Bushcraft Bucksaw - an easy DIY wilderness hand saw
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2023
- Whether you're just getting into bushcraft and survival, or you're an old sage, a good handsaw is indispensable in the wilderness. From survival shelter building and cutting fire wood to light weight backpacking, a good saw's usefulness is undisputable. In this week's video I'll show you how to build an easy DIY bushcraft bucksaw using just a Leatherman multitool and basic bucksaw blade. Bucksaws are great because all you really need is the light weight and flexible saw blade. The rest can be built on sight with natural materials found in the forest. The sawblade can be rolled up and stored in a tin cup or bugout bag. Taking an hour or so to build a bucksaw will make shelter building go much faster. This is a great bushcraft project for beginners.
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This type of hand saw is very typical for Bulgaria. My grandfather and father used one. Very simple and reliable. Thanks for the great videos!
The sound of the wood tensioning with the string is quite nice
Thank you for choosing a spot next to the stream, the sound is delightful 👍😆
Large split rings are a really good substitute for bolts.
Amazing what you can do with some knowledge, skill, & a Leatherman!
Well that's bloody annoying, the bucksaw you throw together in the woods looks better then the one I made in my workshop 😅
You should have recorded it to put on the Tube. That always makes the project look better.😂 It never ceases to amaze me how easy guys like Clay make these projects look. Maybe on my tenth try I would match what he does.
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I tried my hand at making the fishing pole clay did on alone, watched the video he made here on TH-cam and I learned first hand he makes it look a lot easier then it actually is 😂😭
Amazing stuff!!! Thanks Clay!!
its always a good moment when i watch your video. thank you
Well done! Thanks for sharing.
A good skill to have. Thanks for the great demo.
Nate
This reminds me of when wood by wright went into the woods with a chisel and a strop to make a stool.
Nicely done!
Thanks Jason
great video and instruction
Mate, that's awesome!
Very cool!
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Thanks very interesting
Nice!
Awesome
Nice work, a saw blade and a couple 1/4” bolts weigh next to nothing but the assembled saw can do miracles.
Well done, next time try Doug Fir tho 👍
Pretty cool video Clay!
Thanks Wayne
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I keep hoping someone will design a bowsaw blade that can literally roll up into a tobacco can, so carrying this style of saw gets even easier. Maybe two halves that link up somehow?
I haven't found any of the cable or chain-style flexible saws that work well enough to be considered They are nifty, but not really credible, durable tools like a folding saw or bowsaw/bucksaw is.
Another great video, Clay, thanks.
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Clay, you definitely need to use work gloves when doing these things. It's my experience that doing any sustained sawing or cutting with a multitool is a quick way to blisters.
My hands are used to it. Lots of callouses
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@@clayhayeshunter good answer
Don't you go worrying your pretty little head about Clay there, missy. He's the original ring-tailed roarer from the thunder and lightning country and a bonafide two-fisted supraman. Why he's the roughest, toughest, rootin-tootinest he-man the West has ever seen!
To save the lock of your folding knife(especially liner locks or weak locks) try batting with the knife not locked in a 7 or L shape. When the knife is not locked the shock is less on the knife.
what's hilarious is today I found out about the show Alone.... being a new subscriber i had no idea you were on it. congrats! 😂 very nice saw by the way
Thanks much
on it?!?! He WON!
I was just thinking it might have been worth it to make a temporary handle for your saw blade. With a couple short twigs and some Paracord or a shoe string or whatever. Then you wouldn't risk your fingers or getting a hole in your shirt.
Awesome content as usual!
I was thinking the same, but just a banana shaped branch.
I think that if you cobbled together a lashed on handle for the saw blade it may have been a little quicker. Nice work all the same.
I was thinking a quick bent hoop of reed or soft wood 👍
Some clip ring pins be good for the blade pins
Very true
Well easy to make if ypu have a saw blade handy not against this saw its great craftsmanship as always just quite hard to get to in the wild with almost nothing on you like there would be in a survival situation
That's what prepping is for. 😊
@@brandyhouston2105 you dont prep for survival because you cant expect it to happen and if you could prep you would bring a saw that already has a handle
You can't carry everything, though, and a bow-saw blade weighs nothing compared to a folder, etc.
In reality, this may be a woodsmanship video really, but you CAN prepare for survival situations. You survive in the wilds with what you brought with you, not what you left back a the truck.
@@stephenballard3759 in what way can you prepare for a survival situation because i can think of only very few scenarios were thats possible one is getting lost backpacking in which case you have a bag sleeping qequipment a knife multitool food. which is a very good case scenario and needs no prepping really depending on your location as long as you have prepped for a backpacking trip. Second option i can think of is plane crash in which case the prep is understanding how to signal search and rescue nobody is carrying a saw blade without a handle in either of those scenarios. If you can think of one where you can prep ahead of time and its reasonable to do so than i applaud you
@Yakir Frankoveig This is absolute nonsense, completely. This is pure keyboard warrior crap, and I'll give you just two examples.
Say you're stuck in a car in a snow drift in a bad winter storm for two nights, for whatever reason. If there is a blanket in the car, your chances of living and not losing toes, are much greater than if there is not a blanket in the car. That is a very COMMON and real survival situation, where being prepared, by having a blanket in the car, is possible.
Second scenario. Many. many times (many times) I have personally been caught in hailstorms or snowstorms while hunting or fishing in the Rocky Mountains or Coastal Alaska, and had to hole up for several hours. Three times, I have had to spend a night in dangerous weather conditions. Now, I was not PREPARED to spend the night, inasmuch as I didn't have a tent, sleepong bag, and food with me. But, I did have some gear I had NOT planned on using that day, but was carrying in a day pack, just in case. This included a jacket or poncho, firestarting stuff, a flashlight, a knife, and a small saw. That turns a potentially deadly SURVIVAL situation into a slightly uncomfortable night.
I don't know how much Naked and Afraid you've been watching, Because, whilel it is possible to get stuck with nothing but what you KNOW. that is not how most survival situations go. What Clay did here was show that you don't have to carry a full-sized saw, you can carry a saw blade and a bit of cordage or wire, which is smaller and weighs less, so it is worth carrying all those times you don't need it, so you will have it when you do need it.
Preparedness can be mental, but there is no reason at all it can't include gear AND knowledge. That's silly.
BTW, I have "known" Clay for over 20 years. We have chatted hundreds of hours on forums for bowmaking and trad archery, primitive skills, woodsmanship, camping, etc.
"Correcting" him on something like this is like telling a surgeon how to operate since you got an A in 9th grade Health class.
Very nice
Did you replace your p4 with a wave plus?
No, that’s just the one I happened to have rust day. I actually filmed this last year.
@@clayhayeshunter I have a p4 and I absolutely love it. After I watched your review on it I went out and bought one .
One of your biggest fans
Keep up the great work!
All the video I saw and reading was saying to put an angle of 90 degrees between de blade and the handle for batonningand apparently there is less risk to brake it.
Good practice for sure
Any idea for a bushcrafted alternative to the bolts?
A hardwood peg would work great
Very cool, but tell me you weren't batoning with a new P4 (lol)
Haha, this was actually last year. Using a wave.
What blade do you recommend?
This is just an inexpensive one I picked up from the hardware store. I don’t recall the manufacturer.
Clay, do you have your place in south, central or north Idaho?
Northish
@@clayhayeshunter yeah me too. Bonner County.
I am confused Clay, you went into the woods with a saw blade, paracord, and a multi tool, yet not decent knife strapped to your belt, yeh I understand it is survival, but here is another thing why oh why did you not knock up a simple ruff saw to make the decent saw in the first place, didn't even need to last long but your buck saw would have been made a lot better, just wondering.
I don’t usually carry a sheath knife. Just a leatherman. So I tend to use what I have and figure out how to make it work.
what type of sawblade did you buy?
I don’t recall the make
Lowe's sells a Fiskars 24" bowsaw blade replacement blade for about five bucks.
Clay pls come to namibia.come see me iv got a place to show you
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Just watched a 26 minute video about a guy making a bow (i know absolutely nothing about bows or survival). So, i guess productive day?
Absolutely 😜
Clay could widdle a microwave.
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