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Bushcraft Camp: Viking Turf House Building the Walls (PART 4)

Bushcraft Camp: Viking Turf House Building the Walls (PART 4)

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We're back at the bushcraft camp, this time building the perimeter walls of the turf roof viking house using woven hazel sticks. The turf roof is now white where the grass has died back, but in spring/summer it should grow green again. The timber frame of the bushcraft shelter is still holding strong, which it needs to be with all the weight of the turf on top. We also get the fire going at camp and cook some soup to warm us up on this cold winter day. We still need to build the rest of the walls as well as a door and raised beds for inside the shelter. We also built a perimiter fence around the shelter to keep the deer from walking and grazing on the roof
Date: 2020-01-10

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Ive gotten into bushcraft and Ive made so many different things in my backyard, unfortunately I am not really able to do overnight or big shelter making as I live in the city and doing my emergency medical technician certification, and before that I got my firefighter cert Ive become pretty good with carving and ferrorod stuff. Thank you for all the amazing stuff and knowledge you put out this just brightens my day and helps teach me so so many things I am also reading a lot of bushcraft books etc Keep it up Hope to eventually meet ya some day
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The pic & shovel reminds me a lot of the standard US WW2 issue the GI had to dig foxholes. You can see one in action in the movie Battleground about the 101st airborne in Bastogne in december 1944. As I am both a WW2 amateur historian and a modeller, this immediately got my attention specially due to the 'pouch' as the WW2 issue had one in oiled canvas to lower both the cost and the weight mainly for airborne soldiers.
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FORENSIC BUSHCRAFT? AFTER YEARS OF WAITING AND HOPING, you lot finally bring a mason's hammer to your post pounding projects Bushcraft is not just backpacking: it should be bringing just the right selection of tools to survive efficiently in the environment. AND, I LOVE the shelter projects. Of course, so many of us also want to see YOU AND YOUR DAD doing projects Happy New Year: this video hits on all cylinders
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Your folding shovel, or spade on your side of the pond, appears to be a German entrenching tool. That type was used by the Wermacht during the war and by Bundeswehr during most of the Cold War era. Generally regarded as one of beste-tools for durability and practicality. Copied by a few armies I believe.
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Great to see you resumed the Viking house, just a point, turf houses in Iceland and Faroe Islands are usually built with stone and not wood though examples did exist in Greenland, no criticism meant by that, just a comment on the interesting selection of materials.
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I worked for the MOD and my first job was with 11 Signal Regimeny 60 years ago. I think the National Service lads got 10 bob a week And the Army still use the pick/shovels I've noticed them fastened on the back of their rucksacks when they are boarding planes.
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So like the whole package: dad, little jax, and Dustin. Love the earthy projects done out in the woods; nothing more therapeutic to watch. I agree they should bring back national service; it might help many young people have a direction in life. Thanks TA.
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your dad is awesome haha i like him seems like a laugh love the videos btw great content i would love to practice my bush craft i used to do it alot growing up but these days its hard to find a place that i can practice much love from wales
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I am looking forward to have such pleasant moment with my son in the future while hiking/camping/outdoor activities, it's great to share life with our parent while doing things both love to do. It is a blessing imo.
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Were those them new regulation survival super certified bushcraft loppers you used on that wattle? Like the father son vids from Tafishing and taoutdoors the best. Its like chuckle vision
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