14+ Bushcraft Projects & Skills

Here are more than 14 bushcraft projects and survival tips with fire, knife and saw. Including wilderness survival skills, deadly plants, making a bushcraft stove and much more!
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[@howimakeit6527]

Yes please do a tick prevention video! They are such a nightmare in the summer!

[@klaaspieterrook4532]

What he said! 😄

[@chainreaction8977]

@@klaaspieterrook4532 What they said!..

[@paulinemaclean1298]

Yup. Yes please from me too. Already some great info there about the fern tips.

[@claratoch]

Yes please - a real & growing problem. As a woman who works in the woods, I feel there's additional risk for us from needing to 'go' when outdoors with the amount of exposed skin. Staying completely covered all day when working is pretty much impossible as it gets so sweaty and uncomfortable, and then at the end of the day if I change my clothes, I worry that it undoes all the protection I've given myself through the day, as the skin gets exposed again anyway as I change clothes. Very tricky - tips welcome.

[@carolmoore1038]

Guineas and/or chickens. Been here 11 years. Only thing that helps

[@alexbuckley5178]

Definitely do a video on preventing tick bites please, I’m sure it will be helpful and useful for all of us. Keep up the good videos love your work.

[@TAOutdoors]

Ok will do

[@chainreaction8977]

@@TAOutdoors Legend!

[@Hadrada.]

Hate ticks

[@bbranett2188]

Repel 40, cover everything, tuck your trousers in your socks. Only 99.9% tick proof method is avoiding their habitat.

[@X3r0_G]

yes please on that tick avoidance vid!

[@hansesselink9386]

Please do a video about ticks and preventing bites. Could you also include a method of removing them without tweezers or a tick removal card.

[@jaystallion1430]

Thumbs up 👍 for a tick prevention video please. I had my first tick bite the other week. It was quite the ordeal. Be nice to watch you explain how you prevent ticks when in the woods. Great videos, educational and very enjoyable. Thank you

[@craig2795]

My teachers at school always thought my homework was a good defence against getting any ticks. ✅ But I’m up for learning how TA does it 👍

[@danh950]

Always love your calm voice over instruction videos. So keep it coming please and that means yes for a tick prevention video.

[@HuntersHerporium]

such a calm voice he should be a documentary narrator

[@lfa5684]

National geographic should call our boy TA

[@meta45354]

Attenborough 2.0

[@darrinrebagliati5365]

He was a teacher!

[@MnemonicHack]

As a hunter in Nebraska, ticks are my mortal enemies. I swear, every time I put down a tarp in the woods and have a rest, an army of them descend upon me, thirsting for my blood. I think the most I e dealt with in a day was thirty, both on me and coming for me across the tarp like a pack of rabid bloodhounds. Up in the Black Hills though, I never see any.

[@kevinrichards8119]

Mike,could you do a video please on first aid in the out door setting,medicinal plants ect,splinting broken limbs,bleeding ect...Thankyou...Best wishes from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@ArielleViking]

Great tips as always. Tick prevention is a really important subject. 👍🏻

[@joshcrawley1937]

I've seen that rocket stove before but never thought to use it to repel bugs cheer for that, love these videos

[@IntelWond]

Yes, I would love to hear anti-tick tips from you.

[@DarthTater5738]

Mike for Chief Scout

[@johnvanpolanen3589]

Excellent tutorial Mike ! A video about tick prevention would be most welcome .

[@Sietse62]

Some people actually grow foxglove in their gardens in my neighbourhood. Thanks for pointing out the danger!

[@wraithchild666]

yes please to a video about avoiding Ticks - plenty around this year

[@pauldymott8991]

Hi Mike, many of us appear to be of the outdoor persuasion. I would say a tick video will be a benefit to you as it protects your subscriber base. Cheers bud, keep the videos coming

[@mmalus]

How are mosquitoes not biting you at all? Can you pls make a video about dealing with mosquitoes

[@bbranett2188]

Are you in North America? His county must have treatments for mosquitoes. Also the UK/Europe has an overall thinner population of bugs than North America. Eg screens on windows are rare in Germany .

[@katwitanruna]

Ticks yes please! There are places in the US where a tick bite can be deadly.

[@abz_bushcraft]

Hello Mike. How are you? Nice to see you🍁

[@pyronymph-868]

I use a Light My Fire Flint and Steel. They are so tiny but are molded to fit your thumb and fingers, plus it has a whistle.

[@kingrafa3938]

Thanks for this one Mike!

[@aeromech8563]

Great work as always mate clear concise info keep up the good work 😎

[@rolandicus1771]

Thankyou for your clear explinations. This is very high quality knowledge regarding bushcraft.

[@darranwilkins4648]

not just that fella ferns are right hight for dear legs etc and thus us keep going man ❤

[@beckyfrasier2250]

Yes please , would love to know about tic prevention. Very helpful on the flowers….. poisonous and none poisonous flowers.

[@stevenparisee6589]

Thanks again for the vid Mike!

[@BraxxJuventa]

Thanks Mike. 😁👍🏼

[@LiieKnight]

Ragwort is very poisonous to horses too.

[@susanwright6785]

As always, another informative video! Thanks! Take care and stay well!

[@TAOutdoors]

Thanks!

[@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft5204]

Good video on channel thanks for the share on Channel thanks lee

[@SuperRobbo91]

Yes please do a video on ticks that covers everything its not taught enough specially in this country and i feel its extremely important lymes disease can be very serious

[@marykatebirge6019]

Yes please! More about how to avoid deer ticks!

[@terrydunlin]

Would love to know more on edible plants and identifying them, and yes a tick prevention video as well as dealing with ticks, could you possibly show us how to remove a tick? As always a great video!

[@SoulDragonWithFlow]

Tick avoidance could well save someone's life. Yes please to that video.

[@freddyoutdoors]

Really enjoyed watching

[@jamesellsworth9673]

Some good tips here for making fire and preparing tinder.

[@bobclark7211]

Thanks Mike and yes I’d like to learn more about avoiding ticks

[@ElToro2000UK]

Awesome! 👍🏻

[@user-ci2mn1oy3w]

you can use stones or other hunks of wood to hold-togeter the swede bundle, folks. Driving one end into the ground requires you to carry the scott's auger and drill the hole. If you put the bundle up on rocks or sticks for air-intake at the bottom, you dont need the side hole or the auger

[@ilanakali1030]

I'd appreciate a video on your tick prevention methods please 💚

[@SurviveThriveNetwork]

That outdoor tips are great.

[@Wildadventurealone]

great skill bro, worth learning

[@Hector-vx5yc]

Hi TA outdoors! How are feeling? I was able to to watch your livestream, when you contracted E. coli..?!, which is really nasty stuff. I’m so sorry. I’m enjoying your channel and content. FYI, I’m new to your channel, I’m having fun watching your videos and trying out some of your techniques and projects, which is, inspiring!! It keeps me in the woods!! Thank you so much for sharing!👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽❤️❤️👊🏿 from Washington state, USA

[@breaking_bear]

I would very much like to see a preventative tick video ! I just moved to Kentucky, in the American southeast and ticks are everywhere I live!

[@Bananeisafree]

There are a lot of hand auger on the web/Amazon, I fear that a lot of them are flimsy. Any recommendation on a particular brand or model ? Great video as always !

[@riuphane]

Yeah, as much as I'd love to buy a nice, hand forged one, I can't afford it, so I'd like to know as well!!

[@debluetailfly]

The "original" Settlers Wrench sold by Shawn with the Wild is exactly the same as the Weyland bushcraft Settlers Tool. Shawn recommended the 1" size as the most useful. I have both of the augurs I mentioned. They seem to work well, and are sturdy. I have not used them as extensively as I would like.

[@SirButton-]

great video

[@Jonathan_Romero599]

Could you do a video about what you keep in your bush craft bag please😊

[@MrLammofgod]

TA! I've been searching long and hard for a video on resharpening my one man large cross cut saw. Seems like something you and your dad might get down with? You both seem lmao love more traditional tools👍🙏

[@67shelbycobra99]

I would like to see you do a video on tick prevention.

[@CodyG-uj5th]

You should Do a tick prevention video

[@finnwessel5845]

Where did you get the auger? I can’t seem to find a good quality one

[@darranwilkins4648]

ticks use vasaline use elastic bands keep your trousers closed over socks rub petroleam jelly round bottom or stay in 😂

[@pallavisrivastava7010]

The stove idea is very good.. any idea where I could get the spiral tool used to drill into the wood?

[@katwitanruna]

Ask your local hardware store for an auger.

[@Badboyrich1982]

Can get them on eBay/temu be warned, he says a while he means AGES!! but if you got nothing else to do :)

[@pallavisrivastava7010]

@@Badboyrich1982 Thanks man! I can wait no problem. Just have to see whether they deliver to India..

[@pallavisrivastava7010]

@@katwitanruna Thankyou. I'll ask for this..

[@Badboyrich1982]

@@pallavisrivastava7010 I bought one, and tried it, felt it wasn’t worth the effort. But fitted to a drill it works well, and you can do before you go camping:)

[@bigboyejonny9243]

I contracted Lyme's disease nearly a month ago. Not as bad but still taking antibiotics. Any tick prevention tips would be amazing

[@drummerboy6464]

Yes, would love a Tick prevention video.

[@runicphoenix5658]

I love these video, short and sweet Cant wait to watch it

[@pyronymph-868]

Yes please on a video on how to avoid tick bites.

[@ElToro2000UK]

I've never eaten Pike, but I heard back in the 1980's that they taste pretty bland and you have to sprinkle some salt over the fillets before cooking them. Is this true?

[@ladymondegreen312]

I remember eating pike as a kid. It tasted like the canal it came out of and was full of bones.

[@george-fn6oc]

Please teach us about tics. Thanks!

[@RoamingCosmos]

Why the stove is called swedish torch.?

[@martinoutdoors6941]

Yes please to the tick video

[@mikelambrou4462]

Yes please on tick video

[@jamboncrew]

Hi mike ! Tks for the content. Do you know some guys who giving tips to find tinder and light a fire in a tropical area ? Greetings from Reunion Island ! 🇷🇪

[@positivelynegative9149]

👍

[@cadenchavez7160]

I wanna see a video about ticks!!

[@DraklorienJordan]

It’s me again. 😁 Can you add the link for creating a leather tinder pouch? TY VM

[@Colonel_Mustsard]

I can't believe it's 2024 and people still write "first" under posts of any kind, that just happened *Edit* I didn’t realise this would be such a divisive subject

[@markankone9362]

Let it go, let it go.....

[@ChristopherGerritsen]

It is tradition. [I'm not saying it isn't a stupid tradition. But it tradition 🤷‍♂️]

[@sabrewolf7160]

And stay off my lawn!!!

[@green9543]

@@markankone9362Rambo 👍

[@Colonel_Mustsard]

@@joshuabuxton237 you see the irony in you leaving that comment right?

[@firefighterexperienc]

Yes a tick video please... can it include preventing ticks on dogs? We have a small 2 acre woodland in the lakes near Windermere. Whenever I go there I seem to remain tick free but my little furry buddy always seems to pick one up... and it's alwayonly 1?

[@martinsozola8526]

do a tick video!!!

[@drunkendragon2771]

I think it goes without saying but I'm willing to sacrifice to the algorithm god Please do a tick prevention video!

[@Tenalach02]

What's the knife in the thumbnail?

[@novaxx6173]

It can help drawer out infection😅

[@user-ci2mn1oy3w]

For $30, amazon sells a full-body bugnet suit. it weighs 1/4 lb No need to bother with a fire, or breathe smoke. I wear 2 of them for sleeping, when I'm at risk of spiders, ticks, etc, given all of the diseases spread by insects, you're out of your mind to entrust your health to just a fire's smoke

[@bbranett2188]

They can bite through a single layer, good idea.

[@kylekenney1907]

I'd like to know of ways that guarantee no ticks, chiggers, or mosquitoes that you've used and trust. DEET can only go so far and some bugs are stubborn.

[@user-ci2mn1oy3w]

there's no need of the side hole if you put the log up on end on 2-3 sticks or rocks. There's no need of big logs or splitting of them. Just shave the wetness off of 4 logs, on 1 side, Assemble the bundle with t he shaved sides toward the bundle's center and stuff the empty center with dry shavings. ignite one end of the shavings and wave the log around, mostly horizontaly, with GLOVES or mud, etc, to protect your hands, until there is flames coming out of both ends of the bunde. then stand the bundle on end on the rocks or sticks.

[@Miss_moonlite]

I thank u so much for sharing all your wonderful life saving info ps love your accent

[@darranwilkins4648]

lupins are goos eating mostly fox glove nononono id have made fox glove lupin description fella

[@Shdr_camp]

❤nice video

[@fion1flatout]

I passed someone in my park picking Yew. I 'm very much against interfering but fortunately I decided to go back and ask what she wanted it for. She thought it was Spruce and was going to eat it. I was horrified.. I don't regard myself as knowledgeable at all on trees, but most people seem to know absolutely nothing

[@musicandbooklover-p2o]

Foxglove is beloved in many detective novels as the leaves can mistaken for sage by the ignorant (or simply murderous playing ignorant) and fed to people, if you have a weak heart you are more likely to die. Ragwort is also or those with an alcoholic/heavy drinking partner/parent/enemy you want rid of. Tincture of Ragwort (which is allegedly undetectable if placed in food or drink on a regular basis) will end up killing them as t reacts with the alcohol to give them liver failure,and DON'T mistake deadly nightshade berries for black currents either and include them in a jar of ''jam''... (Thanks to Agatha Christie among others for their accurate knowledge of natural poisons and their effects on the unfortunate victims) EDIT: those purple flowers at 12.14, you can also pull out the individual flowers and suck the nectar out of them as you can with honeysuckle or nasturtium flowers, we used to do it as kids and while there isn't as much as in the bigger nasturtiums there is still enough to taste.

[@batfink7133]

Tick video please!

[@meta45354]

David Attenborough 2.0

[@briankane6547]

Y'mean parallel to each other?

[@craig2795]

Haha - I kept wondering who else spotted that 😂

[@katwitanruna]

I use herbal medicine and someone called me and asked how much foxglove to make tea and I said *NONE*! And he was huh? Whereupon I asked him if he needed digitalis. 🙄

[@petebarnes9698]

Don't use tools if it's not necessary. Just saw and knife for the stove

[@ericmiddelbos129]

show me tick tips

[@ulastugut2513]

Dil çeviri lütfen anlamıyorum dediğini

[@andyczech117]

In the UK, you almost cannot pick up a stick in a forest as its belongs to some one. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@claywiththefootage-Clayton]

first love the vids

[@claywiththefootage-Clayton]

first

[@JustanOlGuy]

[@bryanmilstid4087]

Tick video please!