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Kind of mind-blowing, isn't it, that it has become so difficult (and expensive!) to be able to live the way humans have lived for 99.9% of their existence. I've heard so many contestants on "Alone" say that if they won, they'd take the prize money and buy land, live off the grid, grow and eat "real" food, etc., etc. Most of our population has gotten SO disconnected from nature, and for many of us, it's not by choice. 😢So I'm very glad Dan made this video to show the ways that we can still tap into that deep need to connect to the way the Good Lord intended humans to live and thrive and be mentally healthier. ❤😊
a lot of state parks offer very cheap and sometimes free primitive camp sites that'll have no power, vault toilets, and just a firepit. ive used these to practice in a safer way and do kind of nonemergency overnights.
In the Province of Quebec (where I live) 92% of the territory is public land. You can camp on the same spot for up to seven months in the same year. If you are planning à vacation, we would be more than happy to welcome you. If you like the woods, you’ll be served.
Thanks Dan for this very important message. As a retired Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry employee I am well aware of people not following the rules. But enjoying the outdoors and practicing Bushcraft skills can be done while following the rules. This is a topic I've wanted to talk to you about for a long time. Thanks again for sharing the message and please reach out if you'd like to discuss more.
I got a 6x6 cheapo tarp and a large storage tote so I can carve sticks while watching YT videos like this. Shavings go into the "fire starter" pot or in the garden. Practicing knots indoors is definitely knot an issue except for ridge lines and tie-outs... can't open the doors after, so leave the bathroom door alone. Forget about planting pegs, use a heavy object; you may someday have to use a rock anyways...
I've found that simply heating water outside, making a cup of coffee, and drinking it outdoors can be very therapeutic. If I'm doing it in a park/woods over a fire, that's great. But even doing it on a little camp stove on the porch has benefits. Heck, if nothing else, make the coffee indoors if you have to and drink it outside! ;) But of course, the more bushcraft-y you can make the experience, the better. :)
Excellent & resourceful advice! Pay attention when you are traveling to & from work daily, or traveling on vacation, special trips, etc. & look for power company crews or road worker crews who are cutting limbs & brush from powerlines, etc. Usually, they are delighted to share what they have cut because it must be cleaned-up & hauled away . Also, when timberland or farm land has had trees cut, rhere is often what is called "Cut-Over" in the area where I live. It is usually pieces of limbs of no use to the timber company & has been left there to rot. Ask permission & most likely, your request for discards & left-behinds will be rewarded!
National forest is great but some of us have to travel a long way to get to national forest. Also, the last few years the traffic has really increased. I pack in to camp or hunt but last year we couldn't hardly find a place to leave the truck. I guess my last comment has to address the almost unbelievable increase in "bushcraft" damage. I once came across a site where somebody had cut down what must have been a couple hundred young beech trees to build a lean-to. Last year we found a site where somebody had cut live trees to make table and chairs. It's really getting stupid. I don't go near state forest in my state. You can't pick up any wood off the ground. Fires only in designated areas (CAMP GROUNDS) and you have to bring the wood in with you (debarked or certified wood) or buy it. I understand why these restrictions exist but I'm not camping in a "camp ground" where I have less quiet and privacy than in my yard and I'm not going to pay for wood to bring to the woods and burn. LOL
Thank you so much for posting this! I watched one of his videos a couple years ago and couldn't remember his name. It was one of the water bottle videos and I was duly impressed. I have now subbed, thanks to you. (I was already subbed to Dan here @CoalcrackerBushcraft !)
Honestly, I would love to do the classes that all you instructors could provide. My problem is. I really cannot afford your alls 3 to 500 plus cash in to join. I know and understand it's your jobs, it's how you feed your family. But, I do want to say thanks for all you guys do. I've learned so much.
I live in the USA and started watching YT some years ago...I was a bit mystified by the stealth/wild camping and thought WTF? Then eventually figured that although I can drive to National Forest land and camp anywhere I want (ok, they have rules but are never enforced), build a fire, chill out in the woods, that nearly NO ONE else on the planet has such freedom. Can't pick up dead sticks to build a fire? Dear god I wouldn't want to live in such a place! Condolences to those who do, world wide.
A long overdue video that I've been waiting for somebody to show for a long time. Let me start by saying that I am not an environmentalist. And if somebody wants to go miles into some deep woods far away from Trails or Parks or any place where people congregate and cut down a few small trees for whatever Bushcraft project they're working on I've got no problem with that at all. But people need to use some common sense. If you want to Bushcraft in areas where people congregate like campgrounds and Parks then at least go into the deep woods to get your materials. We have to be responsible when and where we cut and gather materials or all of public land is going to be gated and fenced. All we have to do is look at our brothers in England and what they have to go through to find places to Bushcraft to really understand what a treasure we have available to us and we need to take care of it so that we can continue to use it. I have spent most of my life in the woods and would like to continue to do so. Mike
If I do any bushcraft style cutting anymore it's almost exclusively invasive honeysuckle. It covers the native forest floor and makes it near impossible for young trees to grow. Rarely a straight piece to be found, mostly repeated bow shaped lengths, but if you use your imagination you can fashion some pretty unique things.
Excellent Excellent video!! I like the end meeting new friends and broding your horizons met a huge amount thru bushcraft and your school. You the man Dan. Another awesome video as always brother 💪 👍
We have a lot of state land and game areas in Michigan. You can camp free on stateland for up to two weeks with a free permit. Just contact the local dnr office. Youre right, you cant cut green (live) trees down.
I'm lucky and have my own land and I'm friends with everyone that has land connected to mine and between the storms and the once a year ice storm(I'm in theSouth), there's plenty of downed trees and limbs for bushcraft projects.
I am in the deep south and I quit hunting years ago, but I still pay dues to our hunting club so I can use the land after hunting season to camp on. We have a lot of storms here, so I never have to cut live trees to do projects, there is plenty of dead fall
Did not even know Earth Day was approaching until I saw this video. I have not camped at many camp grounds or State/National parks but those that I have been at had no problems with me picking the wood that was on the ground.
No place to go in my area. Not at all. All I can do is hope that a branch falls off of a tree in my yard and get that to carve something. All you can do in the camp ground an hour north of me is walk around. Can't do anything else, no more actual camping, cooking or actual hiking allowed. Everything else is private land or restricted to the point that you can't even blink within 300 yards of it. I was always out in the woods in South East New Mexico or in the South West desert (El Paso, TX area) doing something before I moved. I even had a bit of acreage near Hueco Tanks State Park East of El Paso. I could do anything there. Not now I'm in Northern WV. Moving was a huge mistake. But now I am stuck here and always bored.
I hear that. I feel like a couch survivalist sometimes but I can still practice some knots or carve a spoon in my living room with a branch. At least we have an interest, right? I'm with ya
all the parks & outdoor areas are 50+ miles from where I live I know no one with a chunk of land I've dabbled with bush-craft at a local city park basically an outdoor cookout but no in depth bush-crafting there's some downed branches for the cook fire... I can't afford a bush-craft class - I'm POOR!
Kind of mind-blowing, isn't it, that it has become so difficult (and expensive!) to be able to live the way humans have lived for 99.9% of their existence. I've heard so many contestants on "Alone" say that if they won, they'd take the prize money and buy land, live off the grid, grow and eat "real" food, etc., etc. Most of our population has gotten SO disconnected from nature, and for many of us, it's not by choice. 😢So I'm very glad Dan made this video to show the ways that we can still tap into that deep need to connect to the way the Good Lord intended humans to live and thrive and be mentally healthier. ❤😊
Be sure to look into the regulations for the park! Downed wood eventually decomposes into soil, so some parks don't allow collecting downed wood.
a lot of state parks offer very cheap and sometimes free primitive camp sites that'll have no power, vault toilets, and just a firepit. ive used these to practice in a safer way and do kind of nonemergency overnights.
In the Province of Quebec (where I live) 92% of the territory is public land. You can camp on the same spot for up to seven months in the same year. If you are planning à vacation, we would be more than happy to welcome you. If you like the woods, you’ll be served.
I practice knots while watching these videos in the evening.
Happy Earth Day.
Thanks Dan for this very important message. As a retired Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry employee I am well aware of people not following the rules. But enjoying the outdoors and practicing Bushcraft skills can be done while following the rules. This is a topic I've wanted to talk to you about for a long time. Thanks again for sharing the message and please reach out if you'd like to discuss more.
I got a 6x6 cheapo tarp and a large storage tote so I can carve sticks while watching YT videos like this. Shavings go into the "fire starter" pot or in the garden.
Practicing knots indoors is definitely knot an issue except for ridge lines and tie-outs... can't open the doors after, so leave the bathroom door alone. Forget about planting pegs, use a heavy object; you may someday have to use a rock anyways...
I've found that simply heating water outside, making a cup of coffee, and drinking it outdoors can be very therapeutic. If I'm doing it in a park/woods over a fire, that's great. But even doing it on a little camp stove on the porch has benefits. Heck, if nothing else, make the coffee indoors if you have to and drink it outside! ;) But of course, the more bushcraft-y you can make the experience, the better. :)
When everything is outlawed, I guess i'm an outlaw! Bad ass.
Excellent & resourceful advice! Pay attention when you are traveling to & from work daily, or traveling on vacation, special trips, etc. & look for power company crews or road worker crews who are cutting limbs & brush from powerlines, etc. Usually, they are delighted to share what they have cut because it must be cleaned-up & hauled away . Also, when timberland or farm land has had trees cut, rhere is often what is called "Cut-Over" in the area where I live. It is usually pieces of limbs of no use to the timber company & has been left there to rot. Ask permission & most likely, your request for discards & left-behinds will be rewarded!
Most of my property is woods. It's a great place to spend time there
I have always had great times and luck in National Forests again just check local regs but it is surprising just how much freedom you can have
National forest is great but some of us have to travel a long way to get to national forest. Also, the last few years the traffic has really increased. I pack in to camp or hunt but last year we couldn't hardly find a place to leave the truck.
I guess my last comment has to address the almost unbelievable increase in "bushcraft" damage. I once came across a site where somebody had cut down what must have been a couple hundred young beech trees to build a lean-to. Last year we found a site where somebody had cut live trees to make table and chairs. It's really getting stupid.
I don't go near state forest in my state. You can't pick up any wood off the ground. Fires only in designated areas (CAMP GROUNDS) and you have to bring the wood in with you (debarked or certified wood) or buy it. I understand why these restrictions exist but I'm not camping in a "camp ground" where I have less quiet and privacy than in my yard and I'm not going to pay for wood to bring to the woods and burn. LOL
@@user-mx5dr5gj1e so true getting crowded for sure I’m still pretty lucky here in Va these days hasn’t gotten to bad
@@user-mx5dr5gj1e sounds like bringing sand to a beach🤔
David West has a UA-cam channel and starts fires every way he can think of and never leaves his yard.
Thank you so much for posting this! I watched one of his videos a couple years ago and couldn't remember his name. It was one of the water bottle videos and I was duly impressed. I have now subbed, thanks to you. (I was already subbed to Dan here @CoalcrackerBushcraft !)
Always appreciate your content! You're a big reason I am into bushcraft! Great advice/suggestions here!
Honestly, I would love to do the classes that all you instructors could provide. My problem is. I really cannot afford your alls 3 to 500 plus cash in to join. I know and understand it's your jobs, it's how you feed your family.
But, I do want to say thanks for all you guys do. I've learned so much.
I live in the USA and started watching YT some years ago...I was a bit mystified by the stealth/wild camping and thought WTF? Then eventually figured that although I can drive to National Forest land and camp anywhere I want (ok, they have rules but are never enforced), build a fire, chill out in the woods, that nearly NO ONE else on the planet has such freedom. Can't pick up dead sticks to build a fire? Dear god I wouldn't want to live in such a place! Condolences to those who do, world wide.
We have almost 17,000,000 acres of state forest in Pennsylvania
In the state park nearest to my home you aren’t allowed to pick up any dead branches or sticks off the ground
I appreciate your positive attitude, and your guidance. Thank you. You get an Atta Boy! 😏
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
great video, Dan! Very practical advice!
Good topic & great way to remove obstacles to getting outdoors
Thank you for making this
Another good way to find outdoorsey folks, if you have a son or daughter over 11, join scouts BSA.
A long overdue video that I've been waiting for somebody to show for a long time. Let me start by saying that I am not an environmentalist. And if somebody wants to go miles into some deep woods far away from Trails or Parks or any place where people congregate and cut down a few small trees for whatever Bushcraft project they're working on I've got no problem with that at all. But people need to use some common sense. If you want to Bushcraft in areas where people congregate like campgrounds and Parks then at least go into the deep woods to get your materials. We have to be responsible when and where we cut and gather materials or all of public land is going to be gated and fenced. All we have to do is look at our brothers in England and what they have to go through to find places to Bushcraft to really understand what a treasure we have available to us and we need to take care of it so that we can continue to use it. I have spent most of my life in the woods and would like to continue to do so.
Mike
I'm in Washington State really enjoy the time you and etc. the videos thank you.
If I do any bushcraft style cutting anymore it's almost exclusively invasive honeysuckle. It covers the native forest floor and makes it near impossible for young trees to grow. Rarely a straight piece to be found, mostly repeated bow shaped lengths, but if you use your imagination you can fashion some pretty unique things.
Wish yall were closer to upstate western NC mountains!
Great advice brother. Thank you greatly!
Great video Dan
Excellent Excellent video!! I like the end meeting new friends and broding your horizons met a huge amount thru bushcraft and your school. You the man Dan. Another awesome video as always brother 💪 👍
Lived on 1st Earth Day! As a freshman in hs, we went, with driving students, collecting garbage in different sections (1 mile square countryside).
We have a lot of state land and game areas in Michigan. You can camp free on stateland for up to two weeks with a free permit. Just contact the local dnr office. Youre right, you cant cut green (live) trees down.
I'm lucky and have my own land and I'm friends with everyone that has land connected to mine and between the storms and the once a year ice storm(I'm in theSouth), there's plenty of downed trees and limbs for bushcraft projects.
Happy Earth day 😊
Uncle Sam has alot of land here by the Mississippi. Army Corp land. Fires prolly not aloud. I used to hunt it often. It is not a state park.
I am in the deep south and I quit hunting years ago, but I still pay dues to our hunting club so I can use the land after hunting season to camp on. We have a lot of storms here, so I never have to cut live trees to do projects, there is plenty of dead fall
Did not even know Earth Day was approaching until I saw this video. I have not camped at many camp grounds or State/National parks but those that I have been at had no problems with me picking the wood that was on the ground.
Or you could stealth camp behind the Walmart or Aldi in your neighborhood…Have fun stay safe.
I found great pine at Kroger and white birch at central market. Firewood 😂
I felt it’s worth it.
I bought fat wood on line 😅
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No place to go in my area. Not at all. All I can do is hope that a branch falls off of a tree in my yard and get that to carve something. All you can do in the camp ground an hour north of me is walk around. Can't do anything else, no more actual camping, cooking or actual hiking allowed. Everything else is private land or restricted to the point that you can't even blink within 300 yards of it. I was always out in the woods in South East New Mexico or in the South West desert (El Paso, TX area) doing something before I moved. I even had a bit of acreage near Hueco Tanks State Park East of El Paso. I could do anything there. Not now I'm in Northern WV. Moving was a huge mistake. But now I am stuck here and always bored.
I hear that. I feel like a couch survivalist sometimes but I can still practice some knots or carve a spoon in my living room with a branch. At least we have an interest, right? I'm with ya
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all the parks & outdoor areas are 50+ miles from where I live
I know no one with a chunk of land
I've dabbled with bush-craft at a local city park
basically an outdoor cookout but no in depth bush-crafting
there's some downed branches for the cook fire...
I can't afford a bush-craft class - I'm POOR!
National Forests and the more open regulations not mentioned. Hmm ok more room for me.
I wanna t6 zero but there not available 😢😢😢😢
Conservation appeals to my conservative core.
Go to wilderness areas or national forest areas. You don't need anybody's permission. You're not doing anything wrong. Tell them to go away!
Are you trying to get my sub subtracted? Quit with the woke crap, please.
What woke crap?
Click. Watch. Comment. That's the correct order😂