Journal of the Yurt 38 A day in the Life

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Tags: Dave Canterbury,Pathfinder,Survival,Bushcraft

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well guys I got up this morning and pack myself up for an early day scout today fixing myself some hot bacon side meet here real quick pork side meat that's been salted and cured or talk about salt curing as well the video later on today but I kind of want to shoot a little day in the life video today like a day in the life of the year you know basically been doing that every day but I've been thrown a lot of tidbits in as well and today I just kind of want you to follow me around see what I do all day long first thing I'm gonna do this morning is you know I've already went out in hopes and firewood over here chopped a bit of wood I've got it over here in a pile stoke the stove up real good for cooking and I'm going to make myself some breakfast get something hot in me and then we're going to start our day so stay with me guys and we'll pop this other egg in the skillet here hot grease but I'd like to see that egg is kind of floating in that grease make it cook a whole lot better and I can just put hot grease up on top of it get the top side cook make myself a nice little breezy edge when I'm done the trick I learned from watching my buddy Ryan Eve's who's a instructor here at the Pathfinder school B's also culinary especially is culinary stuff and flipping hot grease up on that egg like yeah just cooks the top side of it makes it real nice over easy egg I think there's about done - so slider over here skillet right I'm up here this big bramble thicker right now just kind of day scouting around and I'm really looking for potential trapping lanes now we got some snowfall do some snaring up here you can see these real heavy brambles up in here that's usually really good area for rabbits you place you got these raspberry thickets it's usually a great place for rabbits but it's a good place for other resources too and other game deer bed down and stuff like this too so we're just going to scout the ridgeline let's see what we can find if we finally thing looks like it might have been a rabbit run while we're up here where's one heck of a rub right there on a sapling pine some deer just work that thing over within the last couple months before and during the rut probably this Ridgeline it's pretty good spot for deer as well I'm sure okay guys this is a pretty good find for scout and I had people ask me about this and this is a really good opportunity to show it this is a pine tree you can tell by looking at the bark and the yellowish color of that wood on the bottom of this pine it's a pretty good sized walk down on the base of the spine that's where we're going to find pitch-water fat wood if there's any of it out here you can see that right there is fat would see all that resin in there that's a piece of fat wood so we should be taking some of this with us for sure hang on I'm gonna set this camera up and bust some of this fat without of here show you what it looks like I'll put a lighter to it and show you how it lights as well call it lighter wood fat would pitch wood got a lot of different names now the cool thing about this resource is you know it's here we don't have to take it all now I know where it's at I got a mental note it exactly works out in this Ridgeline I can look around here for you know telltale signs and markers will tell me and lead me right back to where this is at I know it's along the ridgeline right here I see several large Oaks around it I see several large pines around it I see a big stand of pines right here beside me there's a pretty good sized stand of pines that's a telltale sign cuz there's not a lot of standing pine out here as far as stands or single trees but there's very few stands where there's eight or ten Pines there's one right here beside me now tells me where this fat one's going to be here with this pitch was that so I come back to get it the next time around I don't have to take it all now so let's get this East Wing ax out of our belt here bust a couple chunks of this off and split it down and we'll see what we got oh man that stuff you smell it and you can just smell the turpentine in that that is the king right there I'm going to take a ton of this with us we're going to take okay we got a few pieces off of there now let's come split a little bit us down and look at the seat just out good and pitchy it really is all right so let's get a piece of this and split it off and I'll just stick it up one side we gotta cut it off with a couple matchsticks out of ways what I'm going to do you can see I split that several times right there just to make small like fat lighter wood matches so I'll pull one out of that the middle of that and that's going to be full of resin and then I'm going to take my knife and make a little bit of a feather stick out of it and watch hey I can just feel the thickness and the heaviness of that resin in there I don't know how explained that to you but you can really feel it see it and smell it when you've got the right stuff I mean it stuff smells just like pine saw so all I'm doing now is just give myself a little surface area to take flame and you can ignite this with a Ferro rod I showed how to do that in one of my other videos in the yurt there but you can very easily do this with a lighter but it gives you that extended burn time that you need sometimes as a coal extender let's grab our lighter out real quick that's always my first choice and we'll try to keep this out of the wind as much as we can I got windblown across this Ridge we'll try to keep this thing lit as best we can fact I think I'm going to move this camera over here in front of me this block the wind here we go advantage the cold lighters is there and they get cold they don't like very well like this

you can see that thing well it's burning laws and keep out of the wind and that's the resin in that wood burning like that you got four or five of these little sticks like this and you can give yourself one heck of a shot at fire even if you've got some marginal materials because it stuff will burn for a long time and it burns really hot you can see how that things just flaming up so heavy and that's just a little bitty stick to keep it out of this wind for you so you can kind of watch it burning see how it's creeping up onto this resin the area of the wood now by the winter so all of this stuff that we just smacked off this tree with our axe is all fat wood and you can see you look inside that you can see that you know heavy layer of resin in there and you can smell that there's no mistake in that resin smell it smells just like pine saw like I said but that's how you find fat would go up find yourself a dead pine somewhere go to the roots of that pine and you're going to find resin I don't care what time of year it is you're going to find it there but you can see how well that thing's still burned in my hand just like a match except it's a long-term match once you get it lit so we'll take this fat wig back just process some of it up in smaller chunks and put in our backpack and we'll have something great for helping us start fire when we got marginal tender material because these things are the bomb that's the reason that you always want your pack to have at least a little room in it somewhere you know there's not a lot of room left in this pack right now but you want a little bit of room somewhere as you find a resource like this you sure want to be able to pack it out of there you know I've got this uh I've got this whole bow sleeve here that picked up at a primitive bow shoot a long time ago and I've got five or six kind of like this this is probably my least favourite one that's on one of my bows so I've cut this thing off to the right length for my shotgun because I've been looking for a shotgun sleeve that looks traditional this is kind of a brown canvas material you know it's pretty heavy-duty material but that's the beauty of these repair needles is you know it doesn't really matter what the material is they're going to go through it so what I'm going to do basically is I'm just going to sew up the end of this thing while I'm sitting in here and make myself a protective sleeve from my gun while I'm in camp or walking through the woods or whatever the case may be I've still got some of this I saved this stuff that we split apart the last time we were sewing something up in here and now I'm down to two strands and two strands is really a whole lot easier to separate then the three remember I showed you how to separate three strands of this stuff two strands is a whole lot easier

okay so now you see it's all kinked up just like the last time what I'm going to do is I'm going to use some of this Jeremy's who wonder wax here stuff that I have got I'm going to wax my thread a little bit with that that just gives it a little bit of a waterproof type seal but it also will help me straighten this thread out a little bit too because I'm going to pull it through this wax cure this cube do you make that happen there we go now I can put that rub that wax into it real good put that through my needle and I'll be ready to go piece of cake you know projects like this are what you're going to spend your days doing I mean everything that you do is just another project that you're trying to get done and everything just improves your lot as it were you know just kind of makes things better for you makes things easier for you you know thus gun sleeve is going to just help to protect my gun while I'm walking through the woods with it or while I'm sitting camp with it or where the case may be but you know something that's also keeping me occupied and making things better for me like I said everyday I'm going to fold this thing over to get a loop here and I'm not going to get real fancy with this you know I'm like I said I've said this a lot of times you know I'm really after function not fashion so I'm just going to do basically a continuous loop stitch here and this stuff's real heavy dude you can see I'm having to push that needle through every time on this table so this is some real heavy-duty cotton duck canvas type material which is good because that means it's going to be good for protecting my gun I like I said I'm just doing a running stitch here just a continuous loop stitch I'm not half hitching every time like I did the last time I'm just doing a basically a running loop stitch that will hold this just fine with the fabric doubled over like that no problem let me just get these tails burning out of my way real quick just to don't have to deal with them being in my way every time I come over with a loop the other good thing about this bank line is you know what melts really good since it's made out like a nylon a tart nylon it melts real well too and I'm trying to get about 10 stitches per inch here I guess one two three four five six double ender double stitches so I guess maybe six double stitches per inch however you want to equate that with that six or twelve but they're pretty close together like I said I'm after function not fashion so I don't care if it's perfect or not long as it holds together sewing is kind of an underrated thing I think in the self-reliance world you know it's important to understand how to sew different types of stitches and things because you're going to have to repair gear you know in a longer-term situation you're going to have gear to get store up you're gonna have gear that gets damaged and you need to effectively repair that stuff you know cold weather you know the are in colder in the military acronym stands for repair as necessary you know it's evaluate and then repair as necessary so there's going to be times you're going to have to repair gear and you really need to know a couple basic sewing type stitches to be able to do that okay so when we're done basically we've got a sleeve that our single-shot H&R 12-gauge fits in just perfect and good to go you know now I can detect that thing from the weather while I'm walking down the trail or whatever if I need to it starts to get foul outside you know I can cover this thing up good to go it's a nice piece of equipment I can store other things in it if I need to you know I can use it for you know dry pieces of firewood and things like that if I want to shovel them in there to carry them back to camp or whatever the case may be in inclement weather I think I can go ahead and oilskin this thing and make it even better I may do that in the future but for right now you know I think it's good to go you