We talk about all the gear, but no one talks about the clothes they wear. I think it's first and foremost to survival.
@cluelessbushcraft
Жыл бұрын
I think that's because they don't have a video showcasing all their clothing. Im discussing the 10 items because they have videos of them showing it all off and taking about it. It's hard to tell what clothing they all bring and why if they don't talk about it. The editors also cut hundreds of hours of footage also so we don't get to see everything
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
6 ай бұрын
actually, they are told what they can and can't bring. About all you get to choose is what materials the clothing can be made of. Unless you want to spend $20,000 on special clothing,you're going to take about $5000 worth of off-the-shelf stuff, most of it being merino or alpaca wool. The faster drying, lighter weight of polyesters, etc, mean nothing, cause you've got a shelter and a fire to dry out your clothing with and you mostly just hole-up in your shelter after the first month. By then, you'll have done almost everything productive that there is to do. You can stuff dry, soft debris between each of your 8 layers of clothing and gain a lot of insulative value in that manner.. You dont want a fire inside of your shelter. Just leave on your clothing once it gets cold. When it gets below freezing and you're not dumb enough to have a hot shelter, fungi and bacteria will no longer be much of a threat. So you wont have to bathe much at all and you can probably just use smoke to kill off that stuff anyway. I'd not risk washing my face or hands with non-pasturized, (preferably boiled) water that had not been mixed with some hardwood ashes. one little infection can cost you a clear 350k that you had in the bag prior to being stupid about such things.
@norho8129
Жыл бұрын
I believe Cade brought Leatherman Crunch. Nice review!
@yomamaso100
Жыл бұрын
Inwould brong two food retions too. One ration of trail mix to keep energy when I build my shelter The second would be beef jerkey for the reason you stated. To keep for the wonter when food would benhard to find
@cluelessbushcraft
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I agree. I recall Teimojin Tan who was runner up in season 9 had brought some rations also. Many people who bring the rations starve slower haha 🤣
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
@@cluelessbushcraft no, the pemmican has twice as many calories as the jerky and the fat in the pemmican lets you mix in some cambium. gotta mix fat with cambium, as well as dice it up,, boil it and fry it, or you can't digest it or move it thru your guts.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
instead of having just 3000 calories in 2 lbs of jerky, you can have 6000 calories in 2 lbs of pemmican and two lbs of cambium.. Twice as good of a deal.
@JuniorMadsen-ii2pw
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video and the info on what everyone brought
@cafeqc3793
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for taking the time to make such a detailed video, in gratitude I will take the time to comment in detail. 1. Luke (an interesting character) 00:45 Salt is a preservative, fish must be preserved. Salt is an excellent bait and will help you eat monotonous food - fish, cambium and dandelion roots. 01:50 this is leatherman wave + 03:00 it's Silky Katanaboy 500 03:30 in Russia during the war they used this strategy - the earth is a wonderful insulator, so in order to save energy on construction and have a warmer shelter - you need to burrow into the ground. The structure will always freeze through (a great example of a buried shelter is Rolland from season 7) If you build a dugout shelter, then you will not need to maintain constant heating, but personnely I would take a ferrorod. 2. Alan (he has his own KZitem channel Tenta Outdoors) 06:25 this Leatherman Free P4 has plastic parts and magnets, it's definitely not my choice. 3. Lee Ray (very interesting member) 10:30 I personally do not need a serrated knife in Leatherman wave and I do not have enough awl 10:45 it's Silky Katanaboy 500 4. Jodie (in my opinion she is a random passenger so that the show is not accused of intolerance) 11:30 this is a Leatherman REBAR, it doesn't have a removable file.... don't mind what this madam is talking about - she's completely off topic. 5. Cade (my opinion is a dude who pays too much attention to aesthetics and his image) In his choice, he took a lot from one well-known character on the forums (he already commented under this video with the nickname @kevinhart46 also known as balisong, Bill Randall and Bill Russell). Many consider his ideas to be ridiculous, but I personally think that they deserve close attention. It was he who suggested using a spatula and Leatherman CRUNCH, which is what Cade took 16:30 it's Leatherman CRUNCH 17:45 This soap contains edible sodium hydroxide and soda ash. It is successfully used for the treatment of inflammatory processes (up to the beginning of gangrene) and is also an antiviral agent. It is hypoallergenic, they can be cured of the onset of a runny nose. When bitten, it prevents infection from entering the wound, treats fungal diseases of the feet (which is important in damp conditions). A good remedy for abscesses and swelling, cracked heels and corns.
@cafeqc3793
Жыл бұрын
@kevinhart46I carefully studied your concept a few years ago and I was very interested in it. I even made two videos in Russian about your concept. It would be great if we could contact you. I have a few questions for clarification Thank you
@EvertfromNederland
Жыл бұрын
On day 10 Jodi allready looked like an Auschwitz survivor. Short from se. 7 winner Roland who happened to run into that Ox, nobody who spent this much energy on a shelter has made it to the end. You could say Zach Fowler did it, but he could just as easily lost that season since he was just as emaciated as the runner up. They could have pulled him before they pulled Carleigh.
@khryssvykinggryffuths4432
Жыл бұрын
Swear by SILKY SAW bro use the pole saw for maintence you can cut pulling towards you its so awesome
@bradleyhanzawa8931
Жыл бұрын
We believe in you! Give yourself some time and get on that show! Or maybe they'll bring back a partner challenge soon!
@tripp-hq
Жыл бұрын
Tom for season 11? Fuck yes!
@Jaden48108
Жыл бұрын
It was season 9 where the ex-Air Force SERE instructor attempted to build a log cabin- so large she could have raised a Big Foot family. Really bad move on her part. Alone is a calorie game. I don't know what she was thinking.
@scottnorvell2955
8 ай бұрын
Just a note. Silky saws are available in multiple tooth configurations depending on if you’re cutting green or dry wood. Some have two options and some have three.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
5 ай бұрын
this challenge is won or lost while you're still at-home. If you take the same gear as has always been taken, you'll be stuck doing the things that have always resulted in starvation/failure. You need to take the tarp and tape, so that you can make clothing, the tent, storage bags for food and tinder, bait bags for fishing. You need to take at least one ration and the block of salt. You need to take the shovel, But you can easily do-without the axe, saw, gillnet, fishing kit, paracord, cookpot, ferrorod. You need to take the hammock, cause you can make lots of cordage and netting out of it.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
The reflective tyvek bivy is far more useful than the sleeping bag, since it's not affected by its getting wet. there's plenty of debris to use as insulation. In one day, using 4 siberian fire lays and some rocks, you can dry-out all of the debris youll ever need on this challenge. The 8" of saw teeth on the side of the shovel, the several different configurations and lengths of handles that you make for it, and the modified Crunch multitool let you handle the wood processing just fine, You dont need much wood for the shelter nor much of a warming fire, so you dont need to waste picks on the saw or the axe.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
all you need for the first month is 3 hours worth of tarp and tape pole-tent, guys. You dont need or want a fire inside of it or near it, either. when it starts to freeze at night, you can greatly enhance the warmth of the shelter in 4 hours or so, with an external pole-frame, a 6" thick layer of dry debris piled onto that frame and the 10x16 ft producer's tarp staked down over the assembly. That will suffice for yet another month. By then, the only thing productive left to do is to convert the tarp into a debris-stuffed sleeping bag and cover the dry debris exterior of the tent with 3 layers of wet debris, each 2 " thick and letting each layer freeze overnight before adding another layer (in late afternoon). Once you have both of those mods, the little cocoon tent will be adequate at 0F, which youll never see. anyway, cause you'll be gone before 1 Dec.
@scottnorvell2955
9 ай бұрын
This was so fun! Liked and subbed.
@luketheolsen
Жыл бұрын
Nice review!
@michaelcarpenter1293
Жыл бұрын
You can boil the fishing line and it will not coil up as much. Cool video. Thanks!
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
only 3 have known to take the salt, 12x12 tarp or the shovel. . Nobody has known to fire roll a strip of bandanna, make charred punk wood and then used flint and steel for firemaking. when you lack tape and tarp, you can't make air-tight bags for your tinder, food, etc. DUH!. I've seen people argue that there's "no room" on their gear list for the shovel, hammock, salt, tape, and tarp. well, I say that there's plenty of room when you dont take the ferrorod, cookpot, saw, gillnet, fishing kit, or paracord. It's very easy to make a stone-boiling pit, line it with the tyvek bivy and sand, You only need the pit 4-5x before you will have made the five 1 gallon each baked- clay cookpots (ie, 2 weeks or so.) You need to get almost everything done in the first month, before it first freezes at night.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
people dont understand the value of stuffing layers of grass between each layer of clothing and stuffing the interior of the tent with same. Make the bed 5 ft long, and let your feet rest upon a pile of dry grass. you can move that grass aside, or under the bed, when you need to move the bed towards the foot end of the tent, makig room for you to squat and use the "chamber pot". This pot is a made on sight basket, half filled with loose, dry dirt. when you have to go out for some other reason, empty the pot into the latrine-trench. Then you wont have to be going out into the cold rain and wind every few hours. Save 100 calories per day, for 75 days and the total is 7500 calories and that's food for 2-3 full days, depending upon your size and metabolism.
@HayaliGercek
3 ай бұрын
Great stuff 👏 thanks
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
5 ай бұрын
you need at LEAST 50 lbs of whole fish and the leavings from having eaten 50 lbs more fish, to have an adequately-stinking pile of bear bait. You also have to protect that bait from being eaten by anything but a bear. That's why you have to build the stake and log bait box. This has to be set up at least half a mile from your camp, cause your scent, noise, movement and fire-smoke will have driven the bears at least that far away from your camp. Bears can detect that big a stench from miles away and that's how far you'll need to reach in order to get enough of them to come to you, enough times. You can catch that much fish in a week, once you've made a week's worth of netting. Another week will have seen you arrow a bear( probably at night). A bear, fat for hiberntion, is 25% bodyfat. Fish are only 8% fat (of live weight). You need that fat desperately. and you need to mix in some cambium to stretch your flesh food.
@OJ4HIRE
Жыл бұрын
Bring it my man
@craigsilvey2557
Жыл бұрын
Lanyards are counted toward the total length of cordage allowed, per History Channel site. Having on day one or making one is same.
@clivedunning4317
Жыл бұрын
A great video, nice to get a personal view on the contestants equipment choices. Can you , or any of the folk out there that know, tell me two things ? 1. What brand/model/make was the cooking pot chosen by Luke Olsen ? I have looked at all the History Channel videos and can't identify it. I'm intrigued by the 'frying pan' lid it has. I see he proved your hygiene theory by the way ! 2. Is it possible to get a carbon steel file that fits the Leatherman Surge , that could be used as a traditional firesteel for flint and steel fire lighting ? TIA. HAPPY TRAILS EVERYONE.
@bigal25938
Жыл бұрын
Would like to know what the contestants are not allowed to do. Like what animals are they not allowed to kill. Can they tie bait to gill nets to attract fish? Can they use the fish to bait for bear or other game?
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
7 ай бұрын
they launch in mid Sept. under current rules, nobod'ys made it 11 weeks. the average has been 10 weeks or less So they never see 1 Dec or 0F degrees You're not homesteading, you're not even seeing the BEGINNING of winter, much less geting thru until spring. Spring, up there, is 1 may, so you're 5 months short of making it thru the winter. this means that all you need for shelter is a winterized tent, built in one day, not 3 weeks! you dont need or want a fire inside of your shelter. So you dont need the axe or the saw. Instead, you want a Cold Steel shovel, with one edge modified to have 8" of real deal saw teeth, the curve of the shovel blade flattened out for 2" along those teeth. the Ferrule and screws that mount the handle need to be modified, so that you can swap out whatever length or configuration of handle that you need, without tools.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
5 ай бұрын
bring the pemmican and MAYBE also the trail mix. You can use that stuff for bait. The rations are at most 5000 calories each and if you're active out in the cold wind/rain, etc, for a long, hard day, you can burn 5000 calories. Top swimmers have to eat 10,000 calories per day or they will lose weight. They AINT fat, either, So dont think I"m off-base with this claim, cause I'm not. You can mix in diced, boiled, then fried cambium. and eat at most a lb of that stuff per day. It's only got 600 calories per lb, but that's all that lean meat or fish have, too (ready to eat). Only half of a fish or animal's live weight is edible flesh, guys and you need 3000 calories per day just to hole up in your shelter (and lose none of your bodyweight. Without fat in your diet, you can't get cambium to move thru your guts. So let's say you eat 1000 calories of trail mix or pemmican per day, along with 600 calories of cambium. That means that one ration gets you thru 5 days. You can get thru the first 2 days without any food, due to your normal diet. Get into ketosis 2 weeks before you launch and the last two days, stuff yourself with fats and protein. You can carry on for one day with no food and still have energy. This means that you have 8 days in which to make the shelter, the clay-refining pits, and enough netting to catch at least 6 lbs of fish per day. Since you can make at least 100 sq ft of 2" mesh netting per day out of the two person cotton rope hammock. and you'll have 6 days, you should be fine.. The shelter, firewood, debris/insulation, raised pole-bed and stone-boiling pit are one day's work. You might not need the pontoon outrigger raft at first, nor the 1/4 mile long chumline of bait-bags (one every 20m). Each of those will take a day to accomplish So you might well have 7 days of net making/setting, or at least 5 such days. ASAP, tho, you need to make the bait-box and tree blind for arrowing a bear. Those two jobs are a day's work. So is making the clay-refining pits. Having five one-gallon each backed clay pots, with gasketed, close-fitting lids, is going to save you a LOT of work and worry. However, getting the baited net weirs, seine/gilnet, raft and chumline working for you has to be a priority. So is harvesting and processing a LOT of cambium. Ther'es no point in the bear-stuff or of having much cambium if you dont catch a lot of fish, tho..
@bigal25938
Жыл бұрын
What foods and how much are in the rations?
@cafeqc3793
Жыл бұрын
6. Ann (very strange member) 19:50 Melanie has the same saw as your Silky BigBoy 350 22:20 She has Leatherman SURGE it might be a good idea to replace the serrated knife with another saw holder - you can have both a saw and a file. In addition, the mount is compatible with BOSCH jigsaw blades (you can choose the right one and have spare ones) 23:00 another good choice Zebra Stainless Steel Billy Can 10 cm 23:50 Altoids box is not new but a very good idea (it fits Victorinox Fieldmaster freely) 7. Melanie is quite a motivated contestant (seems to be a former fashion model) 26:35 as I wrote above - Leatherman SURGE in my opinion is an ideal option (you can still sharpen a can opener) 27:10 dutch oven made of cast iron (or aluminum) is ideal as it can replace an oven or oven. There, the food is stewed and does not lose calories or vitamins. The lid can be used as an additional kitchen surface. GSI Outdoor (10 inches) is definitely my choice, I don't understand why others don't choose it - they don't have to carry everything with them. 28:00 According to the new rules, it is not at all profitable to take food rations, it is better to take salt. 8. James is a chatty hippie, cannabis lover (I think he said that he grows it at home since it is legal in Canada) 29:20 he has dishes Zebra Stainless Steel Billy Can 10 cm 30:30 very cool sleeping bag, looks reliable 31:15 you can take 25 barbless hooks 31:40 this is a Leatherman REBAR 9. Mikey is another participant who came to the scout camp for a picnic (in my opinion), I personally did not see anything interesting in it. 10. Taz is a very interesting participant in my opinion 35:10 this is exactly what the dutch oven made of cast aluminum GSI Outdoor (10 inches) is. This is the perfect pot for this show in my opinion. This is an oven, a thermos, you can put a lot of heated stones into it and put a pot next to the place to sleep, it is safe but will heat for a long time like a heating battery. 36:50 anodizing is not necessary, it is quite safe as it is an aircraft-grade aluminum alloy. Our grandfathers and parents used aluminum spoons and utensils all their lives without harm to health. 39:20 This is an alloy of aluminum - it is not poisonous, you confuse it with tin or lead. 40:00 I think it's Aircraft Tool Supply Safety Lock Wire or APP - Aviation Grade Stainless Steel Safety/Lock Wire (look at Amazon) 40:30 is a great idea to take a tent, as his strategy is based on fishing. And when the fishing season ends and the water freezes, he can use the awning for insulation. Taz, Lee and Luke are the three members I will be following.
@clivedunning4317
Жыл бұрын
Great video , with personal insights to equipment chosen by the contestants. Can you , or any of the folk out there , tell me two things. 1. Does anyone know what make/model of cooking pot Luke Olsen was using ? It's just that I'm intrigued by the 'frying pan' lid that it had. Checked all the History Channel videos but the brand and type are not mentioned anywhere I've looked. See he eventually proved your handwashing hygiene theory ! 2. Regarding the removable files on the Leatherman Surge. Are you able to get carbon steel files that fit the surge , which could be utilised as a traditional firesteel for flint and steel fire making ? TIA Happy Trails Folks.
@DJKairos88
Жыл бұрын
Luke's pointed shovel can be used as a weapon to fend off critters, er, canine types... he's big enough
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
7 ай бұрын
google for a monthly temperature chart for these areas and you'lll see that they launch at 50F degrees and it doesnt even freeze for a month . it's sub 20F degrees for at most 3 weeks of their stay. You dont need or want a fire inside of your shelter. That fire a hazard and a waste of calories to be getting all of that firewood. 5 of them have burned down, or nearly burned-down their shelters, so what's it take for them to LEARN,, eh? it's much more efficient and safer to use insulation, small size of shelter and your trapped body heat for at least the first 60 days. Then if you are too emaciated to make metabolic heat, use a pair of opposing Siberian fire lays to heat BOTH sizes of 4 head sized stones for half an hour. Snuff the flames with dirt or ashes. Bury some coals and charcoal in the ashes, so that the fire remains "alive" for 12+ hours. Move the stones into a row of pits under your raised bed. Surround each stone with a 2" thick layer of wood ashes. so that you get 20F degrees of added warmth, for 5+ hours at a time. Repeat as needed. Youll use 4x less firewood this way and you wont need a warming fire at ALL for 60 of your 70 day stay.
@janicew0
2 ай бұрын
I'm looking for recaps for the Alone Season 11 show. Are you doing them this year?
@cluelessbushcraft
2 ай бұрын
I plan to. :-)
@katlynklassen809
7 ай бұрын
I would live fir them to be just given a set weight of gear.
@schpengler
Жыл бұрын
How did you find the info about the gear the contestants brought? I can’t find the video on the History Channel website.
@cluelessbushcraft
Жыл бұрын
If you go under Cast for season 10 of alone they all have individual videos of themselves talking about what they're bringing..
@schpengler
Жыл бұрын
@@cluelessbushcraft I see “Meet the New Cast” with descriptions of the cast. I don’t see videos or somewhere that it says “Cast”.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
it's not that hard to make fire with flint and steel, once you have charred punk wood and pine resin mixed with dry wood scrapings. that little ball of goody flares up right now from a coal and it burns plenty long enough to ignite dry wood shavings.. Ir's not hard to make char with your hands or in the ground and it's very easy to do so with a backed claypot and gasketed lid. It's also easy to refine clay, make charcoal, a mud kiln and pottery. None of the contestants has had a clue, actually. Snaring or bowhunting small game and birds is a waste of time and calories.. Every day's net production (ie, over 100 sq ft) should go into the lake as a baited net weir, until you have enough netting to make a seine. Once you have more netting than you can use as a seine, set it as a gillnet. when the seine is not in use, set it as a gillnet, too. Make a square "cast net" too and leave it near the shore, toggled to a tree in case of floods or wind storms. When you see a big fish near shore, you want to be able to cast the net over him. You dont need the purse string closure. Just take off your footwear and pants wade out there, stick a pencil sharpened stick in the fishe's brain and get dried off and warmed up in your shelter. this is far more likely to score than trying to arrow the fish, since they wont let you take fishing arrows.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
2 ай бұрын
are you into season 11 yet? The Natives didn't have metal cookpots , ferrords, sleeping bags, saws, fishhooks , shoveles, yet they survived for millennia, in all weather. So why do YOU need such things, just to survive 80 days, 60+ day of it in mild weather, hmm? They had to travel, carry all of their stuff with them. You do not, so you can have much more in the way of clothing and gear. You understand germ theory and personal hygiene. They did not, so they had much more risk of illness. They had to use stone tools, which often broke and were tedious to employ. You do not. They had to worry about enemies, you do not.. If they got a little bit hurt or sick, enough to interfere with their performance, ,they died. You will not.
@Net_Observer
Жыл бұрын
I question these survivalists ability because of the oddball items. They will be in the extreme cold fighting for their life. The oddball items lead me to believe that they've never spent time in an arctic environment. Even the shovel is highly questionable. It will have a very limited time that it can be used and then it's useless. That environment is so cold and extreme that you want to focus all your gear towards food.
@toddburns9367
Жыл бұрын
How can you lose your Ferro rod? Why would you be carrying it with you? You are at a base camp, and limited to a mile of travel in all directions. Leave it with your fire. Duh.
@cluelessbushcraft
Жыл бұрын
Joe Robinette who lost his ferrorod put it down on a coat or something after getting a small fire going, if I recall correctly. And forgotten about it as he grabbed his stuff to move on to another area to set up camp. He lost it. Things can always happen. Even setting the ferrorod next to the fire you could lose it.
@ang9968
Жыл бұрын
@Clueless Bushcraft He saw that big bear face to face. After that, he got to thinking lol. Ferro rod was a good excuse.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
NOBODY has ever known to take the duct tape. Only one has known to take the cotton rope hammock, when it can replace the paracord, snareline, gillnet and fishing, kit. How stupid can you GET, hmm? None have known to split a springy sapling taper and fire-harden it, creating two springpoles. for snaring. Drive two long stakes, lash the half of a springpole betwee the stakes, creating a lifting snare wherever one is desired. Animals can't gnaw thru cordage when they are held in midair. You can make 1400 sq ft of 2" mesh netting out of the hammock, while still having rope and strands for camp needs. beats 60 sq ft all to hell. Hooks aint worth having when they can't be barbed, treblehooks, with organic bait. It's not worth your time to stand out in the cold, wind and dampness, trying to fish with such hooks and artificial lures.
@user-ci2mn1oy3w
4 ай бұрын
You burn 100 calories per mile walked on flat ground, at room temps, unburdened. Carrying the 35 lbs of camera case, fighting hills, brush, mud, snow, in the cold, wind, and dampness, the reality is that you're burnig 150 calories per mile walked. You can easily walk 2 mph, Mess around out there for 8 hours and you'll have burned 2400 calories more than you'd have needed if you just stayed holed-up. DUH. If you didn't HAVE to be out there, doing whatever, or didn't gain back those calories with fish or game, well, you screwed-up.
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