This is a much more thoughtful video than 90% of "shopping list" survivalist videos out there. When things get tough one will need 2 things that cannot be bought, but can only be earned - mental fortitude & knowledge - everything else is just bonus accessory. That being said, I do spend time to study the area beforehand, so as to form a mental map of where the roads and key landscape peaks are. The setup that you've demonstrated is pretty good and it's what I usually carry on a belt during any daytrip in the woods: 1) a steel flask pouch with nik-nak sidepockets, and 2) an emergency pouch (my interpretation of Lofty Wiseman's pouch) in case I get lost and have to spend the night. For food you want to think max calories for minimal weight and volume: peanut butter, oat cakes and Snickers. I throw a beef jerky in there too. I would add a Kochanski scarf (instead of second bin bag), Shemagh, bug-net, wet wipes, baby powder, dental floss, sawing needle, potassium permarganate, Map, Notebook+pencil, Altoids box and a radio with GPS (mine's Radtel 490). I also carry a multitool (or SAK) and small monocle.
I agree sir I keep a small kit in my car for accidents or weather issues only what I need to get home no tents or sleeping bags just some coast guard bars some fire starter kit water purification and a usgi poncho a saw first aid and a extra knife
Man, that was absolutely a premium quality kit. I guess if you can afford it . . . more power to you. You did a great job explaining the need for every piece. Thanks.
What you say at the start is good stuff. It's the truth. With enough willpower and intestinal fortitude, a human being is quite amazing. Most don't have it though and normal it's the guys who think they have the most of it. Just from what I have witness. I was with 3/7 Cav in OIF I and III. As a scout, we were often alone and always brought food in our pack. Idgaf what these yahoo's on youtube say, you need the calories to be productive and you need to be productive to accomplish whatever task is in front of you. It also helps morale which is a critically overlooked aspect of surviving anything long term. Thanks for the video brother.
Very capable and great use of space. I like the shock cord in the grommets, and the hanks of #36 and #18 at the ready. With all that survival blanket and a controllable stove you can really contain some heat. Nice job.
As a retired military survival instructor, I would say that you have a pretty nice set up there. The 'purists' are going to say that you don't need food - given that, in theory, you can survive three weeks without it. But I think that the benefits to morale and your ability to be able to 'stop' and 'assess', when you're in the 'panic' period, justify the addition of a lightweight brew kit/ food bag. You start to own your environment when you're sat down eating and drinking in it! Thanks for showing.
+Fin thank you for the great feedback and for watching. I agree, it's just too easy to bring some small trail food or snacks with you every time you go out.
James Ritchie remember, this is what I carry during "day hikes" in a wildlife preserve not even an hour from my vehicle. We all have our opinions and what works for each of us is different is all I will say.
Thank you for watching. I guess you missed me saying and also typing in the comments above this that I carry something similar to this kit on day hikes in a wildlife preserve/core land area with access to my vehicle. My whole point of the video was stating most of us are never in a SURVIVAL situation, we are on a hike or glamorous camping trip. And I have never met anyone who’s navigation skills are so bad that they get lost taking a dump haha, that might be a more important skill to work on than stuffing your cargo pants haha. Thanks and have a good one.
I found it interesting that military survival kits often seem to have chocolate in them, well my brother got the time record for the full length of the Australian Alpine Walking Track and after about 7 days in he only asked for an emergency resupply of 2 things, his sport sandals (since he had rolled his ankles 3 times and had so many blisters which were getting infected which caused more swelling and more blisters etc) and chocolate...he never ate chocolate, he never ate junk food, but in all his pain and struggle alone for days in the wilderness he had a weird insufferable craving for chocolate 🤷🏻♂️
Good job with the kit, and the humor with all the distractions! I would save space with the gorilla tape by rolling it on the lighter. You may have it’s on your edc, but I would add an emergency whistle, you may be temporarily disabled and it would help SAR find you.
Looks like you have a very good setup. Liked the G2 tool roll so much. Looked for one. Wow it is pricey. Your food is a good idea. Harder to collect food than people think. Plus as you said there is the comfort factor.
Nice kit! Well thought out.im thinking of getting the heavy cover canteen and mother carrier from center line systems. That plus what I carry on my belt and in my pockets covers most of what I need. So I should be able to make a good comprehensive kit. You've given me plenty to think about!
That is a good kit you have set up. I have something like your canteen and carrier. I have put pretty much like yours but no tarp do have trash bags. Really like the canteen and carrier it's great for going for a long walk or fishing a brook. I was wondering why I hadn't seen you I didn't ring your bell.
Good stuff. New to your channel. Enjoy it. One thing I might add that I carry with me at all times is a folding saw. They come in various sizes so I think u could get one to fit. I've found them invaluable. Good video and keep em coming.
Thanks for watching! And absolutely, always carry a folding saw but that is not my normal kit, it was an emergency/survival situation kit where conserving calories would be paramount so sawing wood would not be priority. Would be breaking it between two trees or just let the fire cut up larger pieces
Really nice set up! Always smart to keep some food on hand. Forget those who say you can go weeks without food! I say "try it!". After a few days without food you'd be too weak to get yourself out of there.
That's a very nice and well thought out kit you put together. I made up a kit to keep in the vehicle for day walks or just fixing a meal when checking out a new area and the backpack is at home. It's a emergency kit using the Stanley Cook Kit to keep in my vehicle. Using a Condor H20 pouch. Starting at the bottom of the of the pouch there is a Oilcamp Stainless Steel Space Saver Cup. Then the Stanley Adventure Cook Camp System which fits ( sits ) inside the cup. The tapered sides of the Stanley Camp Cook kit fits inside the cup like it was made for it. Along the outside of the Stanley is a long handled Titanium spoon. Inside the Stanley is the Gen2 Folding Firebox Nano Ultralight Backpacking 3" Stove. On top of the Stanley is a Trangia Alcohol burner so I can cook with either alcohol or wood. The outside pocket of the Condor has a plastic ( Flask shaped ) 8 oz bottle which has the Denatured Alcohol for the Trangia. Next to it is a fero rod for lighting the burner or starting a fire. Folded next to the fero rod is a bandana which can be used if the handles of either pot gets to hot for a bare hand to touch. A few months later I added two canteen pouches one on each side of the Condor H20 pouch. One pouch has a Nalgene canteen in it and the other pouch has a couple dehydrated meals. Thanks to using a wood fire the Stanley has a nice blacken bottom and sides which I think helps it to heat up quicker.
I am with you and agree on your comments BB. You hit the nail on the head about "survival" situations. I do my "training prep" at home but it is far from any actual experience as you say. I fly very often and frequently for my work up North of the 50th and 60th parallel into remote fly-in First Nations Communities on smaller planes up to a Cargo plane, and each flight I am prepared with a small survival kit with me, but would rely on the kit in the plane or anything from the plane in an actual "survival" situation. Great video and I subbed to your channel. Cheers Fred
just got the Gear Roll 2. have it the same way attached to the bottom of the Mother. works pretty well. it came with its own lashing kit to buckle it to the Canteen. i have the G1 also i use it with my tent set up in another bag. put tent stacks and 550 ect... they make really good gear... i like watching videos on gear i have to c if there is a better way to set up my kit. sometimes its the little things.
+D Travs thanks for watching! Yea I'm guessing since I got mine used the buckle kit stayed with them lol. Thank you for the feedback and great uses for the gear!!
I like a lot. I kayak camp and have been struggling with size and weight. it needs to fit into my kayak. not outside. this looks like it may work. lLike most Cost is a bit prohibitive. I agree with your thoughts. we get carried away with the survival stuff. I have bought a number of bags only to discover they are all about the same size and land up repeating or adding when I'm trying to go less. lol.....the bleeps were funny. love those plans. I really don't notice them on the video.another great video. 2CG
I watch a lot of survival kit videos and yours is about exactly what I would use except I like to put in a protein bar. Don't have to cook it and if I get a little hungry just eat it.
Survivalism to me has so much involved. A lifetime endeavour in learning primitive skills, human phsycology, tactics, first aid knowledge, and combat. An aboriginal warrior tribesman with the ability to adapt to technology and cultural climate. Good at everything, perfect at nothing. But still be that regular old guy at the family bbq.
I agree and all the while, the one thing none of us will know we have or not despite all that training, is the actual will to survive. Like coaches will say he has heart, you can’t coach that
@@TheBeardedBurton Absolutely! There are alot of people with no training, no knowledge, that were trapped in unexpected situations completely unprepared that were able to survive their ordeal just because of their strong will to survive and never give up.
Addition . . . . I'll share this with you since you seem like a serious guy who's thought about this a lot. The technique taught in most survival schools is REACTIVE. They advise you to stop-think-plan when you realize you're lost. But there's actually a much better way that's PROACTIVE. What you want to do before going anywhere is to conduct a good map and photo recon of the area. Specifically, look for a "boundary" around where you're going. So, say you're going into a national park. You'd look for the paved roads that ring the area you'll be in. Those roads form the sides of the sandbox you're going to be playing in. Next, determine your easiest "escape azimuths." So, for example, you look at where you're going and you determine that if you're lost, you can head North and hit a road within 3-4 miles (or maybe it's 5 or 10 miles. . . . the point is that there is an escape). Now . . . . you also have to know what to do once you get to the road . . . . but just by getting to it, you've reduced your risk substantially. Even today, with all the radio, GPS and phone tech bullshit, whenever I go anywhere, I do a good map recon, then I look at the area on Google. I figure out my linear boundaries and all my escape azimuths. Then I draw it from memory, check it . . . . and if it's not perfect . . . I do it again. I keep doing that until I have it. Then that drawing goes into a plastic bag and it goes in my pocket. That's just one simple technique. The PRINCIPLE is to be proactive, not reactive. Change your mindset and you'll never be lost. At most you'll just have farther to walk than you planned. :-)
not a bad kit overall. Id almost suggest sos food bars in place of the oatmeal. it would get you more calories for the space and they also have a long shelf life but you would need to repackage to fit this kit better using only half of the bars in a package. I agree that adding some comfort items will help you get through mentally. I do think your first aid is lacking. you could almost reconfigure where you keep all your little bits of paracord and use one of the canteen carrier pockets for a good first aid. and I dont mean boo-boo kit. I gotta say though that your intro talking about how we all make survival kits but never need to. its a mind set more then anything. "prepare for the worst, hope for the best." when you go out hiking or cycling or something you dont intend to or expect to be stranded but you could slip down a hill and break a leg, or get impaled on a tree branch or your own bike and that is where the kit comes in. urban EDC Survival kits are in case the weather goes to shit and you have a twister rip through town while you are at work. or flash flooding or riots in the streets that cut you off from home. yea we hope it dosent happen (well maybe sometimes) again prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
I wonder if swapping out the 3 mil garbage bag which you plan to use as a bivvy with the SOL escape ‘breathable’ bivvy would be similarly light but wouldn’t soak your clothes with sweat as much, although you would only need it if it’s really cold I guess. Also potentially a clear 3 mil garbage bag for a duff sleeping pad since it would also work a bit better in summer as a ‘transpiration’ bag around tree branches to get water and maybe even purify water with UV light since these would be higher priorities in summer than use as a sleeping pad in winter?🤔
Thanks for the great video and ideas. I love The Mother and Gear Roll!! You found your used? I figured they would never be on the secondary…lucky dude!!
Hey I just came across your channel. I like your setup. I did want to give you a heads-up on caffeine. While it is good for staying awake I would not consider it a source of hydration. Caffeine interrupts the enzyme in your body that makes your body recycle water. Once interrupted you will start to need to urinate and will loose water. Peace everyone!
I am in i have similar set up ... i used the canadian jam knot to attach a wilderness innovations poncho / hammock to the bottom of the mother kit also i put a sol thick survival blanket in there . its a sweet kit for sure
Very nice. I like that G roll a lot.. but the price made me hesitate a bit. For the record.. plans do not bother me.. but your reaction made me laugh. lol Thanks for the video
+jeff pike thank you for watching! I got it from a Facebook patch group, there were very few made of this design but Malcolm at TheHiddenWoodsmen has similar ones available.
Can you let me know where you got the smoking rabbit patch. Awesome video and info . I just bought the entire kit and going to try your load out Thanks for your great videos and love the music
+Kevin Sumner so that patch was made by a guy for a morale patch FB group and are very rare and limited, took me forever to find the full set of 4. You will be very happy with that setup! Let me know what adjustments you make to your loadout! Thanks for watching and leaving the kind words!
Great video, very helpful! Have you tried carrying the Mother inside a day or backpack or is it best suited on its own? Same question for the Gear Roll although it appears to be a good fit inside any pack.
+John Macri thank you, thanks for watching! I carry it all the time inside a day pack, I just remove the shoulder strap. Makes an easy way to organize gear too. I would assume yes the gear roll would work great also, have not tried it yet though.
Hey there - I like your video. Won't be buying this gear because I think it's grossly over-priced but I'll certainly steal some of the basic ideas and make or buy some substitutes. :-) As far as survival . . . . A lot of that has to do on your personal physical condition, the weather and the terrain. For example, I can carry Equipment List #1 for a hike in the nearby state park. (A canteen, band aids, extra pair of glasses and a lighter. Small Mora.) The park has nicely maintained trails, you're never more than 30 min from your car and there's actually a hospital right next door! I can also carry Equipment List #1 on sections of the Appalachian Trail that run nearby and it works fine most of the time. But let's say I get cocky and decide to get off the AT and climb a rocky hill that's a mile off-trail. Just as I make it to the top, rocks give way, I fall 4-5 feet and I break an ankle. Oh, and it's late October. sun will set soon and temps in the mountain tonight will be in the mid-30s. And there's no phone service. At this point, all anyone knows is that I'm "hiking on the AT." No one knows exactly where and they certainly don't know that I went off trail. I'm going to be spending the night. Maybe more if I need to crawl out. I'll survive but it's going to really suck. If it rains or snows I may end up as a cold weather casualty. Best thing is to always base equipment not just on the time spent outdoors . . . . but also on the RISK . . . . Low Risk, versus High Risk. A walk in a state park with a car nearby . . . . Low Risk. Car camping where I bring plenty of food and water . . . . Low Risk. A trek into the back country . . . . even if it's just for 2-3 hours . . . . HIGH RISK. Plan accordingly. The length of the adventure ("day hike" versus "overnight" versus "weekend camping trip" . . . . only tells you how much food and water to carry, how much comfort shelter to bring, etc. But the RISK FACTOR is a totally different assessment. So yeah, you may just be going out for a day hike in the mountains . . . . but you should pack a sleeping bag and a tarp anyway.
Love that patch of a rabbit smoking a pipe! That is a great patch to keep on a survival kit. On the back of that patch is there a lynx stalking him? If those ever go on sale I'd love to place an order.
Good kit, Jon. I find it handy to go ahead and roll my contractor bags tight and then bind them with a bit of tape. Then I can move them from kit to kit without messing with them getting unruly. Where did you get your bunny pipe patch btw?
+Countryham thank you for watching! I've tried taping before and it only took me ripping a bag once pulling of the tape to stop. That patch is a custom one made for a group, a rare jewel lol
Use the blue painter's tape. It's sticky enough to keep things together, but doesn't actually "bind" to whatever you're taping. You can pull it off easy. Thanks for the patch info. You doing PFG this year?
So now that you have spent some time in Alaska and had some training in remote Wilderness first aid and rescue. Would you change anything in your kit and if so maybe do another video. An unexpected night out depends on who you really are.....as in if your a city person, this is a horrible event with lots of mosquitoes and no WiFi or coffee shops. Someone that is comfortable in the forest and carries a simple kit, well this can be a nice peaceful night out if the bugs aren’t to bad and you get to sit by a fire and think about what you did wrong. I think the only thing I would add to that kit is some bug repellent and a head net.
That’s a really good question, an awesome one actually. I do think this kit would change now that I’ve been through those things and an updated video would be needed. Thank you for watching and I’ll add it to the list of ideas and get a video done! Oh and I agree about the bug spray depending on where you are, up in Alaska heck yea but here in Texas I would spend a good hour or so soaking up smoke from a fire and that generally does well enough for me
Well thought out. Thanks for sharing. I use a small kit which I will upload soon. My vid on. Nam Style buttpack mods carries about the same load. I like your kit. My channel is kurt Baier.
WOW, the mother canteen carrier is pricey. $200 for Mother Canteen Carrier and G-2 gear roll. My full size back pack didn't cost that much. Granted ,I bought it longer ago than I would like to admit.
It’s all based on demand, these are hand made and patented I believe, with all USA sourced materials or as much as possible and carry lifetime warranties. So buy once and cry once.
Three hundred people go missing each year in Alaska alone. Another four hundred go missing in the continental United States. Many who aren't counted as missing because there's no one to miss them also either get into very real survival situations, or are simply never found, when and if someone ever misses them. But you're wrong about rules and guidelines. There are rues, and there are guidelines, that greatly increase your chances of getting home alive. This true in the wilderness, and it's equally true in the military. Civilian or military, training s all about rules and guidelines that you automatically fall back on when you get into trouble. And it is automatic, if you're trained as well as you should be. Your saw is NOT a luxury item. If you don't have all three cutting tools that make up the "Holy Trinity" of any woodsman, a knife, a saw, and an axe blade, you have not had the training you need, or the knowledge you should have, to make it through any real survival situation. You should have at least three knives. You should have at least three knives, your main sheath knife, a backup sheath knife, and a pocketknife designed for the woods, which means either a Stockman with three blades, or a Hunter with two. For carving, no better single small knife exists that the Stockman. And decent saw will do. I think a Silky is higher quality than a Bahco, but both are fine. If you're really going deep, though, away from main trails, or any trails, you need a folding bow saw. The axe blade can be a hatchet, a well-designed tomahawk, which means not a pretty toy that beginners buy to throw, or it can be a camp axe, or a full-size axe. I carry a tomahawk because I've found it to be capable of doing the work of a hatchet, or of a knife. But whatever your choice, an axe blade is NOT a luxury either. The 5 C's do not mean one of each thing. Two is one, one is none. With blades, five is one, fewer is none. Think your knife can do anything, including batoning> Batoning is always silly, and never necessary, but let's assume that's how you do things. Three of the most common injuries in the wild are broken arms, badly burned hands, and badly lacerated hands. These things can happen to anyone. Try batoning with one hand. Trying doing almost anything with a knife using just one hand. Anything. People babble about a one tool option, but a one TOOL option is not what people need. What they need Is a one HAND option, and this means a saw and an axe blade. Together, these allow you to do everything that needs done with only one hand. Training must reflect this, and so should the gear you carry. Spend three days in the woods with one arm in a sling, and then tell me a saw and an axe blade are luxuries. Nor is a tomahawk difficult to carry. Slide the handle into your pack, and put the head on your belt where you'll have it no matter what. You can always whittle a new handle, ir you lose your pack, or have it stolen, which happens remarkably often, even in deep wilderness. Do the same thing with your leg in a splint. You get one day of food, and one day of water, but you need to spent seventy two hours there. Now go into the woods with nothing except a knife and the clothes on your back. Spend a week, though you'll know by the end of day two, at the latest, whether you have the training you need. You need fire and shelter by the end of day one, water before the end of day two, and food by the end of day three. If you don't have these things, you may not survive a real emergency situation. Gear matters, and you should always have the basics, except when training, and training should be supervised by someone who knows what they're doing. But as important as the right gear is, all the rigt gear, it's the rules and guidelines you pick up during real, serious training that will get you home. Everything should be on autopilot. Then, and only then, can you adapt and improvise wisely, according to the situation. People get into real survival situations with remarkable regularity, but most such cases don't make the news. People who know what they're doing, who have the right gear nd the right training, often get themselves out of trouble before it's time to call search and rescue. But the situation is just as real, and without the right training and gear, that person might well have died. Even most search and rescue operations don't make the news unless the situation drags on for a long, long time or ends in an above average tragedy. The wilderness is a dangerous place. People die there. People vanish there. I don't like playing the odds with my life, even if those odds are in my favor, but in the wilderness, disaster can happen to anyone, at any moment. I was once following a trail that was so old animals and Native Americans had worn a path down into the rock itself. But when I followed it along a ledge, the entire ledge picked that moment to collapse. I was incredibly lucky and wasn't seriously injured, but I could have been killed or disabled. I still don't see how I managed to avoid serious injury.
This is a much more thoughtful video than 90% of "shopping list" survivalist videos out there. When things get tough one will need 2 things that cannot be bought, but can only be earned - mental fortitude & knowledge - everything else is just bonus accessory. That being said, I do spend time to study the area beforehand, so as to form a mental map of where the roads and key landscape peaks are.
The setup that you've demonstrated is pretty good and it's what I usually carry on a belt during any daytrip in the woods:
1) a steel flask pouch with nik-nak sidepockets, and
2) an emergency pouch (my interpretation of Lofty Wiseman's pouch) in case I get lost and have to spend the night.
For food you want to think max calories for minimal weight and volume: peanut butter, oat cakes and Snickers. I throw a beef jerky in there too.
I would add a Kochanski scarf (instead of second bin bag), Shemagh, bug-net, wet wipes, baby powder, dental floss, sawing needle, potassium permarganate, Map, Notebook+pencil, Altoids box and a radio with GPS (mine's Radtel 490). I also carry a multitool (or SAK) and small monocle.
I agree sir I keep a small kit in my car for accidents or weather issues only what I need to get home no tents or sleeping bags just some coast guard bars some fire starter kit water purification and a usgi poncho a saw first aid and a extra knife
Man, that was absolutely a premium quality kit. I guess if you can afford it . . . more power to you. You did a great job explaining the need for every piece. Thanks.
Thank you for watching and yes everything is relative to what you can afford
What you say at the start is good stuff. It's the truth. With enough willpower and intestinal fortitude, a human being is quite amazing. Most don't have it though and normal it's the guys who think they have the most of it. Just from what I have witness.
I was with 3/7 Cav in OIF I and III. As a scout, we were often alone and always brought food in our pack. Idgaf what these yahoo's on youtube say, you need the calories to be productive and you need to be productive to accomplish whatever task is in front of you. It also helps morale which is a critically overlooked aspect of surviving anything long term.
Thanks for the video brother.
Very capable and great use of space. I like the shock cord in the grommets, and the hanks of #36 and #18 at the ready. With all that survival blanket and a controllable stove you can really contain some heat.
Nice job.
Thanks a lot! It’s a really functional load out!
As a retired military survival instructor, I would say that you have a pretty nice set up there.
The 'purists' are going to say that you don't need food - given that, in theory, you can survive three weeks without it. But I think that the benefits to morale and your ability to be able to 'stop' and 'assess', when you're in the 'panic' period, justify the addition of a lightweight brew kit/ food bag. You start to own your environment when you're sat down eating and drinking in it!
Thanks for showing.
+Fin thank you for the great feedback and for watching. I agree, it's just too easy to bring some small trail food or snacks with you every time you go out.
Which will help nothing in a real emergency.
James Ritchie remember, this is what I carry during "day hikes" in a wildlife preserve not even an hour from my vehicle.
We all have our opinions and what works for each of us is different is all I will say.
Thank you for watching.
I guess you missed me saying and also typing in the comments above this that I carry something similar to this kit on day hikes in a wildlife preserve/core land area with access to my vehicle. My whole point of the video was stating most of us are never in a SURVIVAL situation, we are on a hike or glamorous camping trip.
And I have never met anyone who’s navigation skills are so bad that they get lost taking a dump haha, that might be a more important skill to work on than stuffing your cargo pants haha.
Thanks and have a good one.
I found it interesting that military survival kits often seem to have chocolate in them, well my brother got the time record for the full length of the Australian Alpine Walking Track and after about 7 days in he only asked for an emergency resupply of 2 things, his sport sandals (since he had rolled his ankles 3 times and had so many blisters which were getting infected which caused more swelling and more blisters etc) and chocolate...he never ate chocolate, he never ate junk food, but in all his pain and struggle alone for days in the wilderness he had a weird insufferable craving for chocolate 🤷🏻♂️
Great idea for a minimalist kit! Added a GRoll to my mother kit/canteen too. The video was very timely! Keep up to great info & video!!
+Larry Norris thank you for watching and I'm really liking it, think it works great
Good job with the kit, and the humor with all the distractions! I would save space with the gorilla tape by rolling it on the lighter. You may have it’s on your edc, but I would add an emergency whistle, you may be temporarily disabled and it would help SAR find you.
Looks like you have a very good setup. Liked the G2 tool roll so much. Looked for one. Wow it is pricey. Your food is a good idea. Harder to collect food than people think. Plus as you said there is the comfort factor.
It’s all relative to what you’re willing to pay for and have for life. Thank you for watching and appreciate the support!
Nice kit! Well thought out.im thinking of getting the heavy cover canteen and mother carrier from center line systems. That plus what I carry on my belt and in my pockets covers most of what I need. So I should be able to make a good comprehensive kit. You've given me plenty to think about!
+Maynard Madsen awesome, thank you for watching and glad I could help!
That is a good kit you have set up. I have something like your canteen and carrier. I have put pretty much like yours but no tarp do have trash bags. Really like the canteen and carrier it's great for going for a long walk or fishing a brook. I was wondering why I hadn't seen you I didn't ring your bell.
+Rick AB. Thank you for watching and yes I really do enjoy this kit, very well thought out.
Good stuff. New to your channel. Enjoy it. One thing I might add that I carry with me at all times is a folding saw. They come in various sizes so I think u could get one to fit. I've found them invaluable. Good video and keep em coming.
Thanks for watching! And absolutely, always carry a folding saw but that is not my normal kit, it was an emergency/survival situation kit where conserving calories would be paramount so sawing wood would not be priority. Would be breaking it between two trees or just let the fire cut up larger pieces
Thank you my friend for sharing your fine video. I really appreciate your very comprehensive video. Take care and be safe.
Thank you for the kind words and for watching, enjoy!
Really nice set up!
Always smart to keep some food on hand. Forget those who say you can go weeks without food! I say "try it!". After a few days without food you'd be too weak to get yourself out of there.
That's a very nice and well thought out kit you put together.
I made up a kit to keep in the vehicle for day walks or just fixing a meal when checking out a new area and the backpack is at home. It's a emergency kit using the Stanley Cook Kit to keep in my vehicle.
Using a Condor H20 pouch. Starting at the bottom of the of the pouch there is a Oilcamp Stainless Steel Space Saver Cup. Then the Stanley Adventure Cook Camp System which fits ( sits ) inside the cup. The tapered sides of the Stanley Camp Cook kit fits inside the cup like it was made for it. Along the outside of the Stanley is a long handled Titanium spoon. Inside the Stanley is the Gen2 Folding Firebox Nano Ultralight Backpacking 3" Stove. On top of the Stanley is a Trangia Alcohol burner so I can cook with either alcohol or wood. The outside pocket of the Condor has a plastic ( Flask shaped ) 8 oz bottle which has the Denatured Alcohol for the Trangia. Next to it is a fero rod for lighting the burner or starting a fire. Folded next to the fero rod is a bandana which can be used if the handles of either pot gets to hot for a bare hand to touch. A few months later I added two canteen pouches one on each side of the Condor H20 pouch. One pouch has a Nalgene canteen in it and the other pouch has a couple dehydrated meals. Thanks to using a wood fire the Stanley has a nice blacken bottom and sides which I think helps it to heat up quicker.
+Chuck Littleton thank you for watching, looks like you have a very good kit also, film a video on it!
I am with you and agree on your comments BB. You hit the nail on the head about "survival" situations. I do my "training prep" at home but it is far from any actual experience as you say. I fly very often and frequently for my work up North of the 50th and 60th parallel into remote fly-in First Nations Communities on smaller planes up to a Cargo plane, and each flight I am prepared with a small survival kit with me, but would rely on the kit in the plane or anything from the plane in an actual "survival" situation. Great video and I subbed to your channel. Cheers Fred
+VE3FAL1_Fred thank you so much for the comments, very cool and smart thinking on your end. Thank you for watching and for the sub! Safe travels!
just got the Gear Roll 2. have it the same way attached to the bottom of the Mother. works pretty well. it came with its own lashing kit to buckle it to the Canteen. i have the G1 also i use it with my tent set up in another bag. put tent stacks and 550 ect... they make really good gear... i like watching videos on gear i have to c if there is a better way to set up my kit. sometimes its the little things.
+D Travs thanks for watching! Yea I'm guessing since I got mine used the buckle kit stayed with them lol. Thank you for the feedback and great uses for the gear!!
I like a lot. I kayak camp and have been struggling with size and weight. it needs to fit into my kayak. not outside. this looks like it may work. lLike most Cost is a bit prohibitive. I agree with your thoughts. we get carried away with the survival stuff. I have bought a number of bags only to discover they are all about the same size and land up repeating or adding when I'm trying to go less. lol.....the bleeps were funny. love those plans. I really don't notice them on the video.another great video. 2CG
+2nd Chance George thanks for watching for sure and the great feedback. Haha the planes were getting to me that day for sure lol!
I watch a lot of survival kit videos and yours is about exactly what I would use except I like to put in a protein bar. Don't have to cook it and if I get a little hungry just eat it.
Thank you for watching, appreciate the feedback!
Survivalism to me has so much involved. A lifetime endeavour in learning primitive skills, human phsycology, tactics, first aid knowledge, and combat. An aboriginal warrior tribesman with the ability to adapt to technology and cultural climate. Good at everything, perfect at nothing. But still be that regular old guy at the family bbq.
I agree and all the while, the one thing none of us will know we have or not despite all that training, is the actual will to survive. Like coaches will say he has heart, you can’t coach that
@@TheBeardedBurton Absolutely! There are alot of people with no training, no knowledge, that were trapped in unexpected situations completely unprepared that were able to survive their ordeal just because of their strong will to survive and never give up.
Excellent kit that was shown and methodology.
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment
I really enjoyed your video and have gotten some good ideas for my kit. Thank you sir.
Thank you for watching and leaving a comment, means a lot! Glad you got some great ideas from it!
Addition . . . .
I'll share this with you since you seem like a serious guy who's thought about this a lot.
The technique taught in most survival schools is REACTIVE. They advise you to stop-think-plan when you realize you're lost. But there's actually a much better way that's PROACTIVE.
What you want to do before going anywhere is to conduct a good map and photo recon of the area. Specifically, look for a "boundary" around where you're going. So, say you're going into a national park. You'd look for the paved roads that ring the area you'll be in. Those roads form the sides of the sandbox you're going to be playing in.
Next, determine your easiest "escape azimuths." So, for example, you look at where you're going and you determine that if you're lost, you can head North and hit a road within 3-4 miles (or maybe it's 5 or 10 miles. . . . the point is that there is an escape). Now . . . . you also have to know what to do once you get to the road . . . . but just by getting to it, you've reduced your risk substantially.
Even today, with all the radio, GPS and phone tech bullshit, whenever I go anywhere, I do a good map recon, then I look at the area on Google. I figure out my linear boundaries and all my escape azimuths. Then I draw it from memory, check it . . . . and if it's not perfect . . . I do it again. I keep doing that until I have it. Then that drawing goes into a plastic bag and it goes in my pocket.
That's just one simple technique. The PRINCIPLE is to be proactive, not reactive.
Change your mindset and you'll never be lost. At most you'll just have farther to walk than you planned. :-)
GREAT KIT! I'm sold and will be getting the Mother and G roll.
+Emmett Reisinger awesome man! Thanks for watching and I think you'll really like it, one of the most versatile systems I own
not a bad kit overall. Id almost suggest sos food bars in place of the oatmeal. it would get you more calories for the space and they also have a long shelf life but you would need to repackage to fit this kit better using only half of the bars in a package. I agree that adding some comfort items will help you get through mentally. I do think your first aid is lacking. you could almost reconfigure where you keep all your little bits of paracord and use one of the canteen carrier pockets for a good first aid. and I dont mean boo-boo kit. I gotta say though that your intro talking about how we all make survival kits but never need to. its a mind set more then anything. "prepare for the worst, hope for the best." when you go out hiking or cycling or something you dont intend to or expect to be stranded but you could slip down a hill and break a leg, or get impaled on a tree branch or your own bike and that is where the kit comes in. urban EDC Survival kits are in case the weather goes to shit and you have a twister rip through town while you are at work. or flash flooding or riots in the streets that cut you off from home. yea we hope it dosent happen (well maybe sometimes) again prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Thanks for walking and I’ll look into some of that
I wonder if swapping out the 3 mil garbage bag which you plan to use as a bivvy with the SOL escape ‘breathable’ bivvy would be similarly light but wouldn’t soak your clothes with sweat as much, although you would only need it if it’s really cold I guess.
Also potentially a clear 3 mil garbage bag for a duff sleeping pad since it would also work a bit better in summer as a ‘transpiration’ bag around tree branches to get water and maybe even purify water with UV light since these would be higher priorities in summer than use as a sleeping pad in winter?🤔
This looks like a great set up.
+Mark Archambault thanks! So far I am very pleased with it
Thanks for the great video and ideas. I love The Mother and Gear Roll!! You found your used? I figured they would never be on the secondary…lucky dude!!
It took a while to find it. Was on Bushcraft USA forums
Hey I just came across your channel. I like your setup. I did want to give you a heads-up on caffeine. While it is good for staying awake I would not consider it a source of hydration. Caffeine interrupts the enzyme in your body that makes your body recycle water. Once interrupted you will start to need to urinate and will loose water. Peace everyone!
Excelente equipo. Muy innovador!! Abrazo de Bushcraft desde Argentina 👍🇦🇷👍
Great kit! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the comment and appreciate the feedback!
Love that system can't wait to get one some day
+Kevin Sumner thank you, I'm really enjoying it. Not for everyone I know but definitely versatile for sure
Nice kit, well thought out.
+Hershel Cyphers thank you for watching!
Good stuff! Surprised I haven't run across your channel before...
+37South thank you so much for watching and for the kind words
I am in i have similar set up ... i used the canadian jam knot to attach a wilderness innovations poncho / hammock to the bottom of the mother kit also i put a sol thick survival blanket in there . its a sweet kit for sure
+THENEWWRANGLER that’s awesome, I have been meaning to check out wilderness innovations stuff.
Thanks for watching!
I like these kits, but at some point you reach the weight that a small backpack might be more comfortable. I use the Duluth Pack Scout, but I’m old!
Hell yeah man, that is one sweet kit. Titanium for life!
+n8mayfield thanks man lol
Love your realistic view on survival man.. Maybe try packets of tuna or salmon ..lite weight, thin and the brain needs protein to think correctly
Thanks for watching and yea I love those packets of tuna!
Very nice.
I like that G roll a lot.. but the price made me hesitate a bit.
For the record.. plans do not bother me.. but your reaction made me laugh. lol
Thanks for the video
+Eat Carbs thanks for watching man, look for it used got mine on bcusa forums
Nice. I never go to those forums.
Good video! Appreciate your thoughts!
Thank you for watching!
Well thought out kit my friend. God bless. John.
+snaponjohn100 thanks a lot, hope all is well with you man, thank you for watching!
Great Vid & Review Of The Carrier and Roll.
+alan j Hornung thank you for watching, I am really enjoying it
Is that the Multicam color G Roll? It doesn't look like the one on the website..I like the faded look of yours..
Nice piece of kit where did you get that patch. The rabbit smoking a pipe
+jeff pike thank you for watching! I got it from a Facebook patch group, there were very few made of this design but Malcolm at TheHiddenWoodsmen has similar ones available.
Love the set up mate. Great stuff. Cheers
+SOUTHERN CROSS SURVIVAL thank you for watching and giving your time, cheers!
Can you let me know where you got the smoking rabbit patch. Awesome video and info . I just bought the entire kit and going to try your load out
Thanks for your great videos and love the music
+Kevin Sumner so that patch was made by a guy for a morale patch FB group and are very rare and limited, took me forever to find the full set of 4.
You will be very happy with that setup! Let me know what adjustments you make to your loadout! Thanks for watching and leaving the kind words!
I thought this was very well thought out and the video was really well done too brother, subbing to your channel now, keep up the good work!
+firemanscan thank you for the great feedback! I appreciate the sub too and thanks for watching
Cool video! I love TH-cam because of videos like these. I'm about 2 seconds away from ordering the G2 gear roll........ I just gotta find my wallet.
Great video. I like your kit.
+yoshi shige thanks a lot! Appreciate you watching
Would this accommodate a Pathfinder SS canteen kit?
Yes it should
great setup main so cool
The confident rabbit is Mad River canoe's symbol also. Native American tribe's also.
Do you think the mother would hold a saywer mini and/or a trangia? Maybe a small fuel bottle.
Yea I think a swayer mini would fit in a side pocket, the trangia I don’t believe so. I use the firebox nano and it fits perfect.
Excelente. 👍
Thank you!
Great video, very helpful! Have you tried carrying the Mother inside a day or backpack or is it best suited on its own? Same question for the Gear Roll although it appears to be a good fit inside any pack.
+John Macri thank you, thanks for watching! I carry it all the time inside a day pack, I just remove the shoulder strap. Makes an easy way to organize gear too. I would assume yes the gear roll would work great also, have not tried it yet though.
Well said brother
Hey there - I like your video. Won't be buying this gear because I think it's grossly over-priced but I'll certainly steal some of the basic ideas and make or buy some substitutes. :-)
As far as survival . . . .
A lot of that has to do on your personal physical condition, the weather and the terrain.
For example, I can carry Equipment List #1 for a hike in the nearby state park. (A canteen, band aids, extra pair of glasses and a lighter. Small Mora.) The park has nicely maintained trails, you're never more than 30 min from your car and there's actually a hospital right next door!
I can also carry Equipment List #1 on sections of the Appalachian Trail that run nearby and it works fine most of the time.
But let's say I get cocky and decide to get off the AT and climb a rocky hill that's a mile off-trail. Just as I make it to the top, rocks give way, I fall 4-5 feet and I break an ankle. Oh, and it's late October. sun will set soon and temps in the mountain tonight will be in the mid-30s. And there's no phone service.
At this point, all anyone knows is that I'm "hiking on the AT." No one knows exactly where and they certainly don't know that I went off trail.
I'm going to be spending the night. Maybe more if I need to crawl out. I'll survive but it's going to really suck. If it rains or snows I may end up as a cold weather casualty.
Best thing is to always base equipment not just on the time spent outdoors . . . . but also on the RISK . . . . Low Risk, versus High Risk.
A walk in a state park with a car nearby . . . . Low Risk. Car camping where I bring plenty of food and water . . . . Low Risk.
A trek into the back country . . . . even if it's just for 2-3 hours . . . . HIGH RISK. Plan accordingly.
The length of the adventure ("day hike" versus "overnight" versus "weekend camping trip" . . . . only tells you how much food and water to carry, how much comfort shelter to bring, etc.
But the RISK FACTOR is a totally different assessment. So yeah, you may just be going out for a day hike in the mountains . . . . but you should pack a sleeping bag and a tarp anyway.
Love that patch of a rabbit smoking a pipe! That is a great patch to keep on a survival kit. On the back of that patch is there a lynx stalking him? If those ever go on sale I'd love to place an order.
Zengineer thanks for watching and leaving a comment! No it's just Velcro on the back! They were a limited run that took forever for me to find
@Zengineer….@Valleyreb you’ll find the smoking rabbit patches. Very cool dude…last CLS live featured him.
You are the goat!
Not at all!
Cool kit bud
Thank you for the video.
+Erin Owl thank you for your time and feedback!
Good kit, Jon. I find it handy to go ahead and roll my contractor bags tight and then bind them with a bit of tape. Then I can move them from kit to kit without messing with them getting unruly. Where did you get your bunny pipe patch btw?
+Countryham thank you for watching! I've tried taping before and it only took me ripping a bag once pulling of the tape to stop.
That patch is a custom one made for a group, a rare jewel lol
Use the blue painter's tape. It's sticky enough to keep things together, but doesn't actually "bind" to whatever you're taping. You can pull it off easy. Thanks for the patch info. You doing PFG this year?
great kit
+SEOhio Trapper thanks!
Doesn't the condensation run over the gear roll?
+MrChaes actually no, the inside of the canteen holder is coated with a rubberized material, so no moisture ever leaks out of it!
Well said. There are no rules in survival. Must go Caveman real quick. Dig yor energy. Subd. D😎🇺🇸🤙
Thanks a lot for this, been a lot of folks saying this it right or wrong and they don’t get it ha
@@TheBeardedBurton sad part is that most people won’t make it. Humans are so far away from the animals were/are. Go for broke. D😎🤙🇺🇸
Canteen review starts at 2:55
Well this is a video about the carrier and tool roll attached to it not the canteen lol. That’s a separate video, thank you for watching though
Nice kit
+Barros Queiroz thank you for watching!
So now that you have spent some time in Alaska and had some training in remote Wilderness first aid and rescue. Would you change anything in your kit and if so maybe do another video. An unexpected night out depends on who you really are.....as in if your a city person, this is a horrible event with lots of mosquitoes and no WiFi or coffee shops. Someone that is comfortable in the forest and carries a simple kit, well this can be a nice peaceful night out if the bugs aren’t to bad and you get to sit by a fire and think about what you did wrong. I think the only thing I would add to that kit is some bug repellent and a head net.
That’s a really good question, an awesome one actually. I do think this kit would change now that I’ve been through those things and an updated video would be needed. Thank you for watching and I’ll add it to the list of ideas and get a video done!
Oh and I agree about the bug spray depending on where you are, up in Alaska heck yea but here in Texas I would spend a good hour or so soaking up smoke from a fire and that generally does well enough for me
do what ya gotta do, btw i like that mother carrier setup
+Kaylynn Strain thank you for watching, and yes it's a great system!
Is this company out of business now? Your links don’t work??
Thank you for watching and bringing that to my attention. The web address changed and the new updated link is in the description now. Thanks
Awesome kit, think I will copy it to some degree. Hope you don't mind;-)
+William Collins (WC Knives) thank you for watching and absolutely feel free to use any of it
It is hard to not have a survival pack turn into a camp pack.
It really is, keep it simple!
Perfect!
Thanks a lot!
Well thought out. Thanks for sharing. I use a small kit which I will upload soon. My vid on. Nam Style buttpack mods carries about the same load. I like your kit. My channel is kurt Baier.
+Kurt Baier nice! Thank you for watching and leaving a comment!! Will check yours out
Maybe a filter or some iodine in case you can't boil water
+Edward Barton yea that would be smart for sure, but in my area I'll always be able to boil if needed.
Thank you for watching!!
Edward Barton Great kit. Your videos are helping me take less stuff in the woods. Thanks.
It beginning at 3 minutes
It take time to set up, like a da movie
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I would add two areas of survival gear.
01) several additional ways to signal.
2) several additional self defence weapons.
Later
Jim Lankford
KN4 VRB
Pack some spam an jerky
That’s a good idea
WOW, the mother canteen carrier is pricey. $200 for Mother Canteen Carrier and G-2 gear roll. My full size back pack didn't cost that much. Granted ,I bought it longer ago than I would like to admit.
It’s all based on demand, these are hand made and patented I believe, with all USA sourced materials or as much as possible and carry lifetime warranties. So buy once and cry once.
Салам аллейкум бородатый брат. Сделай субтитры, а то непонятно ничего.
Three hundred people go missing each year in Alaska alone. Another four hundred go missing in the continental United States. Many who aren't counted as missing because there's no one to miss them also either get into very real survival situations, or are simply never found, when and if someone ever misses them.
But you're wrong about rules and guidelines. There are rues, and there are guidelines, that greatly increase your chances of getting home alive. This true in the wilderness, and it's equally true in the military. Civilian or military, training s all about rules and guidelines that you automatically fall back on when you get into trouble. And it is automatic, if you're trained as well as you should be.
Your saw is NOT a luxury item. If you don't have all three cutting tools that make up the "Holy Trinity" of any woodsman, a knife, a saw, and an axe blade, you have not had the training you need, or the knowledge you should have, to make it through any real survival situation. You should have at least three knives.
You should have at least three knives, your main sheath knife, a backup sheath knife, and a pocketknife designed for the woods, which means either a Stockman with three blades, or a Hunter with two. For carving, no better single small knife exists that the Stockman.
And decent saw will do. I think a Silky is higher quality than a Bahco, but both are fine. If you're really going deep, though, away from main trails, or any trails, you need a folding bow saw.
The axe blade can be a hatchet, a well-designed tomahawk, which means not a pretty toy that beginners buy to throw, or it can be a camp axe, or a full-size axe. I carry a tomahawk because I've found it to be capable of doing the work of a hatchet, or of a knife. But whatever your choice, an axe blade is NOT a luxury either. The 5 C's do not mean one of each thing. Two is one, one is none. With blades, five is one, fewer is none.
Think your knife can do anything, including batoning> Batoning is always silly, and never necessary, but let's assume that's how you do things. Three of the most common injuries in the wild are broken arms, badly burned hands, and badly lacerated hands. These things can happen to anyone. Try batoning with one hand. Trying doing almost anything with a knife using just one hand. Anything. People babble about a one tool option, but a one TOOL option is not what people need. What they need Is a one HAND option, and this means a saw and an axe blade. Together, these allow you to do everything that needs done with only one hand.
Training must reflect this, and so should the gear you carry. Spend three days in the woods with one arm in a sling, and then tell me a saw and an axe blade are luxuries. Nor is a tomahawk difficult to carry. Slide the handle into your pack, and put the head on your belt where you'll have it no matter what. You can always whittle a new handle, ir you lose your pack, or have it stolen, which happens remarkably often, even in deep wilderness.
Do the same thing with your leg in a splint. You get one day of food, and one day of water, but you need to spent seventy two hours there.
Now go into the woods with nothing except a knife and the clothes on your back. Spend a week, though you'll know by the end of day two, at the latest, whether you have the training you need. You need fire and shelter by the end of day one, water before the end of day two, and food by the end of day three. If you don't have these things, you may not survive a real emergency situation.
Gear matters, and you should always have the basics, except when training, and training should be supervised by someone who knows what they're doing. But as important as the right gear is, all the rigt gear, it's the rules and guidelines you pick up during real, serious training that will get you home. Everything should be on autopilot. Then, and only then, can you adapt and improvise wisely, according to the situation.
People get into real survival situations with remarkable regularity, but most such cases don't make the news. People who know what they're doing, who have the right gear nd the right training, often get themselves out of trouble before it's time to call search and rescue. But the situation is just as real, and without the right training and gear, that person might well have died. Even most search and rescue operations don't make the news unless the situation drags on for a long, long time or ends in an above average tragedy.
The wilderness is a dangerous place. People die there. People vanish there. I don't like playing the odds with my life, even if those odds are in my favor, but in the wilderness, disaster can happen to anyone, at any moment. I was once following a trail that was so old animals and Native Americans had worn a path down into the rock itself. But when I followed it along a ledge, the entire ledge picked that moment to collapse. I was incredibly lucky and wasn't seriously injured, but I could have been killed or disabled. I still don't see how I managed to avoid serious injury.
+James Ritchie thank you for your comment and for watching!
Meh
Thanks for watching