I wouldn’t survive without you. I have intentions of removing you as my EDC and human power tool and gain more knowledge to survival like an early settler without you ❤
At 70 born and raised on farms and very remote ranches in Eastern Oregon, Idaho and Western Montana with Grandparents born in late1800's early 1900's I was exposed to some of what they had to deal with. My parents started out life working farms and ranches with horse drawn equipment. I think I was 30 years old before I realized that children weren't born with calluses. Today as a retired old guy it's much better to watch young guys speculate if they could live that way. Knowing people from my past there were some that would quit the first day out but many that would work hard to survive and thrive and they would help their neighbor along the way. I have faith in the American spirit.
At age 40 I quit my job and moved to the Catskills, built a cabin in the woods (lived in a motorhome camper 1 winter while doing that) and lived there for 4 years until I got fed up with the constant snow. The cabin was on an abandoned road, 1 mile in from the working road and I used a row crop style farm tractor with chains to drive in and out to get to my truck and go to work each day. The snow would drift over the road for about a 30 yard long section, no matter what kind of snow fence I put up. I think I could have continued to live there, but didn't see the need to, so I moved back into town and eventually met my wife, so I guess it was a good decision.
I was a Girl Scout back when, and we learned survival skills. We learned to read maps, build fires, build shelters, find wild things to eat and find our way in the woods....
It would definitely make it difficult. With just my wife and I, we would probably do okay. Throw one of the grandkids in the mix and it's going to be a different game.
There were a couple of TV series a number of years ago, I think one of them was a PBS series, where various groups of people were put into a situation where they had to survive like the settlers did or like those who lived in 18th/19th century England. It was interesting to see what they did to survive and what ailments they had. I remember one family (from the US settlers series) where the father started having severe muscle cramps and it came down to him not drinking enough water. After the series was done, he and his son would make special trips to go out rabbit hunting to try to recapture the sense of being able to survive on their own if they needed to. They felt very empowered by the experience. Bottom line, none of the families/groups in the settlers series fared well. They all barely survived and that was with knowing there was 'backup' if they needed help. Not sure if I'd survive at this point. I'd sure as hell try, tho.
When I was growing up, I lived with my grandparents. They lived off the land. My grandmother worked in the gardens and feed the animals.My grandfather hunted, trapped and fished all the time. I've eaten many possums and groundhog over the years. My grandfather gardened 30 acres by hand. He would work the ole horse from daylight to dark and never complain about anything. He built his house from the trees he cut and took an ax and made 2x4,2x6,2x8 whatever he needed and used wooden pegs. He dug two wells by hand. .I honestly don't know how he did it but he was one hell of a man.I would help them all the time. They have passed on to a better place now. I don't know if I would make it living off the land like they did, but I would love to be somewhere,where there were no people around. Just me and a million acres. No laws and nobody to tell me what I could and couldn't do. I believe l could still live like that...
The difference is that they had the knowledge. They grew up in a time where everyone worked with their hands and knew how to use simple tools to create great things. Just read the Ashley Book of Knots, for example, and you'll quickly see how we've lost so much knowledge about something that is so handy and useful in everyday life. People laugh about rope and pulleys, thinking that ratchet straps are the only thing and must be better because they are newer. They don't know what they don't know. Back after Helene passed through, causing havoc, I was reminded of how few people not only grow a garden, but know how to can and pickle the harvest. How many had hurricane lanterns instead of relying on "modern" jive that required batteries or the shining sun, always one step from failure due to an electrical connection coming loose and them with no way to repair it? How many people have chainsaw, but not a single clue about using and sharpening a one-man crosscut saw or axe? Simple tools from our ancestors are what built this world. However, that knowledge has been lost. I think the overwhelming majority of people are now incapable of surviving outside modernity because they don't have the foundational knowledge. It doesn't do any good if you can find a mondern-day Crocket or Boone when there's no town full of people who can keep them alive. No man's an island. As good as Boone and the like might have been.... they relied on the tools and materials made by European culture, and that culture was built on a knowledge base that's simply not around anymore. In other words, we didn't tend our garden well.
I still live where my family settled. I think we could, but duuude I don't wanna. I mean, I grew up doin stuff old school, but that's why we got jobs and trucks and chainsaws and such now lol
Id last as long as the little debbies did lol All jokes aside, Id like to think Id make it, avid tradional hunter, backpacker, survivalist. I like doing things the old/hard way. Flintlocks and long bows, snares and deadfalls. The only thing that wld be a stopper is a major injury. Probably true for any of us.
First off, felling trees, then cutting them into the pieces needed to build a house, I'm sure would be an immense amount of hard physical labor. Clearing the land you have chosen to build your house on alone I think would require the efforts of a community all working together. One person working alone might be able to accomplish the task but it would be an incredible amount of work which could take years !!!
Watch Alaska the last frontier. Some of those men and women are amazing in the conditions that they survive in, we in the lower 48 have it pretty easy. Also read Alan Eckhart books
Good questions. Though the scenarios are multiple, varied, they make me to think of refugees, disaster/war survivors. What are their techniques when an agency hasn't come? I would be surprised to last long, being older and having physical issues. But, survive we would. t least those who could innovate... and had an element of Divine help, or "luck" (if there is such a thing!). Will, innovation... and mostly grace! Cool. Man, the building looks fun! Really enjoyed this. Thoughtful and entertaining.
Well, I'm not sure why but this is the 5th time trying to finish this. In 2 days time with all sorts of "issues" my wife is on her tablet, and a granddaughter on her phone, and the TV going. All perfectly but I try to watch this or any other Survival Dispatch video, and no joy. Whiskey tango foxtrot TH-cam????????
One of the advantages we have is we know it was done before. People lived in sod cabins. Was it ideal? No. But it worked. I grew up on a ranch. I've been weak, I've been strong. But a lot of things got done because they had to be, and we couldn't afford to just fling money at the problem, so, we made do. It might mean you found someone who could do the work better, and trade them work you were good at, in return. Might mean you showed up when the cattle had to be branded, and do your best pitching in to help. If nothing else, it gave everyone else something to laugh about as winter set in. As for family...think of the opportunities you would be opening up for them. Your own land, land to pass onward to them. That is security.
I remember this one Alone episode, where they dropped these guys off in a swamp. They had no tools and they were only given a gator to survive off of for a month. Two of those guys did a really great job! I can see those two guys making it out on the frontier, especially if given full tools of the period.
@ Hahaha, I think they would have a better chance than me. I think I have the knowledge, but it is all books and TH-cam learning on pioneer life. With my asthma it would be a hard go at it. I think that’s one factor that a lot of people don’t want to take into account. People born with serious health conditions back then didn’t survive through childhood. We don’t have to worry about that as much today. If the medicine supply stops tomorrow and we had to suddenly live like the pioneers, a lot of people will not be able to just from medical conditions. Granted there are people like Teddy Roosevelt, who had asthma and turned out to be one of our toughest presidents in history.
What if we came together with a strategic blueprint and a clear understanding of land carrying capacity and the arable landmass needed per person to meet holistic needs just steps from the front door? Imagine creating a one-person prototype that expands to a family unit and then grows into a fully functional, independent yet interdependent homestead community of 12 households, meeting all holistic needs at a localized level. Could it be that complacent consumerism, without replenishment, is the real crisis-one that most preppers avoid confronting?
Regardless of whether or not I survived or more importantly thrived in this hypothetical scenario, one thing is certain-I would put every bit of effort, knowledge, skill, and divine providence into the fray until I was done.👍🤙🖖
O yeahhhh, I'll make it with my family. It's all in the mind and heart and soul. My wife can do more with a baby in her arm than 99% of men around can do.
What we have lost is just how efficient we used to be. I've build timber framed structure for years competing with modern stick framer for the most part in a niche market, yes it was rough but it showed me hand work is not as bad as its often made out to be. Pit sawing was a real thing a variant is whip sawing where two pieces are gained from one hewn timber. I've seen rafter pairs with 3 hewn sides and one sawn with the matching piece in the same frame. Hewing is a great way to convert log to timber. A sample of one way to shorten up the hand work. th-cam.com/video/uDyLQuBgLRA/w-d-xo.html
ChatGPT says: You might be thinking of the film “Defiance” (2008). It’s about the Bielski brothers-Tuvia, Zus, and Asael-who form a partisan group in the forests of Eastern Europe during World War II. They construct a hidden camp, essentially a forest village, to shelter and save hundreds of Jews fleeing the Holocaust. The movie stars Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell, and is based on true historical events related to the Bielski partisans. I haven’t seen it so can’t comment further
I am quite positive that I would make it a solid 3 hours. In all seriousness let's not forget the first settlers of Jamestown who all died during the starving time.
Most people today wouldn't survive if we instantly went back to those days. That is probably one of the bigger reasons the population has grown so much, the weaker live a lot longer than they would have in previous centuries.
The book is of the same name. The brothers were Tuvia, Asael, and Zus Bielski. The conditions were horrible. Read the book. No movie could do it justice.
conditioning... it's all about conditioning... I'm not talking about physical fitness... but about mental and societal conditioning... they would have much more used to those circumstances than anyone today is... but I think I would have liked to tried it! #algobuster
Our ancestors would laugh at us seeing what we do know. They had balls of steel and now these so called man or a bunch of panzies and got no muscle or stamina for a walk around the block.
I wouldn’t survive without you. I have intentions of removing you as my EDC and human power tool and gain more knowledge to survival like an early settler without you ❤
Check your life insurance policy Jason. This sounds a bit fishy.
At 70 born and raised on farms and very remote ranches in Eastern Oregon, Idaho and Western Montana with Grandparents born in late1800's early 1900's I was exposed to some of what they had to deal with. My parents started out life working farms and ranches with horse drawn equipment. I think I was 30 years old before I realized that children weren't born with calluses. Today as a retired old guy it's much better to watch young guys speculate if they could live that way. Knowing people from my past there were some that would quit the first day out but many that would work hard to survive and thrive and they would help their neighbor along the way. I have faith in the American spirit.
Your so right about the quitters, their everywhere.
"Defiance" is the name of the movie. Stories like that make you appreciate what you have in the present and how quickly things can change.
At age 40 I quit my job and moved to the Catskills, built a cabin in the woods (lived in a motorhome camper 1 winter while doing that) and lived there for 4 years until I got fed up with the constant snow. The cabin was on an abandoned road, 1 mile in from the working road and I used a row crop style farm tractor with chains to drive in and out to get to my truck and go to work each day. The snow would drift over the road for about a 30 yard long section, no matter what kind of snow fence I put up. I think I could have continued to live there, but didn't see the need to, so I moved back into town and eventually met my wife, so I guess it was a good decision.
I was a Girl Scout back when, and we learned survival skills. We learned to read maps, build fires, build shelters, find wild things to eat and find our way in the woods....
That’s great. The Girl Scouts that my daughters were going to join appeared to be different so we decided to keep Jason as our instructor 😁
I’m in the pnw , two inches rain tomorrow. Lewis and Clark found Washington to disappointing , so they moved to Oregon
Yep it’s very disappointing
I left too.
Dismal @@howieoutdoors
Solo, maybe a month. With family... about 18 minutes. 😂
It would definitely make it difficult. With just my wife and I, we would probably do okay. Throw one of the grandkids in the mix and it's going to be a different game.
😂😂😂😂
Very different with family
There were a couple of TV series a number of years ago, I think one of them was a PBS series, where various groups of people were put into a situation where they had to survive like the settlers did or like those who lived in 18th/19th century England. It was interesting to see what they did to survive and what ailments they had.
I remember one family (from the US settlers series) where the father started having severe muscle cramps and it came down to him not drinking enough water. After the series was done, he and his son would make special trips to go out rabbit hunting to try to recapture the sense of being able to survive on their own if they needed to. They felt very empowered by the experience.
Bottom line, none of the families/groups in the settlers series fared well. They all barely survived and that was with knowing there was 'backup' if they needed help.
Not sure if I'd survive at this point. I'd sure as hell try, tho.
Yes, Pioneer House and Texas Ranch House. They are available in full on TH-cam. Great series.
I saw the pioneer one. Definitely left an impression on me. Those people had it ROUGH!
Dick Prenoke built a cabin by hand , Shaun James has built a couple in Canada with hand tools
When I was growing up, I lived with my grandparents. They lived off the land. My grandmother worked in the gardens and feed the animals.My grandfather hunted, trapped and fished all the time. I've eaten many possums and groundhog over the years. My grandfather gardened 30 acres by hand. He would work the ole horse from daylight to dark and never complain about anything. He built his house from the trees he cut and took an ax and made 2x4,2x6,2x8 whatever he needed and used wooden pegs. He dug two wells by hand. .I honestly don't know how he did it but he was one hell of a man.I would help them all the time. They have passed on to a better place now.
I don't know if I would make it living off the land like they did, but I would love to be somewhere,where there were no people around. Just me and a million acres. No laws and nobody to tell me what I could and couldn't do. I believe l could still live like that...
The difference is that they had the knowledge. They grew up in a time where everyone worked with their hands and knew how to use simple tools to create great things. Just read the Ashley Book of Knots, for example, and you'll quickly see how we've lost so much knowledge about something that is so handy and useful in everyday life. People laugh about rope and pulleys, thinking that ratchet straps are the only thing and must be better because they are newer. They don't know what they don't know.
Back after Helene passed through, causing havoc, I was reminded of how few people not only grow a garden, but know how to can and pickle the harvest. How many had hurricane lanterns instead of relying on "modern" jive that required batteries or the shining sun, always one step from failure due to an electrical connection coming loose and them with no way to repair it? How many people have chainsaw, but not a single clue about using and sharpening a one-man crosscut saw or axe?
Simple tools from our ancestors are what built this world. However, that knowledge has been lost. I think the overwhelming majority of people are now incapable of surviving outside modernity because they don't have the foundational knowledge. It doesn't do any good if you can find a mondern-day Crocket or Boone when there's no town full of people who can keep them alive. No man's an island. As good as Boone and the like might have been.... they relied on the tools and materials made by European culture, and that culture was built on a knowledge base that's simply not around anymore. In other words, we didn't tend our garden well.
I still live where my family settled. I think we could, but duuude I don't wanna. I mean, I grew up doin stuff old school, but that's why we got jobs and trucks and chainsaws and such now lol
Id last as long as the little debbies did lol All jokes aside, Id like to think Id make it, avid tradional hunter, backpacker, survivalist. I like doing things the old/hard way. Flintlocks and long bows, snares and deadfalls. The only thing that wld be a stopper is a major injury. Probably true for any of us.
First off, felling trees, then cutting them into the pieces needed to build a house, I'm sure would be an immense amount of hard physical labor. Clearing the land you have chosen to build your house on alone I think would require the efforts of a community all working together. One person working alone might be able to accomplish the task but it would be an incredible amount of work which could take years !!!
I believe the movie you referenced is "Defiance" starring Daniel Craig. Thanks for bringing it up, I'd love to watch it again!
Yes! Thank you!
At least... 15.... 20 minutes LOL Then I'll die of dysentery just like in 6th grade on Oregon trail. Great video! Thanks, Jason!
🤣
Watch Alaska the last frontier. Some of those men and women are amazing in the conditions that they survive in, we in the lower 48 have it pretty easy. Also read Alan Eckhart books
Good questions. Though the scenarios are multiple, varied, they make me to think of refugees, disaster/war survivors. What are their techniques when an agency hasn't come? I would be surprised to last long, being older and having physical issues. But, survive we would. t least those who could innovate... and had an element of Divine help, or "luck" (if there is such a thing!). Will, innovation... and mostly grace! Cool. Man, the building looks fun! Really enjoyed this. Thoughtful and entertaining.
Well, I'm not sure why but this is the 5th time trying to finish this. In 2 days time with all sorts of "issues" my wife is on her tablet, and a granddaughter on her phone, and the TV going. All perfectly but I try to watch this or any other Survival Dispatch video, and no joy. Whiskey tango foxtrot TH-cam????????
TH-cam has done an update recently, which, for me, is frustrating as can be. Thanks, YT!
@@artistknownaslisa2850 well, that would explain a lot then. Thanks I thought it was just me.
One of the advantages we have is we know it was done before. People lived in sod cabins. Was it ideal? No. But it worked. I grew up on a ranch. I've been weak, I've been strong. But a lot of things got done because they had to be, and we couldn't afford to just fling money at the problem, so, we made do. It might mean you found someone who could do the work better, and trade them work you were good at, in return. Might mean you showed up when the cattle had to be branded, and do your best pitching in to help. If nothing else, it gave everyone else something to laugh about as winter set in. As for family...think of the opportunities you would be opening up for them. Your own land, land to pass onward to them. That is security.
I remember this one Alone episode, where they dropped these guys off in a swamp. They had no tools and they were only given a gator to survive off of for a month. Two of those guys did a really great job! I can see those two guys making it out on the frontier, especially if given full tools of the period.
I saw that episode. Those guys looked like a couple of goobers. Definitely wouldn’t make it. 🤣
@ Hahaha, I think they would have a better chance than me. I think I have the knowledge, but it is all books and TH-cam learning on pioneer life. With my asthma it would be a hard go at it.
I think that’s one factor that a lot of people don’t want to take into account. People born with serious health conditions back then didn’t survive through childhood. We don’t have to worry about that as much today. If the medicine supply stops tomorrow and we had to suddenly live like the pioneers, a lot of people will not be able to just from medical conditions.
Granted there are people like Teddy Roosevelt, who had asthma and turned out to be one of our toughest presidents in history.
What if we came together with a strategic blueprint and a clear understanding of land carrying capacity and the arable landmass needed per person to meet holistic needs just steps from the front door? Imagine creating a one-person prototype that expands to a family unit and then grows into a fully functional, independent yet interdependent homestead community of 12 households, meeting all holistic needs at a localized level. Could it be that complacent consumerism, without replenishment, is the real crisis-one that most preppers avoid confronting?
There are some great old books still out there that were written by the men and women who settled those wilderness. They are worth the time to read.
Nope, I'd probably be the first one to bite the dust.
On the old OT, I was usually toast about 2 scenes after the first supply stop. Stupid dysentery. 1:21
The good book says: Men sharpen Men. Live and learn.
The Bielski brothers, the movie is Defiance. An excellent movie.
Deep down, we all have the resiliency to do what it takes.
However.. Our modern world and technology have made most humans soft to our detriment.
I could do it!
How: All things are possible with my Father Yahuah 🙌
Defiance was the name of the movie.
Regardless of whether or not I survived or more importantly thrived in this hypothetical scenario, one thing is certain-I would put every bit of effort, knowledge, skill, and divine providence into the fray until I was done.👍🤙🖖
failure is not an option...On 3!!!!
O yeahhhh, I'll make it with my family. It's all in the mind and heart and soul. My wife can do more with a baby in her arm than 99% of men around can do.
What I want to know is... do people ever see that spider out of the corner of their eye and swat you on the head?
99% of people would not make it, as so many are locked into everything being provided for them for money.
You may be right!
What we have lost is just how efficient we used to be. I've build timber framed structure for years competing with modern stick framer for the most part in a niche market, yes it was rough but it showed me hand work is not as bad as its often made out to be. Pit sawing was a real thing a variant is whip sawing where two pieces are gained from one hewn timber. I've seen rafter pairs with 3 hewn sides and one sawn with the matching piece in the same frame. Hewing is a great way to convert log to timber. A sample of one way to shorten up the hand work.
th-cam.com/video/uDyLQuBgLRA/w-d-xo.html
John Coulter did it I think I got a 50-50 chance been doing that stuff most of my life my biggest downfall is my age
Yep. Too old now. Sigh
ChatGPT says: You might be thinking of the film “Defiance” (2008). It’s about the Bielski brothers-Tuvia, Zus, and Asael-who form a partisan group in the forests of Eastern Europe during World War II. They construct a hidden camp, essentially a forest village, to shelter and save hundreds of Jews fleeing the Holocaust. The movie stars Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, and Jamie Bell, and is based on true historical events related to the Bielski partisans.
I haven’t seen it so can’t comment further
I am quite positive that I would make it a solid 3 hours.
In all seriousness let's not forget the first settlers of Jamestown who all died during the starving time.
Lol. Love the honesty. Not an easy life then
Explorer scout... no problem
The movie name was Defiance
Most Def
That's a great movie
Most people today wouldn't survive if we instantly went back to those days. That is probably one of the bigger reasons the population has grown so much, the weaker live a lot longer than they would have in previous centuries.
Well from the get go you would have not survived. The Santa Maria sank on the way over…..
Pluto TV carries the movie DEFIANCE (2008). Take the word "Russian" with a huge grain of salt. Borders were in constant flux.
The book is of the same name. The brothers were Tuvia, Asael, and Zus Bielski.
The conditions were horrible. Read the book. No movie could do it justice.
It would take a miracle and a healthy dose of luck and skill.
Agreed!
Movie is called defiance.
Thanks!
See ya on the next one
I'd be fine until the raccoons carried me off.
Watch one man’s wilderness
Excellent video
Good video, thanks for sharing, YAH bless brother !
Same to you!
They didn't know any different and had no choice
conditioning... it's all about conditioning... I'm not talking about physical fitness... but about mental and societal conditioning... they would have much more used to those circumstances than anyone today is... but I think I would have liked to tried it! #algobuster
Our ancestors would laugh at us seeing what we do know. They had balls of steel and now these so called man or a bunch of panzies and got no muscle or stamina for a walk around the block.
Yes they did!
Making a great house like you are doing I couldnt do without a mill. But I could do a Dick Proenneke style log cabin.
Old timer can. Not these new kids they will pass away n a wk with out there phones xbox TV r electricity running water r heat 😮❤😊