Vintage 1930s Leather Belt Survival Kit: Exploring Antique Gear with Sam Brown Belt! 

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My dad was born in 1928 and helped with herding sheep from about the age of 4. By the time he was 10 it was a life of living out of tents in the mountains every summer. He carried a small whiskey flask, filled with kerosene. Pitch or pine resin was a coveted found item for starting fires in the damp too, but with kerosene he could start fires in extremely heavy rain. Citrus pitch also works too. A large enough chunk of pitch burns hot enough to destroy a camp stove. When winter came, if you got caught in a snow storm with game, it was return with the meat, and leave the gear behind. In 2006 my uncle found a Winchester my dad hung in a tree back in the 1940s, bolt out, muzzle down, so the water will drain through it. Sometimes you can't find it later.

I appreciate how authentic you try to be. It's 101 degrees right now in baltimore. That outfit would be uncomfortable today.Many thanks James to you and anyone who helps with your videos.

There's just something about the look of the early 20th century outdoorsman that I find appealing. I love that most of the materials and clothing are still leather, wool, cotton, and linen. Nothing in your gear is made of plastic or requires batteries, a power source or a cell signal to work. Which means that, if stored properly, the shelf life of your camping/survival gear is decades. I have a 2 book set published by Harper and Row for Outdoor Life in 1963. The books are "Complete Book of Camping" and "Complete Book of Outdoor Lore". Both are full of great camping and outdoor no-how, equipment and clothing advise, recipes, etc... It's very cool to read up on classic camping.

That pocket axe looks very handy, far superior to any knife for serious wood processing. Im sold on the idea of wearing a hatchet in the northern forest and a machete in the southern jungle. Always need some kind of saw as well.

I've been considering a campaign hat. Versatile and utilitarian. The flashlight reminded me of my old Rayovac Sportsman metal flashlight. We went on many adventures together close to 60 years ago. Thank you.

This channel never dissapoints! Always great informative and usefull content, a lot side notes and information, no clickbait. Love it. You are the kind of RU-vidr who deserve the subs and revenue for feeding us value instead of hollow "content".

15:55 That fire kit is straight up the definition of the phrase, "A beauty, a bonny, a joy to behold!" Incredible.

Hello from Oklahoma! Interesting video! Brings back a flood of memories. I was a boy Scout through the 70's. A thing I noticed right off. The placement of your knife and hatchet on your belt. 3:10 UNSAFE! We were taught to put The Compass up front, the Hatchet sharp side back next, Knife after that. Much safer and you don't take the chance of stabbing your leg or crotch. Our scoutmaster was picky about this stuff. Also, if you roll up a tarp with your bedroll, you are good to go. Thanks for jarring the memories! God Bless!

They certainly looked very smart and well dressed back in the day .

I felt my heart beat jump when you pulled out that flashlight… I may be 64… but flashlights are my kryptonite. I still have my grandfathers carbide lamp… that is a sweet set up sir. That mirror on the compass also allows you to shoot a bearing with “the sights” and see your compass needles orienting the “north needle” to reflect your bearing as you walk and verify direction to a “target” (mountain peak, tree, rock or whatever in the distance to keep your travel true and see the compass reflection at the same time

I don't know what is better. Gear or every little story behind it. Amazing video. Truly

I have an older Marbles knife and it does indeed hold an incredible edge I would not dare baton that knife for firewood , that's what my small Marbles hatchet is for.

Agreed. This isn't larping (not that there's anything wrong with that) but real recreating. You know know doing it real makes it so much more difficult. Good on you, brother

I really don't think your videos gets the credit it deserves. Thanks for another awesome video 😉

Hat was introduced to sir Badon Powell by American Frederick Russell Burnham while in south Africa in the 1890s. Burnham taught Baden Powell Bushcraft. Recommend his book scouting on two continents by Frederick Russell Burnham. Cheers Ron

Great video! The parabolic reflector in that old flashlight gives you another way to start a fire.

Never forget the most important elements of 1930s survival gear: a brown fedora and a 10-foot bullwhip.

That's more my style. Light, simple, functional. ❤

Very cool scout setup! Love it! Leather and Brass really is a great combo, looks pretty good too. Reminiscent of the sailing days and the frontiers men.

Yes!!!! That’s what you do so well ! Great belt ,pouches and tools!Bed roll and carrier belt excellent! These videos always make me wanna hit the flea markets and find these types of items! Thanks !

Absolutely love your history presentations. Great to see how it was done in the past. Thank you.

I have commented, before, that while I enjoy your hobo series these types of videos about older woods/camping setups are my favorite of your work. I also really like tins, pouches and belt kits so this one was right up my alley. I really like the flint and steel tin and that striker is, pardon the pun, quite striking with the slightly more fancy style than I normally see.

Good video. I joined Boy Scouts in 1962. We had a lot of WWII surplus gear. The official BSA gear was old style canvas. That is a very nice compass. Add a couple of birthday candles to the match safe. Have fun. Good Luck, Rick

Very cool love all the vintage stuff blows me away how you find it all. Heck a poncho as shelter/ rain gear would be light weight and useful and compact.

That compass is the bomb.

That’s a great setup, ty for passing it on to us..

My dad and I love your content

I love the belt

I found several things in this video interesting I like all the older stuff and i like how they would carry potato with them because a potato is my favorite food in pretty much whatever way you fix it Great job on making this video give it a thumbs up

You are a Smart and Talented Man Mr. Bender... Thank you So Much for Sharing and Teaching. 🤗

I love it! Was walking around today with a modern equivalent. I added my quiver full of arrows to it and my bedroll is wool wrapped in a modern canvas tarp. I use a 'messenger bag' and a large 'fanny pack' w milsurp canteen, cup and stove attached. My axe is an 18" 1lb ebay 'custom'. Knife is a Mora Companion. Sunto compass. Ironically, inspired by you and your longhunter series. Assembled so I could figure what stuff I wanted to find/make in 17th century gear. Also I carry a denim jacket, gonna wax it soon, strapped to my bedroll. Great video, thanks for showing us this stuff.

Top content as always, I love this channel. Anyone into this type of bushcraft/survival would probably also like a channel I discovered a couple of weeks back and have been binge watching, the bearded bushranger. It's an Aussie guy camping in the style of the old school swagmen. But mostly in snow in the winter, not in the scorching desert! Another retro survival/bushcraft/camping channel is Fandabi Dozi, he goes out into the Scottish Highlands as a 17th century highlander, kilt and all.

That classic flashlight looks awesome.

Right on James, really great to see the gear used 100+ years ago. You're keeping history alive man. Great job!

That is an outstanding kit. It is easy to forget how well those that came before us already had the gear and skills that was needed to make it out in the wild.

Thank you for another trip into better times. Spent many years having to wear a straw campaign hat as part of my uniform. It was truly a misery to wear. Love the pocket axe. I've never been able to bring myself to using a quality knife as a makeshift axe.

Totally reminded me of great grandparents 😊❤😊...simpler times. Thanks for making the video.

I really love the Vintage era of camping and this goes well with the hobo series. I have 1920s compass from the Boy scouts. This military style camping kit is really creative.

i have a match carrier like that. it's somewhere, maybe a good time to add it to my kit. backups are always nice.

Another fabulous video from WPS. I do like the pocket axe and the frying pan. Thanks JB!

Just want to say how much I love your videos. I'm old now but back in Scotland I knew quite a few "Gentlement of the Road" and given this was decades ago, can relate your content to the men I knew back then. They travelled seasonal routes getting what we called piecework...seasonal jobs mostly in fields or on farms etc. I also remember one old gent who confirmed he preferred that lifestyle to the factory job he left as a fifteen year old boy.

Thank you for your time and effort. Great video. I've always liked the older ways of doing some things and hiking, bushcraft, and hunting are big. I knew of an old trapper and his nephew inherited the woven ash wood pack basket and small "pocket" hatchet like the one you have in this video. I think he even received the old trappers Winchester! ...Anyway, great video, I really enjoy what your doing here.

Rolling up a nice watertight tarp into that bedroll was my first thought as well.

Greeeat video, its funny how this kit is still reliable even today, covers all basics of survival, amazing work

I love these videos.... keep them coming, please!! I remember my Gpa had a flashlight like that, it was a total piece of junk compared to what we are blessed with today.... Olight Baton 4 would blow that guys mind for the technology these days. RIP Hal Neumann!!

I love that frying pan

You mentioned a modern addition to this being a lightweight tarp, however wouldn't they have had oilskins or oiled/waxed canvas tarps back in the day in the US too? In Australia this was the case, also the swag (kind of a bivvy bag) was made from oiled canvas.

You make awesome videos. I can’t believe you don’t have way over a million subscribers! Excellent content and superb presentations! 👍🏻

Wow , saw the picture of the leather belt survival kit , and it looked so familiar I was amazed. Used a similar set up for years , and was probably the only one who ever went through search and rescue training in the Pacific Northwest using one . A lot of my individual items were a little different , but still followed the same idea . Good presentation !

I watched this ine several days ago but did not comment at that time. Since your 1930s outfit was only one decade ahead of my childhood, much of that gear carried over into the 1940s. Some of the leather ouches & bags looked like they were patterned after simiar items from earlier historical periods. As usual, another great one! Blessings on you & yours!

That is excellent. Nice use of the Sam Browne. Early batman utility belt setup. Gum blankets come in at around 2lbs. Those "safari" style jackets are great additions. Well used by the British army in hot climates. I have the Navy canteen as well and it's canvas carrier. I replaced the wool on the outside. Not as good as it was new but exactly what a regular person would do.

Your content, and that of SargeVining and Blackie of course, are my internet happy places. Thanks for doing what you do! PS, I am old enough to remember going canoe camping with my father in Algonquin Park up in Ontario, and we just dipped our cups into the lakes and drank without thinking about treating the water. Sure can't do that these days!

With that many belts your pants will never fall off

"Lookin Good"! as per Freddie Prinze from a 70's sitcom, Chico And The Man.

I say old chap, I hope Charles brings a pint for us so we can set up camp properly here in the outback of the Hamptons. Martha expects me back for breakfast, so we can't be dallying come day break. Tell Charles to bring the carriage around at first light. Lol🤣 Sorry, I couldn't help myself. Clearly, your forefathers were quite a bit higher on the social ladder than mine. That's a great collection of gear none the less.

It is really cool how many vintage things you can find for your videos. Keep it up. As long as you don't run out of storage space. 😁

I always liked old style equipment because it was tried and true and I grew up poor and it was cheap or thrown out at my era so scrounged it up lol. I generally carried two match cases one with matches and birthday candles the other was a fishing kit a folding barlow knife. Sometimes a tobacco tin was used to carry items as well but for the most part this kit kept us fed with fish warmed up if it got to cold and as a avid explorer you found out where natural springs where to get drinks sometimes we made birtch bark vontainers to boil in get a drink from

That Indiana Jones joint. They don't make them like that anymore. Keep the American pioneer experience alive dude. 🇺🇸✌️💚🍻

Love your channel

You do a good job with costuming.

I really enjoy this especially the leather gear . When I was younger my friends and I would go camping on the fly I always grabbed a couple of potatoes

Waypoint survival, I don’t know when you got suggested to me I just know your content is one of a kind, and your videos are absolutely delightful to watch and learn from. God bless brother and don’t stop, great video as always love from South Dakota.

You got my vote all the way

James Another Great Video my Ohio Brother 👍👍And yes much easier to carry all your items that you would need for a over nighter, and a tarp wouldn’t make it any heavier at all!! Would love to see you do a over nighter with your gear.Thanks again.👍👍🤟✌️

What a sweet knife. Edit: what a sweet kit.

Lord Baden-Powell would be proud - being a devoted ex British Boy Scout I loved this one

i just love the good old pre plastic stuff, in the deep woods totally isolated for years to come you cant repair these anything made from plastic and synthetic materials, you cant make them too

Greetings James. Brother your leather haversack is precisely what I’d mentioned that I’m keeping an eye out for here in the Pacific Northwest. Another great exploration of our collective bygone era. God bless you.

Most admirable historic artifacts and presented with such interesting background.

I just love the items you find just cool items.

Very cool vintage gear. That compass looks to be very well made. Better than most modern compasses.

I love the time you take to make your videos as authentic as possible James! Very nice vintage kit!! Keep up the great content my friend and God bless you and your family!

I really enjoy your videos. You put a lot of detail on them. I can tell you have really thought them through. I would suggest a future video showing how a hobo would maintain his tools. Such as how he may have sharpened his knife and hatchet. How he replaced the handle in his hammer. His tools are very important to make money and sometimes make camp, im sure time was spent keeping them in top shape and inrepair.

I have the Sam Brown belt my grandfather wore in WW1. Also the Webley Mk VI.

It's lost now, but when we acquired a hunt camp, we discovered an old flashlight which did not have a battery but instead had a finger pumped generator. The gearing was partially broken, but it did work somewhat. I imagine these were common too.

Outstanding, thank you sir! Always great watching these videos.

The Haversack you have shown us in another excellent video can clip to the angled brass square rings on the left side of the belt so it is supported by the cross strap.

Always enjoy your videos. I have a number of vintage camping & woodcraft books from about 1900 onward and I'm always browsing through them. They're full of surprisingly good advice that you don't find in modern books and I'm always amused when I see a bit of gear that wouldn't look at all out of place today or is superior to what would be used now.

This video inspired me and gave me an answer to something I have been trying to perfect. Never thought of a Sam Browne belt. Thanks for the idea.

That is a nice set of equipment, you are rocking a sweet Sam Browne belt order. Your Canteen is to an early 20th century British pattern, the enamelled steel if it gets chipped inside it can become a nuisance, if it gets dented it will split on a seam and have to be discarded, it is normally covered in blanket material for an evaporative cover in summer and to keep it warm in the cooler months.

Love it! I need to make something like this for camping

I wanted to say the whole body weight system is very easy to carry and access. Modern bags are great but unless they have a loaded belt strap. Getting to stuff means taking the bag off

The zinc carbon batteries of the '30s had a fairly short life. The flashlight was used for brief periods of time. The old school ways shouldn't be forgotten. They served their purpose for many. No more complicated than they had to be, worked when needed, and durable....and still do the job just fine.

Man that axe is perfect jeez never seen one so small.other than the knife hanchet combo woth the knife

Looks similar to what I packed while serving in the "Cav" except we used C4 for tinder. Thanks for sharing. 👍

Cool video never seen a frying pan like that need to look for one

Lets get old stuff and go live in the past it sure beats the present the animal's snd plants still live the same way 😊

This was awesome to watch. I just finished reading Nessmuk's book. So I appreciate the shout out.

Another superb presentation of these times. I really love that mini flint striker, never seen one this small before. It is mid winter here in Western Australia and cold down south. Thank you.

I do love your belt and gear. I have a belt kit that I made with leather pouches and a belt kit that I made from my military gear.

@9:46. Best bushcraft cup ever. I have 3 of them.

Mt man here watching 👍👍 old time stories good vid

May God Bless you young man.

I surely have enjoyed this series. Awesome collection of "artifacts". Lots of useful information. Definitely enjoy your presentation techniques. Thanks so much for your time spent creating this series.

me encanto la linterna, mi abuelo tenia una igual, saludos desde Argentina

Very similar to a kit I throw together some years ago, still have it, Replace alot of things for more modern stuff. Like an electric sodium filter, a First aid (need to replace that), LED Lights, modern bags, and the like. Only thing missing is the blanket, and tarp. Been using a bivoc since I havent found one that I like yet.

G’day from Aus, enjoyed the vid, retired Vet, reminded me off the days of parades of historical costume & displays, I think the size issue is; the small size’s survived due to lack off use/dps issue, for civilian application, the rest is romance 🍻✊🏻🇦🇺👍🏻😘

The scout hat is awesome. Would like to buy one here in Europe.