Building a Bushcraft Camp in the Forest - Wood Saw Horse, Tarp Chair, Log Cabin Notches
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Date: 2019-09-10
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rjiggy07
Well alright, since you asked. I usually have two fires at my camps. One for cooking and the other for people gathering. If I'm alone or with my best girl, I have one, the cooking one. It's a regular campfire ring, dished out, with a trench off to the side that gets a cross wind. The trench is a few inches more narrow than my rectangular grills and about 8 - 10 inches deep. Straight off you get a good fire going with hardwood and as the coals are formed you rake them into the trench. No, you aren't cooking yet, you are just getting rid of the moisture in the dirt in the trench. Cooking comes later, and preparing the grilling trench will assure success when cooking. Keep the fire going and the trench fed with coals. On the downwind side of your fire pit, place logs for later, you are just getting them hot and getting the moisture out of them. Make sure to put some sort of reminder as to where the trench is, since it is at ground level it is an easy hazard There ya go, even if the coals are burnt out in the trench, there are plenty in the fire and it takes just a second to rake them into the trench, toss your wire on top and grill, boil, fry, to your heart's content. If you want to go a step further, dig a hole for a dutch oven at the other side of the trench for baking your bread or biscuits, again the coal factory is right there and all is there to do is rake the coals into the hole, place your dutch oven on top and rake some coals on top of the oven, cover with dirt and go fishin'.
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Well alright, since you asked. I usually have two fires at my camps. One for cooking and the other for people gathering. If I'm alone or with my best girl, I have one, the cooking one. It's a regular campfire ring, dished out, with a trench off to the side that gets a cross wind. The trench is a few inches more narrow than my rectangular grills and about 8 - 10 inches deep. Straight off you get a good fire going with hardwood and as the coals are formed you rake them into the trench. No, you aren't cooking yet, you are just getting rid of the moisture in the dirt in the trench. Cooking comes later, and preparing the grilling trench will assure success when cooking. Keep the fire going and the trench fed with coals. On the downwind side of your fire pit, place logs for later, you are just getting them hot and getting the moisture out of them. Make sure to put some sort of reminder as to where the trench is, since it is at ground level it is an easy hazard There ya go, even if the coals are burnt out in the trench, there are plenty in the fire and it takes just a second to rake them into the trench, toss your wire on top and grill, boil, fry, to your heart's content. If you want to go a step further, dig a hole for a dutch oven at the other side of the trench for baking your bread or biscuits, again the coal factory is right there and all is there to do is rake the coals into the hole, place your dutch oven on top and rake some coals on top of the oven, cover with dirt and go fishin'.
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Rue Stahl
Has anyone seen a Wooden Camp Chair where you take 2 Boards and knotch one and it fits into the other one like a Puzzle. It gives you a chair with a Tall Back Rest and a place to sit. I used to belong to a group called The Society for Creative Anachronism who like to re-enact Medieval Stuff and someone had a chair like this. It was in Oregon, the Night was clear of clouds and the Moon was so Huge you could almost touch it. I sat down in this chair and leaned back and it was then I gave it a name. The Stargazer Chair, because when I leaned back I was looking straight up at the sky and that Night there were Millions of Stars in the Sky. It was Amazing and something I'll Never Forget.
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Has anyone seen a Wooden Camp Chair where you take 2 Boards and knotch one and it fits into the other one like a Puzzle. It gives you a chair with a Tall Back Rest and a place to sit. I used to belong to a group called The Society for Creative Anachronism who like to re-enact Medieval Stuff and someone had a chair like this. It was in Oregon, the Night was clear of clouds and the Moon was so Huge you could almost touch it. I sat down in this chair and leaned back and it was then I gave it a name. The Stargazer Chair, because when I leaned back I was looking straight up at the sky and that Night there were Millions of Stars in the Sky. It was Amazing and something I'll Never Forget.
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James Ellsworth
You and your father make a fine team I am like he is: if I get down that low to the ground, I need to grab something to help me rise again. The camp life tricks you demonstrated are neat Frankly, I am envious of that FireStorm (I think) pocket bellows. We cannot purchase it in the USA (sigh) We can get something a bit shorter, without the refinement of the brass tip. and without the very nice leather neck pouch. I appreciated watching your father use joinery as well as cord to produce a stable saw horse (saw buck) and the chair. I wish I had had a woods-wise and patient father to bring me along in the forest life Cheers to you both
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You and your father make a fine team I am like he is: if I get down that low to the ground, I need to grab something to help me rise again. The camp life tricks you demonstrated are neat Frankly, I am envious of that FireStorm (I think) pocket bellows. We cannot purchase it in the USA (sigh) We can get something a bit shorter, without the refinement of the brass tip. and without the very nice leather neck pouch. I appreciated watching your father use joinery as well as cord to produce a stable saw horse (saw buck) and the chair. I wish I had had a woods-wise and patient father to bring me along in the forest life Cheers to you both
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Antipodean Bushie
A question/comment: - I have been trying various types of cordage and in most situations, will use what is at hand. I notice that you have been using a lot of plastic based cordage in your constructions. The question I have, and this goes to all out there who watch and follow the activities here; If you had to abandon a location, would you spend the time to recover the cordage and disperse the wooden materials? I am currently using sisal two ply twine which I can buy in 270 metre rolls for under 10. 00AUD. It seems to withstand the weather here quite well.
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A question/comment: - I have been trying various types of cordage and in most situations, will use what is at hand. I notice that you have been using a lot of plastic based cordage in your constructions. The question I have, and this goes to all out there who watch and follow the activities here; If you had to abandon a location, would you spend the time to recover the cordage and disperse the wooden materials? I am currently using sisal two ply twine which I can buy in 270 metre rolls for under 10. 00AUD. It seems to withstand the weather here quite well.
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rjiggy07
Have you taken an inventory of the surroundings? edible and medicinal plants? cordage plants? contact-toxic plants? any basswood? Hawthorn? you can ditch your polycord if you have good size hawthorn, the bark strips of like long belts of leather, you need to know how to knot it though, but strong. Elm is the same way. Willow shoot bark can be twisted into very good cordage and the shoots without the bark can be made into wattle furniture, fence, baskets. besides the bark can be steeped into a tea high in aspirin for your aches and pains.
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Have you taken an inventory of the surroundings? edible and medicinal plants? cordage plants? contact-toxic plants? any basswood? Hawthorn? you can ditch your polycord if you have good size hawthorn, the bark strips of like long belts of leather, you need to know how to knot it though, but strong. Elm is the same way. Willow shoot bark can be twisted into very good cordage and the shoots without the bark can be made into wattle furniture, fence, baskets. besides the bark can be steeped into a tea high in aspirin for your aches and pains.
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Helen Escandor
Very cool saw horse. and congratulations on getting married. I wonder where I could buy that blow pipe you use to get more oxygen to the burning wood, without sticking your head too close to the fire. It's practical and so good. hope you could leave a link or something. Thanks for these substantial videos you and your dad create.
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Very cool saw horse. and congratulations on getting married. I wonder where I could buy that blow pipe you use to get more oxygen to the burning wood, without sticking your head too close to the fire. It's practical and so good. hope you could leave a link or something. Thanks for these substantial videos you and your dad create.
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rjiggy07
One other thing, I see very little difference between your poly-cord and lithium batteries. Sure have your hand saws, but a 18volt saws all is my choice. Work done in less than half the time, hardly any noise, and if you have a solar charger, very green. Or charge the batteries in the truck. Have fun and enjoy our primitive roots.
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One other thing, I see very little difference between your poly-cord and lithium batteries. Sure have your hand saws, but a 18volt saws all is my choice. Work done in less than half the time, hardly any noise, and if you have a solar charger, very green. Or charge the batteries in the truck. Have fun and enjoy our primitive roots.
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Sandie Black
Haven't seen one of those in years, the billhook I am referring to. We don't have them over here in Canada, at least I have never seen one. I wish I had brought one with me when I moved here 45 years ago. Oh well, I guess if I ever come back for a visit I will be buying one and bringing back with me. Thanks for the memory.
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Haven't seen one of those in years, the billhook I am referring to. We don't have them over here in Canada, at least I have never seen one. I wish I had brought one with me when I moved here 45 years ago. Oh well, I guess if I ever come back for a visit I will be buying one and bringing back with me. Thanks for the memory.
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Wil Cooley
Came here looking for other designs to address some of the shortcomings of my stick sawbuck; I did get some ideas--thanksOne question though: Why no frapping in the lashing? Maybe it's the difference in using twine vs rope, but usually one doesn't need to pull the wraps so tight because the frapping tightens them.
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Came here looking for other designs to address some of the shortcomings of my stick sawbuck; I did get some ideas--thanksOne question though: Why no frapping in the lashing? Maybe it's the difference in using twine vs rope, but usually one doesn't need to pull the wraps so tight because the frapping tightens them.
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Average Joe
I watched your pallet cabin videos and saw the saw horse. I then searched and found this video and watched it this morning. Great design I spent all day cutting wood out of our prairie and building my own. I can't believe how long it took me, but I finished and it looks and works great
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I watched your pallet cabin videos and saw the saw horse. I then searched and found this video and watched it this morning. Great design I spent all day cutting wood out of our prairie and building my own. I can't believe how long it took me, but I finished and it looks and works great
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