Bushpot Evolution Through Time 

One of the best aspects of DC's videos is the history involved with gear and skills.

Dave. Your job/ life seams like heaven to me. I work 60 to 70 hrs a week. ( you may to at this ) but at least it's something you love. How did you get there???!!! I watch your vids and it's like a vacation to me and that's sad because you get to do it and I watch your vids while my dump truck is getting loaded. I'm glad your vids are there to make life more bearable while I ROT AWAY in that damn truck. One good thing is I have put a great deal of thought into " truck survival" . We go into a wide variety of areas in one day and we never know where we will be next. Within hrs i can go from Seattle wa. To darington wa. Yes darington,,, the great landslide on the news . I have put together a " survival kit" for trucks. No vid. People don't watch my vids :( . They watch yours!! Trucking is the SINGLE largest employer in the world. what do you think?? Remember Reginal Denning ?? The truck driver that got drug out of his truck and beat half to death in the L.A. Riots?? I think most people will be in a more urban environment if the S.H.T.F. and truckers are not allowed to carry weapons of any kind!!! I have a few vids on urban camouflage which is the only way I think you can survive in this environment. But!!!! People don't watch my vids! THEY WATCH ,,,,,YOURS,!!

The bushpot is my favorite piece of kit. Very versatile. Great video, Dave.

I have that same aluminum coffee pot and love it. It stays near the fire on trips, either boiling water or making coffee and it's always in my multiday pack. I will be adding a stainless pathfinder pot this summer. This is a good time to thank you for producing the stainless bushpot- the consumer needed it as an option- there are only so many old aluminum kits out there.

Wow.. I didn't even think about the lid being tight.. Food for thought.. Thanks for the video Dave.

I agree with you, always using a stick to take my lid off and not sure why anyone would want a tight fit. If you are worried, make a sack for it all to go in, will also keep your pack clean that way too. Good video Dave, enjoyed it!

I really dig the history lessons you weave in to your videos. I'm a bit of a history buff myself, although I prefer the medieval times. Great stuff, Dave!

I used the aluminum Four Dogs pot and a titanium bowl to bake cornbread like Dave showed on an earlier video. It only made enough for one person but it tasted great and it was cool to bake bread over a fire.

Personally i usually like to use a smaller pot because usually i'm camping/hiking on my own with a pretty light packout, but the system i use still works great!

I just bought the Stainless steel bush pot from your web sight. I have not used it yet but so far I love the way it looks and can't wait to use it.

Hey Dave, watching this video made me think you and Iris probably have alot of really cool antique/collectibles. It would be cool if you guys posted a video of some of your personal favorites and the story behind them. Thanks for your wisdom great vid as always!

To be honest, I was wondering if a 12.5 min. video on the history of bush pots could hold my attention, but Dave, you pulled it off. Good job. I have the strangest urge to cook over a fire now. :o)

It might sound weird, but I'd be really interested to see all of the folks that work for the Pathfinder store and school, and what your operation looks like. It's been interesting watching you grow the business from 2009 til today.

i have one of the aluminum coffee pot type similar to the one you show its old as hell been used and abused works every time we dig it out of a pack i see no need to spend all the money for stainless as long as it works great video dave

Very instructive; thanks for putting this together, Dave.

Fantastic tutorial Dave and I learnt a lot from this so thank you for taking the time to record and share this. Kind regards from London ~Peace~

hey, Dave. I seen a two Roman pots used by the Roman army in Europe. Very close to the bush pot. Made out of copper, One with bail, but with flared bottom about 3 and half quarts - more as group pot. The other one has a handle holds about a pint and half, this was more use a personal eating pot.

I have the same old school coffee pot except mine has a single ring on the side oposite the spout instead of butterfly handles. The down side to those is that the rivets that hold it on tend to leak as the post ages.

I use a bandanna to strain my coffee out in the bush.

thanks Dave

oh boy this video reminds me of when a friend and i were using are survival kits and he had a aluminium mess kit and i had a coffee can well his mess kit melted full of food and we used the coffee can the rest of the trip

Good chat! I can't stand a tight lid on a pot. I carry a small 2 or 3 cup pot usually, but may look in to getting a quart size from you.

I love spending time in the bush.

That one pot looks a lot like a paint can! BTW Good vid

I have the pot made by four dog's stoves I got from the self reliance store and I have yet to have a problem with this pot, I will be getting the stainless pot as it wasn't on the market when I got the other pot, as far as lid tightness like Dave said you don't want it to tight because it will cause a problem, anyway great video Dave thank's.

I don't know too much about bushcrafting or bush pots in general, but I know one heck of a lot about cooking, and I know I'd be pretty irritated by a cooking pot that would cause me to have to wrestle the lid off of and potentially spill oh I don't know my pot of chili. Neat stuff as usual.

great comparison plus a history lesson

A lid that fits so tight that the contents will not fall out sounds like a steam hazard to me.

For War Between The States reenacting I use a tin boiler that looks just like the well used small one you have there, except that mine has a hinged lid. Nothing like busting up coffee beans with my bayonet and making some coffee in it early in the morning before leaving camp.

Good vid as always again Keep them coming Dave

very informative video, Cheers good to see them side by side too,

very good lesson.the more things change the more they stay the same..

i use an msr titan 2 TI set cuz it only cost $4 at an army/navy surplus store, sans the pot holder, which i bought separately for $6 on amazon. the titan 2 set costs an unbelievable $140 on amazon, and i still have no idea how i managed to buy it for so cheap. aside from all that, it works great, but i would love that stainless steel pot cuz it has handles and a bail. until then, i'll just drill some small holes in my 1.5 liter pot and fashion a bail from a wire hanger.

Love the coffee pot Dave...

Good one Dave!!!!

Interesting...Thanks, Dave....

Not sure about anyone else here, but aren't they all just pots? Aluminum isn't preferred from a cooks perspective because of how it reacts to acids, even anodized. I've never seen a campfire capable of melting Ti.

Thanks for the info. Clark

before I saw this video I picked up a strainer type from a flea market. $1.00. it does not have the handel. no marks or holes to suggest there ever were handels. love the history and I will take it for a buck.

Thank You.

Who makes that button up shirt you are wearing? Also great vid thanks.

old linkless has the anodized and the stainless one like both of them

I would be glad if you could put a note in the video that shows the imperial system converted to the metric system everytime you mention length, weight and volume etc. For example if a tool you're describing i 1 feet long, then you could make a note in the corner that says: 1 feet = 30.5 centimeters // European subscriber :)

Cowboy coffee's good but I'd be making instant coffee in it. That way I wouldn't have to worry about disposing of grounds.

Saw that video also about the up side down bush pot. Why would you have your kit upside down?

Hello Dave, Are there ways to manufacture containers in the wilderness you can boil water in? It seems to me the weakest link, if you have no container, you are screwed. You can make cordage and fire with primitive methods, you talked about that in other videos. Is there any resource you could use to improvise containers to boil water or are there methods to boil water that don't use metal containers like these?

Thanks Dave, I've been torn between ordering the four dogs mors pot or a zebra pot. After seeing this video however you made the choice really easy, I'm going to be placing an order for the stainless mors type pot you have developed! Happen to know any pans that would sit/pack well on the bottom if it? Something like the carbon pans offered by bensbackwoods?

Hey Dave do you know of a mug, cup with measurement marks? Or even a collapseable measurement cup

Where's the copper bush pot you got at the school of the longhunter?

E muito raro encontrar desses no Brasil

Where in the world do you put all of your equipment? You seem to have quite a bit so I would think storage would be an issue.

would a sterilized paint can work or is it too thin and would melt easily or problems with the seams?

U could make that our of a paint can if u clean it very well

Pot, pot, whose got the pot? Musical pots? :)

he got his beard back

2:24 - 3:34 So which one was the pea under?

i have a lovely original miners bucket my grandfather the bucket with 2 trays and a lid i use it to carry my muzzle loader stuff now

i'll take the weight any day with ss pots, cups, etc for the durability and longterm abuse over other types of containers. JMHO. good vid. titanium?

Turn it up side down?????? Sure we all could find complaint to any product somebudy desing it. But the true is that PF Bushpot rocks.

I have noticed you have not carried you 12 ga single shot with you on your last few videos, Why?

Why not titanium but stainless? Regardless the price would you choose titanium over stainless?

Dave, where can we find the anodized one?

Stainless steel is king. Stronger material and also better for your health then lead or aluminum.

you forgot clay pots...