Cooking at The Bushcraft Camp - Axe, Fire, Shelter, Wilderness Survival Tips & Grilled Kebabs

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I head to The Bushcraft Camp to do some camp fire cooking. I use my saw, axe and knife to process fire wood and carve some small plates. In this video I also give a few survival tips as well as cook some kebabs on the grill and chill with a beer. In Bushcraft Camp Update 14 Dad built a fire pit made from an old car wheel. We also dug out a tunnel to make better air flow into the camp itself. The fire now burns much more efficiently and we more or less a smoke free fire. I still use the pot hanger and cooking crane to boil up coffee. Thanks for joining me on this adventure, and I will see you in the next one! - Mike

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you come around looking for some arms to hug and hold you tight well I've got two of those strong as they can be [Music]

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well good afternoon guys Mike here from ta outdoors

join me at the bushcraft camp on a kind of late winter very early spring day it's really nice it's really peaceful we haven't had rain for a few days so the woods nice and dry which is good and I'm currently just scraping the bark off these birch sticks I've just got the fire going and that's because I'm gonna be cooking up some feed and I'm turning these into that from that to that get rid of the bark get rid of the bacteria and that's because I'm going to make some kabobs

today we've got beef sweet pepper onion spices I've just put the Billy can on for a coffee while I'm waiting or a bottle of beer life in the woods is good right now it is good I recently just uploaded camp at 8:14 which has just gone up on the channel if you guys have watched that I really appreciate it thank you if you have an OP up a link up somewhere in the corner here to the fire pit that we built we upgraded it built a tunnel underground tunnel which goes underneath this raised bed here that I'm sat on the primary shelter and that's really massively help to the airflow I don't get smoked out at all now previously I used to sit in this shelter and get completely smoked out but not anymore so if you're interested in watching that then it's quite a long sort of 40 minute bushcraft video head to the video description below or look up in the corner of your screen it was good fun I came here with dad and we had a good laugh lots of banter which is what life is about

getting outside with friends and family yeah today I'm using the lignum stealer knife I made with Alec my friend Alec steel he's got a blacksmith YouTube channel go and check him out and this is I'm really enjoying using this lately I like using different knives when I come out just to have a go different types of knives and experience what they're like with different grinds and weights and sizes it's just part of the experience really some people stick to one knife that's fine I understand but I like to try out a few because I'm not an expert so it's nice to try some different ones this one had a bit more of a saber grind to it than a Scandi grind but I'm amazed I thought that would fold over a lot more that really thin profile there didn't at all and look how the lignum the tie scales have come out now so different from when I finished the knife with Alec the wood the grain has really come through I haven't even properly oiled it yet so cool making your own knife and being Elsie's it anyway Coffee time

so I tend to bring a little bottle of hand sanitizer with me to when I'm prepping food just where I've been you know getting dirty and things like that it's fine get you dirty but different different raw foods and things it's not good to fish when you're out the woods you don't get ill it's always handy to have some of these I like to bring items that have multi purposes so not only does this kill 99.9% of bacteria on your hands but it's also if you look on the back here

highly flammable so the flammable logo so if I in an emergency survival situation needed to start fire let's make a blob of hand sanitizer there obviously I could like that with a lighter but you can also do it with a Ferro rod I'm hoping you'll see this they go so that's then lit it's a very blue flame if I hold that here you can then see I can obviously get a fire going in enough time get some curls going around and obviously if I had some silver birch bark or something like that I could then get fire going so just something to take note hand sanitizer can be very handy it's only small the bottle so it doesn't take up much space at all but as well let that's still burning as it is now so little survival hack there for you guys if you're into that sort of thing it's quite interesting and the I'm just using the shavings here that I was making the kebab sticks with but if I got enough of them I mean if I take these away that that's still burning now and that was only one tiny blob of hand sanitizer so again very useful in rainy situation you need to get a fire lit in the rain so we're still burning that's been three and a half minutes now I was timing it so we're still burning I wouldn't recommend doing this often you can see it's still a very blue flame I wouldn't recommend doing it often just purely because of the fumes that it gives off it can't be good for you so I wouldn't breathe in any of the fumes but if you were like I say if you want to get a fire going that's still almost like an invisible flame not great in the wind it can't blow out quite quickly so you'd have to cover it like this but it is still going okay we're up to five minutes guys and the flame is almost going out but you can see it's still enough to light some shaving there we go it's just gone out so that was five minutes from that small blob there hand sanitizer keep it with you

multiple purposes those are wondering earlier what I was chopping up it's just these plates really flat platform to process food on nice and simple these kebabs onions not really ideal because it can't fall apart on a kebab quite easily but we're gonna go for it anyway I stripped all the bark off to get the bacteria off because I don't really want that and I've gone for beef nice and simple you don't have to worry about you know how well it's cooked and things in general I say that generally because you still have to cook it but it's not like chicken we can actually go a bit smaller with these

this is gonna be a meaty one let's go for loss and me on this Bobby meat special

Chiqui pepper in between now just add some steak spice Wow quite a lot of it it's got pepper and garlic in it as well this one

notice got myself a good old innocent gun the original my favorite bourbon barrel with scotch now I love this one so good with beef as well just beef dishes steaks things like that beef kabob

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so while you might see me light the fire with this which is what's made for me by a subscriber I think his name was Eric and he sent this to the by PA box and I unboxed it in a cabin I think it was in the cabin one of the videos the unboxing videos and he Mahan made this himself and sent it to mood she's really kind of him and I thought it'd be nice to bring out a bit subscriber gear and try and give you know use it and give it a go inside there was the fire still which I used earlier which I really like this fire still this is the amplifier still with looks like bank line I think it was you can make a primitive fishhook out of this side but it's really good faster it's nice because it's got that kind of economic grip to it I could trigger grip and it gives you a bit of grip when using it so thank you very much for that shown us before but just to the new guys this was amazing he's made this which actually is a belt leaf and it dangles on your belt like that and it just pops open and you pull the tin out and inside the tin it's charcoal but I used the bits of if you saw them I didn't use the charcoal and here I use some char cloth there was a bit char cloth hidden here that Eric had put in for me so yeah so many different nice to use a bit of gear so thanks very much Eric it's fun to use it out the woods I appreciate you sending it so it still things I need to do at camp like the wall over there which is broken I still need to fix that when I leave the camp I don't leave all these bits out because wind and rain obviously it's going to come over time and it would just rot them away so by by storing them it just helps me to preserve them for a little bit longer because they're not treated it's just dead wood it's all made from dead wood so I just tried to things like this the oars crane which is the pot hanger that I use to to boil the Billy count and things like that I'll just put these together and they'll whoops they'll go under that Prime secondary shelter there the the sawhorse I'll show you that in a minute the ladder itself again I don't like just leaving it out because it's just open to the elements then and it's going to rot away quicker if it gets wet so what I do is I just pushed it put this on the raised bed in the secondary shelter which has an ATAR player then these wood sticks all the way along it and then some moss as well on top so it's it's completely waterproof under there never ever gets wet under there so that just prolongs the life of the ladder itself the sawhorse here this goes under the hunting Tower that's because there's there's two layers to the hunting Tower there's the platform that you stand on and then there's the roof itself which I will eventually probably put Moss on but for the moment it's fine and this bottom layer on here because there's enough sticks there tends to stay dry so again I don't leave this out in the camp I just put this over here

and it also gives me space you know I like space to move around this that log well bigger Margit chopping block goes over in the corner just here and that conveniently just fits there and then anything else that kind of gets in the way I try to move so that I've got room to sort of move around really so that's the forest crane it's called with the jib that I've made up there with two Y sticks and lashed together and the pot hanger again all goes under there for the time being that's that storage that keeps it nice and dry any other spare firewood which I have lying around on the floor where I've not used it that goes back outside into the log store the log stores fairly depleted I do try to keep it a little bit dry because there's any sticks up here I put a tarp over it where I can there's some old burnt logs there which I will use eventually but it's looking a bit sorry for itself it has got wet where the tops blown off it and some of the wood to be honest is pretty rotten so that's my fault really but I try to you know keep it keep it well where I can you look after it it looks off to you these nice fresh dry pieces of wood but most of the store is depleted from winter where we do well all year really where we do catch and cooks and things like that so we'll need to be stacked up again so this is camp kind of tied it up now again that's the wall I need to fix ladder and everything stored under there there's also small tarp two tarps they're covering us another mini log store fires burning out yeah campus camps coming along well I don't know I know you guys have said about this tarp here being on the inside the rains gonna drip down and then drip into the shelter so I'm gonna actually push it through curl it round or maybe just cut it fairly higher up instead sort that out the windows great lovely to have a window in here made of plastic recycled plastic but it's lovely look you've got the right patch down there I started to get a few sticks to finish off this end bit and yeah the wall and that's that's the storage for the ladder down there so horse under the hunting tail that's the broken switch that we made I know I get some commenters say that's not bushcraft when it comes to the camp because I call it bushcraft camp and I have done for years perhaps it's probably time I explain you know why I called it a bushcraft camp when there's manmade materials this cordage there's plastic there's the tarp roof is metal there's you know all sorts of things that aren't made of nature and natural materials so the reason I called it the bushcraft camp was not because it was going to be built out of bushcraft materials out of natural materials as such I knew there was going to be man-made materials involved the purpose of building this camp was to have an area where I can practice bushcraft and learn new skills things like that they the catch and cook videos that I do with dad where we cook up a fish or something a different way each time

that is bushcraft you know we did a spit roast Tiger trout whole fish whole Tiger trout with big teeth it's in my video description below or I'll pop a link up in the corner you know that was just on two sticks to why sticks and the spit in the middle and that was bushcraft you know and a lot of the fire lighting things that I do they are bushcraft related I mean the term itself is thrown around so loosely I'm obviously a culprit of that so many youtubers are and I do understand that you know this isn't pure bushcraft there is an element of manmade things going on in these videos and I do realize that you know it's not pure bushcraft so to get that but my my version my understanding of bushcraft my definition of bushcraft is probably different to Ray Mears and to people who are purist but crafters you know that's that's just the way it is is it's a at the end of the day as long as I'm inspiring people to get outside and younger kids especially to get outside and just do stuff in nature and enjoy it you know I'm not this is Deadwood this whole four is Deadwood and I've said that in so many videos now that it's all it's all Deadwood and and where I've cut things down it's been dead standing but the tops of the tree has snapped so it's all it's all their wood and I'll just use this wooden is is so Amana there's there's hundreds and hundreds and thousands of deadfall everywhere in this wooden I could build this camp probably three or four times over with the amount of wood that's still lying around so that gives you an idea of how much that dev would it there really is around it but you know it's just a place where I can come now and the majority of the big jobs are done you know and I can't see me doing too many more big projects there will be some but things like the hunting Tower and this this big primary shelter you know they were big projects the hunting Tower especially I mean I did that video six months eight months ago now I think it is and it that that hunting tower video put my channel on the map put ta outdoors on the map because it was it was something that sort of hadn't I don't know it's just it was something I mean I wore that mask I know in it which was for the bugs and people got a bit of the wrong impression at first but when I when they watched it through and I explained why I was wearing the mask the skull mask that you know people people got that because they watch the video truth generally if you watch the videos through you I will it have an explanation for what I'm doing and that yeah that camp update 11 not as Lansing tell that that put ta outdoors on the map and and since then you know it's continued to grow really well and people appreciate me coming to this camp and I know the pure I know the purists are out there going world war a waste of wood what's the point in that you know just building a for out of deadwood what's the point don't you do that when you're a teenager or when you're a kid of course you do course you do that but at the end of the day it you know see outdoors is my channel I can kind of do what I want with it and if these if you're not happy with it people aren't happy with what I'm doing here there's no need to watch it you didn't have to subscribe you didn't have to watch it I'm just you know I'm not saying to everyone go out and built this for me it was an area that I can keep coming to keep making videos I tell you what it's like it's like so let's take Alec for example Alec Steele who I've collaborated with a fair amount you know and he's a great guy and he's got an amazing channel his workshop it is incredible you know he's got all these machines for his blacksmithing he's a blacksmith it's got all these incredible machines that he uses and that's as well that is his film studio so what he has in his workshop is where he makes his films he does five or six films a week that's his studio so it's a film studio and a workshop you have to think of this is this is like my film studio so it's a film studio and a camp where I can do things that it's has multiple purposes it's not just being built and left you know i am coming back here and it is getting used other questions are yeah it's on private land it's not on land that's just public land where you can build anyway you were in the UK you would not get away with building this a it's probably not feasible to do and be it would just get trashed but in the UK it will just get completely trashed and I've had loads of guys on Instagram message me saying they built a camp and sadly it got trashed and I'm really you know sorry for that for those guys because it's not fair when people put a lot of effort into these things and you just see it destroyed you know I've been lucky enough that this is still standing things are breaking like walls and things like that and I get that I'm okay with that I don't mind if it rots away it rots away whatever you know I've learned so much from building this camp I think what's been special about this camp and building it is the feedback from you guys on the suggestions I've I've built stuff that is a suggestion from a subscriber so from in this camp not all of it has been me it's been suggested by you guys and I think that's that's a great way for me to engage with you you know you you actually get to see the physical evidence of me taking on board feedback and I'll always say I'm not I'm not expert I'm not even a qualified bushcraft instructor I have no qualifications I've got huge respect for the qualified bushcraft instructors you know it's not an easy thing to teach but all the guys in the UK that have these bushcraft schools are doing an amazing job seriously

you know if you want to enhance your skills quickly not not watching my videos or other bushcraft people's videos in general if you want to be like accelerate your learning really fast and you want to learn bushcraft and learn quickly you need to go on a bushcraft course because that will open your eyes because the professionals they really know what they're doing and I highly recommend if you can get out there I enjoy coming here and just building stuff I think I could never relax really I'm always wanting to craft something or build something you know even like those plates today that was just something I could do to just to learn and develop and keep I've done it loads of times before but it's nice to retain those skills sadly in the summer time the bugs get way too much in this camp and it's very difficult to do a prolonged period of time here because you get eaten alive it's such a dense woodland however I know a lot of you asked you ever overnight in the camp I do overnight in the camp I've done quite a few overnighters in this camp it's just you've got to go back through the videos to find them I have done overnighters here

I think there's bushcraft camp update 12 I did one I've done a solo overnight one here called said overnight camping there's there's quite a few where I've done every night here I will be doing more overnighters here there's one on planning to do I'm seeing Alec really soon I think next in two days time and then after that I'm doing an overnighter here so there's plenty of time for you guys to see me doing overnighters here but I just want to say thank you so much to everyone who subscribed to the channel I really appreciate it I'd be very grateful if you would subscribe to my dad which is ta fishing I'll pop a link somewhere up here and there's a link in the video description below it'd be awesome if you guys could hand over there and watch dad's channel and really appreciate it

everything ta is growing you know it's the DA stands for totally awesome it's dads thing that he came up with twelve thirty years ago now totally awesome fishing which we called ta fishing on the YouTube channel and then we brought this out ta outdoors shortly after a few years after it so TA is becoming a bit of a movement you know it's not it's becoming a brand ta outdoors and ta fishing everything ta is is becoming a brand and I've got merchandise coming out I've got the website being done there's loads of stuff really cool stuff down the pipeline so thanks so much guys I know I've waffle apologize for that if you did watch this all the way through to the end kudos to you I really appreciate it thanks so much and I'll see you soon in the next episode [Music]