Grandpa's 33 Survival and Bushcraft HACKS you probably didn't know!

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@cptmidnight6117 3 ай бұрын

When making a fireplace with stones make sure they are dry because if there are soaked with water when they heat up they can explode.

@sojourn1544 2 ай бұрын

Exactly correct! So many people don’t know that.

@diggerdave1052 2 ай бұрын

Only will explode if they already have cracks !

@danbradley6696 2 ай бұрын

Same for Stream/River rocks

@terencechandler845 Ай бұрын

Certain types of stone will explode too. 😊

@terencechandler845 Ай бұрын

Birch tree syrup a good source of nutrients and sugars

@Swearengen1980 Ай бұрын

Rename this to: 33 things city slickers probably don't know. BTW - To make char cloth, you need to plug up that hole. Any bit of oxygen can restart the burning and you end up with ash, not char. As soon as the smoke nearly stops, pull it off the fire and plug the hole. Don't bother with paracord, get firecord. It's the same, only it includes flammable strands.

@adcummings1224 3 ай бұрын

A lot of this stuff didn't exist in my grandfathers day, such as headlamps, paracord, chapstick, duct tape, plastic bags, pop can tabs, etc.

@edmartin875 3 ай бұрын

Both my grandfathers were born in the 1800s. When I was a kid soft drinks came in 8 ounce bottles that would get you a penny back if you returned the bottle.

@edwardcave1947 Ай бұрын

Dry pine cones make great fire starter as well as potato chips or duct tape. A saw is more efficient than an axe

@Lt.Dans_Legs-freesp3Ak 3 күн бұрын

@edmartin875 you know it's 2024, right? 😂

@edwardcave1947 3 күн бұрын

@@edmartin875 yes I remember. I got $0.25 to go to the movies, $0.15 for 2 films and 10 cartoons and a bag of candy that lasted through the movies. What does a quarter buy today.

@HardyBunster 3 ай бұрын

My Grandad didn’t have soda cans, everything came in bottles in his day.

@christyshultz6443 2 ай бұрын

Yeah they did. But they were peel off tabs for the longest time.

@Lt.Dans_Legs-freesp3Ak 3 күн бұрын

Bottle caps make awesome fishing lures. Can make them look just like a shad or crankbait. You'll still need to find a hook though. There are primitive ways to make a hook, called a gorge, they are just annoying to catch with 😂

@DMF_603 3 ай бұрын

My great grandma would add pine needles to all her teas. Acorn whistle is no joke, loud!

@GVan1953 11 күн бұрын

Once upon a time..., lard was used to make candles. Lard, tallow, and bees wax candles are edible in a pinch.

@matt79de 2 ай бұрын

Charcloth making suggesting: Use a round container and poke the hole in the "rim" where the lid and the base of the container meet (right through both of them). That way you can rotate the lid to open or close the gas release hole, making the container double as tight storage container a.k.a. tinder box. (Add a piece of tape to the hole if you don't trust the particular container. I like Scho-Ka-Cola tins for this.) Regarding the zippers: You can also "WD40" them. The one job WD40 has is displacing water. (Hence the name: WD40 stands for "water displacement formula #40".) Candle/bees wax also work.

@Swearengen1980 Ай бұрын

They miss the cut off for sure. You can't just leave oxygen flowing to it, it has to be cut off. We just pull it off the fire and put a stick in the hole.

@eschneider8799 3 ай бұрын

I doubt very much my grandad ever saw an aluminum pop can

@timhaugen6410 Ай бұрын

Mine carried some paracord, but not enough to macrame a hammock.

@soranightstorm9262 2 ай бұрын

cattails are also been used for clothing, food (depending what time of year it is) and other useful materiel

@LeeHarcus 3 ай бұрын

Be careful with getting due from plants make sure they’re not poisonous and you know what you’re getting it off of

@seetasingh2032 3 ай бұрын

THE WORD IS DEW NOT DUE.

@krombopulosmicheal2436 2 ай бұрын

Back then mountain dew didn't exist, but they did have mountain dew. Some say water in the city couldn't compare to the mountain dew that helped sustain life back then. It was refreshing.

@Mushamman 3 ай бұрын

I remember when I was a wee lad, sitting on my grand pappy's lap listening to stories of how he fixed a horse with Duct Tape as a last-ditch effort to get the wagon train back on the trail again. As the story goes, the trail boss suggested trying some of that "new-fangled Duck Tape" and added, "If you can't duck it, f__k it!" Boss man left him with no choice but to make the tape work. In celebration of him not needing the other suggested course of action, he fashioned himself a fishing pole out of the remaining "Duck Tape" and some paracord, cracked himself open a can of so-dee pop and used the tab to go fishing in the duck pond. I always believed him.

@JesusChrist_IsTruth-LoveForALL 2 ай бұрын

👏🏼😂🎉

@SuperD37 3 ай бұрын

Thats not how you use pine resin as a glue. You need to add some charcoal and dry, pulverized manure from a herbivore. If you just heat up the pine resin, you just have warm pine resin. Now, if you harvest some older, hardened pine resin, it will still work but at this point it will be brittle. You will need to add some animal fat to the resin when you heat and mix it so it won't be brittle.

@Mushamman 3 ай бұрын

Pine resin is supposed to be boiled until it's thick, black and bubbly, no charcoal needed. Boiling turns it into pitch, which hardens like cement when it cools down. It's the black stuff you see fastening stone arrowheads to shafts made by Aboriginal peoples. This technology is thousands of years old. Warmed resin will only leave you with a sticky mess that takes years to completely harden, no matter what you mix it with.

@Kimpossibility 3 ай бұрын

I can use my 50-some-odd Starbuck City Mug as knife sharpeners. 🙌 Now I can tell my hubby that I can't "declutter" them! THANKS! 🤩☕

@SavingSavers 3 ай бұрын

You're welcome!!

@GVan1953 11 күн бұрын

Stick duct tape to the inside of your jacket or inside the sleeves. This will allow you to carry extra tape with no additional weight. This will not work on natural materials or fuzzy materials.

@duanebouchard8736 3 ай бұрын

Yep,, I remember my great great great grand pappy telling me how to make a soda can fish hook🤣🤣🤔

@edmartin875 3 ай бұрын

When you take the tab from your soda can, you can always depend on a church key to open the can.

@soranightstorm9262 2 ай бұрын

yes aluminum foil can do the bowl or cup just don't get it too close to the fire or it will burn a hole in the foil. so coals would work great also it can sit on the side to boil water near a flame just not on top of the fire.

@melvance7281 Ай бұрын

Honestly. Most of this is learned as a boyscout in the 70's. The rest, i learned in the 80's. The ai may not have picked up on everything, but over all, not bad😢

@scottw391 3 ай бұрын

None of this is a “grandpa hack”. It’s the same stuff shown on every modern “Reality TV show”survival show.

@gordonstagg6907 3 ай бұрын

lol, 😂 😅

@kevinfields7500 2 ай бұрын

It's shown on modern TV because we're in modern times. This knowledge is older than your mother and father. So yeah it is a "GRANDPA HACK"

@papajeff5486 2 ай бұрын

Dakota fire holes don’t have to be big, a foot in diameter. Make one bigger. Then use a sharp stick, about 2 inches in diameter to hammer the second, breathing hole, starting about a foot away, aimed deep into the bottom of the fire hole. It’s not as hard as it seems and certainly not as hard as digging a second hole. It works…

@PabloP169 3 ай бұрын

A few mistakes, but quite a few reasonable tips.

@k94536 2 ай бұрын

the last one is #0000 (4 ought - 4/0 steel wool ) steel wool

@fliesbyme 2 ай бұрын

My question on the pine needle thing. Heat destroys vitamin c. So id love more information on how this actually works.

@mississippioutpost2895 2 ай бұрын

Don’t count on the Gov to save you. 😢lol

@stretchsmith5232 Ай бұрын

The Dutch oven is an oven too.

@edmartin875 3 ай бұрын

The "guts" of 550 paracord is made up of 7 strands of different materials and are each marked differently.

@danbradley6696 2 ай бұрын

Go figure..Grandpa with crayons !

@Windwalker66 Ай бұрын

Yes, when I am going on trip for a owernighter, I take a crayon with me isted a candle. 😂

@Frisia-dd6ud 3 ай бұрын

Nothing to do with grandpa, but maybe i am to old;)

@timsmith9169 10 күн бұрын

Gramps didn't have can tabs lol

@StevenLaDrig-w1r 3 ай бұрын

I use chapstick to do my zippers

@personal.YouTube.channel 2 ай бұрын

LOL ! That's all common run-of-the-mill everyday. Bushcraft knowledge. Tell me do you know about rabbit starvation?

@marqpage3485 2 ай бұрын

Yes , I watch Qi to .

@adamccrawford 2 ай бұрын

I can't tell you how many times I've been lost in the woods in a survival situation and wandered across a box of crayons I can use as candles. This channel is a joke.

@mississippioutpost2895 2 ай бұрын

Then find something to cook. Lol😅

@davidmartin1015 2 ай бұрын

“Charred cloth”, known as tinder around here, hence the term “tinder-box”.

@adreabrooks11 2 ай бұрын

Tinder is any fine material used to start a fire - so char-cloth is tinder, but not all tinder is char-cloth. :)

@soranightstorm9262 2 ай бұрын

i still wonder whats is best for flaky scaly skin that peels off

@FiredUpKnifeandTool Ай бұрын

Crayons absolutely do not last 30 minutes... at best they last 12-14 minutes ive tried 5 different brands crayola and roseart burn the best and longest