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Moisture in the air and moisture in our breath makes it a challenge at times.

Dude you need a intro

Love this, real time fire lighting and more importantly you kept your cool calm composure 😂 Challenge accepted my friend 🤞

Hi Andrew, in the Scottish Highalnds i've found these on birch too. I always presumed before finding them on Birch that they only grew on Ash. Everyday a school day!

Cool video. I am just getting into this stuff. I live in New Zealand and got given some fire lighting fungus called ‘white punk’. You have inspired me to try some now. Thanks 🇬🇧 🇳🇿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Good to see you back in action, Andrew! I like that you do not hide the difficulties of old-fashioned flint-and-steel-firelighting. Some people make it seem like it always works at the second strike, which it only does under ideal conditions. There were reasons why humanity invented matches.

Nice 'real world' demo. This kind of firelighting is defo more challenging in Wales 😁👍

Great video

Looks like a great knife. Take your shirt off next time, you won't mess things up.

Don't want Any knife that doesn't have a finger/hand guard. Nice knives, but... When your hands are cold/wet/sweaty,etc. a slip can be rough on hands !

I've been teaching Bushcraft Outdoor Survival since 1986 and it all depends on what, who and where I'm teaching. My most used 'bushcraft' instruction knife is the Hultafors GK because that's what I used for myself, instructors and students alike because it's good, strong and most important budget friendly. I find it unfair to use a 200 dollar knife myself and give the students a 10 dollar knife to do the same. Also I call them all (small) camp knives because I don't see much difference in bushcraft or survival knives. When I go solo backpacking rural areas on different continents I prefer stainless, no wooden handle and no leather sheath. My most used small camp knife for that is the Mora Basic 546. And I do have a lot of way more expensive knives to choose from. These more expensive knives are what I want but not what I need..

How odd. Here we have a bushcraft guy. He is missing some important items. Canteen or some type of water container, rope, compass, maybe some kind of sharpening stone/rod. You dont need to carry pre fabricated tinder. In a forest there is endless supply of tinder Why have many items to start a fire? It's just added weight. I can understand the smaller fero rod. There is a video of him claiming to be a bushcraft instructor talking about his 5 favorite knives. What kind of instructor does not carry the items I listed earlier? You are just some random person that wants to make UA-cam videos and may not know how to survive. I used to camp in my younger days for a couple of weeks each trip and my pack had the necessity items plus a hatchet and folding shovel.

Hmm. For a "professional bushcraft guide" you chose knives that you found in the U.k. there are so many knife companies in the world that you could have mentioned to those who live elsewhere in the world. Kizlyar, buck, falkniven, sog, bark river, mora, just to name a few. Did you ever talk about how long a person would be stranded in the field to use a knife like that? You never mentioned the type of steel recommended for this use. You seem to be like dbk Dutch bushcraft knives in that they only talk about knives if you were stranded for a few days in the wilderness. Lastly, I noticed that you prefer non stainless steel blades. What if your knife is not stainless and it starts to rust and pit and breaks due to the type of steel the knife is made of. I recommend for the viewer to do research on all knives and go from there. Personally I never heard of the knife companies you like. It would be myself talking about a knife that Gil hibon made or swords made by paul chen. Have you heard of them?

My personal favorite so far the little but mighty Verustaleka Jakaarripukko 110. I've beaten the crap out of it and it has never failed in any way.

Zytel! Not Kydex!

Nice !!! O1 is a great steel ,, and the Scandi grind is the best !!

...my favourite knife...the one that I have on me...😀...

I’ve two Loz Harrop knives. A Hamon Bushtool and a San Mai Bushcraft knife. My Rob Evans lives in a bug out bag and never sees the light of day. My Gary Mills Timber Wolf as reviewed by Josh as the Siberian Fury I’ve just sold for £100

Thank you for your explanation of the origin of the name of the Siberian hitch. I use that for tarps and hammock as well, but never knew where it came from. 👍

I made a puukko in a class in Finland, and had it with me in northern Finland...our Sami host did a bit of a review of it, I came out at about 90%... Blade length about 12 cm, the classic tang, and forged to shape blade... His only criticism was that the handle was not symmetrical oval, because he said that he often used his knife in a "pull", blade edge up, fashion, so preferred that "rounder" handle. I love to carry my slightly smaller puukko, it's useful for everything but heavy chopping stuff. Nice selection you have!

My favorite knife is the marttini lapin leuku 230 , i've had it for more than 30 years. I own many different types of knifes, fällkniven f1, some cold steel knives including the srk, Mora knives of course, Hultafors , other sami style knives etc. But i always come back to the Lapin leuku, that style of traditional knife is what i like.

Ahhh...skookum! That's a BC term! BTW, looks like several of your sheaths are a bit like a puukko sheath, a very, very wearable thing.

What makes them bushcraft knots as oppsed to other knots?

Not the combo l use but always interested to see alternatives.

There's a ghost after tree over there !!!😢😢😢

Paramilitary 2...took it around the globe... Guiding canoe and hunts in Canada... It's been everywhere.

Nice vid, Andrew! One of my favourites is the Lars Fält. Serves excellently for almost any purpose.

I still to this day use the evenk but use the wraparound the tree and over and back on its self to give me the tension I need. This was from Ray Mears and Paul kirtley set up. I find with the truckers hitch that you can put to much strain on your rope and the knot is a small distance away from the tree, so if you haven’t found the ideal trees with a fair distance your tarp may not fit but with the wraparound you can utilise the full distance as both knots are against your tree. The way that the truckers system is being promoted now is not really showing how your ridge line can be ambidextrous as both ends are able to be used the same. DC pushes the bowline, toggle, and truckers method and this is putting too much strain and constant small tight knots on your ridge line setting it up to eventually fail. Happy to discuss this more as arguments do not work.

If you can’t tie a knot, tie a lot! Revamped my system recently ua-cam.com/video/kaZm8j9_lGo/v-deo.htmlsi=qzUgWolRLRiYth6B

Good stuff thanks 🇬🇧 🇳🇿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Good stuff, Andrew. I usually go with the Evenk and Truckers as well, though it’s the Aussie instructor’s modification that I use. Sometimes I’ll replace the Evenk with a Bowline, and the Truckers with a Taut Tarp Hitch. Always Prusiks on the ridgeline.

Whats that jumper? Love it

Thank for the very informative videos, it'll be a brave man to argue with an expert 😊😊

That was priceless, Robs cameo

What a smile 😁😍💕

Nice job! I have many knives but my go to knives are Sargent Edged Tools Leuku and Apache.

There are dozens, nay...hundreds... of good quality knives out there you can use for bushcraft, and a lot of them are made in someone's garage with a propane forge, to the maker's liking. Having said that, the commercial makers seem to pursue the Mora Garberg. The puuka blade is a Scandinavian original, just like Seax knives are original to Northern Europe (they made their way around) and so on. If you have the money and an idea, find a custom knife maker to build it for you, but if you don't have that option, the Moras, Condor, Schrade, Kershaw, CRKT, and many other cutlery makers have good options.

I love in Swansea and have been there and wondered what it was. Cheers for the vid!

My great grandfather sold a lot of hatchets 🪓 in that area.

A Mora Garberg and a Condor Terrasaur will do just fine. No need for fancy knives.

Interesting.

Varusteleka jääkäripuukko 110 / ESEE 3

As I recall the original skookum bush tool is still being made by a guy in Montana and one of Mors' students. Looks like Mr. Evans made a copy.

Nice knives , I found out that i am getting bored of wearing a fixed blade knife :) i dont know how to tell but a knife dangling from my belt while i am trying to enjoy outdoors is something squeezing my heart.If i am out to small woods i carry cold steel Voyager vaquero xl folder in carpenter's steel clipped to my pocket , i easily cut finger size pine branches with it to start a small fire if needed and baton some little logs not thicker than my wrist easily if needed , i cook with it and i carve wood with it ( it's a great carver when sharrp despite combat knife status ) and after all i clean it , sharpen it , oil it and put it back in my pocket.I like being light.I have the bush ranger model from cold steel as well in modern powder steel but honestly I haven't took it out yet.I have tops brush wolf which i like as a big woods knife and it's a nicely made knife but neither i have time to go to big woods nor i have a will to carry the knife on me.If i had to pick one knife from your collection i would definitely pick the 5" hand made bowie that you showed in the second place a sweetheart of a knife.All the best.

Great history thanks. A lot of my ancestors were Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇳🇿

Professional bushcraft?

I'm sorry but as a bush craft instructor you should be showing beginners by example when I teach I use mora knives just the simple basic one which is the knife I use the most I docile the spine flat so I can use it on a ferocium rod I doo have others more expensive but I find the more does the job with out the expense

I had two knives during my 30yrs as a Deer Manager in SW England. A standard Buck knife with a 4" blade which incl a Gut hook and 'hi-vis' handle and a lovely 'Jacklore' Classic bush knife in birds eye Maple, hand made for me by Alexander 'Sandy' Jack, which I still have but put away as I'm now retired. The only two knives I ever needed.

Hi mate I’m a new subscriber yes my favourite knife is the Helle utvaer

Are you enjoying your Dachstein sweater too? Must have been a very cold day given that you didn’t keel over with heatstroke mid-video!