Clay, that’s best use of the mora I’ve ever seen! This kayak build was an amazing bushcraft project. You and your family would be right at home in Canada’s North. Plenty of wilderness, wildlife, and adventure. Your boys have a great Dad to teach them too.
This is June 11th 2023. My heart is truly broken, 10 1/2 million acres, and in this era of high technology that could have been avoided altogether. They could have set the oxygen sucking bombs (they have) off above the fires, starving hundreds of thousands of acres of fire of oxygen, but they let all that pristine woodland burn down DISGUSTING Christ forever hopefully His Body of Believers will be Called HOME soon see you then. Amen
@@ralphneyala9956 those fires were deliberately set for the :agenda". there are forensic investigators that have determined that the trees are igniting from the inside out indicating some sort of Directed beam of heat rather than normal ignition sources.
Clay , THIS IS SIMPLY A MASTERPIECE AND A WORK OF ART !!! To take materials that you found in the woods and build this kayak is simply amazing. YOU ARE A MASTER WOODSMAN ! I've been a subscriber to your channel from quite a while now and this project is by far the best one yet. Keep cranking out these awesome videos and I'll keep watching , God bless you and your family.
Great Video Sir! you are the ultimate bushcraft expert , I see everything you done to make you and your family self sustainable and taught your two sons to be the same and now you are spreading the word to everyone else to do the same. Keep up the great videos.
Clay, the resourcefulness you demonstrate in your videos is second to none. I love how you source your materials and work them ... cool bushcraft vise and drawknife.
In bushcraft teachings in RSA a lot of guys say If you can make a functional bow in the woods you can make anything. This vid is proof I guess of how true that is.
Clay, the resourcefulness you demonstrate in your videos is second to none. I love how you source your materials and work them ... cool bushcraft vise and drawknife.
Very inspiring Clay, i can see you do it out of passion and the want to learn and pass your knowledge down to others and not for attention. You'll have some awesome memories you can physically pass down to your children, grandchildren also.
It looks so easy when skilled craftsmen are working, and it is also very relaxing to watch. I didn't read the headline, so at first I didn't understand what you were doing. But eventually it just got better and better, and the reception speaks for itself. Thanks for your video, I really appreciate them. It`s so relaxing to watch.
A+++. I had to chime in on this one. I rolled my eyes when I first heard of ASMR, but there is absolutely something to hearing and watching all of these "human at work in nature" sounds. They go back a million years Im sure. The birds are singing too. Disabled people and any stuck inside a lot can really enjoy this approach. The guy on Primitive Technology (I think that's it) never talks but has a great idea of adding details of what he is doing and thinking if you turn the captions on. I have always thought that at the core of all of the bushcraft and survival "fans" is just the simple desire to be self sufficient with the Earth again. So here is my big idea if you run out of video ideas. I would love to see someone do like you did here, spend time in the woods, and focus on Eastern Woodland Native American skills and do a Primitive Technology version with local resources. Cook some meat or fish on the fire now and then etc. Like a Kephart channel. What plants and trees do you use for what food, project, medicine etc. And how did the tribes like the Cherokee preserve foods, deal with winter, make commonly used goods etc. The early American frontiersmen could also fall into the fray. Basically just how you live the best with the most basic of simple gear. Third world guys will sharpen a piece of sheet metal with a rock and use that knife for generations...that kind of thinking. You would also be prepping our local men for a collapse of some kind. Iy amazes me that the modern world has no back up plan to the web or grid simply being hacked. As usual, keep up the excellence brother and stay safe out there.
Wow,Wow,Wow. Just mesmerising, watching your work with only two basic tools that you didn’t make the fixed blade mora and a medium size silky saw. Music to my eyes Thank you Regards Leith
A few seconds in im already impressed in how you are splitting parrallels from the tree trunk by using another hunk of tree. As im stuck in the city that sort of in-the-field simplicity doesn't even get discussed.
I really appreciated how intentional you were to save your knife and did not really use it beyond getting a wedge started when possible. I think that's a great mindset of conservation of resources. Using things you make to save what you brought, as you can always make another wedge. Outstanding video, thank you sir, God bless
I have to say that I really enjoyed watching this creation from start to finish. I could see your use of tools from your bow making skills at play! The only suggestion I could add to provide the icing to the cake so to speak, would be that you carried your fishing pole with you on your crafts maiden voyage and ended the video landing a nice trout! Now that would have extended my smile to its breaking point! 😊
Gotta be top five one of the best bushcraft videos iv'e seen. Straightforward, to the point, simple tools most anyone can use and not a bunch of talk. It was filmed in a way anyone can understand. All in all great video and great end product. Thanks and ya just picked up another subscriber!
Mate this is great. Not finished watching yet, but could you do a close-up of how you tied the hoops together please? That pullthrough technique is useful for a lot of things.
Very cool build .My Dad tought me and my brothers how to make all sorts of things to live in the wild and how to serve with the help of all that nature has to provide.😊😊😊
Patience ,skill, and the ability to see the potential of the available resources and the end results before you ever make the first cut is absolutely the formula for creative ingenuity. You're definitely talented dude. Never take for granted the blessing of being able to work with your hands and the vision to see the end of a project before it's started. God is good brother. I've worked my whole life with my hands and God has given me more than I could ever possibly deserve. I couldn't be happy doing anything else. Anybody can buy something and use it until they wear it out or get tired of it, but when you've got your labor and planning and design and nurture of every single step, every single, cut, nail, weld, chisel strike, file shaving, pile of sawdust, and gradually seeing it come to life. You can't buy that.
Wow!! You need to rename this video to "Bushcraft Kayak with only a silky saw and a mora" im highly impressed, seen a few of your vids now but this one takes the cake. subscribed
Don't comment much Clay...but simply love your channel and hope to meet someday. Love to see you do this "full-on trad" with only skin-sinew-tree root and the same or similar design. I know you have the skills...clearly...!!!...Thanks so much for what you are sharing and trying to teach others...
That technique to turn your knife into a draw knife is a first for me. Very cool. Definitely going to use that on my bow build! I have some hickory and black locust I'm going to try!
Outstanding video, this certainly isn't your 1st rodeo fantastic, thanks for sharing something close to your heart Christ forever Peace truly Outstanding
Love the build! I've done one of these with same design, but somehow I just knew you would improvise a draw knife and tiller your gunwales. Your paddle is a piece of art, Clay..
It is easy to see in your lines how traditional Inuit kayaks were built with bone and driftwood. Their fasteners were hide and animal tissue, where yours are modern string. They used knives, wedges, and maybe a carpenter's handsaw (after contact), but you both achieved the same result. Had I been putting on the skin, I'd have doubled the tarp instead of folding so much over at the top. But, you are the craftsman and I am the observer. Good luck on the next project!
Clay, that’s best use of the mora I’ve ever seen! This kayak build was an amazing bushcraft project. You and your family would be right at home in Canada’s North. Plenty of wilderness, wildlife, and adventure. Your boys have a great Dad to teach them too.
Thanks Dex
This is June 11th 2023. My heart is truly broken, 10 1/2 million acres, and in this era of high technology that could have been avoided altogether. They could have set the oxygen sucking bombs (they have) off above the fires, starving hundreds of thousands of acres of fire of oxygen, but they let all that pristine woodland burn down DISGUSTING Christ forever hopefully His Body of Believers will be Called HOME soon see you then. Amen
@@ralphneyala9956 those fires were deliberately set for the :agenda". there are forensic investigators that have determined that the trees are igniting from the inside out indicating some sort of Directed beam of heat rather than normal ignition sources.
Clay , THIS IS SIMPLY A MASTERPIECE AND A WORK OF ART !!! To take materials that you found in the woods and build this kayak is simply amazing. YOU ARE A MASTER WOODSMAN ! I've been a subscriber to your channel from quite a while now and this project is by far the best one yet. Keep cranking out these awesome videos and I'll keep watching , God bless you and your family.
Thanks Steven
Thanks!
You are just one remarkable human. You give me hope for our future. Thank you, Clay.
😊
Clay, I am going to definitely call you when I get into trouble while in the wilderness! You are the man!
🍻
Happy is a man building a boat. Nice one mate!
Thank ya
Great Video Sir! you are the ultimate bushcraft expert , I see everything you done to make you and your family self sustainable and taught your two sons to be the same and now you are spreading the word to everyone else to do the same. Keep up the great videos.
Glad you liked it
You are a life saver keep going people are learning from you
Clay, the resourcefulness you demonstrate in your videos is second to none. I love how you source your materials and work them ... cool bushcraft vise and drawknife.
Many thanks
Clay, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again - your bushcraft/woodcraft skills are simply amazing and a pleasure to watch you work.
In bushcraft teachings in RSA a lot of guys say If you can make a functional bow in the woods you can make anything. This vid is proof I guess of how true that is.
Clay, the resourcefulness you demonstrate in your videos is second to none. I love how you source your materials and work them ... cool bushcraft vise and drawknife.
Glad you like them!
So awesome. Please do more videos on survival fishing in all weather and environment conditions! You are a legend.
Simply the best....Clay, you are THE man....and I love your humility....Keep it up.....
Many thanks
I mean I can’t believe I’m only just finding my favourite UA-cam channel now. Mad respect to you Clay, from London Uk. 👏
Sweet bushcraft technique! I’m studying. It’s hard to see that a full shop could work more efficiently. You, sir, are an elegant craftsman.
Thanks 👍
Love this build. One of the best bush craft builds you've done yet. Great job Clay! I have watched it at least 8 to 10 times.
Thanks
Very inspiring Clay, i can see you do it out of passion and the want to learn and pass your knowledge down to others and not for attention. You'll have some awesome memories you can physically pass down to your children, grandchildren also.
It looks so easy when skilled craftsmen are working, and it is also very relaxing to watch.
I didn't read the headline, so at first I didn't understand what you were doing. But eventually it just got better and better, and the reception speaks for itself.
Thanks for your video, I really appreciate them. It`s so relaxing to watch.
Thanks John
Clay that was an amazing job. You can really see the bow building come into play in a different way.
Awesome.
Nate
Thanks Nate
I'm young and i have learnt allot about survival off these videos
Good to hear
fyi - learnt is not a word - learned is what you were aiming for.
Super impressed Clay !
Thanks Kerry, this was a fun build. Glad you enjoyed it.
That’s not bushcraft that’s art good stuff man I like it
Personal favorite! Boatbuilding, Alone skills, perfection.
Thanks Mark
Your my favorite winner from alone. Love the way you do things
Wow, thank you!
hello I'm from Indonesia your creativity is extraordinary

Thank you
Well, that is a masterpiece. Very impressive structure
A+++. I had to chime in on this one. I rolled my eyes when I first heard of ASMR, but there is absolutely something to hearing and watching all of these "human at work in nature" sounds. They go back a million years Im sure. The birds are singing too. Disabled people and any stuck inside a lot can really enjoy this approach. The guy on Primitive Technology (I think that's it) never talks but has a great idea of adding details of what he is doing and thinking if you turn the captions on. I have always thought that at the core of all of the bushcraft and survival "fans" is just the simple desire to be self sufficient with the Earth again. So here is my big idea if you run out of video ideas. I would love to see someone do like you did here, spend time in the woods, and focus on Eastern Woodland Native American skills and do a Primitive Technology version with local resources. Cook some meat or fish on the fire now and then etc. Like a Kephart channel. What plants and trees do you use for what food, project, medicine etc. And how did the tribes like the Cherokee preserve foods, deal with winter, make commonly used goods etc. The early American frontiersmen could also fall into the fray. Basically just how you live the best with the most basic of simple gear. Third world guys will sharpen a piece of sheet metal with a rock and use that knife for generations...that kind of thinking. You would also be prepping our local men for a collapse of some kind. Iy amazes me that the modern world has no back up plan to the web or grid simply being hacked. As usual, keep up the excellence brother and stay safe out there.
Many thanks
Great patience and skill! Thanks for sharing
Wow,Wow,Wow.
Just mesmerising, watching your work with only two basic tools that you didn’t make the fixed blade mora and a medium size silky saw.
Music to my eyes
Thank you
Regards
Leith
Never cease to amaze me such a natural ability 👍 Sadly it is life skills and abilities that very few have anymore.
That Sir is amazing...Might be the neatest thing Ive seen in this bushcraft setting. It would get you across the lake if you had to get there
A few seconds in im already impressed in how you are splitting parrallels from the tree trunk by using another hunk of tree. As im stuck in the city that sort of in-the-field simplicity doesn't even get discussed.
This is the best and the only one Kayak bushcraft I've ever seen... lol 😁
Great job! 👍
Thanks 🙏
beautiful … first time I see this tipe of approach … the cockpit entry done first … smart 😮
You, sir, are a master craftsman. Beautifully crafted!
Thanks Larry
One of the most amazing videos I've ever seen on the net!
This is awesome. Love the drawknife "jig" hack.
All I can say is.... Wow! Just.... Wow! Amazing!
One of the most important videos I've ever had the pleasure of viewing. Your an Ace.
Many thanks
I really appreciated how intentional you were to save your knife and did not really use it beyond getting a wedge started when possible. I think that's a great mindset of conservation of resources. Using things you make to save what you brought, as you can always make another wedge. Outstanding video, thank you sir, God bless
Thanks
Awesome build! I love all things archery but its nice to get away once in a while.
I really appreciate your. Dedication brother
My pleasure
Great work mr. Hayes, pleasure to watch it.
And I thought the fishing rod was SOOO cool. Congrats on this, sir!!
Absolutely amazing, great work Clay Hayes!
Mind blowing skills and knowledge. Thanks for the lesson.
So nice of you
What a bloke,is there nothing he can’t do! Amazing!
😊
I have to say that I really enjoyed watching this creation from start to finish. I could see your use of tools from your bow making skills at play! The only suggestion I could add to provide the icing to the cake so to speak, would be that you carried your fishing pole with you on your crafts maiden voyage and ended the video landing a nice trout! Now that would have extended my smile to its breaking point! 😊
Shoulda thought of that!
Gotta be top five one of the best bushcraft videos iv'e seen. Straightforward, to the point, simple tools most anyone can use and not a bunch of talk. It was filmed in a way anyone can understand. All in all great video and great end product. Thanks and ya just picked up another subscriber!
Thanks 👍
I enjoyed every minute on this awsome woodcraft demonstration! Impresive skills, Clay!!!
Mate this is great. Not finished watching yet, but could you do a close-up of how you tied the hoops together please? That pullthrough technique is useful for a lot of things.
Search “whipping” here on the channel and you’ll find a video covering the technique
@@clayhayeshunter OK great thanks!
This might be the coolest thing I’ve ever seen.
Thanks 🙏
Now I see why you rate that Mora knife in the knife video. Learnt heaps of bushcraft tool-tips in this one mate 🤙🏼 thanks
Glad you like it!
Fantastic craftsmanship Clay. Very nice presentation as well. All the Very Best!
Jim Rodgers
Thank you very much!
I built one as a kid, my cousin used it for target practice. I took off the tarp and use duct tape. Thanks for sharing.
Very cool build .My Dad tought me and my brothers how to make all sorts of things to live in the wild and how to serve with the help of all that nature has to provide.😊😊😊
Patience ,skill, and the ability to see the potential of the available resources and the end results before you ever make the first cut is absolutely the formula for creative ingenuity. You're definitely talented dude. Never take for granted the blessing of being able to work with your hands and the vision to see the end of a project before it's started. God is good brother. I've worked my whole life with my hands and God has given me more than I could ever possibly deserve. I couldn't be happy doing anything else. Anybody can buy something and use it until they wear it out or get tired of it, but when you've got your labor and planning and design and nurture of every single step, every single, cut, nail, weld, chisel strike, file shaving, pile of sawdust, and gradually seeing it come to life. You can't buy that.
Well said
AWESOME isn't the best word but it may have to do. Keep up the fantastic lifestyle. Your family and the rest of us all benefit!
Oh wow. I was expecting to be impressed, but you my man blew that expectation out of the water. What a build!
Clay, that's meaning of a king of a jungle....awesome...keep going on & keep it interesting on...great work..
Thanks 👍
Awesome I was looking for a video on making paddle 😊😊😊 thank you. You sent me on the right direction 😊😊
Incredible build! You are right....that did blow my mind!
Nice work! Really great idea using the nice straight grain of that downed tree.
Clay, you're the best Bushcrafter!
Their is only one word for this OUTSTANDING 👍👍😊 Many Thanks
Wow!! You need to rename this video to "Bushcraft Kayak with only a silky saw and a mora" im highly impressed, seen a few of your vids now but this one takes the cake. subscribed
Amazing work of art! If ever theres an apocalypse im running to Clays house!
Watched you on Alone and Alone Challenges! Well done, you are an educator and an inspiration!
Thank you so much!
Clay you should make a school! Your skills are beyond!
Maybe one day!
Beyond impressive. Well done!
Don't comment much Clay...but simply love your channel and hope to meet someday. Love to see you do this "full-on trad" with only skin-sinew-tree root and the same or similar design. I know you have the skills...clearly...!!!...Thanks so much for what you are sharing and trying to teach others...
Maybe one day!
A thing of beauty
It looks like it tracks too, awesome
Man I like your style... Just showing people what works and it's awesome 👍👍
That was a very enjoyable boat-build to watch! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it
Been off grid for almost 2 years now. Live in a standing oak forest. Wish I had the diversities !!
Always impressed with everything you share
Appears to be a puzzle made of bows. Beautiful.
Interesting perspective!
You actually ,if needed, could have saved your life in the unbelievable build. What talent!@!
very nice survival skill and must be pation to complete the kayak bushcraft
This is absolutely awesome Clay! Amazing work! That Mora sure got a workout too lol
Right?!
Buddy you got skills...!! I'll be adding a draw knife and spoke shave to my kit. And I'll be waiting for the Birch bark canoe video....lol??
That technique to turn your knife into a draw knife is a first for me. Very cool. Definitely going to use that on my bow build! I have some hickory and black locust I'm going to try!
My uncle was a great outdoorsman and Hunter. He once followed a set of tracks into a Cave, and Killed a Train,, thanks Clay for all your stuff!
Outstanding video, this certainly isn't your 1st rodeo fantastic, thanks for sharing something close to your heart Christ forever Peace truly Outstanding
Love the build! I've done one of these with same design, but somehow I just knew you would improvise a draw knife and tiller your gunwales. Your paddle is a piece of art, Clay..
Thanks Gary
Excellent build man !!!!!! Thank you for sharing.
This is incredible man, wow.
That's impressive. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
@@clayhayeshunter You're welcome.
Mastership..or the masters ship? Great job.
Looks great Clay. I'll take two dozen more just like it.
😜
Words cannot express how satisfying and amazing watching all of the intricate parts coming together 🤨😲🤔✊
It was so cool to watch you create this from the ground up…well done!!!
Thanks Dale
Bushcraft legend!
Looks and performs really good for a tarp! Would help alot in the right place. Great job.
It's nice to see some sanity in this crazy world for a change
That is impressive sir!
Thank you kindly!
Dang Clay! I felt that sliver at 10:31!
It happens 🤷♂️
Beautiful work!
Morakniv 👌
Well done with great skill 💪
The movie "Castaway" staring Clay Hayes...
Probably would've been exactly the length of this video.
Cool build man! 👍👍
Thanks! 👍
It is easy to see in your lines how traditional Inuit kayaks were built with bone and driftwood. Their fasteners were hide and animal tissue, where yours are modern string. They used knives, wedges, and maybe a carpenter's handsaw (after contact), but you both achieved the same result. Had I been putting on the skin, I'd have doubled the tarp instead of folding so much over at the top. But, you are the craftsman and I am the observer. Good luck on the next project!