“It can last all night if your log is big enough and long enough.” Quit bragging mister

Even though these folks are not making videos anymore. And they are missed. These videos make a great refresher course. We hope you are doing well and enjoying your retirement

An excellent hunting set up ... !

My daddy could do that. It's a lost art. He was native American and taught survival when he was younger. Glad you shared this with us!

Amazing how many people use ferro rods backwards! Hold the knife/scraper steady and aim the sparks at a SPECIFIC target, then pull the ferro rod out from under the blade and it will shoot ALL the spark straight into that spot. Try it and you'll quickly see what I mean.

Any wind and the heat reflector is gone.

Excellent

Thanks for your videos. I have a question: what's the point of taking a multutools in the woods on top of a swiss army knife and a Mora? Do you need the pliers?

Live is good !!!

amazing hunt, and great video. much respect!

3 long candles submerged in a crisco can that was warmed up is even better

Crisco cans melted then 3 long candles make it better

I hope you and Connie have a great Holiday season and a happy new Year.

"The gum you like is going to come back into style"

I loved your video!

A fire lifts ur spirits, comforts ur soul and is the most important factor for survival !

Your wife has her pants cut on the knee, that sure isn't comfortable in the wild as she has less protection.

I am making 4 of these to add to Christmas gifts of stanley cook set I am giving my 4 sons in their thirties to use with their kids camping etc. Thank you and you made it easy to duplicate.

It sucks though when you need to straighten your legs out and stretch them so they don't cramp up.

I hope all is good for you and Connie We miss you, guys!

Great video ty

Hi my brother hope you have a merry Christmas say hi to Connie

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once cut out add a line of paracord around the circumference ... leave a peg loop at each side of the entrance where it makes the door ... fold the tarp OVER the cord and secure it with tape ... the grommets for pegs or tie outs go inside the rope towards the center ... the rope now acts as reinforcement for your bottom skirt tension and can be pegged solid in place ...

+ u well cooked sausage have bacon and eggs by the morning

Fantasic trainng ❤ Really appreciate it sir.🙏

I like it.

Watch this as a reference every so often just to keep my memory.

I hadn't seen a video of yours in a while, but had thought of you two a few times over the last year - so I stopped by. I was worried seeing you hadn't uploaded a new video, but I can breathe easy again seeing you still here interacting in the comments recently. Seeing Connie wave hello to you as you stepped into the tent, my first thought was, "They're best friends!" And I'm so grateful and happy to see and hear that you two are still together, doing well, and having your own adventures. My parents are getting a late in life divorce, the family is fragmented, and neither have any game plan. I think that seeing you two and your interactions together over the years has given me hope - not about myself or my parents, just that there is still good out there in the world, that it's real, and that people like you two are living it. So I want to thank you for that. God bless you all your years, and safe travels. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and adventures.

you;ll soon get tired of sitting with no back support. Id'd lean back on a tree, with debris between me and the tree and between me and the groiund, I'd try to rig up a way to tie up the space blanket, so that it doesnt touch me at all and I'd try to put dry debris between me and the Mylar if at all possible. If you have a half lb of UCO lantern and its beeswax candle, you can shiver and exercise your way thru a night like tihs, perhaps at 30F, without getting frost bite. get out of the wind, and keep your feet up on dry debris. If it's raining, windy and cold and all you have is a space blanket, youll have to find a place out of the wind and get a fire going. That's all there is to it. I dont go into the woods wihtout considerably more gear than this. I'll cheerfully lug - an "extra' 5 lbs of gear to not have to deal with this risk. The cold has nearly killed me several times and Im not giving it another chance to finish the job. I hate having to rely on a fire, cause you have to lug around at least a saw and you have to constantly be going out into the weather and getting more firewood, which can get you soaked/frozen.

A tyvek coverall is just 3 ozs and will give you at least 5F degrees of warmth when sleeping and MUCh more when hiking It really does hold in a lot of body heat., folks. It also gives you a space into which you can stuff more dry debris as insulation, which will give you another 5-10F degrees of warmth for sleeping. It's well worth a bit of space and weight in your BOB to have such a coverall. It'll keep light rain off of you for quite a while, but you really should have the reflective tyvek bivy and its envelope worn as a poncho for real rain, long term

normal mylar bivies used around your body cause horrible levels of condensation. i've not had that problem with the reflective yyvek bivy, since i figured out that i should eveneope it in plastic and use it with the hammock inside of the bivy, with a ridgeline for the bivy and another ridgeline for the envelope. You cant let the bivy touch you, the ground, anything solid, like a tree or the ground, or touch the envelope. You have to keep those two layers of trapped air around you and you can't allow any leakage of that air. or you'll freeze your butt off.

I use a reflective tyvek bivy, down to 20F or so, with a plastic "envelope" arouund it, When it's colder than that (very rare where i live) I rig the hammock and bivy with a sheet of clear PEVA shower curtain as a Kochanski supershelter. i learned about the PEVA from Lonnie, right here. Thanks, brother. I rig the hammock just 6" off of the ground and kick debris under it to stop air flow. If I have snow, some of that 6' will be snow, because I dont have boughs here. we rarely have snow and often, the debris is all rotten, too. I dont have big trees to cut for long term Siberian fire layers, either. i have to settle for scrub oak for most of my fires. So I have to emerge from the supershelter and move the logs into the flames a lot more often than I'd like. I also have to build a "wall" of logs , between 2 stakes, to lay the burn logs across, cause I rarely get a log more than 4-5' OD I prefer to use a UCO candle rocks heated ina discrete Dakota fire pit and dry out some debris, which I then use as insulation around me, between my wraps of netting and also between the bivy and its plastic "envelope". If I rig the hammock as a sling chair, with me in a seated/relclining position, I can tie my hood up to the same point of suspension as I use for the hammock and the bivy, so that my head is support and I can sleep. I put the wet debris between the bivy and the envelow, around my lower legs. In a few hours, my body heat, etc, has dried out that batch of debris. I used that debris as inslation and set up to dry out another batch of it.. I dont want to have to bother with a bire at all, if I can possibly help it Not only is a fire bound to attract unwanted attention, it's a pain in the butt to keep it going.

id rather have another fire behind me than any sort of "reflector", shelter with an open front. :-) But if you can't manage to have enough fireoood for that, a reflector/windblock , mylar blanket doesnt take up much space in your pack and doesnt weight much, either. The SOL type that's on plastic is the way to go. it's MUCH stronger than the throqaway shirt pocket type of space blanket. those things are worthless other than to wrap about people at a wreck or other disaster site for an hour or so.

Dig deeper than you think is necessary…you might camp there again some time. Carry paper in a ziplock bag and it will stay clean and dry…don’t forget the hand sanitizer.

Good info.

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Looking for tinder bundles having that beard is real survival 😀

Why not do this instructional video during the day? Then we can see what you are talking about instead of having to keep on turning your light on so that we can see what you are talking about.

Great video Thank You !

where is atrias !?

I feel like I’m family with you

I love how low investment this idea is you could literally make this in the parking lot you bought the tarp from this is great survival instrution

I haven’t seen Lonnie for a while. Is he still bush crafting.?

Do you think the cot would be much less comfortable if it were 31 inches wide, as opposed to your 37 inches? To make a long story short, I just ordered some fabric to try to replicate your cot, but my fabric is narrower, so the cot would have to be 31 inches wide in order to keep an 18 inch tunnel diameter. Only alternative would be to make smaller tunnels (12 inch diameter) to keep the total width at 37 inches.

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My back went out when you carried that tree.

Are you kidding me They don't know how to use a pop rivet gun Did you show them how to tie their shoes Oh my god I can't believe that I eye cues have definitely fallen May the good lord help us all