If you have ever met or taken a course from Mors Kochanski, you know he is a wealth of information on survival and wilderness living in the boreal forest. We here at Karamat Wilderness Ways are sharing his knowledge with you on RU-vid.
I made myself a knife like this after seeing it here, now I just have to try it out. However, I didn't use a saw blade, but diverent piece of scrap metal that I had on hand.
Good point about simply wrapping a rag handle onto the blade in order to craft the frame. Even some bark and grass would probably work its just a few small cuts, especially used in conjunction with chisel batoning to finish a cut like Mors mentioned, probably can just pinch the blade at that point...
I really appreciate the value and depth behind the details, (ie. the jam knot, travois, Roycroft pack frame option). Rich content as always. Thanks for sharing!
When it comes down to one thing that I always carry it is a couple of massive military surplus ponchos from the Czech Republic I found a few years ago in a Dirt Cheap store. It drops down to just above my shoes. I stretch it out and use it as a ground sheet. I can sleep in it and use it as an oversized night shirt / sleeping bag. I can spread it out and use it as a lean to. And I can also wear it and keep myself and my pack completely dry. I can use it for setting things down in the wet / a picnic lunch. So many uses for both survival skills and not. Isn’t that one of the key principles of survival? Items should have multiple purposes.
I’ve been in Mors’s office and in his “Book Factory” a few times. It was amazing each time. He always made me go home with a backpack full. I explained that I was flying but he insisted. Each time there were about 30 pounds of books. One time he gave me a cookie tin containing an unfinished manuscript. I was so privileged to meet him and to know him. I wander what happened to all of his work, and his books, and all of those loose leaf binders? Hopefully someone has them who can really use them. RIP, Mors. Gone but not forgotten.
I'm a truck driver that regularly travels from Arizona to Calgary Alberta. I have at least everything that's on his list and more including a lantern that uses diesel fuel from my tank I am truly amazed how many people travel What is minus 30 A lot colder And they don't have supplies including even drinking water a warm jacket
Mors K was an absolute goldmine of useful information. I'm looking for a pot like the one he had in the video--bigger on the inside than on the outside--and I will fill it with the stuff of dreams.
