Over the years watching you two blessed souls ive come to understand that nature provides everything we could possibly need for everything and every season ! most importantly this world provided us all with Lonnie and Connie as our mentors . Thank you both for the time and dedication to us all on bringing the best of knowledge of nature !
Although I currently don’t have the capability to exactly duplicate your dressing, it gives me the opportunity to search for suitable replacements. I have used a leather dressing my father taught me when I was a kid over fifty years ago. It’s mildly similar and has served me well. However, after seeing your ingredients, I believe yours wouldn’t have to be reapplied as often as mine. Hello to Connie ... and please ask her to make sure you don’t wait another two months to make a video. :)
Hey Lonnie - great to see ya again! Been way too long! Thanks for the tip. One of the things I've always liked about your channel is that you show how to do things as much or more than just camping and cooking meat on fire. Not that those are bad things! Looking forward to more real life practical bushcraft/wilderness tips. Be well and hi to Connie!
I can imagine at least one or two kids are watching to see how Santa fixes his boots in his workshop up at the North Pole, haha Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to both Lonnie and Connie, from Canada
Must be working perfectly,after using your boots for many years and the water still pour of like new ones. Great tutorial,thanks for sharing. Stay both safe out there Any Steve
I changed up as "Johnny Guitar".....(in BC Canada) now Lonnie and I'm sure you know who Johnny & Edger Winter were...lol...but, this looks like a GREAT throw-back to making "Chaga Chai" from your Birches! Please re-make Lonnie, and continue ... 👍
Lonnie and Connie, great that you are both well, I was starting to worry after I heard of the earthquake in Alaska and no uploaded video since a while! God bless!
Just goes to show the value of natural products over synthetic. That polish looked like the real deal. A lesson learned here, have a good Christmas, cheers.
I used to use neatsfoot oil to waterproof my leather motorcycle jacket 40 years ago. It kept the leather nice and supple too. Merry Christmas to you both from Liverpool, UK
You never disappoint, Lonnie! I love homemade recipes. They are the best hands down in my opinion. I'm going to make birch oil this month. Have a wonderful Holiday season and New Year Lonnie and Connie!!! 🎄❤️
This is my favorite channel by far great leather conditioner recipe learn something new everyday. 12 13 years hard use and those boots still look that good amazing. Hope you and Connie have a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing lonnie. Lost a lot of my beard shutdown of my camp little mishap with the ole fire. O well it should grow back. Blessings to you and Connie. Merry Christmas and hope y'all have a great new year if we don't see you two before then.
sir that is way out of my wheelhouse but thank you for showing me how and connie as always great camera work. may you both have a blessed holiday season. fyi its me robert litzinger
Oooo hoh hoh ho - hello you too nice to see you again These older boots are stollen from Santa ? So good to know something from olders Stay well and mery chr and happy ny Goran - Croatia
Been watching Far North since your first year. Thank you for the plethora of knowledge, and just being super likeable. I'm located in the PNW and a lot of what you teach applies to me. Most of these Bushcraft channels are deep south and not much they teach applies to us. I swear to God I was just searching for something similar for my Red Wings. I normally use Beeswax but am needing something a bit more durable. One of these days I'll break down and purchase some Mucks. Until then, I will def give this shot. Not much/any Birch here in Wa though. Anything else I can substitute the Birch oil with?
Mink oil might be a good substitute though I have no experience with it. If using mink oil I would probably use that instead of both the birch bark oil as well as the Neets foot oil.
I have never made any dressing to put on my boots, but have purchased some already made to put on my boots and it works perfectly for me. The dressing you made looks great and must work perfectly for you and those old boots must have been worn for many Winters in the snow and ice and still usable and that tells you that you got a great deal when you purchased them.
I'm pretty sure these are his spring and fall boots. They are much too thin for winter boots in Alaska. Maybe he might use them a little around the camp in winter, but I doubt it
I find you very humbled. You and your hubby are very intriguing to your environment. I live in the up of Michigan which is much the same. Your voice is almost Hemingway like. Intelligents doesn't always have a degree. Common sense is not so common anymore
I'm always impressed with your knoledge and advice. I hope you will do well and go far. It doeas this old heart good to see someone living the life. I wish I could, but the stroke I hand took away grom me the ability to do so. I pray your advice will help a new younger generation. Sorry, it takes me a lomg time to type these, I make a lot of mistakes.
Thanks Lonnie for sharing another great idea. I’m going to give it a try on my same LL bean boots same as yours. Here’s a little trick I use in extremely wet weather with my boots.... I use a seam sealer ( same as used on tents ) and around the stitching INSIDE the boots to help prevent leakage. It works pretty well. Thanks again for the recipe on boot waterproofing!
12 to 13 years on a pair boots that's amazing.. Thank you for sharing the recipe maybe one of these days I have to try it out. I will share this video with my son he lives in the far northeast might be beneficial for him. Thank you
Good to see ya'll again hopefully every thing well and good. Anywho right interesting videos, thanke right kindly for trying to teach the old ways to younger generations.
Nice!! Thanks Lonnie. Merry Christmas to you guys in Alaska. I was in Homer last year for the summer. Wish I could have made it farther north to see you. Wish I was still there. God Bless
I make something similar to that, it is called fixin wax. It consists of lard, beeswax, coconut oil and something, not at my desk to find the recipe. You can use it on leather and high carbon steel knives to keep them from rusting. Thanks for sharing your recipe.
I've been testing a commercial product that includes some kind of plant oil, wax and pine tar. So far quite happy with that. Pine tar is also one of the traditional waterproofing for leather.
Looks good Lonnie! Sending you both very best wishes for Christmas brother! Thanks for the entertaining videos and friendship! Take care my friend 👍🏽👍🏽👌🏽😎
Amazing I love when you do these videos! But then again I will use all this knowledge and put it to good use. God bless the life of a mountain man. Happy new year when it finds you both.
Merry Christmas to you both! We love all of your videos and we look forward to seeing them when you release them. Stay safe up there and enjoy life together!
The first comment I made on your channel was a question on what you put on your leather. That was roughly three years ago. And you told me this. Thanks for making a video. I might have a hard time getting some of the ingredients here in Ashtabula ohio. I'm sure I could order it. But I enjoy making something verses buying it if I can. Thanks again, and Merry Christmas, and Happy New year! 🤘💯
Happy holidays, I did a month of cold weather training while in Marines, 4-76 to 05 79 was at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks AK , all of January 1979 when I see you in the white boots,[ in your preview of tent & stove] that jogged my memory. We also used a similar size cold weather stove,[ nothing as fancy as yours ] ; it would be -55 outside & 73 F in that tent. We cooked cans of chef boy R d on the top of it. They drop us off in a Chinook helicopter, we pull a sled called an Akio, 10 man team. I was 20 then, now 62, people have no clue what it takes to live out there. Well I thought I would share that. We put poncho liners on floor after tent was up, air mattresses, we had double artic sleeping bags, full artic gear, new wool socks with those white boots , they have vent valves on side of them . Sun comes up at 9:30 am stays out on horizon, does a slow arc, goes down at 3:30 pm. Now those northern lights, that's a phenom you must live in life. Take Care. Hugh McSheffrey - Chicago Metro. [ps: what's the best eating part of the Moose ?
Those ahkio sleds were the first sleds we ever used behind snowmachines back in the 70's. The "best" part of a moose in my opinion is the tenderloins. That is my favorite cut of meat followed by the backstraps.
Good to see you Lonnie. I hope you and Connie had a nice Thanksgiving. I have to tell ya, I am a little envious of the new boots. I really like the look of those guys. Great content, thanks!
Happy Happy Merry Merry Mr and Mrs Lonnie . Your boot goup looks interesting all I ever used was Bear Grease or Beaver Grease . I remember about 45 years ago we got 3 or 4 porkeypines. And got a couple quarts of grease . The porkeyPine grease worked like Bear Grease .
@@geraldhoskins2021 Mink oil , After I made Knife sheaths and pouches for my knife sheaths. I would heat my sheaths and pouched made from 8 to 10 ounce utility Cow hide Id use mink oil after I warmed the leather up with a hair dryer on high heat and Rub them down with mink oil .. my base ball gloves also mink never for Boots .. good Bear Grease was fine Beaver is good never used otter or muscrat . And again porkeyPine .. Porkey pine the Quills you pill the Quills clip off the points clean them boil them dye them leave them natural and you can get about now 5 bucks a 100 plus shipping .maybe 5 bucks for 50 . . And as long as their eyes are not cloudy the meat makes good eatting .. cookem on a drip tray . Or just bake em till the meat is stringy and do a meat pie .. yummy .
Thanks For This, Lonnie & Connie That Will Sure Keep Them In Shape, Nicely ! Bought a pair of Bean 12" High Tops, Coated with 4 coats of Mink Oil, Comfy As Slippers. Merry Christmas Friends ! Happy Trails From The Frosty East Coast ! ATB T God Bless
It's always interesting to see how others operate. A word of caution for you.. The neetsfoot oil is your culprit for the leather getting brittle and cracking. Neetsfoot oil oxidizes over time and embrittles the leather resulting in cracking. Ask me about an expensive pair of boots and how I know! :-) Thanks for the video...
I have had that experience as well using neatsfoot oil on saddle leather. Everyone has an opinion but I just use mink oil on my boots and peanut oil on saddle leather. Great instructions Lonnie! Thanks
