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[@w0mblemania]

Sounds like a good plan. The lack of ferro rod could make or break him on the very first night though. We've seen experienced guys brought to tears because they couldn't get a fire going in wet conditions.

[@zarkan88]

Yeah, and the several boat builders on the show have never been very successful with it.... I would have gotten the rod too. Wait and see.

[@waynenewsome4780]

@@zarkan88 just cause some people are inept does not mean everyone is. You dont want a boat, you want a log frame work raft with 6 debris-stuffed pontoons and outriggers. It's very easy to light a fire with the flare, with the head lamp battery and some copper wire, by fire-rolling a strip of your shemaght, and a pump drill is very easy to get fire with, after you've spent half a day making one. once you've got ashed tinder and charred materials, in a dry bag made of the tarp and tape, it's easy to get flint and steel fire.

[@zarkan88]

@@waynenewsome4780 I wouldn’t think that they are allowed to use the battery from their equipment to make fire.... the same way that they probably can’t remove the lense from their camera to concentrate the sun. Like they are not allowed to use the camera box to safely store other stuff in it. Anyway for the boat story we will see, either way I’m pretty pumped to watch the new season ^^ I’m also waiting for an all star one !!!

[@waynenewsome4780]

@@zarkan88 that's true of the camera gear, but they are given a headlamp and it's got a battery in it. there's several other easy ways to make fire. Bow drill sucks.

[@waynenewsome4780]

@@zarkan88 there's other ways. make a big pump drill in half a day, use the flare, fire-roll a chunk of your shemagh. How will they know you didn't have to fire your flare at a bear? :-)

[@EvertfromNederland]

As an avid watcher of the show and professional armchair quarterback i think ditching the firestarter for the tarp is an amazingly good idea. trading in one item that can only do one thing for one item that can do multiple things, including keeping you warm is always the best bet. And i love the fact you are already planning on building a boat and a treestand! Looking forward to see how you fared!

[@BillCipher_OG]

LOL "professional armchair quarterback" really got me

[@theaveragewoodsman6002]

He talks about wanting to "conserve calories" by bringing a smaller axe and then doesn't bring a ferro rod. Anyone who's taken the time to make fire by friction knows how hard and time consuming it is to do.

[@scratch3940]

What about quartz? He has carbon steel items.

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

yes but you only have to make it once

[@theaveragewoodsman6002]

@@johnnyllooddte3415 That's true, but you have to babysit the fire because if it go's out you have to do it all over again.

[@theaveragewoodsman6002]

@Dan Jett Okay bud... I lived in South Dakota and Wisconsin. Try that when it's -14 out, been dumping snow on you for days and you have a ton of moisture inside your shelter.

[@billwithers1349]

you dont need to do it. you can use the head lamp battery and then just bury your coals in the ashes. Just cause you're stupid doesn't mean everyone is.

[@billwithers1349]

in 2 hours, you can have a pole box, 8x5 ft in size, 4 ft high, stuffed with dry debris. Every 1" of compressed dry debris is one R-value of insulation. In a few hours, you can have a triangular 4x4x7 ft pole frame, stuffed with debris, 4 layers of tarp around you, and another 2 ft thick layer of debris outside of the pole frame, weighed down with branches, so that it can't blow away. The first month, all you need is a tent, made out of the 20x20 tarp. Until it's cold enough to not worry about rain, that's all you use. The tent lets you gather up and store the dry debris that you later need for the conversion into the little sleepiing shelter. You get almost everything done when youre using the tent, cause there's no room to do much of anything but sleep inside of the little debris shelter. You can and should, tho, arraange for a couple of wind breaks, making a corridor to a Siberian fire lay, so you can be warm, as you work outdoors, without gloves being needed. The corridor so formed is 8 ft long, 4 ft wide, 6 ft high. So you have room to move and daylight, too, without having to waste time and calories on a shelter with a fire in it, which will be dark and at risk of burning to the ground, killing you in your sleep from CO poisoning etc

[@Fender1031]

Im wary of those that ditch the ferro rod. Yes there are alternate ways of starting fires but those ways get harder and harder the colder, wetter and hungrier you get. The ferro rod is just one of those mostly fool proof tools that solves a large problem in any weather condition. Im also weary of those that want to build boats; its just adding again another highly dangerous element where rescue is going to take way longer than hypothermia and again when you are exhausted operating boats is just more dangerous period. I think taking a huge risk of boat building and planning to take that risk without knowing what the food and fire situation is bold. If he pulls this off and it works out I, will be more than impressed and I am rooting for him just as I tend to root for any PNW'r.

[@spacecase0]

The comment about not taking a Ferro Rod is interesting. When I want to light fires I use a lighter or a small propane torch. In my experience the lighter will light more fires than a Ferro Rod will, and is much easier to use

[@Fender1031]

@@spacecase0 I bring a lighter and a ferro rod when I go out. A ferro rod will light a fire in wind with no issue its also self sustaining without a need for fuel and is not effected by elevation. Of course a lighter is easier to use but a ferro rod is pretty easy once you get good with it and finding the right material to catch. I've had fires that would not start with a lighter (cold, wind, wet) but multiple strikes with a ferro rod close to dry tinder and you are producing higher heat more often. I would agree a bic is much more convenient but I think ferro is the most efficient non lighter fluid starter.

[@waynenewsome4780]

if you know anythign, you bury your coals in your ashes. you should not need to start more than 3-4 fires "from scratch and there's several ways that are almost no effort. One of them is to use the flare, another is to use the copper snare wire and the head lamp battery. So it's just your ignorance showing

[@Fender1031]

@@waynenewsome4780 So he has 1 flare that is intended to be a signal device and batteries that get replaced by the crew. I have a strong feeling that the crew will not be happy if they used those two methods to start fires as the whole purpose of the safety equipment they get is intended for safety...

[@waynenewsome4780]

bury your coals in your ashes, with some charred wood and the fire will remain "alive" for 12+ hours, your ignorance about fire is appalling.

[@gail_blue]

He talks about calorie saving with a small axe and then doesn't bring a ferro rod. Even if he can start friction fires, I give him 12 to 18 days to work off his extra fat before he runs out of energy and taps out.

[@sparrowflying864]

No way i would have brought a saw and a axe. Why do you need a saw AND an axe for? You can pick up all kinds of dead fall off the ground. I would have took the axe over the saw and got an extra ration! Even his choice of pot was not good he should have taken a pot like the lady did short and flat where she could use the lid as a fry pan. And no ferro rod? Whattt!!!

[@sparrowflying864]

@@salvationbygracethroughfaith It might not break. But there's always a chance you can snap it off when your sawing if it binds up. I seen many videos with that happening. So i would be afraid of taking that as a tool option. I like an small axe/hand hatchet although admittedly dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. Because you can do fine detail work with it ( spoons/bowls/cups ) and process fish and game with it and process wood, make spears, tent pegs, build a shelter and use it for protection self defense. I just think it's got way more uses. I just couldn't believe some of these people are not taking a ferro rod. It takes alot of energy to get a bow drill fire going, if not impossible in humid conditions. I figured if he forgo the saw he could take an extra ration. And if you took an extra long shirt ( wool on top to mid thigh and cotton sewed on the bottom of that to almost knee length ) you could use the cotton to make char cloth ( in the ground ) or in your pot if the lid fit tight ) or use the cotton for other uses like doo rag or wash cloth, bandages.

[@waynenewsome4780]

if you know the simple trick of burying your coals in the ashes, you wont need to start more than 3 fires in 100 days and there's several easy ways to do that, like with the flare, the headlamp battery, Rudiger Rolling a strip of your shemagh, making a big pump drill. Once you have a fire, you can have ashed tinder and charred materials. Then you can easily have flint and steel fire. IF you know to take the tarp and the big roll of duct tape, so you can make dry bags for your fire-kit and food-storage.

[@waynenewsome4780]

@@salvationbygracethroughfaith You dont need the sleeping bag, axe, saw,ferrorod, cookpot, or paracord, if you know anything.

[@waynenewsome4780]

@@salvationbygracethroughfaith if you need a ferrorod to get fire, you dont belong on this show. Ditto if you need the paracord, sleeping bag, axe, saw, or cookpot. A saw edged Cold Steel shovel will do far more than the axe and saw put together and if you know how to make a proper shelter out of the 20x20 tarp and debris, and a proper sleeping bag out of the 10x10 tarp and debris, you dont need a warming fire in your shelter. If your shelter needs a fire in it, your shelter sucks.

[@PinkRoseKiller]

I need this to go to prime asap, I don't have tv service, only streaming apps 😩

[@teresahickey3021]

Same here

[@PinkRoseKiller]

@@theaveragewoodsman6002 that's only season 7, I've already finished it.

[@myoldvhstapes]

daily motion

[@PinkRoseKiller]

@@myoldvhstapes you are a saint

[@liudizzle]

season 8 on netflix now

[@herbbrewer4441]

I guess some people need a boat more than fire.

[@waynenewsome4780]

there's many easy ways to start a fire. The flare, the headlamp battery, big pump-drill, Rudiger roll, solar, flint and steel, or just bury your coals in the ashes. and re-start your fire with those.

[@herbbrewer4441]

Very true till they don't.

[@javiergimenez9621]

@@herbbrewer4441 Totally agree

[@cjcj6945]

@@waynenewsome4780 just remember though... No one who have gone without a Firestarter has won the show, or lasted long-term.

[@wendymyrvold3097]

@@cjcj6945 Nathan Donnelly made it 72 days and was only taken out because his shelter caught on fire.

[@dranelittle7726]

a net trap for fish, set in 12-18" of water, only needs 100 sq ft of netting. The 6x 100 ft of seine is about all you can handle. 2000 sq ft of 3" mesh netting can be made out of the cotton rope hammock. Even if you have to sew together two segments of such netting, in order to have 1.5" mesh netting, cause all of your local fish are small, you can still have such a seine and 2 traps. If 3" mesh netting suffices for your fish, then you can have 8 such traps. Put them out in sets of 2, about 60 ft between them. Then you can set one end of the net beyond one trap, play out the seine as you move the raft thru 5 ft of water down beyond the second trap. Tie the net to stakes driven into the shoreline. Then, you see, you can move the raft to the center of the seine, inside of the oval of netting, and pull the net into the shore. This forms an hour-glass shape of the seine. Continue pulliing the seine up onto the land at this point and the shrinking segments of the seine, encircling the net traps witll force all of the fish into those traps. Be sure to harvest the fish with the 6 ft long handle that you've made for the shovel. The blood and guts spilled in the traps is NOT baiting. It's just the natural byproduct of the way that you harvest your fish. Do this several tims per day and night, using the fire-platform out in the lake to attract fish at night. The reflective tarp "lean-to" cover over the fire will cast the fire light out into the lake. Guys are messing up. They could easily be catching 400 lbs of fish and mixing the fish with 50-100 lbs of diced, boiled and fried cambium. The mix depends upon how much cellulose your guts can tolerate. Work up the increasing amounts of cambium SLOWLY, allowing 2 days for each change to work its way thru your intestines. If you get so much cambium that you can't pass it thru your gut, youll have removed yourself from the show, by causing an impacted intestine.

[@jacobwilliams5271]

I guess compound bows aren't allowed, though they would greatly increase the chance of getting food.

[@topstrekker5579]

Compounds are to maintenance intensive to be a reliable survival tool.

[@Morrow45105]

No way man id take an Osage orange selfbow over any compound. Too many things can go wrong with a compound and it all depends on who is holding the bow and what they’re used to

[@castlefrank9302]

@@Morrow45105 Yes the compound is mechanically more complicated than a long bow, but it doesn't mean it is not reliable, the materials used to built the compound is much more durable than woods and all in all it is still a rather simple mechanical system. It is just like compare a car to a carriage, the car is superior and durable in all aspects.

[@Morrow45105]

@@castlefrank9302 but not in a survival situation. Of course cars and compound bows are better in every way when you have access to the tools and materials needed to maintain them but if you’re alone in the wilderness it’s a different story. I’d just personally take the simplest and oldest method of bow hunting and that is a stick bow made of high quality hardwood. Above all, I’d take the ability to make a bow from scratch

[@billwithers1349]

not really, cause yiou're stuck in a 1.2 mile radius of your drop off location, half of which is on the lake. There's very little chance at game and this year, all you could take was a deer, ONE deer, which is just enough food for 2 weeks, not really worth the effort. You're way ahead to be making the 250 sq ft of 4" mesh netting per day.

[@MrZluvu4ever]

Ferrocerium rods are huge calorie-savers compared to friction fires.

[@billwithers1349]

you're stupid. Yiou dont need friction fire, you can start your first fire with the head lamp battery and then just bury your coals in the ashes. NO need of any other fire starts from scratch and if you did, once you have charred wood and ashed tinder, you can start fires with flint and steel, or solar ignitions, using found bottles or plastic bags/sheeting.

[@Wolf6151]

Risky move not having a ferro rod

[@billwithers1349]

only if you're stupid. You can start a fire with the headlamp battery and then just bury your coals in your ashes

[@billwithers1349]

by getting out on the water in a day, with 16 treblehook trotlines and bow fishing, you can be feeding yourself much better, much sooner, You should be making the 2500 sq ft of 4" mesh netting out of the cotton rope hammock, waiting for day 45 when you can use it to catch massive amounts of fish. Chilko lake does not freeze solid, so you can keep on feeding yourself with the gillnetting out in deep water.

[@dranelittle7726]

9 out of 10 items that everyone takes are either pointless wastes or inferior to other items, which can do more things. Dont take things that have only one use, other than the rations of pemmican and chocolate.Those are necessary to get you thru the first week, while you make the pontoon outrigger raft, the tow-array of poles and treblehook trotlines, the "streamer" lures made of ribbons cut off of the reflective 12x12 tarp. Youre not allowed to cut up, puncture or tape the 20x20 or 10x10 tarp that they give you. So you've got to bring a tarp that you CAN cut up and make clothing, dry bags, food storage bags, fire-reflector-lure for fish at night, etc.

[@billwithers1349]

the boat is heavy and bulky, needs to be moved well up onto shore and anchored every evening, vs storms. It's much easier to just remove the pontoons from the raft, and leave the small log framework tied to anchor rocks. Just secure the pontoons from storms, and you're good to go. You can re-attach the pontoons in a few minutes each morning.

[@max_fjellstorm]

Please stream in Germany!! I pay for the history channel in Germany but can’t watch any episode of alone I find that very sad

[@latigomorgan]

Get a VPN and make it look like you are in a different country.

[@myoldvhstapes]

daily motion

[@KingPyrrhus]

Just stream it dude.

[@billwithers1349]

you get to take 6 pairs of wool socks, 7 layers of clothing for your torso, and 5 for your legs. You can wear the Trifecta bivy as a poncho, and make an anorak, leggings, shorts, booties, mittens out of the Gorilla tape and the reflective 12x12 tarp. You can and should stuff dry debris between each layer of clothing, as additional insulatation. it's the trapped air that protects you from the cold and wind. If debris gets wet, you can just replace it. The tarp and bivy are unaffected by their getting wet. All you have to do is remove theml, shake off the water, replace the debris and you're good to go again. No need to waste hours drying out normal clothing, burning holes in the clothes, etc. eff that noise!

[@pellaco]

Is his Axe a Granfors Bruks?

[@BlueGorillaInTheMist]

Wait, so how did he start his fires then? I don't remember seeing him doing friction fires or anything

[@kan-zee]

top 3 contestant....waiting to see how he does. No ferro rod....very cool

[@basicstiger346]

should have been top three, he did way more than the two after him who just barely made it before being taken off, neither of them were able to collect like colter, he was miles ahead of them

[@billwithers1349]

the watercraft is just the start. He had no real followup, no bowfishing arrows, no treblehook trotlines, no making netting every day, waiting for day 45 to put it into use.. He wasted a lot of time on a cabin and firewood, like they all do. When you dont know what to take or do, you suffer a lot more than need be.

[@MajapahitStudyClub]

Amazing

[@justanothercaptain6566]

It's a huge risk not taking any sort of fire-making device. I like his plan about making a boat and fishing. I just hope he's made several prior and can knock it out in a day or two...or he'll miss the salmon run completely. If he's not a strong boat builder, maybe a net would have been a better idea. I will be watching him closely.

[@justanothercaptain6566]

@Dan Jett good point, Sir. I just remember one of the prior seasons that someone spent several days building a boat and completely missed the salmon run. He could have pulled in several lbs of fish to smoke, then work on the boat. By the time he got it in the water, it was over. Cheers 🍻

[@billwithers1349]

no, it's not. It's very easy to start a fire with the head lamp battery and then just keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@Alaska_Mac]

Due to local regulations, they weren't allowed to harvest salmon.

[@amangogna68]

Great video !

[@johnreinburg859]

Good Luck!

[@billwithers1349]

you have to catch 400 lbs of fish in 60 days, or you'll starve out. You're not going to catch much more than 100 lbs of fish in the 45 days before they let you use the netting you''ll have made out of the cotton rope hammock. So you'll have to catch 300 lbs of fish in 30 days, once you can use the netting. That's not thst tough to do, if you have the pontoon outrigger raft, the lake does not freeze solid and you know how to go about it. pushing the fish into net traps, using the seine. for the first 2 weeks or so. Once the shoreline freezes up, tho, things will get tougher, cause you'll have to be gillnetting out in deep water. So that first couple of weeks of net use, you'd better be able to average catching 20 lbs of fish per day.. IF you get lucky with the springpole kill traps and catch a deer, that's worth a couple of weeks of food. Si making and setting such traps and a few snares for rabbits, is worth doing, along with checking on the traps twice a day. If you catch 130 lbs of deer, that's 130 lbs of fish that you dont have to catch., but the fish are FAR easier to score.

[@berniekimtoman6114]

I wish you luck, !! , I'm a huge fan of Alone, especially Jordan Jonas, your choice of leaving out the ferro rod?, Nathaniel didn't have one on season 6, true and he lasted a long time, however,,,,i remember watching several episodes where he spent almost every waking hour trying to make a fire with the friction method, luckily finding a piece of cedar, and shame if a contestant uses the emergency battery or camera battery to start a fire.

[@waynenewsome4780]

there's no shame in any part of survival. You do what you have to do. The shame is coming on the show with 50+ lbs of blubber, which ALL of them try to do! That's an ADMISSION that they can't feed themselves.and they KNOW it. Bow drill sucks. There's 5-6 other ways to start fires and if you bury your coals in your ashes,, you wont need to start more than 3-4 fires "from scratch" in 100 days.

[@latigomorgan]

@@waynenewsome4780 I've come to the conclusion the producers cannot choose the best wilderness survival experts because if they go in and have no problems, there won't be any drama and the show would be too boring for Prime Time.

[@billwithers1349]

you're stupid. You can make a fire in a minute flat by using the headlamp battery, lint scraped from the shemagh, a bit of copper electrical wire and the Gorilla tape. then just keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@billwithers1349]

the tarp boat was a big mistake. The pontoon outrigger raft is much more reliable, can be made in a day, doesn't tie up a tarp.. He wasted several days and was very much at risk of having a ruined boat/tarp every time he moved the boat a meter. when that means that you can lose all of the stuff aboard the boat, including all of the camera gear, it's a stupid risk to be be taking.

[@johnbassett3188]

He is dead and doesn't know it ! Nothing to stop an attack by a Bear or Beast and zero water purifier with him nor any emergency food for a have to situation , but gotta love his attempt and love of nature though ! I have no clue as how mankind made it this far just to eliminate our own species !!!

[@StevenHanover]

You can boil water to purify?

[@waynenewsome4780]

if you were not too lazy to google the gear list, you'd know that they are ALL given a big can of bear spray.

[@_Blue___]

Hai History Channel🥰

[@usethefooorce]

Can't wait to see the boat

[@Peapodzilla]

It rules

[@Ajdean28]

I really like this guy to win too i have 2 choices him n clay , i really amazed to his boat , he made a fish net etc .and when i watched the show last time made me cried but nyway im very proud of you . , clay is very tough too i really impressed when he killed a deer , so i said i think he will win .. congrats to all

[@johnd7215]

Can someone please tell me how this guy got a Mustang PFD??? I missed the first 3 episodes.

[@billwithers1349]

dirt driver, what are your 10 item picks for this show? Got any special ideas to help somebody win? I"m curious if you can use netting as a seine and net traps, before day 45, since you're not supposed to use it as gillnettting for 45 days. I dont want to use it as gillnetting if I can help it, cause that's so inefficient vs netting as traps and a seine, moved by the pontoon outrigger raft. I really dont see how they can enforce such a thing?

[@FredHenry1850]

It was BS that they pulled him from the field at the time they did. He was the one out in deep water, catching fish, ready to go the distance.

[@billwithers1349]

they all waste a week of calories and time on a shelter that's so poor that it needs a fire inside of it and a sleeping bag If they knew anything, they could save 3 weeks worth of time and calories, not needing to spend 700 calories and two hours per day processing firewood. Thats a huge savings and if you use that time and calories to make the cookpots, pontoon outrigger raft, treblehook trotlines, and the 2500 sq ft of netting out of the cotton rope hammock, the difference in calorie/savings/procurment will give you the win.

[@ag-fn7ze]

What a daredevil He ditched his ferro rod to make a boat I mean ik I'm saying this saying this at home but he could have used the inner strands of the paracord or some fishing line to make the same snares. Instead of the snare wire he could have brought a ferro rod

[@waynenewsome4780]

you dont need the ferrorod, the sleeping bag, the axe, the paracord. the saw, or the cookpot you can bury your coals in the ashes and thus, not need more than 3-4 fire starts "from scratch" your entire stay. It takes just a minute to start a fire with copper wire, tape, lint from your shemagh and the head lamp battery. Once youv'e got ashed tinder and charred materials, it only takes a minute to have a flint and steel fire.

[@trav-c137]

@@waynenewsome4780 what head lamp battery are you talking about ? it gets -30 out there are you sure the ground won't be too wet and cold to bury coals? and what tape? tape can be brought but that wasn't one of his 10 items of choice.

[@ag-fn7ze]

@@waynenewsome4780 you don't need a cookpot?? So you should drink water straight from the water source

[@sparrowflying864]

@@waynenewsome4780 Do they give you some way of charging that headlamp battery? Because if the battery dies then what?

[@ag-fn7ze]

@Average Joe oh I was just acc being sarcastic 😂😂

[@willvandermeer4733]

Every participant gets a tarp...

[@Gelato22]

Heisenberg???

[@gralfca]

This guy is a really strong survivor. He almost wins and without the ferro rod!

[@Paulilmys]

Colter is awesome!

[@behindthespotlight7983]

EXTREMELY risky not taking a ferro. Crazy risky

[@billwithers1349]

only if you're stupid. You can easily start a fire with the head lamp battery and then just keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@bettydoughtery3920]

Matches?

[@billwithers1349]

not allowed. the only option is a ferrrood, but you dont need it. the headlamp battery easily ignites your first fire. then you simply keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@jeffdorris5321]

Lets go ⛄⛄⛄

[@captzoom1778]

He is going to regret not bringing something to start a fire with

[@billwithers1349]

he's got the headlamp battery, then just keep the coals buried in the ashes. you're ignorant

[@leithmurray736]

No fire steel ?

[@billwithers1349]

not needed. The headlamp battery easily starts a fire, then you just keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@nagarajsunda]

He looks like Luke Thomas🧐 without hair

[@EvertfromNederland]

and sounds like Fuzzy Bear :D

[@lipstickprincess1]

🔥? Not important. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@AnyoxB.D.]

No ferro rod? Apparently he doesn’t actually want to win 🤷‍♂️

[@billwithers1349]

you're stupid. You can make a fire in a minute flat with the head lamp battery and then just keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@sheltontrahan2334]

My guy sounds like the 🐸 off Muppets

[@johnnyllooddte3415]

tarp,, smart

[@Klatubarada1979]

He would be my pick if he went with ferro rod instead. Too big of a calorie saver.

[@billwithers1349]

you're stupid. You can start your first fire in a minute with the head lamp battery and then just keep your coals buried in the ashes.

[@billwithers1349]

you badly need to take the 12x12 reflective tarp, but you need to be able to cut it up and use it for several purposes, like clothing, to line a stone boiling pit, to make water proof storage bags, to make a reflective lean-to over a fire on a stilt-platform out in the lake at night, so as to attract fish to your treblehook-trotlnes and your slingbow. You can't be tying up the entire tarp as a half-assed boat. When you can wear the Trifecta bivy as a poncho and have the tarp/tape based clothing, with thick layers of dry grasses between the layers of clothing, you'll be warm enough, without the 2 sets of clothing that you use to make 4 pontoons for the outrigger raft. The bivy and the tarp based clothing are not effected by their getting wet. If you get dunked, simply shake off the water, add new, dry debris and get back to work.

[@billwithers1349]

thinking about it, I guess i would still take the slingbow, doing without the salt in order to take the salted gorp, for use as bait for birds. Technically, you cant bait anything, but there'd be no way to even notice that you did so. The slingbow lets you swiftly be bow fishing and will let you finish off big animals that you entrap.or treblehook to a drag log. It also lets you be using baked clay balls vs small game, fish, birds. That's probably worth more than the couple of days of food you could gain by bringing the pemmican instead of the slingbow. The main thing is to get out on the lake with the pontoon outrigger raft, in 2 days or less, with treblehoook trotlnes and a way to bowfish, Catching 5 lbs of fish per day out there will be huge and it can be done., while also making 250 sq ft per day of 4" mesh netting, awaiting day 45 when you can start using that netting.

[@cjcj6945]

They never learn do they? No one without a fire starter makes it long term out there... such a shame.🔥

[@wendymyrvold3097]

Nathan Donnelly in Season 6 made it to #3. He was taken out because his shelter caught on fire and not because he did not have a fire starter.

[@cjcj6945]

@@wendymyrvold3097 But he didn't make it!

[@wendymyrvold3097]

@@cjcj6945 But he was there for a long time! And who knows what might have happened if he did not have the shelter fire. He stayed out longer than 7 other people who had fire starters.

[@cjcj6945]

@@wendymyrvold3097 I hear ya, but he himself was disappointed that he didn't bring a fire starter, it was heck on him keeping his fires going, Aaaaand, keeping the hot rocks is what started his fire. 🔥😬

[@billwithers1349]

just because you're stupid does'nt mean everyone else is, too. the headlamp battery easily starts a fire. then you simply keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@psyamok3735]

I hope you can start fire successfully without ferro rod. Most city folks can't do it.

[@billwithers1349]

it's very easily done with the headlamp battery, then just keep your coals buried in the ashes.

[@seaneichenberger3727]

No fire started only one time without fire started on season 6

[@billwithers1349]

just cause you're ignorant doesn't mean everyone else is. It's very easy to start a fire with the head lamp battery, then just keep the coals buried in the ashes for future fire starts.

[@w0mblemania]

You gotta love the comments. There's always those guys (and yes, it's always guys) who think they know better, can do better than the contestants. You know the type. And boy, do they hate women.

[@leemay7780]

Bill Randle is who you mean lol.

[@brendonwebb8352]

If you like this god loves you

[@outdoorlife5396]

I wish luck

[@billwithers1349]

by taking the tarp and the bivy, and knowing to use debris insulation, I can be plenty warm enough, even without the 2 sets of clothing that are used to make the pontoon outrigger raft. By having being waterproof=sprayed them and the backpack while still at home and using the life vest as one pontoon, I can have 4x the flotation needed, even if my 8 small log framework does not float. Simply stuff the pontoons with dry debris, whipstitch and tape the seams. Lash the 6 pontoons to the log frame work, presto, unsinkable craft made in one day.

[@billwithers1349]

if you know what to do, you can be in pretty good shape in 5 days or less, with enough fish income to be ok while making the cookpots, netting, etc, which are going to greatly improve your life in short order. It's very important to know to just make the tent out of the 20x20 tarp in a couple of hours, so you can get busy making the pontoon outrigger raft, treblehook trotlines and the bowfishing arrows. Over the next month, as it gets cold enough to not have to worry about rain, you can do the few hours of debris and log gathering needed to make the much warmer, smaller debris sleeping shelter., Which has room enough only for the needed debris/insulation and your body. That's how you dont need a warming fire for the shelter, or a sleeping bag.

[@billwithers1349]

people are just stupid, man, do NOT take off your clothing inside of your shelter. it's a waste of time and calories and there's no reason for it at all. It just makes you have a larger, less efficient shelter and then you have to waste 2 hours and 700 calories per day heating the shelter with a fire.

[@billwithers1349]

a pontoon outriggger raft is a much better choice. You can't rip it open or swamp it, and you can make it in a day. you dont have to tie up a tarp to make it.

[@billwithers1349]

normally, i'd take one of Chief Aj's slingbows and the 3 lb block of sea salt, but Chilko lake is so restrictive about what you can forage that I'd leave behind those two items and instead take some heavily-salted pemmican and gorp. i can fire harden a green-wood bow in a day, s as well as make arrows with the gorilla tape as fletching, good enough to take rabbits and bow fish.. Having 4 day's worth of rations as you make the shelter, pontoon outrigger raft, treblehooks/trotlines, and bow/arrows and the fire-hardened springpole/stake traps for deer, is probably your best bet. since there is so little game present.

[@billwithers1349]

You absolutely must boil and drink a gallon of water per day when out there. Doing so with a little 2 qt cookpot sucks. What you want to do is dig a pit, line it with a chunk of tarp, line the tarp with gravel or sand and stone boil 3 gallons of water at a time. Store 2 gallons of it in the sleeves of your outer shell jacket, until you can devote a couple of days to refining workable clay out of shoreline mud and making the 4 one-gallon each clay cookpots with lids. Then you can cook in one of the pots and boil/store water in the others. Stone boil your food in a different, much smaller set up, so you can clean it easily. You can make an earth or stone oven, or remove the handle from the shovel and use it as a small skillet. so the cookpot is a wasted pick.

[@johndisbro2704]

No fire rod, he's done already. It's so wet there.

[@billwithers1349]

you're fos. the headlamp battery easily starts a fire. then all you have to do is keep the coals buried in the ashes.

[@waynenewsome4780]

a tarp is a very thin "skin" out of which to make a boat, Better have lots of bent saplings to prevent a snag from tearing a hole in your boat's "hull'. it makes far more sense to just make a pontoon outrigger raft.

[@waynenewsome4780]

definitely alter the shovel's handle into an oval, for use as a machete/hatch. The cylindrical handle sucks for the job. Same for the 2.5 ft long axe handle you'll make for it. If allowed, be sure to take it with the adze handle already mounted on it with some of your snare wire. That right-angled forked sapling can be hard to find.

[@waynenewsome4780]

my design for a raft has only 4 logs actually in the water, with pointed ends facing the direction of travel. It's 8x 6 ft , requires just 8 small logs to make. The debris and clothing pontoons are lashed to the top of the logs. The cameracase "chair" is lashed atop the log platform that allows your feet to stay out of the water, in the center of the raft, where the 7 ft x 6" OD logs are notched and intersect. yes, there are gaps between the logs, but you can make this craft in one day, and it weighs just 100 lbs. The pontoons can be easily removed and secured vs storms, Nearly all of it can be made in camp, by firelight, so you dont have to waste precious daylight on its creation. Given the clothing made from the tarp and the Trefecta bivvy, with debris, you dont need to risk your other clothing or boots when out on the raft, and you dont need the clothing out of which you make the pontoons. By the time it's cold enough to need that clothing, the lake will have frozen-over and you wont have any use for the raft anymore, eh?

[@waynenewsome4780]

If you want to catch fish, you need the rope hammock, not the paracord. You can make many times as much netting out of the hammock as you can from the paracord. You can make a raft in one day, no tarp required. They give you two tarps, so you could use the 12x12 as shelter. The 10x10 tarp, stuffed with debris, can be your sleeping bag, and not have to waste a pick on the latter. It's only going down to 10F on Chilko lake, while Great Slave lake gets down to -30F. When you suspend the 12x12 over a ridgepole on the diagonal, it's 17 ft long. if you have one end be 2 ft high and the other end be 2 ft high, to allow for a raised wooden bed, you can slit the tarp at the head/door end, where it covers the ridgepole, let it drape down and form your door flaps. Youll have about 8 ft of useful length shelter, while needing to plug the foot end with drush, debris, and dirt.. You can use a Siberian fire lay to heat big rocks and put them under your raised bed and not have to risk burning down your shelter.

[@cjcj6945]

You should have applied to be on the show!

[@waynenewsome4780]

@@cjcj6945 I have applied for every season but the first. They have twice changed the gear list because of my posts on these channels. They are aware of me and wont let me on the show, cause it would cost them a lot of money.

[@cjcj6945]

@@waynenewsome4780 Keep trying! Good luck👍

[@Justmefornow]

@@waynenewsome4780 Prove it Bill.

[@StarshipsSteel]

@@waynenewsome4780 Why would it cost them money? I do not understand this.

[@waynenewsome4780]

Inept people think they know everything. Could you use an angle grinder to slice off a bottom corner of a Cold steel shovel, so it has 8" of straight edge down one side, Use paint remover and a sander to bare the metal. Use a scribe and layout blue to mark the outline of the saw teeth. Use the grinder to mostly shape the teeth, then use a Dremel grinder at full rpm to get close, slow down the rpm to nearly finish the teeth, then touch them upe with a file. A caliper will establish the length of the teeth. Then, clamp the shovel in the vise and use hammer, punch and caliper to "lean" every other tooth over about .010" . When you're done, reverse the shovel in the vise and drift the (un-drifted) teeth .010" in the opposite direction of the first ones. This is what gives you the "kerf" clearance in the wood, so your blade does not drag thru the saw cut in the wood. Then you'll have a hatchet and a saw, in one tool. By making other handles, on site, this tool can become many other tools, too, like a standup shovel with 5 ft of handle. Then it's also a vertical ice-chipper and a paddle. It can be altered to become an adze/hoe/rake/pick/weedwhacker.

[@waynenewsome4780]

you dont want or need to tie up an entire tarp to make a boat and you dont want a boat anyway. The pontoon outrigger raft cannot sink due to a simple puncture. Nor can it be capsized or swamped by a rogue wave or by your flopping around with a seine or while paddling after a swimming moose to arrow or spear it.

[@evincer1907]

In my years of living in the remote wilds of Outer Mongolia I learned to make floating shoes out of wood and was able to use my seine while subduing belligerent moose with front kicks.

[@billwithers1349]

@@evincer1907 sure.

[@waynenewsome4780]

if youre shelter needs a fire inside of it, our shelter sucks, guys. The Innuit had no warming fire in their igloos at -40F, for months on end out on the ice. If your shelter is small, sealed and insulated, you dont need a fire in it. That saves you 2 hours per day of not needing to be be out in the cold wind, wasting calories to get fire wood processed. That's saving you at least 500 calories per day, for say, 90 days. That's 45,000 calories saved, ,enough to feed you properly for 2 weeks. Not needing a week to make such a silly shelter saves you another week of staying power.

[@johnmirbach2338]

😁✌👍🖖👌😎

[@waynenewsome4780]

you dont need the ferrrood, the sleeping bag, the paracord, the axe, saw, cookpot or ration. Take the Cold steel shovel, with 8" of saw edge, the modified Crunch multitool, the rope hammock, the reflective 12x112 tarp, the 3 lb block of salt, the big roll of duct tape, and the Trifecta XL bivvy, from 2Go Systems. One of chief Aj's slingbows and 3 piece take down arrows is a much better choice than any bow. Take one bent sewing needle and 24 of the biggest single hooks allowed., so you can cut them in half and make 16 small trelbehooks, for trotlines. Take the snarewire, some of it as copper wire, for making fire with the headlamp battery. You can stone-boil in a pit, lineed with a tarp, lined with gravel or sand until you can refine workable clay from shoreline mud and make the baked clay balls for the slingbow, vs small game, the sieve-ladle, the several cookpots with lids and the skillet. ou want to fry fish, so you can shred, boil and fry cambium. Then your body can digest it, IF you also eat food with some fat in it. Fish are 8% fat. You can only eat about 2 oz of (such-prepped) cambium per day, but it's useful carbs for keeping your brain working properly and it's fiber to keep your guts moving.

[@waynenewsome4780]

it doesn't matter if your logs float, if you know to use 2 sets of clothing, the backpack and the life vest as pontoons, lashed atop a log framework. Before you leave home, waterproof spray those items, Make a set of tarp, debris and tape water-wings for your safety. The clothing and pack are stuffed with debris, the seams whipstitched and taped. The seams are on top when the pontoon is lashed, on TOP of the logs.

[@waynenewsome4780]

for a mere +10F, in one day, you can make a shelter that's warm enough without any clothing, sleeping bag or external heat source, if you know how and it will still be portable. altho you'll need to make several trips, or you'll have to get new debris-insulation at the new site.

[@jonjacob2717]

Back again Bill Reynolds?

[@Justmefornow]

@@jonjacob2717 Bill, by any other name, will still be Bill. ;)

[@maxmackinlay618]

Don't forget the duct tape 'Wild' Bill

[@karl-johanbratt9949]

Crazy Bill Straight Outta The Straitjacket!

[@jooky5]

@@maxmackinlay618 and the modified leatherman crunch and salt block……oh and the meds that silences the voice in his heads as he watches alone in his mom’s basement while yelling at the tv

[@waynenewsome4780]

You only need 8 small logs to make the raft. 2 of them need to be 8ft long, 4" OD. 2 of them need to be 7 ft long, 6" OD, and 4 of them need to be 6 ft long and 4" OD. Two of the latter are your outriggers. The other two are your crosslogs. which hold the 8 ft logs 2 ft apart, in parallel, and also hold the outriggers. The 6" OD logs are the diagonal braces for your outriggers. They intersect in the center of your raft. That means they have to be notched and that's why they need to be 6" in OD. The US Navy has proven that if a long sleeved shirt or pants are waterproofed, and filled with are and dont leak, they will float a man. So you'll have 6x the floatation you need for yourself. 4x what you need for yourself and the logs. So, even if one of your pontoons DOES take on water, you will still remain afloat. However, if you get a leaking pontoon, you defnitely should immediately put to shore, tho, fix the leak, replace any wet debris with dry stuff. You dont need a craft for crossing the Bering Straits, guys. You need something to move the seine around your baited net traps.

[@waynenewsome4780]

Since it's not going to be all that cold, you dont need much firewood, which means you dont need the axe. and all of the dangers and game scaring noise that comes with its use. you dont want to waste calories on processing firewood. Use insulation and clothing to stay warm. The clothing that they let you take was warm enough for the girls to sit out in the wind for hours at a time, ice-fishing, at -10F, so it should let you sleep inside of a tarp-tent, on a raised wooden bed, with lots of debris piled upon that bed, and the debris-stuffed, folded and tied 10x10 tarp-blanket over you.

[@wendymyrvold3097]

Once it starts snowing, it will feel cold.

[@waynenewsome4780]

@@wendymyrvold3097 feel-smeal. +10F is not immediatly dangerous. but -20F IS. That's how cold it got on Great Slave Lake, while +10F is as cold as it gets on Chilko lake. That's nothing by comparison.

[@wendymyrvold3097]

@@waynenewsome4780 +10F is dangerous to people with inadequate nutrition and especially if they end up getting wet. It's really easy to get hypothermia at that temperature. I have a friend with permanent nerve damage to her feet from when she got lost out skiing and was not found until 10pm. It is sometimes worse to have a temperature just around freezing because the snow can melt when it hits you and quickly make you sopping wet.

[@billwithers1349]

@@wendymyrvold3097 not if you know to make a properly insulated shelter and how to use debris between the layers of your clothing.

[@billwithers1349]

@@wendymyrvold3097 yep, if y ou dont know what gear/clothing to take and what to do in threatening situations. However, I dont suffer from those handicaps.

[@waynenewsome4780]

you get to take a jacket, a sweater, 2 sets of longjohns, 6 pairs of wool socks, two hats, two pairs of boots, Until the lake freezes, you dont need the clothing that is converted into the pontoons. Once the lake IS frozen, you dont need the raft anymore. So the clothing can again be used on your body. The Trifecta XL bivvy is not effected by its getting wet. It has 2 zippers, which lets you open it up like a canopy-tarp, or wear it as a poncho. It adds 20F to your shelter/clothing for sleeping and 30F degrees to your clothing if you're active. So you CAN have enough clothing, despite using 2 sets of clothing as pontoons. You'll have the longjohns, the bivvy, the tarp-made clothing and lots of debris between all of the layers. It doesn't get below 10F on Chilko lake. It's -30F sometimes on Great Slave lake. that's a huge difference and 2 layers of normal clothing is not enough to make up that difference, folks. The idea is to score 400+ lbs of fish in 40 days, after taking 2 weeks to make the netitng, raft, chumlines, treblehooks, shelter. Once the lake freezes up, you just "hole up' in your shelter, conserving calories, guarding your food-cache.

[@driver3899]

how are you going to store those hundreds of pounds of fish so no other creature gets it?

[@billwithers1349]

@@driver3899 bury them under my shelter, in frozen ground.

[@billwithers1349]

set out baited treblehooks, wire cabled to drag logs. no animal will dig thru frozen ground instead of just gulping a fishhead that's suspended right in front of him.

[@driver3899]

@@billwithers1349 That is a pretty good point actually

[@billwithers1349]

@@driver3899 no kidding?

[@waynenewsome4780]

You dont want a boat. It can capsize or be swamped. Neither of those things is possible with the pontoon outrigger raft. You can build this raft in one day, most of it by firelight in your camp. Take it to the shore in pieces and assemble it there. When you leave the logs tied to an anchor-rock, take the precious pontoons with you and secure them vs storms/floods. You dont want to tie up an entire tarp to make a boat. The tarp is used to make an anorak, booties, mittens, leggings and shorts that are not effected by getting wet. You dont wear your normal clothing or boots when out on the water. Instead, you stuff the tarp clothing with dry debris. Then it wont matter if you get wet, you see. You can just dump the debris, shake the water off of the tarp-clothing, add new debris and get back to work.

[@waynenewsome4780]

A tarp is a VERY thin skin for a boat. ONE moving contact with a sharp stick or stone, and you'll rip the tarp and sink. Bad idea.

[@waynenewsome4780]

@Average Joe ONE has, sort of. What Jim Baird said, tho, was what little food they got, they found under a rock. So their boat had little or nothing to do with their success.

[@waynenewsome4780]

If your shelter needs a fire inside of it, your shelter sucks. The innuit had no sleeping bags and no fires inside of their igloos, for months at a time, out on the ice, at -40F. You dont need to waste a pick on a sleeping bag, either. You can be plenty warm enough in your clothing and debris-stuffed tarp shelter, with the debris stuffed 10x10 tarp over you like a blanket.

[@lgrello1214]

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[@brendonwebb8352]

First

[@waynenewsome4780]

they give you a flare. Dig a post hole, stuff it with dry debris, fire the flare down into the hole, while holding your jacket over the hole, so the flare cant just bounce out. Presto, first fire. then you can have ashes and charred materials, kept dry with your tinder, pine resin, etc, in a tarp and tape dry-bag. With those items, other fires are easy and you can always bury your coals in the ashes, keeping the fire alive for 12+ hours. People dont know what's important. The tape's important, the salt's important, the rope hammock and tarp are important. The sleeping bag, ferrorod, paracord, axe, saw, bow are not important, cause other things can replace them as well as do other jobs. A slingbow is a much better choice than a regular bow, cause you can use baked clay balls on birds and small game. You can use the spare rubber band to pull a snare-loop tight, and with 3 piece, take down arrows. the slingbow is easy to always have on your person. Not true of a regular bow.

[@joeetlinger3423]

Curious what your 10 items would be?

[@megnakamura7652]

They have a lot of rules that they have to follow. The flare is probably only to be used in an emergency.

[@billwithers1349]

@@megnakamura7652 you assume what you dont know. you can start a fire with the shemagh, with a big pump drill, with the headlamp battery. then just bury your coals in the ashes, no other need of a fire start at all

[@billwithers1349]

@@joeetlinger3423 2GO Systems XL Trifecta bivy, slingbow, 3 lb block of sea salt, reflective 12x12 tarp, fishing kit as largest hooks allowed, snare wire, cotton rope hammock, big roll of gorilla tape. Cold Steel shovel with one edge altered to have 8" of real deal saw teeth. Modified Crunch multitool.

[@waynenewsome4780]

if your shelter is worth a hoot, you dont need any external heat inside of it. So you dont need much firewood, which means you dont need the saw or the axe.

[@waynenewsome4780]

I would have thought that an alaskan, who knows to make a boat, would also know to make 2000 sq ft of netting out of the cotton rope hammock? Seems illogical for one to not go with the other

[@SouthFloridaWoman]

No ferro rod and striker?? 😮😮😮😮