Turley Gasconade long term thoughts.

Alright guys, I'm out in the bush again with Scout and just to show you how much rain and moisture we've been getting lately, this is where I normally cross over the ditch. There's a log that goes across all this and it's been completely washed out. It's like a rapid in there now. There's no way I'm crossing that and that's where I need to go over there. So I'm going to go down about a kilometer and a half that way. Scout and I got to the crossing point here. We're still on the trail. We haven't crossed yet. I just wanted to show Um, I made a video maybe last winter about him jumping over that. I don't know what he's gonna do here cross No, all right. He'll probably end up jumping that Uh, it's probably about good six or seven feet across Go on that's the wrong way, dude. Anyways, it's slippery so I can't uh, can't show myself crossing that But i'll try and get him jumping it swim see him get taken away by the current this is only a Creek that in the summertime I can walk across I found some nice dry pieces of ash here these two here they're not the biggest in thickness but they're really dry and it's good wood to burn so I'm gonna just clean this up a little bit so I can make a saw table I know it's not necessary but I want to show the saw in action you really want this scope you really want it that bad oh we'll get it it's all yours buddy really not bad it's cutting a straight line to show you it's cutting straight it's not going on diagonal diagonal or anything which means it's not the blade isn't too loose or twisting while I'm doing it good tension on it I really really think this would do the job in a pinch obviously I'd rather have a a bow saw a real bow saw trailblazer or whatever but this is nice if you break your saw or you just want to carry your blade or whatever it'll do the job I'm splitting like this a lot of you guys probably saying get your hand out of the way but in all reality I'm only like this until it grabs splitting it after there's probably safer ways of doing it I do it like this not saying it can't happen just like everything everybody's got to make their own judgment calls to see what they feel safe doing and maybe one day I will get bit doing this I won't feel safe doing it anymore but I keep doing it you know most days I come out into the bush I do a split with fire I'm mostly doing it for practice it's a very important skill to learn be able to start a fire when you need to but today is a day where you actually would need to do that the woods are soaked it's been raining on and on for days and with the drop in temperature everything is just sorry the rise in temperature all the snow that we did have have melted and then the rain it's it's everything is impregnated with water so it's days like this where it's imperative to do the split wood fire I think it's a gas kind of day I've had this gas can for well over a year now you used it in a lot of a lot of different places and I really like it it's probably my favorite knife that I have by Turley and a while back a few of you probably remember I had to get rid of most of my knives and when it come to came down to it I couldn't sell this one or my Green River they're both very similar in blade shapes and I I think I do use my Green River the most, but this is my favorite. It's a very, very well thought out blade shape, and it's 3/16th steel, 01 tool steel, which now I tend to not get that thick. This is my thickest blade, but really it shaves and does feathers. It's a very convex grind. It shaves and does feathers with the best of them for sure. Like you couldn't ask for really much more than that. Pick that up in the camera, but they're pretty thin and lots of spirals on them. It's a stout blade, I've never had any issues with it. I can sharpen it back up to paper cutting sharp. I can't get hair popping sharp, but that's no fault of the knife, that's me, that's my own incapability of sharpening, I guess. There's a good tutorial by Iz on how to sharpen a convex grind with some sandpaper and a mouse pad, and that's what I use to learn how to sharpen. And honestly, I don't know, I don't need any sharper than what it is. like be nice to be able to wipe hair off my arm with it but I've come to the realization I can't do that and that's okay wood selection is a big thing as it's been a little bit of a topic lately on bushcraft USA wood selection is everything when you're doing stuff like this you want a straight grain as possible dry dead standing for fire prep you don't have to have an expensive knife to do this at all just a little bit of knowledge and skill expensive knife is fun though you got this sweet new fire steel from a member for Christmas thanks a lot man I really appreciate it and it's a light my fire style so I'm not really used to it but I'm sure we can get it going and these woods in this time of year moving the leaf litter and all that stuff away from your campfire it's it's not really necessary and obviously you always have to make that call yourself you're not obviously in the middle of, I don't know, Florida, I don't know, a hot state anyways, make a fire out in the open like this. But where I am in this time of year, it's normally covered in snow. It's just an unseasonably warm year with lots and lots and lots of rain. All the snow that we would have got normally has been rain, and there's no way that anything is going to catch on fire. and there's a little bit of a ditch right behind me that I can collect water and pour on it to make sure it's done to make sure it's out when I'm done but I always use use your own judgment and be careful okay that's my bush chair made with that bow saw I made and my little axe so my Canadian bacon is looking pretty good thinking it's almost done don't be jealous don't hate nothing much better than this we'll see in the bush Canadian bacon go ahead and show you you guys what i do to uh ensure there's not gonna be any problems i have water from my uh i packed it in but if not i would have found water around to do it with stomp on it a bunch until it becomes a big mud puddle there's gonna be absolutely no chance of it catching and again use your own discretion this works here it might not work where you are you might live up north where there's a bunch of shield canadian shield or rock on the ground and uh if there's a bunch of uh roots like spruce roots growing on the ground you might live in a place where you're not allowed to have fire so your own discretion but as you can see all that is a mud puddle now there's no danger in my opinion of starting a fire that's done taken care of and i'm not even packed up and ready to go yet so i can check on that a few more times now that log obviously behind there needs to get put out i don't have any water left so quick view of the ditch me tossing the log into the ditch much taken care of if that lights on fire then we got problems all right i'm all packed up ready to go and just one more shot that's where my fire was