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My father had a travel book from 18th century Wales and it stated, "north of Pontypridd is an impassible forest"; within 100 years the trees had all been cleared for pit props in coal mines, charcoal for iron works and then the sheep moved in... Now Wales is as barren as Scotland for much of it. I often think that it would be nice to re-forest the hills and valleys of South and Mid Wales.
they need some of our North American tree planters . Seasonal workers who are fast and efficient working together in large crews. Plant that place up in no time !
It’s harder to live off the land everywhere sadly. the fish populations have dropped 95% since the Edwardian era, and forests and their creatures are constantly diminishing.
So many of these fish fail to make it back from the ocean thanks to the massive overfishing we're doing as a species, there won't be any left in a couple of decades.
I've seen a poster of Basel area then and now and it was nothing less than shocking: Fish population down by 90%. Fish species decrease by 95%. On land not much better thanks to straightening the Rhine, overfishing, overhunting, etc. It's like two completely different geographic places!
One thing you need to remember is that the wool the 17th century people were using might well have been a good deal greasier than modern, detergent-cleaned wool. That would make sleeping in the wet a good deal easier to deal with, if somewhat smellier.
..... Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Holy Spirit Can give you peace guidance and purpose and the Lord will John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
Here in Finland we have TONS of forest and trees. But it's all just tree fields basically, all the same size and biodiversity is very low there. We only have few percent of untouched forest left. My grandparents had a farm, they hunted and did a lot of logging. I inherited some of that forest and it is my wish to leave parts of it untouched. I asked my grandma how was the forest when they first came there and trees were so huge you couldn't touch your hand together by hugging them. A lot has changed.. Too much perhaps..
There's no old growth forest left in Europe except Poland and Romania and the most remote locations. Even the mediterranean was covered in forests originally.
Portugal had gigantic Oak forests once... They were cut down 500 years ago, to fuel the shipbuilding industry that discovered and built the modern world. No new Oak forests have grown since...
Another tip for staying warm when camping out is to eat immediately before bed. Digesting the food increases your body temp, and it makes you stay cosy more easily.
.. Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
The good thing is that there are some rewilding projects for Scotland, where areas are closed off for grazing animals to start the natural reforestation. Hopefully the different activities create visible difference soon 🤞
...... Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Holy Spirit Can give you peace guidance and purpose and the Lord will John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
Man, what a great trip it was. Really enjoyed the banter at your camp and the highlands. Thanks for having me and I'm sure we will see you again for some adventure;)
There's a few things about this topic that I don't think a lot of people realize. First is that cattle are used all over the world as beasts of burden, so cattle drovers in the highlands would certainly have used some of the cattle they were driving to carry burdens, like additional shelter and bedding materials, dried and preserved foods, and water. Second, they definitely would not have commonly slaughtered cattle during a drive, because cattle are huge and would result in too much waste to slaughter and butcher even a calf during a drive, unless the drive was exceptionally long or involved a very large number of drovers, and a slaughtered animal is not immediately edible, in any case. The animal has to be bled out, the carcass dismembered, the offal disposed of in some way, and the meat has to age at least long enough for the rigor to subside. You are not going to slaughter kine in the evening to make dinner. Another thing to consider is that, yes, we look at wilderness areas today and fail to understand that many of these areas were populated in the past, before the advent of machinery and mechanization. Drovers would have had access to settlements during their drives.
For most of human history, Eurasia has been as densely populated as possible with the logistics of geography, politics, and technology, depopulation events aside. Human settlements were rarely more than a couple of days apart outside of areas like mountains or deserts.
Offal disposed of?? They ate it right away as the highest prized parts of the animal! Dogs & such got only the lean meats (plus whatever the dogs killed themselves) Poultry is processed right away too
It is always heartbreaking to see when open land has so much history and potential. If more folks could kick off their boots once in a while and sit under a tree, the world would be a much better place.
There is far more cutting trees down than hugging them. We planted oak they take years but are beautiful. Willow is a plant that can change the environment, We plant them everywhere we can and the clay soil in Kirkkonummi, Uusimaa, Southern Finland it is perfect for them. We have deer, moose. Each winter they come to the garden to eat many of our garden hedges plants and they are welcome. A Moose sleeps at the bottom of the garden under the trees for many years now. It is very nice.
Love the desire to “re-tree” the highlands. Spot on my man. Little food for thought: our experience here in Canada, and greatly supported by events in the U.S. (specifically Yellowstone) suggests that to reforest a natural landscape requires a major herbivore species (deer- you have those), an apex predator (wolves say), and an architect (beavers). Put those three together with a commitment to plant trees and nature joyfully explodes.
I believe having wolves changes the grazing patterns of the deer so they can't just stay still and destroy everything. Both wolves and beavers are considered key-stone species which means that they change the environment/behaviour of other species in the local environment substantially and if you remove them then things change a lot. I believe beavers help make an environment for fish (and particularly good breeding grounds for fish which I think often need patches of still water to lay eggs) with all their dams, they basically slow rivers and whilst causing some permanent flooding they help retain water (and fertility) in the landscape as when you have a lot of rain the dams etc capture and slow a lot of the water rather than it causing flooding downstream. Both species do their own thing though and aren't directly controlled by humans so it doesn't fit well with an environment where land is parcelled up into privately owned bits where the landowner can kill them off to protect whatever projects they have going on - eg if beaver activity causes your land to become a wetland when you were trying to grow crops you wouldn't like it even if it was good for the wider environment/overall system. I think we're very much of the mentality of controlling everything and humans being the creatures who do everything and it definitely requires different thinking. There's a saying in permaculture that "all animals garden" or words to that effect, eg that they do things to the environment that tend to create more of the environment they like, unfortunately sheep destroy forest to create pasture whereas the activity of pigs for example is thought to promote the growth and spread of forest (and increased biodiversity in general) since their digging breaks up grass coverage and causes patches of bare earth in which stuff that is dormant in the seed bank can start growing. You could see beavers in the same light as they eat fish and are effectively building ponds that will mean there are more fish, it's just that their actions by effecting the water in the landscape have very broad reaching effects. You see beavers in Europe - I've got a mate who lives in Germany and in the local forest (which is huge) they have both wildboar and beavers and you can see the trees they've felled. I think the beavers might be reintroduced recently though
I used to think wolves, but I feel people here would be far too fearful of them to reintroduce them. I think Eurasian Lynx would be a much better fit for an apex predator reintroduction. There are no records of them attacking humans and they rarely if ever go for livestock (and if they do it’s usually because the animals were raised in woodlands, Lynx will not usually go out into open pasture at least not for very long).
@@jonnyramsden1161 beavers have already been reintroduced and are doing well with some estimates saying there could be over 1,000 individuals in Scotland now. The English population is smaller, around 500 individuals
I'm on the other side of the world in Northern California (which also has a lot of rugged rolling landscapes) and beavers are migrating from (somewhere?) to areas where they haven't been seen for a hundred years, foothills with redwood forests and streams. Ecologists are very excited about this! @@theotheseaeagle
... Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell Come to Jesus Christ today Jesus Christ is only way to heaven Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today Romans 6.23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. John 3:16-21 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. Mark 1.15 15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel. 2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Hebrews 11:6 6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Jesus
I've only just discovered you channel. Being a wild camper not a fly camper myself i find your channel not only informative but refreshing. To many channels claiming bushcraft, wild camping rock up with the latest kit . I find that condescending. Your channel has a lot more thought research and knowledge thank you
12;30 my chickens instinctually move to fast flowing water, such as a can sprinkling into their water bowl. They'll avoid standing water unless it's the only available source. Makes a lot of sense.
What about the 5 "C's" of survival? 1. Cutting device (good knife), 2. combustion device (fero rod, lighter, etc.), 3. container (capable of boiling water for drinking), 4. cover (for shelter - tarp, tent, wool blanket, great kilt, etc.) & 5. cordage (for setting up your shelter, making snares, fishing line, etc.)
Lightweight metal cookpots suitable for individual foot travel really didn't exist prior to the late 19th Century, after the invention of the Bessemer process in the mid-19th Century caused the available of steel to skyrocket and the price to plummet.
@@gcvrsa Copper tools have been around since at least 9,000 B.C., although it wasn't until the "Bronze Age" around 3,000 B.C. when metal working techniques had advanced enough that it became possible to make specialized cooking pots and cauldrons. So I'm pretty sure the Scottish Highlanders in the 17th century would have had access to at least some metal/bronze/copper pots and cookware. Copper is a natural germ killer as well and copper water containers have been around for many, many centuries. Also, water can and has been disinfected and used for cooking by boiling it in animal skins way before humans began using metal or clay/ceramic containers. A defleshed skin bag full of water placed over (not in) hot coals will maintain it's integrity and the water will eventually boil. Not to mention the "hot stones" boiling/cooking method, whereby hot stones are placed in a container full of water until the water begins to boil. That container could be made from many different materials, like metal, animal skin bags, wood (carved wooden bowls/pots), clay, or even just a hole in the ground lined with other stones or a defleshed animal skin or stomach. Haggis was/is and still can be, made in sheep stomach pouches. So I'm not sure what your point was/is, but a "container" (capable of boiling water for disinfecting & cooking) is, and always has been a very important part of the "5 C's of survival" regardless of what material it is made from. Cheers!
@@justinpyle3415 Yes, the "5 C's of survival" were/are (or at least should be) "common sense" and the basic foundation for, and to, any real or true survivalist (past and/or present) worth their salt, and who actually wants to be able to "survive" in the wilderness for any length of time. The 5 C's of survival are based on the "K.I.S.S./Keep it Simple Stupid" principal, the time tested fact that, when it comes to "survival", knowledge is power and the more you know, the less you need. But as your simple minded comment above seems to indicate, "common sense" just isn't that common anymore now a days.
I remember a so called "survival expert" in the Bear Grylls mode, who stated he could survive on Rannoch Moor without any supplies . He had to be evacuated by helicopter as he was suffering from starvation and dehydration and was close to hypothermia. No food , no drinking water, no fire. NO SENSE. This was about 10/12 years ago.
Really interesting ! As an outdoor enthusiast living in the Alps, it has always been hard to imagine surviving in this type of environment. Makes me this much more appreciative of our forests ! Cheers from France 🇨🇵
Trouble is that Scotland was mostly forested, so this misguided belief that it always looked like that is BS. Not only that but the two world wars further denuded Scotlands forest because wood was so badly needed. they didn't replant afterwards either until Blue Spruce became a good cash crop for rich landowners!
What I would really like to see is a collab with a woman demonstrating the dress and daily activities that would have been common for the time period. In such a harsh/wet/chilly environment clothing, food, and shelter would be so important. The drovers and people travelling out on the moors are just one aspect. Many African farmers still bleed their cattle in just the manner you describe.
As a drover, maybe they hogtied a couple of sheep and slept between them for warmth? A secondary advantage of this is that the sheep wool lanolin would transfer to your plaid, improving it's waterproofing. A second thought is, would the drovers build a peat hovel on the drove route? Fallen sheep/ Cattle/ Lambs/Calves, would be available to eat. A good source of blood. Mixed with oatmeal would be a sort of black pudding?
I am sure there would have been more isolated pockets of woodland in the 17th century. The Drovers would have followed well known routes year in year out, I would have thought that they would know where to stop, and maybe they would have the makings of shelter to hand at the places they knew they would be stopping.
surprised there haven't been found "stashes" of all kinds of items in those outcropping rock clefts. we keep finding tool kits, stones for flinting arrowheads, and all kinds of material even today throughout the western \USA and Canada. i.e. I'll get it on my way back, and they never came back.
They reckon the Highlands really started becoming barren when the Bronze Age Beaker Folk who arrived from the Continent and replaced the local Neolithic farmers cleared the Highland forests for their cattle c.2500 BC, which haven't fully recovered since then (even though the human population in the Highlands has collapsed a few times since that time). Mind you, they've also found evidence Mesolithic hunter-gatherers started blanket bog formation in Sutherland just by selectively clearing trees to make it easier to hunt.
This is my understanding as well. That area was artificially turned into grassland something like 3000 years ago. While there was likely more forest around a few centuries ago than today, and there used to be _far_ more fish, things were already stretched somewhat thin prior to the clearances.
I love your videos and they - amongst a few others - gave me the courage to return to my childhood hobby of dressing up in historical clothes even though there are not as much occasions for that in my current location as there were in my birthplace which has a lot of medieval castle ruins and therefore lots of medieval festivals. Nevertheless I took a small hike to a nearby bog yesterday in my new LARP costume to test it before wearing it at an event. It's a rather wild mix of Irish Celtic and Viking clothes: a Rus style canvas trouser, Danish leather soled half boots (as were found in Hedeby as I found out recently while visiting the museum there 😅), woolen socks and leg wraps, linen under tunic, cotton shirt, a belt with a celtic cross buckle that I had laying around for ages until I finally bought the leather to make a belt for it and a Ruana cloak that I made from an old grey wool/synthetic mix disaster control blanket. When I was at the furthest point it began to drizzle with occasional pours and didn't stop before I got home. I was very surprised how dry everything was beneath my cloak. My hair were a wee bit wet, maybe because I pulled the hood very tight so the wind won't blow it off, but my shirt was completely dry because the way I wrapped the Ruana it was double layered across my shoulders and one side of my upper body. The trousers had a few wet spots at the front but they are cut very wide from the knees up (about two and a half times my waist size) so the fabric didn't come in touch with my skin all the time and did a great job of trapping the body heat. The slim cut lower legs of the trouser were protected by the leg wraps and were completely dry. And although the shoes were soaked there were only a few wet spots on the socks and being made from wool they kept my feet warm all the time. I knew that wool is great in keeping you warm and dry. I only didn't know how good until now. 😅
Love your videos. As someone working on a project on the late medieval highlanders, I would really love seeing these kinds of tests done in "pre great kilt" clothing. A test wearing the gaelic léine tunic, waterproofed with grease, with a liripipe hood, a pair of trews and a cloak for exemple. It could be a fun experiment on a lesser known period of Scotland, when the mightly Lord of the Isles still ruled.
Here in Denmark the government is a strong believer in "untouched forest". But as we all know, governments do not have any grasp of reality: For more than 15 years i have used the same pieces of land and forest as mental medicine (PTSD from deployment), and i can tell you that just within the last five years, all the "untouched" forest have lost the majority of their wildlife, it is simply too thick to move around in, and the forestfloor is almost constantly moist and cold and so thick that only a fraction of light and warmth are getting to the floor. Deers fourage in open land and sleep in cover, if they can move around and have some escape routes; if its too thick, they wont go there, since there is nothing to eat, its moist, its cold, cant see approaching predators and it is too thick to move through. Predators follows the prey, so no prey = no predators = no scavengers etc. etc. Im a strong beliver, backed up by statements of forestworkers that have decades of experiences across Europe, that a wellmanaged forest is the ONLY way for our nature. Yes selfplanting is a good way, but that also means that the trees that grows the fastest, pine and spruces, will dominate and shade out any other species and actually destroy diversity. The lakes in my area, if left alone, will be overgrown in just 10 - 15 years, stopping waterflow, drying out streams and other lakes and become bogs and then all the animals depending on that water will either die or move, if there is any places to move too. Currently there is not. So, if one is a believer in that "Nature take cares of itself and always finds a balance", then prepare to say goodbye to all the nature you see and say hello to alot of dying animals and that is across several hundreds of years. So, for the Danish nature, "untouched" nature is practically a deathsentence, if "untouched" is the savior for other areas i cannot say.
It is not really representative of the natural state, either. The forests of Europe adapted to human-controlled fires periodically clearing brush and debris and an ecosystem of flora and fauna cycling nutrients around in fairly precise proportions. The biodiversity of some of those forests are dependent on human activity as a keystone species. That, and human overreach has already pushed many environments past the point of recovery without careful and deliberate intervention; if a hands-off approach is appropriate, it may not be so right _now._
The Spanish colonizers of California did not walk into an untouched wilderness either. They did not realize that the Native Americans they looked down on as allegedly "uncivilized" had been managing that landscape very precisely for thousands of years with controlled burns to prevent overgrowth and encourage growth of desired food plants that regenerate after fire. They'd even burn the grass under oak trees before harvesting acorns (knocking them down en masse, not picking them like cherries) to eliminate old, wormy acorns that would contaminate the new harvest stock. After some recent devastating wildfires in my area that were devastating precisely because of excessive fuel load due to fire suppression, the management of one of the state parks negotiated with a local Native American tribal band to co-manage the forest in the future. This group also has a propagation nursery for their traditionally used plants to supply replanting needs.
You make the point that their may have been more food available in the flora and fauna. Could their also have been a better network of Crofters that the drovers maybe knew who could have helped them. Barns to sleep in oats to sell. That sort of thing to make travel more possible.
There surely would have been. Not only that but the drovers would be on an exact schedule with overnight stays booked and paid for in advance. Cattle need to get to market fat and happy that means moving only about 10 miles in a day with plenty of grass and water at the end of the day. Grazing for 200 head of cattle even for one night would not be free and there is no way you could just rely on overgrazed common lands.
I’ve only just started the video and I’m already distracted by the idea of wearing a blanket for warmth like you have. It’s genius. In a jacket while hiking I’m always hot on the front and cold on the back.
This landscape is fascinating to see for me. I always wondered why Ireland and Scotland have so many areas that have great amounts of rain but few trees. I live in a place where the trees grow like weeds. I have to cut them down every few years to keep them from getting too big around my little house.
Same here - a myriad of hybrid elms would take over everything if we let them! At our remote cabin, hundreds of new ponderosa pine seedlings sprout up every year, and would do the same thing there, if we let them.
@@brianhowe201More clearing for farming. Contrary to what he stated in the video here, much of Britain had already been cleared during the Bronze Age to clear up land for agriculture and pasture (largely cereal and cattle). While wood was certainly harvested, that point was more the open land. The forests were already massively diminished by the time of over harvesting in the last few centuries.
I just got home from wearing my great kilt all day today. Went out and about did some things with friends. Went out and had dinner. All wearing my great kilt. Now I get to watch you all and all your channels, all episodes with kilts. I love my great killed. If you don't have a great kilt yet. Save up the money and get one. It's definitely worth it. It was a cold and wet day today. And my great kilt did not fail me and keeping me warm and dry. The rest of the time I have my great kilt folded up at the foot of my bed. And my girlfriend uses it to stay warm at night. Such a great piece of kit, good to see you all camping with these, and actually using them.
is "historical expedition" the professional way of saying "LARPing while we camp" xD jokes aside, your videos are always a fascinating learning experience and i thank you for it!
I have never been to the highlands, but this is where my ancestors (Glenmoriston Grants) lived before immigrating to the United States in the 1700s. Fascinating getting a glimpse into what it would take to live as they did
There’s a great line in an English book on farming that says “Don’t be like the Scots and drink whisky to keep warm when you’re out with the sheep. That works for their hardy race, but you’re not a Scot. Stick with English beer.”
I really Scotland. There are a lot of Scotts here in Pennsylvania. We are lucky here. There are millions of acres of forest here in Pennsylvania. 8.5 million is state land open to public hunting. God bless awsome video.
Thousands of turf buildings used to dot the landscape. They've long since melted away. Many people used to rely on them for shelter, most likely along their common paths they might travel. On some of your last comments .What might help the environment there is if people take with them some items that slowly release nutrients to the soil and that don't get washed away as easily. Partially charred wood scraps, fish and animal bones that are left over from a meal, even the odd bit of small pieces of broken pottery and shells from various seeds and nuts. Best to not leave it in areas where you make it look like a dumping ground.
I've followed your channel for years and feel like I've grown and learned together especially putting some of your ways into practice. Fantastic chief!! Brilliant video as always and I'm happy to continue the journey with you 🫡
It sounds like deer might be a big problem stopping the forests from regenerating. I haven't looked into how they're doing hunting licenses out there but it sounds like the population is probably out of control because it's not popular to hunt anymore? We're on the edge of that in a lot of us states
@MrNoobed You’re spot-on there. Deer are a big problem, with no natural predators to control them. Past overgrazing from sheep has also been a factor. I believe the land is mostly owned by large estates, who either don’t like hunting or strictly control it, and there is evidently not enough going on. Many of them are also not in favour of the reintroduction of predators, such as lynx or wolf. The only answer, then, seems to exclude the deer with fencing, which is expensive…… 🦌🦌🔫🥩🥩 (Can’t find a rifle emoji lol).
I live in the Pacific Northwest of the USA where we have Douglas fir and bigleaf Maple and I heard they grow Douglas for in scotland, especially around that Western Garden that has tree ferns on that peninsula. It's protected by a big swath of Douglas Firs on three sides. Big leaf maple is incredible as well. cottonwoods and Alders would grow their first. I'd love it if you got some of those seeds in fact I could send you some of big leaf maple anyway I think
I think the goal for them is to regrow native species like scots pine, rowan, birch, oak, elm. Many of those are pioneer species as well that grow readily.
Tom.. your videos are informative.. interesting.. and so achingly beautiful.. Please keep doing these as long as you can.. We are so grateful to have found your channel.. We shall follow you forever… Slan no charaid..💜💙🌹🌱
I wonder if modern wool material bears any resemblance to historical wool…the lanolin would be present in historical woolens providing much greater water resistance. Love your work!
He has a video where he goes out in washed wool and his pal comes along in lanolin wool, and the main difference they noticed was that the lanolin wool resulted in far, far more ticks and other biting insects, as he smelled more like a tasty sheep to them!
Whenever I feel like the modern age brings me down, I watch videos like these and am thankful for the advancements in technology and medicine and just quit complaining. People that lived through ancient times had to have worked together to survive and flourish. While as modern society has pushed many further apart I'm still thankful for all the comforts afforded me by my ancestors.
Excellent video, you're doing good work to revive and preserve knowledge that kept our less pampered ancestors alive and fairly comfortable, if not always in luxury, with very limited resources. Was there also more of a network of drovers' inns? In Wales there are a lot of places, some now ruins, marked by a small group of Scots Pines, where the drovers could graze/corral their cattle (or pigs or geese even!) and get some food and shelter (and probably ale!). Did Scottish drovers use dogs too?
Just found your channel. I'm an American, but my surname, Craig, is Scottish. I imagine my ancestors living this way. I was going to suggest that maybe drovers used cattle dung for fires, possibly from cattle that had been through the area a few weeks before, giving it time to dry. Thanks for sharing.
Hmm... how difficult would it be to get ready to plant saplings? Just a couple one could take with, then plant in sheltered and good spots so hungry tykes ain't nibbling 'em all up? It sure would take a couple of decades to get a few healthy copes going, but once they start seeding one could start collecting saplings more locally and range between the copse to spread and nurture up more good trees that will stand time and weather.
Willows are particularly good, as they are very hard to kill just by grazing, put up with very wet ground, sprout suckers and spread via layering. Good food for the beaver too, who will completely restructure the landscape given a chance.
Really enjoy your videos, as someone who is no longer as able to head out and survive on the land anymore its nice to see such interesting and often unknown techniques being presented.
Excellent. Your feel for context (both historical and natural) in the way you read and talk about the landscape, sets you way above almost all the other survival / "bushcraft" channels.
I stay in the Highlands and I’ve planted 1 acre of trees it’s surprising how quickly nature starts to recover but I did have to fence the area off with a deer fence great programs keep them coming
Hey man! I've watched a lot of your videos like 3 or 4 years ago. Kinda lost track of your content for a while, but back then you sparked a passion for the outdoors and nature in me, that I appreciate to this day. I've started taking hiking trips, some shorter some longer, through german wood and heather areas and it has been an absolutely magical experience! So thank you for sharing your content, it made a change in my life for the better.
Just to point out one piece of survival equipment you're missing: The cows. Cows produce a LOT of body heat and they're large enough to use as a lean-to. They're also a source of food. I'm pretty sure it was expected that if cattle drovers left the highlands with a herd of 100 cows, they'd probably turn up with 95 or so at the other end. There'd be losses due to injuries and poor health and I seriously doubt they let 400kg of steak go to waste. Might be interesting to see if you can buy/rent a highland cow from a farmer and take it on a hike.
Generally speaking, historically, we rarely eat ill animals. Maybe injured ones, but a small caravan couldn't process half a ton of meat, a lot of it was food for the scavangers.
People underestimate just how real animals fur/wool really is. Also, big, baggy clothing, as opposed to separate items, also helps keep your body warm.
👍 There is a program to reforest Iceland. You could do something like that for Scotland too. I would be happy to donate some euros or pounds, whatever, for that.
I searched under the keywords Scotland and reforestation and found interesting things on this topic. Stephanie Kiel, tree nursery near Loch Ness; Thomas MacDonell and Anders Povlsen; UK Carbon Zero climate strategy; are some terms that will help interested people on this topic.
Trees For Life seems to be the main one in Scotland right now trying to connect the various pockets of existing Caledonian forest and they've been very successful so far
@@toms_dayoff yea but none of that will help. The "carbon capture" cult ruins everything. This is a carbon based Universe. Plants Require co2 and the sun to photosynthesize.
And so too do I wish for the regeneration of scotland's forests but also the protection of scotland's peatlands as a distinct and ecologically valuable habitat
Scottish Highlands had far more forest than today, don't forget the landscape today is completely different from hundreds of years ago. So more shelter than you think ?😊😊 Also the Drovers rested at Drovers Inns
Tom. Don't let others tell you who you are or what to do, you are your own man, fight the good fight and battle your way through the nonsense of the monsters of today.. Top marks 🏴
One of the other ways they kept warm and really everyone back then and in very cold climates even today is food, as the body can use that extra energy on warming the body. You see that the calorie intake for royal navy sailors for example is in the region of 5,000 calories plus, which is more than Mike Tyson would have in his prime. Now a lot of that was for the hard manual labour they were partaking in, but a sizeable amount was used to keep them warm.
They didn't sleep in the open in most cases. Many turf buildings were built across the landscape and maintained until about two hundred years ago. They melted back into the landscape.
In the "Kidnapped" book by Robert Louis Stevenson (and its sequel), the term he's "In the heather" meant exactly what you are demonstrating, only in the book it was to give the English the slip and avoid being hung.
If you happen to find a decent amount of animal bone on your expeditions, you could always use that as fuel for the fire. Steppe nomads would employ this method of fire fuel and if it works it works.
Absolutely in love with your content are there more content creators that do videos like these? Making food from times gone and maybe even making clothing or armour from then?
Very interesting! I live in such a densely forested area, that I would never even have paid attention to some of the things you need to do for shelter. You got me thinking! Thank you for a great video.
There is also a very mistaken idea that most people died young in older times. Go walk past any old cemetery, and note the number of people who lived into their 70s, 80s, and 90s. I guarantee you it will be a lot more than you might think. The truth about life expectancies is that infant, childhood, and childbirth mortality were much higher in the past thanks to our lack of understanding of modern medicine and the rampancy of infectious diseases. Coupled with that are the factors that killed so many people in their prime years: war and workplace injuries, and the statistical analysis of life expectancies in earlier times can be grossly misleading. Humans did suddenly start living longer in the late 19th Century and 20th Century, what happened is, we started dying or preventable causes less often. The truth is that Home sapiens has always been a long-lived species easily capable of reaching 100 years of age with good nutrition.
Well, most people did die young. The thing is, that means _very_ young; a very high rate before being brought to term, around birth, or in early childhood. If you made it to adulthood, though, odds were you would love to ~50-65 with 70s not being especially uncommon. The upper range of the average life expectancy has gone up by about ten to fifteen years, which is indeed a lot less than often imagined.
I love your content!, I like how you try to encompass history of your local area and your own passions to experiment and try it for yourself, keep up the good educational and entertaining work.
Carrying a "pouch of dried plant material." Never realized those guys in the microbus were highland survivalists. One point, though: when driving cattle like that, any animal with a leg injury becomes a liability, so it would likely be harvested. Depending on the size of the herd, that could be a steady source of meat.
As always it is good to get info from you, as I just recently got to visit Scotland sept 26th to Oct 7th, and seeing all that you related is so true so many thanks again.
There’s a great film called “LORDS OF NATURE : LIFE IN A LAND OF GREAT PREDATORS” available on DVD and on RU-vid. I believe it holds the key to understanding the ecological decline of the highlands and their path towards restoration. Basically the wild predators scare the deer away from water sources by puppy guarding them, preventing deer from eating the trees while they are baby sprouts. The trees then build habitat for a whole ecosystem to thrive. Check it out, it’s very insightful. Thanks for bringing attention to this topic, it’s literally knowledge that may save the world.
Hi Fandabi . I love watching your videos and learning more and more about both ancient and modern Scotland. I am Scottish on my dad’s side of my family and maybe some day I will have the money to visit Scotland. I also want to know what your hat in this video is called so I can get one 😎
i know you're recreating auld scottish survival technique. but for the modern survivalist - to keep the midgies and mosquitoes away - rub undiluted lavender essential oil on your clothes and exposed skin - but NOT on your face. it creates a 5 foot barrier and is fascinating to watch too !
