HD Bushcraft Video; Axe, Saw, Cook, Enjoy the Day.

Man, it's a lot of work to get out here. I don't usually show my effort on getting out to the woods, but it's a haul for sure. So today, Scout and I are out here. I've gotta shoot a few videos, probably three, knock three videos out. And I'm gonna spend about five hours out here, cook up a lunch, just hanging out with the dog. It's nice. It's pretty warm today, about 10 degrees, so it's almost Christmas. It's crazy. It should all be snow, not puddles. Thanks, climate change. Make it through. There you go, good boy. Let's use the old noggin, eh, bud? Just leave it there. Let's go. It's a little muddy. Oh, you got it up here, did ya? Good job, bud. He's carried it up all that in between all the thorny stuff. Surprised, surprised he could get it up there. He couldn't be more proud of that thing. Hey, you got your stick, big guy? I'm just liking this pack more and more all the time. Again, it's the Hidden Woodsman Day Ruck. It's just finding more and more things I like about it, so I've already gone through it all and everything, but look at this. So my bow and my frying pan will both fit in the molly on the side, and they don't take up any kind of room inside or anything. they both worked out really really well so the frying pan super slick to get out it's like the perfect width the handle it's just got this metal handle it's a non-stick i haven't used it on the fire yet but we're gonna try it out and see and this one it takes a little bit more effort to get it out it's gonna take a ton of effort to get out now because it's on film for sure my old willow bow for my bow drill i've had this thing for a long time when i first started do bow drill like over 10 years ago so this is super old so first things first i want to get some firewood i'm getting a little chilly and hungry and i want to get this fire going fire's gonna go for i don't want to let it go for about an hour before i cook so i have a nice bed of coals on i don't want to cook on flames so i'm on the search for hardwood which shouldn't be too hard here in the hardwood forest i think i found a good piece of firewood it's a dead maple i believe it's dead i know it's a maple i believe it's dead so to test it in the wintertime if you if you don't know a little little cut with your knife and it's brown underneath it's all good all dead we gotta get this bad boy down and you know what it's fun to use a saw i mean sorry it's fun to use an axe and all that stuff but completely honest with you in this close proximity to this other tree how small this is and all that there's no need to use an axe i don't want to ding this other tree up by accidentally missing this tree and hitting it and this saw is so much easier and faster honestly um there's a romantic thing about using an axe to chop down a tree but in this situation it just doesn't apply i'd rather use my axe for splitting up the wood to be honest with you so I guess I'll have to adjust the camera so you can see where I'm cutting So in a tree this size That's all I want to do I cut through halfway and it's going to start leaning that way I don't want to keep going Because it's just going to bind It's just going to bind my saw, I'm surprised it hasn't already So I'll just take it out, turn it around And just go like a quarter of an inch higher And that'll fall any minute I'm just going to help it because I don't want it to fall onto my camera It has a nice hinge on it and everything So you can see the hinge it made anyway Worked out pretty good See, I didn't need to use my axe at all Now I gotta carry it back for no reason. Now I'm an advocate of using an axe. I really enjoy it. It's probably one of my favorite things to do in the woods. But sometimes it's just not applicable, you know what I mean? Sometimes it's just easier and smarter to use your saw. But we'll use our ax splitting this up, no problem. Silky's cut on the pull. Once you realize that, it's a lot easier to cut wood. You're not trying to force it forward at all and that's where it's kinda jammed when you force it forward. So if you're just easy on her and only pull hard on the pull, pretty good. If you don't have a sturdy base to work on, or if you're finding it hard to saw, another option is to just kind of hold it up right, prop it with your foot, and saw it sideways. Other times I find it get easier cut that way. Again, you just kind of hold it with your foot, all right? Just prop it up. And you can still cut it to the size you want, just go down as low or high as you want. I find you get a lot of force this way, I'm not sure why. Easy though. So off that one maple I took down, I got all this wood. And that can definitely be more than enough that I need for all day today. By where I'm gonna have the fire, I don't have a working log. I don't have a substantial log on the ground like this. So I've just come over, it's about, I don't know, 50 feet away, and I'm gonna work here so that I have a substantial log so that I'm not working on smaller stuff and there's no chance of it rolling around and so I don't cut myself. There's a less chance of me cutting myself at least. So I don't have to break these down too small because I have smaller stuff I wanna work with, but this is too much to burn for a lunchtime fire. I don't want to be here all day waiting for my coals to die down. So the smaller pieces, the smaller the coals are, the less the coals are, I guess. I'm just going to split it down easy like that. This maple splits pretty good. I'm not going to exert too much energy or anything. Bring the wood down with the axe, and it kind of does the work for you. Here, there's a knot in this one, so it might be a little bit different, but we'll see. Nothing at all. I actually might even leave, because I need a base for my fire, I might leave these pieces long. If I put this down, I have the fire right on top of this, so they're flat. be nice and easy to strike a fire steel against and it'll add to my coal base and it keeps the wood or the fire up off the ground, which is which is important. It rained all day yesterday. It's pretty wet in here So this is all I was doing to split So I'm just putting my my axe face of my axe right on the wood Then I'm holding the wood with my hand and holding an axe in my hand and I want to bring it up I'm not gonna hit it here I want to hit so that the wood where the axe is hits hits the bottom of the wood that I'm working on You just want to watch out for your knuckles back here that your they don't get smashed So if you want you can move your hand up here I just hold my hand away from it But it might be a good idea to say to hold it up here just until you get comfortable with it Just watch you don't smash your fingers. There's a couple different ways you can doing this and it sucks It hurts a lot But again, if you don't want to do it like that There's nothing wrong with one of those right and you just kind of break it after or hit it on the other side I'm collecting some thin twigs as well probably about pencil size pencil lead to pencil size twigs and you might be wondering yourself why I'm doing this if I was splitting down wood already why don't I just split down the wood and get get the dry pieces for this size too the answer is because I don't want to because this wood is right here readily available just break it and it's there I don't have to split it down I don't have to do all that stuff this is easier and it'll work just as good this wood is up off the ground and it's dry it's dry ish it's dry enough to go that's for sure so I will still make shavings out of my wood because in my area there's really not a lot to have natural materials from you can do leaves you can do some barks and stuff like that but the easiest and most convenient for me is making just wood shavings and striking my fire you're still right on the wood shavings I already brought the rest of the wood over I'm going to make these into stakes I'm going to try to stake a smaller piece of wood in place so that it won't move so that I can work on it should be relatively easy I'm gonna have to grab another another two because I messed up splitting that one so I'll grab another two of these split them into stakes and meet you over there this is the log I want to work on right and I just wanted to show you I'll do it beforehand like it rolls right if I want to split this I am potentially see that that's not that's not safe right so potentially be a problem with this with this spinning or rolling my solution I think in my head at least is to hold it in place okay so that's that's pretty sturdy now that's pretty stable yeah that's stable enough to do to split off at least some small stuff nice so silly me I don't know what I was thinking on the other way crossing it there was nothing wrong with the way it was holding what the way I had it this just makes sense makes sense to me right because then now it's gonna grab it as opposed to letting it bounce whereas before could balance out because these were shaped the other way Derp derp derp derp still learning still learning boys and girls these big slivers on purpose to go After my shavings a bunch of those next to my shavings this fire is gonna go up real good I'm gonna use the fire steel to light my fire today for those times when you've lost your fire steel in the Pacific Ocean So for comparison, this is a big fire steel, right? Look at the size of that thing a subscriber sent this to me. I thought it was really cool So it's really really big and I want to use it to start the fire today I'm going to take my finest curls. I'm going to put them down first, and that's what I'm going to strike my fire steel on. I'm going to add the more coarse curls after that, then the slivers, and then work my way up from there. This thing's a beast. Nice. Throw my sticks that I gathered right on top right now. You want everything on it all at once. Scott, you're going to have to move, buddy. The smoke's going to get you. Because this is a cooking fire, I want to get a nice bed of coals that go sand. I'm going to throw a bunch of good-sized pieces on right away. just throw a bunch of them and uh it'll probably take a while maybe 40 minutes before i eat or so i'm here for a while already a few hours always pack a Clif Bar with me notice the toe of my axe is uh a little dinged up when i was using it earlier so i have my uh my sharpening kit still using the same old Fallkniven DC4 broken in half and everything just gonna use the uh the ceramic side because it's not that bad i don't really need to hit it with the diamond the axe i'm using today because i'm sure somebody will be curious is uh Sandvik one and a quarter pound head and it's on a 20 inch Gransfors Bruks handle my friend mike handled handled for me with just a wooden wedge so for years i've had a 19 inch Wetterlings and it was a great axe i really like and i still do but this has taken its place the head isn't half as wedge shaped as the Wetterlings is handles nicer it's thinner i love a thin handle it's a good axe man really really good axe so my ding is up here at the toe he's trying to spend as much time there as possible still touch up the rest I want to keep it even that's the sore spot there my little leather strop I carry around with it I love these pants it's died down enough for me I'm hungry I've been out here for too long without eating so time to eat so I have to redeem myself after my mishap the other day with Mike I dropped the eggs in the fire so I brought pretty much the same stuff make it a little bit different way though so first goes on this turkey burger that got kind of maybe a little too warm and smushed in my bag and kind of falling apart but i'll make it work get this paper off here now we'll see now i'm going to melt this butter in my pan because i'm going to cook the egg in the pan drop them in a paper towel and put them in my billy can this time i just was careful i just wrapped in paper towel and it was fine pan's getting some heat in it now not nearly hot enough normally it would turn white right away that's going there it's getting there no english muffins this time got bread that'll work it's okay because this uh was actually a burger not a not a breakfast sausage so it's a little bit bigger everything's working out pretty good bread's getting toasty without getting burned um this egg is should oh yeah look at that nice nice i didn't pop the yolk on it uh i don't think i'm going to i want to try and flip it without that happening see if i can do that bam son oh yeah things are happening today oh oh what's that marble cheese marble cheese to go on that piece yo it's all done uh bread's toasted nice and crispy not burned at all i've cut into the turkey burger and it's done so now everything's good i think i'm just gonna butter the one piece because it's gonna be easier i'll dip it in so you get this egg onto this piece in one piece oh yeah look at that and then if i do this all is well oh man you can't buy that you know that right you couldn't go somewhere and get that well i like to think i've redeemed myself from my mishap the other day too bad mike's not here to enjoy it but here's to you buddy look at that yolk it's like soft boiled to perfection oh man thanks should i give scout some give scout a nice chunk so scout doesn't eat kibble when he comes out guys i get a lot of questions about that too giving him a quarter of my sandwich okay i'm a human being i'm giving my dog a quarter of a sandwich he doesn't eat kibble when we come out here he won't i've tried it tried it on multiple day camps too i really like this little pan just like a stoneware i picked it up specifically to cook eggs in because it's super non-stick and it's about the right size the omelets in it too really easily flip them easily and the fact that it fits in that side of the backpack bonus you gotta love that look at that and if i didn't have my my bow here which i might just leave here i'm not sure yet it fits a lot better um it kind of rounds out the top portion of the backpack see what i mean like it just kind of fits in there pretty good uh with the bow in there it kind of stuck out but i can even carry the bow no big deal look at that like it was made for it eh like it was made for it gotta love it i think i'm gonna get out of here been out here for since 10 and it's two so quite a while daughter's at her grandparents and i don't want to over overstay her welcome because i want to be able to come out to the woods again so i had a good time out here um ate some good food shot three videos i don't know what order i'll put them up but they'll be up shortly i'm trying to get videos out for you guys two or three a week sometimes it's difficult and sometimes they might be at home and stuff but I'm trying so I hope you guys enjoyed the video I hope you learned something I hope that the amount of time that you put into watching this video you don't feel like you wasted and if you like this kind of stuff you want to see more of it I 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