Lightweight Hiking Kit - Ruck Mods Part 1

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hey this is missionary survival tonight I'm working with one of my rucksacks setting it up for lake trout stay tuned okay so basically the purpose of this is I want to have a rock that's a rig that's low enough and weight that I can do really long extended hikes in the mountains per se I want to be able to do you know the penny loop in New Hampshire that's like a 32 mile hike so I want to do it in you know two or three days and things like that so I'm starting to look at my gear from a different perspective I still have my four seasons kit that I have that's like about 35 pounds 34 35 pounds and it's all inclusive jump in and go and that's great but even 35 pounds is a lot to having you back when you're trucking miles and miles and miles and I'd rather have a rock on the lighter side than the heavier side so I've been taking all my rocks and measuring their way with this luggage to go it's a very accurate reading and it gets it down to announce so it really gives me a chance to look at what actually weighs what and allows me to decide what rock I want to use now I have about six different backpacks and I've been checking them all and I found the one that is the lightest which I figured would be the lightest and I've already started doing a little modifications to it to lighten that load further let's take a look okay it's my good old standby my little canvas rucksack I've had forever this rock is way lighter than all my love rocks I mean sometime up to 79 pounds piece 10 pounds apiece and I mean this thing is a big fraction of that it's a small rug and weigh it and I'm going to show you some of the things I've already started work on and I one thinks I'm going to do it right now that will improve it further so one of the things I did was on the bottom okay you'll see where the seams have been bricked right here and right here that had strapping so it was all sewn in right here and used to attach to this D room I got rid of that i also got rid of some more that was over here is the attachment anchor for some more so now what's strapping i take off took off the strapping right here it has metal on it this is where it was sewn so that's going so it's two of them going in the middle I mean this thing this is fuckable heavy all that metal just sitting there I'm not even doing anything with it has absolutely no no use for me at all on the rucksack and it just basically hangs there it's like little anchors just sitting that for no reason at all okay so as you can see it's fluttering between 0.2 and 0.1 pounds little straps right then well 0.1 that's one-tenth of a pound that's one point six ounces so 0.2 is double that so that would be let's see three point two ounces so seeing it was fluttering between the two it's probably like three ounces full stuff because it's just just barely shy of point two that's three ounces of stuff just sitting in my bag for nothing so I like to make informed decisions here's the power cord lacing it's only on the side of a rock so I took it off so I can lay it measure its wait and see if it's really worth its weight you know I mean how heavy is this lacing really i don't know maybe one ounce I have no idea then I'll take that number and I'll wait against what it does for me I may put it back on or I may take it off we'll see Oh point one so that's one point six ounces so I'm going to decide if I want to burn one point six ounces unlacing that I may may not even use i think i am going to put it back on I will carry that one point six ounces for one reason when I travel the woods the tripod that I'm filming with right now that I used to film on my videos I strapped to the side so no matter what I'm going to want to have one of these on here that's point eight ounces I mean pointing on says it's really not too big of a deal carry my tripod now find this all filled up carrying my tripod safe a sone reason I want to take my jacket and extra clothing my sweater whatever it is and I want to lash it to my rucksack that's usually what I do I bring moccasins on hiking trips I bring obviously my jacket things like that and as you hike you build up a lot of heat a lot of radiation from your body so you really thought that will be heat I usually use the size of my backpack so then i have to ask myself do I think carrying point eight ounces for this other cordage on here to build higher things the side of my

is that going to make my life better I may be carrying a pair of moccasins and all that I could probably get away with sticking it in here if I really pressed hard with the rest of my gear but would life be a lot easier when I mind carrying that point eighth of an ounce and I'm going to carry that point announces because it gives me versatility of the unknown because I might find out that I might want to carry something that I don't even know about maybe I'll find a bunch of chaga in the woods mean who knows what are the cases I don't know but I think point eight ounces is as a pretty good investment for versatility and if nothing else I have extra cordage least back up both sides I think that that's a very important concept to get a hold of it's one of the ways that i use to save weight what I'm talking about is consciously carrying each ounce