DIY Ghillie Suit, all natural materials, make in under 5 minutes!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- You've probably heard of cleavers. This plant has a global distribution and grows in a wide variety of ecoystems. It can be used to make a quick-and-dirty ghillie suit that can give you a great camouflage advantage in airsoft, paintball, capture-the-flag, for wildlife observation, or for emergencies. Here's how to use it effectively. Not counting the time I spent filming, etc., it took me just under 5 minutes to gather and make the hood, torso, and arm covering.
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Kenton, this is incredible. Simple, elegant, and effective, especially for those of us that appreciate not hauling around a ghillie suit or netting. The little tips you’ve learned from playing with this makes this a stellar learning resource. Many thanks to you and your family for these gems 💚
So glad you liked it, Owen. Always a pleasure to see you here =)
When I was a kid, my grandma would let me hide in the yard using vines, sticks and fallen leaves as camouflage. I'd jump just in time to scare my grandpa, I had so much fun doing it! Now I see it a s a great survival skill (to know how to hide and to be patient while waiting) and I am grateful my grandparents allowed me and taught me how to do a backyard cammo.
Great content as usual!
Alex, that's awesome! My hope is that parents and grandparents will keep encouraging that kind of nature play -- we develop a broad range of skills when we're allowed to explore like that in nature =)
Love these wild nature videos, I know it must feel a bit strange lugging the tech to record but there is no other way!
Finding a balance between nature and technology is the struggle but once obtained we can achieve many great things as the stewards of the world
Agreed. Tech is such an integrated part of the human story that I think we're all affected and shaped by it -- and it shapes our perception of nature. Finding that balance is indeed tricky, but so rewarding =)
I'm a Vermonter visiting a parent who lives in France just now and really enjoyed this just now while I'm far from the wild forests ;-)
Last fall while deer hunting I was fortunate to harvest my first and second deer with a bow. I was on the ground in a natural dry creek bed, behind a tree and some branches I leaned against it. One must be VERY slow to move in such situations (regardless of camouflage) or you get picked out quickly I've found over time. Thanks for sharing, outstanding as usual.
Congratulations on your first bow hunt! And you were hunting from the ground -- well done! That's a tougher hunting style than sitting in a stand =)
When Bob Ross first left Vietnam and started making videos.
This is genius, thank you so much for this great tip. :) Cleavers grow here in Germany too, we call it "Kletten-Labkraut". Wikipedia says it can be used in soups, tea and has some healing properties as well.
Jana, I love it when people share the names of plants in their own languages! Yes -- this is a multi-use plant. I use it for this, and have eaten it on occasion (when younger and not so "sticky"), but I'm just learning more about its medicinal properties.
Neat.
I was thinking about one of your earlier videos as I whacked at some burdock a day or two ago. I peeled a blossom stalk to nibble on and thought maybe you were hungrier when you did that video than I am!
See you in your next video!
Maude, I'm glad you tried it! Ha! I actually think they are pretty good, but I'm kind of weird . . . =)
One of the best blood pressure regulators is Hawthorne flower tea, not only does it bring your blood pressure down if it is too elevated, it also brings it back up if it is too low :))
You’re a great man, down to earth and entertaining, keep doing what you’re doing
Thank you -- kind words and great encouragement! =) Appreciated!
Once again Kenton, perfect job
Thank you, friend!!
It's a great idea when you need smt on the spot! Creative thinking!
This was one of the plants we looked at in an outdoor "Medicinal and Edible Herbs" class I took a few years ago. Apparently, it's from the same family as coffee, so you can dry and roast the tiny fruits to make a weak coffee-like drink (probably simliar to what you'd get from chicory), although I've never tried it.
You can also dry the leaves and stems to make a diuretic tea to help with high blood pressure or edemas.
Or you can boil the leaves and stems for food if you gather it before it starts producing fruit.
It's a handy plant. You can use it to stay alert and keep your blood pressure down while hiding from the bad buys. LOL
Nice! I'm going to be trying that "coffee" drink as soon as they fruits are fully ripe!
We have lots of cleavers in my area to. I actually pulled some off the side of my green house yesterday because they have climbed all the way up the side of the wall. Excellent idea, they stick extremely well. 👍 Great camoflauge vanished right in there. I use cats tail for fire tinder when it's around. There is a lot of ribwort plantain that works well as a antihistamine for bites. I have used it for a spider bite that was burning like hell and after chewing it and using on the bite the burn disappeared after a couple minutes. We are in autumn in my area so there is a lot of fungi around and the one I go for that is found around pine trees is Lactarius deliciosus (saffron milk caps😋). Lots of stinging nettle on my property to waiting for it to grow a bit more and lots of common purslane (high in the omega 3). Some other wild edibles in my area is dovefoot geranium, blackberry, mallow, wild onion, onion grass, early Nancy, chicory, wild lettuce (strong pain killer), bulbine bulbosa and sticky mouse ear chickweed to name the few. 👌
That's some great plant knowledge! I love the cat tail for tinder -- some of the plants you speak of are familiar to me, others not. The purslane is one of our favorites -- delicious!!!!
I tried to find some chicory around here in Florida to dry the roots to make coffee but I couldn't find any!
@@ReWildUniversity the purslane is very delicious I agree. The bulbine bulbosa is native to Australia. Very delicious edible. I am learning allot in the wild edibles department 😁. I have allot to learn but I am fascinated by all the edibles and medicinal plants. Another good one that I use for tea is the yellow flowers found on the stalk of the great mullien. It has a natural sweat taste to. Good bush tea. 👌
Great post however I thought geranium is not edible?
I'd love to see a progression through the seasons! Let's go with the prickly pear cactus. The paddle insides are edible, after being hollowed out the paddles can also be used as makeshift water containers. The fruit is also edible as are the seeds and the fruit can be made into a wonderful "tea". The really craft and careful can make fishing hooks from the larger thorns. Great video! Love you my friend 💚💚
Water botas out of prickly pear paddles! Genius! We can actually grow them here in S. Wisconsin -- I'd love to try them someday =) Sending love!!!
they taste great with porcupine
I've eaten the fruit of that cacti before - too bad I didn't skin them completely first! I had micro thorns in my mouth for about two years afterwards. Some people learn the hard way
Good idea! We have some grippy vines here in Florida that could work! My plant tip: You can clean your teeth with a stick if you need to! We have sweetgum trees here that are good for that! 🙂
That's awesome! I've used pine for that -- I always like the flavor =)
@@ReWildUniversity Niice!
Wonderful! These are volunteers in my yard. I generally let them do their thing in a small area just so I can see their whole lifespan. Up here in the PNW this plant thrives! I'm glad to know the plant is safe to touch! I'm totally going to let it go a bit more wild now and have some fun with it. Its so quick growing that I love it for my compost pile!
Brickell, I'm glad you're familiar with it! Definitely safe to touch, and even to eat, though really only good when very young before it gets its "stick hairs" -- then it's pretty gritty =)
@@ReWildUniversity What fate! The ones in my yard where gone, but me and my boyfriend got into a situation where we where waiting on a tow truck and we saw some and we played around with it, not enough to make a ghillie hood but enough to enjoy! Thank you for sharing. I love this channel and just discovered it. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!
Wow, so excited to have you here! I love your enthusiasm and that you actually go try things! Fun =) Welcome to the channel and I hope to see much more of you here! =)
Cleavers is a very important medicinal herb in natural medicine. Among other things, it's fantastic lymphatic system cleanser. In times where "going to the... doctor" can result in really bad things, Cleavers can really help keep your family safe as much more than just woodland cover.
Thank you for this! I was hoping for more information on the medicinal uses of cleavers. Appreciated!!
Hi all
Yes, we have cleavers here in my yard! More than we wanted. I first heard of them as an edible, and as a filling for mattresses, which is how it got a secondary name 'bedstraw'. Gotta love all that vibrant Springtime profusion of plants galore! Enjoy.
John, Ana, and Little Forest!
Oh yes, plants EVERYWHERE! It's interesting, because we are having a "drought" in Wisconsin which is affecting the farmers. No rain in weeks (though it's broken a bit in the last couple of days with a bit of rain).
But in the forests, everything looks vibrant and healthy and has plenty of moisture. A reminder that nature knows how to craft ecosystems so that they retain their own stability -- much better than we humans do. Those forests create their own coolness and moisture, becoming completely different environments than the farm fields that might be just a hundred meters away.
You guys are inspirational and I hope to meet you someday. It's been an incredible journey watching you since the 2013?
You disappeared like a ghost, Amazing!
You've been with us so long, Gabriel! So fun to know you've been part of our adventure from the beginning!
=) Kenton
I tried this with some 3 leafed ivy this afternoon. Looked incredible
Here in sweden we have an invasive species of plant called "Reynoutria Japonica" i do not know if it you guys have it in the US. However when the stems of this plant dries up they can easily be made into a panflute like instrument or a whistle since its completely hollow. There's probably more uses with a hollow stem but i find this the most entertaining:)
I appreciate your videos alot!
Yes indeed! It grows rampantly over here as well, but we love it as a great wild edible. So cool that you know about the hollow stems! We used to use those in a challenge at our school where you'd try to go under water and breath through it "ninja style" with your face pointing upwards. For most, it's a difficult task as our minds resist the thought of breathing in that position. =)
Whenever you find a stinging nettle, there's usually one's with white or yellow flowers nearby that look very much alike but these are called "dead nettles". Rubbing a stinging nettle spot with some dead nettle will supposedly neutralize the discomfort.
Great thing to share! Yes, nettles usually grow in concert with a couple of other plants who have succulent stems filled with juices that can sooth the nettle's bite. Another common one is jewelweed.
Stinging nettles is high in nutrients also very good firestarter will easily take a spark when dried .Never tried it yet but saw it on UTUBE
we don’t have cleavers in my area but i know willow leaves stick really well when they get wet, they also usually grow by water, maybe a couple soft branches of willow could make a guillie suit as well
Great thought! Such flexible bows, you could almost put them around and tie them (we often make quick baskets out of them). Good thinking!
So simple, so fast and effective. You are awesome
I grew my own ghillie suit works amazing old man beard grows on pine trees and you can use old man beard to clean wounds and brush your teeth
GREAT material for a suit. Awesome!!
Oh, the ticket out of the 15 minute city.
Nice takenek sir......👌👌👌👌
Dude thanks for sharing! This definitely helps me save money and helped me learn some new bush crafting ideas that I can pass along to the next person.
Thanks for passing it along! Sharing skills like these helps all of us grow in our bushcraft skills =) So much we can learn from each other.
Try this! Throw an armload branches on the ground (not too much or it wont look normal) and lie next to the pile with the blanket draped over you. Might even surprise a deer grazing in the clearing in early morning and get a close encounter with the deer kind.
Awesome! Another quick method to employ! =)
That was excellent!
Thanks my friend!! =)
The neatest and best thing about this is that it will match your environment better than ANY pre-made ghille because it literally is your immediate environment.
And it’s free 😅
Agreed! An often overlooked aspect of pre-made camouflage =)
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Right!
What do you think about getting a mesh jacket with a hood so that you can make a ghillie out of literally any plant? And you can take it off if needed and put it back on and just adjust how you see fit and for when seasons change or if the green just dries out?
Seems like a solid option..
That's a great idea. That would allow you to modify your ghillie to almost any environment, and even to alter its appearance as you move through an environment, transitioning from one background to another. Nice!!!
@@ReWildUniversity
That’s what I was thinking as well.
The best way to do that seems to be to get whatever under color weatherproof jacket you want (black green or tan) and then sew the ghillie mesh to that then you can weave whatever you want in there
@@ReWildUniversity
Probably doesn’t have to be weatherproof but something that’ll do alright outside lol
Thank you😺
this reminds me of the main "Antagonist", but really the secret protector in Netflix's black spot. basically this nightshade eating, quasi-feral but metaphysically powered man is roaming the forrest protecting the land.. its a really good series
Haven't heard of it -- as you might imagine, I don't watch much programming, but that one sounds like it might be interesting! =)
Also look up Ghilly Dhu, the origin of the Scottish gamekeeping use of Ghilly 👍
Edit for spelling, Gaelic ain't my 1st lol.
I love going to different places and practice disappearing into the environment I hope it's a skill I won't need but it never hurts to practice
Agreed -- one of those things we hope not to need in emergencies, but fun to practice nevertheless. Such an amazing experience to be still and unseen in the forest -- one gets a glimpse into a world few humans ever get to witness =)
Thank you
You should try doing a all natural camo paste to complement this video. I remember toying with that as a kid with charcoal and ground up spruce bark in water. And dirt, lots of dirt.
Great idea! Sounds like you could do one yourself! =)
Love it
Que bien, un toturial de como hacer un guille ligero, una ves lo hice pero con ramas algo pesadas y muy incomodas, pero inprecione a mi amigo, ahora lo inpresionare aun mas.
Been watching the channel for a bit and just realized you guys live in northern WI, me too!Cheers from Chequamegon Bay :)
Chequamegon Bay! Oh, we love it up there =) We used to be down near Cable. Now, however, we're in southern Wisconsin, down in the Driftless. We still have many ties up there, though -- sometimes we come up to wild rice or harvest the wild blueberries, and we LOVE the Juniper Overlook area, not to mention just being on the shore of that great, wonderful lake =)
@@ReWildUniversity What a strange and wonderful coincidence :). It is a special place for sure. But so is the Driftless. Juniper Rock is one of my favorite places on Earth! Do you or have you ever gone to Lake Superior Traditional Ways Gathering? I’ll be teaching a class there this year!
Wow! So cool we have all of this in common! I've dropped someone off at the gathering, so I've seen it, but haven't yet participated. What will you be teaching?
Amazing, thank you❤
You bet!!!
How fun!!!😊
Definitely! So fun to blend and flow with the woodlands =)
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing. You have inspired me to search for suitable material in my area to try this. Every blade of grass comes with a tick here, but I'm still interested in trying this lol.
Let me know what you discover! Yuck with the ticks. Up north we had a similar issue. For some reason, at our new location in S. Wisconsin, ticks are few and far between. Mosquitoes too. I guess I should see that as a blessing! =)
Mullein leaf makes a great tea for bronchial issues. The seeds can be thrown into backwater pools to stun fish for harvesting.
Jeff, I've always been interested in that mullein seed trick. I might have to try it out this autumn.
Oh this is very good..!
I was looking at a ghillie suit not that long ago in that cheap awful. And nasty place where everthing it seems is made in China, Walmart.
This featured suit in the video/talk is better, more adjustable, and is American made, GOOD STUFF..!!
I love it! American made! Yes -- it's about as "local" as you can get, using materials right at your feet. This one is temporary, of course, but once you get the hang of it they are so quick and easy to make that when needed, you can just use the principles to quickly disguise whatever parts of you are necessary. It's GREAT for those times like an experience we had not too long ago when we heard a band of wild turkeys coming through the woods in our direction. Gives you a much better chance of seeing them up close. And we're holding a capture-the-flag game for the local homeschool kids soon -- I'll be using this for sure, as those kids are FAST and I'll have to rely on camo rather than speed =)
Thanks!
Wow, thank you so much!!! =)
Awesome 😊
Glad you like it!! =)
@@ReWildUniversity yes its a brilliant idea 😁 specially since i live in the middle of woods.. so.. 😎
Ah yes -- we find cleavers just about everywhere in our forest. How cool that you live surrounded by trees!! =)
Last year I made a half-hearted attempt to pull them out and this year I've been totally invaded. Think I'll transplant them to the 'cloaking' area for further stealth activities.
Oh yes, they are tenacious! When young, before they get their hairs, they're pretty good as a steamed green. You could eat them all into submission next spring! =)
I'll take the mission you gave us. Where I live we don't have alot of that type of vine like you showed in this video. However, a very common vine where I'm at is hedera or ivy. It's probably not the best idea to use this for a ghilly suit as hedera can cause skin irritation upon contact or if injested it can give you an upset stomach. HOWEVER, as a kid I did not know or worry about this at all and would often use it as string or rope to tie around things such as sticks or use it to make woven pinestraw walls.
This cann be great for creating premade hiding spots if your unable to make a ghillie suit or if your suit doesn't really match the enviornment well enough. Turns out that hedera is safe when dried out and for a while keeps some of it's color. it also can stay tied for a long time after drying out aswell. So even if you can't use the ghillie suit right away, you can still make one using this stuff if your willing to wait for it to dry out and the sap to go away from the vines.
There are better options for sure, but if it's all you got in your area ivy can still be of use on your person or as a cover infront of you to add to your suit.
Nice! I really appreciate it when people share plants from their area -- that way we can all learn about plants from around the world! Where do you hail from?
@@ReWildUniversity I hale from the kingdom of Georgia. The most common plants I've seen are pine trees. Often ivy is growing right up the pine trees infact. The wood is also very soft so you can find fallen branches alot here aswell.
When I lived with my parents in North Carolina around the ft. Brag area I think it was, it was a very similar situation aswell.
Wow, if you ran through the woods wearing a full outfit of cleavers you would freak some people out! They probably wouldn't even have a chance to pull out their cell phones such would be their astonishment and disbeleif. If you first rubbed in some wood ash/charcoal (to cover your scent) you might not even be noticed by the local animal population going about their daily business. They would be astonished as well.
They would be rubbing their eyes trying to figure out what they just saw.
George, when I was filming this, there were a bunch of kids over, aged 5 and up. For a moment I thought I should play a trick and lumber out of the woods in my full outfit and growl at them. Then I imagined I might cause some nightmares and be the target of some unhappy local parents, lol! So I opted to leave the suit in the woods, but I do get a laugh every time I think of what might have happened . . . =)
Wise :) Might be able to sleep on the ground in plain sight and nobody would even know your there. Yeah if I had to go back and do it again, I would again grow up without a TV, running around outside in the pine tree forest, canoeing in the swamp.... all with no screen phone. They weren't invented until decades later. My am I old.
Agreed =)
What is your thought on dry leaves when all vegetation dies off late fall, how could i make a suite basically too blend into any environment?
You're asking a great question. I usually avoid dried leaves because of the noise they make. I'm reading the Lord of the Rings right now, and the companions have been given elven cloaks that sort of shift to the colors of the surroundings. Thus far we don't have something quite like that. Even camouflage is very dependent on environment -- sometimes it "pops out" visually because its pattern or colors aren't quite right (at least to an experienced observer). It might seem counter-intuitive, but what I might recommend is taking some time to try to escape notice in the woods while wearing brighter colors, or if you want to make things a little easier, a solid color like black. What this does is requires us to use the environment we're in to find ways to make ourselves less visible. Things like using terrain or trees to break up our silhouette, picking up objects (a stick, some snow, etc.) to use -- as I write this, I think that I should probably make a video on this. Maybe I'll try to do that soon! =)
we have this plant in central europe quite often, Hedera Helix will work too, dont know if it is common in the US as well
I love that it has a global distribution -- a true world traveler. I guess its sticking powers pay off! We do have ivy, but up north here it doesn't really grow wild -- one finds it where people are growing it on their property.
@@ReWildUniversity yes, sticky seeds did go far;) I used Ivy once as a cough medicine replacement, when we ran out of the bought one, it seems to have worked
Glad to know a use for that pesky weed.
Oh yes, it's EVERYWHERE, it seems =)
Fire? Yellow birch bark. Very dead white pine and eastern hemlock.
Yes! Great advice, all three!!! =)
8:08 them bluejays are loud aren't they. Almost like they can alert you to another person?
Indeed! In this case, they might have been talking with my dog who was roaming the woods just outside the camera's view =)
Hey Kenton I was wondering if you are still offering any rewilding programs or anything of the sort?
We have some online courses, but as far as in-person classes we're only doing custom programs one-on-one, and limiting it to a small number of participants. Do contact me through rewildu if you're interested in talking more!
@@ReWildUniversity thank you will do!
Love this channel but have a serious question. Ticks and chiggers! The suit is a fabulous idea but don’t you have ticks and chiggers?!?!
Hi friend! Thanks for asking. We don't have chiggers up here, but ticks are common in Wisconsin. Oddly, we don't seem to have many at all in our woods, but in other locations, such as where we were running our school, there were tons. We just do tick checks every night, and that keeps us tick and Lyme free these days (in the past I wasn't so careful and I've had Lyme 4 times in the past 25 years).
May not be helpful in any given moment, but a number of hunters I know have taken to wearing pantyhose when they go into the woods, believe it or not. It's pretty much impenetrable for the little guys who find us so tasty.
Hadn't heard of that tip. Thank you!
Nice hat, but I don't think the structural integrity of that can compete with ghuillies you can buy.
Definitely not. This is a temporary, quick method. Interestingly, though, that structural integrity of a real suit can be a liability in the event that someone in a ghillie suit is snuck up on. In some airsoft I've played, hand-to-hand was also allowed, and when a sniper was put in the position of hand-to-hand, they were in trouble because the suit basically gives anyone with a bit of training many "handles" from which to manipulate the person's body. The low structural integrity of this plant-based method becomes an asset in those situations, because it tears right off and can't be used to choke you or otherwise manipulate your body. Still, that is a rare instance if the ghillie wearer has a basic level of skill. =)
Does annyone know if that wierd rope plant is in northen europhe
I am one of those people that isn't lucky... I would make it out of poison ivy lol.
Aaagh! Just imagining the rash . . . =)
Hey Edward, just some encouragement... your luck can be changed by learning and practice! You can definitely learn to identify poison ivy and cleavers in just a few minutes. So if you just take is slowly and be careful the first few times, I know you'll nail it! And the more you know this and grow in this, the luckier you'll become!
Don’t use poison Ivy! lol
That would work as long as you don't have an allergy, sneezing and a real bad runny nose would give away your position
Definitely. The cleavers do have a flowering stage when there would be pollen that could potentially trigger some people's allergies. At the stage I was working with them, they are fruiting, so luckily the pollen is long past.
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