Silver Wolves Series: Amaze Your Grandkids with This Walking Stick Compass Trick!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ก.พ. 2025
- Hello Silver Wolves and welcome back to the channel!
In today’s video, I’ll share a trick my mentors taught me. I’ll show you how to use the flat top of your walking stick as a compass to tell direction. The fun part is letting your grandkid carry the compass while you “guess” the direction of objects. This trick uses the top of the stick as a compass, allowing you to find direction well enough to amaze your little ones and hopefully spark a lifelong passion for the outdoors in them as well.
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THANKS FOR WATCHING SILVER WOLVES!!
I clicked on this video because I am an outdoorsman and I have my first two grandchildren on the way!!!
Craft stores sell small metal watch faces for making your own packet watch. You can use one of these to nail to the top of your staff. It already has the hole in the middle for the watch hands that is perfect for putting a nail through.
Great vid on skills that are no longer taught.
Good idea I will get one of those
Cool idea!
I have a bamboo walking stick that enables me to glue a button compass in the hollow spot, in the top of the stick. Its very handy for rough determination of direction. Bamboo is very light weight, so the staff can be easily carried, all day long, without any problem. I've been using for at least 10 years and it continues to useful walking aid. ...... Cheers.
If you haven't allready tried - you can get creative and run pvc tubeling or a dense core to provide extra rigidity without a great deal of weight for added versatility 🙌
bamboo makes good light walking sticks
Blackie your tips are great. I remember his from 1983 BSA in Indiana. It blew kids minds! You are awesome and one of the reasons I still use youtube. Thank you Sir!
Blackie, Yes Sir Old School Still Rules. Thank You for sharing this Tip and Trick , Old School Knowledge is still works great. Thanks Again Sir. God Bless Y'all.
thanks
Funny thing is this kid learned to tell directions when he learnt to tell time. Honestly, I just assumed everyone did until I started watching bushcraft, backpacking & outdoor TH-cam videos.
i have been amazed at what the young people today dont know
After watching this video yesterday I went outside and tried it. Yup, it works just fine. I checked it with a compass. Great tip, Blackie! 👍
Im going to mark my stick and practice this, then have some fun with it. Thank's Blackie.
Hi Blackiie , greetings from Australia, thank you for your time to make these video’s. A little bit different here point 12 at sun and half way 12 and hour hand is north , this a great technique thank you showing us in Northern hemisphere, muchly appreciated,
That was awesome brother.. brought back a lot of good memories..! 🐻
Oh yeah!
Yes, Blackie the uses of a Gnomon (the stick that casts the shadow) and a clock face are myriad. Note if you do not have a clock and you have a compass, you can do the reverse to tell the time, A.K.A Sundial.
exactly
Thank you Blackie.
Good trick! I’m gonna try this!!
Good video Blackie, thanks for sharing, YAH bless !
thanks for watching
I do believe you might just be a little bit sneakier than I am Blackie. This is a informational video for folks that are too young to know these things. You have a great idea for messing with the grandkids. I'll be taking mine out soon and will pull that trick on them. Thanks for the video and the sneaky idea.
go out and test it where you are at with a compass till you feel sure you can pull it off nice and smooth
@@BLACKIETHOMAS this is not a problem Blackie. I'm a grandpa and we always know where we are lol. Actually I've been on this property for 24 years and checked my cardinal directions first thing. I will have to practice my farce if I'm going to fool them two though. Thanks for the tip though.
great video.
thanks
That's awesome. Keep up the good work and God bless you and your family.
Thank you! You too!
Cool trick, Blackie. 👍🏻
thanks
Simple and entertaining.
thanks
Awesome as always bud 👍
thanks for watching
goedenavond Blackie 👍
thanks
That's too cool 😎
thanks for watching
That's great 😅😂😂😂
thanks
I give a like even before I watch the video. Always great. Thank you 😊
thanks
Thanks, Blackie, that's slicker' than a greased up hog.
lol
Dont forget to subtract for DST if your state does thay sort of thing. Thanks for sharing one of those cool things my parents probably learned but never made it down to us millenials
Thanks!
you are welcome
Blackie, I just went out and bought her one win hammock and under quilt.
I'm just waiting for a little bit more money to go get a Machino net for the hammock
awesome
Thanks, Blackie. This is great for fun and for rough (crude) estimates, but precision becomes more complicated and needs compensation for Daylight Savings Time AND for whether you're located near the east or western edge of the time zone maps.
exactly this will be a very crude direction it works well to nav to big targets like roads or power lines or lakes but it will never replace a good working knowledge of compass and map nav.
@@BLACKIETHOMAS :D -- sometimes, a crude sense of direction is all that's needed and far better than none! Besides, this serves as good fun with young nieces and nephews! I like it and it's a great reminder of my old BSA days.
Good tip
Tho the dark without moon and stars would be tricky lol
very true but if sky clear grand father would use the north star to pull this trick
@@BLACKIETHOMAS yea that's why I made sure to say no stars lol
Thank you I hope you will show us some videos of West Virginia Gathering. I was planning on being one of your first 10 in, but life happens.
actually i was on vacation i didnt even take my camera i just went to hang out and enjoy the mountains
After materializing a clock dial on the top of walking stick, you can for the next video materialize it on the top of your hat! And with a simple feather that could also be used to indicate the direction of the wind, you should have the shade on your hat to know the south! Two tools; the south and other positions with the direction of the wind like a feather to the wind on the arcs to correct the eventual trajectory!
For those of us down south ... (Southern Hemisphere) ... it's point the 12 at the sun & half way between the 12 & the hour hand is North. ;-)
correct
My stick has a weird knock where the branch was misshapen that i use as my 12. Works perfectly. And people want to question how we played in the woods all day as kids and never got lost 😂
When I was training Volunteer Leaders for the Boy Scouts, I used to show them how to tell south using a digital watch. (This requires a watch with a strap that buckles.)
In order to tell where South is with a digital watch, unbuckle the watch and hold it stretched out with the strap fairly level, point the buckle end north, and..."
good info
When reading the clock, don't forget to take the summer-time-offset into account (if you have one)! I'm sorry for those kids that grew up with digital clocks and velcro on their shoes, they'll struggle with navigation and knots. But I'm proud of being able to compete with the Wizard of Oz (at least in the eyes of my grandchildren).
Blackie on the half part to find south do you go the same direction to 12 or the closest way to 12? For example, everything after 6 go clockwise and everything before 6 counter clockwise or is it always clockwise.
You beat me to it 😂
you go which way closer to 12 so if time is 4pm then go back 3,2,1,12 if its 8 am then go 9,10,11,12
😀👍
thanks
Neat idea. I'm curious, does solstice seasons or daylight savings effect it enough to call for adjustments?
yes in fall add an hr so if it is 9 am make it 10 am on the dial
👍 I just placed a large button style compass in the top of my stick. BUT, I like your idea better. 😃
Any anticipated date for the shipping of the run of your new style haversack?
soon i talked to the maker this weekend and expect them to ship to me in next week or so i will ship them out asap
@@BLACKIETHOMAS Excellent. Thank you for the update. 👍
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thanks for watching
I think it's sad that all that smart technology is dumbing-down our modern children in a lot of ways ; along with a society where common sense , isn't common anymore . Thanks for the insightful tip and trick once again Mr. Thomas
my pleasure
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safe travels
You have to remember to compensate for summer savings time when you look at your clock or you will get it wrong.
That's a great trick, but first I would have to explain what a compass is. Lol. My grandkids are still very young, but we're trying to instill an interest in nature and the outdoors. Hard to compete with Ipads and video games.
Good point!
How do you adjust for Daylight Saving Time?
just got to keep in mind if its fall add an hr
Hello!
hi
For us in south africa we go for the north. We just work the other way.
With us the half between 12 and the hour needle is north and it works .
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You just have to make the kid go to sleep at sunset… Have fun stay safe.
lol that will miss the campfire bed time stories
@@BLACKIETHOMAS but they won’t ask where’s North especially if I can’t see stars…that something everyone should learn is basic stars.
I've been trying it all night and still don't know which way is south
Northern hemisphere it’s South, Southern Hemisphere it’s North.
Why do you allow yourself to sell out? Why not do slightly bigger class sizes?
we made this choice to make sure each student has as much one on one time as they need to get the class information. less students = more learning per student