Planning a Winter Trek | WILDERNESS SURVIVAL | BUSH CRAFT | PIONEER LIFE CIRCA 1700's
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- čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
- Waiting for spring for chinking and fireplace construction, Peter begins furniture building and plans for a winter camping trip 18th century style. He splits a cedar log, to be used for a table. He details what he would bring on a mid winter hunting trip in search of big game. This includes tinder bag/fire starting kit, snowshoes, axe, smooth bore musket (shot and round ball). He discusses what's in the shooting bag. He discusses the need for a compass and the misconception that some people have that they have an inherent sense of direction. He discusses the food supplies he carries in his market wallet. He also shows everything he carries in his haversack.
Featuring - Peter Kelly
Cinematography - Catherine Wolfe
Producer & Editor - Shane Kelly
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Once Again Another Great Video. Thanks For Sharing Your Fire Starting Kit and the Gear You Use While Trekking In the Woods! Be Safe.
Thank you for your continued interest..
Good afternoon from Syracuse NY United States of America my friend and everyone else thank you for sharing your adventures in history
Our pleasure, Earl.
Thank you everyone
Merci Peter, grace à vous j ai pu me fabriquer des possible bag ainsi que des bag ball. Serge
Well done, Serge. Flattered to have been a help.
You ought to use a sledge to pound steel wedges. The steel wedges can deform the pole on your axe. I pound wedges with my axe but they are pounding plastic felling wedges. You can also cause cracks in the eye pounding steel splitting wedges. Just a thought. My axes have good steel in them but I also have steel sledge hammers and I don’t like damaging my Swedish axes pounding them on steel wedges.😊
Huuuyyyyyyyyiiii q bien desde Colombia pensé q IVA a salir a una expedición de cazeria
Thank you very much
You are welcome
The more you know the less you carry and this certainly proves that. Enjoy the series more than you know. Thanks for showing the old ways.
My pleasure Mark, glad your enjoying.
I Like your Videos very much!
It is very much appreciated.
One thing you can do if you have a .72 diameter musket bore my of my is use standard 12 gauge plastic wads with our musket. I used to gauge black powder shotgunfill up the cup on the wads with lead shot and wrap them with potassium nitrate impregnated paper and twist the ends to hold the shot in the paper and plastic wad. I could then ram them down the bore of my 12 gauge black powder shotgun. The paper would burn up upon firing.
It does work well using 20 gauge wads in my .62, but far from historically accurate. I’ve messed around enough to have developed a load that is reasonably good.
Here I go again, I love your videos. Thank you for sharing with us a day of your life.
I know your axe was hand forged. It looks a lot like my Gransfors Scandinavian Forest axe. I like a boys size axe, too. I have three - a 40 year old True Temper, a Council Tools boys axe and my Granfors Scandinavian Forest axe.
It is indeed a Gransfors Burk and one of my favorite tools.
I totally enjoy your series on the Log cabin build.I have learned so much from watching it.Just wanted to say thank you. God bless you.
I love the old ways of trekking and the old fashioned gear, cant wait for the next episode. Cabin is looking great!
Thank you Sir.
These videos are simply wonderful. I'm so thankful that I've found your channel.
Glad you like them and we’re glad you found us.
Beautiful country, very nice to share your travel equipment with us, I enjoyed the great information. David
this guy is 100% golden.
Appreciate that, Francois.
Cool 👍🏻 I always admire the way you present it. Thank you so much. Cant wait for the next sharing episod. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I would love to see more videos like this where you go and set up camp!
Next week’s video you can follow me on an actual trek.
Im loving these videos !! Keep up the good work. I really miss living history, especially my time with the 49th grennadiers, i hope to get back into it some time again.
Another quite wonderful episode, Take care see you in the next one. J 🏴
Nice one Peter I also enjoy hiking in the woods or mountains alone. There is nothing as peaceful or connecting as it. Enjoy the trek.
Another awesome video Peter. I was in the woods all day yesterday pruning apple trees. It appears we finally have less snow on the ground than you now.
A wonderful video keep me glued to the screen now waiting to see the next thank you
👍👌✋ from Turkey
Again great job! Enjoyed your video looking forward to the next one.
when I was 12 years old I lived like this in the Brazilian woods with my beautiful spike similar to yours.
I keep meaning to ask you - do you plan on living in this cabin when completed? Absolutely love this series!!!! Hope you enjoy your trek - looks like it would be wonderful.
Not full t I’ve but, we will most definitely spend a good portion of each season in it.
such a fit old dude! can't believe hes nearly 70!
I can’t believe it either, lol.
Да ещё строить и строить
My general rule for gathering firewood is gather as much as I think I need, and then double it
We both follow the same rule Kyle. I once ran out on very cold night and it was also a new moon, so blacker than the inside of a cat. Obviously I had no modern light and still remember fumbling around on the forest floor for wood. Needless to say, mornings light was a welcome sight.
I liked the style of clothing. very cool, straight from Brazil.
Best description of what you need to trek! I especially like that haversack! By any chance do you have any type of plan you would share?
www.scribd.com/doc/217351637/The-new-Invented-Napsack-and-haversack-1776?fbclid=IwAR36p5S_WjneTQ_7ZJo-v3eR3EhD4005pYzbGlFVKFXFCmC3--zxf5acB6Q
I have spent some time in the Queen’s Woods in cold ( down to -40) conditions- not for the faint of heart.
Indeed, at minus forty ones knows they are alive!
👍 🎥 excellent cordless tools wedges & ax 😉👌
I use to do CW reenacting but always wanted to get into the rendezvous. It was fun but what your doing looks more enjoyable.
Living history is much better than reenacting it, for sure.
Outstanding video
Хало деда, дрво се цепа од пања ка врху, ... у пиланама се реже од врха ка пању, ... бар тако радимо ми у Србији !!!
Nice wool blanket. Looks a little like the Hudson's Bay trade (or point) blanket. Amazing that the Hudson's Bay Company celebrated it's 350th year of business in 2020. It was chartered in 1670 !! I wrote an historical biography on Chief Factor John Mclaughlin of the Hudson's Bay Company for the National Park Service. He was the Chief Factor of Ft. Vancouver in what is now Vancouver Washington.
They are indeed HBC blankets … three and a half point. Is the biography you wrote available?
@@TheWoodlandEscape -- Unfortunately no. It was a project I needed to complete as part of my apprenticeship program. After it was graded it was given back to me, that was at least 30 years ago. I've bought and sold 4 homes since then and it's been lost during the shuffle. Knowing me, I probably burned it accidentally while preparing for a move. Dr. Mclaughlin was an amazing man.
Another awesome video, would love to see a "how I made my tumpline" video 😆. Thank you.
Ramshackle homestead has a good video on making a tumpline
As an interesting tidbit haversacks get there name from havercae, which is pretty much the historic staple in the west riding of Yorkshire its like a very thin dried oat crepe that will stay edible for a dogs age.
I did not know that John, thanks for the info.
John stevenson..
That is interesting... my research shows haversacks origin to be German as "habersack" meaning Oat sack to feed horses carried by soldiers, it then made it's way to France and then England.
I would have thought you would be using a wooden maul to drive your wedges . I do and have found this was the case in all my research of wood working for this period
I am presuming your lovely music is 1700s era... it certainly feels to have an Irish flavour to me... if so, then I suppose it would derive from Irish settlers???
Some of the music does indeed have Irish roots and some are original pieces.
I enjoy you Videos however I wonder if the woodsman would use his steel ax to split wood hitting steel wedges I think he would value it too much to hit steel upon steal
Good point James but, one uses what one has. You are correct though, the axe (often their only one) was vert important to a pioneer.
@@TheWoodlandEscape use a wooden maul, you should make a bunch of gluts as well for log/rail splitting,wooden tools are overlooked..
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How would the pioneers of that era have learned all the skills necessary not only to survive, but thrive? I can only imagine that it was a small percentage coming from backgrounds that gave them the skills. Most I believe would have been ordinary people from established towns in the old or new world. How did they learn to select and fell trees, how to process that raw timber into usable lumber, how to select the correct stone for your fireplace so they didn't explode, then how to engineer that fireplace so it would draw and not asphyxiate you. How to build your structure. Which plants were edible / medicinal. How to track, harvest, process and preserve game. There are just so, so many skills. I'm no expert and I'm sure you know many that wouldn't even occur to me. Were there "schools" of sort? What would you estimate the survival rate of these novice pioneers to have been? My early ancestors came from England and Ireland to Canada and then on to Michigan. I proud to be from such strong stock, but I don't know that I'd survive a month in their time. Tough people.
Tough people indeed, Mike. I think there only school would have been the school of hard knocks. The will to survive is a powerful thing. You are correct in the long list of skills.
I have that very same compass. Dont have a smooth bore yet just a rifle.
you have perfect videos, as well as period clothes and equipment. thank you very much for yuo work. I left you massage on the instagra.. very thank, Peter
I was surprised by the mention of a "burning glass" (magnifying glass) at 5:57. Is this period correct? In common use or rare then?
The reason why I asked is because when I was 9, a school teacher claimed that discarded bottles in the forest could start a fire. Important to know, if correct, here in Australia as wild forest fires are a serious problem.
However all us kids in that school were farm kids, who knew a lot of practical stuff, even at age 9. The teacher was a city girl and we were pretty used to her saying things that were not right.
So, some of us got out magnifying glasses and tried starting a fire with them, by focusing the sun on to paper and then dry grass. It was nearly impossible. A bit of charring and a wisp of smoke was the best we achieved. The reason is that ordinary magnifying glasses are made with spherical surfaces. To get a sharp focus necessary to start a fire, you need an aspheric lens, which requires more complex machinery to make and is used only where necessary, eg cameras. And this was in early summer Australia, blessed with good sun, better than winter Canada.
The HBC issued a burning glass to each member of the brigades as well as having them as to trade items. I’ve both started fires and lite my pipe with them. Your research of the construction of a working one is interesting and I have no idea how they actually made them.
For those not Canadian, "HBC" presumably means "Hudson Bay Company". Thanks for your reply, Peter.
There is another factor: Ordinary glass doesn't pass infrared very well, and not at the same focus as visible light. It is possible, but not that likely, that fire starters were made of a more suitable glass. Quite a bit of the sun's radiation is infra-red and ultra violet.
Great videos! You sir are an inspiration to us all! Any recommendations on good books dealing with mid 1700's to early 1800's Ontario pioneers/settlers? I am currently reading the Reluctant Pioneer, and I am quickly becoming addicted! Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! All the best in your adventure!
Thank you Brad. I actually read that book.
when I go sightseeing in the United States I want to take some pictures with the Lord.
Lot of kindle wood on the ground.
Good observation Wayne. When one makes things like cabins and canoes from cedar, one never runs out of kindling.
Did the pioneers use coyotes as a food source as they're relatively easy to snare?
Well now, great question and I don’t have an answer for it. I’ve personally eaten a lot of different wild meats but, coyotes have yet to make the menu. I don’t see why they would not have not eaten it though.
When do you plan on living in your cabin
Would you be willing to share more examples of period correct foods you carry on treks ? thanks
Foods typically carried in the 1700’s ... loose leaf tea, green coffee beans, salt pork, wild meat jerky, dried foods like peas, rice, mushrooms, herbs, fruits ( most commonly apples) and possibly root crops such as potatoes, carrots etc., if going by canoe or pulling a toboggan. Thanks for your interest Bob.
How many acres of land to you need to do this kind of trekking and hunting?
For experimental archaeology, one can simply get permission to camp out and acquire the skills. A few acres would suffice. We go north to Crown Land. 80 plus % of Ontario is wild and free for one to purse this activity.
@@TheWoodlandEscape on that 80 percent of land is public land? Are there any hunting seasons or something that you have to follow
We have both hunting and fishing regulation in the entire province.
@@TheWoodlandEscape ah I see, thank you
question do you buy or make your gun powder
I by it Carl, but I have made it many years ago.
@@TheWoodlandEscape would love to learn A good recipe to make my own gun powder
Simple, well kinda. 3 ingredients. potassium nitrate or salt peter, charcoal and sulphur . Mixed by volume not weight. 75% ps, 15% charcoal & 10% sulphur. Make your own charcoal if possible … you can Google how to do that. The best wood is willow but, you can use , birch, oak , pine or spruce. Grind separately with pestle and mortar, use a wood bowl. Chill 2 cups of isopropyl alcohol for every cup of charcoal/ sulphur mixture. Use 1/4 cup of water for every cup of p.s.over a low heat add water to the P.s., stir until dissolved. Add Charcoal/ sulfur mix in stirring until all ingredients are combined. In a separate pot put the chilled alcohol and add the complete mixture, stir and place in freezer tho cool as quickly as possible. Run the mixture through cheese cloth to remove liquid and discard … liquid can’t be used again. Lay it out on cardboard and dry in the sun. Once dry, press through a sieve. Repeat by spreading out on cardboard in the sun until throughly dry. Press through a sieve again. Store in plastic jars is best, cool and dry. Good luck. If your charcoal is poor you get slow ignition, that’s were making your own, especially if you use willow will help. Good luck.
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Interesting.. I have read about making BP and would love to see this process on video...! :-)
YT might not like or approve it but you could promote it here and post it on Rumble?
Elder brother from David Carredine ?
Tallow ?
Not sure what you’re asking, Kris.
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Thanks for responding anyway.
I was wondering if you bring along tallow or something else to maintain your gun and gear
How do you make your clothes ?
We brain tan our own deer and moose hides from our hunts and sew most things by hand but , sometimes cheat and use a sewing machine. Thanks for your interest Michael.
@@TheWoodlandEscape For your traditional wool and linen clothing do you use templates of some sort?
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