4 Days Shelter Building: Cowboy Campfire Cuisine (No Talking, DIY, ASMR)

Beyond the Horizon, recreating the rugged life of a Wild West Pioneer. My chuck wagon and I are on a mission to off grid homestead Oklahoma the way it was done in 1883. With a good set of Old West tools and a little bushcraft knowhow I'll hopefully survive the next winter.
IN THIS EPISODE: I can't believe I wasn't bit by that black widow spider! The third and final retaining wall went much smother than the previous two (done in previous episodes) because I had learned from my mistakes. The retaining wall is important because the walls that will be built upon them will be incredibly heavy. The process of adding the water and compacting the dirt behind it is a process I didn't really show with the other two walls but I did do it to those too.
The reason I added sod with grass to the outside is to stop erosion on that side of the wall, water coming off the roof had already started to eat away at a portion of the wall.
Also this was my first attempt at making char cloth and it worked great! I left it in the fire for about 20 minutes but I think next time I'll leave it in there a little longer.
Thank you for watching and if you enjoy the video please remember to give it a thumbs up!
God bless,
Will

[@Mikes_carnivore_journey]

The homestead is coming along nicely. Thanks for showing us how our pioneering forefathers settled the frontier. You've recreated the realism of the American pioneer.

[@todstrucks2919]

Looking great. Most people don’t realize how much work that is. I guarantee your whooped at the end of the day. Work hard, eat good, sleep great! It really doesn’t get any better than that. Thanks 4 bring us along

[@WesternPioneer]

Thank you. It is a lot of work but I'm having the time of my life doing it. Thank you for watching!

[@MrBodyguard380]

Blocking up the wagon to get it off the ground isn’t really necessary. You want the wheels to absorb moisture to prevent shrinkage of the wood. I haul my wagon down to the boat landing at the creek and back it into the water up to the hubs and let it sit for a few hours. I then I back it in farther to soak the other half of the wheels. It’s called “Sweating” the wheels. It prevents the wheels from drying out and shrinking and splitting. It keeps the wheel irons tight as well. I learned that from the wheelwright about 50 years ago when I had to have new wheels put on one of my wagons.

[@WesternPioneer]

That's pretty cool thank you for mentioning that.

[@frankpettinato2324]

Outstanding video!👍👍👍👍👍🎖🎖🎖🎖🎖🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵🪚🪚🪚🪚🪚🪚🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

[@dougwhidden6700]

Just found your channel tonight and I love it. I’ve been dreaming of doing something like this since I was 10 or 11, I’m now 64 and the dream is all but gone but I can live it through your channel. Great videos, keep up the good work. Thanks

[@WesternPioneer]

@@dougwhidden6700 Thank you so much! It's great to hear you're enjoying the channel.

[@TXplowgirl]

Just binge watched all 10 videos today. My thanks to you young man because I've been wishing for this exact recreation. I'm a 6th generation Texan currently living in Southern Oklahoma and a 40 year genealogist. The 1800s are my favorite time period. I've subscribed and am looking forward to many more videos. I rank this channel just as good as My Self Reliance. Even though he no a recreation channel, and my favorite gentleman Dick Proeneke.of Alaska. You're doing something I've always wanted to do since I first seen Dick and his videos in 1974. But I married 2 men who I thought I was crazy and so that didn't happen. Here I am 60 years old and disable and all I can do is watch and dream. Keep going young man. I want to give you a lot of advice that I have learned but I'll keep my thoughts to myself. I know I can be a mother hen so I'll shut up for now. 😂

[@WesternPioneer]

Hey thank you so much I really really appreciate that. When I was stuck living in Los Angeles I watched a lot of My Self Reliance, he does great work so it means a lot to me that you would put me on his level. And I've probably watched those Dick Proeneke videos two dozen times each, I love them so much. I'll definitely keep going and don't be afraid to give me advice, I typically really really need it!

[@vurtechre]

dinner at your own porch & sunset at your back. tomorrow's work awaits. homestead is coming along nicely dude!!

[@pedrokollert]

Seeing how America's first settlers lived in practice has been really cool and reflective. I think every man should go through this experience and forget about big urban centers just a little less. Good job you did in this video.

[@eduardotillmann1]

Viiiiiiisssssshhhhh

[@WesternPioneer]

I agree 100% and thank you!

[@kasknedl1710]

Another fantastic episode - Thank You kindly! Hope the spider didn't stick around

[@davidcrouch6683]

You have done a great job with the cabin! Thanks for documenting it so we can watch

[@petrimurphy6152]

Greetings from the off grid cabin in Ohio. Lots of progress on the project, looks good. Stay safe and God bless. See you down the trail.

[@randygraf2474]

Howdy from Texas, we really enjoy your videos, keep them coming, thanks and God bless the cowboy.

[@WesternPioneer]

Thank you! I'm glad you're enjoying them.

[@ryanstubblefield8593]

Hey Pard, Borax , tobacco, wood ash and garlic were all great insecticides used by western settlers back in the pioneer days..should keep the ants and ticks away .Good luck and Thanks for the great Videos.

[@WesternPioneer]

I didn't know that, thank you for mentioning that.

[@harrymingelickr883]

My Favorite part is that the Video says All that's Needed. GOOD JOB .

[@texascottonfarmer]

👍👍👌👌 Thanks for the video.

[@javiergonzalezmartin8664]

Amazing channel! Keep up the good work

[@user-ey2yk5wk4r]

Я очень восхищаюсь когда строят жилье это. Самое. Главное. Жилье человек старается. Трудится молодцы❤❤❤❤❤о

[@WesternPioneer]

Спасибо!

[@surfpapo]

That’s a lot of work my friend but satisfying 🔥👌

[@ryanstubblefield8593]

I knew a messican Indian in Oklahoma that used red clay and grass to make adobe bricks, he'd make them then set em on his roof in the summer sun to cure.. just an idea for a building material

[@WesternPioneer]

I definitely want to try something like that.

[@SanJuanMountainBob]

Great video as usual. I hope more young men, and women will watch your stuff. True manliness is almost lost in our culture. There are the body builders and such, but real men don't need to show off and bring attention to themselves, use foul language, etc. You're a great example - keep it up!

[@WesternPioneer]

Thank you that really means a lot to me.

[@southerncooker6475]

Looking good! Very interesting to see your progress!! Be safe with the spiders and such! God bless!

[@donnamylife1981]

Very very cool video and the best life to live

[@JeffRamblin]

Nice sunset 👍😎👍

[@tiagobastos1833]

Parabéns pelo trabalho, excelente vídeo.

[@WesternPioneer]

Obrigado!

[@henryscarhead6119]

New sub here, You look like the guy i saw in an old western pic who has a gen. store next to his house.

[@eduardotillmann1]

Nice cabin. I identify a lot with you, if I could I would do that too, I really like the western, cowboy, nature theme. Keep it up and good work cowpoke.

[@WesternPioneer]

Thank you my man.

[@cynthiabolick4156]

Tks for video.

[@scottfoster2487]

That saw is outset by the sound of it in the cut. sure is peace full no power noise around.

[@Vikingwerk]

Coming along!

[@jackmurray9122]

I keep looking behind him, waiting for some Comanche Bucks too come riding out of the trees lol

[@cheyackatustenuggee1836]

Looks like he's in the Southeast because of the red clay and it's very green with fauna. So I reckon some Seminole warrior or Redstick Creek brave may creep

[@LindaStein-ze8bk]

Well done Sir. I just stumbled across your channel two days ago. How did you find a piece of land to homestead on? People you knew? I have watched every episode and will anxiously watch for the next one to appear. Will, you are one hard working young man.

[@WesternPioneer]

Thank you so much and I'm so happy you're enjoying the channel! I forget exactly what website I found this land on to buy but there are a few websites that specialize in listing hunting properties for sale. whitetailproperties(.com) is one of them, I looked for about 6 months before finding this property.

[@sacredbearknives2636]

Great progress, we are always wondering where you keep your drinking water.

[@WesternPioneer]

Thank you. Really right now I'm just bringing in clean water in a canteen. Once the cabin is complete I want to address the drinking water issue in a more historically accurate way.

[@andylittlebritain7680]

Just discovered your channel and binge watched all your videos here in the UK. I usually skip by ASMR videos but found them so relaxing and easy to watch. Will they all be ASMR or do you plan to talk in futre episodes? I understand that its difficult talking to a camera as I've been in a couple of friend's videos. Looking forward to following your journey.

[@WesternPioneer]

Hey thank you for watching all my videos! I'm glad you're enjoying them. I might make a behind the scenes video soon so I'll talk to the camera in that if I do. I mainly want to talk about historical accuracy and some of the challenges I'm facing in regards to that.

[@raytravis4097]

The Spider on the water barrel looked like a Aussie red back Spider....???

[@aristrianta3073]

🆘🆘🆘 👏👏👏 καλημέρα από ελλάδα 🇬🇷📌

[@WesternPioneer]

Γεια σας ευχαριστώ που παρακολουθήσατε!

[@JeffreyGraham-vh3si]

This is Real.

[@metalmyke1]

Get some wax and cotton or something equivalent and mix it together. I am sure there are cat tails near that river close to you.

[@wyore4344]

thank you for all the Hard Work and Informative, Interesting Videos. please keep it up! best regards...walt+mrs (sub'd, always "like", occasionally comment)

[@WesternPioneer]

Thank you so much and I'm glad you're enjoying the videos.

[@jbthor9032]

How long did you leave the char cloth box in the fire. That looked super easy. My great grandfather was a jack of all trades during the old west. He was born in 1870, and I think by the late 1890s, in the early 1900s, he worked as a carpenter. I have his tool chest here in the garage. It weighs 300 lbs or more. Mostly Stanley tools.

[@Vikingwerk]

It does not take all that long, I make mine by putting it in my charcoal grill after i’m done cooking, and let it char as the grill goes out, and don’t really worry about a set time/temperature. Just be sure to use 100% cotton cloth, no synthetic fibers, those melt rather than char.

[@WesternPioneer]

It was about 25 minutes but I don't think it would have hurt to leave it in longer. That was my first time ever making it and it worked good. And wow that's really cool, definitely hang onto that tool chest.

[@maneuschwander6394]

That is some wet clay!

[@WesternPioneer]

Yes in the three days before filming it rained 8 inches. I was very happy to see that there wasn't more water inside.

[@shawnhenry6670]

So you just wadded up some cloth in a Altoids can or whatever and threw it in the fire for 30 min for the char cloth? Nice vid!

[@WesternPioneer]

Yes the cloth needs to be all natural fibers and the can can't be air tight. I think Altoids cans are air tight so you'd need to poke a little hole in it. And I think I did put it in the fire for about 30 minutes. Thank you!

[@dougwhidden6700]

What part of the country are you in? Looks a little like Oklahoma. Great videos.

[@WesternPioneer]

Yep, Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plains.

[@69kaveman]

Great work! What was the meat?

[@WesternPioneer]

It was chicken thighs, my favorite.

[@pacopato4047]

👍

[@user-ph7rj3kq7e]

Para el entendido...el libro de Isaías dise...y como hombre armado .empobreseran

[@user-bj7yg8zc3z]

Was hetzt Hüttenbau oder Kochsendung (immer das Gleiche !)🤨

[@lyalaukt]

❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@drago_6812]

why does your dog look exactly like main

[@parhogbom5160]

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[@karenwright9123]

😁

[@user3152]

all my respect for this man, those were the good old days even if life was harder yesterday is it easier today? What social problems these globalists of nothingness are inflicting on us, everything is going into a tailspin today. thank you to this man for these images perhaps it would be better to undo everything to rebuild again in the simplicity of the heart and find a little more humanism, perhaps one day.... bless you all! let's come back to ourselves the greatest danger for us is to forget God it is he who will come to restore all things.

[@WesternPioneer]

Amen my brother.

[@prestonlowery2265]

Is this Oklahoma?

[@WesternPioneer]

Yes!

[@StarrGod696]

LOL…

[@erklishabani7070]

13rrrrrrrrrrr2

[@JeffreyGraham-vh3si]

Why do you not speak?

[@Guerre-xj5xf]

He is alone minding his own business.

[@4ager505]

I dunno...he didn't say...

[@WesternPioneer]

I don't like talking to a camera but I may do a behind the scenes video soon where I answer some FAQ's and talk about the history behind some things.

[@JeffreyGraham-vh3si]

@@WesternPioneer Thanks, I like the way you do things.

[@Quantrills.Raiders]

you dont need to put chinking in between layers?

[@WesternPioneer]

Eventually I'll get around to it.

[@Quantrills.Raiders]

@@WesternPioneer looks great so far man, keep up the good work