I sit and watch your videos With my daughter who is only one year old. We are very grateful for all the knowledge that you give us. We appreciate your videos and we love to watch them. Keep up the good work Lonny thank you so much. You are friends from the lower 48.
Thanks Lonnie, we always enjoy your videos. As others also commented, our flies have been plentiful up here this summer, especially the last few weeks. Cheers from Wasilla. Take care.
Great video sir ! And the best part of it is that you used stuff that you made earlier and that's what make it special ! Thank you very much for taking your time and showing this to us ! I may even do this at my basecamp if I find proper materials! Thanks for sharing and those are a lot of flies you got there ! Just like mosquitos over here Take care Nick
And when you leave you flip it over and the rain and snow are not on your seat when you come back, you flip it again and sit. Another great video Lonnie
Nice work again, Lonnie. I have to laugh at some of the comments about the flies. I know that you can ignore them because they are just not that bad. They can be far worse, and flailing away at them only seems to attract more! Thanks for another informative video..
Appreciate your videos, Lonnie, you offer useful tips and insights without turning into a general, guru or extreme adventure "guy". Bravo, sir. Thank you.
id just like to say thanks for all your great videos!!! its great to have another Alaskan passing on great info. keep up the great work and God bless you. look foward to more.
Watch Tubers in Ohio and I have a brother in Michigan but those black flies you have are something else . Beginning to appreciate rustic furniture more and more . Thanks
I find leaving the bench plank with half-round base and v-notching support logs (to nest half-round profile) works pretty well with much less work. I appreciate seeing folks baton working with axes & tomahawks (personal staple for me). Like your vid's 👏👍
That is a project well worth the effort especially for wet ground. It's also versatile with a multitude of alternative uses like a friendly game of checkers or backgammon. Can't beat the price either.
Hope to make a few of these on the trail and near the pond. They won't be for a survival situation at home but in an actual long term survival situation creature comforts make all the difference so this is well worth the practice run, thanks once again Lonnie!
a nice project Lonnie; I had friends who were cubscout/boyscouts growing up who liked to do crafty projects; myself I am a woodsman- get her done; no fiddling splitting sawing wood or tapping rocks together (lighter in my pocket); no muss or fuss at camp; but I do appreciate the resourcefulness and craft; sitting here on a wet Saturday morning enjoying your video; all the best from Nova Scotia
I enjoy your videos, can't wait to leave the unnatural city to go in the woods full time....someday. Thanks for sharing ideas and taking the time to make theses videos. Have a good day
We have a lot of flies, as soon as the weather gets warm. They just appear, seemingly for no reason. There is a lot of livestock in my region. My house on the south side will have literally a million, I would expect, hanging out and absorbing the solar. Then, as quick as they had appeared, they`re gone.
jeeze yeah,with all due respect lonnie your skills and knowledge are impressive to say the least(ive watched alot of your vids and learned one hell of alot from ya!),but would you wanna sit round on it with flies like that?bad day for filming eh?
The law of Northern lands: winters with snow and cold, summers with hot, mosquitos, flies, midges. Southern lands with flies and mosquitos all year long under the sun. It's simple, it's life in the wild. Stay in the city, better call Mr Clean.
Enjoyed this video again, can't believe it's been five years since we made this bench! It's at the pond where it is so nice to sit and ponder life's little treasures. Side note about my health: I am losing lung capacity and am also a total body wreck, and found carnivore diet information that interested me. Have been on it for 4 weeks and feel a small increase in air capacity, even though I have detox symptoms. The video's I have been watching tell how plants are affecting our health with their protective poisons that are affecting us all. The disturbing part is, government has known this for decades! These are the main video's I am watching; Sally Norton, Anthony Chaffee or Shawn Baker for starters but UA-cam feeds many more providers of course. Very interesting how those crystals can affect every part of the body and are the cause of sickness in general. Hope you don't mind me adding this little tid bit as I know you suffer from lung issues also. I have been binge watching every video I find and also eating 95% carnivore and actually like it. Well, I'm off my soap box now:) Hope you are both doing well, blessings, TC.
Very interesting. I was on the Keto diet for two years and noticed a big improvement in my lungs. What finally got me off of the last of my lung meds was when I fasted for two weeks and then several months later I fasted for a week. Nothing but water. I was then able to get totally off of all meds. I was able to accomplish myself what the doctors could not do for me. Our modern doctors do not know how to help us achieve health. They are not trained or educated for that. So they are pretty much as ignorant as the rest of the population in terms of true health. What they are trained to do is to treat symptoms. Treat the symptoms with synthetic drugs which in turn create their own symptoms. It is not a system designed to achieve health. It is a system designed to achieve wealth. It is pretty sad when I myself can achieve better health results than the most learned doctors in the land. To be honest, it was a natural health doctor that put me on the keto diet but it was my idea to fast. Glad you are seeing improvements. Keep on improving.
@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival That's wonderful Lonnie, you know the system is not for us and helped yourself to start the healing process🥰. It's the best thing we can do for ourselves really, that's why I'm trying. Am learning that plants protect themselves with poisons that are harming us and that meat does no harm to our bodies. It has all the essential minerals and vitamins we need apparently. I have lost weight, lung capacity has increased and my sinuses have cleared up, testament to the carnivore diet. Will keep going even tho I have little get up and go. Am enjoying not having cravings that have plagued me all my life and will definitely keep going. Best of health to you and yours Lonnie.
One thing that you can do to smooth out the board is to take a flat stone and rub the board with it after you have used the ax. That will smooth it down nicely. You could also flatten the round logs on the bottom, that would reduce the rolling to almost nothing.
thanks for showing a city boy from Salem, Oregon skills that you have learned in the bush.. Yahweh bless you, sir. I felt really bad for you with all those flies in your business.
great idea Lonnie ! I may off said before , I do t always comment but you always get the 👍 off me so keep em coming bud !. Hope Connie is in the health atvb Ken
Love this ! Gonna go work up a sweat this weekend and build some for around our camp fire, seems there's never enuff seating or someone busts a chair !
Higher bench, simply stand logs upright. Keep them from moving, drive some wooden spikes down around the logs. My improvement based on visual observation;)
This is my 1st comment on your video's , keep up the great work I really enjoy watching , your videos are very informative and useful. Alaska is a beautiful state to reside in , its definitely the last frontier of America. Keep up the great work on your videos , I wish you well Thanks..
Thank you. I always enjoy your videos. Learning bushcraft an all is fun.Could you maybe show your flute vidio again. I've been trying to make one. But,not so good.😕but,I'm trying. God,bless...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice bench! I'd need to pile a few "logs" to get any height up here. Our trees are pretty scrawny unless they found some rare dirt. Good to see you're still out doing things. I hear ya on life getting in the way sometimes. Looks like it might be a while before our next video, here. Oh well, I know Who is in control. Take care of yourself over there!
Great practical use of the wedges, creating a board for a bench. I was wondering why not just v-notch the base logs until you demonstrated how the flat mating surfaces help keep them from rolling. Would you now consider a peg through the bench into the base log to make it more stable yet? Thanks for sharing Lonnie
pegging the bench top to the supports could easily be done. There is an advantage however to being able to throw the bench seat off and move the supports to a new location and then quickly replace the bench seat.
thank you for your video Lonnie although I must say there was a crap ton of flies for that I'm sorry that you had to do with that much very knowledgeable inside thank you for sharing
Here I was holding my breath because I didn't want to choke on a fly. Then I thought "It's just a video! And returned the fly spray to the cupboard...LOL I was so into your video Lonnie... I'm getting old I suppose, Thanks for another well edited and interesting video. Maybe Simon (Lord of the flys)could be Lonnie's alter ego?
I sit and watch your videos With my daughter who is only one year old. We are very grateful for all the knowledge that you give us. We appreciate your videos and we love to watch them. Keep up the good work Lonny thank you so much. You are friends from the lower 48.
You have such a relaxed style about you, it reminds me of my dad. Really enjoy your videos, thank you for making them.
Kipper agree
I will definitely use this stick alignment method to my bushcraft bench! Thanks for a video !!! :)
Thanks Lonnie for sharing always learning something new from you. Get rid of those flies lol 👍🇬🇧
Thanks for sharing your bush-craftsmanship with us Lonnie. God bless you and Connie :)
Thanks Lonnie. Another good teaching video. Enjoy your style and work. Take care
I Like the way you lined up the cuts with the sticks to compensate for the twist, Nice job Lonnie
Enjoy your projects Lonnie ,thanks for taking the time to make them for us
Thanks Lonnie, we always enjoy your videos. As others also commented, our flies have been plentiful up here this summer, especially the last few weeks. Cheers from Wasilla. Take care.
Great video sir ! And the best part of it is that you used stuff that you made earlier and that's what make it special !
Thank you very much for taking your time and showing this to us ! I may even do this at my basecamp if I find proper materials!
Thanks for sharing and those are a lot of flies you got there ! Just like mosquitos over here
Take care
Nick
Another Nice Video with Lonnie. I enjoy all of them too. Thanks Lonnie.
And when you leave you flip it over and the rain and snow are not on your seat when you come back, you flip it again and sit. Another great video Lonnie
Cool bench, but YIKES! So many flies! Kudos points for not letting them ruin your day. Peace out!
You need to do a video on Killing Flies!!! :) lol
Bushcraft flyzapper! Those are things, aren't they?
Nice work again, Lonnie. I have to laugh at some of the comments about the flies. I know that you can ignore them because they are just not that bad. They can be far worse, and flailing away at them only seems to attract more! Thanks for another informative video..
Appreciate your videos, Lonnie, you offer useful tips and insights without turning into a general, guru or extreme adventure "guy". Bravo, sir. Thank you.
Lonnie, love all your videis, hope you and Connie are all doing well, thank you again for another great class. God bless and keep you all my friend
id just like to say thanks for all your great videos!!! its great to have another Alaskan passing on great info. keep up the great work and God bless you. look foward to more.
Good tip on showing how to use Winding Sticks in the bush to level your cut. Thanks for sharing.
Watch Tubers in Ohio and I have a brother in Michigan but those black flies you have are something else . Beginning to appreciate rustic furniture more and more . Thanks
I find leaving the bench plank with half-round base and v-notching support logs (to nest half-round profile) works pretty well with much less work. I appreciate seeing folks baton working with axes & tomahawks (personal staple for me). Like your vid's 👏👍
Awesome video, Lonnie and Connie. Thank you so much! Peace be with you.
That is a project well worth the effort especially for wet ground. It's also versatile with a multitude of alternative uses like a friendly game of checkers or backgammon. Can't beat the price either.
Carve/dye a board into the middle of the bench, straddle the bench to play an opponent.
I like the way you dealt with the twist in that board. Good work. Thank you!
Hey Lonnie, thanks for my next lesson. Man those flies are persistent nothing seems to deter them.
I've seen all he's video he seems so cool I love him 😍 if I had grandfather like him I would be a happiest guy ever
Hope to make a few of these on the trail and near the pond. They won't be for a survival situation at home but in an actual long term survival situation creature comforts make all the difference so this is well worth the practice run, thanks once again Lonnie!
Hello Lonnie. What a great project! I like your way to improvise things! Greets from Switzerland
Felix
Thanks Mr. Lonnie!
You do an amazing job. You explain everything very well. Thanks for giving us the knowledge you have acquired over the years. It’s very helpful. 😀
I appreciate you OL' Brother
Goodstuff Lonnie keep em coming and have a wonderful weekend
Great bench! The flies are atrocious! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Lonnie and Connie...another great video!
a nice project Lonnie; I had friends who were cubscout/boyscouts growing up who liked to do crafty projects; myself I am a woodsman- get her done; no fiddling splitting sawing wood or tapping rocks together (lighter in my pocket); no muss or fuss at camp; but I do appreciate the resourcefulness and craft; sitting here on a wet Saturday morning enjoying your video; all the best from Nova Scotia
Always happy to see you have a new video up. 😀
I enjoy your videos, can't wait to leave the unnatural city to go in the woods full time....someday.
Thanks for sharing ideas and taking the time to make theses videos.
Have a good day
Cool construction, craftsmanship and bench my friend!
Thank you this was wonderful!!! Appreciate you and your wife!
Thanks Lonnie, great video Sir,
I like the bench, thanks for the demo Lonnie...
Awesome bench Lonnie, God bless!!!
Awesome bench. Love the channel!
Great video! Yowza! The number of flies was insane!
Good job Lonnie...nice hatchet, and man at the flies...lol
those flies would have made me crazy
Why are they there? what food source is on these logs?
I think the moisture and sap in the timber attracts them. Suger and water...
We have a lot of flies, as soon as the weather gets warm. They just appear, seemingly for no reason. There is a lot of livestock in my region. My house on the south side will have literally a million, I would expect, hanging out and absorbing the solar. Then, as quick as they had appeared, they`re gone.
jeeze yeah,with all due respect lonnie your skills and knowledge are impressive to say the least(ive watched alot of your vids and learned one hell of alot from ya!),but would you wanna sit round on it with flies like that?bad day for filming eh?
The law of Northern lands: winters with snow and cold, summers with hot, mosquitos, flies, midges.
Southern lands with flies and mosquitos all year long under the sun.
It's simple, it's life in the wild.
Stay in the city, better call Mr Clean.
always enjoy getting your videos.THANKS
Thanks for another great video, Lonnie!
Well Lonnie, that is a great idea and I am definitely going to get that done.
Those Flies must have been a pain. God Bless You
Nice Bushcraft Bench!!
Thank you, Lonnie.
Great channel! I love looking earth, discover and slow down...
Enjoyed this video again, can't believe it's been five years since we made this bench! It's at the pond where it is so nice to sit and ponder life's little treasures.
Side note about my health: I am losing lung capacity and am also a total body wreck, and found carnivore diet information that interested me. Have been on it for 4 weeks and feel a small increase in air capacity, even though I have detox symptoms. The video's I have been watching tell how plants are affecting our health with their protective poisons that are affecting us all. The disturbing part is, government has known this for decades!
These are the main video's I am watching; Sally Norton, Anthony Chaffee or Shawn Baker for starters but UA-cam feeds many more providers of course. Very interesting how those crystals can affect every part of the body and are the cause of sickness in general. Hope you don't mind me adding this little tid bit as I know you suffer from lung issues also. I have been binge watching every video I find and also eating 95% carnivore and actually like it. Well, I'm off my soap box now:) Hope you are both doing well, blessings, TC.
Very interesting. I was on the Keto diet for two years and noticed a big improvement in my lungs. What finally got me off of the last of my lung meds was when I fasted for two weeks and then several months later I fasted for a week. Nothing but water. I was then able to get totally off of all meds. I was able to accomplish myself what the doctors could not do for me. Our modern doctors do not know how to help us achieve health. They are not trained or educated for that. So they are pretty much as ignorant as the rest of the population in terms of true health. What they are trained to do is to treat symptoms. Treat the symptoms with synthetic drugs which in turn create their own symptoms. It is not a system designed to achieve health. It is a system designed to achieve wealth. It is pretty sad when I myself can achieve better health results than the most learned doctors in the land. To be honest, it was a natural health doctor that put me on the keto diet but it was my idea to fast. Glad you are seeing improvements. Keep on improving.
@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival That's wonderful Lonnie, you know the system is not for us and helped yourself to start the healing process🥰. It's the best thing we can do for ourselves really, that's why I'm trying. Am learning that plants protect themselves with poisons that are harming us and that meat does no harm to our bodies. It has all the essential minerals and vitamins we need apparently. I have lost weight, lung capacity has increased and my sinuses have cleared up, testament to the carnivore diet. Will keep going even tho I have little get up and go. Am enjoying not having cravings that have plagued me all my life and will definitely keep going.
Best of health to you and yours Lonnie.
That other half of the split log looks like a good potential camp table
Iv really enjoyed this series. thanks for sharing.
You have a good week too! Happy 4th of July
Great video Lonnie!
How much to make me 10 of those and ship them to Ontario for my camp? :)
I take my hat off to ya doing the filming with all those flies and remaining poised god bless xpeacex
Thanks for all of the helpful info!
nice idea great hatchet work say hey to Connie stay safe brother
I always learn something new :) lots of love and thanks!
Great stuff Lonnie,
Thanks for the video! I like that bench alot.
Your so genuine thankyou
great video again..man the flies were thick but you went right on...
One thing that you can do to smooth out the board is to take a flat stone and rub the board with it after you have used the ax. That will smooth it down nicely. You could also flatten the round logs on the bottom, that would reduce the rolling to almost nothing.
Apparently he doesn't answer our questions, but still we love his channel. :-)
I try to answer *ALL* questions but can no longer reply to each and every comment.
thanks for showing a city boy from Salem, Oregon skills that you have learned in the bush.. Yahweh bless you, sir. I felt really bad for you with all those flies in your business.
great idea Lonnie ! I may off said before , I do t always comment but you always get the 👍 off me so keep em coming bud !. Hope Connie is in the health atvb Ken
Your awesome lonnie brother. Thank u for the video
A thousand, million flies!
That wages a psychological warfare on me that I have never been able to ignore!
I suppose that's what sleeves and the beard can help with mate. Yeah, there's some adapting to do if living in the woods
Pail of water and dump some sugar in, worth the sacrifice lol.
Head net.....
Can't wait to see what's next
Love this ! Gonna go work up a sweat this weekend and build some for around our camp fire, seems there's never enuff seating or someone busts a chair !
I really enjoy your videos, I can't believe I didn't find your channel sooner!
Thank you. I'm glad that you did find my channel now that you have.
Black fly season, eh? Lovely this time of year :)
Thanks Lonnie!
Great video! Informative and interesting. Thanks for all your efforts getting it to us. Hal
Thanks for the great video!!
Think I might have to make me one ! Thanks for sharing!
Black flies matter!
Higher bench, simply stand logs upright. Keep them from moving, drive some wooden spikes down around the logs. My improvement based on visual observation;)
In Alaska for a week and love it
Great to see another video my friend! excellent Bench... Looks like I have a future project for camp.. as always Thank you!
Best regards,
BCB
Fantastic video as always!
Great video as usual.
HI Lonnie....great video and nice job!I always look at your video! Ciao.Sergio.
This is my 1st comment on your video's , keep up the great work I really enjoy watching , your videos are very informative and useful. Alaska is a beautiful state to reside in , its definitely the last frontier of America.
Keep up the great work on your videos , I wish you well Thanks..
👍thanks for the ideas!
Good job!
nice bench...good enough...you guys have a great 4th. thanks
I've done things like this IN my own camp site lol and told a story of friends killing a dragon great video
Awesome
Thank you. I always enjoy your videos. Learning bushcraft an all is fun.Could you maybe show your flute vidio again. I've been trying to make one. But,not so good.😕but,I'm trying. God,bless...👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice bench! I'd need to pile a few "logs" to get any height up here. Our trees are pretty scrawny unless they found some rare dirt. Good to see you're still out doing things. I hear ya on life getting in the way sometimes. Looks like it might be a while before our next video, here. Oh well, I know Who is in control. Take care of yourself over there!
informative video, happy 4th to you and yours sir.
The Lord of the Flies.
Nice video by the way! :)
Great practical use of the wedges, creating a board for a bench. I was wondering why not just v-notch the base logs until you demonstrated how the flat mating surfaces help keep them from rolling. Would you now consider a peg through the bench into the base log to make it more stable yet? Thanks for sharing Lonnie
pegging the bench top to the supports could easily be done. There is an advantage however to being able to throw the bench seat off and move the supports to a new location and then quickly replace the bench seat.
nice bushcrafting ! I see your an artist like me, you can sit anywhere & draw flies! LOL😆😆
thank you for your video Lonnie although I must say there was a crap ton of flies for that I'm sorry that you had to do with that much very knowledgeable inside thank you for sharing
Here I was holding my breath because I didn't want to choke on a fly. Then I thought "It's just a video! And returned the fly spray to the cupboard...LOL I was so into your video Lonnie... I'm getting old I suppose, Thanks for another well edited and interesting video. Maybe Simon (Lord of the flys)could be Lonnie's alter ego?