SOLO 6 PIECE KIT SURVIVAL CAMP UNDER THE STARS

four-piece kit camp so i've got my axe which hopefully i'm going to be able to do everything i need to do with a lighter for fire a zebra cat for boiling zebra can for boiling water and a wool blanket for warmth so we're going to take this easy for the first one and see how we go this should be quite fun haven't done any sort of survival video or living like that in well over two years so yeah it'll be good to get some new skills brush up on some old ones and see how much suffering and uncomfortable uncomfortable beds that's always been a priority of mine a wool blanket whose idea was that that wool blanket's all four years old too and it's got moth holes in it it's uh my go-to warmth for camp apart from my arctic british sleeping bag which i simply don't have with us so yeah i'll do another empty out of my bag i've added two more bits of kit to it so four six so it's gonna be like six stroke depending on how long it takes me to break the survival straw not survival straw survival saw that should be uh quite an experience show you that it's just i've always seen them and i've never really put one to good use so brought one of them and also looked out my old survival kits and found an old survival sleeping bag stroke foil thing and i'll show you that too all right plowing on as you can see there's a lot of birch in this section of the woodland or a woodland some wildflowers been tended by the woodland keepers this is uh quite close but popped in here because there's see if i can find some nice sexy birch bark temperature's really dropped now the sun's gone down just walking through all this wild garlic i think i'm gonna harvest some leaves and take it with us just the really big ones loads of it so i've just got to the camp i'm staying at tonight uh the the old riverbank camp uh it's got tables and chairs but nothing like a bed so i need to build one of them before obviously i can go to sleep and i have my axe and my survival saw one second i'll stop you and go and get them so these are the items i brought with me plain and simple zebra can boiling and purifying water bought drinks because it's got nippy all of a sudden uh my axe this is these are the two bits i added you know one of these survival saws everyone's seen them i must say i'm not expecting great things but we'll see um lighter in my wool blanket and then all that's pretty much left in my bag is just steaks and food nice things yeah i don't know if you want to count the bag as a piece of kit you can if you want but i'm going to call it six pieces oh and i've got my tripod yeah and the light for the camera so which is obviously your kit because you can't see it without that kit so but i'll carry it for you don't worry also got this small amount of birch bark bone dry just jumped out my skin i just heard a gunshot i don't even know why i jumped i hear gunshots all the time it's just unexpected so yeah i got a little bit of birch bark uh oh i've got the wild garlic leaves also which i'm going to use them to cook my ribs as in wrap the ribs in them and cook them in somewhere but we'll get to that once we've got settled properly yeah you can see you can sort of see the breath in the air i'm so glad we built that other massive fire reflector that's gonna keep me nice and warm tonight gonna get this long log fire going and get these stones heated up just to show everything this is your kit here my uh kind of crappy tripod and uh just a power pack keep everything going don't be losing power halfway through picked a source of tinder saw these very very fine bits as i've only got a lighter but this is all dry as a bone i'm quite lucky about i'm gonna get it going straight away because i wish i brought my soccer jacket now my back's freezing so i've been down to this wall of tinder here there's lots of good wood not decent for a bed yet but i'm still searching i'm more concerned about the fire at the moment just uh get some heat into us my hands start to go stiff when they get really cold you see my breath now down on the riverbank wouldn't surprise me if i were frost in the morning small bundle of tinder here i've graded it some really really dry straw and bits of roots and twigs that hear that snap that's a perfect snap for dry wood that and i've got a second grade higher but i found this bit of nice bone dry birch which i'm gonna take more of the skin off and uh make some shavings out of that too with my axe i'm gonna get this back to my camp here's what i've done i've just basically sort of feather sticked the end of that entire log like mini log a bit i've got all the shavings here too that's gonna be base along with my really fine birch bark here and that should go up with my lighter when the wall of tinder and that on top catches and then yeah that's how it works in fire's going oh the heat is awesome and it's bouncing right back off that back wall too so i'm down just filling up my zebra can just because i haven't really had a drink since i got here and uh this boiled up would be grand i still haven't sorted out a bed yet getting there i've been bimbling around several cans on moss as dry as a bone shouldn't take too long like so we're boiling so a little wood wedge cut with my axe do me i also have a start on a bed i only have two decent beams long enough to do this way so i'm going to have to go this way because i've got loads of little dry bits like so yeah i'm gonna go to this point now i've got a little table there just put in the bed right along here another little table there so i can pretty much lie the full length of the fire and then once we've got to that point i think we'll look at how that works this is survival right here it's got some nice uh sugar jam donuts there too coffee yeah loving this like still no closer to my bed getting there that's where i am with the bed just a little tiny gap left and i'm sweet so that's my wool blanket i've got my thing there i've got the bed finished now it's gonna a little bit makeshift but it's gonna be quite comfortable cabbage cream eggs sitting over there there it is opened up it's actually really big yeah it's just a foil sleeping bag pretty awesome so i've just sharpened the stick with my axe probably the finest work i've done with my axe in a long time too it's hard to get the point on it because pushing with a heavy axe you sometimes bend it so i basically just sat it flat on here like that and just pulled it and used the axe as an angle just to shave bits off until it was right keep it flat and uh sharp so i can stab it into the stake and it'll twist this will hold it into a twist if you know what i mean stakes on just so that's me pretty much wrapped in my wool blanket on top of this uh thing and if i get really cold i'm just gonna get into that but for the moment the fire is absolutely sufficient stakes uh doing good i'm gonna get that eating shortly i'm just gonna eat it right off the stick like a caveman i need more practice getting fine work with my axe though i can admit that like well i need a lot of work in everything i do but you know what i mean steak's amazing now i'm gonna get some shut eye after this so i've adjusted my sleeping thing just like dozed off after that steak and it's like nippy so i'm gonna get into the survival bag asleep i just dumped like a monster log all wrapped up again it is awesome it is awesome very uncomfortable bed but need to maybe do a better one for tomorrow night uh yeah what else i had my gore-tex jacket off and up at the top there but i'll put it back on and i'm gonna put the hood up too i'm in the uh wild thing now too seems to be circulating warmth i can feel it the fire's getting up too a lot of big logs catching i'm gonna get a couple more hours sleep while the going's good sun's just starting to come up it's been a hard frost too i'm just kind of warming myself up by a oh it's awesome yeah so i've got a i boiled a can of a zebra can of water last night before i went to sleep it was nice and cold this morning so i drank all that i've just got a fresh one on to boil now for some hot water for coffee it's frostier well that and uh sun's coming up and starting to melt it all it looks quite cool i'll show you i don't know if i'm staying here for tonight or somewhere else but i'll see when i've woken up properly i'm quite tired it's not like a full night's sleep just like an hour here and an hour there the sun's just coming up over the brow if you look at the ground over here crispy even the wild garlic's uh wilted because there's young nettles all the undergrowth can't believe how frosty it is uh on a scale of one to ten ten being the best sleep i've ever had and one being the worst i'd say that was about a four yeah my wool blanket there is no warmth properties in that at all like but then again it is it's not a proper wool blanket it's like 55% wool 45% fake crap it did keep us warm i mean i wasn't like i only really woke up when the fire died down and i put more on then went back to sleep so it was like that well those foil blankets yeah i'm not i'm inclined to say they're a bit rubbish too but i suppose if you're in a survival situation it's better than now isn't it small little bits of firewood found a route there to put on put loads of little twigs in between it just so it catches easier i'm still not fully defrosted every time you walk away from camp like out of the box it's like the cold just slaps you in the face i think it was a good idea coming here for this just because of the fire and the little space for the bed it's a view last night i had in the fire just lighting it up and then there was millions of stars in the background it was epic it's a shame i couldn't show it on camera all the stars don't show up they're not bright enough just lying here chilling in my bed thinking about how i can make it better and more comfortable for i'm just gonna stay here tonight again uh yeah loads of growth coming up now no idea what they are and also i just spotted these uh daffodils over here uh where's the thin wood here i'm just gonna cut it into decent sized pieces oh see this is this is why i should put it flat against so it's not gonna break i should do it that's one that's two i'm gonna mission bacon's on the sticks where i go shouldn't take too long like i'll turn it in a minute look how nice that bacon looks crispiness to it now just a bit longer got a nice cheese roll i'm gonna stab on the end of that stick and heat up too be awesome oh yes oh yeah i may have scrimped on uh kit and all that but i've definitely not scrimped on food cheese rolls whilst watering couldn't resist it why not it's everything i dreamed it was gonna be so that's me packed up all my stuff well my six pieces of kit and my food bag and uh i'm heading for a wander and i'm just gonna leave that fire smoldering away slowly surrounded by stones it's not gonna go anywhere because i'll see this area right here is why i can't keep self-inflating raw mats for too long for a mission big pigeon there pop the checklist compound make sure it's all good and uh yeah i think i've killed the front end of the shelter with see how it's browned off i think that's i think i've scorched it it's everywhere else it seems to be green apart from the front but look the ivy still growing and see all the little sprouts little sproutlings coming up through the moss there's hundreds of them there's a nettle there little baby now the ivy's proper spreading right through it it's even like at the doorway there another little nettle and over here so it might come back yet ivy up there too here all right chuffed a bit when they grow man they'll be sweet proper camo walls are still green too it's the front end of that where the heat would hit it from the fire so yeah i might have to redo that bit at some point so that's not for this trip i just popped up to check on it and make sure it's all right i'm heading back now see if i can get some uh lunch on the go and see how we're gonna do that so i've been putting some real care into my bed discarded half the logs that aren't suitable started flattening these down for my back too just the ones that stick up the most a big pile there too for a bit to raise my head on it's a beautiful day oh drifter in the tree you know that's bone dry that's like proper in there isn't it there we go done should do the job for tonight cut off all the lumps i've been laying on it like 10 times every time i come up with a lump i cut a bit fire's still going quite low too hey all in all awesome it's a very sunny day loving the weather lunch is on the go got some nice big thick beef burgers i've already twisted them around one side and i'm gonna have them in cheese rolls you know why because we love it i have no idea what that last clip was but it was a living animal and it was about a foot and a half long black fur white nose looked like a size of an uh uh otter or something but it wasn't a knotty it was a weasel sort of thing i've never seen one before it made a weird noise too like a ferret pretty much looked like a black ferret that's what i'd say just sitting staring for a second i sent it out and then it went into the burgers are looking awesome there we go the burgers are ready it's like cheeseburger technical difficulties with my chopper block keeps on falling over so i'm working this bit of wood it's quite a flat piece i found i'm just uh trying to get it to lose some weight here a helicopter been back down to the river which is like just not far so it's nice and easy to get water just fill my zebra can up i'm gonna boil that and leave it to cool while i'm making this this uh wannabe spade i need a spade to make my lunch and to dig the hole for the pit of it but it's like i'm not using my axe i refuse to drive that into the ground it's just too good for that and adam would kill me because he's the one that kind of gets all the out of it for us when i destroy it so so yeah i've grown as a person because i don't dig with my axe this spade's taken a while do look at the skill i've just made a cricket bat just totally made a cricket how awesome is that it's so bad it's like the first thing i've ever carved in my life looks diabolical but it'll do to dig it's got a blade and it's got a handle so yeah it'll do to dig i might put some teeth in the edge it'll do as you can tell my skills do not lay in carving a spade and end up with a cricket but priceless colour wood shavings too looks like a proper bushcrafters table so this is the this is going to be my pit oven it's the old decoder fire pit we used to harden steel uh yeah i've got the old firestone back in there and then the base plate and then that pretty much dug it with my cricket bat that i made the holes aren't open up because i don't need them open up but i've opened them up from this side but sealed them from that side with stones so i can uh i'm gonna put loads of stones in now from around my fire and uh yeah see about getting a bit of heat in there so we've got lots of cobble in there no sandstone i've left enough space in the base to get my fire and my ribs in there i'm just gonna heat it all up now well in about an hour that's my pit oven lit for my ribs i just basically took a cricket bat full of ashes out the main fire pit and just put them in here with some twigs on top i'm just gonna add some more in a second and wait until those stones are nice and hot and then scoop it out with the cricket bat put the ribs in layered with wild garlic to protect it and then bury it put the uh loads and loads of the garlic underneath on top of what's left of the ash well there wasn't a lot of the ashes left i took most of them out just to protect it right oh you can hear them sizzling like that and i'll be back later i forgot clocks changed last night mine's changed automatically without us realizing i'm thinking sitting here thinking it's 7 p.m and it's still light but yeah clocks changed last night that's the the lighter nights coming in and the lighter mornings yes i get to go wild with building random stuff 24 hours and get four days four hours of daylight out of it four hours a night sorry you know those summers where there's like very little light i love it i've put a load of logs on my fire i'm just waiting for my fire my pit oven to finish off my ribs aye chuffed i've accomplished a lot on this trip aye besides that the logs gonna do me for hours yeah i was babbling before it's like the summer nights where you only get four hours of darkness that's what i was meant to say i was just watching it back thinking oh my god what a mess of that you made that's my bed set up again yeah terrible survival sleeping bag my wool blanket this is also terrible it's all good i'm not gonna complain next time if i like that it'll be fine they're just my layers that i've taken off today i'm gonna put them back on a bit later on so when i feel cold all i can smell is warm soil i'm going to uh start peeling this dirt back now and see what i've got underneath i'll bring you back once i've got the dirt off how fun is to lift them out right oh garlic it smells nice oh the bones are coming out easy taste the soil that for a sky just the redness on the river too majestic that's the word and i'm eating again some lamb steaks a couple of them before bed oh i made a little uh out of a wood chip it's gonna be a little scoop for my chocolate trifle the lamb's everything i thought it was gonna be too fell off the stick where i bit it i'm just laying down chilling now watching my fire and looking at the stars morning guys slept okay bed was a lot better still a bit cold yeah i'm gonna get up dismantle my bed and some will be up shortly i'm gonna get on the path i think ground's frosty again that's a frost both nights uh yeah i think i did quite well for a half wall blanket