Corporals Corner Mid-Week Video #38 The DIY Bushcraft Drive Hook 

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Corporal if we (the U.S.A.) had more men like you, I feel our country would be a better place!! Proud to know you through your channel. Keep on pushing brother!

im not a blacksmith.. but i love watching things being made by one !!! COOL !

What a very cool idea for hanging items!!!👍👍👍. Way to go Shawn another Cush craft special from Corporals Corner. 😱👍👍👍😎

I’ll support the corporal!! If I’m lucky I’ll get me a hand full!! Nicely done brother!!

Your own signature Mark, the twist.

For me it is beyond fascinating to see what was once a rock of iron heated and turned into a useful tool. Thx enjoyed this vid. Got my notice and still subscribed 4x4 at this end.

Yes a handy tool to have with many uses. But I would stick it into a recently dead tree. Or could be used around the home driven into beams rafters etc.👍👍

Awesome A.F would like to see a over nighter at the deer stand/cabin brother been a minute...

That was a good little fun project. I'm going to make a few for myself. Thanks for sharing and nice work.

A drift hook was one of the first thing we learned to fab up in high school metal work. Yours is better looking than most I’ve seen.

Tree huggers are going to hate it. But that's awesome!

Thanks for the midweek video! See you Sunday!

The sound of the Firing Forge and the Hammer on the Anvil.... the second best ASMR to the sound of Wind in the Trees and the Crackle of a Campfire!!! Thank you for passing on your blacksmithing skills - Awesome AF!

I use a branch 😂

Err Ma Gerd! I can hear the tree huggers now. He's damaging the trees with that thing. :>) Good stuff!

Awesome . I can find may useful way to use the hook while camping with my grandkids.

Old fabricator here, that was Shawntistic,great work!

Nice! As an aside, I once met a blacksmith that would do a final heat on something like that, and run it over with a brass wire brush to make it look like burnished gold.

A good way to make this multi use may be to harden and hone the point a bit so it can double as an awl. Cool concept. 👍

Very cool. The blacksmithing is very satisfying to watch.

Mr,Kelly. Awesome work on the hook!! Looks great!! Keep up the awesome work!!

Corporal, I'll give you my like for the creativity and the hard work. I seem to remember you doing this with a twig/toggle and some bank line. No spiked trees on land that wasn't yours. You gotta do, and I respect you and your commitment to your business. Catch you Sunday!

Very Handy 👍

Thank you for another awesome video.

Awesome video Shawn 👍🥰🙏🇺🇸

Always a thumbs up 👍

Real nice piece you made there Shawn.

Your craftsmanship is on point AF. I love watching you making the stuff you've literally made from scratch.

Cool idea. Nice to see the manufacturing process.

Thank you for this video. Nifty device!

Cool build. See ya sunday

Nice tool, good job!

Thanks corporal like the idea and the video God bless

You are one of my favourites

Great innovation. De Oppresso Liber

Outstanding and awesome as always.Thanks for sharing and taking us along

Very cool project.

The "After action report" demonstrates that we all can learn to become better. Forever forward.

I'm sure you could make a cool looking lantern hanger using the same principle.

Not a bad little piece of kit. Keep up the great work sir!!

This is very cool and awesome keep it up

Dude. You’ve gotten jacked. Been watching for a good few years now. But it’s been a minute. JACKED!

Cool little project. Please be careful of galvanize poisoning though. If I'm correct that key stock looked zinc coated and will give off poisonous fumes when heated or welded.

The cool factor is important. I'm down with that. Not a bad thing to carry in a pack. Damn good work.

Thank you Dude

Cool project

That hook is classy and cool 👍

Those are cool, But... Collapsible deer stand ladder screws will do the same. No hammer needed.

Excellent idea. Well done 💯💯💯

You Sir, are a genius! And, obviously, an artist as well. --Dan

Thanks Corporal. Excellent idea. Can never have too many of those I think ❤️🙏

Fun fact: There is a pipe jaw on your vise. Inside of the main flat jaw are a pair of U shaped jaws facing each other specifically designed for holding pipe. It does require a longer piece of pipe for the way you're using it as a bending radius but it's way less likely to slip out than using the flat jaws.

Outstanding AF Corp and God Bless America 🇺🇸💪🇺🇸💯

Good stuff. I wish I had a forge and the knowledge of metallurgy. Along with plant medicine and identification. Hamm radios..etc. I'm hoping to get bottle and cup set one day, along with a sweatshirt, and all your stuff! Keep rocking it brother!

Nailed it!!!!

I have to admit I do like that you need to get that out with a lot of them right before the maple syrup season starts so I bet you they swoop on those as fast as you could make them

I would use that for a fire starter and the nail point to drill my hole in fire board. Save my knife edge. Awesome!

I like that going to have to get me one of them

Have to tell ya Kelly in your last few videos you truly seemed to be happy and enjoying what you're doing. I'm thinking it's because of the schools you're holding and in teaching survival skills. Hope you can continue this venue for quite a spell longer. Good video BTW.

Before taking early retirement in SE Asia, I lived in a log cabin as did my neighbor across the road. In his forge house, he made a variation of these hooks.The end where the nail or spike was forged, was instead flattened or "spooned." This allowed us to drive the hook in between the logs of our cabins. When you wanted to move a hook to a new location, no problem. Simply pull the hook and cover the spot where the hook used to be with you favorite chinking compound. There was no damage or holes in the logs. We also made up support brackets for small shelves in the same manner.

This mid week, I did miss somehow. I am making up for that now :)

Corp, you come up with some great ideas either yourself or with other companies... Not sure about this one... You can hang gear up (I think you have probably done it) without smacking things into live trees? Others have said the same... Just a thought.

That is awesome. As always outstanding

Artwork that's practical. Nice. If hardened & tempered perhaps it could double as a flint striker as well.

Nicely done. I'm gonna have to make some.

Little spike going to kill all the trees lol.

The hook is cool AF!! Thank you for the great video.

Awesome!

I made those to hang my lanterns on

Very functional. I need one of these. Keep doing what you do.,

Great one, Shawn!

Good idea would be to put some twists in the spike too, that way you can screw it into the tree deeper and it will hold more. I know because i got one like that, it has a screw part instead of a spike, i use it to hold my gear at home too.

Just bought the Camp Companion from Hardcore Hammers, it's a shame they did not honor the discount code on the pre-order for what I think is the perfect hatchet for my style of camping. Perfect weight, the handle is just right for me since I'm a smaller guy and that difference in length will balance perfectly. Looking forward to seeing what's in the Etsy store Sunday morning!

I love all Corporals Corner videos!

Nice! Never figured you as the ‘artsy” type Corp. Nicely done!👍

Neat idea!!

Nice idea, I would use that at work (construction) but not put a healthy tree at risk of disease but banging it into a dead tree would be OK.

I was surprised you didn't do a heat / oil quench to harden it.

Nice Vacation let me be one of the first group to see the midweek.

Nice!

Nice

Sweet looking bit of kit. Good stuff.

Thank you. 👍

Impressive craftsmanship, Corporal! I appreciate the way in which you bring concepts from the past into the modern world. Many of your items seem to be based upon the style of 18th century metal work; there are a number of blacksmith-made items which are both TIMELY & TIMELESS! Thank you very much!

An art piece

Cool piece of kit. Not a necessary tool, but cool just the same! Thanks for the video and for sharing your thoughts, ideas and experience with us.

It still looks good either way you do it for the final product.

I have heard of those being called a number 2 tree hook. There is another similar one called a number 7 tree hook.

Very nice.

I made a paracord handle to my ALICE pack, very useful for everything

Very nice!👍🏻

Paracord and carabiner works better

A grand idea, added to your existing skills. For me I have made a similar one for myself, now a bit worse for wear many years ago. But a good show thankyou.

That came out really well, thanks Corporal

Great work as always corporal. I personally think these would be extremely handy where there isn't any trees as well as the forest/ woods. could be tapped into cracks in stone/ rock faces etc .may even drive into sandstone. Love your content keep em coming. Have a great weekend

Pretty cool 👍

Hi , Great idea, But I Do a lot of camping and hunting at state parks, were I can't drive anything into trees, at (5:55) before you make the nail , I can use a short ratchet straps. Food for thought, See you Sunday

You are the best no doubt

Nice project corporal! Looked good!!