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Elliot Burton
Registrace 13. 09. 2012
Medieval Trekking - An inexpensive shelter for getting started
In this video, I use about $30 worth of supplies to sleep out on a mild night. While not historically accurate and not appropriate for more unforgiving weather, a few items from the hardware store can be put together into a sleeping shelter that looks decent and won't break the bank!
While this is not the hard or soft kit I typically use, I hoped it might give folks some ideas for how to start experimenting in this hobby. I wore soft kit that very much resembles my original attempts at garb, since it seemed like supplementing this sleep set-up with a lot of layers of period clothing would sort-of defeat the point of a "getting started" video. I wouldn't recommend using gear like this in cold, windy, and/or rainy weather, but a kit like this will allow folks to experiment and see what they like!
Music:
"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
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While this is not the hard or soft kit I typically use, I hoped it might give folks some ideas for how to start experimenting in this hobby. I wore soft kit that very much resembles my original attempts at garb, since it seemed like supplementing this sleep set-up with a lot of layers of period clothing would sort-of defeat the point of a "getting started" video. I wouldn't recommend using gear like this in cold, windy, and/or rainy weather, but a kit like this will allow folks to experiment and see what they like!
Music:
"Folk Round" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Charcloth, Two Ways - Flint and Steel Firemaking
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In this video I make charcloth for use with flint and steel using two different methods - one often used by modern bushcrafters, and one described in a text published in 1588. The full text of "Three bookes of colloquies concerning the arte of shooting" (1588) is available from Early English Books Online (University of Michigan) - quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A13381.0001.001/1:1?rgn=div1;view=toc...
Medieval Trekking - Camping Kit
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Take a look at some of the gear I use when I go camping in medieval clothing! Some pieces are appropriate for my 14th century persona; some are, as Joseph Ruckman puts it, "aesthetically-inoffensive-but-incorrect-for-the-period"; all are functional. Apologies for the audio oddities - turns out that iPhone mics have a bit of a mind of their own! I did my best to clean things up with Audacity and...
Making a simple tunic
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This is a video showing a simple method for making a tunic. It's not a historically accurate method, but it's straightforward and results in a pretty solid-looking garment! I used scaled paper cut-outs to demonstrate instead of full-sized cloth because it was easier to film. Here's a link to a picture of a tunic I made using this method (in about 3 hours) - secure.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/...
love the video please keep making more
I like the fact that you don't necessarily have everything be exactly period correct tho I expect you'd like to. I've been involved in 18th century historical events and some are so completely anal about historical correctness to the point of if a blanket had the right colors or a rifle had the correct stock architecture. I believe it's correct in spirit, that is close but maybe not exact then relax and have fun. Does anybody really believe that if an enemy took your ax or blanket he'd throw it away because it didn't look right?
1:33 already you have my willingness to watch all the way through this because of your honesty, and my jealousy of your backyard! On with the rest of the video.
It's easier and cheaper to make wooden tent pegs /stakes and they stay in the ground better than those awful plastic things you need and you don't need to carry them
Very informative and entertaining video, thanks
Sorry, its either a music video or a bushcraft video...
I am blind as a bat...🤣
Very interesting.
Very cool
You can use char materials from the woods like punk wood or tinder fungus for char, its easy to make and just as good as char cloth.
Sca.... cantebury.... Pass.
Love from Israel
This makes you really appreciate the ultralight tech fabrics many of us get to use nowadays.
Greetings from the real Wirral. A place where you can have every weather type in one day. :) Keep having fun. Its all about experimenting. Our tarps are natural wools in the lanolin left in for water proofing, sleeping in the hedgerow edges. We portray the Hiberno Norse of the Wirral or Wirhalh at the time.
Very cool, Elliot. Do you make any of your own gear or have any plans to?
Thanks for the video! Great job!
Excellent! Thank You! I'd been looking for this exactly. Perfect
Disculpa. Me refería a la bolsa que llevabas en el vídeo donde hablas de como hacer algodón carbonizado.😅😅😥
Hola Elliot. Felicitarte por los vídeos que hasta ahora has hecho. Solo quiero proponerte que hagas alguno dedicado a como has hecho tu bolsa donde llevas las cosas básicas porque está muy bien hecha y de manera sencilla. Ahí tienes una idea si te parece bien. Saludos desde Menorca (España).
Amazing!
Great video! Thanks for sharing
Love the video! Historical camping is awesome. How warm does the kit keep you during the winter? I always wondered how medieval soldiers kept warm during the winter months.
The answer to that depends on a few different things, but if I build a good debris bed and I have a fire that I can sleep next to, I can go down to around freezing without too much discomfort (but I do have to get up every few hours to put more wood on). If I can't build a fire (due to local burn bans or site restrictions or the like) I can get by at around freezing, but I'm quite unhappy about it 😆
your PSK in red wool is an amazingly well thought out pouch, i will be appropriating the design. many thanks.
you glorious halfling you, thanks for sharing a simple method for getting medieval outdoors!!! where did you get the pattern for the hat you're wearing, i wanna make me one!!
I used a 4 panel welding cap pattern (although 6 panel patterns are out there, as well) - I think it was this one specifically ( i.pinimg.com/736x/a6/1c/6f/a61c6fa03fff61ede600ff98bdf6b107.jpg ), but you can find different sizes with pretty minimal searching!
@@elliotburton4289 SUHWEET BRO!! much thanks!!
Just want to say, I love your videos so much. Your style is so cozy, and I like hearing you talk about the medieval character you portray, while at the same time offering practical advice and fun ideas to try. It's all so great, and I hope you make more when you get a chance to! ☺️
중세를 알아보는 유익한 영상 ... 우리나라와 달라서 재밋고 좋았어요. 우리나라는 산에서 잠을 못잤어요. 호랑이 표범 등이 엄청 많은 나라 였는데 일제시대를 격으면서 많은 동물을 죽였다고 들었어요 A useful video about the Middle Ages... It was fun and nice because it was different from our country. I couldn't sleep in the mountains in my country. It was a country with a lot of tigers and leopards I heard you killed a lot of animals during the Japanese colonial era
Not sure who told you that open finger gloves were not authentic. But the open finger glove sphere dates back to the Roman empire era. The closed finger knitted glove came later but still predates 50 AD. Char cloth was common cary by Romsn Legions also. Copper pots date as far back as predynastic Egypt. Eye glasses date back to the 12th century.
I agree that objects that fit into those general categories pre-date my period of interest! The ones that I show in this video are not of an appropriate form for my 14th century English impression, though; I can’t document the construction method and shape and the like to that time period and place. I’m always interested in information about historical fire making! Do you have documentation for Roman use of char cloth? I know Pliny the Elder wrote about a couple methods for making fire, but I didn’t see anything about preparing tinder in that way in Natural History.
@@elliotburton4289 Nearly every site along Hadrian's Wall have provided not only spherical glove jigs made of bronze but also charing boxes of tin, copper and bronze. The Roman troops (who were predominately conscripts from Europe and southern U.K.) were issued a glove jig and a sock jig along with wool yarn. The charcloth was made by the mid level leadership and doled as part of the troops salaries. There are thousands of ledgers from the wall forts that clearly document this. The glove jigs were considered a puzzle for years by archeology until a woman archeologist saw one and quickly identified it. As the design is still in use today. They look like a soccer ball with pins in each spot where the lines intersect. So, since the jigs not only existed but were in continual use in the U.K. since 55A.D. it is foolish to think that in the 14th century they stopped only to save and resume their use again in the 15th century forward. Charcloth can be produced from Cotton, Flax linen, Hemp ĺinen, or any other natural plant fiber cloth. Infact, the Brittunculi Documentaries on the Wall and on farm life of the 14th century explicitly use a charcloth of flax ĺinen.
@@user-qx3lm4vw6e That’s an excellent argument for why my gloves are not appropriate - they certainly weren’t knitted using a dodecahedron, and they don’t look like ones that are 🙂 Thanks for the tip! I will look into funds from Hadrian’s wall and see what I can find re: char(red )cloth
Having recently discovered organizations that exist like, SCA, LARP and other types of historical and period fantasy organizations, I'm rather intrigued by it all. As for finding any drawings or paintings regarding commoners in presented in their "native" environments, garb or with their various tools and equipment, I would think that might be difficult. I would think the artists in those periods would be more interested in trying to appease the upper classes to make money. Hence, why we seem to have much more art of great scenes like battle encampments or, warrior type kits or even peasants bringing in the crops. (crops = wealth) I could be totally off that and there may be such drawings or paintings that don't make it to light in most museums. I will be looking forward to watching more of your videos soon. Cheers!
Looks like a lot of fun. Carry on good sir!
Man, this is like D and D in real life, except without the monsters. Enjoyed this video. Keep em coming.
No coconuts? So you had to walk.
What size is that tarp?
Nice setup really enjoyed the video.
Dude, I wish you would mak more videos.
Interesting and informative video. Enjoyed it, thank you.
I want to see how well the plow point works with a ghost head (those rock attachment points) in place of a loop in the center of the tarp. My guess is ugly but effective.
Hey man, love you content. Hope you have the time and energy to post some more at some point
This has been on my watch later playlist for months and I'm so glad I finally got around to watching. Fantastic video!
Was a Tunic pretty much the t shirt of Ancient Times? Pretty interesting stuff! Thanks for the video.
Sehr interessant
How much did it all weigh?
I love your safety bag! That is something unique I haven't seen or heard from other Anachronists or Bushcrafters.
You could easily skip the plastic tent stakes to stay with a natural material profile. Stakes can be made from green wood. Good idea overall though.
This just came up as a recommended video, shame to see you are no longer making videos I hope you are keeping well. One little hint when setting up a ridgeline when using Prussic knots, instead of moving the knot if you pull the tarp tight and then move the prussic you will get a tighter pitch.
This was a great vid. Thanks for taking the time to go over your kit with us.
все плохо! ты подделываешь современность под средние века
I wander about Alaska in my retirement dressed more or less as a late 19th century North American fur trapper. And aside frome carrying a firearm ...the basics are surprisingly simmilar ...well maybe not so surprising since the basic needs remain the same no matter the time.
thank you very much for this
This very interesting to watch, just what i was looking for. Thank you!
Something to sharpen the knives and axe? File or a stone?