Wisdom of the Wall Tent Part 4 Junk on the Bunk

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school first of all I want to apologize about my lack of videos over the past week I have been teaching back-to-back classes now for several weeks as well as trying to finish up my third book that will release sometime in probably late July or early August and I have back-to-back classes as well as a trip to Sweden coming up very shortly so I'm going to be stretched a little thin over the next few months but the class that we have coming up this weekend is the Pathfinder Scout which is an intermediate level class it's the second intermediate level the first class is the Pioneer it's more of a fixed camp type scenario we talk more about building things to improve your camp a little bit about self mapping and that type of navigation as well as camp cooking and now we're going to move into the second level of that intermediate class which is the Scout and it's more about away from a permanent base camp more of a moving camp and more about map reading map reading type navigation UTM and grid coordinate type plotting on an actual map itself terrain feature association type navigation as well as more natural woodsman type navigation that I can't get into right here on this video because it's a lengthy discussion that we do within the scout class but I'm packing up for that class because it is in a way class we go out and we camp in the wilderness area and we stay out there during this entire class so what I thought I'd do today is in the spirit of my buddy Sean Kelly's junk on the bunk I thought I would do a junk on the bunk type video from the wall tent and show you that okay I'm taking things from the wall tent to pack up into a pack of things that I'm going to take on a short Scout hunt or gathering trip so that's what I thought I did today if you stay with me I'm going to break this stuff out I've got a Swedish engineering pack and have a sack or my main to carry items and then what I have packed inside those and it weighs in at about 35 pounds all I have in this tent is a 25 pound scale an old brass 25 pound scale this is what they would use most of the time to check the weight of their pack if they were going to be carrying because people like Ness macand Kephart thought that 35 pounds was about the maximum load someone won't carry over distance for a long period of time so I'm trying to keep my load right at that 35 pound mark and it does bury the scale at 25 but you can bounce it very lightly and it bounces the scale so it's not real far below that 25 pound mark I'm guessing it to be less than 35 and right around 30 so let's look at what I've decided to carry for a 4-day scout okay main items first real quick we have a Swedish engineering pack here made in 1963 really heavy bulletproof pack got leather straps and leather harnesses on it not going to go anywhere I've got a small 17-inch H&B hunter's axe here I'm not going to carry a full length axe out into the woods away from my base camp I have a Pathfinder scorpion as my belt knife an sak Swiss Army knife that I'm going to use out there as well this has an extra blade a saw blade and a couple other tools on it that may come in handy for me while I'm out there I could poke a cup that will be attached to my belt with my knife and then I have a hammer sack that right now has very little in it it has a couple horse blanket pins attached to it a wooden roll of duct tape I have my navigation pouch in here that has my map my compasses protractors and those things in it as well as some teaching items and I just have a string of stainless steel jump water bottle in here with a rubber stopper that I've put in it and a leather cord for it and then I just put an eye bolt in it and this is just a beater water bottle but it's nice and thin so it fits in my Harbor sack really nice and that's why I'm carrying that on this trip then I've got my push pot that we'll look at in a minute in my main pack so these things would be carried on the outside of my body or in my pockets and now we'll look at the contents of this backpack and make up that 30 35 pounds okay so what I really like about packs like this is they're simple it doesn't take a whole lot to figure out where your stuffs at because you really only have two main compartments one pocket on the outside may

bucket on the inside I try to keep the things that I'm going to need fast where I can get to them quickly so this outer pocket has an extra shemagh in it so I've got some type of a cooling device a head rag hygiene first-aid all those things right there handy I have a roll of number 36 backline and my fire kit which includes Flint steel Charton magnifying glass and I've got a bit lighter in there as well for emergencies but in this class we're going mainly with the Flint steel type fires I have my folding saw and then down the bottom I have a rolled up piece of oiled cloth that has three pieces of fat wood in it and that's my emergency fire starting kit

I can always char this if I need to but it is oiled and it's got three large pieces of fat wood in it and a six-inch Ferro rod and this would be considered my emergency fire starting if the weather we're really really really bad and those items all go in the front of this pack can't move the camera position a little bit for you guys so we'd be able to see a little bit better what we're looking at here while we're doing this I've got this thing stuff pretty good but that's the beauty of a pack like this is it's got a really nice and narrow profile and you can stuff it pretty good in full it's got a drawstring on it here as well as a laundry type bag opening in the top that's got a closure on it as well now what I generally do is if I'm going to put a blanket in my pack I don't really roll it up I stuff it but I'll put it into some type of a folded straight like this where it's been folded over several times and then I'll start to stuff that in almost like it's a piece of large cordage or a sleeping bag being stuffed into a stuffed bag so that's all right now in the middle of that pack just like that and this is a queen-size 100% merino wool Pathfinder blanket all right that's going to be my main sleeping blanket I have my bush pot in a bush pot bag from camp craft Outfitters here this is a will cloth bag it keeps everything protected the advantage of that will cloth is I can store other things in there and the first thing I have in here is part of my food which is just a large slab of salt cured bacon this is made by my buddies scotty kinder and again it's just folded up into a piece of cotton material and placed on top of that bush pot in that waterproof bag or that's well canvas bag now let's talk about the bush pot itself bush pot is just a normal Pathfinder Bush pot I've got a can of old bay garlic and herb seasoning in there my headlight again this is in the top of the pack spoon and fork at end of cocoa or coffee a spare candle and spare lighter those are the contents at bush pop so what that does it allows me to store some of these smaller items in this book pot so I know exactly where it's at it takes up less room in my pack and all of that goes in this bag which can be carried separately out of this pack if I need to be carrying around camp or to another location short ways away from where I'm sleeping or whatever in this bucket on this pack or excuse me this bucket this bucket type container that we're using for this bush pot also will hold water and it will hold it very well

so you can actually use that for a spare water container where a water bucket it's made of canvas and then I put my meat right on the top of that thing salt cured bacon and that's about two pounds of bacon something like that pound and a half and that's going to be enough of a meat source for me to sustain you for four days even if I don't find food I've got a tarp in here and this is a Duluth Pathfinder tarp it's a 6 foot by 8 foot with grommets on it and that will be my cover element to go with my wool blanket in the bottom of the pack the very bottom I have what's called a gum blanket and this is a rubberized piece of canvas that's 5 by 7 that is basically my ground pad or that I'll use on top of Brow's bed for sleeping on this is a waterproof my camp and keep me from getting wet and keep my gear dry the last thing I have in this pack is my food bag and this bag holds several of the new type tins that we carry on our website is bag was maybe I can't craft Outfitters and it's waxed as well but this is all the food that I need other than that meat to last me for that 4 days and I could probably go more like 5 so I take these tins and I tape them up when I'm done with just electrical tape this one is potatoes and these are large tins you can see how big that isn't upon my hand I've got a pretty good sized hand that's like a 4-inch 10 that's probably two and a half inches deep so I've got one 10 and potatoes I have one 10 of mixed beans I have one 10 of rice one 10 of biscuit mix just out of water so this is my Bannock my biscuits my bread my ash cakes I have dehydrated eggs and the last 10 I have is dried vegetables so I've got vegetables eggs rice banneker biscuit mix potatoes and beans as well as about a pound and a half of meat that is more than enough food to last me for a week if I needed to put on a four day Scout I'm going to be high off the hog whether I get any meat sources or not and all of those again stuff straight down into this bag

the sleeve is just exactly the right size to hold these tens and this is exactly what the old-timers did and the old Scouts did was they had a sleeve bag like this that tins would stack on top on top of each other and they would put their food tins in that bag so they were all in one place they were all kept neat and tidy and you can store lots of food in a fairly small area and all of that goes on one side of that backpack and there's room in there if I wanted to to put at least two more tens but I feel like what I've got in there is more than enough so well got it I can just fold it over and tie it off and it fits just about right I could probably put one more ten in it and it still wouldn't be longer than my backpack is deep see my bill put two in there if I wanted to but that's more than enough food and that is everything that's in this backpack it's now empty so really you're taking up a lot of room in the backpack but you don't have a lot of items other than your tools and things like that that are in the front pocket here you pretty much got your food you're sheltering system and your bush pot with things like waste of extra ways to start fire spare candles and your headlamp and then your eating utensils so it works out really really well okay so let's talk about packing all this stuff back up well we've got our gum blanket on the very bottom it sits in that very bottom of this pack on one side we've got our food bag and on the other side we've got a rolled tarp it fold against the back in between that that creates a space in that pack and in between those two rolls is where that blanket stuffs down into and on the side where your tarp is that's not as high as your food that's where your bush pot goes so I take this blanket that I've got folded up here and again I folded it into this configuration and now I'm just going to stuff it

just like this when I get down in there I'll get my Bush pot and put that on the very top push it down in there it can press that tart and the blanket goes on the very top any excess gets folded over to the opposite side just like that now that's everything it goes in the main bucket of this pack so now I can take and strap this dude up again very much like a laundry bag and just push everything down just a couple half-inch is enough to hold it push it down in there good just like that then gather these up pull this together tie it down just like that and then this flap comes over the top and gets pulled down tight and cinched over everything first we've got to caucus pocket right here so again in this pocket we've got our virgin sea fire tender things we want to get to fast our folding saw our main fire kit on one side very similar to the inside of the pack we've got one main roll on one side roller chords on the other we've got one roll on each side that main we've got our scarf Smaug whatever we got there stuff down over the top of that and then we close everything up tight there's our main pack then we have our haversack that's going to have our water bottle on one side and a half kit on the other side just like that our belt knife or polka cup on our belt let's take a in our pocket and then we have our axe to deal with okay so our axe I'm going to slide it right up underneath this pocket here we have a tab right here we're just going to take that tab and put a loop a leather through it just like that you know lark said I'm just going to come over here like this we're going to have fix this dude nice and tight alrighty that thing just like that and that's not going to go anywhere now it's going to connect our pack directly our acts directly to our pack okay so here's what the pack looks like when it's all ready to go all right show you guys that last thing to throw in is the toothbrush I'm ready for a trach appreciate you guys join me today for this video I thank you for everything you do for school our family for business or our sponsored instructors affiliates and friends and I'll be back to another video as soon as I can

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