BUILDING A FORT IN THE WOODS-The Return! $250 Boot Giveaway! I BUILT a BARK ROOF for my FORT!

Man, it's been a while. We're still holding up. Alright guys, welcome back to the fort. I'm here by myself. We're going to do some renovations, get ready for winter, and cook up some good supper. I haven't been back here since Jim and Ted were here. The old Baird boys when we did the National Smoker. So, let's get rid of this tripod. I do want to build a ceiling to keep the snow out for the winter. Roof, I guess. Yeah, let's get this out of here. Oh, man, she was like cemented into the ground from being here for different from different seasons Uh, this is gonna be a tall order to get this out of here Huh, huh a tall I said a tall order because this is so very tall In all honesty, i'm probably going to use those for part of my ceiling and i'll probably take out This wall and use that for my ceiling too because it's more imperative that I get a ceiling up to block my whole area From snow so that'll stay kind of level. I was gonna say it looks like the tarp held up But there seems to be a seam here where it's splitting, a seam on the tarp. See what I mean right there? Oh, she's still structurally sound. That's a good thing, eh? All the way through, son of a gun. Well, that's a weird spot to have a seam on a tarp. Okay, some duct tape will fix that. I'm not putting the new tarp on here out of principle. Yeah, we'll get some duct tape on there and call it good. Have to bring some next time. Tripper's bowl here too. Little guy. If you guys didn't hear what happened to him, go check out the video uh something bad or something's wrong or bad news or something like that uh and i'll explain all about why tripper's not here before the snow gets here it'd be nice to clear off the ground all around in my shelter and sorry in my fort and around getting to it because there is all sorts of deadfall that usually is either overgrown with stuff in the summer or covered with stuff with snow in the wintertime right now is a perfect time of year where it's all visible and easily accessible so i'm going to try and clean up this fort area as good as i can snow is not far away I'll tell you that much well that's pretty good guys if this is pooling water still you know tarp's been up here for two years now two years guys not exaggerating so it's kept its tautness the only problem is that one seam even if it was were to just get little little pinholes in it here and there I wouldn't be an issue with this seam it's probably an issue holy mice oh my goodness thing I left here is like mouse nibbled like crazy that sheath is completely destroyed what else seal the dust here but I think that might be from ants look at all the dust look at all the dust that's gotta be from ants fire starter oh no there's some mouse droppings in there for sure dropping those droppings oh yeah and then look the foam the foam that I left out here to leave for a pad it's all chewed up and go I'm getting rid of this I have no problem getting rid of that check this out sorry I gotta show you this is quite funny so I just took that shovel and that little dish off of the foam here Yeah, wonder if we can spook out any mice another bowl for tripper here I see another tarp under there, too. All right. Well, we'll use our grill today. There's a lens cap here Perfect. Perfect. Everything's coming up Joe. All right. This water is just pooling here for some reason to the earth water Got these new gloves Revolution Race sent me a bunch more gear new pants new gloves so thanks guys big shout out to Revolution Race awesome outdoor gear clothing i highly suggest them they're a swedish brand check them out revolution race all right pretty cool gloves too so we'll well lay these up here it doesn't have to be perfect again if you remember from last year there is a slight angle going down towards that corner there so it's not gonna be a flat roof It's going to be pretty flat, but it's not going to be flat as the day is long. And we should probably alternate some of these. No, we want it to go that way. So if I put all the small sides on that side that's already going down, we'll get even more of an angle going down there. Go up there and cut them or measure them. Bring them down and cut them. Close. Logs on, logs on, logs. There we go. Okay, lots more to put up there. Not hating that. Not hating that one bit, boys and girls. Slick, slick. From this angle, you can really see the gaps and what needs to be fixed. I really just threw them up here, and now I'm going to take time and get them properly. This guy here needs to go. It's just like a wampus wiggly one and throwing everything else off. So if that goes, everything can kind of just get pushed closer to that side. Yeah, and then I've got to trim because that's impeding other ones from coming over. My time outside this fall things that I'm used to at least for the season. Nice and tight. tight like a tiger Let's go up there and see how strong it is. I bet you I can dance a jig up there No problem. We'll start to get some of the bark put them in there the exact spots We need because the whole roof isn't going to be covered right there will be spaces for Smoke to escape for rain to get through for snow to get through but for the majority of the of the thing We're not going to have the amount of snow that is falling out here over the course of a winter which could be 10 feet inside the shelter we'll have drifts and we'll have blow through we'll have come through and stuff but not just dumped on like it is out here no worries you guys want to come up here with me you guys want to come up here with me you still have some to go but this is solid this is freaking 80% of the work done let's get you guys up here with me what do you guys think pretty awesome right can you see it can you see it I noticed there's still some super tanniny water in the top of my tarp, tanniny water in the tarp the tarp has tanniny water, tannins from the leaves, we'll get that out man, I'm super impressed with this place guys, so look from there to there with solid logs and we only have two there to the end and I don't even know if it's necessary to fill it all the way, this tarp might do the trick for the for that part, so even if I just get five more so regardless that is something for another day because we're gonna get that bark out those sheets of bark from the bear, the bear bark and start laying it up here and see what it looks like, you can see it from up here, Ted hid it underneath all those logs there, kept to keep it wet for the summer tell Ted put these logs on here holy smokes I can barely lift them okay one would have sufficed, one would have sufficed, Ted look at that sheets not even that fragile really, so we'll start with the big ones obviously, that's a good one there okay we'll carry this over carefully they're not even curled at all anymore remember oh ho ho mouse house mouse house remember before if you watched the original video they're all curled cuz from around the tree but this did the job. Ted, ah okay so they are a bit bit weak underneath, slimy salamander look, it's actually quite a lot of decay like sludgy sludgy decay, I'm glad got some gloves on, oh my hands to get dirty. All right, oh I remember this one with a little crease in it, a little slice in it. Come on big guy, come on. Okay, that's a decent one. Oh wow, oh yeah she gonna split, she gonna split. Oh man, seems impossible, seems impossible, you still get shingles though that one just mushed apart. Oh, it rubbed all over, look at it, look how nasty it is I am just covered in this brown sludge stuff pretty awesome. All right, let's get this bad boy up here, hang on just hang more, that's a good one, the drip all on me for the first little bit okay, I got that far, pretty good about three quarters of it but I am gonna have to use the rest of that bark to finish off this little bit here at least two of those three pieces it's perfect i have no qualms about it holding the weight of the snow all year potentially 10 feet if that's what we get but i can certainly come up here and knock the snow off or have a fire underneath and melt it all off uh underneath me potentially but we'll see man i'm not scared of it you know what i mean we'll see how it goes and where it drips and what happens and what improvements we need to make to fix it up the goal is to get this roof done before snow accumulates not before the snow flies that's going to happen any day now but before it starts to pile up um yeah and then we'll have a nice solid fort we can camp out here hang out here and be out of the most of the elements managed to find one rock for my fire pit that fire pit that i want to build decent size one and i had to walk quite a ways to get it but uh i think that fire pit is going to be an ongoing process because there's not a lot doesn't seem to be like a lot in these woods i imagine it got cleared out at one point but uh i took a lot out of me i need to drink water i've got a good supper to cook out here you guys what i got here a cup of some warmth my wife made me this alpaca wool uh toque thank you sweetheart i like it it's very warm and it's brown and it fits me tight uh pushes my hair down you know i like it i got my hidden woodsman day rucksack with me shout out malcolm at the hidden woodsman good buddy got my little gransfors forest axe nope outdoor axe good for uh fine working i got my big axe too but i like to have that one i could just put on my belt like a knife so I got this new skillet this new cast-iron skillet this company I'll tell you in a minute the name of it field something I believe field company field company made in USA this is size 8 of their cast-iron skillets it's a new style I've never seen any really like it just has a different color to it more of gray but I'm gonna do up a stir-fry in my little frying pan here I have olive oil I got a plate head on there like the lid I got olive oil. I've got a little bit of an onion, some red pepper, and some celery. I've got six small red potatoes. I have some Lowry's seasoning, some garlic, and two sausages. So this is the frying pan. I oiled it up today. So we're going to get a fire going, oil this up, do the potatoes, garlic, and onion slow for a while, and then we'll throw in the rest of it after. Should be a delicious meal and it's not a steak for once look at that but i like it i like this this frying pan don't get me wrong i've not used it yet or anything i just like the size of it it's in between sizes the size eight is pretty deep and it looks new newfangled it's not so porous it seems but i don't really know much about it anyways field company check them out one more thing before i get back to work here i want to give you guys a chance to win a pair of hiking boots in a giveaway so these are the Haix brand Scouts and this is gen 2 i've been wearing the gen ones the model ones for a year plus and you see me in my video wearing them quite a bit uh they have Vibram soles or the whole nine yards are great boot there's some very sturdy very uh durable boot very high top very high top anyways i like them a lot there's no catch at all you don't have to do anything except for go to my instagram joe robin at bushcraft look for the picture of the boots that i'll have posted very recently and just say i'm in if you don't have instagram i'm sorry but uh make one if you want to be entered into it this is the best way for me to do it to keep track of it and then to be able to actually contact the person because through replies it's almost impossible on youtube in in the comments so yeah hikes h-a-i-x and these are the model scout you might be 2.0 yep scout 2.0 says it right on there and uh again i have been wearing them around the house doing work on actual trips doing work I wore them on my five-day thing that I just came back from solo trip so yeah man great boots nothing bad to say about them very very durable and i like the looks of them and everything so yeah they will send hikes will send you guys the winner a pair of boots so should enter that's a big old cherry round oh I thought that was spruce that's cherry that i cut off that front tree that aged magnificently okay a little little dip but we can throw it on after and uh get real nice coals we should actually save pieces okay those other two are cherry too i'll save those pieces for when i have a steak out here that way we can do uh yeah cherry wood cooked steak maybe i'll bring will out here my wife out here and do that that sounds like a good idea on cherry wood we can even smoke the steaks a bit because it because the woods a little bit wet fam son everything's coming up Robinette very would these all just cut offs that I've had under that i got a little menage of tenders some yellow birch with some dead ferns and a whole mix of little shaving clumps shavings from balsam fir so I'm sure that that will all together will take a spark pretty easily then I've got some dry kindling to go on and so on and so forth birch head to light I'm gonna have to leave granted that is smoky smoky as the day is long I'm gonna have to leave a gap for smoke to escape for sure all right let's look at it now where it's not just smoke it's an actual fire it doesn't look so bad at all who knows when it's wet or heavy air or snowing or whatever the case may be I do feel like I need to have some kind of gap in the ceiling for smoke to escape even if it's a small one so we'll have to figure it out too but yeah no big deal it's all about the technique and getting the loose brown sludge down your back back sludge that's kind it dripped in my face here thank you it's all coming together it's all coming together complete coverage complete coverage for what I have done so far and my idea about the smoke escape is to tie two logs going this way boom boom to that ridge pole tie them there and then one there and one there with a hole in the middle for any kind of escape if need be oh that fire looks slick cherry wood i want to adjust this and start putting my frying pan on um cherry wood that's not wanting to burn too good to put to place it right on so what we're gonna do first put some oil in this get it on the fire the dirt out maybe a little bit first Oh oily dirt this on the fire potatoes straight it was a pretty much soft now yeah getting there at least on the softer side so we're gonna throw in some color some red peppers and some celery in there I've already got one with sausages in there there's a second cut up this is going to be very hearty very good wasn't hard to make didn't take long this cast-iron pan helped quite a bit so did the fire in this spatula it's gonna put the spice on this is that Lowry's seasoning and I will stir it in and then let it sit for a couple more minutes I'm gonna eat toastie smells good the celery smell the celery over a lot of it forward to the potatoes and the onions I do like the meat veggies in there too okay that's most of it. Guys, let's try this. The taste all complements itself. Let's try a potato, see. No, honestly, that one could have been a little bit more, but it's not at the point where I like hard potatoes or it doesn't crunch it through at all. I hate that. This isn't that. That potato's fine. The first one was a wedge, wedge shape. Oh man, this is great. The celery really does add to it. It's a little bit crunchy still. Let's try the red, red pepper with it. Oh yeah. Yes. I could even see mushrooms going in this with the red pepper. This is freaking good, man. I'm not playing this up. This is super good. I'd like to share this with someone. There's a lot. Okay, let's recap some things from today. If you like the clothes I'm wearing and the gloves and clothes I've been wearing I'm really happy with them Revolution Race on Instagram at revolution race revolution race com. I'll put the link in the description The skillet is called Field Company and check those guys out the backpacks Hidden Woodsman Check him out. Oh the giveaway for the boots go to my Instagram look for a picture of the boots Just write. I'm in in the comments That's all on the boot picture and then maybe about a week or two I'll pick a winner and then they'll ship you guys a boot. What else? I don't think there's anything else for this Stir fry we had sausages last last night like grillings like not expensive sausages by any means precooked Then we cooked them last night and these were the leftovers from that. There's small red-skinned potatoes Like a half a stick of celery a quarter of a red pepper a little bit of onion a little bit of garlic garlic spice everything nice i had fun out here i'm glad i came out to the fort i miss tripper i really do it's a bummer what happened to him i'm gonna miss him out here the whole season but it is what it is and we'll get him better i love that little dog now i'm glad i came out i'll keep coming back maybe i'll bring some friends over thanks guys for watching i'm gonna enjoy this hang out by the fire for a while just hang out we'll see you soon either back at the fort here or on another adventure cheers folks