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  • Fun video. Really inspiring to get out there and have some fun in the outdoors! Now I can't wait for Spring!

  • @antpop1 Appreciate both your comments - thanks! And for your sub, again, thanks.  Keep your adventures going. Enjoyed your Idaho campouts. Hope to see more on your channel - having "fun in the outdoors"!

  • A rain shelter built on the low side of a slope? And all that work for what? How long you planning on staying- just the day? Try taking an umbrella! Oh I forgot this is "surviving" isn't it.

  • @chas4551 Wow. You need to calm down. Maybe he did it for the fun of doing something, building something. The tree was already down so he saw a fun project out of it. No it isn't "surviving." It's giving yourself the experience of survival for fun & practice should you ever need to use it for a true survival scenario. Save yourself the stress...maybe you shouldn't watch these videos.

  • Awesome. Can't wait to do the same.. just moved here to the PNW

  • @russelleatspilot Good for you, and you will enjoy it - thanks!

  • ideal place to build. Still an extended effort to finish that shelter, nice work.

  • @micktheweld Thanks for dropping by to visit, really appreciate your comment. Looking to tidy the place up a bit once the snow leaves the area.

  • Bought one,works good,better survival tool than a knife.That is why injin scouts and injins carried hawks and long knives. Hard to crack a nut with a saw. Thanks

  • @cutrite851 Thanks for watching and commenting, really appreciated. Sure do like mine too. I amazed that it can cut like a knife. Enjoy using your's out there!

  • try holiday inn or any of the moter that are open in your town good luck dude!!! oh yeah and bring a saw next time your in the woods,

  • i want to survive in a rain forest at least a week ... lol

    isn't it illegal to cut down tress, and make a place like home?

  • @leeedward1117 Often thought of spending a few days there. The tree was a blown-down, fallen over from it's roots. And you're right, cutting down a tree is not permitted in a national forest. Thanks for commenting.

  • In what country is this.

  • @NorthSurvival Thanks for watching! This is in the US, the state of Washington, east of Seattle.

  • Nice shelter and looks like a very beautiful place. Thanks for sharing.Take Care.

  • @1097411 Thanks for watching! I'm thinking of going back there in a few weeks. It will be all covered in snow. Curious to see how it held up. We'll see...

  • Niiiiiice hatchet!!!!!!! Like that.

  • @ReeperzOutdoors It really is a quality piece of gear I've never regreted purchasing. Thanks again for your comments!

  • Actually once I had to pull a tooth with a pair of vice grips, a bandana and a bottle of JD.

    Didn't have money for a rootcanal.

  • Good video as usual. Thanks mate!

  • @Alloutdoor1 And thank you!

  • this local looks like a place I frequent while elk hunting. You could disappear in there and live well indefinitely.

  • @Raymond71544 I return to it often because it does give me that feeling that I could maintain myself here. Appreciate your comment, thanks!

  • @Raymond71544 I bet as soon as you get a decent toothache you'll be *running* back to civilization.

  • we don't have huge deadfall forests to rummage through

    in north Missouri.

    gathering up brush of one kind or another like juniper, willow,maple would be the alternative.

    thanks for posting

    buzz

  • @bluetoad2001 Thank you for commenting. Unfortunately most of the dead fall in our forests are soaked wet and rotten.  I lucked out coming across that recently felled tree. I'll bet your forests are very life giving.

  • Nice location.

  • @Raymond71544 Thanks for coming along!

  • Long live the bushcraft!

  • @ModernNorseman I hear you brother - looking to do more. Many thanks!

  • nice video. I'd have chosen a quieter spot though, that stream is pretty noisy right there. Also it doesn't look comfortable to sleep in, needs a flat bed space

  • @jezzafox Haha - all my campsites are by creeks - I enjoy the music. This was a sit-up shelter. I actually camped overnight downstream at a flat spot with my hammock. Apreciate you watching and commenting, thanks.

  • thtas nicely done and bye a stream too good spot :)

  • @guit4r1st97 Appreciate your comment. Campsites by streams are my favorite spot ; )

  • Real nice video. Enjoyed it very much ! Thanks

  • @Cragdwella Thank you for your nice comment and watching!

  • OK, a big thank you from me.

    This video introduced me to the ax. Research and other vids helped sell me on it. Waited until after my birthday just incase someone asked what i really wanted. They didn't, so I ordered mine asap afterwards. Just got it. Love it! Going camping in 2 1/2 weeks, and it's going with me.

    Thanks again, and keep the vids coming.

  • @mtlyb I'm really touched by this - thank you! And, Happy Birthday mtlyb! Please let me know what camping chores you put your's through, and how it did. I must let you know though - I did the same as you - watched others before me with their axes, and they helped me make a choice. My YT friends deserve the credit for this one! I really do appreciate your kind words and again thank you for your comment, and watching!

  • @Pyromaniac1801 Washington State - in the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest. Thank you for watching!

  • beautyful done bro! keep it up! Daniel

  • @MyPoison77 Thank you, appreciate you watching Daniel!

  • GB..... definitely the best axe in the world. Love the Small Forest Axe

  • @JetstreamChil It's a life time keeper - fine tool - thanks for your comment and watching!

  • Great shelter and beautiful area! Good hatchet, nice with the leather binding. Thanks for sharing, good job. Happy Day Sepp

  • @Waldhandwerk Thanks for your tip on how to grip the handle with a lanyard Sepp - appreciate it!

  • nicely done

  • @FixedByDoc Thanks Ryan!

  • nice vid

    

  • @stefchollet Thank you for tuning in!

  • Great job Bill! I love the axe and the way you built the shelter.... I like the wawhiker bushcraft videos too :-)

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @Sancastrochez Hey buddy, always appreciated, thanks Santiago!

  • Enjoyed seeing you out there doin' it. Like the comments made as well, keep it up

  • @wildernessinnovation Thank you very much Perry!

  • Thanks for the trip. I really enjoyed this video tonight. I'm sitting on my front porch listening to the rain fall, and this silent video was just the thing for the moment.

  • @bonsaihiker You are most kind, happy to know you liked it.

  • That was very well done Bill...enjoyed watching...very clever using that fallen tree to stay off the ground...10 STARS

  • @bushcraftbartons I'm touched by your rating Mike, many thanks!

  • Yeah, been lots of trees down out there with the rain and the wind. Don't get down just get out there. I swear I have had the last 5-6 weekends in a row with rain then Mon-Wed mostly sunny. ...but I'm not bitter I tell ya.

  • @oregonmikes You got that right - when the weekend rolls around non-stop rain. I took a few days off during the week a few weeks ago, non-stop rain. We'll laugh at this in August (I hope). Thanks for watching and commenting!

  • You got it. I'm glad I could share something with you. I don't take videos or even pics but I have a lot to share. Some people are very sensitive. I try to be helpful by pointing simple things out but most people get defensive in some way or another and miss the whole point I'm trying to show my appreciation for what they do and share little things, if understood, would help them make better decisions in the future.

  • Love these lone adventures into the woods. Nice little leanto and that log in front where you can build a fire to reflect the heat back is ideal. Thanks for the demonstration.

  • @rainbowhiker Same as you - I like to wander. I'm led by the sounds of falling water. The site for the leanto seemed completely ideal - nature made park bench facing the creek. Thanks for your comment.

  • Nice video. Thanks for sharing. You find the nicest spots to make your videos. Just FYI, the ridgepole is usually placed behind the trees with the vertical poles and pine boughs leaning into the pole which then leans into the tree for more stability. You used mostly pine boughs so the weight on the pole wasn't that great. When the ridge pole is on the other side, it can handle more weight because it is supported by the trees.

  • @MrJoeyBoombotz Thank you very much for pointing this out to me. I understand now the error of my ways. All the stress is focused on the ropes verses having the trees handle most of it. A redo in my future - more fun! Please continue with your very helpful comments. Again, thanks!

  • your scenery ALWAYS looks like what you would see on a movie set. Are you in hollywood? ;p

  • @ez2curanut ...the palm trees are hidden in the back lot - haha! Nope, it's the wet and cloudy Olympic and Cascade mountains convergence zone.  Hey, where's that DO video? You and Intenseangler are tortureous!

  • Your woods remind me of my woods back home in maine. They seemed "alright" until I moved away. Then they became so much more. This is a very peaceful video, thanks I really needed that.

  • @kookiemoose Thank you for this. I was really getting down these past few weeks over so much rain - thinking there's somewhere else? This weekend and this YT community has lifted me.

  • That looked like a fun shelter build Bill! GB axes are hands down the best - yours was made by the same smith as mine too :) If you're going to be out in that lovely rainy weather a lot, I'd get some boiled linseed onto the haft - it'll make the hickory last a lot longer.

  • @englishmaninontario Yeah, thanks to you and your review!. You cost me buddy - haha! Good advice - I will treat that hickory. Thanks again Paul!

  • great shelter, im looking for such a hatchet now. thanks for showing it.

  • @PHARRAOH Thanks Alan! You would appreciate this fine steel and it really is. 

  • That is a sharp axe. Are you more of an axe dude? Or depends with where you are going? Oh no ... you have a Bush Buddy? I am at risk if I continue to watch your videos!!! :) Good work on the shelter B!

    ~A

  • @phr1sk37 I enjoy the options now and what mood strikes me. But yes - the longer hikes would make me rethink the hatchet option. LOL! Not a Bush Buddy - no risk in watching... Thanks A!

  • nice work, that axe makes quick work of things huh? sometimes it's nice to get back to the basics of it all and remember what it feels like to truly live in our natural realm...

  • @mgissy2010 I completely agree - and it's alot of fun too! Thanks for your comment.

  • Love the shout outs. This is the best community on YouTube!

  • @EconoChallenge Amen!

  • Once again, a real nice video. Lovely place too. I have the GB small forest axe, a great piece but the woods are so rock hard here that most axes struggle a little.

  • @phrayzar Thank you! Hopefully my first use didn't cause too large a ripple with the axe community, haha! I Googled Australian hardwoods out of curiousity - you have some of the tallest and hardest in the world, and only in Australia...pretty amazing place too!

  • nice video, I have been trying to save up for one but it is a big pill to swallow with shipping. Someday.

  • @dragonflyhiker Sounds like you've searched for them locally? It was big pill - I hear you - then shipping... you're right. I'm stuck the same way with the Bush Buddy. Someday too.

  • That's a nice axe. I'm looking at the small forest axe. I might go with the wetterlings though, regardless, watching your vid makes me want one even more. :)

  • @zoolanderfred I got hooked the same way - watching all the great axe bushcrafting YT videos. You will enjoy that fine axe.

  • Great tool to make a nice shelter!

    The place looks rather wet, but you seem to enjoy it nonetheless. What else could you wish for! ... maybe a special project, eh? ;o)

    Greetings, Tim

  • @steintanz Really enjoyed my first use of this fine tool Tim and yes, more special projects with it are imagined - I can't wait! It's always wet around here - all the wood you saw around me is completely soaked or rotted from being always rain soaked. We all who live here around Seattle have webbed feet, "quack, quack!

  • @wawhiker .... ah the froggers!

  • Great job, been eyeing their forest axe for some time, unfortunately have had all my funds going other places. What a great place you have to enjoy!

  • @landlockedviking Thank you! You have your eye on a great one. I waited my turn to get one too. It's been a bit wet this spring.

  • Awesome!!!!!!! Nice work Bushcraft Bill :o)))))) A good axe made a great shelter! What a beautiful scene. Was that a Bush Buddy sitting on the ground? ;o)

  • @Ggreenvideos I'm catching the bushcraft bug - it's a great test of knowledge and skill - all thanks to many hours of YouTube buddies' videos sharing their's. Really enjoy using the hatchet. (Is a hatchet considered an axe)? No Bush Buddy in my camp buddy - not for a while - it's a DIY wood stove.

  • Great job. Thanks for showing your new hatchet. What size is that one?

  • @biblesnbarbells Thanks you for coming along on my first use! GB calls it their Wildlife hatchet with a 14" handle, 1 lb head. Just the right packable size from me IMHO.

  • @wawhiker

    Thanks. I will purchase one for myself. Anthony.

  • Hey there's a little bushcrafter in Bill sweet :-)

  • @medicjimr Hard to believe eh!? LOL!

  • @wawhiker Nope buddy cool watching ya. : )

  • Great Video buddy! Great job on that shelter and there's Nothing like having a sharp axe! IMHO .... looking forward to the next vid!

  • @TomsBackwoods Nothing like it is right on - I'm amazed at how sharp it is - never experienced such a sharp fine tool as this until now. (I've got a little carving project planned...)  Thanks Tom!

  • I always enjoy "tagging along" with you in these gorgeous areas that you are so fortunate to spend time in... Looks like you had a great time out there, and got to put that new hatchet to work as well (very nice btw!). Always look forward to your videos... thanks for sharing this one Bill.

    P.S. We really need to get Dave out more... he's gettin' a bad case of cabin fever! lol

  • @intenseangler You can tag along anytime - and I hope there's enough room in your boat for me. I know how Dave must be feeling, I was determined to get out rain or shine. I'll be right over for your Dutch Oven cooking - I'm a huge DO fan - a "master chef" with one on our family camp outs.

  • nice work bud, glad you like the hatchet

  • @beast12101 I really do like it. Thanks again for all your help!

  • Great job on the shelter my friend, really enjoyed seeing the Wildlife Hatchet in action too.

  • @ColinOutdoors Thank you Colin! Appreciate you stopping by my shelter.

  • That is a beautiful and hellish sharp Axe. Keep her dry and and don't ever dig ground with it or hit the rock. Big dents are hard to scrape out while sharpening....

    Stay well my friend.

    Now I'm off to woods at 3 Degs Celsus with a heavy overcast huh... gotta collect some birch sap...

    later....

  • @nedeljkomostar I'm actually proud to own a fine tool like that and yes I will treat it respectfully. Keep warm Zoran and thanks for the care tips. How long a season does birch sap run?.

  • @wawhiker Two to tree weeks the most.

  • Hey, Nice! A day in the woods is better than...ANY day! Looks like you had some fun and got some exercise too. Is this a spot you can return to easily, sit back with tea and listen to the water? Save a spot on the log for me brother! Looks like my kind of place. Nice hatchet too. Obviously wouldn't carry it every trip for very useful tool. Good to see you out again.

  • @dmacken11 Yup, had some fun in the rain. You know me - enjoy the creeks. There's plenty of room for you "nut buddy" - that would be a good time, you'd enjoy it!

  • Looks like a good trip. Must have been some strong winds thru there

  • @redwoodfox It was a bit rainy but still fun to get out. That unfortunate tree actually rooted itself over the top of a large boulder. I was amazed it grew to the size it was. Thanks for watching and commenting!

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