Evolution of Survival

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathfinder school and what i'm going to talk to you today about is a concept that I'm going to call evolution for survival and I think that being able to evolve in everything that we do drastically affects our ability to survive in the future to become more self-reliant and to me the definition of survival boils down to a very simple concept of being able to adapt to changes within your environment quickly if you can quickly adapt to environmental changes you can survive if you can't do that you will not survive and that is what killed out the Neanderthal as far as scientific research that I've read has shown their inability to adapt to an immediate changing environment or a quickly changing environment so let me give you an example real quick of a tool this is a take down a buck saw but this is not just an ordinary takedown buff so this is actually a takedown turning box off and for the people who know about woodworking tools a turning saw is a saw that's been used probably since the 15th 16th century to be able to cut curves in wood whether that be a rip cut or a crosscut or a combination of the two being able to cut curved lines with a saw was accomplished with the frame saw called a turning song the buck saw is not a new concept the frame saw is not a new concept and a buck saw is nothing more than a saw used for taking large pieces of lumber and bucking them or cutting them down to manageable pieces that is the definition really of a bucking saw so this is for all intensive purposes a buck saw but it is a turning bucks on because it's a turning buck saw it is very adaptable to what it needs to do it can not only buck but I can also use this tool to cut horizontally while holding a sauce straight up and down I can cut horizontal with it because the blade will actually turn within the saw on these pivot points so I can turn this blade completely 90 degrees on this saw and cut sideways with it while it's still up in dent it will turn within an axis so that it can cut curved lines in the blade can manipulate itself to an arc or a curve while the frame itself is straight up and down so it's a very adaptable saw and it's an evolution in my opinion of the take down buck saw it's something that I saw in a book on how to make carpentry tools and I thought you know what if a take down buck saw had the attributes of a turning saw and it had a dry wood bucking saw blade in it how awesome would that be for a wood stool it's not that much more complicated it's not that much more difficult to build it does take another saw to initially build it like a folding saw it does take the ability to drill holes like with an awl but other than that a couple of nails and a file or the ability to be able to kind of blade down a little bit to fit inside here inside this radius is really all you need to be able to make this saw even in the woods on the fly although this one's made from milled down dimensional lumber because it's a working model that I made to see if the concept of soft would work and it works fantastic so that is an evolution of that saw but I would never have even thought of that or conceptualize that had I not immersed myself in an environment of doing woodworking tasks around my homestead so the emergent training of woodworking has let me evolve into figuring out tools that may better suit my immediate or medium or long-term survival or suffer lines even within a woodland environment oK we've got the white board out here and in the classroom today because I want to show you something that's interesting and again it comes with immersion training and evolving over time and understanding that so many things are interrelated and I want to show you something real quick when we work stone so let's go back to all the way back to making tools from stone what we do is we take a piece of stone and this is the this is looking at the stone from above alright this is our piece of rock when we're looking at from above and we have valleys and we have a peak and that peak on that peak we abrade to create a platform and we drive a flake off of that piece and what we do that what we get is something that looks like this off of my shirt real quick let me bring a rag what we get is we have a piece of stone here that now has a flake driven out of it that's created two more peaks with valleys on both sides and now if we create platforms here we'll drive these flakes out like on a blade core so that creating of peaks of platforms and removing the piece or peaks and valleys excuse me that removing of peaks to create two more peaks and another valley is exactly the same process that you use for working wood or you use for working metal when you're using hand tools because

I apologize that my rag kinda sucks here but if you look at a piece of wood let's say that we have a bowl that we're working on from a piece of material what we're going to do is we're going to drive our gouge into that bowl it's going to create a valley on the other side of that Valley there's going to be two peaks we're going to take our cows and we're going to remove this peak and it's going to create a valley here with another peak and then we're going to remove that peak and it's going to create a valley here remove that peak and create another valley here all the way around that bowl and it's exactly the same thing if this bowl were a tree farm made of stone so now forget that this egg shape right here is a bowl and think of this as a preformed piece of Flint that we're going to remove a flake off of then when we do it creates this and our next flake is going to come from here and create this and our next flake is going to come from here and create this and it's all about creating peaks and valleys and removing the peaks to reduce or manipulate the materials it's no different with metal it is almost the same except instead of removing material you are moving material so if I have a piece of metal stock here and I hit it with the ball-peen post of my hammer a rounding hammer or some type of a cross peen hammer or on my animal to fuller the piece what I do is I hit it here and here and here and here and here and that creates this bar makes this bar move this direction in this direction and then I'll come back in and I'll pound this and this and this this and this in this flat and that will further lengthen the peace so all I've done is I have created peaks and valleys and flattened out the peaks to manipulate that material where I wanted to go if I'm going to take a piece of let's say I have a piece of square stock and I want to make a point on it I want to make it round I start off with the square by pounding down the peaks and as I pound those Peaks down I create more facets and as I pound those facets down I create smaller facets that tell eventually I have something that's round and it draws out to a point it's no different whether it's stone wood or mow they're all manipulated with the same basic concept of peaks and valleys and understanding this the revelation of understanding this basic concept comes from only one thing immersion training doing it so often and so much that you can't do it wrong so when I learn to make something I want to make it until I can't make it wrong if I'm gonna make spoons I'm going to make spoons every day until I can just do it without thinking about it becomes muscle memory I understand how to work the structures in the grain I know which types of wood are the best I know which types of we're the worst I know how much I can let the wood dry out before it's kind of crack exactly how to cut that piece of wood so that I can avoid the cracks or checking of the wood as it dries all of those things are important you can't learn those things by one spoon you can't learn those things by making one net needle or one bolt you have to make lots of them from different materials so going back to the survival type videos there's only so many ways you can make fire I am fully confident and I can walk out into this woods right now and make a fire even in damp weather conditions and if I had to do it by friction I could do it but I'm gonna have a lighter in my pocket because I'm going to be prepared but I've done enough starting of fires by primitive means in the Eastern woodlands in my environment that even with

mental changes in weather I'm confident that I can still affect the task if needed so what I'm doing now is I'm trying to learn lots of other things and those other things all boil right back down to your ability to adapt to environmental changes if I don't have power tomorrow can I make the tools the mental tools that I'm going to need to manipulate the wood because I need the wood to bend the metal because I need the charcoal but I also need the metal to manipulate the wood because knives axes chisels gouges all those things make manipulating the wood to a shape or an object much much easier so understanding the basis of woodworking the basis of metalworking is very very important I'm perfectly confident that I can go out and set a dozen traps and catch enough animals to sustain me or feed me I haven't really been wasting my time putting up a lot of chopping videos this year although I do have some traps out because it's redundant information to you because I've caught almost every handle there is to catch in Ohio and I've already put it on film and I've already talked about how to set these traps in 50-plus videos I've got 30-plus videos on making fire I've probably got two or three hundred videos on different basic survival techniques so now I'm concentrating on other things so that I can evolve in my self-reliance and I wanted you to understand that but I also wanted you to see a couple of examples of what I'm talking about as far as that evolution of mentality and that evolution of survival okay guys one Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school in self-reliance Outfitters I didn't want to drag this talking head type video out for a long period of time I just wanted to convey to you some things that I've been thinking about lately and some of the reasons for the long series of videos because I started my youtube channel as a learning experience I'm learning with you I'm showing you what I'm learning I'm teaching you things that I've already learned and I'm also getting feedback from the viewers that helps teach me other things and helps me evolve and adapt in my learning and because of that you have a long series of videos like the chopping series like the journal of the year like the blacksmithing series like the woodworking green woodworker series because I'm going to do that stuff until it becomes second nature until there's no question in my mind that there's no tool I might need that I can't make with metal or wood and there's nothing that I may need to build out of wood that I can't build if I have to to include the most simple tools like this take down turnin box office appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for our school for our business for our family all of our sponsors our structures affiliates and friends and I'll be back with another video soon that can guys thanks