Bushcraft Camp Update 4 - Perimeter Walls Finished! | TA Outdoors

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FINALLY! I finished the perimeter walls of my Bushcraft Camp/Shelter. The set up is starting to look awesome now. Got a log seat, a-frame shelter, chopping log, bushcraft table, fire reflectors and of course the walls! It was -6 degrees overnight and when I started out in the morning it was around -3 degrees. It warmed up in the afternoon but didn't get much higher than freezing. Beautiful weather too which was handy! I also cooked some food over the firebox wood burning stove. In the next camp update I plan to get the second shelter/log store build and complete the first shelter. Thanks for all of your support on this journey, please leave some feedback in the comment section and watch some of the other bushcraft camp update videos :)

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morning everyone welcome to camp update bushcraft camp update number four and temperatures bombed that last night got to about minus six here in southern England which is pretty cold we're about sort of middle of February time and there's still a big frost around I think we're about minus three at the moment but it's a beautiful day really stunning winter's day is frost just on the paths outside the woodland but here in this dense coniferous forest there's not actually that much frost because of the canopy so which is quite nice as you know it's going to warm up this afternoon with the Sun but planned today and it's just to run you through quickly kind of what happened in the last camp update I'll pop a link just here if you want to watch the previous camp update or you know the other the other kind of episodes in the camp update series but I get really great feedback from you guys which I really appreciate you know I don't claim myself to be a professional whatsoever I'm just out here in the woods enjoying myself really and and it's just great to have you join me on the adventure and just as a kind of overall update for you guys I am in a private woodland I have got permission to build my shelter here and to have fires and things like that but you know it's one of those things where a lot of people have been asking me you know they've sort of been inspired they want to go out there and and start making it denon things and I guess my advice is to ask around and ask you know the landowners permission if you're on private land and just check all the laws and bylaws and things like that hopefully eventually you might find a spot I'm very fortunate here and this you know very little people around you get your dog that comes it comes running across from miles away and you can hear its owner shouting but other than that I don't actually get too much hassle touchwood perennial word around plan today is I need to finish from my previous camp update videos I was talking about a perimeter I wanted to get kind of a perimeter made of my shelter first and then I can tinker around with the bits inside but I've actually done kind of all sorts really but my plan today is to hopefully finish a bit more of the perimeter some of you guys said in previous videos about doing a like a log store so I'm going to what I'm going to do is actually kind of make a log store but it's going to have two uses reading and basically make it's like a little lean-to shelter as well just if I have any other people you know friends and things come and stay for an overnighter like there's that option there as well but I'll just give you a quick run-through of what I did in the previous camp update be ok so just a quick update then this is so what I've got here is just a wall really that I built us generally where the wind direction comes from up there so I built my biggest wall there I've got a little log bench made of for kind of big logs there which I've staked in but another two walls here this is my fire reflector heat reflector again I can pop links in the descriptions to the video where I made these what I've got done here is just a small almost like a coffee table really it's just a little table so I've staked it in so it's nice and tight I've shaved that off with an axe just chipped away at it so that it's a nice flat surface and that way I can put all my cups and any little bits you know that I usually store my cups on here to be honest a nice flat surface level surface anything that cooking with frying pan or things like that I could just sit it on there so that was what I did in the previous update as well over here I have my a frame which I made a big change to last time those of you that seen my previous videos it was more of a kind of vertical a steep slope this sideboard I've done is I've extended out and if I crouch down you can see I've got like a skeleton just a bit of a structure there just to help support that tarp it's a four by three metre tart obviously I've not finished putting the back and stuff and the cover on there just to make it a bit more brief but as you can see there's it's all supported they're tied quite strong with some cordage and I don't think that we've had 80 mile-an-hour winds coming through this woodland so it's still up so I'm hoping the chance of us getting wind like that again you know once every couple of years maybe but it's up and it stayed stayed up which is good but still more to do to that shelter see from just having extended it out more this way there's plenty of room just to sleep in I will make a bed in there eventually and things like that I also made just on the outside of my shelter it is a bushcraft chopping log this log is actually buried in the ground it's now my ax chopping log if you want to see a video of this of me making this and a couple of tips to make them I pop a little box up that you can click on and really simple to make and actually very very efficient and there's one more thing that I've done recently which I'm going to show you now so this is my bushcraft sawing horse um what I did is I've actually got some had some old fishing line if you don't know that we've got I run another YouTube channel called with my dad called tech Nielsen fishing so I'm a really keen fisherman but lots of spare fishing line I find someone the on the shoreline beaches rocks you always find loose fishing line everywhere so I put it to use and used it as cordage really I will see if the situation arises I could take this fishing line off and use it and should the survival situation occur but I'm not in a survival situation this is just the bushcraft camp is Morgan enjoyable you know spending time in the outdoors but I've made use of that cordage and all I've done is just made kind of to a cross-section up here to about four foot logs another sort of to supporting logs down here which I've lashed together with a middle log here so it's pretty secure actually and I'm actually where the middle supporting log has gone between the two cross set cross logs I've actually shaved them off with an axe just to make it lash a bit easier rather than have round log to round log witches

can be difficult to lash obviously it lashes fine but after a while it might roll on itself and loosen I've shaved sham for that edge off so that it's flat and just used any old bit of string and cordage that I've got as well as fishing line just to tie it all together so now when I've got my bigger logs that I need to soar up firewood I've actually got a proper sawing horse that I can use now it does slightly wobble to the side like that so what I've done is again two pieces of wood these can just lean up against the side like this and all they do

again the edges of chamfered off so they just help pinch it in place and that way it doesn't rock as much to the side so I've got a chopping log and a sawing horse so I'm pretty well sorted for my firewood that's just something that I updated recently and will add to the camp again I've checked the height of it and it can actually go in my shelter so I can keep it protected in the the winter conditions

well people there we go I have finally finished the perimeter of the camp so I just finished this wall there and there's actually a tiny entrance which is going to be here and what I meant was over the over the weeks where I've been doing this is I'm going to put there's a log down here but eventually I've not got time for the moment so I need to cook something but that's going to go across the top of these two walls here and then I'm going to have a lean-to here so that will all be enclosed in there except for the small entrance around the side obviously my shelter still needs finishing and things like that but after MIT starting to come along got my soaring horse down there in the corner you can see I've got my cook secretary cook set over there on my little table that I've made bags over on the log and still lots of stuff to do to the camp but I just come every now and then you know when I get the chance and try and update it you know where possible well just so you know this is the entrance just down here this will all be enclosed up there and this will be where you can come in and I'll maybe make a little gate or some sort of step over thing just to get in there but it's coming along nicely it's almost finished there's still quite a bit to do but like I say I'll just come back when I can and hopefully one day it will be finished you know I'll camp out and it and get a little fire pit going and everything about that

I will have my hammer lunch using the old fire box again and and that's probably it for today's bushcraft camp update I just wanted to get that last kind of perimeter wall done next time I come here will be I'll be focusing on the second shelter which is also pretty much going to be a log store as well which is going to get in between those two walls that I've just I've got lined up of made sure they were level and I lined them up driven all the stakes in probably a paracord round for the moment as I didn't have any other cordage around so yeah hopefully they will hold and I've got a good idea of the lean-to that I want to build to just a really simple lean-to which I lashed to the walls both walls itself I may put a tarp over at some point but for the moment it's just me staying at the camp you know when I do so others say I don't I'm not really too fussed about tarp just yet I might just get a just a couple of sticks and fill them up with that I'm pleased with the progress so far of how the camp's coming on there's quite a bit still to do that I want to do I want to obviously build a bed for the shelter a raised bed and I'd like to get a fire pit going as well proper fire pit so you know every each time I can come back oh you can just have my fire in the same area rather than kind of moving around the camp itself obviously I want to finish that third shelter and potentially have a little doorway like a gate sort of thing which is to step over gate for the entrance and potentially some kind of shelter above my head maybe just a tarp or something for when I'm out in the middle of the camp here because it is obviously quite open the only bit that I can get away from the rain at the moment is in my shelter itself so I hope you've enjoyed the video just you know sort of short one not much kind of going on in this video but hopefully those of you that are new that have come along and join me on the bushcraft camp journey I hope you've enjoyed the camp I've got built so far please check out some of the other camp update videos and check out our bushcraft my bushcraft playlist on the totally awesome outdoors YouTube channel and I just want to say thanks to everyone for subscribing please leave a comment give me some feedback a lot of you have followed me from the kind of first camp update video so be great to hear some of your feedback on how its develops over the you know past couple of months really thanks for watching guys