Bushcraft Camp Update 6 - THE FIRE PIT!! | TA Outdoors

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Yes! I have finally got round to building a fire pit for my bushcraft camp/shelter. It's really coming along now, with two shelters: The 'A" frame and the lean-to. I also have the perimeter walls up and the bushcraft table and bench. So many great comments coming from you guys and suggestions for the camp. Thank you so much for following me on the journey, can't wait to apply some of the ideas in the next Camp Update video. Please give me any suggestions of what you would like to see in the camp in the comments section below. - Mike

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More Bushcraft Videos videos:

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

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

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

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hello guys I'm welcome to bushcraft camp update six the series is really starting to develop now I've had a many you know fantastic feedback from you guys and some really good comments on the previous camp update videos so I just like to say firstly thank you very much for all your support and I'm really grateful for your feedback I've learned so many things from just the comments that you guys are saying so please do keep them coming you join me here in that middle of April temperatures are starting to warm up now it's still quite slow we've had a pretty rainy Easter kind of period so far it's not being not been amazing weather traditionally in the UK we usually have a good two weeks spell of sunshine in April but it's not happened yet so temperatures are still sort of hovering around single figures about nine eight nine degrees in the day so not you know not freezing obviously but not not as warm either if you those of you who are new and you're watching this video for the first time and you'd like to get an understanding of what these videos are about firstly they'll just me out me out in your - mic and it's just these videos of mostly about me in the outdoors just filming myself building a camp really it's almost rather than the kind of survival but a build a really cool sort of fort which some of you have called it does look a bit like a fort is actually more for me to just go out there and it's kind of like a childish thing of just building a camp in the woods really that's probably got a bit out of hand but I'm enjoying it nevertheless so if you are if you'd like to see the bushcraft videos I've done in the past I'll pop a link just up here in the corner of your screen and you can click that and that will take you to bushcraft camp update one two three four you know all the previous bushcraft how my camps developed really and you can start right from the beginning when I did the very first shelter started to come along now in the previous camp update video it I was focusing on the secondary shelter I built secondly shelter in my in my camp and I hope to eventually get a bed built there as well in that shelter so plan of action for today is I have to admit guys I'm quite excited about this camp update I have been waiting for this for a while I've had a number of you asking about it but today finally is the day for the firepit the plan is it's quite PT here so I could explain a couple of things that I bought well one thing I brought along with me that you would not naturally find in the woodlands but it's more for safety and I want to care for the environment so I will explain why I bought it

and why I am using it a little bit later but I've had a has a great feedback from you guys about different types of fire pits and/or pit fires whatever you want to call them and how to kind of build them and different ideas some of you have said about doing a Swedish fire torch which is great I've seen them they're a fantastic idea however I guess they're more of a kind of temporary solution they are a really good idea and actually they've really kicked off I've started to see them in garden centers and everything now so if you haven't seen a Swedish fire torch go and check them out I'm sure there's some videos out there I will eventually get around to making one myself but they are kind of more temporary because this camp is a bit more of a permanent camp I have got permission and everything to camp here it's on private land all the wood I'm using is deadfall by the way before everyone asks and so that was a great suggestion from some of you but I'm not going to go for that one I've had the Dakota fire pit or difficult Dakota fire hole suggestion which is a really again a really really cool idea I love the look of it but again I'll explain later when I'm not kind of going for that one I've decided and from some of you you've given me some feedback as well to go for just a kind of traditional just general pit fire with I've managed to find some bits of masonry really I guess about 500 yards away kind of bits of stone mixed up with concrete and masonry and building sort though it must have been building somewhere five about 500 yards away so I just picked up all that I just found it there and I'm going to use that as kind of a surrounding of my fire to keep heat in basically and also to prevent sparks and flames from spreading and damaging the woodland any further I am only going to go for one five pick a couple of years suggested to next week's shelter but I think I don't want to kind of crowd the space too much in front of me here so I'm just going to go for the one fire pit and first thing I need to do is sweep the area clean and then I need to kind of dig or plan to dig a source

how about half a foot deep really foot half of that to a foot deep and first thing I need to do really is make myself a makeshift Spade let's take a look okay so all I've done is just to make a makeshift Spade it's just a small sort of log about a node two feet long and I've just shaved off a little bit of a flat edge there to act as the Spade which is basically going to help me do I don't usually go any shorter than two foot long for a sort of digging Spade because it gives me enough leverage to have a hand on the top and a hand on the bottom and that way I can pull with this home and push with the top arm and it just helps your energy efficiency really went digging a hole so I'm going to clear a little area now just in the middle of the camp and start digging okay so what I've done is I dug around the perimeter of the pit basically I've gone down probably about six inches deep the reason being is because the top layer of the soil here where I am is very peaty which is for those that don't know peat is basically like partially decomposing mainly moss and things like that and they use it around the world they actually use it for fires and things like that you can have a peat fire hence why this is you know why I'm being relatively need to be safe about this but they use peat fires around the world and it's basically partially decomposing plant matter and moss and it can dry out it can go very very dry and then it becomes flammable and that's what many people don't realize when they're out in the woodland especially woodland that's very dense where it's very mossy that moss generally when it partially decomposes will turn the ground in the soil into peat which over time can dry out and it can become a potential fire hazard so what I've done is because I know the area and I've dug down about six inches and actually there's some gravel underneath that peat layer you can see here from these big stones that I'm now down to the gravel layer so I know it's a lot safer and I can actually feel that when I'm digging I can feel the Spade the makeshift Spade hitting the stone so I've know I've gone down to the right level any roots that were kind of in this area I've cleared out the way again just to be safe but I feel now that I'm at a safe depth I've cleared most of the peat away from this area and the bit that I was telling about earlier which is what I brought from home I'm now going to explain to you what I bought and why okay so what I bought from basically where I found in a scrap yard is some metal literally a square sheet of metal there's two reasons why I want to use this guys and the first reason is for safety reasons I want to place this at the base of my fire pit

and that way any smoldering embers an ash when I've had a long fire overnight will not penetrate this and go into the ground you know and then into the tree roots into the peat another area of peat layer which could then actually cause a fire peat when it burns can actually burn and smolder for a very long time and it can actually spread throughout the forest throughout winter underground without you knowing about it and a fire can actually start up you know many hundreds of meters away from where that where that peat originally burnt so you know it's a safety thing guys really for me and I want to care and look after the environment so by using this it's just going to help prevent most of those hot smoldering embers from a long-term fire not so much a short-term fire for a day trip but those long overnight fires where they're burning for a while this can collect the ash and embers and stop them penetrating through to the ground and you know catching the ground of light underneath me that's the first reason the second reason I'm using it is because it actually acts as basically a heat reflector so it stops all that wasted heat and energy from the fire going into the ground those embers and heat going into the ground and punches that heat back up through the fire which in turn basically makes a more efficient fire hotter fire it will keep the embers burning for longer and it will get me much hotter a much hotter bed of Enders so they're the kind of two reasons I'm using this sheet of metal again it's just my way of doing things guys each to their own everyone's got their own opinion this is just my way of you know a looking after my environment but be being able to have more of a long-term fire and and you know create something that's safe so I'm going to place this down on top of the gravel layer that I've now got down tea and then I've got some of that masonry that I was on about which I'll then place around the edges to protect the fire a little bit more and again get that heat efficiency of my fire pointed towards maybe my shelters okay so you might be able to see around the edge of where my sheet will be the Medici I've actually done a small trench and again I'll show you why metal sheet sits on top like that the trench is then around it I can then get the big kind of flat Mason stones that I found and just place these down the edge like that again so that I know that my fire is going to be completely contained

that's pretty secure you can see from the kind of masonry box around the outside there's not much kind of soil getting in there what I'll do now is I'll backfill this saw just to the edge of the stone and then later on possibly not today but another day I can get a few more those masonry box if I can find them and just stack it up a little bit higher so just time to backfill the fire pit and then I can get the fire going whereas you can see the fire is really going now the pit I'm really really chuffed with I can feel the heat off that metal sheet underneath I can feel the heat bouncing back up and those stones are keeping it really contained everything's contained it's all under control it's a very very efficient fire very pleased with it hope you guys are pleased with it too I know you've got Eve you've been joining me on this adventure since bushcraft come up they want so hopefully you guys proved and yeah the next stage I think will be some sort of cooking system here and then getting the bed system laid up as well thanks so much for watching guys thanks for all your feedback all your comments and everything please give me some feedback on what sort of cooking system I can use I've got a few ideas on my mind and any ideas on bed sleep systems in the shelter's as well I thought unfortunately I've already eaten today I didn't bring any sausages along but I'm sure if I had some they would be tasting really good on this fire

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