Its all ok get er done right and then show us.I can wait. The Gator Project is "Awesome" Fun to imagine upgrades Sound system , Light bar, Winch with fairlead, Padded crew compartment for the ninjas.
Do you know anyone that does custom axework or shoemaking? I could use shoes that fit me & I have an idea for an axe that would likely eliminate the need for all that work, but give you more chopping power than a tomahawk.
I like that tip on cooking with the container out above the fire as to hold down the soot. The handle blanks look nice also and I have to remember that tip also since I may need to get another handle for my ax.
Because of this channel and Shawn's My Self Reliance I figured I'd give it a shot and start my own. We'll see where it goes from here. Greetings from Finland!
Forgot to enable Bluetooth before starting the video. Woke my wife up with the sound of "Hello guys and welcome back to the channel! Awesome to follow your adventures!
A US Boy Scout 'trick' was to coat pots and pans on the outside with a good lather from a pumice-rich soap ('Lava' Brand.) The carbon in smoke (mostly) was absorbed by the dried, soapy lather and could be washed away with little scrubbing. The pumice helped with scouring the pan or pot.
Here is a trick that I was taught about 50 years ago when I was in Boy Scouts. To keep soot from a camp fire from getting on your cook ware take a bar of soap like Palmolive or Dial soap and rub it on the outside of your pot like it was a coating of wax on a surfboard. The soot will form on the soap coating but when you wash the pots all of the soot comes off easily with the soap.
Good for you that you're able to find and process the wood for ax handles. Looking forward to seeing the finished handles and how you process the blanks.
This was a nice video, peaceful and informative. That is some good looking wood for the axe handles, looking forward to seeing the end product. Thanks for sharing my friend, have a great week!
Good video Lars! That axe is nice, similar to my Toporsib Axe. Birch makes good handles, I use yellow Birch which is the hardest one I can find here in Western Canada, I prefer it to Hickory which splits in cold weather. The Finnish People used to chop the bark off one side of a Birch and leave it for years, as the wound heals the wood on that side would grow denser (rings closer together) making it harder. The hard side would become the front of the axe shaft. Good tip on keeping soot of pots, but if you allow them to blacken I have heard the pot boils water quicker (should do the experiment). Take care friend, WS.
Ah, here you are! Another great video with very educational content. Speaking of educational stuff, in every one of your videos there is some new trick that I learn or reminder for stuff that I knew once. Saying that because yesterday I was watching some of your older vids and thinking: - I hope Lars don't decide to clean some old videos because it will be like tearing the first 50 pages of a book and burn them and then go read the bok...
Good Luck with those Handel's even if You so not need it ! Thanks for that good advice on cooking pots and I look forward to seeing the finished axe's .
In the USA they think the best handles are made of Hickory. I don't know much about Birch as I don't have it here, where I live. It grows East of me and North of me. I could almost smell the fire.
At about 10:24 in the video, that thick fallen tree behind you, some Silky action to section the trunk into vertical logs for a shelter that could handle large snow loads. Could be small vertical logs for lower shelter or larger vertical logs for higher shelter design. Just some thoughts.
Nice job on the gator track Lars, also nice job on the axe handle blanks very nice on the sweet natural sweep blank, good video and great tip on not sooting up the cooking things :-) big thumbs up from me (-:
Just think in a few years the pink and blue ninjas will be setting up camp as you sit back drinking chaga tea and making super soup with barley and pork for all.
I look forward to more outdoor food vids if you decide to make more. If you do, i know a channel that promotes small channela and gets them subs. I use to camp the red river in Texas and some older gents would dive for mussels. They taught me a few things. Looking forward to your vid
Lars you are the man. I usually don't comment cause I can't touch it. God bless you. I think my grandsons should go back to Russia, their best days are coming, look at that land.
Holy cow those are some big old logs Lars! That is one fine Siberian log fire. Very neat bench as well. Must have been a lot of work getting that camp set up!
Good tip on the soot free cook pot. I guess I'm impatient and usually put it right in the fire. Have you had time to do anything more about making those hunter skis? I still want to try making some, as well as an ax handle.
I made an adze handle from birch it was pretty awesome in our region they our s shaped not something I have experienced anywhere else so I had to build it
I really enjoy your channel and it reminds me - in a good way - of what a modern 'Girlie Man' I am...I don't sleep well camping out. Also, I usually have to take a dump 1st thing in the morning. Where can one go out there where you are, and still have privacy?
Lars, I'm curious. What do you do for work? I can't imagine that engaging in awesomeness all week pays very well. Edit: what did Mrs Survival Russia make for supper?
You should make a video of the biggest super awesome Siberian log fire made... put your whole family and a couple friends in a video for a big buckwheat dinner with shot of moonshine at the end not so awesome for the little ones though
Hi Lars, you really make some nice videos! Could you please post an update of your The Paratrooper M rucksack impressions? Still as good as you thought it would be? Thanks!
Hello from Canada! Do you use those concrete salos for anything? What's with the open air wood pile? Here it would rot in the open. Wheres your sauna? Love the gator - have you considered raising the cargo area roof to fit guests and cargo easier? Happy spring!
Native people's in the US offer food to the Creator also.......when a boy in Scouting , we soaped the outside of our pots before cooking over a fire . They would blacken , but wash off .
Awesome tips on keeping the soot off !! Hey... Starting at 7:05 I saw some weird looking sawdust on the snow. It looked... It looked like it was from a Chainsaw Lars !! Have you been cheating on us off camera, Lars ??? 😯
awesome too see you back my friend curious question please type the grandfather woods name thats cool love that and may god bless you and your family my friend
ive seen a bundle of axe handels with perfect grain alighment on a pile at a recycle place owner said he was under contract and could not let me have one ,i think they do that so they wont last as long,thats why we dont see perfect ones at the store,more money for the maker.sad truth of modern economy .....thanks for the instruction , i will now start making my own as well from yellow birch lots of it here as well as white birch....we try to keep the good maple for sypop production but they do fall some times.. could i use that as well?
