MAKE YOUR OWN - BUSHPOT

Buying a dedicated bushcraft "bush-pot" can be expensive, but it needn't be!
Make your own! They are easy to do... and in this video I'll show you how.
Enjoy
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[@NewHampshireJack]

This is the second of your videos we have watched. You now have a new family of subscribers. These kinds of DIY builds are one of our favorites. We are always looking for cost-effective projects we can do with our young troops. Nothing equals the pride of using the gear you constructed by your own hand when out in the field. Often there is no choice but to DIY because many items are not available in our tropical paradise. Shipping from overseas makes imported items not worth the cost. This is a first-class instructional video. Watching from our "secret retirement" location in Bulacan province on Luzon island in the Republic of the Philippine islands.

[@MartiniDave02]

Here's a tip from a retired instrument maker. When you drill stainless a little bit of saliva (licky) makes an excellent impromptu cutting fluid, helping get a bit cleaner cut.

[@rustysmith540]

I'm new here and glad I found this calming bloke. Greetings from colonial Rhode Island!

[@robertweldon7909]

So, the hardest part is finding the appropriate STAINLESS STEEL container/s. The rest is just basic use of hand tools. Neil, this is great instruction, especially for beginners, The tip of using a drill bit as a deburring tool is super, I learned a neat tip here, You can substitute a small machine screw, nuts, and washers, in place of the rivet, if you don't have a rivet gun. You can potentially create a nested set of pots, if you can find a nested set of containers. Great video with simple straight forward instructions. This is my first watched video, from you. I like stuff like this, you have a new subscriber. ;-)

[@perebird]

Having seen your original pots a few years ago I eventually located a pot and settled on some peinable soft rivets for the sides and top using the picture attachments you used on the top. As you know the inspiration for your homespun projects extends far an wide and brings a great deal of satisfaction 👍

[@joeheritage5195]

I'm hopeless at diy so this while basic is perfect for me.

[@MrDannyd14]

Great video . Just subscribed but have being watching your vids for a while . I’ve never taken the plunge in bushcraft / wild camping as yet but this is a excellent video for those on a budget or people that are wise enough not to buy the expensive gear to use it once lol I’ve being there . Love the videos you do and look forward to more . Thanks mate

[@thomasmusso1147]

👍👍👍 .. Did similar some 12-odd years back. Exchanged the wife's existing SS Storage Canister Set (Tea, Coffee, Sugar, etc) for a Glass one .. she wanted a more fancy set anyway.. Made a Billy Pot for her, the two kids and myself. In addition, made an IKEA-style Cutlery Holder Hobo Stove to go with each. The Billy Pot nests nicely inside the Hobo Stove .. height adjustments taken care of using Steel Tent Pegs. Still in use and very useful at that. Thanks for sharing .. take care.

[@davidleasure9138]

Nicely done Neil. Very clear instructions and easy to follow. Thanks for sharing

[@BrosephRussell]

Very nice 👌

[@dhammo749]

Just what I was looking for ,was just about to buy a cook pot /stainless mug . Flipping awesome idea makes so much sense thanks so much on your clear tutorial.

[@krishoogstraat6866]

Neil this is a great project to do. Thank you for taking your time explaining each step. Nice job !

[@feralgrandad4429]

I work in a picture framing shop. I recon ive got most that already. Now just to find a Stainless pot............thanks for the tutorial.

[@jgbsweeper7325]

Excellent demonstration and instructions. Thanks for including the design improvements you have developed through use.

[@tinderboxsurvival6170]

Useful idea to pass on to people,thank you Neil.

[@utubeape]

If you don't have a rivetter then you can use bifurcated or split rivets and simply bend (hammer) the tabs out

[@louisestewart3678]

Thank you

[@derbyshirewalker]

Excellent project and so well explained….thank you.

[@liammalarky3483]

That was an excellent tutorial. So easy to follow.

[@larryeddings3185]

Excellent video, sir. Thanks for sharing.

[@MichaelR58]

Good video Neil , thanks for sharing , God bless !

[@jasoncalaz1476]

Nice. I did something similar 4 yrs ago I still have my original pot. I've mad a gift of one for a friend. There cheep and some to do. I used an old container with a lip around the top and some brake cable and some electrical connection blocks ( chocolate block) removed the plastic and they make a brilliant stow away handle for the pot.

[@tonynapoli5549]

Great video nice and easy thanks for sharing 👌

[@lansdorf]

Half expected a health an safety guy to jump out the bushes and arest you for anything he could think of. Great pot I've got the tools just need the pot now✌

[@gilesbinyon]

Great work Neil 👍

[@nutthrower4415]

Awesome project 👍

[@jimcy1319]

Did something similar a while back but used a wire bale from a small paint kettle, stronger and has a kink in the top center for hanging properly. Drain holes a good idea.👍

[@garyjohnson4608]

Great idea !!!

[@Aventure_Tourist]

Not badly done, not a bad idea.

[@ogrithetrog]

Great video Neil, when I drill holes in the sides of a pot, I place the open end over the end of a cut branch of slightly smaller diameter, putting the support right where it needs to be. Thank you for the reminder that I really ought to be doing a bit more fettling! Cheers

[@greencraft4783]

Hello Pete always great to hear from you mate. I know for a fact you are a top-notch fettler.....so get your finger out and get fettling;)))

[@thomasmusso1147]

👍 Good idea. I just used a 25x15 mm pinewood offcut. Trimmed to fit snugly inside the canister .. it formed a firm base against which to drill the sides without bending the pot.

[@BlackthornBushcraft]

I have a very similar pot great fun cheap and easy project.

[@Flashahol]

Well, now I need to make one! Right on point with the weight, that would be the lightest pot you can find...

[@ceri1796]

great video, I think we use the same make of tomahawk

[@steverose4639]

Superb as always Neil, little bit of KZbin Gold going on there me thinks, when you forgot what the pop rivets were called, Bless!

[@greencraft4783]

Thanks Steve, great to hear from you as always.

[@TheDavewatts]

Mad dog survival done one a while back out the same tea jar's, had a good idea for fitting the wire.👍

[@donaldschneider1705]

Well done

[@martystacey4429]

Clever👏👌👍

[@robthompson1399]

Nice one 👍 ill be on the hunt in charity shops etc.. I recon that bailcould be tougher. A bike spoke, a stainless tig rod, maybe a wire coat hanger ( but that could rust..)

[@thomasmusso1147]

Stainless Steel Bicycle Spokes make for very good bails. Bent properly, if required, they can be removed when not in use and stored inside the pot.

[@richardjackson7894]

ive also used stainless wall ties picked up from the mud on building sites....

[@earlshaner4441]

Hi from Syracuse NY USA

[@michaellong515]

Hi, what type of smock are you wearing? Looks great!

[@metted2745]

👍🏻

[@riddimchef1]

Knew a Nigel French once myself. Clacton boy 😊

[@MrMigido]

KISS Keep it simple son. figured as my pot already had the hole in the top, I'd simply do the second in the bottom. Looks odd and doesn't hold water. It has put two fires out so far. My question is; do you think if I put another handle on, will it double the load weight? ie carry two litres to compensate? ~ Thank you/long time subscriber. :)

[@jerrymacklow1452]

Nice! I have made a few, from charity shop tea/coffee etc containers. Very useful and next to no money. I tend to fill mine with useful cooking stuff.

[@deanmoriarty67]

You mean beans...!

[@afternoobtea914]

Stainless is good. Ive got al mine in titanium now but I also got all the others left so.

[@theduke998]

Great idea and vid Gonna have a go at knocking one of those up 😎👍 (Thanks for sharing)

[@AlanKRiley]

Fab

[@denofearthundertheeverlast5138]

So, why didn't you opt for a heavy wire coat hanger for the bail, I know they can be a little more difficult to bend the short ends that go into the pot, but the main bend you can wrap the hanger around the pot to get the shape

[@greencraft4783]

I can't remember the last time I saw a wire coat hanger!

[@jackvoss5841]

You wanted capacity up to the 1 liter ring. But the holes for the bail are beneath that ring. So capacity is less than 1 liter. I like your sources, and your mods. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying

[@Timberbeartrail]

I want to know where you get that shirt that you’re wearing gray one

[@greencraft4783]

The green smock?

[@MrOldclunker]

Just because it's stainless doesn't mean its food grade. Cooking food grade is different from cooking grade. Heavy metals can and will leach from cheap stainless. Good test is to put drinking water in the pot over night, if it tastes of metal the next day, it was leaching. Boiling is the true test and then taste.

[@manfredgrobel2068]

I have never seen anyone do mechanical work in the forest.

[@colmclaurin9452]

Mate I'd be very careful if I were you, and I wouldn't be doing this anyway, using my leg as a rest to drill on. If that drill slips off the S/S lid it'l twist into your duds before you can release the drill trigger. You have a main artery running up your leg just below the skin in that position. Those drills are small and very sharp to drill S/S and will cut into your leg before you have the reaction to release the trigger and you could looking at a very serious accident. Mate a very informative video, but please use a piece of wood as a rest. If your not near medical competent services and you cut into that main artery you will be in a lot of trouble as those arteries bleed like a garden hose when ruptured. Please believe me I've seen it all before, which is why I'm making this comment.

[@GavTatu]

ohhh bushpot.... not bush pot, got it now. the new larger one, you could prob fit an ikea twig stove in there, with a full kit.

[@jacksonteller1337]

The wire from a coat hanger the drycleaning branch uses is ideal for a bailing handle.

[@justsayin7704]

Please stop the blah, blah, blah in your video and get to the point.