2 Night Winter Camp in a Hot Tent - Build your own Bucksaw Instructions- Hot Water on Demand at Camp

Everything's coated. It's been snowing regularly for the past couple days, but just lightly. And it started to pick up tonight quite a bit. Oh, it's covered, covered in snow. Wow. Okay. Good thing we came out. Hey folks, how are you? Joe here. It's just after supper time. We haven't camped out here in about a week. I've come here periodically through the week to knock the snow off of this thing. And we're going to camp out tonight. It started coming down really heavy after supper so wolf and i jumped in the car i headed on over we'll spend tonight here and tomorrow here and uh hang out and do some camp chores and crafts and stuff but uh right now it's not good to let this snow sit on here so let's get it off hey buddy my headlights on over there illuminating everything pretty pretty decent accumulation of snow down there last time when i came here to check on it i opened it up and was soaking wet inside we've had pretty calm temperatures for pretty tame temperatures for winter and it's been melting and freezing and inside with everything was just soaked if I was a backpacker that would be my name I'd be my trail name Snowflake. I thought about that the other day when I was editing that video. Snowflake. accumulations. NorTent contacted me and said oh it's great to see you're gonna leave it on for a go but you can't let the snow accumulate on it. That I know. There's some real light there we go, some real light going on. Check it out how it looks out here you know this is white winter wonderland right but then you go inside it's dry it's dry and there's no snow i love that look at that so much light so much light we're doing good boys and girls want everything to dry out oh yeah no this is look at that that would have all been water a couple degrees ago so first things first first things first is i stored a bunch of stuff in here last time come pretty easily it was the top of that is smoking out it might just be water it is just water okay oh the whole thing's full of water the uh there's a little divot in here pretty warm all good i got the thing open it needs to all steam out and smoke out as much as it has to and then i'll close it up tonight before bed but good now what'd you find there buddy bones of camps past i'm sure you can see all this frost on top here right so that's all turning into liquid now on the inside and hopefully it'll all dry up relatively easily so we're gonna get this rocking dry up everything as good as possible and we'll open up our sleeping quarters so it all stays hunky dory you know how much longer I'll leave this thing set up for about a month now we're looking into a lot of snow this coming up week so I'll probably leave it up for that for sure hey let's get rid of this I've wanted to get rid of this thing since I put this here so see this knot or something it's a root they keep stepping on it's actually wore a hole right through the mat there no joke all right wish I had my freaking bush tool out here okay we'll leave that there we'll bring the the woodsman's pal back out and we'll get it out with that but it's already better than it was but we'll be able to remove that root completely hey buddy I bet you more efficient to shut the door and do it we will do that a little bit trying to get everything aired out do that oh yeah that's the thing though it's been up for a long time it's fluctuated temps quite a bit and all in all it's an easy fix you know I mean crank the heat it'll all dry up eventually and again I'm super happy to have my sleeping area completely blocked off from all this smoke, spot my dog doesn't like me he's gonna do his own thing all right I think we're all golden now I think we're home free on the moisture front looks all dry to me let's give it the old bang test no no moisture droplets if so only a few so we're gonna open up our princess bed see how comfy it is in there if it's dry or wet too let's see that no no I can't lie the my head part here the mummy part of the head head part of the mummy bag was pushed up against the side and it is frozen slash soaked so that will take some drying out but that's okay I am pretty happy overall just out of the way and start drying out our sleeping stuff there's no rush I'm gonna make some popcorn probably go to bed a bit early we still got plenty of time look at this just like in my last video I was talking about my puffy jacket I don't really not care if I wear it too hard and poke a hole in it same thing with my sleeping bag oh piss you know you're out and about all the time and that tenacious tape goes a long way though anyway i'm feeling here it feels like the whole top part of my seam bag might be a little damp so anyways let this open up with this opened up oh yeah i can feel the ice on the inside of this thing not much just again where it was touching the edge but we'll get this fire cranking even more so and dry all my stuff out it's negative four right now it's supposed to get down to negative six tonight and this is a negative 10 bag plus i have uh the fire so everything's fine actually the foot box is a little wet too surprise surprise but overall no worse for wear oh yeah snowing a bit hey a little bit more than it was a couple minutes ago that's for sure no snow snow that's crazy barely any snow tons of snow real deal popcorn right there nice nothing better than wet popcorn you know I know it sounds weird but I love it it's friggin good not necessarily the wet part the taste, the flavor, it's all good no Wolfie not for you buddy you got a lot of stuff already I'll give you one like that nope you spit it right out very very tasty nice I'm gonna enjoy this keep stacking wood in there and try and dry this piece out even more try my sleeping stuff and I'll out now stay Wolfie wait there buddy shutting up shop this place comfortable my blanket where I can step on in the night if I need to take the boots off you know I mean walk around without fear of snowiness fear of snowiness real syndrome oh yeah it's heating up in here quite a bit okay feeling nice and cozy it's some coffee nice got some hardwood in there should be a pretty self-sustaining for a while pretty safe and that will certainly dry and now my coat's got to dry as well so that's fun i'll put that up over here she's toasty super toasty okay that's gonna dry out in a second that's about it eh bud well i don't know if you can tell but i am actually sweating like for real sweating it's very warm it's almost 11 o'clock at night so i want to go to bed we'll get up in the morning have a good breakfast and uh spend the day out here doing skills and chores and just camp stuff so you guys have a good night and i'll see you in the morning morning let's get out there and see how it looks a little bit of food before we go oh good boy put a bit of bacon grease in here from last night put a bit of bacon grease in here from last night Wolfy's it oh he's sick good boy no i poured a bunch of the grease in this egg carton cardboard that I had I got a couple eggs here as well so with any luck we'll be able to use that for a fire starter this morning oh before we go let me show you my cool little gadget check it out this is a hot water on demand right here it's got a spout it sits on or near the stove and you put snow or water in there it just boils as you go so here's the thing it's got this rounded spot to it where i'm sure it could sit there actually that's not a bad spot for it doesn't really take up any room at all i could still cook and everything because i was gonna say it could go there or it could really go back here too but put this let's see that over there nope it doesn't i thought it would lock it in we'll just go right here and this must just be for a handle but yeah i know it kind of oh it sits there perfectly actually it's got that's exactly how it's supposed to go okay let's fill this thing up and uh well i guess you're gonna get a fire going and everything too but seems to be working okay don't put any wood on it yet just the carton they call them grease he's like i could eat that could eat that seeing as how this is the first time i'm using this i kind of want to clean it out first so maybe a boil dump it out and then use it i got some water here collected from the for so this pot and that's only oh just over half full this might hold two and a half or three liters roughly at least snug there we go. Wolfie get up Okay, so anyways, yeah, we'll see how that works on pretty slick man up in the world a buddy Holy smokes. Let's check on this water. I'm about ready to go I've got a day bag packed and everything getting there All right, it's boiling now quite a bit no she fogged it up but she's boiling you can see so i'm going to dump that out and refill it and then we'll go hot water anyone look at that hot water on demand at the freaking semi-permanent winter camp as long as you can use running water i will it's the only reason that this water's still open is because it's flowing quite a bit hey buddy so home like so comfy moving soft careful that's a hot stove there buddy pretty nice little silicone on the handle too Not too shabby. Let her steep there. We'll get our breakfast on. Did we tire you out a little bit there, buddy? How'd you do? Hey, how'd you do? How'd you do? Is that a good boy? Oh, sorry, buddy. You okay? Put it on there, and then we'll cook it. You look all worried. I'm not going to get any food. Can't blame that on the throw. Here, ready? Scrambled up the eggs and the grease and the remnants. Okay, I want to mix them all together. mix everything together and cook it up a little touch more just it all dig in this would be a nice is this a skillet would this be called a skillet oh I had some peppers why didn't I bring peppers bro peppers will go amazing in there oh could he smoke we drop in the drop in the pepper be very good I don't have any seasoning in it but the bacon and the cast-iron has plenty of flavor not to mention the garlic and onions yeah nothing to sneeze at here folks some cheese too okay peppers and cheese next time all of this plus peppers and cheese i wouldn't even mind jalapeno peppers that would be very tasty oh man i'm excited i am excited to eat this yeah it's really good so good i'm in a good time i want to see if i can build a buck saw out here because i have a extra blade um and it's a good lesson and test for me too i haven't done it in years so we'll uh after we're done this we'll go do that and oh we gotta go get that big piece of firewood all the little bits of garlic little pockets of surprise pockets of flavor so that was really really good food and i feel content how about you how about you i've gathered a few pieces of what i need already to save some time this is how to build a saw in the bush with just using your pocket knife or your belt knife and a saw blade you don't have to have these rings on them but it helps if not you're gonna have to carve little pegs or do something else to keep it in place but here's the gist of it I've collected wood and saw them with the saw blade enough to make my handles at least for the buck saw so I cut these right and then I made notches in the middle right where my fingers are and that's where the middle piece is going to go and And that's what I have to do now. So I'm gonna show you the process of doing this. So I'm gonna measure it, what I need, put it there I think. We're gonna cut it using just the saw blade, which sometimes can be painstakingly long. The point of this is to just be able to be more sufficient, self-sufficient in the bush and use what you have, carry less type thing, the whole more you know, the less you carry. More Skahansky vibe. But with these days, honestly, the Agua Sa, man, more silky, you can't really, they're not much more weight than this thing, and they work awesome. But we're getting through it anyway. We're almost there. I'll trim up all the ends with my knife like I already did on these ones. Hopefully that's the right size. You want the notch on the inside, and you put the wood on the inside of the ring. Butt it up to it as tight as you can, and that ring is gonna hold it in place. I'm slipping farther out, see what I mean? The middle part is for tension as well as the top. You're gonna put a rope for tension, but the middle part I guess is just for bracing more than anything, for strength. So this has gotta get carved and go in there. I put them a little low. I should've put the notches a bit higher, but anyways, this is what it is. So we're gonna have to notch this out now. You wanna keep it, I wanna make sure that I notch evenly on both sides too so it's lined up properly. He's going, okay boy. It's gotta come tapering at the end instead of being flat. Now I gotta do the same to here. Wanna make sure it's lined up properly this thing right now. Oh, the sun's coming out. That's wild. The sun, haven't seen that in a couple days. Fresh snow on the trees, sun's shining. Dog's just wherever is good. So you need a piece of paracord for this as well or other rope. You see paracord is the go-to. It doesn't matter if it's loose because I can tension it with the stick after. Make it as tight as possible, get it off the hop, don't mess around too much. Put it there, that, then this goes around here, comes back to each other, tie that off. Come undone, nice. We got our toggle here. If it's not long enough, we can get another one. That's fine, that'll be long enough. So we'll just keep twisting it and twisting it and twisting it, and it's gonna tension up, make things easier to deal with here. Oh no, did my camera fall? as you can see as you keep twisting it the tension really helps hold things together hold things together and should cut pretty well we'll uh test it out that's for sure don't really crank it should should be able to withstand some tension okay i'm hearing cracks so we're gonna back off one no we'll keep it there okay i wouldn't mind having this toggle down a bit lower to be honest so slide it down and it back up she's bowing a bit anyways it's a rough roughed out saw We'll go we'll test it out right now straighten it out Maybe one more tension one more turn. I hate that. I don't hate that at all. Look at this. It's pretty good That is funky though. So we'll uh, maybe we'll go get that piece of wood That we got earlier and I think that's oak or hard maple Like I said, and we'll give it a test on that. I'm not gonna bring this down to buck it up I'll leave this here and we'll bring the bagua but uh yeah let's go do that test it out when we get back and get the firewood getting two birds one stone get her hotter thing is pretty cool you okay what are you saying over there look at that there's tons of water tons of water ready for the taking that's awesome it's the little things you know it's the little things in life hey good boy this is from where tosh and i camped up last year let's say we'll bring this stump over to camp try to get in here with the four-wheeler which I have not done yet that's slick I should build a saw horse that's what I should do yeah perfectly good wood and honestly if you're making something like this anyways you're not trying to saw through a bunch of freaking red oak anyways build a house so nice quick easy way to build that the rings help quite a bit like I said if you didn't have the rings you'd have to put little wooden pegs in or figure something else out maybe wrap paracord but the rings sometimes come up and around like this secure it even more if the logs if your sticks are bigger like this diameter I should have done but anyways pretty slick pretty happy with that the day has changed yeah holy crap I just got up from a much-needed nap the Sun is gone completely and look at this a tent is sagging it snowed quite a bit must have melted on top here outdoor fire cook my steak out here tonight and this is just a constant snow like it's not anything crazy but every now and then it kicks up pretty substantial and it's just the fact that it's constant man cool i'm happy for it it's been a weird year for snow all right that'll be my base it's a good base get a bunch more wood the snow is really coming in i'm gonna have to shut my tent up here pretty soon nothing a little blue foam pad can't fix right folks what's your most important piece of gear uh blue foam pad please hardwood for it brussels sprouts to cook with my steak if i cook those on the stove bowling pins i tell you that looks like it's going well keep throwing wood on that and by the time i'm ready to eat golden this is hardwood nothing wrong with it good thing is you can always rebuild it if you need to relatively easily it's not that difficult of a project at all actually it's a good little practice for knife skills and Minimalist type stuff. Good boy Wolfie. This one's bending. It's because it's live. If I were to have used dead hard strong wood That wouldn't happen, but it's much harder to deal with to work with. It's getting a little nasty out here I think I'm gonna close her down. Little Joe's big hungry. Pretty good there My lens got foggy when I brought it out of the tent there, so it's a little messed up Little messed up. Anyway steaks almost done and hopefully I can get my focus back. Come on A little foggy. We got the steak in here with the brussel sprouts for good dinner. Oh all my stuff's fogged right up boys and girls. But regardless we got the meats. Frick. Frickin Frick. We got the meats, we got the brussel sprouts and we're putting them in our stomachs via our throat right now. Hopefully this fog action gets fixed on both cameras. Oh we are getting there folks. We're feeling a little little full we're getting there still boom boom boom boom I want you in my room Brussels sprouts it's hot can you tell I'm freaking sweating my nerds off Wolfman don't have nerds well I can't get my other camera to work at all the frickin fog is all through the through the lens but regardless I'm gonna take this that's a cue to just call it here Excuse me, call it here I'm very warm As I'm sure you can see And all we're doing tonight is just chilling out Maybe listen to a podcast, go to bed And we're going to get up early and go home in the morning Got some stuff to do, it's Monday Kids got to go to school Oh no, ow, wow, it's Christmas break now But I do have some things to do on Monday Tomorrow Anyways, hope you guys enjoyed the video I hope you got to see most of it Without the foggy lens and uh i hope you guys are enjoying the series there'll only be maybe one or two more videos in this series just because i've already put it like four or five and it's about time to stop doing that do something else but i'm having a lot of fun out here i really enjoy having this out here a spot to come with Wolfie and uh yeah hopefully you guys enjoy it too hope you enjoyed the video i'll see you soon on the next one bye