How to Camp like a Traditional Australian Bushman From 200 Years Ago. 

Hi Luke. I saw a video of Malcolm Douglas. He digs a hole, body length. Lights fire and waits. The when it right covers it with soil. Sleeps on top for a cold night. Tip, he said, make shore the enough soil.

Beautiful. Reminds me that I sat on a rattlesnake once. Didn't bite. Guess he couldn't get his mouth around my sitter. This video sure reminds me of the part of my life around the Appalachian Mountains. The good parts.

Fascinating video, the gear was heavier but so much tougher than modern gear !! For reference old glass bottles, round meant drinkable, angled or square was normally medicine or poison ! I think this was so people didn't mistake them in the dark...

Love what your doing boys , I used to like doing the same , camping in the spirit of the 1880s , true swaggie style ..

Luke, The bottle probably contained linament for sore muscles and sprains. My maternal grandfather would be proud of you. He came from Greta South in Vic, was a great horseman and bushman. The Kelly’s were neighbours.

Absolutely love the content and because of you, you’ve inspired me to do this type of hiking myself and I’m starting to make all the gear and the first one on the block is the swag. Keep up the great work!

Awsome video I love watching videos like this and seeing how they had to live back in the day 👍🏾

An outstanding video. "Ah well, I suppose it has come to this... Such is life." - Ned Kelly

This is how I imagine my great great grandfather lived when he came to Victoria in the mid-late 1800s.

Awesome video guys. Hope you can both catch up together again to share more amazing content.

2 X bushies. Really enjoyed this one, and both collaborating. Not sure if the old boys would come at the chai tea though.

very nice mate - looks like you had a decent north-westerly coming in, hopefully kept the depths of the chill off overnight my friend

Love this video. Thanks to both Scotty and yourself for taking the time to prepare, create and share it with us all. Would be great to see you both team up again in the near future too. Chai from Tilba Tilba... just up the track from where I live. ;)

Hey Luke , good episode mate , cracked some decent weather too . Buddy a word of advice, modern day cans come with a plastic coating on the inside , be warned heat them up n well... Anyway cheers hope alls good, catch ya on the next one. 👍

Another great video, and nice to introduce Scotty - you make a good collaboration with this shared passion. The damper looked pretty good too!

Pretty good stuff there fellas. Don’t cook your beans straight in the can though as they are lined inside with nasty plastic these days.

Thanks Luke and Scotty. I am heartened to see you had troubles with the bow drill fire. I tried that on my last adventure and could not get it all happening either. Plus is is very hard work! I’ll be showing my vain attempts in my next video. Flint and steel is definitely a better option, but I will have another crack at the bow drill sometime. I did manage to get a fire started at home, just need to replicate that in the bush. Really like your videos and your keeping the old skills alive.

13:45 proper bushmen there.. sitting, enjoying a smoke by the open flames.

Always wanted to try late 1800s aussie swag campin.

My arm hurt watching the 2 of you on the bow drill 😁.... good effort! Cool video 👍

Thank tyou thank you Thank you for sharing . Love this time of history. Congratulations great show❤😊

Australia is a beautiful country without a doubt.

Nice pipes. I have one myself mates. Well i have 7 pipes. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Great looking trip man, and wow yeah that snake is a rare one

Living like the Marston brothers!

Pretty sure your brown bottle is a vintage kerosene bottle, or paraffin. But I am leaning more to it being for kero.

Great video guys. Looked like a very enjoyable time out in the bush. Love the use of traditional/historical items and the weaving in of a little historical background. Great collaboration 👌

we love to see

Beautiful.

Love it, gotta learn our land

Great to see you and Scotty teaming up to explore simpler gear and times…👍

Absolutely loved this video fellas!! Keep up the good work.

Thank you. Interesting video…

Just looks like a great time to me❤

That was awsome ,, just put of ontario canada here follow both of you ... thanks for the video keep up the awsome stuff

Nice work fellas - really enjoyed watching this vid. How amazing is our Australian bush !! Thankyou

loved you guys smoked a pipe. Great video.

True blue Aussies , bloody awsum .

Really doing some great stuff Luke. Keep it up mate. Ian

Great video mate loved it....keep em coming 👍🇦🇺🍻

Magnificent 💥

Damper. Check out the camp oven king. Raise billy can up. Coals around billy, coals on top. Turn lid over. Flour in the bottom of can. It tells you the temp is right by the colour of the dry flour in bottom of the can

Awesome video mate

Looks like Strathbogie range’ there’s lots of hideout there 😀

I've always rolled out my damper into a long sausages and then wrap it around a stick then lean it over the fire rotating once in a while

"Harsh winter" ...*laughs in Canadian*

Cool. All very cool. 👍🏻

Good morning mate..I can see why you got a passion for this, it's incredible I love that people like you and scotty and others are keeping these old ways alive. That way of fire starting I've never done but it looks so so rewarding when it's achieved. Lol don't have to worry about stealthy snakes in New Zealand. How to tell I was the kiwi in the Auzzy shearing camp..Me sees a brown snake gets excited and wants to pick it up, the Auzzy tells me it's extremely deadly and it'll kill me so I'm like can we eat it,. My boss knocks it on the head and we cook it but both forget, The the next morning there's a baby huntsman spider that looks as big as my hand chilling on my door I see it and stumble backwards in panick to escape 😂, Yup I'm definitely a kiwi lol have an amazing day ahead.

Does it get an better , great stuff lads

Yes mate very good content. Keep this niche ❤

This is awesome guys🩵

Great vid mate,

Que maravilha de vídeo! Parabéns 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Moving down the Victoria soon. Look forward to camping out there. Would love to try these old methods.

Another enjoyable video snake wanted warmthx

Great stuff mate. I imagine that big rock would retain some heat? Great job on the damper 🇦🇺 🇳🇿

Good stuff, enjoyed watching that Luke, you and Scotty go well 👍

Another great informative show. Well done mate.

There's a great American version of this. It's called Brokeback Mountain. 👍🏻

Fantastic video. Got my sub..

Fantastic camp. Can you tell me what the music was?

Quigley down under sent me here

You guys seem like Bros. Hello from New England USA.

Very nice gentlemen😎

Whats it like out there in the middle of the night? Did this once in the blue mountains, took me 1 night to get accustomed to the darkness and noise

Bloody sunday night, everybody drops good vids but out for dinner so have to wait😂

Very very educational and fun to watch! One question... Why not matches? Matches were invented in 1826

Mate I am really enjoying these, also sub to Scotties channel, another great show. Both champions

Half the reason behind the bushcrafting and 'old school gear camper' existence is that the purveyors of this style of camping just desperately want to be stumbled-upon by normal campers who will be jealous of their skills and retro setup. The whole four days I was walking 70km across the Wadi Rum desert with my 55L Tasmanian Tiger Modular Trooper pack full of 1/2 modern and 1/2 bushcrafty gear, I wanted to be stumbled-upon by normies and/or bedouins who would raise an eyebrow at my kit, especially given the fact I took a portable shisha pipe kit and managed to fit a duduk into my bag, an instrument I began learning a bit over two years ago... But alas, I didn't run into a single other person until I made it back to Rum Village. I'm not going to say that the coals and flavoured tobacco, and the duduk were a waste of time (and pack weight), but damn, I would have loved the opportunity to tell a passerby about it.

Another good vid the fry pan Scotty made is cool ,is Scott a army vetran ?? He dosnt say much

cook the damper away from direct heat and it would f been softer and moist

Any Yowies.

Banksia fire drill . I see Banksia trees every day.

At least bundy was around back then, you’d need to be pissed to eat bully beef by choice 😂😂

Traditional or not, what use does a watch have out in the bush?

Great vid but thinking Bushrangers might have had horses?

Why would you lug a heavy lantern. Serious question 😊

Nice Luke , congratulations your Damper cooking skills are improving 😂 . Looking forward to the next adventure. What's your email address?

They all carried firearms back in the early days. One of the best things you can have for survival in the outback. Should of eaten the snake for dinner 😁

Hey mate, what size oilskin tarp do you use as a swag?

Did u have good WiFi?

You call that winter?

Bushperson, I mean bushThem

Use the traditional BIC lighter mate …

Turn on the radio and Do a little bushmansoost ushlasoost tha moomyaroo and get some advice from a kangaroo then play the didgeridoo

I hear you have to treat like it's your girlfriend when starting a bow drill fire. 🤔

Did white people back then learn Stuff from the aborigines? Btw i like the hat! Afro blonde?