Overnight Bushcraft Trip - Camping in a Debris Shelter - Cooking Wild Meat on Open Fire

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I do an overnight camp in a natural bushcraft shelter and cook wild meat 4 different ways. Start your free trial today at http://www.squarespace.com/taoutdoors to get 10% off your first purchase.

I head into the woods for an overnighter. I learn how to make cured meat in a smoker made from natural materials, cook venison 4 different ways over the fire and learn different fire lighting methods from my buddy Dustin.

FULL RECIPES USED IN THIS VIDEO:

KEBAB RUB:

- Mixed Herbs

- Paprika Powder

- Salt & Pepper

- Lemon

RIB RUB:

- Spicy Paprika

- Chilli Flake

- Mixed Herbs

- Salt & Pepper

JERKY

- 1/4 cup soy sauce

- 2 tablespoons worcester sauce

- 1 heaped tablespoon brown sugar

- 1 teaspoon honey

- Pepper

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Video Transcription

hey guys Mike here from ta outdoors thanks so much for taking on the video I am here in my shed but I'm about to do an overnight camp in a bushcraft shelter made of natural materials as well as that I'm gonna butcher up a deer learn different ways of cooking it do primitive fire lighting other fire lighting methods it's gonna be an awesome video but before we get into the episode I just like to give a big thanks to Squarespace who are sponsoring this video

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well guys welcome to another episode of ta outdoors I am here at this incredible camp with two awesome lean-to shelters a fire pit I'm here with Dustin James from bushcraft tools and also West Country bushcraft where he does a bushcraft course is catch and cooks everything like that it's incredible but I just wanted to give you guys a quick tour of this camp because I know you love the camps and this is something else right welcome to my camp we've got two examples of two different types of lean-to so these have all been built just from materials that have been cut down here in the woodland or are falling down onto the ground there's nothing really that's been cut down deliberately for these you know specifically for these shelters a lot of it it's just waste it's like they're debris shelters and I think it really it really means a lot to use debris to use waste things rather than go and cut trees down just for a shelter if you can find the wood on the ground that's already been cut and it's dead and it's strong and it's not rotten that's exactly what you want so this is our bed well this is not any wife sleep when I'm here I'm doing courses doneö Somerset I've got all these hides all these high zartan's they're all left over from from Deer Berkshire Eon courses and so on here's a lovely fallow these are depending sides to take them from their waste and product the waste material to a useful useful resource is something that really passionate about there's a fallow hidin I mean I don't need a role map I just need all of these hides okay there might be it might be a bit overkill I might have a few too many but it's it gives it lovely comfort there's not any fallow there's row as well and I've got a few I've got some of these which are lovely lovely thick really warm sheep skins grateful grateful lying on so that just goes down there silly flag over the top nice fire the heat reflects doing the bed you doze off to sleep to the crackling of the fire and you wake up to the to the to the sounds of the birds right so we've got all these hides what else coming through the hide well this is your I've made a cave man bag there we are we've got deer antler buttons they popped through there and it's just it's just a caveman I came on back you can put your little bits and pieces in it it's all been this has all been made from one hide this shoulder strap has been woven together it's actually being plaited from long strips coming cut off the outer of one hide using the inner hide to fold up stitch in the middle and then to create this bag so it's all made from one hide we've got a few examples here of different file I think it's so we've got some hand drills we we've got some fire plough materials we've even got some bamboo store materials so I keep my bows and some more some more fire boards and different things it's all just fire lighting things and then you've got like an extended lean-to here as an extended lean to use so you can see it's not quite lean - it's a box a box lean - yeah I'm yet - you know it needs a few improvements they always do you always need to come back here every few weeks and just add a load of debris yeah there's a lot of time the wind will blow off it'll fall off so just just to make it thicker box lean to do improvement so yeah I want to put a few shelves in there maybe a shelf there maybe even extend this to make it to make it wider there's always camp improvements we've got a lovely cooking setup here a chain yep a chain it might not be very bushcraft II I'll tell you what it's really it's really handy it's really practical and these hooks as well they're really handy things like hanging me off so hopefully when we do some deer butchery we're going to try and use these hooks in this chain and I smoked some meat cook some food up we've got a Dutch oven cook some food up in that right so these ribs what we want to do is we want to slow cook these ribs we don't want to cook them too quick so what we're gonna do here is move this fire away

we don't want direct heat we want indirect heat to get these slowly cooking over the next two three maybe even four hours so by the time it comes to eating these are living slow-cooked and the meat will hopefully just fall apart as you can see we've got a nice little rub made up of chili flake mixed herb spicy paprika salt and pepper just to dry a dry rub that's all we need to give it some some extra flavor all right so these are the pencil Phillips I've just old them I'll check them on this skillet so now I'm going to quickly turn them we don't equip these for too long because they're a lovely delicate cut so we're gonna get there maybe about another minute min and a half we're gonna take them off so you can rest for a minute or two well Mike this is the these are the pencil Phillips we've took out these were the first two real proper cuts of meat that we took off that deer that was hanging up in the tree moments ago oh I can smell it a second good so these are the pencil Phillips yeah we just quickly flash-fried there maybe min and a half each side and finish them with a little bit of salt a little bit of pepper and there we go they look incredible can i tuck in welcome to my camp you might guess thank you mate thank you wow that isn't if cameras detected taste guys that is incredible

very minimal seasoning really is there en it the idea is just to really taste it to get to bring out the full flavor from from the meat rather than just recover it in different mixes of herbs and yeah seasoning and rubs and so on it's very basic salt and pepper bit of olive oil absolutely lovely Oh oh good what is this number no my friend that's for you this here it's elderflower champagne oh wow made by your good self of course brilliant Cheers

man that's amazing but it's amazing refreshing

yeah go so well with that that is incredible I love this stuff it's so easy to make yeah this salt we're using this is Cornish sea salt you can see it's a very coarse salt and it just brings out such a great flavor with me it really was honestly it was amazing that is that is incredible look at that so this was the pencil cut wasn't it the pencil cut at the back the pencil Philip that is man it's making me envious to see doing that and look at this guy's the setup cooking away still the ribs awesome

and some elderflower champagne to go with it

so I'm just carefully following the perforated line perforated line being this very thin layer of membrane separating each muscle within this Horch this haunch is made up of several cuts several muscles to separate them I'm just carefully following the scene to reveal the meat in its natural membrane packaging as you can see it just it just falls into place as soon as you touch it with the end of a sharp knife I'll just spin that around for you yeah just finish off that last bit of membrane so I can see how thin that that that muscle is attached to there and then we come in with a knife and we just carefully separate it ending up with we've almost finished taking this off so just finish this what we're going to end up with is the shank there now we want to get into this so now this shank let's get rid of this cut through there yep something for the dog over there later now this is a shank we don't really want to treat this as a steak we don't want to pan-fry it we don't know fast cook it shank wise cooking wise what we want to do is slow cook this shank yes it does still have a bit of the membrane on the outside we can take that off or this will pretty much dissolve and there but break up into nothing

once it's slow-cooked we're not going to cook this today we're actually going to take this home and put it in the fridge or freezer for another day but what I don't want to do is put this in the fridge still with its socks on there's a shank

perfect for slow cooking in the Dutch oven well so I mentioned you want to cut across the grain and you can see the structure of this these lines they're all going this way which means we want to be cutting in across the grain because we're going to be curing the meat smoking meat we really want to make it as thin as possible timewise we could be looking at anywhere from five hours or more to get this properly cured so these bits we're just no take off they're quite small because we started at this end and they're just going to hang over on a piece of wood in our smoker like that until they shrivel up and they go nice and firm so they're just like cured meat so once we've cut a least found these cuts down into nice thin strips ready to be put on a smoker before we do that I'm gonna give them a little marinade what you'd normally do is give them anything from an overnight to a 24 marinade so they really absorb all those juices and flavors that will then be you know those flavors that will then come out once you start chewing them we've got some nice thin strips of meat we've just cut off we've made a nice marinade made up of different lots of different things I won't go through them coz I've been here all day so now there's only one more thing to do we need to build a smoker up for it let's do it all right so as you can see we're starting to get some good color here I'm just by feeling it we are on the way it's being cooked so what I'm now gonna do is we're just going to flip it on hook one end flip it over find somewhere you can secure this hook to thread the hook through and we're gonna leave that for another little arrow so it's been on there for about an hour and a half we'll probably give it maybe an hour and a half maybe another two maybe two and a half hours who knows it depends on how many beers we have pretty easy to identify hazel saplings they use your straight meter there's that kebab and look there's the beginning of our two branches for our smoker

you're making kebab sticks guys now with uh with some hey hazel saplings and this we're about six o'clock p.m. now what time to be start to you know starlet who we're a little bit behind yeah we might have had a little bit too much planned for the day so it doesn't matter we've had we've already done a video which is coming up next week by the way is how we pray we butchered the deer so there's because of YouTube's fun the monetization policies the deer butchery part is going to be a whole separate video so whilst we've got loads of different parts of the den different cuts that we're gonna cook now the Dustin showing you we have actually got a whole or I've helped to film a whole episode on how to butcher a deer and and Dustin's taught me how the dicks I've never done it before so stick around on this channel be sure to check in probably next week and I don't mind if that video then gets t monetized because you know it's just that it's just a kind of tutorial but it's it's a bit of fun and I certainly learned a lot you guys would definitely enjoy it it will be up on the channel next week so be sure to check you know check back on the channel and the video should be up hopefully then hopefully it doesn't get in my house I don't know yet it might do but well you know we'll go for it anyway who cares how are we looking you down on yours I need to yell a bit higher on them I've just sterilized that over the heat yeah now it just need them just need that meat oh yeah what do you think is that right so he stripped off the sort of perfect right first sort of third yep yep I was just saying we're just speaking to Dustin about different woodlands and how we found deciduous woodland certainly to have a lot more resources deciduous being like a broadleaf woodland they definitely have a lot more resources than they they certainly do I think it's very important to if anyone is ever looking to buy some woodland or yes make a camp in in a woodland yeah I think it's quite important to really make sure there's lots of different varieties there's different species of trees yeah which love you anything from cordage to shelter to food it's all about resources at the end of day all about it exactly it's all about the wild resources so we strip the bark off this is hazel so we're just gonna just gonna make sure everything is fairly sterile yes we are in a woodland environment there are germs everywhere but the more we do to reduce the amount of germs the better and easier it will be for us to so you might be wondering what is he doing well this is a piece of elder I've done by using a piece of stiff wire I've hollowed out the elder remember elders got that natural pith that goes all the way through it it's pretty hard to hollow it out unless you have a strong hard wire you can burn the wire get a red-hot and burn through or you just keep pushing it in and scraping it tapping it out and eventually you end up with a nice hollow blowpipe for the fire to finish off what I've done here is I've just made some cordage of metal I've made a little hole in it and here we are it's just it allows you to then hang it up next to the fire when you're done for another time our ribs they're looking good maybe about another hour it's smelling good though aren't they oh man just it's just incredible they do smell so good so we're now gonna make these kebabs we've got our we've cut some lovely chunks of of the rear haunch so this is the the one of the legs we've taken one of the cuts we've then cut them down into these lovely cubes quite quite hunky chunky cubes once again a nice dry rub before we thread onto our stick I'm gonna take some onion and we're gonna start off with one onion and I find the trick through skewering onion on a stick if you just skewer it straight through it will split you kind of need to drill through it

once you've drilled through it you can then thread it on otherwise it'll split and fall off so what we're doing let's do onion let's thread on a nice chunk of this well this haunts with this half an hour rub a little marinade and let's go for let's get one of these mini red peppers let's thread that on once again drill through it so now we've got that one now let's get another onion gonna thread the onion on and we just keep going like this until it's completely built up and we've got a nice kebab that we're ready to roast over the fire there we go let's put another mini pepper on now let's marry that up with another bit of onion and then let's put another another piece of meat on for luck one for luck so just gonna thread this down a little bit more get it a little bit more compact and I'm gonna probably thread on another pepper let's go for a little yellow one another pepper and there we go so I'm gonna stick that in there for now what's when we're roasting it when it's over the fire we're gonna have this half a lemon over the top and so it cooks we're going to go over to it we're going to turn it and when you give it a squeeze that's very clever that I like that idea and it's gonna once again give us a lovely taste nicer nice marinade that's one done let's do the other one

all right guys we're making a cooking trifle why not cooking tripod smoking tripod really isn't that make his smoking tripod yep you've got some honeysuckle there honeysuckle we've just sort of rounded up into a little little bundle like this now the idea is to thread this onto will thread this through our sticks we're keeping it natural we're keeping it bushcraft it's all about using those natural those wild resources the idea when you do this you then open it up what happen is they'll all then pinch together and it'll pull in tight so that here we are there's a tripod what I need to do now is put in a few cross sections some thin ones and thin also for example get rid of some of these leaves yes we are gonna once again strip the bark off sure because the jerky or the smoked meat is going straight on exactly so we're gonna make a frame put one there one there one there possibly two levels maybe three depending how much meat we've got so once we've got these three going across but I'm gonna have lengths like this which were then going to rest the meat over so our meat will be on these cross sections in that smoke by covering the whole tripod or in them the main top half of the tripod in green something to stop that smoke disappearing we want to keep it in and really cure our meat that's what it's all about we still got so much for you guys we've got obviously we've got the kabobs on the go we've got the ribs on the go they cook eat those ribs are looking good now man it's amazing Dustin's just good doing some natural bark cordage we obviously you can see the lights fading a bit on the camera but we're giving way around we're getting there with this smoking tripod I don't really know what to call it a smoking a smoker I guess it's a bushcraft smoker and we Dustin she's using we're trying to use as much natural cordage as we can so we're using the bark here in the strands of bark just to tie up and actually on the inside of this bark you can if you look you can fray this up with your knife and it access to it access tinder it just flops up you probably can't see that the moments the cameras are focused but once you've fluffed it up you can see it there on my knife that all you can bundle that up and act and throw a spark into it from your Ferro rod or even a flint and steel but your Ferro rod would be better and that can light your fire we wrote we're getting very bush crafty out here it's awesome it's a lovely woodland it's nice and peaceful yep birds are away but a mixture of coniferous and sort of non coniferous trees there's some lovely old oak trees here big oak trees and we've been lucky with the bugs haven't we there's literally no bugs we've kind of peak summer time now and there's literally no bugs at the moment which is awesome got an absolute feast to come up see we're gonna have an absolute peace we are saying we're gonna wake up tomorrow with a meat sweats we were we won't be able to sleep because lovely meat nightmares meat mares this beavers Cub Scouts I actually did beavers and then sport took over my life oh really yeah so I sadly did not go into Cubs did which obviously meant it didn't then go into scouts yeah personally if I could go back now I would have 100% gone into the scouting movement just because I'm into it now you know but it's just that's the way life is I got into sport sport took over had that priority and as a result it sacrificed my time and where I could have been in the scouts and stuff like that I guess that's your initial spa that's it I think it was the you know being in beavis clubs and scouts yeah and then going away what I really did was going on our Scout ships you know you in the belt heads with everyone oh yeah they're like a mini expedition I mean the expedition and it just really opened my eyes to to to the outdoors like so we've built our frame it's a very crude crude frame we're now gonna use these skewers throughout the meet on what's the meets all threaded on we're gonna place them over there like that and then we're going to bunch up all of these branches and all the leaves and we're going to hang them from the top so it covers and creates a slight umbrella that is looking good should we double them up as well yep together they know smoke getting out there

by now and half go what we did was we placed we poured a load of salt all over this hide what you can see now is puddles of water of moisture this is because the salt draws all the moisture out of the hide think it's the first step of our high tanning [Music]

we're young so as you can see guys we are nighttime now we've got the fire going we've still got the river scared gee I forgot about those so we still got food we've got the Dutch oven that's popped out so it's satellite we've got her

we still got feed on the gay Oh chocolate chip cookies man of him having an absolute feast here tonight but where I'm on the older Apple Jacks now I bought this at the bush crusher I think I believe Dustin you bought some as well advertised as as not something I think he said it was not it's not your ordinary cider or something like that which is like slogan he's a feather in the UK no website no online presence nothing like that I think he said yeah so it's a nineteen and a half percent cider and he said it's it's probably over that at some point so either way it says best used within three months of opening well it's been a week a couple of weeks so I better not make better make the most of it fudge is traditional Apple UK and it's strong stuff isn't it nice old bottle they so yeah we're on the ciders we're about a few beers and we're just enjoying time look at this backdrop I mean look at this camp we're just enjoying time here it's such a quiet evening there's there's no well wildlife at all is there there's there I haven't had many birds I've heard many well there be asleep now but owls not heard them yet you get out we're still just dark so it is 10:30 but it's um yeah we're still still lots to lots to do lots to eat for sure and we'll update you guys in a bit with whatever we are doing well we got dusting all right so while we wait wait okay I've got here I've got some leftovers from the jerky that we did earlier so this jerky which is the venison cut nice and thin this has been left in the marinade for a couple of hours now what maybe four hours I'd say about that yeah so I'm gonna do is and the reason why we've left is because we couldn't it wasn't quite big enough to thread onto the skewers I see this yeah they should be able to see this looks amazing

oh that marinade is it good oh wow that is just wow that is really good oh he just falls apart lovely and that was against the grain yeah oh that's that's really really good we're not exaggerating it's like 11 o'clock and we're not exaggerating that is really good food this is Regan Wow calm brief how quick that cooked that was so hot that Pam just boom let's put on there 40 seconds maybe yeah 40 seconds quick flash bro caramelizing more on the flavor what we'll try and do guys I don't know if we can but what we what I'll try and do is I'll speak to Dustin tomorrow and see if we can put each kind of recipe what we've done today in the in the video description below so people can see so I might put venison venison kabob yeah and this is what we did for the kebab and the recipe for the jerky yeah the jerky recipe exactly what Dustin's done for that

so hopefully that way you guys can click in the description below you'll be able to do that now by the way you can click on the show more and you'll be able to get all these recipes of what I've just eaten because I'm not gonna lie this is probably the best meals that I've had ever on an overnighter I'm used to eating

hurry up because I'm gonna finish it like a steak an uncooked steak on a campfire maybe a maybe a burnt sausage that's pretty much my limit but this is good food guys welcome to good food Oh amazing amazing I'm now selectively choosing the bigger the bigger the better

you marinate did you what did you put on these some before we hung them up I put a salt and pepper and paprika marinade sure

it almost have some chili in it and it also had some mixed herbs in it oh good I need to go over there you need to try one of these they're only thin there's loads of meat left you know there's loads of meat down here on this on this thicker part though we've got plenty to get through yes have a go on that oh let's go never goes ice well that's really good that's really good spicy actually yeah it has a kick to it there is a kick to it that's very good this this is caveman food caveman yeah this is caveman food nice and chewy yep and then if you if you peel away that that top layer you get this lovely lovely a bit of tender mmm eat yeah just on the knees here that's great sir so good right dutch ovens heating up we're now gonna drop a few little rocks into the bottom of the Dutch oven what these rocks will do is when I put my chocolate chip double chocolate chip thank you very much gotta be double cake mix into the bottom of the Dutch oven the tray the cake mixes it is sitting on will actually not burn on the bottom because it's raised off the bottom which will be read by those little rocks have raised it up yeah that's not too close you don't want it too hot I've learned from my mistakes you don't want to burn your chocolate chip cookie so we have heat reflecting onto it nothing actually touching it

oh wow she's looking good it's good let's do the old knife quickly test wanna stick a knife in my comes out clear about any cake mix on it we should be good she's clear there's a little bit on the bottom but she's fine hey yellow stone sighs who you mean make it good just raising out like that bit yep it really just keeps the bottom of the of this little tray off the bottom of the pan yeah five or ten minutes sure if we can yeah yeah be tough and then we're tucking sweet look at that nice incredible chocolate chip cookie cooked in the Dutch oven does look like a chocolate gateau

very nice moment of truth guys that is the the chocolate hmm that's me good really good

there's something about cooking over the campfire ah it just tastes so much better it doesn't it there's always that smoky smell and taste and it because of the effort you put into cooking it over fire but there is genuinely the smoke the sort of the flavors it takes in from that smoky well it really is and that's what that's what makes it this is sleeping arrangements for tonight guys in a natural shelter with a bit of ro some sheepskin oh you got the seeker here Sika deer yeah hi so comfy look at this that's my that's my shelter I'm sleeping under tonight Dustin we got the old lantern up there as well double lean-to setups a Dustin's on this one with sheepskin as well and you yeah you tan days that's that's awesome that's thick follow that's a roe deer there fallow deer there yeah well they just an yeah and even on like the the logs like this they just stop that gap between the logs rolling you rolling in between and they just soften up right but that's really nice thick dense shelter there's some wood in the fire the rest of the night five they've seen we'll have tea morning guys

we both slept pretty well Dustin's just got the fire game we've got the tea on and you know probably gonna enjoy a cup of tea got pack up our gear as well at some point but I slept really well on the raised bed handy having some sheep skins and we'll catch up with you guys in a bit once we've had a bit tea oh don't have much today but we might have something always a good one actually you know red signal yep red signal you can tell that by the red flags he's got under his big pincers do anymore let's get this one out see talk shake out no well he wants to come out not native to our waters these no these aren't native these are these are invasive and if you ever catch one of these you're not actually allowed to put it back in the river or the lake or the water source because they're invasive they will eat and destroy the habitat for all the native ones for the native crayfish the white one is in white claws the white cloth which there's not many not many white clawed crayfish left in the UK I think I think some of the rivers and canals and lakes down in Cornwall still have some of the native the majority of the country in this in this country the majority of the water sources are all ridden with these what is happening no stop right well I think they should do for the for the barbecue they look good for the fire so let's get them in fact let's find some natural packaging burdock over here and that's not for use from me can I stick in this bow doc I'm gonna get its crayfish and then we're gonna take it back to camp yeah let's wrap those up all right so just to show you what I've used here to catch these crayfish I've made a bit of a fish trap these are great for catching fish catching eels but I use them for catching crayfish as you just seen and it's just made it took me maybe three hours to make one evening around the fire it's just made up of a pyramid of hazel sticks and then I've just woven honeysuckle into the hazel that will kick in between all the hazel sticks and it's created this lovely dense solid cone-shaped net so that's the bass net for the entrance once again I've just copied what I've done for the entrance I've just copied what I've done with the the main trap to create a smaller but wider funnel and there's an entrance in there which means that when this is now secured in there with the wooden pins in place and bait em set at the bottom of the trap when that's then in the water the crayfish will come along and they'll try and work out how to get to that bait they can smell the bait whether they're downriver or they're in the lake they can smell they can smell that cloud of bait and it's working out right how can we get in because there's an funneled entrance and a hole they have actually find their way in by the time you come to check your trap the next day they'll probably still be there feeding so you come to check the trap and even if they do stop feeding and they want to escape because it's a funnel shape it's quite hard for them to actually get out so when it's incorrectly there's no way that they can really get out apart from in here so when they do want to try and escape they'll hit this and this this funnel and they'll be stuck so it's a funnel trap made out of natural material no paracord needed and what I did was when I pulled it out of the lake I used instead of cordage I used some more honeysuckle so that was my cordage just pull it out the lake 100% natural it's we're by the old smoker that we made and it's looking good isn't that's looking really good got some here that's really good that is awesome so soft it's cured me it's not quite dry leathery it's that marinade again is the more you chew the more you can get that marinade from last night flavor yeah I can just feel it coming out now there's smokiness to it about that guys look at this and there's plenty more so much under here that is very on cured venison with that unbelievable marinade and there's a bad enough four or five of these we are sorted that's some good caveman food there that's the drive home solid yeah that's brilliant tasty stuff we're gonna finish the rest of these guys really nice and Dustin's gonna have a go at doing a bow-drill so we're gonna show you guys a bit of a bow Joe because we're slowly packing up at the moment but we're getting distracted by joe by smoked cured meats and and cups of tea so yeah we will be doing a major sort of mini tutorial bow-drill in a minute but um this is looking awesome gonna eat some more of this so we're now going to do a little bit of fire I think using potassium permanganate and vegetable glycerine down a little pile of the potassium permanganate why do is I just dip my stick into the glitt'ring just enough to get one or two drops to fall off once they've fallen off just mix it mix it together slightly all right we'll do a bit of friction fire lighting when I use the bow drill the hearth I'm using is lime and the spindle is hazel I'm gonna do is using my axe I'll just make a small hole like that once I've done that I'm gonna take my spindle I'll take my bow lock that in there lock my left elbow into my left knee lean over it and I'm just gonna do this for maybe 10 15 seconds we're just to warm it up so it's not smoking and really creates a bit more of an indent in that wood once we've got that intent we're then gonna stop drilling using my saw and they're going to cut in to take out one-eighth of the of the hole so now we just tied you up how knotch just cut it up a little bit few shavings with a knife okay I'm happy with that all right let's power tinder bundle down there so we've cut a notch in our half yep that notches looking good let's get a bit of this birch bark place that down there use my left foot apply weight to the half spindle and the bearing block so I'm going to do this for just maybe 15-20 seconds again just to warm it up once it warms up it was up smoking was it it's nice and warm I then with my left hand I'm going to apply more pressure and my right hand I'm going to increase the speed at which I'm drilling as you can see it's building up nicely let's keep going so we have a nice amber we can transfer over to a tinder bundle and blow into a flame and I think I'm going to stop there apply pressure take my foot off now we've got we've got a bit of time go back go back to the tinder bundle it's just making sure it's in the bottles they're most compressed in the middle yep so it's ready to transfer over really important to compress your tinder bundle is this way to just transfer over into her light tinder bundle loose loose tinder bundle

what then happen is we'd probably lose our Ember

it would fall through all those fine fibers where it's when it's compressed it will then hold a good solid base now we can see we've got a nice smoldering ember right there so now let's transfer is ember to our tinder bundle

smouldering nicely

keep all that powder it's all it's really good

really good stuff gather the Ember up go back to my tinder bundle make sure it's nice and compressed I'm going to use my thumb to compress it well I'm very carefully transfer my ember so you can see now if I was to let go of my thumb all those fibers would become loose

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and there we are that's fire by friction using the bow drill once again wood wise one of my favorite hazel on lime right I'm going to show you another way of fire lighting this is called the fire roll and reach down here I'm gonna grab a bit of ash from yesterday's fire remember this is where we did our jerky last night where I smoked me and a reach down at this far is completely gone out what we're looking for when I'm looking for a bit this ash a bit of a bit of the ash so I'm looking for a bit of the white and a bit of the the black powdery charcoal II I tend find it's the mix between the two that's what you really want that there a bit of the white ash and then the black charcoal that is what we need let's take a little bit more for luck with bushcraft fire lighting sometimes you do need a bit of luck speaking of luck just found these two as we were strolling around on this this morning's hike hike around the woodland so two pieces of wood the reason being is because they're flat surfaces and now I'm going to fluff up and open up my cotton wool I'm gonna sprinkle some of my ash in there you don't want to overdo it now really really tightly roll this up the tighten the more compact you do it the more chance I've had in getting the Ember okay so actually broad up quite compact you can see that out there it's really becoming dense now it's dense we take another piece of wood make sure it's clean just get rid of some of this dirt that's already on there all right I think that'll do place it on top that way a few times no way would you believe it that's awesome man so that is cotton wool that could easily come out of your first-aid kit ash from yesterday's fire it was cold that was cold so the scenario is we've woken up and we've lost our fire steel with rust our lighter we can't do a bow drill but we've got a first-aid kit and yesterday's dead fire that's all something that like that awesome that is totally awesome love it well Dustin thank you so much buddy deal it's been a pleasure having you it's been brilliant and you guys you need to check out West Country bushcraft what what Dustin does his bushcraft course is not just bushcraft it's all all like we've seen with the deer there's gonna be a video coming up after this of him teaching me how to actually butcher a deer you know like a rough guide but it's also all those tips you saw there has barely touched the surface at what Dustin does so there's a fraction of what we say it really is well activities out here there is so much to see and so much to do so if you're looking to enhance your bushcraft skills and your wilderness survival skills there's a link in the description below to Dustin's website go and check it out and maybe book on to some of his courses because I'm telling you now it is incredible and this camp is awesome as well so hope you've enjoyed this video thanks very much for watching if you've watched all the way through I really appreciate it don't forget subscribe and hit that Bell notification just to make sure that you do get notified via email thanks again to Squarespace for sponsoring this video and if you're looking to set up a website there's more info in the description below cheers guys we'll see you soon on the next episode the TA outlaws

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