5 Day Solo Bushcraft - Ep 2-Camp Life, Fatwood Fire, Chaga Tea, Exploration, Improvised Pot Hanger.

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Okay. up and at them just you know drying out the old feedies a little bit of a breeze now coming in still sun though that fire went pretty good last night oh man i'm chilled now holy smokes so different so different when the sun comes out fire went good last night let's get some uh wood split up put up that fat wood like i was talking about that's all about oh it's a pileated woodpecker that's all super fat wood split a few of these down look at that you can really see it there i can just take off like good sized pieces i want to get a baton here one second why a baton you ask just so it's a little bit more controlled and it's a beauty day when the sun comes out so this is all ant ant holes all through this i saw some of them coming out before it's crazy that they can live in that turpentine smelling uh fat wood which is real waxy again it's not like normal wood got a bunch of pieces there and then i still have a huge chunk here so let's get some feather sticks going with this stuff and get a fire going start to make fine curls with this there we go gotta do the Canadian way Canadian curls look at that that is wax this is gonna go up like nobody's business guys just for demonstration purposes because i have so very much of it confidence this is going to work very well still going strong look at the look this is on fire that is craziness still going strong boys and girls still on fire crazy anyways as you can see this stuff is no joke this thing going goes no birch bark necessary huh holy smokes big old fish just jumped out right there probably 20 feet from my camp and that's all super shallow water which i have not been fishing in so maybe try that today can't hurt right and even just because they're there they're there doesn't mean they're biting still whatever else i have to tell myself to make myself feel all right i'm going to eat one of my precious precious oatmeal this morning and i'll have some jerky with that still haven't found my gloves it's very strange the only thing i can think is when i went to go cut some wood yesterday i might have left them at the side of the lake somewhere if that's the case i gotta go back but i gotta tear my camp apart first and look it might be underneath my bed i don't know just real quick over here this is my food jerky bag of rice with vegetables dehydrated vegetables and some spices in there i got enough rice in there to last me fish crisp a healthy amount of fish crisp because you know that's what i need butter one dehydrated meal of chili a potato with some onions and garlic and i have tinfoil to go that a lemon for my fish pancake mix three things of oatmeal they don't lift in soup this is new to me uncle ben's beans in the uh in a pouch so we'll try that um as opposed to a can and then i have two Clif bars two granola three granola bar two Clif bars three three granola bars a little tiny bit of popcorn some syrup and some oil so not too much meat i have this for meat and i have this for meat and there's not much meat in the chili so a fish would really really go a long way so i'm getting ready to leave getting my canoe in the water and everything i look over not only are my gloves here my secondary gopro with the tripod and my gopro head mount so i think it didn't rain too much but all is well i got a different lure on just trolling to the end of the lake here i'm gonna hop on that portage and get into the next lake gorgeous out the perfect amount of sun and clouds these glasses make everything pop like crazy too all the colors are just super vibrant nice to see a different lake we'll paddle around see what's up just look at this lake like this is worth it for for the view of this lake alone just a little sand beach up here i see a little sandy beach very fine sand too shoreline is just so very inviting there's like exposed rock like this everywhere not too steep either not on this side anyway very pretty lake all this flat rock man it's all real good uh real estate i think i'm gonna go check out this island over here and get off for a minute have a bite to eat i brought a granola bar i think it's a cliff bar actually it's nice and open excuse me it's been used for sure see signs of people got a bench the old famous grill at every campsite ever look at this rocks inside of it rocks on rocks on rocks out man really pretty tours for days this is a really nice spot really nice i'm tempted to move here permanently i'm tempted also to just drink the lake water i'm super thirsty what i should have done is boiled up some tea or some water this morning put in my Nalgene and brought it it with me. I wasn't thinking. I chugged a bunch before I left. It's getting late in the afternoon. It was so windy and it still is out there but this is pretty protected on this side. This is that island. Those clouds are looking wild. I'm just paddling back now. It's gonna be like four o'clock by the time I get back I think I got some chores to do and some projects to do still today. Those clouds man it's intense. That nice calm weather we had at the island there has changed and I'm paddling into some decent waves here. Nothing too crazy, but the wind keeps kicking up every now and then. A little bit of white caps out there. I might go take shelter on this island here on the way back just to take a break for a minute. Get back and boil me up some water Raining. I'm back on my lake. I got a score of firewood, but it's actually raining It's not sprinkling, this is rain. And I'm pretty exposed here. So I do have my life jacket. I'm sorry. I do have my rain jacket. It's in my backpack in front of me I should probably get it on and get my camera out of the rain Darn it Darn it See blue sky ahead. I think this cloud just needs to Just needs to blow by and it will be okay that dark one there. This is the nicest little rainstorm I've ever been in sideways rain. You see the rainbow. Oh, she's disappearing What does this mean one side of the lake the other side if i can trust that probably not let's see but i don't think so i don't think so maybe maybe okay i'll leave this um not too long actually right here above this okay let's see if this will hold let's see if this will hold the weight before i start doing anything i think it will so i've not made this type of pot hanger before i better try it with the lid on actually make sure it fits the reason i'm using this is because i picked this i was originally going to use this piece of maple that i got um for firewood before i cut it up but i don't have anything that has forks around it or like notches or anything like that all straight red pine and there's barely any kind of like vegetation that i can cut some live stuff but why do that when i have this so anyways have never made this we're going to see if it works that's going to hold that just fine without breaking so next up if this works i will be excited next up i gotta flatten this and then kind of drill a hole with my knife through without breaking the integrity of it excuse me actually i should measure it all up and everything too with live wood yeah okay probably as thin as i want to go before i start notching it out or making a drilling it out i guess oh snap check it out oh ho ho ho the old multi-tool forgot i had it okay what on here can do the job and save my uh knife tip of drilling into this dense wood i have screwdrivers and all would be amazing i don't think there's an all on here so oh that fire's pretty hot pretty hot how's this GoPro look this is the new nine bought the new nine GoPro nine um this can opener is pretty sharp but this little saw doohickey thing might work there's a bigger saw on the outside but this is a pretty sharp little i'm gonna start scoring it but i'm gonna do it on top of a log not my leg log not leg this little thing is wicked wicked sharp just digs right in wicked sharp holy smokes yeah see it's starting to split too oh easy on it i guess there we go okay and i'll just widen it see him but i can sure hear him stick with me now not everyone is gonna think this is a good idea and that's all right because Maybe not, but it will test the strength the tie-out points for sure this idea I'm interested to see if it'll hold interested to see if it will work And if it's just a waste of time you should just do things the way I normally do Normally just as you guys know have a set set way I do things in the bush and stick to it on toggle in there very strong toggle. Okay, toggle It's over the fire this up as high as you can a tire much higher serve an angle much higher up I hope you got to see how I did that with the stick so high up. I got it. It's amazing silly me I pulled the Joe and forgot to leave enough slack, but I think I can get it here. Okay. The idea is oh no I'm gonna have to make this bigger. I'll have to make this hole bigger I'll be right back then now slip this double this up slip this through here when you go no problem problemo You know, you want to go in your home? all right sweet through okay now we'll pull this down a ways until it fits where it needs to go might be difficult now to get that toggle back on up there but see what there I guess I can move it after doesn't matter so I made two toggles this one's gonna go right here okay and that's gonna hold that right on to there so now I need to put the other toggle oh come on there it is got a toggle in your pocket yes it is doing this the difficult way that's good now I should be able to slide this over it's off to the side of touch so it's not perfectly in the center let's see let's put some weight on and see what happens we seem to be stressing it at all too bad it's actually all still pretty loose somehow show you it's like the tab itself is kind of tight nothing's like it'll just be this one tab if anything else anything that's ruined at all anyways cool try that out and the cool thing is to where it's positioned I can either like have my chaga tea roasting slowly over to that side you know what I mean taking a slow roast type thing and just have my fire in the normal spot or I can simply roll some of my fire over and have it just right over like a centimeter a centimeter away who knows this might all just be for naught but it works and it's kind of cool taking things this rope is already here you know what I mean might as well use it for something who knows who knows if I'll like it we'll see let me know in the comments okay now the only thing is something that I need something to do with that well I'm not using it slide it over here just take the toggle out do that again one more time we'll have to figure out a better way and I know she's a little saggy too this isn't tight for some reason that's weird we'll fix it all up Next time I have to use it, we can just tighten it with this. Okay. Well, it's out of the way now. How to cook supper I guess we're doing rice and a couple pieces of jerky tonight. Scoop of this guy. So we got rice, dehydrated, a bunch of different dehydrated vegetables in there. Throw some jerky in near the end. That'll be supper. We'll save our chili for tomorrow night because I was able to eat meat last night So stagger it a bit. Back on. Tie a tautline on here that way I can move it back and forth and or take it down easily That cable up here is not necessary inside one on the outside It's actually a pretty easy and decent system so there it is and Because there's less water in it this time. It's not gonna go down as far, but I can Top line hitch and move it down all as well that cooks up in my pot and goes in my belly I'm not too shabby. I'm kind of impressed with that. So check it out. This is the big crack from yesterday It was way more open than that probably three times as wide and the other ones were here But these were here before they these cracks they always healed up and then this one came up last night hard Big spender. We'll do three pieces. I am going to cut them up into manageable bite-sized pieces I'll go better in the food anyway that way. I'm trying to rip it apart and savor it a bit more I hate to admit I lost my spoon the one Roger Wood spoons made for me so Roger if you're watching this I do apologize I will look and look and look and look I had it yesterday or the day before one of those two days I used it and now I can't find it for the life of me it wasn't with my gloves either so I do apologize and I feel really bad about that because I really liked it and it was a very nice gesture and if not maybe I'll commission you to make me another one if you don't mind I appreciate it so I whipped this up anyways this is all cedar it's a spatula spatula a hearty enough meal for me well Joe looking it up reminds me of my ten day alone the ten item trip the same dehydrated vegetables and it gives it the same taste as the rice all I'm missing is a boiled pike well take water mmm poached pike it'll do for a couple nights I'm done eating this pots going right back on the fire and I'm boiling up some chaga tea and I'm gonna drink that throughout the night again it was really good last night and it uh i know it's good for me you know what the best is if you have if you just add uh honey to it if you have chocolate you just add honey it's freaking on point oh tomorrow i'll show you guys some fire starting stuff with this i said i would yesterday um yeah don't let me forget i like my little shelter here i cleaned it up i have all my room next to me here my bed i am going to stick my backpack in here before i go to bed but i'm toasty toasty warm in here must be a warm night too but uh got my chaga tea on that food actually did fill me up pretty good there's enough for me for tonight at least fire's rocking out there it's a nice bit of cold chaga tea's on i'm just taking it easy relaxing sit here by the fire maybe read my book a little bit and drink my chaga tea starting to feel out here i'm starting to feel like at one you know i mean starting to feel pretty comfortable slowing down going at the pace that things just happen so That's the whole point. Something to be said about sitting on the ground, you know what I mean? Not having a fancy chair that you bring around with you. Builds character. Stick with me, kids. Shelter is holding up sturdy, man. Nice and taut. Nice and taut.