Since I have a service dog she carries some of my stuff when I go hiking. Not much just an extra liter of water, and usually beef jerky or a snack of some kind. She also carries a small 4x4 tarp for herself and a light fleece blanket and about a 4lbs bag of her own food. I carry her water dish with me just because her pack is too small. I have seen many large breed dogs as well pull carts with items in them. But as you said they can only carry about 1/4 their weight. Just nice to have a friend.
I raise pack goats and this info you're providing just tickles me to the core. Goats are the ultimate bugout pack animals. Thanks for promoting this sport!
Dave this is cool. something i learned as a kid is float bark on the water and it splashes way way less if at all or a batch of that tall grass woven or not. It is great to see a kind helpful person like your self
Dave Canterbury for President, hell he can come up here to Canada and be Prime Minister lol i think everyone that has half a brain should be utilizing these videos!!
hey Dave! when it comes to pack animals, did you consider pack oxen? pack oxen were used during Gold Rush up north, and in South Africa, and both times in conditions that killed horses. advantages are: over goats: can defend against cougars, bears, etc., no fear of water, and can stand cold weather much better. over equids: cheaper, calmer, less prone to injury, no fear of water, can carry much more, better on marshy terrain. google draft animal forum on pack oxen!!! a heads-up! ;)
I had some goats a few years ago and had a billy that looked alot like yours.When it would rain and he would get wet you could smell him 200 yards away.It was like gps to help you find him.I enjoy your videos very much.roger from Indiana.
I'm happy to report my little test has worked.took all the grease from the hamburger and made one hell of a candle.Thanks Dave .and Cedar makes a excellent fire starter board.I had to use Mesquite for the spinnal. and bow. but WOW cedar makes an amber fast very little down word pressure and it really starts to smoke fast.I would also like to report the chrome part in the flash light work great to.Again thanks Dave
SWEET GOAT! Pretty handy animal to have around! If it was a milk goat you can have cream in your coffee.....talk about multi purpose. ;) Great video I look forward to your new ones every day.
@cdltpx I am not Dave but stingray is often substituted for scallops in resturants and is quite tasty. They use circular punches to cut the pieces out of the wings and give the meat the round shape scallops have. I just got back from Florida and learned this from a relative who lives there.
What a brilliant idea. I live in town, but now I want a goat. And you said you had tongs in your pack, but I was just thinking that maybe if you had chopsticks you could also use one of those as a drill in the bow-drill method of firestarting. God bless.
You can find DIY dog harness info on the web pretty easy if you chose to make one for yourself but they are not very expensive to buy and some feed and seed stores and pet stores carry them. The packs you use for Tanner can be worn over the harness if you still need to utilise them as well. I hope this is some sort of help to you that you may not have thought of.
You might put a couple of road flares in the goats pack. Those can be used to signal, start fire and will burn long and hot enough to dry out wet wood.
I love how after you tell the goat that he is a possible menu option and not necessarily a pet, he gives you "the look" and then shakes his head like "aw heck no" and walkes out of the lense view. lol
If I ever get the space for it I love the idea of a pack goat. Goats in general appeal to me. They seem more feed efficient than cattle and require less space overall. I'd be tempted right here in suburbia if I thought I could get away with it, but the chickens are already pushing it.
@AJ14615 Another reason,is that a Survival Kit isn't always set in stone. You're gonna find something that suits you a little more than something you used to have, or something that goes well with the items you already have. Don't limit yourself to just taking Dave's 10c's and then never touching your kit's setup again. Always search and experiment to find what best suits you. I like to pack 6-8 clothesline pins, so my wet socks don't end up in my fire.
@Survivalvideos1 I'm not Dave but I do have the Hudson Bay and Bushlore... think they're great. The hudson Bay chops and batons all day with ease and the Bushlore is a very comfortable and capable bushcrafting tool. Easy to sharpen and hold a good edge.
@cdltpx I know where you are coming from with the flounder. I gig for them at St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach when I go there camping on vacation. They have a kids wading area at the rock jetty that collects flounder at night. I use a headlight like Dave has and a gig on an extendable paint pole that works good for getting them from far away when they are skittish. I am from central Alabama out in the country by the way but I love all seafood lol.
I'd kinda like to see you actually load up the goat, then do a little traveling. Just enough to demonstrate the practical application of trying to get the goat to carry your stuff WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
1 small note to kid when your trying out the chrome part in the flash light "DO NOT"!!! Look directly in to it. it will burn your eyes from the sun.its the same as looking at the ark from a welder
Nice option to have a pack animal. I have my dog with her pack wich works ok, but she has to carry her food and water also.Like the goat who eats just about anything and can go without water for three days and you could eat if ya needed to.
@wildernessoutfitters I just noticed your scout pack is about the same size as a net repair bag for a cammo net. going to my local surplus store soon to see if they have some that I can modify to a scout pack for myself.
@mrbippy I was wondering the same thing. Seems like a female goat would meet the requirement of having multiple uses for everything that you take. Heck, she might even eventually attract a male goat to your location and double the MREs!
@Survivalvideos1 I have a few different condor models. they're awesome for the price! The Rodan and golok are my favorites. They use 1075 high carbon too, so they're pretty easy to sharpen and re-profile.
@motorhead26 ok makes sense i live up in saskatchewan, and usually we have about 5 feet of snow but this year only like 1foot, its all in the positives when last year it was -55 degrees celsius so think how nervous i am lol
Thats a really cool idea, I only own a fainting goat but i guess it would be a bad idea to practice with him, Probably cough loud or somthing and the poor old thing would faint and roll down the side of a mountain with all my stuff.
Im not Dave and I dont speak for him but, if you are new, or farely new here......and have questions about anything pertaining to the 6 basic survival needs, do some researching/browsing through the 508 videos he has here! I am pretty sure he has covered all of them, in depth, at least a couple times over! You shouldnt show up at vid 500+ and ask simple questions about fire, shelter, first aid etc... I have been following Dave for at least a WEEK now and am sure he has covered all these topics!
@mrbippy Goat milk is good for the stomach . I have ulcers and goat milk really helps with that and acid reflux .( this info has been handed down for generations in my family )
I saw a man in Europe using Sacks that he carried with him. He ended up having a makeshift cot, and a pillow filled with leaves. The 3 sacks didn't weight much and were great for getting one's body off the ground. Have you seen this video or have any experience with sacks? Oh,,and loved the video Dave. I'm getting ready to prompt all of my facebook 'Friends' to Subscribe to your channel. Don't know why I haven't so far. Love all that you do, Brother. Thank you for everything. God bless!
Dave... my wife would like to talk to you. It took me a few weeks of convincing her to let me put a yurt in the back yard but now she is standing firm on the pack goat thing. Please help a brother out :-)
After he said that the goat was an MRE tha goat looked at him like he was going to head butt him..LOL. I like goats but never have had any. Up here in Bend,Oregon people use Lammas for back packing. But goats are smaller.
an old car tire with supported and nailed to the top of your chopping block.. allows all the wood to stand tall and still (if you load up the tire) and it chops just as easily without flying off... less bending, more chopping... the less you have to touch a pice of wood the better :) though your camp won't look as 'rustic' and 'woodsy' it's how do you put it.. functionable not fasionable and not unreasonalbe to find an old tire in a 'grid down' nomadic survival situation -RLTW
Here is the video with the man using Sacks for a cot and pillow. Thought you might find it interesting. 'bushcraft survival long term wilderness shelter patr 4 of 7 making a raised cot'.
@freki1000 i live in Illinois and im still waiting for snow and i live close to the Wisconsin border we have had a very warm winter its kinda of scary.
Dave I would really like to see a scenario on SAN where a couple guys with little self reliance experience get lost hiking and have atleast the 10 C's on hand. or an averages backpackers contents. that would be interesting to those of us that haven't yet taken one of your courses.
Didn't you say in another video you were going to be an overnight hunting trip? Whatever happened with that? Great video.. thanks for all your hard work Dave.
you can eat it, milk it (for females), use the hide-bones-horns, use it to drag your sled, make it a bate, sell it to santa claus as a backup for an ill deer. that's the versatile "pathfinder" goat! XD
Great Dave! now how to I start that conversation with my wife? You know honey.........I was thinking we should get a goat. I may need to buy a yurt too just so I have something to live in. :)
dave or anyone else reading this would you carry a pestle and mortar or would you improvise one say if you needed it for some reason like making gunpowder or for cooking needs
1:25
"You gotta do what you gotta do, right?"
Tanner nods his head.
Since I have a service dog she carries some of my stuff when I go hiking. Not much just an extra liter of water, and usually beef jerky or a snack of some kind. She also carries a small 4x4 tarp for herself and a light fleece blanket and about a 4lbs bag of her own food. I carry her water dish with me just because her pack is too small. I have seen many large breed dogs as well pull carts with items in them. But as you said they can only carry about 1/4 their weight. Just nice to have a friend.
The funniest video yet! Mr Goat stared you down when you called him a MRE! LOL Great i love all of the videos!!
Thanks for going over the specifics of your "goat kit" Dave! Love the little bit of humor injected into this video. :)
I raise pack goats and this info you're providing just tickles me to the core. Goats are the ultimate bugout pack animals. Thanks for promoting this sport!
Dave this is cool. something i learned as a kid is float bark on the water and it splashes way way less if at all or a batch of that tall grass woven or not. It is great to see a kind helpful person like your self
I admire your enthusiasm for the outdoors. It is like none other I've ever seen. Very inspirational. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Dave Canterbury for President, hell he can come up here to Canada and be Prime Minister lol i think everyone that has half a brain should be utilizing these videos!!
iwe watched this series from the beginning of it and i am really liking it keep it up. greetings from finland
hey Dave!
when it comes to pack animals, did you consider pack oxen?
pack oxen were used during Gold Rush up north, and in South Africa, and both times in conditions that killed horses.
advantages are:
over goats: can defend against cougars, bears, etc., no fear of water, and can stand cold weather much better.
over equids: cheaper, calmer, less prone to injury, no fear of water, can carry much more, better on marshy terrain.
google draft animal forum on pack oxen!!!
a heads-up! ;)
I had some goats a few years ago and had a billy that looked alot like yours.When it would rain and he would get wet you could smell him 200 yards away.It was like gps to help you find him.I enjoy your videos very much.roger from Indiana.
The next group of goats we get I will have to pick one out to work with. Thanks for the idea Dave great vid
im not going to lie when you called the goat a MRE and he looked at you i totaly thought you were going to get headbutted lol
whoa... dave and the goat havethe same beard.........
This is great. I love goats and I love this series.
I'm happy to report my little test has worked.took all the grease from the hamburger and made one hell of a candle.Thanks Dave .and Cedar makes a excellent fire starter board.I had to use Mesquite for the spinnal. and bow. but WOW cedar makes an amber fast very little down word pressure and it really starts to smoke fast.I would also like to report the chrome part in the flash light work great to.Again thanks Dave
SWEET GOAT! Pretty handy animal to have around! If it was a milk goat you can have cream in your coffee.....talk about multi purpose. ;) Great video I look forward to your new ones every day.
@greatbloke I second that....journal of the goat. Dave keep up the awesome work. It is very appreciated! God Bless!
I've seen goats used to great success at many primitive skill gatherings, great animals
@cdltpx I am not Dave but stingray is often substituted for scallops in resturants and is quite tasty. They use circular punches to cut the pieces out of the wings and give the meat the round shape scallops have. I just got back from Florida and learned this from a relative who lives there.
love the idea of a pretty self sufficient pack animal thats not too large. he seems very amiable .
What a brilliant idea. I live in town, but now I want a goat. And you said you had tongs in your pack, but I was just thinking that maybe if you had chopsticks you could also use one of those as a drill in the bow-drill method of firestarting. God bless.
You can find DIY dog harness info on the web pretty easy if you chose to make one for yourself but they are not very expensive to buy and some feed and seed stores and pet stores carry them. The packs you use for Tanner can be worn over the harness if you still need to utilise them as well. I hope this is some sort of help to you that you may not have thought of.
Thanks Dave. The older I get the more I want to carry, but the older I get the less I can carry!
You might put a couple of road flares in the goats pack. Those can be used to signal, start fire and will burn long and hot enough to dry out wet wood.
I love how after you tell the goat that he is a possible menu option and not necessarily a pet, he gives you "the look" and then shakes his head like "aw heck no" and walkes out of the lense view. lol
this is by far the ultimate bug out vehicle I have kept them for years perfect survival animal will go where you can't and like people.
Journal of the Goat !
Great Idea whoever suggested it.
Great video Dave
lol almost took a horn to the eye a few times
love your vids
another good thing about having an animal around is that you can watch them and see character changes that can warn on possible dangers
I would have never thought of a goat as a pack animal. Thank you for your videos.
If I ever get the space for it I love the idea of a pack goat. Goats in general appeal to me. They seem more feed efficient than cattle and require less space overall. I'd be tempted right here in suburbia if I thought I could get away with it, but the chickens are already pushing it.
@AJ14615 Another reason,is that a Survival Kit isn't always set in stone. You're gonna find something that suits you a little more than something you used to have, or something that goes well with the items you already have. Don't limit yourself to just taking Dave's 10c's and then never touching your kit's setup again. Always search and experiment to find what best suits you. I like to pack 6-8 clothesline pins, so my wet socks don't end up in my fire.
@Survivalvideos1 I'm not Dave but I do have the Hudson Bay and Bushlore... think they're great. The hudson Bay chops and batons all day with ease and the Bushlore is a very comfortable and capable bushcrafting tool. Easy to sharpen and hold a good edge.
@wildernessoutfitters The look Tanner gave you when you said he was an MRE is priceless. I thought he was going to flip you the hoof.
Goats are bulletproof.
Dave is living the LIFE! A modern day Henry David Thoreau!
@cdltpx I know where you are coming from with the flounder. I gig for them at St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach when I go there camping on vacation. They have a kids wading area at the rock jetty that collects flounder at night. I use a headlight like Dave has and a gig on an extendable paint pole that works good for getting them from far away when they are skittish. I am from central Alabama out in the country by the way but I love all seafood lol.
I wish have a dad like you Dave!!
Cudos Dave. I've been preaching goats forever.
I'd kinda like to see you actually load up the goat, then do a little traveling. Just enough to demonstrate the practical application of trying to get the goat to carry your stuff WHERE YOU WANT TO GO.
1 small note to kid when your trying out the chrome part in the flash light "DO NOT"!!! Look directly in to it. it will burn your eyes from the sun.its the same as looking at the ark from a welder
Nice option to have a pack animal. I have my dog with her pack wich works ok, but she has to carry her food and water also.Like the goat who eats just about anything and can go without water for three days and you could eat if ya needed to.
@wildernessoutfitters I just noticed your scout pack is about the same size as a net repair bag for a cammo net. going to my local surplus store soon to see if they have some that I can modify to a scout pack for myself.
as a kid we had nanny goats that would give up to a gallon a day some a little more another grate food
great now my goat has a new job....
To drag my stuff trough the wilderness !
@mrbippy I was wondering the same thing. Seems like a female goat would meet the requirement of having multiple uses for everything that you take. Heck, she might even eventually attract a male goat to your location and double the MREs!
@Survivalvideos1 I have a few different condor models. they're awesome for the price! The Rodan and golok are my favorites. They use 1075 high carbon too, so they're pretty easy to sharpen and re-profile.
Love your videos brother! Keep on doing what you do
@rogersmt Its from Duluth Pack. They're a little spendy but have a life time warranty on them and are virtually indestructible.
Love your video's most of all on youtube.
i love your vids and ideas u are the real deal dave.....
I am a big fan and would love to meet you.and you and Cody work good on dual survival
@survival919 REI brand single wall titanium cups also nest under clean canteen perfect. Snow peak nest better under Nalgene SS or Guyot SS bottles.
Great stuff plus goats are quite and they can go anywhere!
@motorhead26 ok makes sense i live up in saskatchewan, and usually we have about 5 feet of snow but this year only like 1foot, its all in the positives when last year it was -55 degrees celsius so think how nervous i am lol
@wildernessoutfitters Your goat said screw you with that look after you said you could eat him. Good stuff Dave, thanks for the videos
Thats a really cool idea, I only own a fainting goat but i guess it would be a bad idea to practice with him, Probably cough loud or somthing and the poor old thing would faint and roll down the side of a mountain with all my stuff.
Im not Dave and I dont speak for him but, if you are new, or farely new here......and have questions about anything pertaining to the 6 basic survival needs, do some researching/browsing through the 508 videos he has here! I am pretty sure he has covered all of them, in depth, at least a couple times over! You shouldnt show up at vid 500+ and ask simple questions about fire, shelter, first aid etc... I have been following Dave for at least a WEEK now and am sure he has covered all these topics!
Another good one Dave, thanks.
1:50: Tanner isn't look around, he's looking at you! I can see the bubble over his head, "WTH are you talking about, Dave!"
About two minutes into the video my wife says no goat! I'm still trying for the chickens.
@mrbippy Goat milk is good for the stomach . I have ulcers and goat milk really helps with that and acid reflux .( this info has been handed down for generations in my family )
Hey dave good job.
I am a big fan of you.
@wildernessoutfitters
walmart sales a coleman camping cups for about 20bucks and i believe one of them fits it..
Great vid.. dog pack alforjas would work really good or leather motor cycle saddle bags.
I saw a man in Europe using Sacks that he carried with him. He ended up having a makeshift cot, and a pillow filled with leaves. The 3 sacks didn't weight much and were great for getting one's body off the ground. Have you seen this video or have any experience with sacks? Oh,,and loved the video Dave. I'm getting ready to prompt all of my facebook 'Friends' to Subscribe to your channel. Don't know why I haven't so far. Love all that you do, Brother. Thank you for everything. God bless!
Dave... my wife would like to talk to you. It took me a few weeks of convincing her to let me put a yurt in the back yard but now she is standing firm on the pack goat thing. Please help a brother out :-)
After he said that the goat was an MRE tha goat looked at him like he was going to head butt him..LOL. I like goats but never have had any. Up here in Bend,Oregon people use Lammas for back packing. But goats are smaller.
I really like that backpack, so neat and simple. Cant believe its so expensive. =(
an old car tire with supported and nailed to the top of your chopping block.. allows all the wood to stand tall and still (if you load up the tire) and it chops just as easily without flying off... less bending, more chopping... the less you have to touch a pice of wood the better :) though your camp won't look as 'rustic' and 'woodsy' it's how do you put it.. functionable not fasionable and not unreasonalbe to find an old tire in a 'grid down' nomadic survival situation
-RLTW
Hey Dave, I'd really like to see a better picture of that blanketpin/ striker. Love your videos!
Here is the video with the man using Sacks for a cot and pillow. Thought you might find it interesting. 'bushcraft survival long term wilderness shelter patr 4 of 7 making a raised cot'.
@wildernessoutfitters Exactly!!
@freki1000 i live in Illinois and im still waiting for snow and i live close to the Wisconsin border we have had a very warm winter its kinda of scary.
A goat MRE !!- I needed that so bad man. LOL does not even get it.. Thanks for making these vids !
Dave I would really like to see a scenario on SAN where a couple guys with little self reliance experience get lost hiking and have atleast the 10 C's on hand. or an averages backpackers contents. that would be interesting to those of us that haven't yet taken one of your courses.
The best video so far!
Gotta love it!
Are you worried about the goat being cougar bait? Wouldn't that be too tempting to resist for Mountain Lions or Grisly Bears?
@illumin8er You can always cook bannock and bacon on a stick, no problem.
davw the goat can also be a early warning system big fan of your work keep it up
Knife company he mentioned is, Blind Horse Knives.
Didn't you say in another video you were going to be an overnight hunting trip? Whatever happened with that?
Great video.. thanks for all your hard work Dave.
Casio Pathfinder is the watch....It looks like the triple sensor
Good Vid thank makes the day go by fast watching the Vids.
You would have your hot chocolate with you. It is too valuable for the goat.
Tanner look super cute.
you can eat it, milk it (for females), use the hide-bones-horns, use it to drag your sled, make it a bate, sell it to santa claus as a backup for an ill deer. that's the versatile "pathfinder" goat! XD
Dave you made me wanna have a goat!
great pack items Dave. Where is the pathfinder fishing kit and or the Sling bow ?? that would back up the 12 gauge.
Do they come in tactical version?
@njerseydavid It's on the list man. among many other things I can't afford to buy just now.
@wildernessoutfitters I'll give it a shot!
@metsfan12110 The watch Dave is wearing appears to be a Casio PATHFINDER...seems like a no-brainer for Dave! :)
great video! and it is no animal cruelty because he doesn't carry to much!
Great Dave! now how to I start that conversation with my wife? You know honey.........I was thinking we should get a goat. I may need to buy a yurt too just so I have something to live in. :)
dave or anyone else reading this would you carry a pestle and mortar or would you improvise one say if you needed it for some reason like making gunpowder or for cooking needs
@shannonbtanner I'm from tx to and love goat.Also have Bar b doe sheep.better than deer meat..
dave do u get any foxs or coys messing with your goat