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well it was the first action figure yeah Skeletor the Purple Panda yeah it was like yeah yeah that's alright I actually have two of skeletor's castles at my house and my dad's attic I had like a big green snake in like a microphone he talked through it place that's a cool one on the outside with the inside of like stickers I also have Castle Grayskull home that is fuel garlic ladies and gentlemen right there I'll leave it be I'm out here Malcolm and you can't just cross in the fields into the forest got a wheelbarrow with us today because we're all in rocks moving rocks it's a lot of rocks and can't so we need to shift them over a little bit get them out of the living room area piles plates all the public neat hi so what's up Mitch with native survival hanging out my buddy Malcolm hey guys doing today pup you can't see me cuz I'm pointing at the Sun that better maybe maybe not alright see you guys at camp got a bush pilot flying by you know

right here yeah yeah the Wookiees always dry inside he won the snow outside rain or whatever it's pretty good tripod is still here

the the bandits to steal at this time there's always water enough right fit for whatever reason just the water tables so close that it's it's not close like Willy oh that's a puddle like three inches down from where we're standing and thought I never seen this yeah well there's the one of the piles of rocks there's another there that's the big one all that right there all those rocks were just where the fire pit is just around it crazy old store walls yep got my own cooking we're off right there all this stuff is underneath the snow before that's my old fire pit nice yeah you hang your bag up off that right with the pin yeah there's a a-hunting stand right there you know two days he's a very nice guy there's a path right here do you love to come down and they walk through camp they head to the field this field used to be corn field so the deer love going in that picking out things yep yep

firing lane they loved the motorcycle huh they were in the Northeast even when you're on a thousand acres you're still running down sounds of new centers or ten miles these worries so in each side of this tree firing firing range the cans out back a couple of jugs in front for slingshots and things like that I'm also gonna set up some bow shooting as well haven't decided where you know those like medium boxes you get from the post office and the large boxes and you buy them like whatever it is a hundred at a time or something and I like really thick like maybe six inch 5 inch thick and they're shrink wrapped in plastic and so that's what I use for my my back stops to shoot at home when I still live in the city a couple years ago I used to I used to have a shooting range in my porch like my indoor porch there's probably only well I don't know 12 15 feet long 15 feet long maybe and yeah so I put like two layers of those stack them up all the way to the ceiling so they covered the window back there and nice to shoot at uh army men hanging off a strings you have to get like man I like when I hit one it was a big deal was amazing Canadian Geese on the way by one of the fields farmers fields I saw like 200 of them I doubt I can get on camera

it's nice to foresee we will install the few we will come on sounds like they are I'm and I'll say a couple weeks ago chain still on the ground and the fire pit because it collects water it was just a sheet of ice so he looked fire on ice yeah yeah it took a little while to get the fire going it was literally sitting in a puddle water maybe you should felt like a yell basically rocks that's a fantastic idea trying to build up a little bit so if the water the water does why's that just cobblestone the bar I did that in there cobblestone the bottom there get my shovel with me yeah you're a cheat chase Wilder

because I wanted I want them stacked handle other stuff yeah but he had this design it was just so give me three sixties that went down to like a grass there's a little book that I seen it at night that I mean there's a whole book to another does it

gear talk you guys like you talk right mr. Sun where's the Sun where are you son this kind of some Sun there you go looks like hand force yeah he does Jase Wilder brass bolster and palmer designed like a puku with the bottom at the end of the rat tail tang so stacked micarta or something

the blue is leather - g10 g10 let's stack letter

it's nice-looking blade nice and rustic he pounds them all I think he was on that show up forging fire yeah I saw a couple episodes of that get the cut rope or just hanging from like the ceiling it's not even tight at the bottom self it's like it's not fair come on dude you know I could ruin the career to be messed up or something oh yeah of course and it's just not very it's like naked and afraid' right I got asked to be on every season and they're like okay so what's your favorite area Mike

oh my favorite bioregion I'm like I really like the north east of us you know I can exactly exactly so then all of a sudden I would end up in Costa Rica Central America jungle somewhere who knows make make it with a bunch of exactly a bunch of snakes and stuff or whatever stuff I've known you know feel bad for those people too is like oh you can do hand-drew like yeah man I live in the desert Arizona I'm a hand roll Mastiff like okay like let's drop him off in like a snow field and see what happens

you know exactly guys I'm like three feet of snow barefoot of course he is yeah hey probably ground up oh he's a machete or something they put him in a hardwood forest he's like nothing he's cutting game Kiki yeah so it's all the team that's all card just ride that train as long as I can I was talking to a producer couple months ago he wanted me to to design design a show and put them on I did actually actually he gave me a show and was like let's do this show together you'd be great don't you make my show make sure I think we better if we did this show I told my idea look which is what Bruce Lee did with kung fu after the green lantern and all our stuff shut down and he was killed or whatever and can't get comfortable

so my show might show up and it would be me anyways um he was like yeah yeah a terrible idea so he was like oh my god this show was amazing I can't even believe it I'd literally laid out like some ideas of like hey big five episodes and he was jacked up but then when it came down to like paperwork and I was asking to be you know not just an employee

okay Network

you know working per episode you know I wanted to be I want to have a production level so because it's like if I'm the writer III I can also have you know direction on how the show is presented because I had those credentials right and then I just like you know he just didn't want to change the paperwork or whatever and because it was a collaboration and then it kind of was like I just you know I was almost like he was like bummed out that I would like wanted to be legit about it or something I don't know I just felt probably yeah so oh well maybe someday maybe add some dirt

another thing I was thinking too is actually moving the pin over because it's a little too close to that tree Mackin let's cut the tree down but I don't want to it's but uh with it centered here the parachute or can't be Center on it without it being bunched up against the trunk and sew it up she'll be better in full technically was right here right in the middle because then I should have more room yeah there's a little rock right there I don't know about that yeah this is all because it's all rocks [Music]

it's just you know when I was younger coming with his back home pull against the wall we'd all disembark get off it it's not throwing the wall into the bucket of thing that Mike would go out yeah yeah come back every force an area he's lying with Stonewall yeah so so he disassembled them - I bought this minion

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go ahead mother Venus in the Rockies all these people have money they would be buying stores already old and like mossy and faded they buy them to put it in their mansions yeah maybe we'll also put over here if it's high up then when you play don't even need a obese because it looks like you were together copies yeah it's already all tall rocks that's what happened was is that after a while it burnt down and all the raw kind of you know it gotten away a little firewood and stuff and so that's what we started I went crazy like I built that by tearing all the rocks out of here drove me nuts

yeah I guess maybe we'll just move it over I'd like to move that rock to we've been caught incorporate that rock as far as a seat yeah yeah it's kind of close these are the things you gotta figure out when you're messing around with a bushcraft

there's a lot to it all right so yeah we're gonna move the fire pit over here so still over a foot go away from that rock like right here [Music]

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yeah it's so wet over here right now yeah and I'm also thinking I'm gonna have the benches like meet you make like a horseshoe inside open all the rest all I can make music [Music]

this way yeah cuz then like so I'll be right here facing the entrances yeah this would be the best artistry out of it

I got my little diva pot from Ray's store

it's shocking how wet this is huh just sitting in a puddle it's never been like this for completely so maybe it's a sign of the end of this place yeah I seem that for sale sign okay I mean just right now yeah yeah place is in trouble that's for sure I feel bad for the houses that ever stood out lined up at the line up on the street over there with a beautiful fall in the background that's gonna do a beautiful shopping for that place

yeah there it does yeah this might turn into like a shopping mall or something off you're gonna have a wall bought back here gross come here what I'm like 50 my god I used to go camping there now it's a target ship this piece from the other camp yeah what's his name yeah we can put him right here gonna have the next one start from right there yeah you like a little table the end table or seed or whatever still needs it yesterday well the fire's right there so yeah I guess I'll have to go towards you that yeah I will just skip the rock then put it right up to the like have the path of touch so Bronson I got that step nobody's nobody's basic down yep push it over so I'm touching yeah just one time that one guy bought try bothering me look I wish told me actually plain to him that I knew the situation of heaven he thought I did but because Mike told me that he um he's telling he called the other day and told there's a bunch of kids camp in here and that he kicked them all off not on this one walking on the island experience

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a lawn chair can carry the ten miles in okay that's pretty close to the fire so I really envisioned like two of these straight kind of thing okay so maybe we'll do like a that one so we can add that one to the back yeah maybe we'll do that this way yeah she was shipped that way Oh tell me about your parachute yeah exactly it's um yeah it'll work cause I think right now look at fine tune this later I guess look it's gonna be from that tree to there and this is the middle pretty much so if that makes sense

no we could do yeah let's go that way with just that one yeah you take that extra one and put it next to it have a double long maybe even like an angle and then now we'll come down to here because we could also use through the smaller ones that and replace it with but this from the side the two the smaller ones might fill that gap better than the what a long look at 3/4 instead of a double yeah let's just move that back and we'll add that and put an angle on it instead of doing square will do kind of a little different animals a camera guys like this stuff you look hanging out a camp and messing around designing camps fixing things yeah yeah well that's cool this is true I'll go back there one day what what camp the original can't we oh my can't be in my dad's house yes to get the woods over that way to that corner there

no see I'm right there let's go over there

we have more hands replace a big put the other one like here don't you too Mitch look at this let's if we move this one more here then we'll shift it this one down and now it could fit right here and this one can be ready we will follow from fire but it's pretty hot now that one can fit right here for you to see but this is straight now okay so that will give plenty room for that show and be up against the rocketing still use the rockatuer well we can actually is just just angle this out will flail it out order football it'll be kind of the same thing to put that one there cutting it

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this is wrong a little wet yes another angle so I'm thinking about building is a Neolithic Stone Age hot I saw it in primitive society of primitive technology it's all stone with the doorway and then they have like kind of like a wiki just starting for my four feet up waist high for the roof all grass patched [Applause]

unbelievable hook is so special man talk about so and it's based off of a archeology you know findings they found the post a final stuff and I feel like Gary's going to show up any minute do you see you like the city or anything to do with with them building houses over there instead of opinion they suck up all the water I know even though I did it is huge if you walk away and even there's a huge like a drainage dug it out and all the water from the police dreams and I saw that over there sinful it must be down way it's right over there yeah yeah it's huge maybe that's this is so I've been here there's a double dose yeah last year it was it was getting pretty wet

his house well he probably decided to drain enough so the neighborhood will be wet he doesn't care about the rest of the forest being wetter yeah how my son you'll have a new car you want [Music]

that's flying right over as a different plane find Little Rock Camp there's a little airport nearby small one little planes you must practice them today is it the first warm day all right so this is what we got guys here's the fire pit in the middle all right so right there is the pit yeah that's pretty good man put you there at least two on there one there one there two or finally six people I bet it's not too bad we should get another one more bench yeah one more bench and put it right there yeah bro like right here yep cool all right so I need to find another log front of a bench and I'm looking at that guy right there that will do nicely dude me and Shane came out here to get work done right a couple weeks ago and we basically just hung out and talked for like 11 hours or something yeah dude we were like let's probably ten hours seriously of us out here and I bet we got a half hour I've worked on just I don't know I just whatever it was we just generally we just felt like hanging out you know hadn't seen him in a while and stuff I carry an extra one second I carry an extra bleed in my my shotgun sock this is which one is this this is the rake it's a rake or tooth rake tooth whatever it is in here is the peg tooth so I think what does it rake is good for I'm probably the messes up I should know this I think rake is good for dry wood and peg is good for green wood because the peg has some see the rake is all sharp see that it's all sharp and peg has some that I rounded off to help remove the like the damp kind of spongy wet green wood stuff I keep one of each at all times with me so I could switch I always do it this way so it's away from the logo I know it doesn't really matter see how it goes back that way stead along the logo so I'm beat it up please Saturday yep this is made out of cherry wood an adventurer sworn take down bucks off sing is epic [Music]

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I actually cut one too many times on there I broke my blade luckily I had it nice and tight alright I'll give you a hand with that show the oh yeah yep let's good stuff [Music]

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all right one more round needed yeah that one's too low I'm being lazy want to head over to the rogue camp this is a camp where somebody who doesn't have access so if they have access bill of authorization to be here on this land they haven't talked to the private landowner just some random person nobody knows came here and cut down like a whole lot of trees and didn't do a very good job either they left all those stumps like a foot up very disrespectful and you can trip over them easy and they stole from my camp left trash in my tripod I mean in my they stole my tripod from my camp less left trashing my wickiup hooligans bandits a new housing development came in and took one of the fields on the other side so yeah so yeah pretty sure the person is from there they made a northern a traditional northern lean-to it's a it was made popular shot was made popular by Ray Mears and buy more ski and ski it's a very popular common shelter there are a lot of guys that make them I think maybe Joe Robinette has made them scrambled Oh has made them I've made him in the past years ago pretty much everybody's made them I've seen them and Mike was the name Mike up in Maine permanent schools he's made everyone's made them it was more ski and ski premier shelter

but here it is yeah they've cut down a lot of trees to make that if you look all the trees are cut yeah is even kind of birch tree like the tree that's like the most rare oh yeah exactly it's so rare and to use I lucky used one on his bed - yeah I didn't use any of my wickiup shameless mistaken I used to Beach this at all this is a lot of pine actually and actually you want something really awful like this this is sassafras dude look how big that sassafras is do you know how rare sassafras is so this to find a sassafras this big is amazingly epic no matter the size of your wrist like I've seen one sassafras my entire life I scratch scratch that and smell it that's the orange part it's been chopped relax - yeah let's assess for us if you cut into this it's uh it's orange I don't have my knife on these I'm a bad boy see that okay see how it's armed inside yeah it smells super super good it's not a tree that you cut down for business purpose

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shut down a lot we'll take a start another one here and cut down some series to cut that one and actually you must been acting some chopping off the beech tree for a long time you also had a soft I mean just come on man yeah ray mears more skiing ski scrambled always made one of these I think Joe Robinette has made one of these everyone's made one who's this one this one collapsed on him you start to make them on and off they'll do the problem is you never you I know I'm critiquing this but I'm gonna critique this format you never ever ever use lumber this thick this thick ready listen to this dude seriously that is very dense very heavy very dangerous very dangerous this is probably a 60 pound piece of wood cause it's wet green it's really thick all this is oh look here's the sassafras poor sassafras there it is there it is so yeah you never use anything this thick to build a shelter like that because it's gonna be very heavy and it's gonna put a lot of weight on to your your structure it can cause it to collapse and you can be crushed to death and because it's so heavy

if it starts leaning a little bit because it's so heaviest so most momentum it can collapse sideways everything can rip off and I've been I learned this the hard way I've been on the bottom end of that happening once and one of the logs clipped my shin on the way by just literally ripped it right open bleeding dripping down my sock was just soaking up blood very dangerous this is what you use see this little stuff just about thumb thick a little bigger that's good for a roof but never leave it 10 inches up off the ground

yeah dude if you hold a knife or something you trip can kill yourself if you fell on top of it oh really right and look they're everywhere look at this with that stump oh look this stump is two feet off the ground you cut it at knee height with a saw straight ahead you see that straight ahead

dude like I get it you're just clearly clearly your greenhorn you're just learning this is your first shot there dude you know what good for you getting out here you're practicing you're trying you know you're you're trying to learn that's good we need more people and then they'll be skills absolutely that's great

you know permission to be here and I hope you know shelter uses less resources

when you cut them flush with the ground so anyway for me to say with that guys don't don't leave your stumps a foot off the ground I mean they're active literally everywhere

I need to zoom in all over this forest is just stumps that way too high it's too bad everywhere like everywhere there's another one crazy cloth man I hate taking pictures I took pictures uh and sent them to Mike okay come on I mean look at this another massive stomp on the massive stomp it's just sad man that's it sets hack that is seriously so he cut that right there he left it lying there and was just cutting stuff off the end and didn't even use it [Music]

stuff has been here a while anyways yeah there's a quick shelter critique for you [Music]

this would force please the spoons I never made of sassafras spoon because I never find it big enough it looks really like the greens are straight yeah it's pretty thin you have a hard time putting a crank in that though it's so thin

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are you gonna get weapon in the shelter was ringing yeah only half the bad boys right here yeah only half the better that's us

I don't really really know the angles should have been well yeah the angle should be a little little shallow and the bed should be further should be deeper in the back whatever we all learn that

yeah that's thought that's likes it's an overhand it's a single overhand I'm holding this whole thing up with a couple wraps underneath and one frappe that's scary dude I really wish this guy had learned some knots he's gonna kill himself especially with all this weight that's that's seriously dangerous dude that's camp burn it's all green and nothing destroys shelter this is somebody's this is somebody's like dream right here and I'm gonna leave it but it's not supposed to be here there's an F authorization and it's dangerous those knots are literally a single did you look at the knot there's a single overhand it's not even tight it's a single overhand that's scary dude oh they might be knotting back a double overhand it has like a weird pinch to it that's scary man oh boy hope he doesn't get hurt or she cross lashings are very different than that I'm almost tempted it takes in my power core to have it me and undo one of them and do it right well just doing one so then they'll look at it and be like oh that's how it's done and like learn from it I got like 24 million views now something I lost track it's funny all right

anyway so for logs that's the rogue shelter and as the house is set invaded that was a see the houses Oh terrible do houses oh my god on the other side of the forest

I'm so gross y'all just showed up yeah I think I'm gonna use this brush right here completely dead it broke off and landed right there it seems like it might be thick enough yep get some

now you can make straps out of that I saw an episode a long time ago over a making a straw out of those he says you can make clusters out of it which i think is a bandage plasters ball bucks are on this the first day through the undercut

watch your toes one

- oh god Yolo yep comedy's pack is small yeah I guess they're kind of the same size as the logger hurt earning that on there huh not so good we could cut more and do a double I used to make seats out of it I'm Bernie Hampshire went hiking a long time ago yeah it's like a bunch of uh I made a seat like this there you make a bunch of foam tape it down across here

Louie do that I'm gonna strip all the bark off of it because I'm not wasting that birch bark for nothing certainly not for work bench birch is kind of rare in these woods so I collect it after it's dead I find it it's that way I can harness the bark whenever I need to so certainly gonna grab this stuff [Music]

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moves and so his baton it first stuff is completely rotten it's still valuable little light fire and I use the inside for my coal rosing like the Sami people do my spoons and cooks theirs and stuff it also make a stick thin blade get in there call it a spud I might be it this piece is not gonna come out too easy life

so it's done grab your materials don't waste them yeah still very useful Gary just showed up what up Gary and hello to YouTube hey you too yeah this is shooting Lee yep well I was thinking somewhere around here shooting that way it'll be the archery range clear all that out arrow whatever figure it out and I'm gonna pull the tripod and half the two going forward and lay that way stack them three times and then tie like a can or something and it like kind of dangles it shoot out of the can or whatever something like that so the archery BB guns and the planks the other plexi those three

that should be good a little work on the shelter huh yeah do mean Gary spent like eight hours one day covering that shelter we probably put an acre debris on that day we raked up this whole forest that's what I mean really yeah we almost got all the way down to the Old Capitol yeah we did the forest for an acre we really did we worked hard there's a lot of breeze I feel good yep exactly there it is unless you think so feel free to be hammer submit

take that end it's gonna snap off there you want to swap it with the other one no

I see waterlog huh I hate the one Oh

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all right guys [Music]

all right so keeps coming along actually these can come in a little bit I'll angle that so now we have two on that side one long in the back and two on this side looking pretty cool sticking weight off this that's better yeah that's more balanced it's nice and even that's looking sharp [Music]

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