Bushcraft Camp Update 1 - Bushcraft Breakfast | TA Outdoors

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I decided to make the most of a mild December and have a bushcraft breakfast at the camp. The shelters are still going well. I made a fire from birch bark and dead bracken. As well as a general bushcraft video this is also an update on the camp that I have been building. I decided to make another fire reflector next to the A-frame shelter as the strong wind was making my fire burn too quickly. Didn't quite finish the wall but you will see how far I got, it should look good when it's done! Thanks for watching guys, hope you enjoy the video! - Mike

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well you join me out here on a pretty warm winter day it's a pretty much middle of December at the moment and it's about 14 degrees which is ridiculous for this time of year we're having a really really mild winter at the moment I'm just out here in the woods for a couple of hours really just going to have myself a bushcraft breakfast to a cup of get a fire going get a breakfast going and I came to check on the shelters that I've built just to see how they're faring is a few months down the road now since I've built them so I'll show you guys around them obviously the foliage and stuff that I put as the proofing on the a-frame behind me is was Bracken too that's now died back but it will actually help me to start my fire I'm going to do a birch bark fire today so well fingers crossed hopefully I'll be able to start fire with a bit bit bit of birch bark and some of the dried dead Bracken behind me I'll get that going and spent a few hours try to get that going well and then I cook my breakfast have a bit of food and maybe do a little project with a carving or something like that you

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manage to do the birchbark fire the bracken worked really well however it's very very fast burning so you didn't need quite a bit of it or you've got to have all your kind of dry sticks and kindling ready basically now there's quite strong wind today quite strong breeze so what I've done is I've actually sawing up a few bits of firewood and actually made a kind of mini fire wolf that does two things really it dries out some of the wood most of this wood is dry because it's a very dense forest this coniferous forest that I'm in but it helps dry out any damp pieces of wood and it also acts as a wind reflector just to basically keep that wind from pretty much putting out my fire too quickly I'd say for the first definitely the first half an hour to an hour you need to be very tentative to your fire you want to get a good bed of embers going and you can see now I've actually got some good embers going there what I'd like to do sometimes as well as use my axe just chop away piece of wood so as you can see there's a couple inches thick this piece of wood but just by opening it up a bit and just chiseling away a bit with an axe when I place that on the fire that was far more likely to burn on the inside and dry out burn quicker and then it will the fire the flame should take the rest of the log it's just a little thing I like doing I like doing it towards the top section so that I can lean that bottom section against the fire that top section then burns and it burns down towards the heat from the bottom will then burn up as well it's just something I found really useful when starting a fire and getting a fire going and you want to start building up to bigger logs rather than put a huge logs on straight away and worry about it actually taking light just chip off a bit like that so here's how I place it just get that there's the there's the opened up piece of wood it's dry wood I've kept this in my shelter for a few few months now so it's very dry just lean it up against the fire like say without burning your fingers and then that's open to the flame hopefully that will take take like relatively quickly well got a fire going it's now time for a tour they'll give you a little trip around basically it's a mini camp that I built showing you some of the shelters that I've built over the last kind of couple of weeks and I've got a fire reflector going as well as the fire is going nicely now I'll let that go down a bit get some hot embers and then I can cook my bushcraft breakfast well there's the old fire going drying the logs over there as well this is my fire heat reflector which I built I'll put a video up in the corner there you can click that and you can see how I built that very simple to make and it bounces the heat back into the a-frame shelter that built again I'll put a link up in the corner you can see how I built that obviously now that it's December all the bracken is die back however I'm actually using it as a kind of winter lock store at the moment I've got my if you have a look got my logs all neatly in there I've got lots more to get which I'm going to get today there is gaps obviously now in the in the shelter because the Bracken's died back but doesn't matter that will keep the logs much drier in here then it would out in the forest so dead simple to make a frame like I say click link I put a link in the video description as well you have a click of that but that's how that fire reflector works the he prefer chip bounces the heat back towards that shelf today I'm hoping in the summer to actually do an overnighter in here in this a-frame but for the moment I just I'm only here for a day trip if that just a few hours have a cooking little bushcraft breakfast and I'll head home but I did another shelter as well which I'm going to show you now so this is basically what I use to build my previous shelter I use the back of a tree root I call it the tree root shelter and this is what it looks like as you can see dead tree bawling there it's falling down there's a tree root the buttress of the tree kind of us there and I made similar basically an a-frame shape as well covered with moss and again I'll put a link up in the corner that you can click or in the video description and that is my tree root shelter very very secure and very very sheltered actually inside lots of room inside there is probably put two people in here quite easily but that was really good fun to make I made that with no tools whatsoever that was all just with bare hands so yeah like I say check out the link in the video description if you want to see it alright let's get breakfast going before I put the dreck first on cook something I just thought I'd show you my tinder pouch this is just made from leather cord I've used a bit of cork from a wine bottle cork as a stopper push up against there to keep it tight the leather I just got online for that five five pounds I think it was a piece of leather we can use any kind of piece of leather and in here I keep a chart in with all my char cloth in there I did a video on that again which I'll put in the corner of your screen or in the video description you can click on that click on that how to make char cloth as my chart in and this is just birch bark that I've collected just held together an elastic band that I've collected over the weeks of just whenever I'm out and about and I need to collect some birch bark and I roll it up I've generally got one kind of big base plate a couple of big kind of base ones that I use at the base where I'd scrap scrape the bark off and then a few smaller bits to help get that fire going a bit which is what you saw at beginning in the video so yeah I usually also keep some cramp balls in here and some dried moss anything that's around you know sort of in the area at a time really I'll just collect and put in here but it's a handy little pouch to have and quite like the aesthetics of no leather pouch it's nice it's been treated with dubbing just to make it a bit more waterproof and yeah good little thing to have I've also got a couple of smaller ones as well just for where I can put a couple of crumbles in and things like that okay so what I'm doing for my bushcraft breakfast not really much of a breakfast is actually egg so I'm just going to do a bit of fried egg probably be scrambled and I quite like eating egg is very easy to cook is quick to cook but obviously it's hard to bring an actual egg out with you because the shells likely to crack and then it's going to leak everywhere so I've beat it up at home straight out of the fridge and pour it into a water bottle this is just a kind of stand well coke bottle put it into a bottle still quite cold so I know it'd still be ok if you're going for you know longer most of the day you don't have it to the end of the day you might want to be careful so pour this in this is just a little cook set I've got a little portable one it's very handy it's a perfect size for doing things like this egg get all that egg in there and just place it on the embers and let it cook you

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so I just have my yummy breakfast of egg which is actually not too bad would it be nice with a bit of pepper but beggars can't be choosers now obviously my fire is down to pretty much embers when I was cooking it so to get your fire back up again get a handful of twigs about a pencil thickness the thickness of a pencil grab a handful or two of those and as you can see that's just the heat of the embers alone now is going to build that fire back up again so you have to go through the stages of starting with the smaller sticks and then putting bigger ones on again but once you've got that hotbed of embers with a fire you'll generally be okay

so I'm going to go round collect a bit few more kind of pencil pencil slide sticks just to build that as you can see that's completely going on its own now then I'll build up again I want to do something else with my my little base over here so I think I might build another not so much a fire reflector a heat reflector but just a wall just to enclose it in a bit because starting the fire today the wind's coming from this way and it's actually kind of made the fire burn really quickly so I'm going to build another wall I think today mainly because I'm bored and I want to do something I was playing around with them my knife earlier just practicing did a bit of feather sticks and actually just using those chippings basically just to actually those cuttings just to put my tinder pouch for when I next come it's another thing I'll do today is collect a load a load of sticks though the logs and actually just put them in the a-frame shelter ready for when I come back again over the winter because let's face it guys is England it's going to rain all the time this winter so finding dry wood is going to be relatively difficult so I'm going to put it in a shelter and hopefully when I next come round I can get it get get another fire going quite easily for the next project so let's get let's get finding sticks for another wall well traps it's not quite finished about just over halfway there but you can see now it's getting there slowly getting out doubled up on this one so there's two kind of two or three logs either side whereas this one was just a one log but it's working well anyway stop the wind coming in for the fire as you can see wouldn't even know I had a fire here there's the a-frame and obviously I've got the bracken on the outside still that I can use to stop the fire again I also just went and collected load of dry sticks just for when are you whenever I come back next time hopefully this will stay dry well guys I hope you enjoyed this episode and a little camp update it's been it's been great fun I've had the fire go in a couple of hours put out now and it was nice to have a bit of a bushcraft breakfast although it wasn't much but enjoyable day out half day out even and I'll definitely be back here in a few days maybe next week sometime hopefully thanks for watching guys