Quest to get on the Alone show (5 Day SOLO Bushcraft Camping) Day 1

This video is me doing a 5-day solo adventure to practice shelter building and going over the 5 W's of picking a survival shelter location. Practicing fire making with different techniques, (Ferro Rod, Flint and Steel). I give some pointers and helpful safety tips in doing so. I also show how to split a log for boards using nature wedges made of wood. Had to adapt to many changes due to lumber jacks and logging. I show how to dry bark for cordage and bird nest usage.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

by taking a 2 person, cotton rope hammock, you can not-take the snarewire, gillnet, fishing kit and paracord. Animals can't gnaw thru cordage that is holding them 6 ft off of the ground and that also helps protect your catch from predators. Split and tape a springy sapling, and harden-dry it for 24 hours over a trench fire. Drive 2 tall stakes, lash one of these split-pole 'spring-engines' between the stakes. Presto, lifting snare any place you want one. Unravel the rope hammock, the rope, the strands, and twist 5 of the 44 threads into string, weave 1000 sq ft of 2" mesh netting and 1000 sq ft of 4" mes netting with said string, having lots of strands and rope left for camp needs. Wrap netting multiple times around stick frame 'boxes', and it will hold crabs, rabbits, birds. You can catch 100x as many fish with that much netting as you can with gillnet and hooks/line. if a storm is brewing, bring in and secure at LEAST half of your netting.
That's how you get to take the 12x12 ft tarp, tape, block of salt. You dont need the ferrorod, cookpot, either. Nor the axe and saw. You can stone-boil 5 gallons of water at a time, twice per week, in a pit that's lined with the bivy, instead of wasting 1/2 hour, 3x per day, boiling 2 lousy qts of water at a time in the cookpot. Anyone who can't start fires by rudiger-rolling a strip of their shemagh, (with rust from their shovel as an accellerant) doesn't belong on the show. Tarp and tape dry bags keep dry your fire-kit. Once you have one fire, you can have ashed dry grass, charred punkwood, etc, for flint and steel fire-starts. You can also bury coals and charcoal in an ashes pit, cover same with a primitive, portable A frame shelter and trench around that shelter/pit, vs rain or snow melt. Then you can easily keep a fire "alive' for 12+ hours. Dont show any of this on YT or to Alone producers. If you do, they'll never let you on the show

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

put dry grass or mossed between each of your layers of clothing and you'll be much warmer. Only half of the reflective 12x12 tarp is needed to make a tent, 8 ft long, 3.5x 3.5 ft. Use the producer's tarp and a few poles to make a plow-point work paviion and use same to keep dry your loose dirt, debris, firewood, Dont take the rear of the plow point to the ground, Leave it tied to 2 ft tall stakes, To block the wind from that direction, pile up brush, debris and dirt. This leaves you enough tarp to have some head-room under the plow point tarp-shelter. Later, this tarp covers your tent, with 6" of dry debris between those membranes. once it's cold enough for rain to be no threat, convert the producer's 10x16 ft tarp into a debris stuffed sleeping bag. Take the reflective, XL size tyvek bivy, not a sleeping bag, cause it's more versatile. The tyvek is unaffected if it gets-wet.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

do you know to take the big roll of gorilla tape? It can make 3 pairs of tarp and tape pants, so you can get by for a month or more on just the 2 pairs of longjohn pants. The coveralls can be stuffed with dry debris, their seams sewn and taped and lash these pontoons to 8 small logs as a "frame' for a log, put a few very short logs across the 2 keel logs, so that your feet stay up out of the water. lash the camera-case to some of those logs and sit on it. Make a paddle handle for the saw-edge modified variant of the Cold Steel shovel. Each pontoon will float a man, Put one at each corner of the outrigger logs and it wont matter if the logs float or not. When you tie up the raft for the night, remove the pontoons and secure them vs wind and flooding. Lanyard the paddle to the raft, so you can't lose it to the lake.

[@mikeyheltonjr]

That was a great first day my friend! It was very informative and I appreciate you taking the time to do this. Great job with the flint and steel as well. I'm afraid that is a skill slowly disappearing. I would wager that because of t.v. more people can build a fire with a bow drill than could use a steel. I hope this helps bring it back.

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Hi Mikey. Thank you for the kind words. Yes, I agree that flint and steel is not really used a lot anymore. I think it is much easier than using a friction bow but people are always telling me the char is the issue. I appreciate you watching and commenting.

[@mikeyheltonjr]

@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz yes sir. And the char is the problem. You have to make it first of all but there are some other tricks you can use to get your first fire going. After you make it you have to keep it dry. But Noone ever said survival was easy lol.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

ha ha. you're funny. I doubt that 10,000 people in both canada and the US put-together can reliably get fire with a made on site bow drill set and almost anyone can do so with a ferrorod.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

flint and steel is about halfway between, IF you have quality char material to catch the weak spark from fliint and steel

[@mikeyheltonjr]

@@SonnyCrocket-p6h my friend, I have seen a lot of people who can't do it with a ferro rod.

[@artcianfanojr]

I am going to try also. Maybe we will both get on.. Good stuff.

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Thanks for watching and good luck with getting on.

[@artcianfanojr]

@@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz Thanks, you too.
For the record, you look about the same age as me, so OLD GUYS RULE!!!!

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

@@artcianfanojr Yes we do! Don't know many 18- to 20-year-olds who can hang with me when it comes to work, LOL.

[@larstueschjth2658]

5 w's? What's that? Only know of 5,10,15 and a few 20 C's! 😳

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

Hello and thank you for watching, 1- Wind, 2. Water, 3. Windowmakers, 4. Wildlife, & 5. Wood. It is the things that I look at when trying to select a site for a shelter. Not sure about the 5,10,15 you mentioned except for, I think mathematical sequences? Been many years since I was in school, LOL Have a good evening.

[@SonnyCrocket-p6h]

@@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz no, he's referring to Dave Canterbury's 5c'' or 10 cs of survival. cutting instrument, cordage, cover element, container, combustion device

[@QuesttogetontheAloneShow-qq3cz]

@@SonnyCrocket-p6h Cool Thanks for that info. I will have to go check that out.