3 days bushcraft trip - making primitive shelter, drying meat, baking bread, homemade axe etc.

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Solo bushcraft trip. Making a primitive A-frame shelter. drying meat and baking bread, building a fire reflector, walkabout looking for antlers etc. Open the full video description for more information. ---------------------------- Date: April 2025 Day: 10°C (50°F) Night: 0°C (32°F) Hours of daylight = 13 Location: Scandinavia, west Denmark - sea, spruce/pine and hardwood forrest. Some of the most remote in Denmark, but limited how remote it can get. A lot of birds and deers etc. No bears, only a few wolves. _________________ Consuming: Water and spruce tea. Pork/pig cooked in coals. Pork/pig dried/smoked with salt. Bread baked in coals (water, yeast, flower) _________________ A few questions: 1. Is the shelter water proof? No - moss is only good enough if you expected relative dry weather. 2. What type of axe are you using? Karelian axe. Homemade - C45 steel and ash handle. 900 grams (including the handle), 8cm cutting edge, 60cm handle, 16.5cm from pole to cutting edge. 3. What type of knife are you using? A classic nordic knife, offen referred to by the finnish name "Puukko". Homemade - spring steel and birch burl handle. Here is how I made it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKF7oDsugYc&t=713s 4. How long does it take to cook a stake on the coals like that? 1-3 minutes on each side. The coals need to be quite hot - the meat juices will cool down the coals. 5. How long does it take to bake bread in the goals like that? 3-5 minutes on each side. The coals need to be relatively cold or the bread surface will burn before the center of the bread is done. 6. Why do you sometimes hit with the side of the axe instead of the poll? Keeps the cutting edge away from you're face and the larger surface area makes you less likely to miss. I usually only use the side of the axe in the beginning (when things can be unstable and or I don't need to hit hard). 7. What is you're kuksa/drinking cop made from? Birch burl. Homemade. 8. Can I buy an axe, knife etc. from you? No. 9. Who made the cooking pot? It is a modified 2L Pathfinder Bushpot. Only the handle is homemade. 10. Do you hunt? No - all food is from a local store. I only fish and gather mushrooms. 11. How long was the trip? And how did you get there? Two weeks. This was my second campsite on the trip and my second video made on the trip. Here is the first video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzUrWaldNys I did get there by train and cargo bike (SCO Short John from 1960's). I did also meet up with DonVonGun and we did an overnight trip together and he recorded it. Here is DonVonGun's video from the trip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxM48Zt1y3Q 12. Why make the wall next to the fire? Protects the fire from wind and reflects/light In this case mainly for smoking/drying the meat. 13. What did you use for making the fire? Ferro rod and dry grass. 14. What bird was it in the tree? A Black Woodpecker working on a nest/home for mating. 15. From what animal was the antlers? Red deer. 16. Can you twist all branches into rope like that? Yes. Need to be green. Heat from the fire makes it easier to twist. 17. What roots do you use as cord? Spruce roots. Relatively strong and flexible when fresh/wet. 18. How long did it take to smoke/dry the meat? Why not add branches to the tripod? About 6 hours. I did let the fire be quite hot to speed up the proceess. I didn't add branches to the tripod (for trapping smoke and keeping flyes away) because it is early spring, too early for flyes and leafs on trees. 19. What will the next few videos be about? A short video about my cargo bike, one or two bushcraft trips in Denmark and when a long bushcraft trip in Sapmi. 20. What if I want to do the same but it is illegal on public land in my country Ask land owner for permission, buy land or travel to another country. 21. What if I have a question that is not included in this video description? Consider leaving a comment - I read all comments made within the first few days of a new uploade. _________________ Some of the gear used in the video: Tarp = Tschum Cuting tools = homemade Boots = Lundhags Forest Pants = Bläklader (unknown model) Sweater = handmade by local (not selling) Backpack = Eberlestock Mainframe f1 Sleeping bag = Carinthia Defence 4 Cooking pot = modified Pathfinder Bushpot 2L Raindeer skin = unknown, from Sapmi _________________ Video gear: Nikon Z30 Nikon 40mm 2 Nikon 50-250mm 4.5-6.3 Røde videomic NTG Macbook 2011 iMovie