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The cool thing about a moss bedding is the fact that you can put it back in its place and it will survive so there is no permanent damage to the area!
That's actually really cool I didn't know that
Dear lord the bugs! We have horrible mosquitos here too! Maybe that’s why It’s called “New Scotland” LOL between the similarities in the landscape as well as the bugs... I can see how Nova Scotia got its name!
You probably already know, but New Scotland is named as such because it was a colony of Scottish immigrants. I guess they couldn't even tell the difference! :)
Amateurs! You should spend a night in Lake of the Pines, Texas. There is a reason I had a belt fed Saiga 12 Shotgun!
Goodness, mosquitoes and blackflies were some bad here this year! Also from Nova Scotia, and they carried ya away.
At one time we were joined together before the atlantic rift,
Colin Cleveland right on Colin. similarly, I never complain about the cold or heat to my companions. it brings them down, seen it a million times in the army.
Midges are a blessing. If it weren't for them Scotland would have WAY too many tourists lol
as an American from a rural area that has been taken over by tourists, i wish our mosquitos had the same effect. midges hurt!
@@rustyshackleford9017 hell yeah I got bit by one of them little green midget rascals. I have been river dancing non stop with a high fever doctor says it the damndest thing he has ever seen.
He should have mentioned how he keeps himself away from midges and from mosquitos!
What are those most effective some sort of protection from those bugs/ insects?
@@janosszentpeteri1922 ... Fire, and blanket over your whole body, head included.
I kow there is some plant you can feed a fire for bug repelling smoke but I don't remember which and if it would be available in Scotland
Just imagining the look on people’s faces you must come across when they spot a highlander roaming through the woods in 2019 😂
john Mullholand Very effective social distancing. 😏
@@TheAuntieBa Only to be matched by a pair of revolvers open carried! LOL
None shall pass!
john Mullholand I’ve never open carried; I want the element of surprise, and with a mass shooter, open carriers get shot first!
@ cheers dits
and i thought we had it bad with bugs in Florida
We do, born an raised there an still like to play in the swamps.
Scottish midges are no joke
Those are just gnats, not mosquitoes.
@Eric hoyt Well, I know one thing, he doesn't have as much bugs as I do where I live.
Doesn't look like they were biting him. Been to a lake where unless you dived in to the water you would be covered by itchy bites in seconds
I’m astonished that it’s taken so long for the algorithm to recommend your content to me, considering this is basically a cross between Primitive Technology and Townsends, two of my favorite channels.
This just reminds me of my summer job for the past few years. I was an activities director for a campground and every Saturday I would make a campfire with a flint and steel. I would just sit by the fire with all the kids, roasting marshmallows and telling ghost stories. Even though the bugs would drive us crazy at first, as soon as I got that fire going everything was great. Those were the nights.
Can you please tell what do you use or used for tick, mudges, and mosquitos repellent? Thanks in advance!
I agree. My wife and I as newly weds lived three months in a tent on Wolf Mountain 20 mi from the nearest town, Oak Ridge, Oregon while I worked as a fire-watch for a logging company. Mosquitos, midges (known locally as no-see-ums, Culicoides spp), and black flies (called buffalo gnats, Simuliium spp) were very annoying when we first moved into the woods. We used DEET to repel them. But after a day or two living around a campfire, they seemed to lose interest in us. Each weekend we'd go to town to shower. When we'd come back, we had to start all over to become invisible to the biting beasties. To protect from ticks, I recommend spraying permethrin on clothing. Worked perfectly for us. As an aside, the Wolf was a central character in the World Origin stories of the Kalapuya Indians from that area of Oregon. Wolf Mountain is in the middle of the Willamette National Forest (6790 sq km, about the size of Perthshire) mostly Douglas Fir forest, though a great diversity of plants especially plentiful edible berries along the many creeks and in open places in the forest, lots of small and large game and fish. A wonderful place to practice survival skills.
This guy is F-ing badass. I had to get up and put on 100% DEET just to watch the video.
This has been INCREDIBLY helpful as I'm writing oh my word. The midges! Worse than mosquitos here in the states! But I also just love watching the historical things put into practical use!
When the first Scots arrived in Nova Scotia they quickly adopted the breeches or long trousers of the New Englanders saving their kilts for special occasions only. Yes it was the "midges" or mosquitoes that drove some of the Highlanders to spend their summers somewhere else returning in the winter to work on clearing their homesteads. The Scots and the mosquitoes are both still here.
When I did black powder reenacting years ago we tried both wool and linen leg wrapping. It actually does keep your legs warm but there’s certainly an art to wrapping so that they don’t come loose and they’re not too tight and cut off your circulation especially if you’re going to be walking or marching for some distance. I discovered the joy of Native American weaving back in those days. They used to have a thing called legging ties or leg ties that were basically about 2 feet long or so woven bands of yarn or something and you would tie them just above your calf. They worked really well. You’re a Highlander the man you need to get yourself some sheepskin boots :-) I’ve put on sheepskin boots and they are luurvely to wear with that nice soft lambswool on the inside and they keep your feet so warm. You just wear a thin line or sock or something like that. They’re naturally water repellent because of the lanolin in the skin but my buddy who was married to the lady who made them actually added another layer of cowhide leather to the bottom of his to give him a bit more traction and a little bit more resistance to water and mud coming in through the bottom because they do wear out eventually.
Even despite those little itchy things, this great video gets me excited to go out on adventure again:) Great work and love the highlander setup! See yah!
Thanks buddy! You will need to come over and join me again at somepoint :)
You often watch this video, the life of a beautiful girl in the forest is wonderful.
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@@FandabiDozi Hi, Can I ask you, personally where do you purchasing from the kilt and plaid it's always with you? I'm really interested in this. Thank you for everything! And have a great day!
Those midges my goodness! I bet you were glad to have those trousers on haha!
In Sweden they are named "myggor" i wonder if there at some point in history has been a connection between languages?
(like people was trading in aincient time and learned from each other, etc?)
Wonderful video would a 3 by 3 nylon water proof tarp work better with 19 tie doun places. All the very best.
🇨🇦🏕🍺Ed Edsnature
Vampira well for a long time the vikings did bring their raiding and conquests to scotland so it wouldnt surprise me.
@@franjay5585
Well, If there where any offsprings from those enconters i assume that it would explain all prejudices about Scotsmen...
@@sheep1ewe Norse blood lines are fairly common in Scotland, in fact the north east and Orkney/ Shetland islands are predominately a norse culture and spoke the Norn language (a local variant of Old Norse) until at least the 1600s. Furthermore there are a number of Norse loan words in both the Scots and Scottish Gaelic languages
What a hero this lad is...I was itching like hell just watching this video.
Wonderful, your camera work and editing made me feel like I was there - without the midges!
Beautiful song around the fire 🔥
I'm curious about what the song was, and who the singer was
Good on you man. That is an insane amount of midges and mosquitoes! when I was tree planting in north Ontario we would put toilet paper in our ears for the black flies. Helps with the psychological aspect a little! Its hard to beat that feeling of finally getting a nice smoky fire going in bug seasons!
2 best awards go to this video!!!
1. Best Costume Design for a bushcraft video! Amazing costume.
2. Bravery against bugs n mosquito! Tons of mosquitos all over and many were stinging through the shirt at the same time, yet the actor, facing certain death from mosquitos slaughter, continue to demonstrate how to build fire.
well done Tom, you can sense the ancient energy vibrating from the land, even through filter of a lens
@Kathleen Mcmanus Pity your cynicism clouds your ability to notice the interaction between a person and their ancestry, and the joy that brings to them and others, whatever the backdrop. Perhaps you would prefer the highland or lowland peoples to have been subdued by the alien lairds and the commercialization of ancient holdings and common spaces to suit their greed and indifference. The trees, mountains and grasslands can thrive and still be alive to benefit many no matter what their origin. Even prehistoric man, Celts and others managed and cultivated the forests and lands. Does that mean the Druids groves are by your definition not to be considered sacred? Get out there Kathleen and meditate under a farm planted tree and I'm sure you will still feel spiritually enhanced afterwards. Be well
@Kathleen Mcmanus The most important thing in my humble and apprenticed opinion is to escape the noise of urban and modern living an escaping to the sanctuary of nature wherever its found and just interact with the calmness. I find it healing and medicinal and in turn I hope to be a better human being because of it. It's even better when you share the experience with someone you love.
As someone that's spent several years in south east asia during a "period of time" for the British Forces, I can honestly tell you that the scottish midge is a real test of your mental fortitude. Proof being that around 4:40 you can see -specifically in his hands - the extra, almost panic, in his actions.
Good idea to have those leg wraps and trousers walking through high grass, lyme disease from ticks can be real debilitating.
And all thanks to civilization ;_;
Fortunately there are still shitholes barely touched by humans so there are almost no ticks and none of them carry the disease so you can go camping without fear!
How widespread is Lyme Disease? I know its prevalent in North America
@@Sk0lzky its usually ticks from deer and sheep in scotland last time we went there we had to check the dogs e ery day for ticks
@@geoffpriestley7001 aye but the initial spread of Lyme was caused by increase in mice population and their invasion of... Well literally everything including parts of siberian taiga.
I think some TH-cam channel has a video on reasons for lyme becoming more and more common despite it being discovered a long time ago.
Cheers!
@@larrymanns364 it's pretty much everywhere in moderate climate, at least on the northern hemisphere. I've no idea about the Southern though
Nothing beats the North latitudes for bugs...forget the tropics. I feel your pain and salute your calm in the face of such an assault. A word to the wise, after you find your campsite light the fire first before the midgies zero in on you, after you get her going nice and steady, use some damp material to create smoke for yourself, it makes setting up camp a lot more pleasant.
Another great video by the way.
OMG! I will never complain of mosquitos in the swamps of Louisiana again!
Good vid!
6:25 I legitimately thought some Celtic songstress was wandering through the woods haha
I love this stuff! It’s always such a satisfying accomplishment to start a good campfire. Those mosquitoes look like hell.
Oh how I envy you all that lovely moss! I don't envy you the midges though, geez I can see them swarming you. I'd love to know more about your canteen.
The Midge King!!
The only thing that ever kept midges off me, was being sick after way too much whisky! The whisky oozing oot my pores drove the wee devils away completely.
Thanks for sharing your videos man. Thank you
That's why Scottish whisky was invented, to keep the midges away.
@ LOL
If you got the trousers and wraps from Grimfrost, then I can proudly say we wear the same type of pants! I love the breeches and leg wraps both for their comfort and style personally. As someone getting further into learning of not only the Norse/Viking cultures but not Irish and Scottish cultures, I’m glad to know that some parts of my kit transfer as I thought they might have.
Love your videos to listen to and watch while I sew and go about my creative projects.
This was an absolute joy to watch. Beautiful scenery and you captured it well.
You obviously know exactly what you are doing and your kit is awesome.
Woolen leg wraps called putties were worn by the British military until sometime after WWII, at least in the Highland Regiments. I remember having to wear them in the Army Cadets in the 90s. It's not such a stretch to think these were commonly used in civilian life too, just the way you are in the video.
Oh they were worn throughout most of the recorded human history. Women sometimes wear thick socks over the trousers in a similar fashion to this day!
Awesome! tHanks for the info!
Excellent video. I love these highlander videos, as I’m half Scottish and English I always feel slightly more Scottish while watching.
Perhaps a temporary and smokey 'Setting Up Fire' could be useful while you get the shelter ready - just to keep off those bloody midges!
Wont put scottish midges off they just come to get hi on the smoke, i'd swear they can bit through clothes
Your video about sleeping in a wet plaid was the first one I ever saw! It was just a few days ago, but your facial expressions in the beginning when reading about it were what hooked me. Great acting!
Good thing you had those trousers and leggings. Glad our midges aren't that bad. Nice shelter setup. Safe journeys.
Live Free, Live simple. Many peaceful adventures to you brother
3:12 **THOSE BUGS!!** Those bugs are ridiculous!! Respect to you, Man!
Good stuff, proper roughing it. None of your latest tent & titanium cookware. Proper survival skills. Great video. Traveling light.The beauty of knowledge is it weighs nothing more than your already carrying. I'd love to have all the kit you've got there & give it all a go in the same environment. Top Man. 😀👍🍀
holy hell the mozzies
Another fantastic one! Came back for some of your pointers. We are opposite ends of the island and if you could see the faces of the people I walk past, they seeing a highlander so far south, it’s like the ghost of the bonnie prince appeared himself! The mozzies are a pain here. Can watch the clouds of the little devils dancing around the fire side. They make home under any cover. Excellent camp, thank you for sharing these! Learning a lot from you and picking up some great reads too :)
I almost wish I were still living down that way myself. What part of the south are you in? I was in West Sussex; used to walk Cissbury Ring and sometimes further afield, and sometimes drove to the Isle of Purbeck when it was still undeveloped.
Great video. A proper contrast to the gadgets and lightweight gear of today. I would love to try something similar. My vintage gear is more 1970s-80s military from sweden and poland. I do have a lovely handmade wool tartan blanket from the Shetlands though 😀
I'm really enjoying your videos and only just come across your channel, I get so itchy seeing the midgies brings back vivid memories of Highland outdoors!!!
Great video, love the wool tarp. The guy sleeping underneath it is pretty great as well!
Well done,something very soothing about the sight and sound of a camp fire,you done well sticking out the dreaded midges.
Those mosquitos would have run me out, your really devoted, thank you for the great video
You are so patient with the midgies. Deserves applause. 👌🏻👍🏻❤️
Thank you again for another wonderful informative vid! Xx
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I'm addicted to this channel, some of the best content ever.
Love Julie's voice in there!
Brilliant, really like what you are doing here. Great research and experimenting with highland bushcraft. Kept your cool with the midges, respect. Most people would have run a mile...
I swear one of those airborne pests flew through my screen and bit me.
That is a good way to stay sane. Power to you brother.
What a good TH-cam channel you have.
It's personalities like this that make this platform so amazing.
These history re-enactors are so educational.
I liked and subscribed
Thank you for everything you do
I keep reassuring my wife that TH-cam has SO MUCH IMPORTANT CONTENT and not just 'tat' to share with the wider world of genuinely curious folk.
Great video! Those midges are horrendous. I have to wonder how successful their means of keeping dry were. I appreciate the effort you go to to make these videos both in re-creating the equipment and clothing as well as the video. You might want to run the credits and supporters on one side of the screen with you on the other so neither is obscured.
In Norway we sometimes use a bit of garlic juice on the skin and or smoked clothes (take a cloth over a smokey, slightly moist fire as long as possible and tie it around you) to help against midgies❤️😊 you can ofcours just buy midgie sprayes and make fires but if thats not a possibility😊🦟
Seeing the midgies made me oddly nostalgic 🤣 a Highlander far from home haha
Great video, I really enjoyed this! You truly do go to great lengths ( damn midges!) to give us the true Highland experience. Thank you Tom!
I always wore as a 1745 re-enactor cut and sewn wool leggings. I also made a small self feeding fire with a large log behind it to reflect heat.
God bless you man. I could see the swarms of Mickey’s in the film footage that must’ve been a challenge. We have mosquitoes here in the southeast United States and they can be absolutely deadly. They bug you to death and they bite the shite out of you constantly so you go mad. When I lived in Florida it was so bad that they had to send a spraying truck through all of the residential neighborhoods where I lived every night. That was just to keep the numbers down. I started learning about some of the old ways of keeping the bugs off me from my grandparents there was a plant that you could rub on your body that would make it so that she didn’t taste very nice. A few years later a friend of mine who is Native American told me that the way they did it was they would keep a fire going pretty much all the day and all the night for cooking and also they would put certain types of plants on to the fire while they were Still green and the smoke from those small green plants they would fan it onto their bodies and their clothes and the insects didn’t like the smell of it so they would leave them alone. Ever since then I have found the act of purification by smoke to be a very necessary thing when you’re out in the woods a lot.
Smoking a cigar will keep them off you too. Not exactly healthy but it beats getting eaten alive.
Oh man, I would have died in those woods. Those flying devils love my blood!
13:13 Historically accurate demonstration of a Scottish Highlander who is ready, willing, and able to Bust A Move
'Tis a fine coat you're wearing! Warm for the nights as well! I've seldom been on an autumn outing when both my spouse nor I did not wake next to each other from the cold. So...even with a good bit of help, the cold does find its way in.
The old Highland midge mate, ruined many a day out.greetings from Invergordon pal
Good stuff. And educational. Dang that's a lot of bugs. My family is from Scotland. The Mcleans of Duart, on the Isle of Mull. I enjoy your videos.
Hi! What are those practical and most effective way that you can do to repels those mosquitoes, midges, and ticks? Thanks in advance.
Min 3 14..my god!!The fact you can do a proper video with them lil bastards is nothing short of a miracle .Top man top video and tons of respect and appreciation👏👏👏👏 .
Great videos, very special atmosphere. I love the singing as well!
but the bugs! 4:29 the sound made my day! that's crazy, and I can't sleep (in my comfy bed) if there is just 1 moskito present in the room :-)!
I can feel those midges just watching this. Good vid!
Are there no midge repellents written about in the historic Scottish writings or where our ancestors just hard as nails? To be fair when I worked as a keeper I seemed to get used to them but sometimes they where unbearable, especially at dusk.
I wish I know some techniques for bug repellent.
I admire your dedication, most people would have sprayed themselves with bug spray off camera and gone on as if there were no bug's, instead you built a fire and soldiered on, bravo mate. Another solution is to put some cow shit (dried cow patties) on the fire, it's an old bushie trick from Australia (and I am being serious), it works to drive off the bugs and doesn't smell too bad.
Cool and very nice approach to the outdoors! A tribute to Your heritage 💪🏻❤️
Regarding using a wool blanket as a tarp; would a waxed linen sheet work better? Using cotton as a substitute for experimentation, mix white spirit/turps with beeswax and coat the sheet. Not sure if methods and materials fit in with your timeframe, but an alternative to investigate.
I suddenly remembered why I left Lake-of-the-Woods, Ontario (the home of giant walleye). Waves of bugs alternate every few hours: gnats, blackflies, deerflies, no-see-ums (couse, you don't see them, except their TEETH are several inches long, or feel like it), and then with nightfall up come the mosquitos. A good long sleeve Boy Scout shirt and being downwind in the smoke smudge saved the day. Decades later I 'm at a wedding and the guy next to me is still talking about that night!!! Had no idea he was there, too. !!!
your choice of backing music is perfect and that's very rare on a youtube video
Excellent video. Always remember. It is a case of mind over matter. If you dont mind, it dont matter.
You're a braver man than I am Tom, I would have been clawing my face off by now! 😫
I commend you for your patience setting up amidst the swarm.
Very cool! All your camping gear is very much the same as how is was done here in Colonial America,
Some people still use your methods like me.
Thank you for sharing.
Between about 6:10 and 6:15 the smoke makes ALL the bugs disappear. Awesome :)
I’m scratching more than you just watching. Another fab video thanks
Beautiful vid. I surely wanna visit there some day..... maybe..... someday.
An exellent video. Both period correct and s&h right along with much of fun. Gratulations.
Another excellent video! Much love from the USA!!!
Thanks must of missed this video when u posted just came up on the left on ur new one. Have been attacked by the midges loads but remember camping near Aberfoyle one time where they were in swarm could hardly stand them to pitch camp and get a fire😡 once we got a fire going we had to hide in the tent and take turns of putting ferns and green wood on to clear them away. Still remember getting up in the morning and my friend saying that is a load of ash turns out it was dead midges a inch thick on the fire coals😱
Interesting to brought them as "Viking" ive just got back from Visiting a Knife company in Norway. The owner had a road trip though Scotland. He said he really felt at home there especially in the northern isles which the Norwegians call Norðreyjar.
We had some great chats on the interweaving of Scots/Norse cultures.
was very interesting for me as my moms family are from Caithness.
Camping under cover makes the shelter easier but obviously has drawbacks. In Florida the mosquitoes and yellow flies can be murder. I tend to pick spots a bit into the clearing as they seem to take a bit longer to get at me. Once you get a nice smokey fire going they tend to leave you alone. You've obviously got more options for arranging your cover in the forest's edge but I don't have the patience you do with swarm. Good man.
Love these videos, I was raised in the Highlands and this is what my ancestors would of been doing
Reminded me of my trip this summer ! Especially the midges haha ! Ah, how I miss Scotland, I really gotta move here someday. Thanks for the video :) !
Btw you're a much enjoyyable person to watch and to listen to. Cheers
Respect and admire your efforts at staying traditional. My grandfather had a flint and steel much like the one I believe you used.
Wow, brilliant effort, thank you. I camp in a similar way in Australia, minus the authentic highland garb of course.
Awesome video! I've done some outdoor camping with similar amounts of mosquitos and midges. It really tests your ability to tolerate being uncomfortable. I am looking to test a similar sleeping system here in Norway. Wool blanket, tarp and perhaps a hammock. We will see. :)
Oh man.. midges are the stuff of nightmares for me D: Midges and horse flies and mosquitoes, gaahhhh, so much of them this summer in Norway.
Looks cozy!
Those midges totally help me appreciate my LA apartment, though! I haven't seen a bug in days. Haha
Nice one 👍. Those midges looked a pain 👊
I'll still respect you if you use but repellant, they make natural ones if you don't want to use chemicals, well done though!
I think I'd respect him more if he did.
Radish juice put on your skin works 5 hours. Try it. I'd take a jar of radish liquid for next time. Blend in blender, squeeze juice from pulp, rub on exposed skin. Well, if you were going all the way primitive, you'd have to use mortar and pestle to pulverize the radishes best you can.
@@christineveazey4345 For what i know, at least mosquitos hate the lavendel. In whatever form you have it around or on you, they won't get to you. Don't know if it's something for all kinds of mosquitos. Dried lavendel, or as a spray, cream, oil or parfume, whichever that works for you, will fiend off them.
There as other similar plants/flowers that works too the same way but i can only rember lavendel now.
The size of those midges on your back 😬 ugg I was begging for you to get the fire going 😄 awesome video 👍
Lol I love that you can just pick up moss like a roll of carpet
Looks like you're having a Windows 95 day.
Seriously buggy.
Do you do anything in particular for tick prevention when sleeping on the moss bed? Do you know what was done for this historically?
Cover yourself in pine tar & bees wax.
awesome. support. you got your whole mattress in one go. excellent.
Aye man: those midgies are awesome pests! The moss is a great resource and that may make up for a bit of the trouble. The mish-mash of plaids is a bit difficult to watch...but the idea of using good Highland wool comes through well enough.
Don't worry about the linen trousers mate, if the Highlanders used woolen trousers, some probably wore linen underneath for comfort :) Allthough most likely not many of the common people, as linen were harder to process thus making it more expensive.. Love your content, keep it up!
incredible content, nobody do better overnight videos than you keep it up !