3 Days Learning Bushcraft & Survival Skills

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I spent 3 days learning Bushcraft & Survival skills from the professionals at The Bushcraft Show 2018. I took my dog Jaxx and my wife Emmy along with me and together we spent 3 days camping in thunderstorms and spending good times with like-minded people. We got to see primitive flint knapping, learn the bowdrill, handrill and pump drill. Learn primitive basket willow weaving, archery, axe throwing and so much more. It was an awesome show and massive thanks to all the subscribers that came up and said hi to us, we feel incredibly humbled by your support. Hopefully I will be back next year!

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welcome to ta outdoors guys I'm here at the bushcraft show 2019 with a strange lady who I've never met before no this is my wife Amy everyone and we brought Jax because those of you remember Jax had a tooth problem and I wasn't gonna bring him but turns out it's very bright turns out that Jax's teeth are fine so we're here at the bushcraft show never been hit before in my life met met a few of you guys already thanks very much for coming up to me but we're gonna just go slow today

go around a couple of the stores because there's lots to take in and we're gonna see what's there and I'm gonna bring you guys along with me and I hope you enjoy it

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my name is Dustin James I run a company called bushcraft tools I want to show you this product it's called a fire piston what they do is they create fire by compressing air so the way they work is that this rubber washer when you insert it rapidly it will trap the air so those two or three millimeters of trapped air in that moment of compression the air temperature will heat up and hopefully ignite a piece of tinder believe it or not these kits were out and were invented around two-and-a-half thousand years ago originating from Southeast Asia from a tribe in North Malaysia so what I'm gonna do I'm just reaching down here I'm gonna grab some some char cloth tinder as you guys know chocolate in is a great dinner to use you don't always have to use child cloth in there you can use natural tinder such as a layer of the horse's hoof fungus called a madhu you can also use some of these Dalvi neocons Centrica which are cram pools these grow on dead or struggling ash trees and they're a really good tinder so let's just see if we can get an M ago simply insert your fire piston into the barrel slam it down rapidly what happened is the air will become compressed hopefully heat up and will reveal a glowing Ember there you are instant compression it goes up to around 350 degrees Celsius believe it or not now you're wondering how to take this to a flame well we're going to reach down here I'm going to pull out a little bit more charred cloth and we're quite simply gonna just transfer our growing ember to a larger piece of char cloth give it a good blow make sure it's nicely spread once we've got that we're going to reach for our tinder bundle a little bird's nest and we're going to blow it into a flame there's a little flame created let's roll it and know we've lost it so we're just going to do that again and there we are we've caught it we've rope we're rolling the tinder bundle we've now got a good secure flame I'm going to drop it into it now you've seen how to create fire by compressing air using a fire piston and some charred cloth tinder I'm now going to show you what really happens in that moment of compression so down here I have a polycarbonate tube this is inserted into a nylon base with a rubber washer down there so that rubber washer when I insert this tube it will create a seal now I have a larger version of this smaller fire piston this has got a rubber washer on it as well so when I insert this we can hopefully trap the air enough for the air to heat up and give us a flash or a visual of light what I'm talking about is a fire so remember when air is rapidly compressed it heats up this will give us hopefully a good visual of what really happens I'm now going to place a bit of cotton wool just using cotton wool not a char cloth because cotton wool gives us a good visual the visual I'm talking about is the flash of fire so if we look here it's going to take a few attempts possibly three two one look for the visual there you go that shows us instantly that when air is compressed that heats up something dry and fibrous in that moment of heat fire fire by compressing air so guys that was an awesome demonstration that Dustin did there with the fire piston I'm gonna have a go at this strange contraption here which I've never seen before I've seen sort of in images but i've never seen it actually being used and what's it called a fire come a pump drill and it's still gonna make fresh and force it's a method of friction fire we've got the half board there and Dustin I'm just gonna he's gonna run through what it's made of and the kind of components of it and then I'm actually gonna have a go at doing it you can actually make these when you're out in the world but I suggest just making one at home because this especially for an outdoorsy schoolteacher or first will feature these are great for kids that can't quite manage through the hand drill or the bow drill is spindle you can actually remove and you can try different words so you can try hazel you can try SiC them or you can try silver birch it allows you to easily change the spindle through to try different words this spindle that we're using today this is made out of hazel and the half board is made up lime so the way this actually works is the base axe of the flywheel so as I press down because the base is weighted as I press down it wants to continue turning and it winds up the string so do you look at my hands I'm not actually lifting this crossbar up it's actually lifting up for me and that's the motion it's simply it's really easy to use it's great for kids that can't really get the knack of and and ta are those amateurs that is simply the motion and it's dead easy it's great fun to make as well you don't have to make it in the in the woodland you can always make it a home great project let's give it a go so it's all about keeping that pressure on this board and then on the hearth and then also keeping the motion the same as you can see we're building up already we'll give it another 30 seconds or so and hopefully we'll have a nice little pile of dust that will then build up get hot enough and create ourselves a little ember and it's just focusing on what you're doing

keeping the upright and keeping the spindle upright and you just keep going I think we could say you reckon yep okay let's see that's the slowly stock we'll just gently lift it off then what we have let's see well it's a smolder slowly right no pressure no pressure but what I'm gonna just suggest is we use what I call and what I call an insurance policy so we've all been there we've all cranked on our Ember we're sweating we're you know our arms are killing and now we just want an insurance policy because we don't want to transfer it over and suddenly lose our Ember sure what do I mean by insurance policy well as you can see it's glowing nicely I'm going to grab a cramp fool or king out for its cake and when I just break it open find a corner that I can rare so I'll pass it to you yeah you very carefully just touch that to the glowing Ember and we just want to get this cramp or smoldering and this is our insurance policy so that when this is smoldering over here we can then do our tinder bundle blow it to a flame if we fail we can go back to our insurance policy we can put in that claim they get our ember back so it's a matter of just preparing yourself who you are it's nice and glowing so we'll just put that crumpled either in there we'll put it aside because if this fails we don't go back to this got the old camera say well you can transfer that people carefully transfer that over I'll help you every little helps in bushcraft this is a pin the funk well this is a cramp ball so if you feel like I feel like that's gone so you feel like so so this is a great example of why we have a backup here we are lovely backup soldering ever drop that bad day straight straight into the tinder bundle we are so close there we go and stuff thank you so much dusting though no worries [Music]

so I have a bit of a confession to make guys I haven't I've been so engrossed in this show I haven't really done much filming because I've wanted to see all the cross speak to some of the pros or listen to Edie Stafford's talk just now that was incredible highly recommend if anyone can go to see some of that stuff that talks definitely go and do it he's a great guy and pour em pour and has had jax for the whole trip so far a couple of days and he's pulling around Jax has a new girlfriend by the way what was her name Jess Jess Jess has met Jess they are in love and he's now pulling us around the show trying to find Jess again so we're probably spot her later she's a little bit bigger than him which is quite fine but yeah so today guys I promise you I'm gonna do more filming so the aim of today is to try and learn some skills from the professionals and educate you guys maybe and you know just learn some new things and try and film it and document it let's see what we can find out

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well guys I'm here at the coastal survival school with Frazer Christian now those long-term subscribers will remember

I've actually been and done videos with Frazer before down on the south coast of England and we were doing some foraging and he just did a real basic kind of intro to foraging I think it was late summer maybe early maybe the early sort of autumn time I think but I'm gonna link to that foraging video that I did the Frazer up in the corner here because theorises have very very good video it's really informative Frazer really knows his stuff I'm also gonna link to his YouTube channel in the description below he's got something insanely really good quality content on this so be sure to check that out he's gonna just show you something behind that's going on down here and I'm gonna go in the other side the camera so that you guys can get a better view of it so what we've got here some buff willow and this is willow that's had been sistene to the box come off and it's probably one of the best things to use if you can get older than a book with some Somerset the tannins go in and it preserves really well some go in out of the water can be used for ages and all we're doing it was we were stuck maybe about 16 sticks into the ground net affixed into the ground and I'm literally just weaving in and I alway rain this until we get right up to the top and then we're going to seal it here we're gonna lift out at the ground we're gonna secure the bottom poles on there we're going to make a very similar shape again but we're gonna leave a hole in it at the end and that's going to be our door now I'm not the best basket maker in the world I'm at the best craft personal but what I do know is where to put the bait in this trap I know where to put it into the sea and I know how to use it and it's all very well creating something looks like a museum piece if you don't know that the Devils in the detail what sort of bait you're going to use for what you want to catch where you're going to put it you're never going to catch that it's going to be a museum piece and everything we make and we use is proven and we know it catches our food so the last rods started here and what we do is we work range the ends of the rod the end up with spiral effect that gives it the strength so the last rod stuck out there the next one wants to come in and start just there and what we do is not just the case of bending the sticks lame because the willows gonna push and pull it I'm going to use my fingers to make the willow go exactly where I wanted to go and I'm using that like

so I'm bend in that range and then that stick is gonna come up all the way on nice boy dark and go on the inside of that one so it's inside again I'm gonna put the willow where I want there outside and again I've got secured there it's all about using your hand bit like an amble and what you'll find is after the time you put your hands like this and you'll find there's a muscle here and the person that taught me how to do this with oh she's a professional willow basket maker her hands are half the size of mine but this muscle is so developed it's all using this angle is keeping the digits in close your hands don't get worn out and I'll just show you one more time where I'm on the back there amble it in and bend it up it's we're putting the willow where we want it to go rather than the materials doing what it wants to so again pinching pulling it in so I'm keeping the shape all the time so it's come to that time guys where I'm now gonna have a go at this having never done it before hopefully Fraser's gonna give me some tips and we'll see what we can get out of it see that he went on the inside of this one yeah yeah go back once they've got manipulate just round and come on inside that one remember everywhere you go make sure you keep your inch that point yeah so I'm coming up in the air and nice Boyd strikes you think on a right angle that's it on the inside of that rod yep pull that down again put it where it wants to go out there then a ball here or the next one index one Airport I see so you sort miss yes when it's on the outside point you have yeah on the inside I'm this is its okay next we've gone through this is actually thinner than the upright yeah this was thicker than that rights that would definitely push those out of shape and that's when we really need to our Amblin pinching right okay it's strange because it feels like it's gonna snap well it's very good stage today we very soaking in the lake and literally if within 10 minutes of starting to dry so really be a great thing to do over late evening your film and we've come back from hunting we want to make more stuff we'd sit in the camp yeah and once your muscle memory is built

this we'd be able to sit and look at each other and you're happy working away you know roughly how long can you personally make one of these how long would it take it if I sit there from start to finish probably just under two hours oh that's pretty that's pretty fast so I hope you enjoyed that little video I'm gonna be doing more stuff with ta specialize in the coastal area we're an internationally respected coastal survival school we wrote the books in it so please come on the courses check out the website

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I'm here with Jed and he is going to teach me how to throw an axe at those logs over there I've never really done this before properly other than playing around in the woods doing it but I'm sure there's a proper technique so I'm gonna learn from Codelco rarely going by this section so you need to throw it in a straight line problem you got is you throw anything your arm naturally comes out so we have to counterbalance that we have to throw in a completely different way are you right - left-handed right-handed by tennis on mine what do you do is I'm gonna stand that this mark here we're pulling now this is about five meters which gives you one off rotations of the annex now what you need to do is give yourself a nice comfortable wide stance but this leg need to point your heel out so your shoulder is in line now what we're going to be doing when we throw the axe is we're going to be making a clenched fist I'm gonna be raising their arm and banging out fist in the air like this so it's going flat yeah to throw the axe just release your grip don't hold me on to workers very often you might push it before it goes so just release your grip so basically keeping it high keeping it square don't even do that okay Oh March 1 again there we go in the middle in the middle yes em your turn no pressure em oh nice guard just in a lucky meter hey Mary [Music]

oh well we are back from the bushcraft show 2018 what can I say it was an incredible weekend absolutely full of awesome things to do I learned things about fire lighting I've learned basket weaving I've learned primitive things there's so much I've learned it's been I can't take it a rim right now it was such a good weekend I just want to say a couple of thank-yous firstly to David and the team at the bushcraft show thanks so much for having me this year it's been an absolute blast I've really enjoyed it hopefully I'm looking forward to coming back next year so like to thank the guys who helped me out with the filming and who were kind enough to pass on their knowledge to you guys the subscribers so big thank you to you I might say a massive thank you to everyone who came up to me to chat everything about ta outdoors and how much you enjoy the videos it was a truly humbling experience I'm very very grateful I never quite realized how much of an impact I've been making with these videos so you know it was overwhelming guys it really was overwhelming from from the thing the older people all the way down to the youngsters and the kids who came up to me I just like to say from the bottom of my heart thank you so so much I really didn't mean the world to me

and it's great to hear some of your stories and just general feedback from the from the YouTube videos so thank you really thank you but I think the final thanks has to go to my wife Emmie the hosts if you all know why so we had jacks for the weekend Ford a solid camping with Jack's who is not the quietest the dogs as you guys in the show will know he was very noisy very boisterous and I just like to say thanks em for for helping him out because it wasn't easy and Jack's just wanted to say to hi to everyone all the dogs everything he still misses Jess his girlfriend he's thinking of you Jess if you're watching but so just go say thanks thanks so much it means a lot I wouldn't be able to do these videos guys without a supportive family and really at the core of that is Emmy my wife who is incredibly supportive and she's always there for me so I just she's probably not gonna watch this to be honest but just I'd say thanks to her and I will be featuring her and Jack's more in the video so hopefully you guys don't mind that what a blast it was 2018 bushcraft show at the epic event great to meet some of the professionals as well Dave Canterbury Dave was great to have a chat with you really enjoyed that Paul curtly I know I still owe you a beer man I'm sorry about that but we'll catch up again soon I hope Fraser from coastal survival school thanks again buddy for sharing your knowledge and of course Dustin on that pump drill which I've never done before Dustin from bushcraft tools I'm gonna put links to all their their stuff in the description below and also to the brush brochure website if you guys want to see what else was on offer there because really I don't think I even filmed a quarter of what was what was going on there was so much more to see so be sure to check out the website so you can see what's on offer thanks so much for watching this video I hope to be back at the bushcraft show next year lots of things coming back up on ta outdoors I'm working on sheds on dates there will be available coming out in the channel soon bear with me happy a bit patient guys have been super busy lately there's also some really cool just general videos coming up catching Kooks camp update 15 at some point some really good stuff thanks for your support and I'll see you soon in the next episode [Music]

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