8 tools for bushcraft

[B34NS]

I really don't understand this kind of thread. "Bushcraft" means different things to different people, but how is choosing 8+ cutting tools to go into the woods getting to the heart of anything?

Bushcraft is about doing more with less, so if you end up in the wrong place the stuff you have in your pockets will get you through.
-OR-
Bushcraft is rejecting modern means to camp and live in the woods, and using what someone a century ago would have.
-OR-
Bushcraft is choosing the best tools for a certain type of forest craft.

I don't see a bunch of knives accomplishing any of these. It doesn't help you learn to do everything with one knife, it doesn't recreate an old way of doing things, and it isn't the best gear you can take with you for a given weight.


1 knife should be enough, 2 knives is luxury. 3 or more is just cutlery tourism.

Bushcraft is a marketing term.

Dave Cantebury is a tool for bushcraft. See it works.

 

[heefageLA]

Great thread.

Subscribed! :thumbup:

 

[badasslibrarian]

Five Tool Rule

[video=youtube;BJCp0g89Tpg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJCp0g89Tpg[/video]

 

[leghog]

7. Map with compass ( I know that's 2 items but honeslty they're pretty much useless without each other so I've always counted as 1 as I won't bring one without the other).

Not quite. A good topo sheet can be used well without a compass if there is any real changes in elevation and an ability to see into the distance in the area you are in. Just look at the scenic photos in this thread. You could easily orient a map and find your location on it in those areas. I've navigated often using only a topo sheet and never pulling out my compass.

 

[jdk1]

This is not part of JV's survival system, it's like the cyanide pills spies carried. If it gets too bad, JV will make a Spam and Twinkie sandwich. Heart disease will follow in hours. If rescue looks like a possibility, then the apple is the antidote

 

[JV3]

This is not part of JV's survival system, it's like the cyanide pills spies carried. If it gets too bad, JV will make a Spam and Twinkie sandwich. Heart disease will follow in hours. If rescue looks like a possibility, then the apple is the antidote

haha! you know me too well

 

[SwiftDream]

7. Map with compass ( I know that's 2 items but honeslty they're pretty much useless without each other so I've always counted as 1 as I won't bring one without the other)

Not quite. A good topo sheet can be used well without a compass if there is any real changes in elevation and an ability to see into the distance in the area you are in. Just look at the scenic photos in this thread. You could easily orient a map and find your location on it in those areas. I've navigated often using only a topo sheet and never pulling out my compass.

I'm always using my compass alone on many off trail hikes and backpacking trips for marking my vehicle at the start, tent/camp out in the wilds and any sites like ancient archaeological sites and the like. I always have a good, valuable map too but there are many navigational uses for a compass by itself. There were some folks from Arkansas who were not able to procure a decent map for some reason and got lost for days on end during a hike in Big Bend NP. If they had just had a good sighting compass and took two bearings right at their car and wrote them down before heading out, they would have been back by dinner time.

 

[Shotgun]

8 tools? DC is full of BS. These guys have to come up with their systems and rules. Come up with your own!

He has a list of 5 survival items you should take with you too. Not one of them was a signaling device which should be number one. I haven't listened to that guy since I heard him pronounce Nalgene in his early vids.

I'm always using my compass alone on many off trail hikes and backpacking trips for marking my vehicle at the start, tent/camp out in the wilds and any sites like ancient archaeological sites and the like. I always have a good, valuable map too but there are many navigational uses for a compass by itself. There were some folks from Arkansas who were not able to procure a decent map for some reason and got lost for days on end during a hike in Big Bend NP. If they had just had a good sighting compass and took two bearings right at their car and wrote them down before heading out, they would have been back by dinner time.

I do the same thing. Truth be told a lot of the times I don't carry a map. I know! Shoot a bearing off the major road you drove in on. Worst case scenario you can just follow a perpendicular bearing back to the road like you said. I've also been able to find my car when off trail in thick woods and all turned around. Again, without a map. Going slow and paying attention is usually the best way not to get lost. Oh, and looking backwards.


As to the OP, I made a spoon out of big leaf maple branch a while back. From the tree to the end result was a silky pocket boy to cut the branch, a mora to hog off the material around the handle and an izula 2 to carve the bowl. So, I guess I have 3.

 

[badasslibrarian]

Anyone spend time to watch the video i posted? the principles behind daves video makes sense.... keep an open mind guys...

 

[BlackWolfBushcraft]

1. Tops B.O.B.
2. Gransfors Bruks Small Forest Axe
Can do anything with these two.
3. Folding Saw
4. Leatherman Wave
5. Mora 511
6. Swiss Army
Thats About It!