You are truly a genius! Love what you did with the stick! WOW! 😮 Never have I seen that before! Thank You Thank You Thank You 🙏 for showing us this trick! So So CLEVER!!! This is why I enjoy watching your videos!!! All of them! Because I ALWAYS learn something new, ALWAYS!!!! Keep up the good work my friend!!! Sincerely from North Mississippi 🙏👋👍🤓
Absolutely brilliant, so many uses in a stick which doesn't cost anything to make,!!! Gonna hunt me down a branch and get whittling,, ha ha,, thanks again buddy,,
Nice Idea.. made plenty of dingle sticks, although we never called them that, but never a forked one. Sounds ike a good project for me and the grandkids. I am contantly trying to get them away from the electronics. Thanks for showing us.
that,s the key get them to engage their minds..start with a forked stick show how you lift pot out of fire..then challenge them to see how many other things they can make the stick do..that' how my grandfather taught me..safe journeys
blackoracle69 Yep... The grandkids and kids came over today after church for father's day. While my daughter fixed dinner Dad and I were given the job of occupying the kids outside the house.... the daughters like piece when cooking. lol I live next to about 5 acres of woods so Brian (dad) and I gave them my Baco saw and sent them off with the dog to gather forked sticks. What they ended up with was rough but functional. The younger girls did ok even the 5yo. The two teenage boys too but they needed several bandaids before finishing. They were a little over confident.... Oh, well... they will heal. lol
Michael Griffin Interesting.... What is your purpose? Living off the grid is a lot different than camping, hiking, hunting or going on walkabout. After I retired my dog and I walked from Hamilton Ohio to Georgetown Kentucky once... took us two weeks. (Visited my sister.) Also started walking to Flagstaff Az from Hamilton Oh. following old route 66 about six months later. My dog and I made it almost thru Illinois when we got hit by a truck. We were on a bridge and knocked over the guard rail into a river by a walmart truck. My packframe was broken and my black lab injured his back. I had to hide my pack and walk to the next little town carrying my 60lb dog in a hard thunderstorm. My two oldest daughters came to get us... After that my girls nixed the idea of the retired dad doing a walkabout. They did let me go to Flagstaff and hike the Grand Canyon for a month, but I had to take a train. In the Canyon they made me promise to carry a cell phone (almost no reception there) and my two way radio. (I am a ham.) So the questions might be Why do you want to do this? How long will you be gone? And how will you provide your nutritional needs. With laws being what they are today it is almost impossible to live off the land. You will need to take a wheel barrel full of money or arrange for supply drops - not really living off the grid. I would be glad to give you a list of what I carried if you are interested, but it might not work for you depending on your skill and expierence level. In winter or cold you will need twice as much gear and food. My cousin Judy and used to disappear into the woods with very little for a couple of weeks at a time as young teens. But that was 50 years ago and things were way different. Also, we were raised in the woods so we had a lot of expierence in how to live off the land. But even then the trips were well planed and we had a backup plan for emergencies. Let me know..... Blackie add you two cents....
Michael Griffin First.... What kind of expierence in the woods, desert, swamps, etc. do you have? Where would you plan to live?You may have a lot learn before going off the grid. For exsmple nutrition is about more than calories. You diet has to be ballanced. The laws today prevent you from hunting any where and any time. Wild veggies and greens are tricky. It took Judy and me a long time at the feet of our parents and grandparents to learn what we could eat anf how to prepare it. And, not all plants are available or estable all year around. I know our situation in our society today can be frustrating, the trick is learning to adapt not run away. I am a retired missionary who has traveled all over the world and worked many different jobs to support my ministry. I have successfully raised five kids in the process. I had to learn new languages, eat strange foods, and get used to a whole lot of very different cultural values. To do these things I had to spend years in preparation - not just get on a plane and go. If you want to leave our society behind you have to give it careful thought and planning. Find someone to teach you the skills you need. It will take more than a weekend of wstching TH-cam videos. Practice in your yard and then on short trips. Also keep in mind that we live in a modern world not the frontier. If you head off down the road with no means of support and no plan you may well end up in jail, the hospital or dead. For example what happens if you get sick, break a bone, or need stiches? Stiching yourself up is very painful and no easy task if you csn reach the spot. Knowing what plants treat what sickness takes a lifetime. I am still learning. So if you want to become a woodsman you have to spend some time in the dirt and learn the skills necessary. Once you have the skills and some expierence under your belt you will not need to ask what to take. You will know! I can tell you what I took with me but if you do not know how to use it.... well, it would just be dead weight. BTW: Learning how to use the bathroom in the woods should be one of you first steps... Judy and I often used flat rocks for toilet paper. Smooth if possible... lol and of course leaves, but with leaves you have to be careful. The wrong kind of leaves can make your trip very unpleasant or even give you parasites. lol later....
That's the culinary bush craft equivalent of a swiss army knife, I have seen one similar in a civil war reenactment. That is really cool love the ingenuity. Thanks for the video always something to learn.
thats good.. I have an H&R 12 ga. standard barrel (a little unwieldy in heavy brush) & chambered up to 3 " shells . I've been thinking of cutting some of that back to something more manageable. realizing that the barrel choke would be ruined.
if you look around you might find a youth bbl..that's what mine is a yth bbl with a full size stock..would be easy to fit the short bbl .to your actin and have 2 guns in one
That is one well thought out "stick". Thank you for the demonstration on its uses. Now that's bush crafting.
You are truly a genius! Love what you did with the stick! WOW! 😮 Never have I seen that before! Thank You Thank You Thank You 🙏 for showing us this trick! So So CLEVER!!! This is why I enjoy watching your videos!!! All of them! Because I ALWAYS learn something new, ALWAYS!!!! Keep up the good work my friend!!! Sincerely from North Mississippi 🙏👋👍🤓
lots and lots of stick time will get you this knowledge.Thanks for sharing and I absolutely enjoy your video's.
Absolutely brilliant, so many uses in a stick which doesn't cost anything to make,!!! Gonna hunt me down a branch and get whittling,, ha ha,, thanks again buddy,,
Nice Idea.. made plenty of dingle sticks, although we never called them that, but never a forked one. Sounds ike a good project for me and the grandkids. I am contantly trying to get them away from the electronics. Thanks for showing us.
that,s the key get them to engage their minds..start with a forked stick show how you lift pot out of fire..then challenge them to see how many other things they can make the stick do..that' how my grandfather taught me..safe journeys
blackoracle69 Yep... The grandkids and kids came over today after church for father's day. While my daughter fixed dinner Dad and I were given the job of occupying the kids outside the house.... the daughters like piece when cooking. lol I live next to about 5 acres of woods so Brian (dad) and I gave them my Baco saw and sent them off with the dog to gather forked sticks. What they ended up with was rough but functional. The younger girls did ok even the 5yo. The two teenage boys too but they needed several bandaids before finishing. They were a little over confident.... Oh, well... they will heal. lol
Michael Griffin Interesting.... What is your purpose? Living off the grid is a lot different than camping, hiking, hunting or going on walkabout. After I retired my dog and I walked from Hamilton Ohio to Georgetown Kentucky once... took us two weeks. (Visited my sister.) Also started walking to Flagstaff Az from Hamilton Oh. following old route 66 about six months later. My dog and I made it almost thru Illinois when we got hit by a truck. We were on a bridge and knocked over the guard rail into a river by a walmart truck. My packframe was broken and my black lab injured his back. I had to hide my pack and walk to the next little town carrying my 60lb dog in a hard thunderstorm. My two oldest daughters came to get us... After that my girls nixed the idea of the retired dad doing a walkabout. They did let me go to Flagstaff and hike the Grand Canyon for a month, but I had to take a train. In the Canyon they made me promise to carry a cell phone (almost no reception there) and my two way radio. (I am a ham.)
So the questions might be Why do you want to do this? How long will you be gone? And how will you provide your nutritional needs. With laws being what they are today it is almost impossible to live off the land. You will need to take a wheel barrel full of money or arrange for supply drops - not really living off the grid.
I would be glad to give you a list of what I carried if you are interested, but it might not work for you depending on your skill and expierence level. In winter or cold you will need twice as much gear and food. My cousin Judy and used to disappear into the woods with very little for a couple of weeks at a time as young teens. But that was 50 years ago and things were way different. Also, we were raised in the woods so we had a lot of expierence in how to live off the land. But even then the trips were well planed and we had a backup plan for emergencies.
Let me know..... Blackie add you two cents....
yep thats how they learn to craft things..ya gotta do it and earn your scars and thus exp.
Michael Griffin First.... What kind of expierence in the woods, desert, swamps, etc. do you have? Where would you plan to live?You may have a lot learn before going off the grid. For exsmple nutrition is about more than calories. You diet has to be ballanced. The laws today prevent you from hunting any where and any time. Wild veggies and greens are tricky. It took Judy and me a long time at the feet of our parents and grandparents to learn what we could eat anf how to prepare it. And, not all plants are available or estable all year around.
I know our situation in our society today can be frustrating, the trick is learning to adapt not run away. I am a retired missionary who has traveled all over the world and worked many different jobs to support my ministry. I have successfully raised five kids in the process. I had to learn new languages, eat strange foods, and get used to a whole lot of very different cultural values. To do these things I had to spend years in preparation - not just get on a plane and go.
If you want to leave our society behind you have to give it careful thought and planning. Find someone to teach you the skills you need. It will take more than a weekend of wstching TH-cam videos. Practice in your yard and then on short trips. Also keep in mind that we live in a modern world not the frontier. If you head off down the road with no means of support and no plan you may well end up in jail, the hospital or dead. For example what happens if you get sick, break a bone, or need stiches? Stiching yourself up is very painful and no easy task if you csn reach the spot. Knowing what plants treat what sickness takes a lifetime. I am still learning.
So if you want to become a woodsman you have to spend some time in the dirt and learn the skills necessary. Once you have the skills and some expierence under your belt you will not need to ask what to take. You will know! I can tell you what I took with me but if you do not know how to use it.... well, it would just be dead weight.
BTW: Learning how to use the bathroom in the woods should be one of you first steps... Judy and I often used flat rocks for toilet paper. Smooth if possible... lol and of course leaves, but with leaves you have to be careful. The wrong kind of leaves can make your trip very unpleasant or even give you parasites. lol
later....
That was a good one. I like the flat end for the pot lid. Gonna have to remember that! Thanks Blackie.
Been at it a lot of years an never saw such a hady stick as that! Thank you for sharing.
glad you found it of use
Great video. Excellent work.
That is woodcraft / bushcraft at it's finest right there! Beautiful idea my friend. Thanks for sharing it. Take care Blackie.
Awesome video. Thank you for making it 👍
Brilliant! Thank you for the video!
That's the culinary bush craft equivalent of a swiss army knife, I have seen one similar in a civil war reenactment. That is really cool love the ingenuity. Thanks for the video always something to learn.
Now, that is cool! Thanks for the video.
awesome coming from South texas
Good project for developing craving skills.
Great Idea! Thanks!
Great idea. Thanks
very cool i like to see more of these
Very clever, Blackie!
well I learn something new every day and I just did dingle stick cool stay safe brother
thanks brother safe journeys
Outstanding
that's very cool and handy
Thanks for taking the time to make this one.
What a great tip, sir! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! - Davi
Say Heah Blackie, Thanx You, and I wish you a Happy Fathers Day.,,.p
thank you very much..safe journeys to you
G.B.Y. too.,,.p
Awesome!
Awesome
Sweet.
another great video Blackie. question about your H&R shotgun ... Now if I remember correctly its a 20 ga. but what is the barrel length?
it has a 22 inch bbl. with a mod choke
how does it handle deer slugs?
i hand load slugs and i can keep all shots( or at least 90% of them) in a 8 inch circle at 75 yrs from a rest
thats good.. I have an H&R 12 ga. standard barrel (a little unwieldy in heavy brush) & chambered up to 3 " shells . I've been thinking of cutting some of that back to something more manageable. realizing that the barrel choke would be ruined.
if you look around you might find a youth bbl..that's what mine is a yth bbl with a full size stock..would be easy to fit the short bbl .to your actin and have 2 guns in one