go around see if we we don't have to use a saw i don't think we'll go around and see what we can do but we'll baton baton like hoy i already do have some dry firewood here so maybe i'll get the initial fire going and we'll see we'll see oh and before i forget i have a really cool surprise giveaway um value high value gear that i'm going to give away in this video because i'm about to reach 250 000 subscribers on the youtubes be sure to stay tuned because it's a it's a hefty prize and you will not want to miss it when i'm putting my belt knife on especially with a dangler i do want it to be set back a bit so here's my first belt loop and if i put it through the first one it'll be here kind of in the front right by my crotch i kind of want it back here behind this belt loop like that far back right so i'll take the belt out two loops put it through and then throw it back there that way it's out of my way it is a dangle so it's going to dangle as i walk i personally like it back there she looks good too if i have to grab another piece of wood to uh cross baton a tree down i'll do that if i can pull a tree down i'll do that we shall see when i see a tree one maple will do the trick maple kind of what the heck is this now man I'm finding all sorts of crap now what is this nonsense what is the point of this tell me electrical tape wrapped around the tree like that like what is going on I'm here a lot and I've never seen that before it's relatively new it's still sticky craziness anyways find a maple maples tend to grow in these clumps two three four five however many and one of them usually is dead and it's about wrist thick so it's a good i'm gonna see a clump right here potential while they're not in a clump they are most likely from the same root here's two live ones here's a dead maple right next to it so i'm gonna try to just pull it down okay so we're gonna have to cross baton that that means i need to find a sturdy baton i want to do like a 45 again this is a scandi grind remember that There's nothing wrong with that, doing this kind of stuff with a scandi grind as long as the heat treat is on point, and Adventure Storm heat treat is on point My baton wasn't so sturdy. I just want to go around the whole tree and do this and weaken it, or weaken my baton some more That baton got shredded. Here you can really see the method and the angle that I was using to chop this wood down. Process this whole thing using just a knife, but at this skinny part, it's just easier to do that And once it comes down here, to start cross-batoning In all honesty, even if I had an ax and a saw, everything, I would still be just doing this for the first little bit, the small pieces. Watch out, buddy. No, not for you. Batoning time. Okay, so once again, I've tried to get it, go over there, please. Thanks, bud. You big helper. Such a big helper today. Not being sarcastic at all. Okay, again, like I said before, try to get a sturdy baton. There, bud. So in cross-batoning like this, tend to go on a little bit more of an angle than when the tree is standing just because i can and again flip it over there's no point in trying to do it all from one side one angle okay and obviously guys this isn't the most efficient way to do things right can you go lay down the most efficient way to do things oh my goodness is to have multiple tools and use those multiple tools for their intended purpose but everybody wants one knife to rule them all eh try to remember to put put my knife away every single time. You don't wanna know what mishaps. As you can see the curls, pretty fancy too. I'm just pulling them off or letting them fall on top of my sit pad. That's my favorite way to do it. So I don't have to try to keep them on or anything, but you could. These are my fast Canadian shavings. Sometimes pull them off with a thing attached like that. And that's good for fire starting because you can control where your fire's gonna go. I could light this over here and bring it to my fire. So that's a keeper for sure. Scout, what are you doing? is wood homie another way of telling that this wood is good to go it's a natural check as i've learned from Mors Kochanski's book Bushcraft Northern Bushcraft calls it a check, that was a long time ago now, but that's where I originally heard it from. The key to making shavings this way is just to try to barely skim your blade along the wood until you want it off, obviously you can make some really really fine shavings this way, really nice shavings. This wood is super nice like very clean the right amount of seasoned there's no real decay and no green, perfect look at those curls, look at those curls, boy! Again I just kind of like pry it off so I get a little platform with it, brat tat tat, I'm gonna do this until I have this much curls, so Adventure Sworn Bushcraft Co has been around for quite a few years. They are out of upstate New York, an American and made run owned business, good guys for sure their knives are pretty sought after, I'm not sure how he's doing there, his website right now or his ordering books, I think he does a run of knives and then post them for sale. Okay, I'm almost done here. Yeah, I'm gonna call that done. Cool, let's get this fire going here, you can see my amount of shavings, lots of nice airy big curls, I'm probably going to take one of the pieces that I split off with uh like this one, this is probably the best one and I'll like this and transfer it over to these guys, all right, here she goes, set it underneath the shavings we got a quick fire boys boys and girls ba-bam son get all that on there all at once no time for farting around you know no farting emerald's not here not so bad that swell on the end really lets you chop a truncated or cross baton couple pieces off here now fed them into the fire and I've got this much length left so what I think I might do I don't know I might see if I can split it lengthways then I can break pieces easier with my hands we'll see we're just all playing around right this is just practicing testing this knife out a bit so right in the middle I get set but you're actually supposed to do that on the pommel but whatever so got a nice split going down it's gonna take it easy and continue to do that down a a little bit farther and farther as we go so I want to stay in the same split though could go get a piece of wood and keep the split open with that that would make sense but again this isn't really anything we're just playing around threw onto a knot I'm gonna cut through the knot awesome it's a decent piece so to split that there now all I have to do now all I have to do I just threw a bunch of logs on that fire and while it's going I think it's a good idea to come out here and get what i need i need to get one sapling one green sapling preferably a maple because i'm going to use it to be cooking bannock on and i also need to use it to make a pot hook but i figure i can make all of the components of both of those things out of one sapling one maple sapling this is the perfect one i'm going to cut it down and i'll show you exactly why back at camp back at the camp so much warmer over here man this this fire this reflector this back part it all just kind of circles the air and it's i don't know man 10 degrees warmer over here as soon as i came sat down i felt warm so anyways so here's a piece i cut just now you saw how i cut it bent it over use the uh just like a push cut but it made it a very 45 like a beaver chew almost like a on an angle so that's good because i'll use that to stick into the ground already so i don't even need to make a point on the end of it half halfway done so i want my i'm going to make a Burtonsville rig um pot hanger again from the Mors Kochanski book Bushcraft so what we need is a piece that goes into the ground and it should be well you know what about that long about arm length long for my my situation right now because it's going to go into the ground a little bit and then i do need a piece of this to cook my bannock on that's higher up i'm gonna cut it about arm length right now the way i'm going to cut it just going to make a series of cuts into it again on an angle and i want to snap it off the sap is a little frozen so it's not going to be going as easy as if it was in the in the summertime but again you can see how i'm doing it i'm the work is done in the first like inch and a half two inches of the blade right because that's where i get the most leverage i'm going to cut out here it doesn't make any sense i'm cutting here because i have more power and i'm also using my hands well behind but i'm using my second thumb to help with the cuts right again they're just going to go in and around and deep there's never really any need to always go through the whole thing if you just break it around and then kind of or cut around and kind of just break it it works totally fine so this piece is going to go over to the side for now okay so that first piece i cut off was for the the stand right the thing to prop it up what i'm doing now is actually making the hanger itself so you see my see the twig that's coming out here this is going to be my hook so this twig gets cut off right about right about there so that's you can see how that'll turn into my hook and then i've just been scoring around like i did before there we go perfect the next thing we need to do is make a notch on the back of the pot hanger so here's the front and i would call this the back i want to make it about three quarters of the way up i've already measured and that's about where i want it to sit you can make multiple notches the Sun is so bright I can't see in my LCD monitor to see if things are in focus or not it's pretty crazy anyway so again here's the back right so opposite side of the pot hanger itself I want to make a score and see I'm kind of holding my blade up on the blade itself you get a lot of a lot of control that way so I'm rolling the blade rolling the stick at the same time making just carve this little notch out This this notch isn't enough yet. This is just you're gonna have to baton it or carve it in really good, but this is just a guide I'm gonna show you the full step here So what I like to do is really make it deep so that there's less chance of popping off the pot hanger I've never really actually had it fall off. It's pretty secure So again, this this wood is frozen the sap inside it is frozen. I'm gonna baton it a touch You don't want to go too far I don't even want to go to the middle because I don't want to weaken it, right? I don't want to go to the middle of the piece of wood just light lightly batoning it and then carving down into where those Those are basically stop cuts the baton marks. Okay, pretty good Just trim it up on the inside like that make these the piece smooth almost there Let's see there how it kind of works the tip holds on just kind of works. Just putting the finishing touches on this is my stick that's going to get stabbed into the ground that the pot hanger itself is going to rest on so one end of the stick has that pointed end there you can see it and the other is gonna be like a flathead screwdriver see I'm saying see I'm saying right there thin and straight across if it's jagged it's a little messed up from batoning or whatever just cut straight across make it nice and clean that will sit on there beautifully all right so we're gonna stab this into the into the frozen ground now we'll see how that works not sure how well this is gonna go it's not the ground is straight frozen and that's to be expected it's freaking march so what i am going to do is stick it underneath my log here to prop it up and then i will have something in front of it to hold it up uh grab another log like this there we go i'll have that there have the log behind it to hold it there this log to prop it up I'll have my pot hanger on there and it is nowhere near high enough so I can do a couple things try and make this higher which I can probably do like that that works that's fine that's quick fix quick fix okay so I'm gonna get my pot we'll hang it on there see oh see how good it is situated I got some eggs and some bannock mix so I'm going to cook these eggs up my favorite way which is kind of poachy double boilie style where I put some water in my Billy can put the dish on the top and hang put the eggs in there and hang it up over the fire I am going to put a little bit of butter in today so my eggs don't stick too bad melt that in I guess I'll melt it in right now just over the fire before I hang it up that's good good and melted we're gonna get both the eggs in there BAM son and I'll BAM son eggshell smell like crap and they're burning like a deer antler or like a fingernail kind of get some more wood on there and make up my bannock my bannock you ever see that Mitch video a while ago Him and Malcolm were out they're making bannock and keeps calling it bannock He's almost like yelling at Malcolm because Malcolm wants to cut it. Oh, you have to break it or else this guy this guy you must break the bannock my friend of many seasons for anyone who didn't really understand how i set this up this log here this is a sturdy heavy log this this log isn't going anywhere so my pole my pot hanger is coming down stuck into the ground a bit and underneath this log and this prop log in front is just propping it up uh at a higher pitch if i had this log farther down farther it'll be at a lower pitch lower angle got my eggs on slow cooking because i haven't even started my bannock yet i might even at two different two different times too i'm gonna be out here for quite a while today that's 130 already holy crap anyways here's my my stick that i cut off of the rest of that maple and i think i want to just skin it just take the bark right off of it i'm gonna wrap my bannock right around it and cook it on the stick there i want to take the bark off because there can be bacteria microbes and stuff like that in the bark that in all honesty probably aren't going to do anything to you but that's where they are and it's super easy to get it off so why not you obviously want to make sure that you're using a wood that's not toxic either like i wouldn't be using blue beech for this right because you're not supposed to cook on the flames of a blue beech so maple is a pretty safe bet ash is safe Any kind of fruit wood obviously is good might impart some taste but keep it Canadian We'll just just do maple a just keep her Canadian do a little maple You know what this is probably a good time as any I have a giveaway to announce Like I said earlier in the video. 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