Answers to your Questions - Bushcraft, My Life, Outdoor Tools, Camping Advice.

Hey folks, Joe and Scout here. Thanks for tuning in. We're just in the local wood lot. We're walking towards a patch of woods where I can sit down and answer a bunch of your questions for my question and answer giveaway video. Come on, Scout. This is where I wanted to sit and have a fire, sit on my sitting log and have a fire, but that's not going to happen right here, obviously. We got flooded out pretty bad. I'm going to try and walk around and go over to that side. Maybe we can find a spot to sit and have a small fire. There he comes. Where were you, bud, where were you, where'd you go, come on, leave it, let's go, okay maybe i will forego the fire right now, if i get a little chilly i'll get it going and i'll make up some tea and stuff but should be okay right now, so question and answers right, like i said i'm in a local wood lot i do have reception, i'm just going to read right off my phone the questions and then answer them as i go i brought a paper and pen so that i can put my top five questions, write my top five questions down and then i will uh put them in a hat and pull it out all on camera because i've got people telling me you're just gonna pick your friends anyways you're not even gonna do a real giveaway and stuff because people you guys really know you guys really know me and you know what's up so yeah anyways i've had people saying that i want to just make it known that i'm not going to do that So I'll do it on film so you all believe me, which really, anyways, so that video where I asked you for questions for my question and answer video got 144,000 views in five days and it has over 10,000 comments, over 10,000 comments. So you have to understand how this is going to work. I'm not going to read 10,000 comments. I can't, right? What I am going to do is I'm going to read a bunch from a section, answer them, scroll down like crazy, answer a bunch from another section, scroll down like crazy, and do it that way. I can't read 10,000 comments. It's just impossible, right? So, again, and then I'll write the five top comments on, pull out of the hat, and then the top two winners out of that win the prizes. Okay, here we go. and if you don't get your answer if you don't get your question answered it's because it's been answered 100 times already in previous videos it's because i don't want to answer it or it's because i'll answer it in another video i just haven't got to it so i have enough questions here where i can actually do a series of this and do like two or three answer videos if that's something you guys want to see okay first question from the wild woods here's my question to you when you get scared half to death. What happens when it occurs twice? You die. We've seen your stickers and logo on a backpack and whatnot, but do you have any future plans or dreams of starting your own company with your own apparel, tools, accessories? I will be. That's the answer. Yeah, I do. I do want to do that. In the process of getting two knives made right now, two signature knives made, my logo on it, everything. It's a Joe Robinette knife. I want to do it with an axe. I haven't been able to find an axe maker to do that with yet uh i'm planning on putting out hats and shirts as well very soon all right this one's from stay sideways hey joe what do you think is the best kind of shelter for any rainy weekend campouts a tarp uh if there is no bugs i think a tarp is the best shelter in three seasons i'm going to be using a tarp and then in the bug season i'm going to be using a tent with a mesh screen or a bivy with a mesh but for rain a tarp that's what i'll go with a silnylon tarp preferably a lightweight silnylon tarp i like a square tarp because you can set it up in different configurations jonathan missimer says hey joe hello uh brute boris petrovsky have you had any other pets yes i have i've had a ton of pets in the past i used to be an aspiring herpetologist um i had red tail boas i had veiled chameleons i had bearded dragons i had um african bullfrogs i had pixie frogs i had pac-man frogs i had red-eyed tree frogs i had a big eye tree frog i had a white tree frog a copes gray tree frog i've had a ton of amphibians and reptiles i've had turtles and snapping turtles i've had two other dogs in my life i had a standard poodle and then a mutt and right now we have scout spike which is a big fat orange garfield kind of cat we have squeaks which is some random cat we found her we found her mom in the bush like 10 years ago she had no tail uh she had a bunch of kittens we kept one and that squeaks she's like this random rabid raccoon looking kind of cat like sometimes you'll see her lurking around in my my house videos um and then also we have had a hamster named eye face he only had one eye we've had a bunch of rats my first my favorite my first rat was uh Algernon obviously after the book Flowers for Algernon i know Algernon was a mouse not a rat lots of animals lots of pets what What is your idea of an all-around jack-of-trades axe by John Dool? Jack-of-all-trades axe, which, in my opinion, would be, like, a 23-inch, the same length as a Les Stroud Wedderfors Bushman axe, but not with that funky head on it. With a normal, like, Dayton pattern, one-and-a-half to two-pound, probably one-and-three-quarter pound head on a 23-inch handle would be great, with a big swell at the bottom, some contours on the handle. I don't care about name brands or anything like that an old head put on that handle would be an ideal axe Garrick hey Joe I have to ask what is your favorite time of year to get out and camp uh the fall the fall is my absolute favorite time of year there's no bugs you have that bite in the air still I love waking up in the morning with this like um bite in my nose from the cold air you guys know what I mean if you've ever been out and experienced it no bugs gets up to a good good temperature in the daytime sometimes if it's warm enough and if you've been busting your butt enough in the day working or canoeing or whatever you're doing you can actually swim in the fall which is welcomed you know what i mean if you're very warm definitely fall then uh probably winter spring and then summer at the last summer because of the heat and the bugs from air ie Joe Robinet at bushcraft would you ever go abroad to do bushcraft videos like scotland norway or other places yeah 100 i would i actually had the opportunity i had had an opportunity to go to norway for a week this year and I wanted to do it and I was trying to get that done but the people who were trying to get me to do it just flaked out on me and stopped replying so I was kind of bummed out at that but there will be other experiences other opportunities and I will be other places to do stuff for sure you do know that asking of YouTube comments is like pissing in the wind right by Esby okay next question is by Hectic Straw how was the first time you went out camping alone it was fine I have had a lot of experience camping with other people first that probably helped a lot um and my dog I have Skye with me a lot i'm not i can't remember if if he was the first first time i went out alone was with him or not um but it was fine you just have to get out and and experience it and if you're you have some kind of qualms or reservations about going out alone try to get a buddy to go with you the first time you know what i mean or if you're out and you're not feeling it just go home it's okay leave a note saying where you're gonna be all that stuff and if you're not feeling it just go home you don't have anybody you impress i don't have anybody to impress there's if you go out and you're not feeling it or if you're hungry and you don't have enough food or you're cold you don't have adequate gear and stuff if you're not having fun if you're not out there to test yourself in the first place and doing that on purpose just bail i'm not going to think any less of you i'll guarantee you that captain hebes what was the worst injury you've ever sustained in the outdoors alone how did you deal with it in the field i cut my finger really badly um maybe a good inch below my knuckle on this finger so i was splitting wood actually with this knife with this adventure sworn knife and i had my piece of wood in my hand i was splitting it down like that but the piece of wood i was splitting it on top of on the ground was just a small little stick and it rolled and i and cut myself really bad and i was 40 minutes from my car and then another 40 minute drive home and i didn't have any kind of first aid kit on me at all because i was just out fishing and i just was trying to make a little split split with fire so I cut my sock cut a band off my sock tied it around my finger really tight kept the pressure on very very tight tied around my finger and held my hand above my head as I rode my bike with one hand 40 minutes to my car loaded up my bike in my car and drove home like this right the idea is I'm keeping it above my heart to try not to send blood to it I had to get stitched up and it was fine and everything but like uh you're just gonna take that stick A safety kit in the field is priority number one for sure. Even if you don't think you need it, even if you don't think you're going out to do anything. If you're going outside, you need at least a little PSK, personal survival kit, or sorry, FAK, first aid kit. Israel McGuire, have you ever broken a bone and how did you deal with it? I have not. I have not broken a bone. I imagine I would deal with it by putting it in a splint if possible. By Duncan McWilliam, I feel like you handled that poorly. the outdoors is not yours you should be happy that someone came and enjoyed the outdoors same as you i assume he's talking about mark the whole mark situation i gotta address that some of you guys need to freaking take a chill pill right now you think that um i was angry you think that i was pissed off you guys are living in a um secluded kind of bubble if you think that was pissed off i said what the heck a couple times you know what i mean i took some some tape off of a tree and and rearranged my my rocks I got over that legit I got over that in two minutes and you guys are some of you guys are acting like I freaking persecuted the guy and the fact of the matter is you have no idea about the situation about the background about what anything happened there and I got a little Joe Robinette plane coming ahead let me give you a tiny little bit of background because like it was ridiculous I got freaking raped in those comments I have been going there in that same spot for almost 10 years now okay i have had multiple shelters built at that exact location building them the same way and keeping them low profile on purpose okay i have been there for eight to ten years now i have never once come across anything like this can you maybe just think of how i would be a little bit put off by that you know what i mean not even pissed off not pissed off but put off do you understand like um something's not right right so you go to a place a certain place for so long and you have this routine right it is a routine i come in i i find my camp i said i i start up my fire i know where everything is and then i come this one time in eight to ten years probably closer to eight if i'm being honest and everything's awry i know nothing's messed up i understand that he didn't mess anything up and i'm grateful for that because i have had that happen before in other spots i get that i get that completely and i wasn't pissed off and the fact of the matter is if he came if mark came while i was there i would have done nothing but moved over said have a seat and shared my stuff with him and anybody who knows me in real life knows that that's the truth and if you don't believe me there's nothing that i can do for you i don't care if you don't believe me if you think i'm an asshole don't watch my videos you know what I mean Here's a cool little idea too. I find that when I know I don't like a specific author or actor or YouTube channel or TV show or movie, I just don't watch it. That's a novel idea. I just don't watch it. Instead of watching it and getting pissed off and thinking I know the back story and the deal and commenting like, you're the worst person in the world, I hope you die, F your family. Like really? Really? Really? I left out of there for respect out of Mark. He wrote his age and his phone number on the thing. He's not a kid and he's not a transient. To get where I was, you have to drive there. Mark has a car, guys. Mark has a cell phone, guys. He's not transient. He's not in a rough place or a rough time. And I don't care if he goes there. I honestly don't care if he goes there. What I didn't like, what I didn't appreciate was seeing garbage next to my, in my shelter, Right because I try to keep the place clean. I try to keep it a low profile, and I built it small Okay, I got some flack from building this small you guys I get flack for anything I do you understand that do you understand that if I didn't if I wasn't Put off or a little bit concerned about mark being there I would have got all these comments saying like well You don't need you're not prepared you have no presence of mind or safety you understand you follow me right you follow me Then no matter what I do and not just me there's a force positivity thing on YouTube no matter what I do do no matter what big youtubers do there's gonna be these group of douchebags who are gonna always constantly go to that and just like criticize no matter what you know what i mean so mark was 40 years old he left that on the note guys 40 he's not a kid i'm not afraid of butt hurting his feelings who gives a ---- you know what i mean he's 40 years old if he wants to go there he can go there all he wants but you know what i can too and i can take down the freaking electrical tape on trees that are going to grow around if I don't take that off what is that going to do it's going to either lose its stickiness and fall on the ground and litter the place or it's going to the tree's going to bind around it you know what I mean no situation is good and I understand where my shelter is I am leaving stuff there too but the fact of the matter is I know where that is I do go back there and if I ever moved away I'll be taking that stuff down I don't take it down because I go there and I frequent that spot a lot Ethan Hopewell can you make a super shelter for the next one yeah I hope to I actually planned on doing that I was supposed to be gone right now to do that um unfortunately my my wife's grandma suddenly passed away she wasn't on her deathbed or anything like that so this whole week has been like um you know the showing the going to the funeral and doing all the the funeral type arrangements and then today we have two showings and tomorrow is the actual funeral so it's been a whole week of that but i'm hoping next week early week i can get going and do that super shelter video i'm really wanting to do that this is why it's wreck there's something i've been on my mind for a while regarding how to go to the toilet in the wild I know there's videos out there but none of them are that great so maybe just an explanation of safe and hygienic way to do stuff yeah well basically I dig it and dig a hole right yeah well that deep if you can get to it if not you're kick you know I mean sometimes you really can't so you kick a depression as deep as you can you get this hole as deep as you can get it, um what I like to do, it's all different with different people and different body shapes and stuff but I can actually pull down my pants completely and just have them uh just pull it away from my body and keep it on my legs and I literally just squat, I just do a squat and I grab if there's a tree in front of me I usually position it so that I can have a tree and I squat and I grab the tree and I hold it there and I just kind of if I have to I pull my pants away because you know sometimes you got to pee as you're pooping do the old number three, the old bird, the old bird bathroom poo and pee at the same time, um yeah and then I bring toilet paper and baby wipes and I'll clean it up real good and then I have hand sanitizer that I use and I make sure the baby wipes are biodegradable and everything like that they're like the ones to use outside bury it all up really good tamp it down and I usually take a stick especially for in the same area camping the same area I take a stick and I stab it into it normally so it's like a flag waving out just to show people that don't go there kind of thing, leave it bud um but yeah make sure you're using hand sanitizer too because everybody's always touching things and like shaking hands and and eating food, a trail mix out of bags and stuff it could get really it could get really messy but uh the uh the hand sanitizer really helps with that it's good for fire lighting too actually hand sanitizer it's got so much alcohol in it you can squeeze it you can strike with a fire steel or a lighter how redneck red how about if it's not yours don't touch it and stay the f out that's how we roll here in canada we're not as nice as people think if you could bushcraft anywhere on earth or off world what time era no no mark fray would you be willing to appear on a best of the best alone superstars alone again i watch all of your vids and the day they the day they come out you have the best bushcraft you know chill on youtube well thank you very much uh in all honesty i don't think i could go on the best of the best of alone i think i could go on the last of the last of alone uh i would i would do it again 100 percent in a heartbeat i i did not prove anything to anyone especially myself being out there um when we got season one when we got picked we didn't know that there was a prize we didn't know the severity of the prize or anything like that the grand prize we all did that i can tell you honestly all of us in season one came out to do this for the experience i'm not saying season two or three didn't either i just don't know those guys at all but season one we had no idea about the grand prize we wanted to prove ourselves to ourselves this is a uh for me this is a lifelong dream i could never do this stuff on my own i could never go and afford to go live and have the legality freedom to do do the stuff that we were able to do on there and i really feel raped i really feel robbed about that whole experience so i would love to do it again and if i'm being completely honest with you guys which i try to do through my videos and get killed over it i don't think i could win for the mere fact alan lost the same amount of body weight that i weigh basically on season one i'm skin and bones guys i'm a buck 40 soaking wet you know what i mean i have no no meat on my bones and it's just the reality of the situation i don't have enough reserves to win but i do have the gumption and the freaking desire to go back out and try and try and stay as long as I can that's what I would be doing it for percussion 8 or 57 what is the tattoo on your hand for and what's the story behind it I have a small W on my hand it's faded it looks like a CV now because it's all faded W is for my wife her name is Wilhelmina she got a J on her ankle maybe eight years ago seven right years ago even longer nine or ten years ago and uh and i got a w mitul agarwal the next one's by Mitul Agarwal, i'm sorry i'm probably butchering that Joe, what's the backstory on how you got into bushcraft it was always a way of life or type of camping i've always wondered wanted to ask you so uh i've always been interested in the outdoors when i was young i would go out and build shelters and track animals and try to hunt rabbits with a fake bow and arrow and uh just mess around learn my trees and stuff like that but when I got to be about 15 I really uh really got the desire to do it I started watching Survivor Man I started watching Mors Kochanski, sorry not Mors Kochanski uh Ray Mears and then reading Mors Kochanski's books so those three guys were were a very very big inspiration to me I actually moved up north with my wife and I took a natural resources program out at Sault College in Sault Ste. Marie where we learned uh we dealt much more deeper into uh tree identification animal tracking we had a survival class where we um built a quinzee which is like a snow cave slept in it for two days at negative 40 degrees celsius every night with a bunch of students um i took a bunch of courses from Iowa woodsman Terry Barney he lives down in um in Iowa he knows the deal that guy's the real deal he's he's on youtube his name is IA Woodsman on youtube and he he is legit he became my mentor a good buddy and all that so I went down took a bunch of courses with him and helped him with some courses and stuff yeah but I'd say my huge inspirations were Les Stroud and Ray Mears when I first saw Ray Mears bushcraft on like PBS or whatever I was just blown away blown away Hayden Fruchet marry one kill one sleep with one bushcraft youtubers only and then to what's the backstory with the tattoos especially the sweet one with the guy's face and the gun oh that's not a sweet tattoo at all that is the worst tattoo in the world i wish that i never got that tattoo i was 16 years old and it's flash it's flash tattoo like something that you see on the wall and you're like oh that's cool i want to get that uh and i saw this guy holding the gun with a red hat and i was like that's a really cool picture i want to get that tattooed i thought it was a gangster you know and i thought it was a little thug right so uh yeah i almost got my my butt beat a couple times because of that tattoo i imagine because he has a red hat and because bloods and crips but Like I live in Canada guys So I really don't know I should hold no weight at all But anyways that's going to be redone really soon I'm going to get that covered up Within a couple months I've got an owl here I've got a bunch of cover ups I've got a wolf face I've got a tree I'll be getting a little hiker guy with a scout I think a dog on my arm A couple new tattoos soon My advice Don't get tattoos until you're older And you actually really know what you like Legit, same thing with these stupid earrings People ask me all the time What's with the plugs, does it help you bushcraft better No, I think these are dumb too I think these are retarded But you know what it is, if I don't wear these I have these huge holes in my ears Stop drinking that, that look even worse I did this when I was really young, 14 or 15 I stretched this like by myself With a pen With a pen guys, they don't go back down now I ruin my ears. I split them. Don't stretch your ears. Life lessons from somebody who's done it. How many videos do you have Scout in? The C-Squad. I don't know. I'd say 90% of my videos have Scout in them. The only time I really don't have Scout in my videos is when I go far and I go for an extended time and I need him home. Yoni Moscow. My 13-year-old daughter and I are going up to hit our first three-night off trail as soon as the weather breaks upstate New York. When first starting out how important to buy how important is it to buy gear that's heavy on the price side to ensure longevity as opposed to buying all sorts of cheaper gear to test and evaluate I think personally well the way that I did it was I was all cheap gear all the time for the longest time I'm talking Canadian Tire and Walmart okay because we don't even have in Windsor where we are I don't even have like a Dick's Sporting Goods or a Bass Pro or any of that stuff, a sale, any of those stores never existed around here, and when I started out, ordering things online was sketchy, and I didn't have money, you know what I mean, so I always did things the cheap way, everything was bulkier, things broke, but they still worked, and that's the point, if you have to double up on a sleeping bag, because you have two crappy sleeping bags, that's fine, you know what I mean, you're just not going to be able to go as far, distance wise, and if you're just starting out, that shouldn't be an issue anyways, that shouldn't be a goal anyways you should be out there experiencing it finding out what works for you and what doesn't work for you don't go invest all this tons of money maybe you're not going to like it or maybe you're going to like it and your kid's not going to like it you know what i mean i would say go the cheap route first until you know that this is something you're going to enjoy something that you're going to like something that you're going to do for the rest of your life or at least a good chunk of your life and then start investing big bucks into it or don't just continue doing what you're doing until your gear doesn't work anymore and then replace it with with cheap gear or expensive gear who cares the biggest thing is being out i it's so different because a lot of you guys only know me now you only know me now for the past two or three years not even past past year where things are blowing up and i'm i'm getting free gear given to me and i'm getting okay well sorry about that i'm at home now obviously i only brought one battery um thinking that i'm only doing a question and answer video i don't need more than one battery but as you know like to ramble on so Yoni Moscow again with the the cheap or the expensive gear go cheap gear until you know that you want to do this I think I started saying that you guys only know me or most of you or some of you at least only know me from the past year I've been doing this stuff for a long time and when I first started out I was using like the Jan Sport backpack you know I mean from Walmart just super heavy gear big old army boots I got from the surplus store Or actually, even before that, steel-toe boots I got from Canadian Tire. Work boots I was hiking around in. You can do this stuff with minimal money. Jason Maine, what is your favorite backpacking food? Dehydrated spaghetti that I make, or that my wife makes when I dehydrate, or chili, but the spaghetti itself. And when I say spaghetti, I know a lot of purists. It's pasta, just pasta with meat sauce. I don't really know if it's spaghetti or not. I call it any kind of noodles, spaghetti. so homemade pasta meat sauce mixed all together then dehydrated super easy to rehydrate tastes very good and then chili as well and that's for backpacking but camping in general will be a steak on the coals any day Clemzilla would would you consider doing any hunting kind of kill it cook it eat vids whether it's fishing rabbits or whatever also i think it's time you added vlogs to your channel well i do i do do the fishing videos when i do catch fish i do eat them um so i don't have my hunting license i was supposed to i was supposed to fix that last year but we'll fix that this year i do have my restricted my non-restricted PAL which means i can own firearms i will be getting my firearms license this year i'll be doing a hunter safety course and hopefully in the fall i'll be able to go on a couple small hunts but in all reality and honesty like the survivally part of it where i know that this isn't the question i'm getting here but i get a lot of the same question about like the survival aspect of it like it's not legal to just go and spear animals or set like snares if you don't have a trapping license and things like that so the legality issue is a really big thing i can't just do these things and put them on video you know what i mean it's it's illegal right a lot of the things um but what i can do i will be doing this year so this year i have a a spring trip in Algonquin where i'm going to be catching trout where i'm going to be catching trout hopefully and eating them on the fire different ways and then in the summer early later on in the spring early summer in june i have a fly-in fishing trip to Woodland Caribou where all we're going to be doing is fishing and eating it you know what i mean so there will be that stuff and i have done that in the past tons of times with the fish i did get a squirrel one time too early on in my in my youtube career there's a video called squirrel lunch and i got a squirrel pretty brutal pretty brutal way and uh cooked them up for the fire and ate them without having any kind of knowledge of it or anything myself just kind of cleaned it like i would clean a fish yeah some more of that stuff to come to my to my channel for sure another scout question Sarah Smith Martinez how old is scout how long has he been your camp buddy he'll be 10 in october and he has been my camp buddy ever since I got him I started taking him out on day trips at like three months four months of age and then canoe trips and camping trips and stuff like that when I lived up north it was a lot easier there's a lot more area to go Tommy P films what other hobbies do you have instead of camping camping kind of became my big thing became my big thing and it has been and it stayed my big thing for a long time I used to enjoy skateboarding I used to enjoy rollerblading aggressive inline rollerblading where you're grinding and jumping and things like that and then i got into mountain biking i'm a little bit into video games right now i never really been into video games my whole life i was not allowed to have video games when i was young i was raised very um christian i guess they didn't for lack of a better word they didn't want any kind of like um distractions and stuff we would go on television fasts we'd go on tv fasts for 40 days at a time and stuff like that just very extreme um but i wasn't allowed to have it i never really had an affinity for games like video games and stuff growing up but my wife got me a playstation for christmas and i've been playing a little bit so that takes up some of my time while i'm home but uh well i am home when i'm not doing camping trips and doing bushcraft overnighters and things like that i'm home i i don't really have friends around my area the friends that i do have aren't into this stuff i don't really talk to people anymore i kind of i'm a homebody you know what i mean i stay at home with my family i watch my kid when my wife's at work and then when they're all at home we're here together we're spending time together we're cooking together we're cleaning together we're watching movies together going on vacation together so it's uh lots of family stuff eats up my time not eats up but takes up my time when i'm not camping what is the best way to get started in hiking and hiking camping and bushcrafting Gary Burnett, um just do it the best way to get into it is you're already into it if you have an interest you're already into it if you're asking me this question but i would say if you live in the states find a state park that live that's close to your home if you can't drive maybe ask your parents to go with you if you're older go ahead go by yourself go with a friend whatever and then just kind of check out the area find out a spot that might be suitable for camping and then just take it easy do a one night overnight or kind of thing with your car there close enough have all your gear in the car just take it slow it's not rocket science it's not hard it's nothing you know what i mean it's just another thing to learn to just go out and do it there's a ton of resources online it's a ton of resources and books what is a proper way your method of pooping in the woods and what do you do if the ground is frozen this is a reoccurring question i'm reading it here and i'm getting a lot of questions about the pooping in the woods question but the ground being frozen is another key to it another element to it that i haven't seen so i'm going to write that one down i think that's a very good question that's by D Scientist there's not much you can do if there's a ton of snow around you're going far far far away from people or from traveled areas or for your camp not uphill not towards the water away and scoop out that snow as much as you can and just poop and put the snow back on it if the ground is frozen there's nothing you can do you're not going to sit there for 20 minutes with a little shovel picking up the dirt when you gotta poop we've a little turtle head poking out when you're ready to go you are not going to be digging up the ground that is just the reality of the situation so you're going to dig a hole in the snow or stomp a hole in the snow with your boot do your business throw all your stuff in there or bring your toilet paper back to the camp and burn it that's an option as well depending on who you're with um and their bush etiquette but i'm going to write that one down give me a second here okay i'll write this one down too uh discover bushcraft says what is the oldest piece of outdoor equipment you still use on a continual basis probably my zebra pot my 12 centimeter zebra billy pot and my 19 inch Gransfors Bruk axe i don't really use my 19 inch Wetterlings axe as much as i use the zebra pot still so i'll probably write that i bought my zebra pot my 12 centimeter one 10 years ago let's say 10 years ago a long time ago and i have used the piss out of that thing is black it's warped it's like a football shape now on the top from being warped on the fire so many winter camp just sitting on the fire when the snow melts down you know i mean there's not all that material inside getting melted or cooked or boiled or whatever there's just this metal being heated it kind of warps and so now my dish fits right into it super solid it doesn't have to like push it um stretch it out to get the dish in and then because of that the handle stays in position when i when i lift it up or take it down it doesn't just flop and i really really like that so from use it's gotten better so my i'm gonna say my 12 centimeter zebra billy pan or pot that i originally saw Rainiers use and talk about so his name is Discover Bushcraft Discover Bushcraft and then um gear i'll put gear old gear dreadhead deuce i'm a long time sub and lover of everything Joe and Scout with that being said what would you do if you didn't have bushcraft or YouTube I would still be doing the same things except for I would be working a nine-to-five YouTube is my job I am able to get away and go do these awesome trips all the time because that's my job because I'm coming back and editing these videos and putting these videos out if I didn't have YouTube I would still be doing the same things but it would be few and far between I would still be going and doing these trips and probably filming them but I don't know where my outlet would be i would have a different outlet obviously filming i started this stuff before you could be monetized before you could monetize a video right you look at my channel i have channel videos going back six seven years you couldn't and if you could i didn't know about it monetizing was not the gain money was not the the end all money was not the issue money was not even the driving force i've said this before and i'll answer this again right now even though this isn't the question but i've seen it a hundred times on this i started videos to be part of a community i was on Bushcraft USA the forum i'm not there anymore i was there for a long time and there was contests and classes that you could compete in bush class was a free online bushcraft gold mine where you could learn anything you needed to learn and you could really further yourself with this and the way that you participated was entering video submissions for courses or lessons or tests or you know what I mean that kind of thing that's why I started I started to get love on YouTube a little while later but it is an outlet for me I got a high off of people saying oh wow good job Joe or liking my stuff literally I'm being serious right now I got a high off of it I got a enjoyment out of understanding that people liked what I was doing and people would watch what I was doing and see it I don't know if that's egotistical or not but i enjoyed it and that was my driving force yeah turned into my job i i turned what i love to do my passion my hobby what i was doing anyways what i was paying out of my own pocket to do now i'm paid to do what is your favorite park in ontario to camp in or favorite canoe camp loop to do by dan bloomer that's a great question dan my favorite park that i've been to probably has to be Killarney um just because of how different it is and how much of a good trip I had when I went and did my canoe trip there I went with six guys four guys four guys for six days in two canoes it was a good time me Ken Kyle and Doug went yeah great yeah quartz uh Killarney has these quartzite mountains completely white just this contrast against like the aquamarine blue uh water and the green of the pine this is a really really nice place my favorite camp i've ever been to was um the last site on my Temagami trip last spring and we had the rapids we're kind of in like this bay the rapids were coming down this way the river flowed this way so nobody was paddling up river this way we were kind of concentrated in this little bay where everybody would come anybody who came would come from this side and we didn't see anyone over these rapids and i was able surfing in my little boat in the rapids and stuff just a really relaxing last night to a very hectic and hard trip richard silva hey joe great videos you have used hammocks for camping off the ground but my question is have you ever tried to make a platform up high off the ground or out of the hillside to make the area to camp there may be times where something like this is necessary necessary due to ground condition it would be a cool you can make a video yeah that makes sense no I've never done that I haven't had the need to really I'm not a huge hammock camper at all and anybody who watches my videos knows that I do like the ground I'm a ground dweller yeah maybe making something that like that in the future if I needed to I would Chris Morrissey my question is when taking your daughter out into the bush what do you find is the most challenging to keep them interested you have any suggestions for trying to pique your kids interest in bushcraft yeah oh for sure buddy very good question Chris Chris you're gonna get a breakdown for that one Chris Morrissey your kids are already going to want to be with you right depending on age depending on age but my kid up until hopefully a few years from now still wants to do what i'm doing emulate what i'm doing um the love the desire to be out there is already there in kids i i believe that no matter what um just making it seem fun making it seem fun like it's not fun making it fun to them right so i'm gonna if i bring on Emerald for the day i wanna go over with her what things that we're going to bring out for the day and what she wants to do well we're out there and include her in that part of it so that when we're out there it's not a surprise to her like oh i wanted this book or i wanted my doll and i don't have it kind of thing so i say to her this is what we're going to do we're going to go to this camp bush camp for the day we're going to cook food and we're just going to hang out kind of thing what do you want to eat and nine times out of ten her answer is marshmallows and that's fine we can roast marshmallows but you have to understand that you have to have food first right so as the parent you're bringing out some food that's that you know that they like and you know that's easy enough to cook but you're also bringing along those marshmallows to roast with them after so they have their reward you're bringing along any any kind of toy they want i don't care if you're wearing a backpack and carrying a shopping bag in your hand like you got to make it enjoyable right or they're not going to want to go so toys books things for you to do with them like a ball to catch with uh a couple mitts and baseball would be perfect i'm hoping on the coordination factor later on in life for that one but uh yeah and then you just got to make it fun for them don't take them out on a rainy day don't take them out on a freezing cold day you know what i mean take them out on a nice day cook up some good food for them and uh just have fun make it enjoyable again if they don't want to be there i mean maybe it's time to go too right um and then camping camping is is the same thing just magnified just have to have everything that they're going to want or need not everything that they're going to want sorry things that they are going to want and everything they're going to Okay, we'll do a few more. I'm running long. I've had to reset the camera three times, so it's like 40 minutes already or so. Joseph Clifford, what knife and hatchet styles or brands do you recommend for a bushcraft enthusiast with low budget? That's a really good question, too. I get questions on axes all the time. It's hard to answer, too, because if people are asking, like, what's your favorite axe or what is a good axe to use? a lot of times I want to say a Gränsfors Bruks or my homemade axe that Mike made for me, my Sandvik, but it's a hard answer to give, right? Because a lot of people who are asking these questions really don't know and maybe they don't have the gear or the knowledge or ability or anything to, or even the resources to get these old heads and handle them on a new handle or anything like that or to have the funds to buy a frickin' $200 Gränsfors Bruks axe. That's a ridiculous price for an axe. I like Gränsfors Bruks and i have them and i use them and stuff but don't get me wrong it's a lot of money what i can recommend what i can say right now in this in this video is those things that i have just said i still do believe and recommend but if you are on a budget if you're just starting out you just want to try there's nothing wrong with using a Fiskars axe you know what i mean those Fiskars one piece axes are totally fine and you're going to be able to work on your axe skills with these cheap axes you're going to be able to do every single thing that you can do with another axe. With these axes, they're cheap and they're almost impossible to break. Fisker's axe, guys, I would go with that route over an S-Wing, but if you don't want to do Fiskars, if you don't want to do a composite kind of handle, synthetic, plasticky-looking axe, I would go with Gränsfors Bruks, I would go with Wetterlings, even though I believe Wetterling's is going out of business now, Hultafors, Hultafors, the, once you go to Hultafors and Hultafors and stuff, the quality really degrades, you know what I mean, you're getting thicker heads, and you're getting thicker handles, and you're getting more wedge-type heads, what I'm looking for in an axe, is a thin handle, is a thin head, is a sharp bit, you know what I mean, like, yeah, that's exactly what it is, that's what all my, all my axes are, as far as knives, man, that Mora Garberg is a sweet knife, I can't remember how much it is, maybe a hundred bucks or something, but, bite the bullet and buy it you know what i mean uh it's 100 bucks that knife is a full tang knife i don't see it breaking i've used mine a little bit and i've not beat mine up at all but i really honestly don't see it breaking i've only broke one Mora in my life and i was a old 5.11 and i was throwing it out of a tree and i hit it on the butt like just being stupid uh i've seen Moras rolled i've seen Moras chipped i've seen Moras break and stuff before but few and far between and not the Garberg. The Garberg is way more robust than all these other Mora's that they came out with. That said, I started with Mora's, guys. I started with the Mora Triflex. Ugliest knife going, but sharp as hell out of the box. Can do whatever, you know what I mean? Mora. Mora all day. If you don't like Mora's, if you want to look more tactical looking, there's like the BK 16's are a good knife, the BK 17, if you want to like a pry bar, the BK 2. You know what I mean? Who cares? They're all under $100, I believe. And if it's your first knife or a budget knife, I would go that route. If I'm giving you my personal opinion, if it were me doing this, I'd buy a Fiskars axe, like a 19 or a 20-inch Fiskars axe, and I'd buy a Mora Garberg and buy a Laplander folding saw. Spinerka, from a videography standpoint, what did you learn the most from your time on alone? How has it improved your YouTube channel for the better? I learned to build scenes that is the biggest honestly probably the only thing I learned filming wise from there is to build scenes, every scene has to have a beginning, middle, and end and even scenes within those scenes should have a beginning, middle, and end so if you watch lately, I try to build stories within the stories, scenes within the scenes, and that's why I use a lot of fade to black now in my editing, which would be kind of giving me illusion that the story has ended or giving the, I'm putting that out there that the story has ended, that little part of the story has ended and I'm on to a different scene kind of thing that's the biggest thing I learned I honestly think that's the only thing I learned this one's by Lachlan Campbell Would you have another child? It's a good question, I'm probably going to add that as my fifth question that I'm going to pick from There are so many reasons to have another kid and there are so many reasons not to have another kid For the longest time I think that I was anti having another kid I just wanted one, one and done But as Emerald is five now, life is living and things are happening and I'm thinking that it would be nice for her to have a sibling when I'm older when her her mother and I are older just to share the responsibilities and have somebody to grow up with and stuff I never had a brother or a sister for nine years so I was an only kid for nine years my mom remarried and had a brother and sister so my brother's 10 years apart from me my sister's nine and I always wanted a brother and sister I remember that and a dad growing up I huge thing for me brother and sister and I got it and uh I'm glad I have it now I really don't want to deprive Emerald of that for my own selfish reasons yeah I think we are gonna have another kid okay that's enough I have answered so many questions right now um I hope you guys aren't offended if I didn't answer your question there's just it's important 10,000 questions and I what is this a 30 minute video already so um if there is interest i can do more question and answer videos down the road i might even just turn it into like a live chat kind of thing and do it as i'm out on a camp or whatever so that we can interact a little bit better but um yeah let me rip these papers up put them in a hat and pull the pull the winner out okay we got five people's names and five questions d scientist bushcraft uh blenner morrissey and uh campbell are all their last names so we're going to just rip okay guys we got one two three four five just bunch them up like this okay my hat my hat okay like you saw all in here all right first prize winner who gets the heavy cover canteen chris morrissey for the kid question let me just show you now so you don't think i'm pulling the wool over your eyes here boys and girls chris morrissey kid question okay congratulations chris very cool buddy i will email you no i will try to contact you through youtube if you have your email thing on there i will do that if not or regardless if i contact you please contact me through my email my email is on my youtube thing you'll be able to find it no not hard chris morsey okay second for the knife and the um pouch d scientist for the poo question i'm gonna get you on here real quick again because you know i'm just a cheater and a liar here giving away things d mother truck and scientist okay that's it i'm done with the video i really hope you guys aren't uh too off put if i didn't read your comment again i just can't um i will like i said get to it in the future in maybe in a different format thank you very much for all of the questions thank you very much for all of the hate thank you very much for all the views thank you very much for 255 000 subscribers now i got 5k uh subs in less than a week so that's pretty cool i'm on the push for 300 it's going to happen soon nothing but good videos to come out after this there's not going to be another talking video there's not going to be another uh bushcraft base camp video for a long while i'm going and i'm doing trips i am I'm dying to get out right now. I feel cooped up, and I need to go. So next week, I'm driving, man. I'm going far, and I'm camping. I might even do two trips while I'm gone. Who knows? Yeah, lots of words to say to you guys. I'm very appreciative. I'm very appreciative that I can do this, and this can be my job. And you guys watch me. This would be nothing if you didn't watch. Yeah, thank you. Very, very true, very serious, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you.