How to Repair a Canoe Hole Using Pine Pitch

[@ChrisFar]

Great piece of knowledge anyone venturing into the Backcountry with a canoe should know!! Great vid👌

[@juliahelland6488]

Now that's an amazing patch! 👏

[@larsrons7937]

Great tip. This would have been valuable for my friend on his canoe trip in Sweden when he got a similar hole in his canoe.

[@felix-eeee]

glad to see that you made an individual video on this, nice puukko by the way

[@JeffreyWillis800]

Genius, wow. Thanks for sharing.

[@bubbaleon]

Good stuff, as a more permanent fix I’ve used pieces of a HDPE 5 gallon bucket, melted than spread on both sides.

[@TheBearEssentials]

Great tip!

[@haifutter4166]

Sadly, it is quite easy to find HDPLE in nature too.

[@bubbaleon]

@@haifutter4166agreed, where I live there’s a 30 mile stretch of freeway that oddly has so many buckets littered along the way. I’m sure at some point they make their way in to a creek and eventually the wilderness.

[@haifutter4166]

@@bubbaleon In Germany we have a deposit system for plastic bottles, which is why they aren't as ubiquitous, but you still find them now and them. Main problem is, that imported water bottles e.g. from Turkey are deposit free, so some people are too lazy to dispose of them properly.

[@edarddragon]

short and to the point great!

[@TheBearEssentials]

Just straight info on this one haha! No messin around

[@Universal.G]

Cool thanks man. I didn't know about the charcoal part. I thought you were going to use birch bark. Cool stuff.

[@TheBearEssentials]

You bet - birch bark in combination with this for a bigger hole - or (i haven't tried it - but birch tar works well im told) - is that what you use?

[@db.mc2]

Thanks DJ! 👊🏻👍🏻God Bless 🙏🏻 Appreciate you brother!

[@davidpatrick1813]

I need to have a canoe first .. interesting none the less.

[@Bravodark6000]

Love this vid! Good knowledge for the tool box

[@TheBearEssentials]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@unquiche]

If only The Professor would have known this, he could have gotten them off the island so much sooner. The one time he attempted it, his glue wasn’t waterproof.

[@hillbilly4christ638]

If I was on that island with Mary Anne, well…..

[@Thuy_Dailylife]

Greetings from Viêt Nam❤❤❤

[@PdenBrinker]

Good video 👍👍👍

[@TheBearEssentials]

Thank you 👍

[@journeyman7189]

Great tip and how too. DJ but I have to ask, how did you damage the canoe? Nate

[@TheBearEssentials]

I put a hole in it myself to test and demonstrate how to fix it. This was a canoe in rough shape to begin with that someone didn’t want anymore. So I took the opportunity to do it! (It’s not my main tripping canoe)

[@journeyman7189]

@@TheBearEssentials For science!

[@NIKOSPORTSreal]

So cool!

[@lucamosca3443]

what knot do you suggest to fix an hammock on a tree?...thanks for your videos

[@TheBearEssentials]

There’s a whole bunch you can do, any anchor knot really, a solid one is the Bowline

[@mattlast4093]

great great video

[@BushcraftingBogan]

Note to self: Throw a pack of J.B. Weld in the backpack

[@TheBearEssentials]

100%

[@billsedutto8824]

Or Flex tape.

[@TheBearEssentials]

Oh flex tape would be a real lightweight easy option to bring with ya!

[@LucasSun-m7s]

@@TheBearEssentialsjust out of curiosity, would a roll of duct tape be something worth carrying in backpacking because of its versatility like patching things and binding things and stuff?

[@robintheoutside]

Maybe a silly question ... but does it matter if the canoe is wet (say it's raining)? Will it still bind?

[@TheBearEssentials]

That’s a good question, and honestly I don’t know the answer to it - I dried it all out before doing this. I would say it probs will work with worse results? But that’s a guess

[@BD-bditw]

The resin is not water soluble and therefore the surface it's applied to needs to be dry, and preferably roughened up to provide a key. It's like applying car body filler. Same difference as they say.

[@nikoslav]

02:07 that's what she said

[@nickmail7604]

Step one dry the canoe inside and out around the hole, step two apply some gorilla tape (or tenacious tape) over the hole inside and outside. Step three sit back and watch the muppet covered in sticky shit trying to light a fire.