Overnight at the Bushcraft Basecamp E3

Hey folks, Joe and Scout out here back at the Bushcraft Base Camp. We're going to do an overnight tonight with a wool blanket, cook some good food, have some beers, should be a nice time. So just kind of picking up where we left off last time, I want to hammer in, hammer back these lengthways support poles so that I can fit another log on top. So I can just, move Scout, you already took my heavy stick, Move. Now I can put another full log back here and give myself more space to lay down on. Apologize for the sound. There's a whole lot of wind. 30 kilometer an hour winds all day today. And it's whipping through these trees like crazy. No more yellow on the trees, they're almost bare. So lots of wind noise today. Hopefully it dies down at night. Too shabby. I am going to use a sleeping pad. I'm not going to put it up right now. But yeah, sleeping pad on top of the logs, my wool blanket on top of me, fire in front. Just a grand old time. Some of you guys voiced your concerns on my shelter not being enough protection from the rain, and I think you might be right. It's a little short, it's a little steep, so we're gonna add rain protection, and for that I need to tie a second ridge pole above my ridge pole that I have now. So right now we're just out looking for a long, straight, dead piece of wood. I can probably just push it over. I don't need to chop it. Second ridge pole is gonna go about head height and it is going to go on the same side as the first ridge pole on the back side of the shelter. So we'll get that in there. Maybe I can rest it up there for a second. So I got smart and pre-tied the Canadian jam knot around, loosely around the tree. That way I can just potentially slip the ridge pole through and tie her up. So these Canadian jams, same thing I was using in the first video to tie the ridge pole. And just like in the other video, I tried to do tension it with the stick as opposed to pulling it with your hand. But in the other video, my stick broke because it was too small, but this is a substantial stick. Tie it as tight as I can, and I'll do an overhand stopping knot. Okay, I think I did it. Sturdy enough, my five by seven tarp should be big enough to go seven feet this way and then five feet this way. If I start it on here, if I tie it off here, and tie it up off to some trees, I'll get a good awning for rain protection. I'm gonna get out of this sun, and yeah, let's see if it works. So I want to tie this overlapping the pole, so that if rain drips on it, it drips down this and off the back. So I'm gonna get it overlapped, just wrap it, and maybe tie it off on itself. Doesn't have to be anything tight right now, I'm just trying to get it secured on there, so I can see if this is even going to work. It all looks good except for in the middle, but if I pull this tab and tie it down or tie it back, I think we're doing good. Now this works, it's non-intrusive, I can take it down. It's gonna protect me from rain, snow when it comes, but I'll be taking this down every time. This isn't bad, and I'm not worried about my fire burning this at all. Scout's over there playing around. He's usually right under my feet, So I'm glad when he goes off and sniffs around and pretends to be a dog for a while. So it's 2:30 now. I have until about 5 o'clock until light's gone. I've got to collect a bunch of firewood. That maple I took down earlier was no good. All rotten. But I've got to make a fire, get firewood, cook up some food. I'm getting pretty hungry now. I might have a snack. I'm going to make some sides to the shelter. Right now it doesn't have any sides to it. um basically done done everything uh that i want to do with this shelter like i don't mind having this tarp above me for rain protection all i really wanted this place for was like i said to sit down and have a fire have a little bit of wind protection from the back sleep out here if i needed to um yeah and this is this is done i'm pretty pretty happy with it so i am going to add sides like i said sides are imperative to me so we'll do that today but other than that yeah i'm pretty pretty pleased that my little chill out spot back you know so I took your advice I took the trim the the lip hanger advice most of them maybe they're growing back a bit but got a fresh new fresh new do I snipe the mullet you can't have a shaggy man a shaggy mane and a shaggy face you gotta you gotta snipe the mullet every now and then you know the old mullet sniper something else guys that's not too bad yeah living large on that one oh look that Scootie lays down next to me like a big boy. He's such a suck. He's such a suck scout I think I'll do his pound steaks in and sandwich logs in like that going up That's what we'll do I've got to find a stake a very long stake that I can use and pound in and still have length So I came across this here tree that got bent down by another tree falling And that's what we're gonna use because there's a long straight piece I can get on it You always have to be very careful with this kind of situation. There can be a lot of torque, a lot of tension when a tree has bent another tree over. But in this case, it's actually cracked it already, it's not going to really barber chair on me. And it did still, it did still shoot back a bit. Okay, so we're good there, it's still in frame, nope I'm not. Cut it as long as I can, there's actually a fork, a Y on it and I'm going to leave that on because it's always useful. So let's cut it just a few inches above the Y, or above the crotch I should say. Okay, this should be big enough. Get this bad boy back over to the base camp. Thinning it all out so however much needs to go into the ground will go easier with less resistance. Next up, I have to get a new one of these, a new working log. This one is garbage. It's falling apart, it's making stuff bounce off. It's done, it's rotten out. Even better, so that's the plan. Just layer in big logs like this. You can start to see my progress here. This definitely is not finished. I do want to come up the whole length of the way. But what I also want to do is take my saw and cut these kind of on a diagonal, following the lean-to back so that it doesn't look so obtrusive and big. But right now I'm just working with my silky saw and some of these iron, like I just chopped through this iron wood. It's a lot to work with. So I'm going to wait until I come back another day with my buck saw, my Egawa Canyon Boreal 21. And that way, and actually more paracord or twine because I don't have, I'll probably use twine I don't have any more to spare today so I'll tie the pieces onto the log as well right now you can see I have a peg drove into the ground on that side one on the other side one here this one is tied to the tree tight but in all honesty this is loose like these are these are very loose so I can shake them they don't move but I do want to secure them so like I said again we'll come back saw them all down neatly tie them off but it's 3 30 now i don't have any firewood that has to be my my goal now to go get some firewood time to go get some firewood like i've been talking about for the past 20 minutes i kind of like this whole like building as i go thing like just doing it slow a little bit here and there i had thought that this this camp out would be the culmination of building on it but i can still keep keep adding to it if i want to making little tweaks here or there that's fun makes me feel like honestly it makes me feel like a kid again building building forts in the woods because that's all it is right i'm just playing i'm just i'm playing bushcraft no seriousness about it at all i better start looking for trees not talking to the camera that is some dense oak super old i really wish i brought my buck saw It's just too much for this. These are my big fuel pieces. These things are super dense that they have to be split down for sure. Stay back scope back This stuff the the bark of it that's already starting to fall off starting to peel off easily is the stuff I'm going after this kind of stuff here I don't want to try and have to pry it off because then a lot of the times it's too Too hard too solid to use properly so that should be all right I've been buffing up this grapevine bark for a couple minutes now all of what I had turned into this This is what you're going after super fibrous stuff And that should should take the spark from a fire steel and flame up gotta flip it over upside down After it's going but it's not keeping a flame close fails just give her this was not easier than just making shavings I just try to do something different but whatever looks like it's gonna work I don't imagine my fire is going to go higher than this really the winds blowing it a little bit but the flames are probably about here this tarp is maybe warm it's right on the cusp it's like in the middle of the fire and the heat can escape out the sides there's no no concern at all for me and if it does get spark holes in it I'm gonna patch it up it's not a big deal at all you got to use your stuff people are always so concerned about using nylon near a fire and stuff like that but i do it all the time putting this oak on so that when it comes time to put my sausages on some oak coals stay lit not like last time i've went around and gathered a bunch of dead ash that i can cut up later and burn so i've mentioned it before but i know there's a lot of new subscribers to my channel people who might not have seen those videos the spot i'm in right now is very noisy because i'm near a highway and surrounded by farm fields so there's lots of trucks and traffic noise but it's what i have around here and i'm appreciative of it for when i can't get to the places that are more remote and wild so my go-to is this rice, this Uncle Ben's rice um not the microwave one, this is called Fast and Fancy and and I always like the fine urban wild rice. Sometimes the chicken one's all right. But, yeah, super cheap, man. You can sometimes get this at the dollar store for a buck. Look how small it packs down. And if you ate this, you would be full for a couple hours for sure. So we're going to make this up and then some sausages, cut the sausages up, put them in there a little jambalaya style. That's probably not a jambalaya. Probably not a jambalaya. So they're saying you've got to mix this in with 500 mils of water and butter. Butter, but I never put butter in and they want you to put the seasoning stuff in beforehand But sometimes when I don't have a way to measure my water I'll just I'll put this in after because I can dump some water out But I do have a way to measure on the side of my Nalgene Seasoning packet mix that bad boy up and then they got instructions on how you should do it But all I ever do is put it on a boil and make sure the rice doesn't stick to the bottom start burning i stir it every now and then and then once it's almost done i just move it off so it's just in residual heat not right on the flames easy peasy takes like 15 minutes not even we're gonna use a trusty old pot hook she wants to slide wants to slide sideways there's definitely heat trapped in here this little oh the moon's out sweet uh this little shelter with the fire reflector i could feel radiating heat not that i'm gonna need it it's not it's not getting too cold at all so yep well i hope you guys like this this little series i don't know that i'll make any more in this series i'll still come here and i'll still do stuff to the shelter and and putz around the woods and have fun and make a fire and stuff but i don't know that i'll put it in this series i usually call those videos when i'm out in this specific wood the HD bushcraft videos but I don't know I need to make a certain name for them all when I come out here but I got some some trips planned maybe I should maybe I should crack a beer whoa let's just hit my set my camera maybe I should crack a beer what do you guys think yeah all right talk me into it it's uh 5 30 the sun's down moon's up residual light left not gonna have light for too much longer so the choice remains do i try one that i've not tried before at all first or do i drink one that i know i really like first i'm thirsty i think i'm going to give the new one a shot i think i'm going to give the equilibrium ESB extra special bitter by Knuckle broke a shot smells good that's different she's bitter wow she's bitter that is a weird taste It's not bad. It's far from bad, but it's weird Mike. Have you tried this kind Mike weigh in on this Mike Michael? Has anybody tried this? I imagine you'd have to be Canadian because they're from Canada But yeah, give me your thoughts, give me some ideas on good craft beers They don't have to be IPAs, good craft beers that I might be able to get my hands on in southern Ontario So my rice is done and there's still some water in it I took it down off the off the pot hanger put it next to my sausages right on the on the coals on the grill here with the lid off so that it can evaporate all the extra water these sausages are cooking up nicely, oh yeah this is gonna be good, I'm excited yeah that water is getting out of there quickly as soon as I took that lid off and brought it down here, it's happening a lot quicker, you can see the steam coming off of it, very good, I like to tie scout up to a tree when I'm out here not for fear of him running away but for fear of coyotes drawing him out there are big coyotes out here and I've seen them before, so all I do is tie a bowline on one side wrap it around so that it's through a loop and then I'll give him a lot of lead so he can get up and walk around if he wants to, we're not gonna do that just yet, that's not till I go to bed, oh yeah she's just about done, sausage is too, okay tell me this isn't cool, how much is that gonna help for filming, that's that through night, a big flashlight just pointing right directly up at my tarp on the ceiling, that is fantastic, I couldn't ask for better lighting and I got mood lighting if I want or daytime very cool so these are nearly done just like to open them up a little bit ah poop so the inside gets cooked as much as possible they're pre-cooked anyways it's no big deal but a little ashy on that one she's hot all right i'm almost done man this flashlight is awesome like it's daytime it's daytime gonna hook scout up with some food too i brought his own but i know he'd appreciate some rice and sausage with it so give him about half a sausage give him some kibble some rice okay maybe a little bit more kibble under there you go buddy we'll have to let that cool but that'll be a nice good meal for him and then i plus i got all that to give to him if he wants it so he'll be good back up buddy there you go food and water good boy already you're done already no way kibble's not doing it for you drink your water here good it's windy super windy why'd you kick over your water bro oh my gosh yeah this is good pretty uh pretty relaxed right now i got nice fire light in front of me that's all you're seeing is light reflecting off a fire or from the fire my doggy some good food this beer is growing on me too I need friends I need some friends guys well that food was good hit the spot I got some a little bit of chocolate later on excuse me for dessert Scouts licking his plate clean I give him a little bit more rice he's right underneath me now ball keeps sliding on him ah what to do now hey what to do it's uh it's only 20 after six and it's pitch black did i say i need friends so this light the TN42 it's a search light and they say it's one of the most powerful uh LED lights it's got a Cree XHP35 high LED and it's capable of 2000 lumens with a max beam of 1550 meters it's got a lifespan of 20 years it's got technology to prevent overheating their modes range from firefly at 0.8 lumens low 38 lumens medium 256 lumens high 780 lumens and turbo which is 2000 lumens it takes four 18650 batteries which is nuts it's a pig but there's a charger for it so you don't have to keep buying batteries and uh yeah it'll last you 20 years like it said so i don't know depending on what you need it for i'm using it for this it's freaking awesome for this and then to have around the house too you can never never have too many flashlights as i'm learning i'll put the link in the description where you can find one of these i get a lot of questions all the time about um asking me to do a video about my like spooky experiences in the woods and stuff or my scariest experiences in the woods and like i hate to be a stick in the mud but like i honestly don't have any it's it's it's boring it's a boring answer i know but i don't have any somebody pointed out to me the other day on a video i'll probably link it in the description i'll write it in the description there's a certain point in a video where i'm out here at this specific spot and in the background you can see like a human-like figure it's blurred out because the depth of field with my DSLR walked past where i am and i like whatever people put like put that all the time in my comments and it's a chipmunk or it's like scout or but like it was i was i was alone and i had no clue and this is i can't remember what video it is but i'll find it i'll put it in the in the link but that's probably the freakiest thing and i just heard they put that comment like yesterday the day before now i'm out here camping so that's kind of got me a little a little sketched out um buddy brian actually found on devil's night out here a rabbit with his head cut clean off the head was gone it was just a rabbit body so that's strange an animal wouldn't do that and it wouldn't be clean but like yeah nothing nothing real crazy man even when i saw that bear on Vancouver Island it wasn't wasn't really like a scary thing or a worrisome thing at all but i don't know no bigfoot stuff either guys i'm not I'm not, I'm not, not a believer, but it's a far stretch for me, it's a far stretch for me, good times, just having fun in the woods, you know, that beer's done, looking forward to my next one, but I still got some time to go, it's not late enough yet, guys, it's not late enough yet to drink the last beer, that's gonna do a lot, just having this little bit on my head, keep your head warm i'm gonna stay warm i'm gonna stoke the fire a bit too it's not that cold it's just the wind whipping through i can feel how's that how is that headlamp mounted to the camera i think it's time guys i think it's time not vader time some of you'll know what that means time for the Karma Citra this thing is freezing cold super into it right now it is nine o'clock very grapefruity very grapefruit juicy oh fantastic beer look at them curl look at that look at them curl that's my martin tribute my martin scrambled o's shout out look at them curl look at it bashmaster so this side isn't completed and it's done a different way than the other side where there's logs or what i did today but my backpack fits and the wind is coming predominantly from this way but my backpack fits right here nice and flat up against the wall and my head my whole body's gonna be below my my backpack anyway so this is gonna be a nice windbreak for me sit right there and yeah I feel nice and protected in this thing man I'm looking forward to going to sleep tonight tell me that doesn't look like a lightsaber on them. There we go. Nice and flat and it can join its buddy. We'll pack those out in the backpack. Waiting all day for this. All right guys I'll see you in the morning. I hope that I have a good night's sleep. I think that I will. Good night. Good morning. Had a great night's sleep last night. I slept from just after 10 till about 5 in the morning. So super refreshed. It's about 5 40 in the morning right now my mommy is coming to pick me up at seven in the morning so i need to get up get this fire going make breakfast pack up and hike my butt out of here pretty quickly i got no light it's daylight savings time my head's on fire so i got two packs of oatmeal this morning i'm gonna let them sit while i continue to pack up i slept pretty solid i was i was kind of chilled because i just had that wool blanket so i slept with all my clothes on i ended up taking my puffy jacket it off i was too warm um right when i first went to bed but then after out through the night it got got chilly with just that wool blanket and i didn't have the fire going the whole time i didn't stoke it once i went to bed at all there was such a good base of coals this morning i was able to blow it back to life like you saw always like that just rekindling the fire i was expecting it to get a little bit lighter for my hike out of here i'm running out of time all right there should be time to start making my way out of here there's enough light now where i can see without using my head lamp which is good try and see if i can make it back it's gorgeous out here sun's coming up on the other side of me making good time i made it out of the woods okay guys that's it i'm out at the road now i just gotta wait for my mommy my mommy to pick me up i hope you guys enjoyed this i hope you enjoyed the video i hope you enjoyed the series this will be the end of the series but i will continue to come out here like i said so thank you very much for watching leave a comment and uh yeah have a great day guys take care