Bulletproof Bushcraft on a Budget Part 1

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morning guys Dave Cadbury the Pathfinder school out here to start another video series with you guys today what I wanted to do was I'm working on a lot of video series at the same time right now so don't think I'm forgetting about things we're going to keep on going with a lot of different series right now I'm going to continue with you on the water series on the water's edge series as soon as spring hits the blacksmithing series are still going trapping season is over now so the trapping series is pretty much ended other than you know you could try pork islets right now that's about it and I may do a little bit of that later on down the line I may not we'll see the cabin fever series still going strong be videos posted on out here in the next few days I've got a lot of videos stored up that I post as I can as well started a series yesterday on camp cookery that series will continue we're going to talk about camp cooking throughout time different implements they use for camp cooking and things of that nature we're going to talk about in that series and I also wanted to start kind of a response series I guess to my own videos of discount bushcraft and this will be the bullet bulletproof bushcraft on a budget series it's going to be a response to the first budget bushcraft series that we did we went out and bought items as cheap as we could find them to build a cheap bushcraft kit with this series what I want to do is I want to go out again we've went out over the last few years and found a lot of cheap items I should say inexpensive items doesn't necessarily make them cheap inexpensive items that I would consider bulletproof if I were going to put them in my bushcraft kit and I think that's what's important to understand is the difference between common man and common sense common man means I can afford it common sense means if I have to save a little bit and buy it because I know it's something I'm going to have for the rest of my life that's great if I can find it somewhere on the cheap at a rummage sale yard sale Salvation Army a scrap yard then that's even all the better but if it's something I can't find but one place and I've got to save up to buy it because I know it's something I need I know it's something bulletproof then that's still common man you know don't mistake common man for common sense because there you know there's a difference there so what I want to talk about today is I want to talk about a bulletproof bushcraft kit on a budget and we're going to start out and go through this series in the 10 C order basically but we're going to go in depth with things that I've collected over time we're going to talk about prices we're talking about what they are things of that nature and we're going to start with cutting tools so I'm going to reposition this camera down onto a wool blanket here and we're going to talk about some different cutting tools that I would consider good options for a bulletproof kit on a budget and then we'll go through them one at a time stay with me guy okay guys so let's first discuss you know the top of the food chain in cutting tools let's talk about axes all right I have two axes I've shown both of these axes in another video but they're worthy of being in this video because if I had to rely on my life to these axes I would do it every day and twice on Sunday both of them were bought very inexpensively the first one is a full-size felling type axe probably a trooper or something like that if I had to guess it's an older head I bought this at a scrapyard the head cost me probably with a bunch of other stuff I'd have to guess right around 3 bucks the handle costs around 12

so 15 bucks I have a full sized felling axe and there's no doubt I'd stake my life on this every day of the week 15 bucks I also have a double bit cruiser axe here and I paid $22 for the sheath for this axe just because I was too lazy to make one not that you couldn't make one and this one is an american-made sheath I got this off the internet has made the USA write on it and it was like 22 or 23 dollars but it's a good heavy-duty cowhide leather sheath for a cruiser type double bit axe this one is a plum it's got the plum logo on it right there a double bit axe I cut the handle off just a little bit to make it more comfortable in the hand sand the head down a little bit and sharpen it up and let's talk real quick while we're on the axis because I would take this one the same way I mean I paid about the same out for the head about three bucks about twelve bucks for the handle so you're talking fifteen bucks without axe to and I stake my life on that one every day of the week now let's talk about double bit versus single bit axes for a minute a double bit axe is a lot more dangerous to wield obviously than a single bit axis so you kind of have to watch what you're doing and know what you're doing if you're going to carry a double bit axe double bit axes didn't really become popular until the 19th century and especially around the Civil War and what they use double bid access for you know as iconic with lumberjacking and things like that but the main thing that was used that double axe were used for a lot throughout that time period where when they were clearing roadways and things like that with wagons and horses to drag the logs away the Teamsters which were the guys who would clear those roads would carry an axe with them to fell trees and cut stumps out and cut roots out and things like that where the roads were going to go through and they found that you know obviously when you're banging into the ground to get roots out you're going to hit rocks you're going to hit sharp objects and things like that your axe is going to get dented up and beat up and shipped up you're going to be sharpening all the time and refurbishing that face so the double bit axe came in very handy for them because they can keep one axe edge very keen for felling trees and the other one would be used for the rough work the things where it might beat up your head a little bit and then it would mark either one side of the handle or one side of the head in some form or fashion or you'd have a big nick out of one side so you knew which one was which for the sharp side versus the actual hard working side so that was the big popularity of double bit axes in the 19th century was because of that type work a regular axe like this you know this not exactly this design but this style axe has been around you know for a long long time they carried axes like this even in the 18th century that were very similar to this design for felling trees and things like that to build cabins with both of these are pretty big axes they're both over 19 inches I prefer 19 inch hunters axe for the woods or a 22 to 24 inch forest axe this one pretty closely emulates that because I've cut the handle down to about 24 inches but it is a double bit so it's a little more dangerous to carry so it's a tip for tat there but either one of those axes I bet my life on every day of the week all right 15 bucks I pay that for an axe I like to stake my life on it weak sauce alright bow saw I've shown this in another video it's just got a piece of rubber hose cut to protect the blade and protect it from cutting into my pack and things like that or my hand when I'm grabbing it out these things are cheap guys don't waste your time carrying just the blade so that you can make a buck saw or some kind of handy fashion bow saw in the woods out of a wood sapling the frame doesn't weigh anything its tubular metal and it doesn't weigh a lot the whole saw cost about ten dollars you might as well just carry the whole thing yes you can roll this blade up and it will take less room but if you've got any backpack of any size at all you can shove this thing right down behind you in the frame or in the front behind whatever you've got in there and you're not going to notice it's there and the weight is not that substantial as far as the frame goes compared to the blade to give up that bulletproof handle just so I can say oh I'm just going to carry this blade and roll it up into ten or whether the case maybe we're carrying a tube and make my own saw in the woods if I'm going to use a saw it's not because I won't have to go make a saw because I want to pull it out in my pack and use it for a saw ten bucks bulletproof no question about it okay now that doesn't leave you with a smaller saw necessarily to do fine tasks with like carving notches and things like that you can do things like buying just raw saw blades and pinch them into a pair of vise grips that's a very good common man way to do things what I came up with before that is and I showed this in another video as well but out of sale I picked up a piece of early 1900s history here and I keep it in tin and it's basically a folding pocket knife that was made in Germany and on that knife there is an attachment point on the front this was one of the early period which you called multi-tools and it has I've got piece of brain tan over it it has several tools that fit that thing including a small saw so I can put that small saw on there if I want to do some work and lock it on and then I can do some of my smaller carving tasks notching and things like that with

that small saw and then it has the option of other blades on as well it has a file it has a gouge it has a screwdriver it has an awl it has what looks to be probably some type of hoof picking implement of some sort if you were on horseback things like that but this thing only cost me a quarter now you're going to find that kind of a deal every day probably not but there are other options that you can have for a small saw that are pretty bulletproof yet commonly man priced I would rather carry just a blade and a pair of vise grips as far as one of the sawzall blades and a pair of vise grips any day of the week then go out and buy a Gerber saw from Walmart or wherever the case may be for 10 or 11 bucks that I know sure that handle is going to break as soon as I put it under stress I've seen it happen too many times in my classes so I want that saw to be as bulletproof as possible

this one is bulletproof sticking a blade in a pair of vise grips and cranking it down pretty bulletproof those are the things that I would do if I were on a budget those are the things that I would look for and you can see in this tent I just got a small ferrocerium rod wrapped in duct tape I don't need that fancy stack leather handle if I can wrap it in duct tape because that gives me a handle will hold on to plus I can use this duct tape if I peel it off as a fire extender because it stuff is flammable and I'm not really showing you guys the fire kit that I carry right now or that I'm going to talk about in the discount series or the bulletproof bushcraft series but it's in there so I just figured somebody would ask if I didn't say what it was somebody say well what is the deal with that barrel rod so that's just my redundant Ferro rod I believe that any redundancies that you have in your kit should fall within the first ten seas if they don't then you're probably wasting your time carrying them and then I just put a small rubber band around that thing shove it and intend to keep it protected not ten cost like a dollar at a flea market okay very cheap and easy way to carry saws so now let's talk about one more tool real quick talk a little bit about vise grips I didn't show vise grips but in the discount bushcraft series I did show how to clamp a saw blade into a pair of vise grips one of the things that horse Kephart about in his book was he talked about carrying a pair of side cut pliers so why would these things come in handy well if you got a set of good vise grips they're probably not going to come in real handy but this whole setup right here cost three bucks sheath and the pliers three bucks from a flea market that gives me the ability to number one hold on to things if I need to number two to twist and bend metal if I need to I have a pair of side cuts on here so I can cut fencing and wire and things like that to manipulate and make things with so for what they cost and what they'll do for me it's a good option to throw in my kit with my cutting tools that's just an extra redundant option in cutting tools that gives me a way to have a third hand in that pair of pliers by just wrapping something around those pliers to keep them shut so let's talk about the ultimate question now and let's talk about knives I'm only going to show you guys three knives in this series remember we're talking about bulletproof bushcraft on a budget so we want to stay as cheap as we can as common man as we can with as much common sense as we can so that our knives all meet the criteria that we want them to meet now for my main fixed blade and I'm talking about the one night that I'd have on my hip all right two knives I have here one of them is a butcher knife that I picked up at a sale for three bucks this one is a hand forged butcher knife of some kind I have no idea when it was made it's got brass pins probably walnut handles works really really good it's a really sharp edge throw sparks off the spine with the rock rips a Ferro rod like you would not believe in fact my instructors call this the butcher wand because it can do so much but that's a very good option if you can find something like that for three bucks this is going to be an uncommon find but let's talk about common okay this is a 7 inch old hickory butcher knife brand-new $11 brand new $11 full tang 90 degrees spine not coated 1095 just a high carbon steel it will throw sparks off the spine with a rock it will scrape a Ferro rod very nicely because as a 90-degree spine it's not coated it's very very sharp it's very durable you can find these things in flea markets that are 40 years old that are still very much usable very cheap cheaper than eleven dollars for sure but you can buy brand spanking new one for 11 bucks then you just got to have somebody make a sheath and this sheath was made by the Amish it was traded to me by one of my Pathfinder helpers I think he said he paid ten bucks to have that sheath made so for 21 dollars I got an absolute bulletproof bushcraft knife now if I'm going to have a redundancy in my kit a backup knife a smaller knife maybe I'm going to use for carving and things like that of course I have the pocket knife that I can use but there's nothing wrong with them or you know an SL 1 sl 2 like this one here have served me well for a long long period of time I've had this one here way since the beginning you can see me wearing this on my neck and videos from clear back in 2008 so I've had this knife for a very very long time it's still razor-sharp I've skinned a lot of animals with this thing the sheath came from a bargain bin box at a gun show for like a dollar just needs a piece of leather cord put through it for next sheath but it fits that more just perfect a brand new Morel like this is about eleven to fifteen dollars so again you know it's a very good back up knife that's not very expensive but it does a lot of the things that you want it to do the only thing it doesn't meet as far as the criteria of the Pathfinder system for a knife is it's not full tang it's a rat tail tang whereas this one's full tang and this one's full tang so if these are my main knives and this is just my backup that I'm going to use for fine carving skinning gutting fish things like that there's nothing wrong with having that thing non full tang so cutting tools let's talk about it if I'm choosing for my kit let's just say I want to stay on the safe side I'm going to go with the bigger ax more weight but rate versus weight this thing is going to cut down anything in the woods no doubt about it 15 bucks bow saw ten bucks now we're up to 25 probably not going to be able to get this pocket knife we all know that that was a once-in-a-lifetime find so let's say you've got another 10 bucks and a pair of eye scripts in a couple of sawblades so now you're up to 10:15 I'm sorry 15 20 so yup 225 so if you pay 10 bucks more for the blades and a multi-tool to have a small carving blade if you want to then you're up to about 35 bucks

another $12 for this brand new plus the sheath is another 20 so I'm still right out 50 bucks at this point 50 55 bucks good backup knife less than 60 bucks I got every cutting tool I need they're bulletproof they're not going anywhere there's no doubt in my mind if I add three bucks more to that I get a pair of pliers with side cut options on them still under 65 bucks and I got a bulletproof system of cutting tools right here that's what I would call a bulletproof bushcraft kit on a budget $65 and there's no doubt I would trust my life to these tools every single day of the week I'd carry these tools without shame that's what I'm talking about by common man it didn't cost me a lot of money I searched hard to find them but at the same time they're bomb proof it's not common man because I only paid two bucks for it it's common man because I paid two bucks for it and a lasts forever you know like this axe it's not common man because it was 15 bucks a wetterling's axe that cost a hundred bucks is no better than this as far as I'm concerned so this is what I would call common man I searched for it I found that I cleaned it up I had to grind it off clean the whole thing up put a brand new handle in it but 15 bucks I got $100 axe that's common man okay so that's going to start our series on the bombproof bushcraft kit on a budget we're going to go from cutting tools into combustion then we're going to go into containers and cooking we're going to go into cover and then finally we'll talk about cords you'll move on from there okay guys well I'm Dave camera at the Pathfinder school and I appreciate join me for another video I heard the Pathfinder school I thank you for your views I thank you for support I thank you for everything you do for me for my school for my family for all my Pathfinder affiliates and friends and we move back into the video as soon as we can thanks guys you