Very interesting, thanks Luke. Good to see the wool jersey in the survival spotlight, they are underrated as outdoors wear. I have an old hand knitted Irish Fisherman's Jersey from Aran Island, 1960s. It was made for hard use by fishermen and farmers and has a very interesting design feature. The front and back of the jersey are identical. The neck opening sits directly on top of the shoulders, it is not tilted down toward the chest, like a modern "crew neck" is. The front panel wears out the quickest due to the wearer always rubbing his work loads, ropes, fish baskets etc, against the front of his jersey. When the front panel is too full of holes and damage, he turns the jersey around and wears it backwards, exposing the new undamaged panel. The design of the neck hole means it can be worn either way comfortably. Thereby doubling the life of the garment. Clever ideas born out of practicality and cost saving. Thanks for the great vids Luke. Keep them coming mate.
I love the idea of just flipping it around when it gets too badly damaged. Since this video I have also invested in a good pair of woold pants. Fantastic for keeping warm in the winter.
@@TheBeardedBushranger True bro. European army surplus is often a good buy for those pants. What brand did you get? Any chance of a review of them on a future vid?
@@southernlandsolo7839 These were from a small crafts person on etsy. They make them themselves out of pure wool. I got a pair made in the gurkha style.
6:52 here in the Pacific Northwest we call gum boots “muck boots” And whereas you can spend upwards of $100 on a pair what a lot of us do is purchase two pair from Walmart for $45 dollars each. They come up to midpoint on ones calf and have steel reinforced toe box. Used around here predominantly on ranches and properties. Not to be confused with fisherman’s boots. They’re different although they look the same
3:44 when considering wool blankets there are two things that help tremendously for staying warm: weight and blanket pins. There’s a particular type of US Navy wool blanket that weighs just short of 5 pounds. They’re dark gray. When it comes to wool blankets in lieu of a sleeping bag I won’t touch anything that weighs less than 4 pounds. Many cheaper surplus blankets weight 2.5 or 3 pounds. With those you need at least two. If not 3. Blanket pins are, of course, the ginormous brass safety pins that can create a temporary seam between blankets and a comfy foot box. Proper blanket pins are around 4 inches long. Usually 6 are enough to make a great bed.
Yeah I reckon you are right. I have two wool blankets right now, the one I show in this vid and another white one. This grey one is much more lighter and you can feel the difference in warmth compared to my much thicker (but heavier) white wool blanket.
Thats awesome mate. Like the way you had a water container and an old school pocket knife. I imagine on many coasts access to drinking water would have been a problem. Must have been a tough environment to survive in unless you were fortunate to find a nice spot with clean fresh water and some source of food 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Yeah fresh clean water would be an issue, though I do find that in the cooler months, walk long enough along the coast and you are bound to find a stream or river. Also coastal survival is always much easier then inland, because of the bountiful sources of protien that is easy to obtain. In reality a shipwreck survivor might not have a full kit bag full of the goods that I brought on this trip haha so I made it a bit easy on myself here.
Thanks Luke . Yeah hey , many fascinating stories of shipwrecks tragedy and survival along that part of the coast . Much great reading for anyone who is into Australian and maritime history . so many interesting museums along that way too
Yeah plenty of musuems along our coastal towns that go in details of different shipwrecks! I've always found it a pretty intriging thing. Thanks for watching.
Awesome, this was a cool concept great that you stuck with the old school gear. Glad to see that knife with the marlin spike pop up. Its surprising how far back some of the things we take for granted go, like the tinned food, rubber boots, oilskin; and they all still work just as well or better than they did back then! Full credit to ya for lugging that sack around though haha I think its kind of underrated by most aussies the impact that the seal/whaling trade had back in the day, alongside the more well known ones like logging, sheep, and cattle. Keep up the vids! 👍👍
Cheers, thanks for watching. In my research I was surprised to find how far back some things went. Yeah sealers / whalers really were the first Europeon explorers who opened up the coastline. While settlements stuck to places like Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney .. it was the sealers/whalers that first settled most of our modern day coastal towns. Though their lifestyles and behaviours were often brutal.
@@Jeffrhodes-pl7rc I know what you mean mate. Everything is becoming cheap plastic and it's hard to get quality stuff from the past. Have you heard of these two shops? www.armyandoutdoors.com.au/ www.aussiediggermilitaria.com/
Really enjoy your videos mate, love how you stick with the tradition of the time and the history associated with that. Really cool and interesting stuff your putting out.
Can't go wrong with the good ol Oilskins aye mate,.use to love them back in me young shepherding days as teen,but mine was the complete opposite to dry 😂, warm but holy moly cotton candy Noone told me I had to waterproof the bloody thing 😂. Awesome little adventure happy days.
@TheBeardedBushranger +I tell yah mate many a good times on me horse in the back scrub blocks trying to muster wild Angus or sheep lol. On one station we had a old original musterers hut which was cool, came in handy. That was alot more fun then milking cows lol. These days I just do house sitting and odd jobs around my rural area.
you mean waxed canvas? Oil skin is just the method of waterproofing, using linseed oil. I have a oil skin canvas tarp and also a waxed canvas tarp. Both were around during the early 1900's. I'm not really sure which one would of been more common. Thanks for watching.
This is great. I have to ask what the temperature it is you are camping in? I find my wool blanket good all the way down to about 8 C without a fire. I thought that Australia was hot?
Gday mate. Yeah Australia is hot in the center and up north .. I'm down south in a place called victoria (though it's not as cold as tasmania) although we get very hot summers (up to 40.c) our winters can go down to -2.c where I am, and -10.c up in the mountains. On this trip I'd say it was right around that range of 7.c to 8.c .. so just enough to feel the cold, but still get a decent nights sleep. I also know that those winter temperatures are nothing compared to europe or north america. The only issue in Victoria where I am from, the winter cold often comes with wind and rain which makes it a bit hard.
I have to find some more specificly Australian ones! Two of my favourite novels (Moby Dick by henry melville, and the sea is my brother by Jack kerouc) focus on life on the sea in the 1800's and 1900's. A great book about the settling of tasmania, that has a bit of history of the whalers and sailors who transported goods is 'Van Diemens land' by James boyce .. and I have also heard that Tasmanian shipwrecks vol 1 is a good one. I might have to look at getting more Victorian focussed books though.
@@dananorth895 look up the history of Kingston canning and preserving factory and other enterprises that operated out of South Australia during the 19th century.There was a rabbit plague during that time with millions of rabbits being trapped and poisoned that supported food,tannery and associated industries.Most likely sailors ate tinned rabbit on such voyages as it was the cheaper than bully beef and mutton.Chicken was for Christmas lunch
@@DiabloOutdoors Thanks heaps for subbing and following along. Cool to see some international audiences here. You really have so much to choose from with outdoor content from Canada though!
@@TheBeardedBushranger Yeah, but your content is original and you seem a very nice guy. So it's a fresh wind on a sometimes boring community. Keep going sailor!
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Very interesting, thanks Luke. Good to see the wool jersey in the survival spotlight, they are underrated as outdoors wear.
I have an old hand knitted Irish Fisherman's Jersey from Aran Island, 1960s. It was made for hard use by fishermen and farmers and has a very interesting design feature. The front and back of the jersey are identical. The neck opening sits directly on top of the shoulders, it is not tilted down toward the chest, like a modern "crew neck" is.
The front panel wears out the quickest due to the wearer always rubbing his work loads, ropes, fish baskets etc, against the front of his jersey. When the front panel is too full of holes and damage, he turns the jersey around and wears it backwards, exposing the new undamaged panel. The design of the neck hole means it can be worn either way comfortably. Thereby doubling the life of the garment.
Clever ideas born out of practicality and cost saving. Thanks for the great vids Luke. Keep them coming mate.
I love the idea of just flipping it around when it gets too badly damaged. Since this video I have also invested in a good pair of woold pants. Fantastic for keeping warm in the winter.
@@TheBeardedBushranger True bro. European army surplus is often a good buy for those pants. What brand did you get? Any chance of a review of them on a future vid?
@@southernlandsolo7839 These were from a small crafts person on etsy. They make them themselves out of pure wool. I got a pair made in the gurkha style.
@@TheBeardedBushranger Cool bro. I would be interested in looking into a pair.
@@southernlandsolo7839 haha not too bad, you get used to it
6:52 here in the Pacific Northwest we call gum boots “muck boots” And whereas you can spend upwards of $100 on a pair what a lot of us do is purchase two pair from Walmart for $45 dollars each. They come up to midpoint on ones calf and have steel reinforced toe box. Used around here predominantly on ranches and properties. Not to be confused with fisherman’s boots. They’re different although they look the same
3:44 when considering wool blankets there are two things that help tremendously for staying warm: weight and blanket pins. There’s a particular type of US Navy wool blanket that weighs just short of 5 pounds. They’re dark gray. When it comes to wool blankets in lieu of a sleeping bag I won’t touch anything that weighs less than 4 pounds. Many cheaper surplus blankets weight 2.5 or 3 pounds. With those you need at least two. If not 3. Blanket pins are, of course, the ginormous brass safety pins that can create a temporary seam between blankets and a comfy foot box. Proper blanket pins are around 4 inches long. Usually 6 are enough to make a great bed.
Yeah I reckon you are right. I have two wool blankets right now, the one I show in this vid and another white one. This grey one is much more lighter and you can feel the difference in warmth compared to my much thicker (but heavier) white wool blanket.
Thats awesome mate. Like the way you had a water container and an old school pocket knife. I imagine on many coasts access to drinking water would have been a problem. Must have been a tough environment to survive in unless you were fortunate to find a nice spot with clean fresh water and some source of food 🇦🇺 🇳🇿
Yeah fresh clean water would be an issue, though I do find that in the cooler months, walk long enough along the coast and you are bound to find a stream or river. Also coastal survival is always much easier then inland, because of the bountiful sources of protien that is easy to obtain.
In reality a shipwreck survivor might not have a full kit bag full of the goods that I brought on this trip haha so I made it a bit easy on myself here.
Thanks Luke . Yeah hey , many fascinating stories of shipwrecks tragedy and survival along that part of the coast . Much great reading for anyone who is into Australian and maritime history . so many interesting museums along that way too
Yeah plenty of musuems along our coastal towns that go in details of different shipwrecks! I've always found it a pretty intriging thing. Thanks for watching.
Awesome, this was a cool concept great that you stuck with the old school gear. Glad to see that knife with the marlin spike pop up. Its surprising how far back some of the things we take for granted go, like the tinned food, rubber boots, oilskin; and they all still work just as well or better than they did back then! Full credit to ya for lugging that sack around though haha
I think its kind of underrated by most aussies the impact that the seal/whaling trade had back in the day, alongside the more well known ones like logging, sheep, and cattle.
Keep up the vids! 👍👍
Cheers, thanks for watching.
In my research I was surprised to find how far back some things went. Yeah sealers / whalers really were the first Europeon explorers who opened up the coastline. While settlements stuck to places like Melbourne, Hobart and Sydney .. it was the sealers/whalers that first settled most of our modern day coastal towns. Though their lifestyles and behaviours were often brutal.
@@TheBeardedBushranger yeah they would have been a rugged mob back in the day
@@Jeffrhodes-pl7rc I know what you mean mate. Everything is becoming cheap plastic and it's hard to get quality stuff from the past.
Have you heard of these two shops?
www.armyandoutdoors.com.au/
www.aussiediggermilitaria.com/
Canned sardines and tuna, just what a sailer wants to see more of. Lol
Although familiarity of diet and "rations" makes sense.
haha, I wonder if they would eat tinned fish out on the sea, or stick to more land based rations like cheese and crackers.
Really enjoy your videos mate, love how you stick with the tradition of the time and the history associated with that. Really cool and interesting stuff your putting out.
Thanks damo! It's been a great journey learning more about the old fellas.
100% well said!
Im loving these
Loving what you are producing Luke.
Keep up the great work. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Ian
Thanks heaps Ian! Appreciate the watch and the comment.
Can't go wrong with the good ol Oilskins aye mate,.use to love them back in me young shepherding days as teen,but mine was the complete opposite to dry 😂, warm but holy moly cotton candy Noone told me I had to waterproof the bloody thing 😂.
Awesome little adventure happy days.
haha sheperding in NZ sounds like it would of been quite an experience.
@TheBeardedBushranger +I tell yah mate many a good times on me horse in the back scrub blocks trying to muster wild Angus or sheep lol.
On one station we had a old original musterers hut which was cool, came in handy.
That was alot more fun then milking cows lol.
These days I just do house sitting and odd jobs around my rural area.
Very informative video. Thank you. 😀
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing Luke 👍
Thanks for watching.
wouldnt a sailor have had canvas not oilskin tarp, oilskin jacket n pants sure, great show love your work lots of fun
you mean waxed canvas? Oil skin is just the method of waterproofing, using linseed oil. I have a oil skin canvas tarp and also a waxed canvas tarp. Both were around during the early 1900's. I'm not really sure which one would of been more common.
Thanks for watching.
thank you it's was interesting 👍
Thanks for watching.
Are they the Burke and Will's pants?
Forget that, commented seconds before you said it.
haha yeah I think I called them chaps in the video but they are actually the carpentaria overpants. I love wearing them out in the snow as well.
Nice
Thanks for watching.
Hahahaha That was Awesomenessssss....Thanks for the Info
Cheers mate.
This is great.
I have to ask what the temperature it is you are camping in? I find my wool blanket good all the way down to about 8 C without a fire.
I thought that Australia was hot?
Gday mate. Yeah Australia is hot in the center and up north .. I'm down south in a place called victoria (though it's not as cold as tasmania) although we get very hot summers (up to 40.c) our winters can go down to -2.c where I am, and -10.c up in the mountains.
On this trip I'd say it was right around that range of 7.c to 8.c .. so just enough to feel the cold, but still get a decent nights sleep.
I also know that those winter temperatures are nothing compared to europe or north america. The only issue in Victoria where I am from, the winter cold often comes with wind and rain which makes it a bit hard.
Cool vid
Cheers mate.
Any good books you recommend for Aussie sailor stories?
One good book about the sea is the sea is in my bedroom 👍👍👍👍by Margret wild
I have to find some more specificly Australian ones! Two of my favourite novels (Moby Dick by henry melville, and the sea is my brother by Jack kerouc) focus on life on the sea in the 1800's and 1900's.
A great book about the settling of tasmania, that has a bit of history of the whalers and sailors who transported goods is 'Van Diemens land' by James boyce .. and I have also heard that Tasmanian shipwrecks vol 1 is a good one. I might have to look at getting more Victorian focussed books though.
tinned rabbit would have been the go for that time
I would think tinned beef and chicken would be abundent.
@@dananorth895 look up the history of Kingston canning and preserving factory and other enterprises that operated out of South Australia during the 19th century.There was a rabbit plague during that time with millions of rabbits being trapped and poisoned that supported food,tannery and associated industries.Most likely sailors ate tinned rabbit on such voyages as it was the cheaper than bully beef and mutton.Chicken was for Christmas lunch
Great video! But ...but ... what about THE most important of all? Vegemite!? No Aussie can survive more than a day without....
Not a bad idea considering it was invented in Melbourne in 1923
@@TheBeardedBushranger 1923...2024 .. good timing I guess lol :D You have a good channel and I`m happy to have discovered it. cheers from Canada!
@@DiabloOutdoors Thanks heaps for subbing and following along. Cool to see some international audiences here. You really have so much to choose from with outdoor content from Canada though!
@@TheBeardedBushranger Yeah, but your content is original and you seem a very nice guy. So it's a fresh wind on a sometimes boring community. Keep going sailor!
Cheers mate, that's a great compliment!