It's September 17, 2020 and i just found your channel by mistake. After watching a few episodes i subscribed. In my opinion I'd like to see much more of your dad. He is cool and is funny. He brings much to the table. He has years of knowledge which gives folks a look into yesterday. Those round hard things that fall from trees he put on a string and you and him played a game with them to see who could crack the other persons first to make it fall from the string was great. He said soak them in vinegar first to make them harder. Love your dad.
Here in Piedmont North Carolina poplar has been showing a little color for a couple of weeks, now. Some faint hints of color in sweetgum and wild cherry. Surprising number of brown leaves came down during Hurricane Florence. Mostly sweetgum, elm and black walnut. Enjoyed watching your time outdoors. Enjoy as much, as you can, while you can. The years can quickly sneak up on you, while you're not looking. Backs, knees, feet, joints, etc. start complaining & suddenly you're wondering where the time went. The more wonderful memories you've stashed away, the better, IMO! Thanks for sharing.
I hear that.. about the years creeping up on us. Reminds me of the old song... 'Turn Round..and they're gone'. Sending blessings to all in N.&S. Carolina affected by the hurricane. I remember riding through the Carolinas as a kid, on our way to Florida. Mom would be singing.. 🎶Nothing could be fine than to be in Carolina. We would stop to picnic and we kids would run about collecting these crazy big pinecones. So Great!
For you scrambled egg lovers who want non stick performance from cast iron, generously grease the cast iron, pour in the scrambled eggs, don't stir, just flip once (like you would a pancake). Light, fluffy, no clean up. Love your private little camp site, so peaceful!! And that backpack has great features, thank for sharing!
Another great video.we clean our stove glass in our house by dipping a wet cloth in the ash & lightly rubbing it works a treat you don't have to press hard or risk cracking glass.
Thanks for another vid in the wood...Autumn is the best season for the colours...and film is so powerful with no commentary just the nature shots...beautiful...and always good to hear your voice with your teaching and learning...great and good...
That just looks so peaceful and therapeutic. An ideal get away spot. I could see myself sitting on a stump while drinking some of the best coffee known to man boiled over a open fire. While watching the squirrels hunt and play. Call me crazy but this is the absolute best way to live life,no cell phones or internet maybe a TV but that's all ya need!
WE LIVE IN CRETE GREECE OUR TREES ARE MOSTLY PINE, PLAIN, CONIFER, PALM. BUT WE DO HAVE A TYPE OF OAK. KEEP UP THESE TYPES OF CRAFT VIDS GREAT STUFF TO GET KIDS FROM INTERVIEWING PHONE AND GAMING. BACK TO BASICS FOR DADS AND KIDS TO JOIN IN.
Dirt cheap shelter + wicked expensive gear = a fascinating contrast. Reminds me of those old westerns where they travelled deep into the frontier with a chest full of fine china. It might be a dirt floor hovel but it's got a crystal candle holder 😎
Many of your videos reward viewing multiple times. This is one example. Since you and your Dad are 'waste not; want not' people, I know those pallet chairs that sat on the front porch are still around somewhere. I'd LOVE to see them back in the place on the deck. I am less attached to the 'Tiki Bar' and the tall stools. They DID provide a bit of irony in regards to die-hard bushcraft. We all wait with bated breath to see what you and your Dad will come up with next. But we still enjoy what you came up with in the past!
Ok you really got me laughing with the "it is a new brush". That was funny. It is so peaceful there in the woods. Great video. I live in Phoenix,AZ so not to many leaves turning here. Up north yes. At 11,000ft Gambel Oaks and Aspens.
I've always really enjoyed your videos and again I still enjoy your videos thank you so much for taking the time to move the camera around editing and all the things that come with putting them on RU-vid I do appreciate your time and effort thank you so much have a blessed day thanks again
I absolutely love the pallet wood cabin. When spring starts my friend and I are building a wooden cabin and you and your dad inspired us to do that! Let's hope it turns out nice hah. Cheers from Poland! Cześć :D
A dziękuje ślicznie :). Jestem w sumie polakiem urodzonym w Stanach Zjednoczonych więc w sumie samych amerykańskich lub angielskim youtuberów oglądam heh. I bardzo interesuję się survivalem dlatego tutaj jestem heh. Pozdrawiam!
The Appalachian and Great Smokey Mountain ranges here are famous for fall foliage. The cherry ,maple ,birch ,and beech turn first. The park site has some amazing photos! Enjoy the cabin brother !
You're way more organised than me, very inspirational. Although I'm planning to build a wood burning stove in my workshop soon, I still rely on a big fire when I'm out in the woods. All the best Skye
Have a lot of Locust trees in my home city. Those and the Hackberry trees turn first then the rest follow a few weeks later. Over the course of 4 weeks they go from Green to a sea of golden yellow, orange, red and purple. Quite beautiful, but usually only lasts 6 weeks or so then old man winter does his thing for 6 months or so
Another great video. Around here (Indiana, USA) right now the leaves are turning a little late; it's been rather warm here, warmer than normal, so things are just within the past week starting to change a bit. Some of the hard (black or Norwegian) maples are beginning to change now, but a month or more ago the hackberry trees were starting to drop leaves, and the black walnuts were starting after them. Within the past couple days the sassafras trees around my house were turning red and gold in spots. The hickory should be turning soon, and, as you say, the oak will be last. The acorn crop this year has been bumper; a neighbor of mine with about a dozen in his front yard says he's never seen so many (he has red and white oak). I told him to gather all of them and dump them in the woods about 10-15 yards south of his property line where I have permission to hunt lol........hello, Bambi's dad......LOL! BTW using an old toilet brush shouldn't be a problem, given that ten minutes after the fire is started in the stove, anything in the pipes would be burned out. When the settlers on the American prairie were heading west, they'd use buffalo "chips" to cook and stay warm, so a used toilet brush should be low on your priority list of things to worry about ;-) I'd like to say the seat in your pack is brilliant. Love that idea. You were giving a review of the backpack and you said Steuben is Swedish for stump. I tried looking up what it meant on Google and was directed to an online translation site which told me nothing about what it meant. Steuben (or Von Steuben) was a Prussian born general in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. He trained the American troops to fight the British Army and wrote the drill and training manual for the Continental Army. There are a number of places named for him here. FyallRaven makes good good stuff. There's a backpack that I found at Barnes and Noble book store here. It's for kids so it's fairly small, but the pack is $95. Yikes. Anyway, have a great day and thanks again for the video.
Here in Northern California and Eastern Oregon highland desert regions ... we have fall foliage colors with (1) aspens, birch, poplars, ash, cottonwoods, melaleuca (tea tree), (2) maples, (3) sycamores, sweet gums, blue gums, eucalyptus, (4) alders, cascara, dogwoods, elms, willows, and (5) liquid ambers.
I was up in Flagstaff AZ Yeats ago and came across a forest of what I think was Alders? White trunks and bright yellow leaves. It was so stunning we had to just stop the car and stare. It is seered into my memory to this day. It was as though God was saying.."Aaahhh you caught me" ! Nature.. so great. 🍂🍃
Enjoyed it. As usual. Early burst of winter here in the Canadian Rockies. 9 inches of snow. Most in over 100 year on oct 2. Snowshoe season started early. Thx for the effort you put in to your vids
Black elm change 1st them the pin oak white oak and red oak to clean the stove pipe easier is soak them in denatued alcohol then clean with brush. Maple turns last the water oak. God BLESS HAPPY camping
Mike am completely addicted to watching your channel every day now lol.. i have wanted to make a youtube channel like this for 10 years now but have never had the time. so watching yours is like i am living it lol.
The White Birch begin to turn first in Eastern Canada in late August but they cling to the trees for a long while. Then the Sugar and Swamp Maples begin turning in late September to mid October, along with the Oaks and Quaking Aspens. Most of the trees are bare by Halloween.
Love the cabin- here in north west Ohio by the lake the ornamental and fruit trees drop first then the sugar maples followed by the hard woods- my pin oaks drop most of their leaves then drop the rest (dry leaves) in the spring as new buds appear. Keep up the great work.
The first trees that the leaves change first is Maple trees.That is Ontario Canada.I love your videos and i think your Dad is a great guy.he makes me laugh.
Black Walnuts are one of the first to drop their leaves here on the East Coast of the US. Sugar maples are generally some of the first noticeable to show their color, or red maple.
Hi Mike great seeing you, do like the pack. There gear is awesome. You do a great job with cast iron skillet, looks like you take pride in your care of it. From the beautiful state of Oregon take care!
We use the Truck tire rim for a fire grill. RU-vid video shows how to make them and they last forever. Like the gstove though. We get good and cold sometimes, but in Georgia USA where I am, we don't get a lot of seasonal change.
I really like the cabin. Only thing I would change is put skids on it and reinforce it to be mobile with something as simple as a ATV pulling it. Just to be able to move it around a little easier
You should set you up a lot for spouting wood and have a separate wood storage for your cabin part. This way it saves you depleting your other shelters supply. Just what I would do.
By late September, black gum, bittersweet, and dogwood are turning. The peak of fall color in Missouri/USA is usually around mid-October. This is when maples, ashes, oaks, and hickories are at the height of their fall display. Normally by late October, the colors are fading and the leaves beginning to drop from the trees.
Just catching up on things as been teaching kids most of week how to survive. Wish I had seen the toilet brush idea before I spent ages cleaning my flue with a damn brush used for dishes....obviously a new one.lol. Oh well every day a learning day.
Just so you know... the amount of soot found in the chimney is related to the volume of oxygen the fire is able to get... it won't burn hot enough, will smoke heavily and that creates the creosote... if you get the proper air flow.. once it's up to temp, you won't see much smoke at all and you'll find next to no soot in the chimney
Oh PS. I meant to say I had a cowboy outfit like your fire pit iron rails and it existed two legs and then down the legs you can put frying pans and things like that it's really awesome
Hey Mike. Here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the Maples are usually the first to turn. We are almost in full bloom right now! We actually get Buses full of people coming to the U.P just do drive along Lake Superior's shoreline and see the fall colors. That cabin is really coming together. It looks great.
for those that want a hot tip, to reduce the time for your chimneys to be cleaned call the chimney sweeper in during spring and summer away from the cold months and they will come to your home hot fast on a date you determine and you don't have to worry for another year.
