Wet Weather Survival & Outdoorsmanship 2018

[@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival]

As always, good solid info in the video. Hope the misses has a quick and complete recovery.

[@BluestedSRT4]

Good to see your videos coming back this last month Lonnie and Connie.

[@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival]

Glad you enjoy the videos Bluested

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you very much :) She is OK and should be back in a week or two.

[@GAUROCH2]

Hi Lonnie...! Big hug from across the Great Pond!

[@newtubefag]

Next time you speak to your lovely wife, let her know we are all hoping for her speedy recovery.

[@shaverge]

my favorite youtube, positive energy, good knowledge and entertaining, thank you Sir

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thanks! :)

[@Shastavalleyoutdoorsman]

Well said, I agree.

[@miketaylor6700]

Lars, I love chaga!!! I showed my son all about it. So the next time he went into the backwoods, he collected a large piece and gifted it to me on my birthday!!! Best present ever!!

[@SurvivalRussia]

That's awesome :)

[@guns4funcajanajustin]

I wish your wife a speedy recovery. Great info. One great why to start a fire. Spin a bundle and let it combusted. I get fires started like that a lot. Chaga works wonders. See you on the next one

[@NorthernContrarian]

Everyone who watches this content on a regular basis, help Lars out and become a patron. Take the sum of one take away coffee and throw it his way instead.

[@kuningaboss]

Been watching and smashing like from ep1 love you! Cheers from Estonia💪

[@skjelm6363]

Lars The Fire-Wizard. I love the idea that all the times you make a fire from now on, you wear a nice "Spitzhut", while laughing wild and dance around the just started fire.

[@michaelcurtis4563]

Thanks Lars, I love visiting old campsites with you and the cordage trick is one of my favorites!

[@william_scott_mn1233]

This video was almost a trip down memory lane! How fitting just as you are getting to 100k. Congratulations!!!

[@MOOSEDOWNUNDER]

Fire making master class from the woodsman himself. Nice work Lars. ATB Moose

[@oxxnarrdflame8865]

Your woods in fall looks magical.

[@SurvivalRussia]

They kind of do actually :)

[@pitdahm1155]

You are a big inspiration! Keep it up Lars!!

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you :)

[@pitdahm1155]

You’re welcome!

[@kittymorse7402]

Good fire in a hurry. Tell the Pink Ninja Hello from Texas.

[@garyholman2947]

Simple and crystal clear explanation of fat wood !

[@tjsmyth321]

GAZ 71, can't wait to see you in the operator seat. Peace my friend.

[@YankeeWoodcraft]

100K subs...LONG overdue. You deserve a million Lars. And best wishes for Mrs. Survival Russia.

[@YankeeWoodcraft]

By the way, if that's spruce, spruce will take a spark even when drenched wet with water, but it also takes way more oxygen to ignite. It is however the only conifer that I've found that will take a spark when wet so it's a lifesaver.

[@johnganshow5536]

When you see Birch or Aspen trees, that means a cold winter. But you can't beat the fall colors they produce...

[@catman7153]

Based on your videos I ordered a Silky saw and just received it in the mail a couple of days ago. It is an awesome saw! Thanks for all of your work on educating us about outdoor survival. From a huge fan in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas...

[@thomasvannorden3876]

In New England its called Pine/Fir Pitch and Spruce Gum;which the old time Loggers actually chewed like gum. It freshens the breath,gives your jaw a work out and can rip the fillings out of ones teeth. Love your videos,much appreciated

[@LSSGuru]

What? Tell Mrs. Survival Russia to get well soon from the USA. Great video! Went out hunting Indian Arrow heads this weekend and made a Siberian Log Fire, AWESOME!

[@19ghost73]

Best wishes for a speedy recovery of your wife, Lars! ATB, Gereon (soon leaving off to Siberia)

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you and have a great trip Gereon! :)

[@MichaelR58]

Lars, always a pleasure, thanks for the instructional video and sharing / visiting with us !

[@chriscopeland1455]

for those needing help for southeast united states. we use fat wood from yellow jack pine, red cedar bark, and of course poplar spread the knowledge and again lars thanks for teaching us

[@jamesellsworth9673]

You have many new subscribers/viewers...so they may not know about 'fatwood.' Your 'feather stick demonstration is great because you show a method for carving off the ground during periods of snow cover.' Of course, the Siberian Log Fire Lay is always 'AWESOME.' It is a fine thing to be reminded of it as winter is, once again, approaching.

[@matooleyobrien2918]

LARS LOVE YOUR VIDEOS..PLEASE KEEP MAKING THEM. PURE 100% AWESOMENESS !!!

[@jamesfleming555]

Impressive! That was quite informative. I would not have believed that you could start the coarse Spruce twig bundle using a flint and steel. Well done!

[@bobbyrex4640]

youtube gonna send him a nice likkle package soon.well deserved .Quality channel atb

[@passthebreadsauce]

Hey Lars, thank you so much for continuing to do these techincal bushcraft videos. Many other of the "mainstream" bushcraft channels have drifted away from the essentials. I love that you revisit topics you may have already covered, especially for the newer viewers who havent been around, and likely wont go searching through your archive. As an aside, have you ever opted to use really fine curls from some split wood instead of the twig bundle? Whenever I do a char-cloth fire with flint and steel, or just the ferro rod, I choose to use dried grasses or fine curls, and it goes up incredibly quick, and THEN I use the twig bundle. I've found it incredibly easy and fool-proof.

[@germanredneck9019]

SLF is the best fire😍👍 Great job Lars! Greetings, GR🤘

[@lurveleggoutdoors9930]

Love the axe you use! Awesome vid, Lars.👍👍

[@3rednecknittygritty933]

Yup...chaga is some great stuff...multi purposed for fire and tea! Lights well with magnification as well....gets extremely hot!

[@victorcastle1840]

You are so right Lars, For those who do not know what Fat wood is . Pine trees are not native here in the US every where and not where I am in central Illinois. Neither do we have Birch trees. We do have other trees that are good to use the inner bark, but comes nowhere close to Birch bark or fat wood as far as starting with flint and steel.

[@tokoloshe42]

I put chaga in my coffee with lions mane. Great stuff man

[@Eric-ew8jt]

Thanks for the Saturday Video Lars my friend... Eleven species of tree can be found in the NWT. balsam poplar, black spruce, dwarf birch, jack pine, mountain alder, paper birch, subalpine fir, tamarack trembling aspen, white spruce, willows... More specifically in my area lodge poll Jack Pine and Paper Birch ....

[@comfyinnawoods4795]

I get 3-4 brews out of my chaga then dry them out to use for firestarting. Two uses!

[@bobbyfurr8780]

Awesome Lars. Keep doing what you do....

[@bigboyblue7181]

Totally Awesome Siberian Log Fire.

[@GAUROCH2]

...awesome Lars...! Thanks for sharing...!

[@MrStupidPixel]

Had a great tour and tried the Lockfire. It worked awsome. We had -3 degrees and still embers inside next morning. enough to start it up again. Thx a lot.

[@MuskratOutdoors]

Good job Lars. It has been a long time since I've started a fire with flint and steel. I used to do it a lot, but always used char cloth or a cotton rope tinder tube. After awhile, I realized that stuff is not found in the wild, you had to keep it dry same as matches, so why not just use matches? Mostly my "Flint and Steel" now is a lighter. I need to look into the Chaga tinder fungus more. I think we do have it here. This type of thing is never a waste to know how to do, and could save your life. Well done!

[@Schmidt54]

Spooky how fast the bugs are just... gone.

[@ikadan]

Still learning the art of birch barking. Today i got about an 15x20cm piece off a birch with no hitch. AND caught some fish while doing it. Today was awesome! (With mora kansbol)

[@SurvivalRussia]

That is awesome :) and the Kansbol is awesome too.

[@WayPointSurvival]

Very enjoyable! You are a master fire starter! Hope your wife gets better soon!

[@RobEvansWoodsman]

Thanks Lars for another excellent video, I tried the Chagga in a spruce bundle after I saw the original video and it worked really well.

[@kevins1114]

In my area, Spruce trees aren't common. We do have an abundance of Pines, so gathering Pine "gum" and fatwood are quite easy. I remember the old-timers telling of how they would use a mixture of fatwood and Oak for makeshift torches (or lanterns) on their boats while night fishing. They would put the wood in a wire basket hanging from a bent metal rod, which would be mounted either just in front of the boat's bow, or just behind its stern. That was done so embers wouldn't fall into the wooden boats.

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

99629 by next week you'll be over a hundred thousand congratulations my friend

[@alvinruble6939]

I can't wait till you break 100,000 subs. It will be awesome.

[@SurvivalRussia]

It will be interesting to see if there will be a positive change :)

[@alvinruble6939]

I hope so Lars. You deserve nothing but the best my friend. All the best from America. God bless you and yours.

[@sosteve9113]

I guess it want take long anymore

[@allengrant]

Congrats on getting to 100k. Awesome !!

[@richardturietta9455]

I especially loved the spin the bundle around on the end of a string bit.... excellent idea!

[@Durplepurple94572]

This is good to know! I was practicing earlier today with my Plash Pakatka and ridgelines.

[@johndouglass3691]

Pine needles are great tinder, although it may take a large quantity as they burn very quickly. There are lots of pines in most wilderness areas of North America

[@ronblackwell2238]

The natives in my region use a tyre, petrol and a lighter. Never fails. Good vidio, take care.

[@SurvivalRussia]

I like inner tube. Burns as hell :)

[@Tombombadillo999]

One small correction : chaga is not the same as the tinder fungus. The tinder fungus is called Fomes Fomentarius (or called amadou in some areas, or also called horse hoof mushroom). Chaga on the other hand is called Inonotus Obliquus, and while its used for tinder aswell, its also an edible (while the horse hoof fungus is not toxic but not very palatable) . The expensive one is chaga, as found mostly on birch bark (looks like a burnt, coal like texture , not really uniform), horse hoof fungus is found a bit all over europe.

[@MrWillyp00]

Birch bark and fatwood, lucky area.

[@chrisosh9574]

I have plenty of fat wood here in Spain from the pines but I haven't found anything like the chaka. In the UK the birch trees have a similar fungus but it's usually black, we call it King Alfred's cakes after the ancient king who burnt some cakes while hiding in a woman's hut from Vikings, the fungus will smoulder all day so you can carry fire with you if you need to. I have tried powdering the pine resin to see if that lights from a fire steel but so far no luck and in my part of Spain there are no flinty stones that will spark either.

[@sflotr]

One of your best videos. Thank you!

[@hervezaragoza5321]

Hello SR! Thank you for this new video full of very useful tips. Thanks again and blablabla... :)

[@hardtail52]

I can tell you why your Northface Jacket is so good it is probably not made in CHINA !

[@SurvivalRussia]

Certainly not :)

[@hugo3913]

Great Video Lars, you are Correct All Softwoods has Resin and it mainly consists of Terpenes Hardwoods has Gum and is mainly consists of leftover sugars. I am a 2nd Year Wood and Wood product science student at Stellenbosch University and live in South Africa. O yes you will be able to light that fire if you scrape off the char because the char is carbon and is a very bad thermal conductor and for wood to ignite you need to heat wood to above 103 Deg C for the volatile extractives to evaporate and produce flammable gas which will ignite and help to light the fire, ( wood spontaneously combusts at 250 Deg Celsius) that's why it will take very long for charred wood to burn on its own. Keep up the great videoes Love your Channel.

[@milcotto4153]

To make that flammable gas quickly, you can make a little 'room' with walls and a ceiling of split logs. Your put your firestarter on two logs forming a V- shape, and a third log resting on top of these two logs, partly diagonally across. Hard to explain without a photo :-) Two eyepads dipped in vegetable oil and ripped in two makes the gas quickly and those three logs, if dry wood, will burn all the way down to ashes. Very simple. I am doing this in my wood stove several times a day. I am usually using birch wood, but you can do it with hardwood too. You might need a couple more eyepads to succed with hardwood though.

[@einufo]

Chaga is awesome - and you can find it in Germany too! Greetings Tino

[@joshmcgechaen3003]

I hope the pink ninja didn't cause too much trouble! Awesome videos! I envy your lifestyle!

[@vikingbrowski3718]

poplar, or cedar bark broken down into fibers make good tinder.

[@lifeseeker9563]

that is why i love the SB log fire great video Lars loved it man ,,, hopefully i can get back to bicycle touring after that pickup hit me doing 60 wish i was filming at the time 2 more weeks or 3 and i should be healed up i hope best of luck to the misses : ))

[@SurvivalRussia]

For a full and speedy recovery!! :)

[@salladnothing2346]

I totally agree about goretex, I really believe that certain goretex really performs well, but a lot of it is like plastic bag feel/sound and moisture... I have a north face goretex with goose down, absolutely huge zipper vents keep it totally dry as needed. Totally warm in -30f windchill. It's going down to -20 or so windchill and going to be 60 mph wind this weekend in ohio. I'm excited to try some new gear and cook by the fire in the storm.

[@jimf1964]

A lot of people aren't aware that gore Tex only works as well as the outer shell. The inside gore membrane cannot pass moisture from the body to the outside, of the nylon or polyester outer layer of jacket is too dirty, or if during rain it becomes "wetted" and water stops rolling off like a newly waxed car. Simply, the vapour will pass through the goretex, but then has no where to go if it can't pass through the nylon. This may be why you like your North Face jacket so much. Perhaps it has a superior putter layer. Also many coats people think are goretex are not, they're a cheaper copy. I've been looking for Chaga on and off for years. Never seem to be able to find it. I will someday though!

[@paupersperegrination8665]

Loved the video, going to have to go out and collect some fat wood, haven`t done it in a while because there are a lot of birch where I live and it is so quick to gather when walking the dog.

[@NaNa-tg7tg]

"Clicking of the Predator". LOL awesome vids SR!

[@Miohunter444]

Great video Lars!!

[@jiffywartbustle2348]

Great video! So close to 100K - pre-emptive congratulations, its been a slow but steady climb and very well deserved!

[@thenextpoetician6328]

Another informative video. Enjoying the progression in the channel from the beginning. An FYI that Chaga protects live Birch, so care must be taken when harvesting not to expose the Birch wood. I haven't tried Chaga from dead Birch for fire starter material, though I suspect it would work if it's not too far gone.

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you! Chaga actually kills the tree.

[@thenextpoetician6328]

@@SurvivalRussia Now I'm curious what herbalist in my research spoke of chaga as closing over tree wounds. However it is parasitic to the tree. Always learning.

[@bushcraftnorthof6012]

Good stuff, as always. Glad you can still make videos who’ll Mrs. Survival Russia is away. Take care.

[@MadDogSurvival]

Nicely demonstrated as always brother! Hope your wife is on the mend!! Best wishes friend 👍🏽👍🏽😎

[@kcraig51]

What?!? No Birch bark? Just kidding, I'm one of those that stay on you about Birch bark. I guess it's Birch envy! Keep making the great videos.

[@davidelton6250]

keep it going think you channel is cool i like you mini trak can't waite till you get the bigger one i've built buggys but there no were to run then in the flordia swamp i'm a commercal cat fisher man and a suavilist so keep it going every body knows it all thanks catfish

[@iametoh]

Excellent demonstration Lars, it’s always excellent actually ^^

[@rickcraft4345]

In the American South we use the stumps of old pine trees and call it fat lighter

[@Reaper4367]

I promised.. now i support you on patreon cobber. Love your work :)

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you for that Reaper :)

[@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival]

Here probably is the video link you may be looking for. Wild Forest Overnight And How To Shelter a Fire From Rain kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKesinuqq7GbftE

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you Lonnie :) It seems like everybody but me can find that video.

[@YllwNinja82]

Red Pine Needles work well for fire even when it's wet

[@FawnandEvon]

Yup! Time for wet weather, thanks for the tips. I generally have lots of bic lighters tho😂

[@MartinPriroda]

Noo perfektné video, krásny buschkraft deň. Nádhera Survival Russia. Len tak dalej!

[@tinkmarshino]

only those that do not go outdoors do not know what fatwood is nor where to find it.. I really do not think it will help these people in the long run.. Not that I am the smartest nor the best trained but I have spent a lot of my free time over the last 50 years outdoors and camping deep in the woods.. (and I never once thought of using dried tree fungus like that chaga for a fire starter moss how ever I did use..) I enjoyed this video very much.. I find it curious the different techniques used buy folks in other countries but what is most amazing is the similarities.. Carry on.. and continue to enjoy the outdoors...

[@ImixSpb]

That rotating bundle, strapped to a rope, is a bit like mad jet Crow )))

[@normanscout1148]

Very informative video useful tips thanks for sharing ♠️

[@jidduv]

I keep watching your videos and I hate the outdoors. Thank you.

[@observationpostcharlie1365]

Very awsome my freind

[@shadowcastre]

AWESOME Lars!! No BS... just the real deal! We have some birch here but I have yet to find any Chaga on it. Instead Horse Hoof fungus grows on the birch by the bucket load. It has similiar fire starting properties. I don't know if it's medicinal. Btw.. Chaga sells here for $50 per pound. Thanks for the video..

[@OregonMike]

Lars, don't they know that you are the Blue North Face Ninja?

[@SurvivalRussia]

That's me :)

[@Tombombadillo999]

Great channel!

[@shawnstone4949]

Went out and found some fatwood yesterday!!! Saving some $$$ for a Silky Accel 240.. thanks so much for what you do, I’ve learned a ton. As soon as I’m able I’ll donate to the channel....did you ever get my tip for keeping your lens dry in the rain???

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thanks Lars .

[@johnlord8337]

Good one.

[@REAPERMILITIAOUTDOORS]

That was definitely awesome I need to scavenge some chaga.

[@lllPlatinumlll]

That is where I first saw you making that woodsmans bed. Thought you were homeless that was not so awesome.

[@RobertsBulgaria]

Considering your restrictions due to your Wife having broken her arm and being a long way away in Moscow, I thought this clip to be a very useful and interesting instructional video HOWEVER, I did not hear you say where CHALGA is harvested from and actually what it is!! I might have missed it OR, you might well have edited it out or overlooked that part. I have a fungus growing on old Willow trees, I know it is not Chalga as such, but will take a spark and I discovered it when a local Bulgarian told me that he uses it to smoke his Bees. Only other natural tinder I have at the moment are Thistles and Bulrushes neither of which are a lot of use when like now, it is peeing down with rain for two days. I do know where there are some pines near another village so will go one day and seek out some fatwood until then, I'll stick with my firelighters as they're quick and almost fail proof unless exposed for too long outside of their packing.

[@explorationmoss1015]

It grows on birch trees, most likely in Bulgaria too.

[@RobertsBulgaria]

Like I didn't know!! It wasn't for my benefit and we don't have that many Birch Trees here in Bulgaria.

[@ronnielewis2010]

Thanks for the tips Lars ole wizard of Russia lol.

[@wdcsucks1]

got to be carefull that fire starting bundle swinging does´nt get loose and flies into the forst :))

[@craigford7828]

Lars we in Canada have very cold winter's too in Western Canada there are deer and hogs I don't know if the cold really effect s the animals that much

[@huskybeaver6051]

Need to use and trademark that Boom at 1224 😂