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Amazing bushcraft channel

While not directly aviation-related, survival and basic wilderness skills, sometimes called "bush craft" are an important part of flying the remote backcountry.
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Mon Dec 31, 2018 11:11 am

Amazing bushcraft channel

This Qui-Gon Jinn looking Dutch guy stepped out of a time machine from 1725 with a woolen tunic, sharp chisel, and a plucked chicken, and began making the best bushcraft videos on Youtube. Seriously. No music, no narration, no idiotic selfie-talking into the camera. No loud rustling of nylon or Gore-tex or any modern textile. Just the sounds of wood yielding and fire crackling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8wwAwEDeGo



This is the first one I caught but he has several others. In one he walks across a tidal flat at low tide to an island and camps out.

I find it incredibly relaxing to have this playing on the TV while I work.
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Mon Dec 31, 2018 12:53 pm

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Good watch! I was offered a Puukko knife years ago providing I retired and vacated a chair. Now the guy is the Division Director. Everybody happy.

I wonder where all his food came from?

Edit: Knife making skill > https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... 2-xRGPNN3Q

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Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:04 pm

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So, no bushplanes in his video? My first thought anyway!
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Mon Dec 31, 2018 2:05 pm

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Lots of applicable and usable skills, great stuff
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Tue Jan 01, 2019 8:53 am

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Love the Star Trek reference.
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Tue Jan 01, 2019 10:55 am

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Where does his food come from?
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Tue Jan 01, 2019 11:49 am

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Bagarre wrote:Love the Star Trek reference.


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Tue Jan 01, 2019 2:05 pm

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Not to stray Toooo far off topic...
A co-worker of mine wears that shirt in the office every once in a while and there are those who don't get it.
I've always wondered if the same happed to Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers in their day.

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Bagarre wrote:Love the Star Trek reference.


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Wed Jan 02, 2019 12:02 am

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PA1195 wrote:Good watch! ....

I wonder where all his food came from?

Gary


I agree. "Good watch!"

See Q&A from commnts in the video for where his food cam from.

"Did you hunt the food?"

"No, hunting. I bought all the food the day before the trip."
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Wed Jan 02, 2019 12:44 am

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The vids are good demonstrations of iron age woodcraft. Without a local or preserved source of food survival would still be difficult. Pleistocene to Holocene migrants expanding into new lands would have had a life challenging time beyond the camping techniques. Source your food and then add the videos for reality. Wood fiber containers heated by hot rocks to cook the contents for example. The tent is nice. Animal hides over bent wood formers would reflect reality. Tools made from workable rocks. They were far more knowledgeable than the last occupants of our planet.

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Wed Jan 02, 2019 10:56 am

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courierguy wrote:So, no bushplanes in his video? My first thought anyway!


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Wed Jan 02, 2019 5:33 pm

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Someone should probably explain to him that axes are dangerous, and also explain the vast superiority of a $300 benchmade folder for woods use... :wink:
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Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:46 am

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Hammer wrote:Someone should probably explain to him that axes are dangerous, and also explain the vast superiority of a $300 benchmade folder for woods use... :wink:



When are you starting a YouTube channel Ravi? You have my vote.
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Thu Jan 03, 2019 9:19 am

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Crzyivan13 wrote:When are you starting a YouTube channel Ravi? You have my vote.


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Thu Jan 03, 2019 8:30 pm

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hotrod180 wrote:
courierguy wrote:So, no bushplanes in his video? My first thought anyway!


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I liked your bush pilot post so much, I reposted it for “craps and giggles” on another site in their “liter side section” .
It was deemed offensive and inappropriate......and was taken down!
I really gotta be more careful bout the company I am keeping.....Their influence is get’n me the in trouble as well as a bad reputation! :mrgreen:
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Thu Jan 03, 2019 9:12 pm

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For some "offensive and inappropriate" comes from cultural ignorance and a strict upbringing. Look up "koteka" which in this case the man of that culture is wearing. Europeans a few centuries removed once wore a "codpiece", and earlier cultures other similar garments.

It's like any piece of clothing that's popular for the time and has functional and popular value in their society. Nothing wrong except some don't belong and become overly sensitive for whatever reason.

Wars and strife can start over this insignificant stuff.

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Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:39 am

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Crzyivan13 wrote:
Hammer wrote:Someone should probably explain to him that axes are dangerous, and also explain the vast superiority of a $300 benchmade folder for woods use... :wink:



When are you starting a YouTube channel Ravi? You have my vote.


Haha...thanks, but video is not my medium.

Having finally watched the whole thing it's obvious that it's a well produced video, which means there's a lot more going on behind the camera than in front. There is simply no way his pack contains all the things he has with him! Two knives, two axes, a buck saw, a woodworking gouge in a canvas tool roll, three cooking pots, six days of food consisting of a lot of raw meat in a relatively warm climate, a canvas tent, a whetstone and hone, headlamp, spotting scope, video equipment...

Not criticizing him or the video...the video was produced to entertain and does a very good job, but don't confuse what you see with what's really happening to make the video...here or elsewhere.
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Fri Jan 04, 2019 10:51 am

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Flyrite wrote: I liked your bush pilot post so much, I reposted it for “craps and giggles” on another site in their “liter side section” .
It was deemed offensive and inappropriate......and was taken down! ....


Yeah, some people just can't stand seeing David Clark headsets!
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Sat Jan 05, 2019 1:25 pm

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I was caught by my wife watching said videos in total silence. :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
It was perfect till she came in.....sat down....watched.... :x :x :x ...She had questions.... #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o #-o .....She posted on facebook and twitter about it..... [-X [-X [-X [-X [-X [-X
His viewing census went up by 1%..... =D> =D> =D> =D> =D>.....Your welcome
and as Paul Simon once said back to the sound of silence.
"Fools said I you do not know, silence like a cancer grows"
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