HD Bushcraft Video-Supper over a Fire, Wild Edibles, Axe, Hammock, Tarp.

This looks like good a place as any to stop, set up a nice day camp. I'm gonna cook supper out here too. You gonna eat that stick? Let's go eat the sticks. Gonna get my priorities straight, right? Cruiser all-day pale ale to go with my steak. I'm gonna set up a hammock today. This is just my day use hammock, my Yukon Outfitters one. I'm gonna use it like a chair. I want to use it as a place to hang out. I'm not sleeping out here tonight. I was only able to get out, it's about two o'clock o'clock now i was only able to get out just now and i'll stay out here until dark maybe seven or eight o'clock tonight but just spend some time in the woods cooking food using my axe grand old time so i'm hanging the hammock kind of low because i want to use it as a seat in front of my fire um so when i sit in it i'm just a bit too low just uh fix the tension i'm only using paracord because i'm only going to be sitting in it on and off i'm not sleeping in it by any means and i don't weigh very much 140 pounds tops so I know it can hurt the tree and I understand that but the reality of the situation is I'm not setting up camp here I'm not living here for a week I'm in and out of sitting down on this hammock and this tree will be totally fine test it out yeah it's a much better height now my knees are almost at a 90 oh yeah all right cool I'm gonna set my tarp up over top of it just as like more of a camp feeling kind of thing my ridgeline I'm just using paracord. I like to have a fixed loop in one side of my paracord, the Jolin, the Bowline, whatever other kind of fixed loop you want to have in there. That way you don't really have to tie two tie line hitches or whatever kind of knot that you're going to tie. And I'll show you what I mean here. There's my fixed loop. I can literally just pull it through, right? Pull the whole length of paracord through the loop. And it's easier sometimes if your paracord's not like 25 feet long and tying two knots. There we go. I'm actually even going to just put it above, hope it's in frame. There's a little knot here on the piece of wood, and I'm gonna put it above that, just as a little bit more, yeah, just as a little bit more protection or safety if a part knot's slipping, but it's not necessary. Leave it, leave it, Brett. The ground is so soft, you don't really need to pound stakes in. That's kinda cool. I'm just tying a taut line hitch again on my pegs, so that I can adjust it later if my tarp decides it wants to move around. Well, everything's all set up. My tarp's up, my hammock's up the way I want it. The only thing I need to tweak is I need to pull the back out of the piece of paracord going back so I get some room here, because the wind is just pushing it right against me. But if I pull it back, I'll have a lot more room. Come on, let's go. So this piece of wood is obviously been laying on the ground for a while. It's rotted. It's not going to take too much to get through it. Back up. There we go. I've been liking my new Kydex sheath. I'll show you guys a little close-up of it later. Really handy. Well, everything's squared away. I think I'll start getting my fire ready now. I'm going to clear a spot in front of the leaves. I think I'll have the fire a good step away so I can protect my overhang. So I think I'll go grab some oak, some maple. Oh, I think I spotted some wild leeks growing on my way in. So if I can grab those, I'm going to have those with my potato. Those will be good. I brought some garlic, but if I can get wild leeks in there, it would be fantastic. So off to do that, I guess. So here's the end of my tarp. I'm just going to do one step out. I got my fire here. It's all mud like really really muddy underneath, been raining for days So there's no real worry, all right, have axe will travel off to find some dry wood Hopefully some dead standing maple or oak like I was saying, but we won't be picky Yeah, it's all hardwood so everything's good, so this is a perfect tree This is a dead standing red oak, you can see it's got a shed its bark It's got a natural check. The bark's coming off super easy. This is a great piece of wood This is not gonna be enough to cook my steak and everything on but for a starter piece Definitely. We'll carry this bag boy back. There's a really nice dry dead piece of elm attached to this live elm and Ideally you'd use your saw but my saw is all the way Ten minute walk that way and I already have to carry back my tripod my axe and the piece of wood So I really don't feel like walking all the way there to get the saw We're gonna try and chop high and just be very careful as we do it, dense wood man You have to stop crying constantly. You're just crying constantly. Let's go. You need to stop buddy You need to stop because it's super annoying. Okay? That worked, you're gonna be all right there, okay, you make it, you got yours. Good job, do your part Gotta remember to stay hydrated no matter how cold or hot it is I like the idea of a hammock for for sitting in for just chilling out and I actually recently got a DD hammock with um an under quilt and i planned on doing an overnighter soon uh in it and i still will but i didn't want to bring that for the day because it's a little bit more to set up this one's nice and easy, no under quilt, no nonsense no messing around no bug screen all that stuff so just easier uh and more of a chill out kind of thing i think but i do like it i like the idea of it i like sitting in the hammock so we'll see how it goes i don't plan on i don't plan on switching it up for actual camping trips like backpacking or canoeing trips because I've already got my ground dwelling gear all laid out all squared away and it's cost me money to get that stuff ready and I've used it and I know it works and stuff I get a good night's sleep it weighs nothing all that so the hammocks are just more for like a bushcraft overnight or hanging out kind of thing so or an impromptu overnight just grab it and go and there are other applications the unlevel ground you can use a hammock all that fun stuff so yeah back at it leave my oak leave my oak firewood this oak this red oak is so straight grained watch out bud like always you always get nice long pieces from it doesn't break out very often again you know if you notice i'm not chopping right in front of me when i'm swinging the swing it all out like that when i'm when i'm doing it with two hands i don't mind doing it right in front of me but when i'm trying to split like that i have my my legs over to the side, let's go back up, my legs over the side and i'm swinging off the side of me, i'm actually almost hitting it with the, is it the heel, the bottom the bottom of the axe, anyways the edge the bigger piece, this is the uh the elm, it's nice and dry inside as well, it's gonna be a good fire, i want to get good going, to get it started soon today's a weird day, it was uh zero degrees celsius or 32 fahrenheit when i was on my way here snow just took off and and and no sun at all and now the sun's been out on and off since uh three, it's now 10 after four, weird day, i'm glad i'm out here, i was able to get my mom to come over to watch the kid because my wife's at work so like i said, i'll have supper here, go home maybe the kid will even be in bed by the time i get home, have some drinks with the wife tonight not too bad, i'm using a battle horse knife, this is my design battle horse knife, we were working together for quite a while about a design and i just got it in the mail the other day, it's the first time i've used it so i like it, i like it well enough, we'll see how she performs, i'm not going to go into any detail about it but right now but in future videos there'll be a whole bunch of detail about it, i'm sure, maybe even a chance to get one of them let me get a close-up on that you need to stop crying because you're super annoying when you cry stop crying scout yeah Yeah, this is working pretty well, not too bad. Actually, I'm just gonna leave these there for a minute. So all my fire prep's done. I'm gonna start the fire with my knife and my fire steel. I'm using oak shavings. That wind blew it right out, I think. The wind kicked up right as it ignited there. There we go. Knife and fire still go away. Now that I've got my smoke generator going, I'm gonna go out and collect some leeks. It's supposed to be a fire. I'm gonna go get some leeks. April 3rd today. time of year it's really easy to spot the leeks the only other ground cover coming up is a trout lilies and the trout lilies although they I guess they could be mistaken for the leeks it really only takes a little bit of knowledge the trout lilies have spots on them that could look like spots on trout and they're not half as big and all you have to do with the leeks is crush the leaves and if it smells like a wild garlicky smell then you got leeks and and they grow in bunches like this. So you can see they're all behind me and then there's this little patch here. They're really small still, but again, if you just break it, there's no mistaking that smell. It's like super good garlic onion smell. So now I have to just dig some up. I'm not gonna touch that big patch there. I'm just gonna take these little bits. I only need four or five. It'll be more than sufficient. Digging down next to them and prying upwards. There they are. The bulbs really haven't matured too much yet, but that's okay. They're still good, they're still edible. That's it down in there. Yeah, there's barely any bulb right now. Oh, there they go. A little bit bigger ones here. But, yep, it'll still work. Just gonna give these a quick rinse. Gonna be a little bit muddy, that's no big deal. I do not mind whatsoever. They're not the greatest, I'm not gonna lie. There's only a couple little tiny pieces of bulb on a couple of them, but that's okay. I'm gonna chop them, chop them up, put them in there. It'll be all good. I need to make myself a plate for the steak, excuse me. I need to make myself a plate for the steak and a cutting board to do the cutting on, obviously, for the leeks and all that stuff. So I'm gonna split this in half. This is a piece of that elm. Yeah, we'll use that. Some dense wood. One more time. Two more times. There we go. So that'll be all right. That'll be big enough. There is a little bit of funk on the side where the check was, and I definitely wanna get rid of that because I want to be as sterile as possible out here. So I'm just gonna clean it up a bit. Can you see my thumb there? Yeah, you can. So I'm not putting my thumb like this and chopping, not holding it like that, it's just danger waiting to happen, right? So if you kind of just hold a piece of wood like that, it's not as comfortable, but you get the gist of it after a while, and it's almost impossible, unless you really mess up, to hit yourself this way. Something just took off, I think it was just a squirrel. He doesn't get too amped up about the squirrels. Okay, I'm cool with that. Have I said I like this hammock? Have I said I like sitting in a hammock? So, got my little impromptu cutting board. I'm going to cut my leeks probably right about there. So get rid of the leaves. Now I have a handful of leeks that look almost like a green onion. Dropping them left and right. Let's get rid of the leaves. There, okay. So that's just gonna go next to me here for now. I've got my food bag, my Phantom X silnylon center zip pouch with tinfoil, butter, New York strip steak, a potato and some spices in the straws done up some steak spice and i got some salt and pepper as well so the potato is going to get cut up and the potato is going to go in with the leeks and the butter and the salt and pepper and that's going to go on the coals when you're using the stuff i've been taught shiny side in so i'm going to try to do this without losing my potato all over the place with my scandi grind wedge well it's gotten pretty good for scandi on a potato get them pretty thin so what i want to do i'm just just gonna cut them all thin all the same size as much as possible thin so it cooks a little bit faster I'm famished as it were got my potatoes all cut up I need to get my butter onto them I'm going to use my finger because it's almost frozen and then my leeks I actually am going to cut my leeks up into smaller pieces I believe so I can have more bites more leeks per bite I guess all about the leeks if you haven't noticed all about the leeks not too shabby now the flatter you can get your package the better because it'll burn or it'll cook more even and quicker And all that so I don't really worry about the front or sorry the first layer of tin foil I don't really worry about getting it on perfect because I do put a second one on But I want to leave it loose a bit so that I can mash it out Make it a little bit flat like that. That's only not even an inch thick then I go with my second piece flatten it down again that plane was super loud and then we go that will cook half an hour, half an hour at the most so now I got my my New York strip steak I want to put some seasoning spice steak spice on it but first I want to give Scout some now listen I'm not sleeping out here we've only been out here since two he doesn't even need this I'm going to give it to him because I like him. Okay. I don't starve my dog. He doesn't eat kibble when we're out here. This is a good amount of meat. He is lucky to get it. So I've got four good sized pieces. Here you go scope camera. So people can see, come on, come on. I'm going to give him all this that I cut. And then I took three quarters of the steak. I gave him a quarter of it. Steak's not cheap guys. So that's mine I'm gonna get some seasoning on it you don't need to see me do that wait no look leave it good good boy sit buddy happy dog whatever there you go bud I've got my potatoes on and I think that the coals are going to be sufficient enough to cook my potatoes and my steak so I got my little Coleman grill haven't used this a couple years probably so I'm gonna I'm gonna rake some coals over underneath here share the coals with the uh with the potatoes and it'll all be all good i might i might end up eating my steak before the potatoes are done but that's no big deal i'll have a little two course meal going on out here oh perfect of the sizzle I'm calling this bad boy done, potatoes are done too, cleaned off my cutting board again because I was cutting that raw meat on it, not that it's a big deal, it's just steak but I did anyways, that's good my little hot potaters. I'm going to let my steak sit for a minute. You're supposed to let your steak sit before you eat it, is what I've been told. So it'll sit for two minutes, which gives me enough time to throw these twigs on the fire. I don't even think I'll fan it. Maybe I'll just let it smoke until it combusts. I'm in no need for warmth, preemptive strike. Undo the pants. oh I'm looking forward to this man, this uh the wind is it is a bit chilly so I've got my smock and a piece of reflectix underneath my butt in here but other than that we're good to go I've got my my beer for today is an all-day pale ale by Cruiser Amsterdam brewery out of Toronto so this one's supposed to be kind of fruity a little pineapple juice tasting which sounds weird I know But for those who drink IPAs you'll understand what I'm talking about. Wow very pineapple-y I know I know it sounds weird believe me. So I'll let the steak bleed out. There we go. Oh That's a good steak man. So good. Just checking out the potatoes now still piping hot. Oh, yeah It's so hot those wild leeks really kicked it up a notch Wild leek potatoes. I'm warm in the woods on a Sunday at 530 I have a fire in front of me I have a tarp above me a comfortable hammock beneath me my dog next to me a good beer a great beer steak potatoes gonna go home to a loving wife and a kid blessed blessed so I told you guys I'd tell you a little bit more about my axe mask, my Kydex that I got here uh it was made by Ron at Copperhead Outdoors uh it's the same guy that did my tomahawk axe mask my or my Kydex for my tomahawk he's a cool guy um never knew him before actually just sent me a message on Facebook saying I'd like to make you something made me that tomahawk thing went really well went well for him and I really like it as well it's a good piece of kit so he actually wanted me to send him my axe I did that he fit up this this Kydex axe perfectly to it so he also gave me this little collar this leather collar well he had it and I never thought I really cared for one or use one before too many times I never thought I had a need for it but just after using it this one time I can see it's all scuffed up so I imagine I am hitting my my axe handle and just not knowing it um but anyways yeah it's cool it's kind of like a melding of new and old it's got like a traditional uh leather on the on the Kydex as well so he snaps and then comes out and then the Kydex is uh it's not traditional it's new and i kind of like that the melding of the two right that's kind of my whole my whole outlook on camping and bushcraft and stuff just the melding of everything together so i really like the way it looks uh he did have these um what the heck are they called the same thing that you use to connect your Maxpedition to your uh water bottles to your backpacks the clips I can't remember the name off the top of my head I didn't need to use it today it was inside my backpack today so but it just goes on there you can actually clip it so it's hanging next to you on your backpack or whatever I like it snug fit can't hear it at all you take that leather off comes off easy it's a nice color everything so cool very cool thanks Ron again and uh yeah I'll put the link definitely like I always do in the in the description because He's an American company. He's doing it all himself out of his garage or whatever. So, support him. And he does good work. Really good work. Talk about relaxing. I got a Monte Cristo, my IPA, sun's out, super blinding. It's just after seven. I'm losing light pretty good. And, yeah, I've done all I needed to do. Done all I wanted to do. So, it had been a few days since I'd been out. It was probably about a week since my last video. And it's been raining. and the baby's been sick so anyways lucky to get out today I'm glad I did all I'm doing now is just packing up my stuff and I'm getting out of here so nothing really to see you should look forward to a video from myself and my friend Mike if you follow him on Instagram it's Morton Mike Morton and actually he has a YouTube channel as well but only a couple of videos on my thing so buddy Mike is coming in about a week we're gonna come to the same spot maybe build a little natural hangout shelter cook some good food drink some good beers and just relax so that should be a pretty good video i don't know that i'll have any in between now and then but if not look out for that video all right guys thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one take it easy