Solo Overnight at the Bushcraft Camp - Fire, Cooking, Axe Work

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I went to the woods alone for a solo overnight camp out at the Bushcraft Shelter. I bought with me my Bushcraft Knife, Axe, Backpack, Sleeping Bag, Roll mat and some pretty top notch food which I cook on the fire. Hope you enjoy it folks.

More Bushcraft Videos videos:

Camp Update 9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYR-KQpp5Jw

Camp Update 8 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASXKkHFQJDE

Camp Update 7 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5706yxvtXlA

Camp Update 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWpvuLz_V4A

Camp Update 5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGrSmcxqOxk

Camp Update 4 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6cq3G1HG8U

Camp Update 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAPJDzYNPP0&t=62s

Camp Update 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrStYb5n2fA

Camp Update 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdmk8hUENGA

BUSHCRAFT PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxnadpeGdTxBqUjgb60isxg1sLCb1soDR

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BUSHCRAFT GEAR I USE:

My Backpack: Swedish LK35

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Primary Knife: TBS Boar

Secondary Knife: http://amzn.to/2i97WwM

Folding Saw: http://amzn.to/2cr9iEX

Zebra Billy Can: http://amzn.to/2iOiOkr

Sharpening Stone: http://amzn.to/2cr90O7

Firesteel: http://amzn.to/2cAgYRZ

Shemagh: http://amzn.to/2cvsI8Y

FILMING GEAR I USE:

Main Camera: Canon 550D

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Lightweight Tripod: http://amzn.to/2hQ8ATF

External Microphone: http://amzn.to/2iOjBlt

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what's up guys I'm here I'm a bushcraft camp and I'm not actually this isn't a camp update video so I'm actually going to do any building work to the camp which I usually do in my bushcraft camp update videos if you wanna watch those doing there's a link below in the video description this video is all about doing an overnighter I'm here on my own it's a solar overnighter and I've been dropped off here I've not driven here been dropped off and walked here to the camp and hopefully going to get fire going really quickly because I've got about 40 minutes of light left it might seem really light but it's winter I'm in a pine forest here there's loads of deadfall around there's loads of dead standing wood around pine is highly resinous it's very easy to burn burns quite quickly though but first things first let's get a fire going tinder bag Throwdown done it tinder bag throwdown yeah let Inder bag mostly birch bark at the moment because that stuff burns a treat gotta get Mike a knife can i form the belt like an over inca knife I don't have a dangler I should probably get dangly sheath I want the Nordics angler but such is life TBS poor really like this life high carbon steel think it's K seven twenty dollars still Scandi grind really good knife Turkish walnut scales with matching Turkish walnut fire steel so I made this and it's got no nails in it I need to put some you guys have setting one of the camp update videos to put putting some cross-struts in it basically to make an X shape because it was a bit and if I tie some locks without stopping wobbling but just tied it with some fishing line in England we call this a soaring horse you guys in America in Canada I'm not sure you would actually call this like some of you guys me like sorry Hoss what is that man but this is what I call it I don't know what you guys let me know what you guys actually call this from where you're from where you saw on something but all you do is lay a log on whichever length you want and you saw a week nice and sturdy you can lean on it from above and it doesn't Rock too much you can put that downward pressure and because it's a triangle shape here it's the strongest shape it's really efficient and it saves your back

this is my chopping log again made it in a video on my channel check it out the bushcraft playlist but I've actually got this on the outside of my camp because family on the inside I'm just gonna get too crowded in there and I won't be able to move around so this is just on the outside of the walls here and I come around chop the logs up bring them back in and get that fire going so got a few logs I've got to chop up now and then I really do need to get the fire going this is about 15 minutes left of light there's a right on gotta get them scrapings these you see where it's really red for the resins at woods quite damp today hasn't rain overnight so opting for birch bark fire just to get it nice and easy I haven't got much time with the light so rather than off the faff around we'll just get this fire going hope you guys can see that ah that's so red that's gonna go up first spark I reckon boom like the rest of these bad boys even though

don't leave your firesteel so I've just put some larger logs some wet ones on the outside of the fire just in a square shape so they can basically keep drying

while I keep putting smaller sticks on the fire to build up those embers so I'm drawing the large sticks on the outside and then burning all the small sticks first and eventually even though the sticks are the larger sticks sort of logs are wet they will dry out and I'll stack them up and it'd be much easier for them to burn later growing all that wood out whilst at the same time I can just let that fire burn down and get em embers going ready to cook let me show you one good eat so I'm Ben I'm spoiling myself tonight people I've been to the butchers

the local butchers I've got myself bear with me homemade beef burger yummy bar smells amazing spicy beef burger homemade

this is my favorite bit bit of river with asti really nicely cut look at the thickness on that ribeye steak gonna cut that on the embers and in LaPierre salary systems whatever that means

for the morning this is some smoky bacon fit cup got to be fit cup I've also got porridge for the morning as well no hot porridge and I'm gonna get some finality on right now sorry if it's a bit grainy guys it is just about to get dark just like to tell you this my little table I made makes you just one big log where I've chamfered the edge so that it's flat just with an axe one thing I will say is doing an overnighter keep your first aid kit out somewhere preferably on you if you've got a belt but either if you're staying at the camp somewhere really obvious where you can see it the last thing you need when you cut yourself is to be rummaging through your bag so I always keep that in the open like oh I just use this for storing my like crusader cut a bottle or spray bottle just anything I'm gonna prepare really it's like a preparation table that's just a Sami Sami like oilskin style pouch just a foraging pouch or storage pouch and I've got the 10 centimeters everybody here I'm going to put on some pine needle tea before well I've got to let that fire burn for at least over an hour just to get some good embers ready for cooking so I'm going to make some pine needle tea first you ink

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one thing I will say if you're cooking we're doing an overnight when you're cooking if you're looking to obviously have a warm drink like a tea or coffee or something like that I would suggest making your warm drink first before you cook because generally when you get your fire going

you obviously have lots of flame you need to build the embers up so you get lots of flame you don't cook meat or you didn't generally don't cook on the flame you cook on the embers so it's a little tip for me really is I usually get the fire going first build it up so the flames are high and that way I can boil my tea boil the water in the body Billy can and then once those embers that I down that's when I can start cooking the meat so killing two birds with one stone effectively although you'll still be able to boil water on the embers it would just you can you know you can put your Billy straight on the embers but I've got a cooking crane system here hopefully you can see that and it just works for me I'm going to make some more pot hangars soon like this I'm going to make more of those at different heights but at the moment I can just move along and I can move it back as a forward so if the flame moves I can just move this out the way really easily it's good fun guys get out there get camping locate he's definitely boarding boy out here let's get that over here check a few at and keep some for the morning I'd say this is definitely boiled whoa that's hot yep let's get that in perfect brief it well as you can see it's got dark now not sure the time is probably 4:30 at 4:30 seems really late but you can see the steam coming off that hill pine needle tea unfortunate Earl Grey English Earl Grey but I like pioneer Bertie that's full of vitamins very give here it actually doesn't taste too bad at all just remember not to swallow the pine needles or by Neal fire still going gonna let it burn down a bit for another hour put few more logs on let it burn down for an hour and then get cooking mm-hmm that's good tea so it's about 5:30 now I'm getting really hungry temperature is starting to drop a bit but I'm right by the fire here my raised beds possibly too close to the fire if I was really building up but that it's dying down to embers now can't wait to get that stake on man it's gonna be so good but I think I'm gonna go for the burger first to line the stomach

cuz I'm hungry and I want to enjoy my steak I don't want to like rush it and I go for that burger first just brought that down going to put it straight onto the coals no faffing around no grill nothing like that just straight onto the coals burger steak and then probably steak the fire up and get it a lot warmer

still some flames go in there I need them coals I want to burn my meat and then not have it cooked on the inside which is quite common thing when you cook on an open fire you burn on the outside and then you can't put the inside so in fact I'll move that sticker the way here we go man look at that boy ger that's going straight on it as a bit of uh grouchy put quite this burger look at that meat that looks so good ah look at that look at that people dyin mothers good ok I think whenever ya what I'm trying to do is keep that side of the fire going because this side's I was going out a bit where the fat from the burgers being being curved but I think that's pretty much ready looking awesome but I want to build those embers up again over there ready for the steak because that's probably gonna take a little bit longer because it's quite fixed steak but not to worry the burger will be sorting me out in the meantime burger time they were looking so good and this looks awesome not little I just looks good oh look at that butcher's burger spicy burger pardon my manners I'm hungry the embers went right down say I am now burning it up a bit I get a bit more embers just so you know guys I've got a metal plate underneath this fire pit because I'm in a pine forest it's quite PG ground and I don't want to I don't want to fire to spread under the ground which it can do in pine forests and coniferous forests so I've got a metal plate under there but lots of rocks around the edge of it to keep it also curious all contained it also helps retain all the heat in this fire pit so it's really really hot on those embers all really hot I mean that burger cooked in less than two minutes yeah is the less than two minutes probably about a minute so got the steak in here I'm going to unwrap it let those embers die down probably put it on this right-hand side over here and build up the fire again over there let the flames go and just put the state there it's going to take longer than the burger but I can in wait that is pure British beef steak I've got food for days as Alfie would say I can probably keep going for a week once I've eaten this look how red that meat is that's gonna be so rich in protein I am definitely gonna be sorted for tonight it's handy because steaks are flat as well easy to pack beef being easier to keep you know when it's coming out the fridge if he's and chicken white meat bird meat and things like that much harder to keep and it can go off quite quickly and give you some quite bad illness so I always tend to go for beef can't really go wrong with it look at that man boom I'm thinking it's steak o'clock it's looking good

still building up the fire over there keeping it going but these embers down here is still boil hot enough to get going again

the moment of truth this looks good scatting well ah look at that that is awesome

going straight down the hatch I possibly could have done it for a little bit less it's quite well done but I'd rather it more well done and I don't get that ill but you should be okay with beef well aside from being smoked out my belly is satisfied it is full and just about Stoke up the fire again because it just went down completely to embers so got a few more sticks I've still got those bigger logs around the edge of the fire which I've dried out which saved me so much time so much hassle just leave them to the side of your fire get will your firewood first leave it all to the side of your fire dry it out by the fire and then you're sorted such good better members that's so hot and that's fired up straight away really quickly these logs were wet when I first cut them now they're all drying off really well I'm going to be sorted I've also got some bigger logs just over here to the right that I'm going to burn through the night but they probably will go out within a couple of hours so I might have to Stoke up the fire in the night if it gets so cold we will see so it's about 8:30 now and the temperature is dropping it's not going to get to freezing though so I'll be fine I've built follow up lots because I wanted to burn throughout the night so I've just build it up Lots starting to put bigger logs on now I am content my stomach is full I've had fluids I'm well hydrated all I need to do now is lie out the bed roll I haven't put my bed roll out yet because all my sleeping bag because every time I blow the fire to then get it bigger the action you know hot ash and things like that could get all to the bedrail which wouldn't matter too much but on the sleeping bag of just enough burning holes through it so I tend to put the sleeping bag and bed roll around last so that you know you can preserve it a little bit anyway you still get sparks probably go on it but I have a question for you guys no question what would it be I have a theory let's say so I was speaking with dad the other day and we were talking about smoking and how cigarettes they prove that cigarettes can give you cancer and things like that and the smoke from them can give you cancer and I was thinking the I think it's the the cavemen whatever they were Neanderthals whatever they were called I can't remember that you know that far what they were called at that time but pretty sure the average lifespan for them was like 20 years old 25 years old I think if you were 30 to 35 years old back then in the primitive area you were considered basically really old so they had a really short lifespan and I was thinking obviously they don't have the medicine that we do nowadays but I was thinking I wonder if it was cancer that killed most of them because they're around fire so much they had to keep fires going all the time for their food for warmth you know to stay away from predators and things like that to keep predators away so I do wonder if they maybe maybe it was smoke that gave them that short lifespan who knows I don't know I just got smoked out anyway so that was just my thinking it reminded me but I don't let me know what you think guys in the comment section this is the theory I have anyway it's a bit random that oh uh well guys it is 11 p.m. now and I'm getting tired fires going well feeling the heat and it's not too smoky it has got smoking the shelter I need to rearrange the fire pit a bit more just to prevent the smoke coming in but there's a bit of a breeze picking up and there is it is forecasted to rain tonight so it will put the shelter to the to the test if it does rain so guys I will see you in the morning if I don't have to get up and stoke the fire at the night but see you tomorrow morning guys it is now morning what is morning it's 20 past 7 it's still pretty much pitch black because his winter didn't sleep great this less that's okay actually I woke up about two o'clock I wasn't cold rather night the sleeping bag did the job but I woke up about two o'clock there really sniffing it and I kind of kept me up for maybe an hour hour and a half or something but yeah I mean the fires there's a breeze last night I think is burnt how most of the embers say I'll see if I can get again I'll just get some dried Bracken and fire it up again but time to get some breakfast on because my lifts out of here is coming about now I say want to get some breakfast on and then pack the gear away and head on out let's get the fire going I can see some light let there be light so very darker can't they but light in the sky teatime at Sakura jewelry breakfast is going to consist of some porridge as I may not have time to get the bacon on the ice because my lift is coming but I will see then Jefferson porridge healthy energy get those porridge oats in there this is honey oats I think golden syrup and honey YUM not spoiled now we're going to use the cooking crane up on the bottom level like so and get that making cooking oh yeah

it's the way to do it yes it's the way to cook the beacon cannot wait mmm porridge is bottom perfect consistency

I would definitely upgrade from about from a plastic spork plastic his pants definitely need titanium or steel or something

Bacon's nearly done people it's gonna be crispy crispy very good and then I'll give you a quick tour the camp for those happen to knit then I need to get my ass out of here you

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