- Welcome home guys,
here you're on the Carl
and Jinger Channel,
and today we're gonna be showing you guys
some of my favorite
apocalypse survival gadgets
that actually work.
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- Whoa!
- [Jinger] Whoa!
Today's gonna be super
interesting and fun, you guys.
I've got some brand new
fire starting methods
that I've never tried before,
and even some shelter building tools
that we're gonna try out.
These are some really cool ways
to get food, water, shelter, and fire,
that I'm gonna show you,
that are probably gonna blow your mind.
First up is the Gransfors
Bruk's Forestry Ax.
This is my favorite camp ax.
These are all hand made in Sweden.
I actually was able to
order this off of Amazon.
It came with this cool leather sheath.
It's obviously hand
sharpened, you can tell that.
The entire thing is balanced so well,
and the thing that I love the
most about it is the size.
Compare that to a regular splitting ax,
that you would chop wood with at home,
you could see the advantage.
So now, let's put it to the test.
(ax chopping)
That was super easy.
(ax chopping)
Just like that, pretty simple,
effortless, highly recommend it.
I think that it's time that we try out
our second cutting device,
which is actually kind of a transformer.
It's this really awesome Bob
Dustrude's Quick Buck Saw,
with lever action.
This is a transforming saw,
that folds apart and back together.
Have you guys seen these Black
Beard Fire Starter sticks?
These are really cool.
We're gonna be testing these out today.
I've actually put some in bottled water,
and froze them in the freezer,
to really put them to the test
and see if they work,
but we'll get to that in a minute.
So it looks like this
thing was 52 dollars,
the Gransfor Bruk's Ax that
I showed you a minute ago
is a couple of hundred dollars.
So this folds out like this,
and then the saw blade comes out here.
So it's all contained in it's own handle,
and this folds back down.
It actually has the instructions printed
on the handle, step by step,
how to put the thing together.
This goes in the notch,
and then the handle, folds up, oops.
It is a little tricky.
Maybe if you flip it upside down,
there, that's the trick.
And then as you clamp the handle down,
it tightens the blade up,
so you have a perfect saw.
We definitely need to
put these to the test,
but I also want to introduce my third
apocalypse survival gadget
that actually works,
and that is the Silky Saw BIGBOY.
It's a folding saw, look at this.
These are great for camping and survival,
because you can take them,
fold them up in your backpack,
and carry them around.
Why don't we do a little
bit of an experiment,
and see how well we can
use each one of these
as a one handed tool,
like you're by yourself.
Let's start first right
here, with the camp ax.
I just want to see if I
can split through here.
(ax chopping)
I'm not really swinging that hard,
and it is chopping really well.
I would say that's very effective,
and I can make easy work of this.
Let's see how well it
does with the buck saw.
(blade scraping)
That was fast.
That took almost like
no effort whatsoever,
split that one, look at that.
Let's see how well the
BIGBOY Silky Saw does.
I would say running it one handed
the Silky Saw is probably the easiest
to utilize single handed.
The buck saw probably cut
the most aggressive, and the fastest.
So I think each one has
their own individual purpose,
depending on what you want to do.
I am super curious, you guys.
I just got this log, and I'm just gonna
kneel down right here.
I just want to demonstrate,
one, two, three,
like what you can do here.
(ax chopping)
Okay, so that's the ax.
Here's the buck saw.
(blade scraping)
Okay, there's your buck saw cut.
Now we've got the Silky saw.
(blade scraping)
The Silky saw is like effortless.
I'm gonna be honest with you,
I think when it comes to building
the rest of the teepee,
for our survival shelter,
I'm gonna go with the BIGBOY Silky Saw.
Silky saw has a really smooth, clean cut.
The buck saw is a little
bit of a rough cut,
and then the ax, I mean choppy chop.
Well look who just arrived.
Jinger actually just showed up.
She's working on the chicken
coop in the back lot,
and we're gonna see which, out
of the three cutting objects,
she is going to pick.
So Jinger went with the
Silky saw, naturally,
with her instincts,
let's see how it works.
Good, smart, she's like scoring
the wood, to get it going.
- It's sharp.
- [Carl] It's very sharp, right.
- Okay.
- [Carl] Now try the
buck saw for a second.
- Okay.
- [Carl] and see which
one you think is better.
I'll tell you right now, the Silky saw
makes a cleaner cut, so.
- Okay.
(blade scraping)
- Oh!
- [Carl] Which one?
(blade scraping)
- I kind of like this one.
- [Carl] I think it cuts more aggressive,
but it's not as clean.
- Yeah.
- [Carl] It's a little harder
to use one handed, right.
- Right.
- [Carl] Cause it kind
of wobbles, like this.
- And it's harder to push back and forth,
whereas the Silky aw, it really is silky.
- [Carl] Right, the other one is,
this one has really aggressive teeth.
And she goes back to the Silky saw
to finish the job.
So I think, out of the three cutting tools
that we selected today,
the Silky saw seems to be the winner.
The only thing is, you're
in a survival situation,
good luck finding the tools to be able
to sharpen that thing, when it goes dull.
But the ax, it's gonna last you forever.
I'm gonna be using some of these limbs
that I chopped down around the property,
and we're gonna construct a teepee,
to showcase all of our
survival apocalypse items
that actually work.
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You guys, we did it.
We successfully built an
apocalypse survival teepee.
So it's all made of this
weatherproofed canvas tarp.
There's room in here, I
even got a camp chair.
You can close the whole
thing up, like this.
Close the door, and tie
it off around in the back,
and then you're closed all
in a teepee, just like this.
Isn't that awesome?
Smash my like button if
you like my teepee, guys.
Really quickly, some of
you are probably dying
to wonder where I got this stove.
This is actually a Four Dog's Camp Stove.
That's the name of the company.
It comes with a kit where everything
actually fits inside, this opens up.
You can put wood and everything in there,
and start your fire, cook on top.
It has legs that pop on and off.
This is good enough to
heat like a small cabin,
plus what's cool, I even
got this water reservoir,
that sits on the side,
and then it has a spigot
that attaches right here.
So as you heat up your
stove to cook your food,
you can have a whole basin
full of hot water for camp.
I feel like our shelter's pretty secure.
The next thing that we need
to do is secure some food,
and I've got an experimental new way
that I've never tried before,
but I've seen done before,
and that is the Pocket Shot.
Have you guys ever seen these?
This is the Pocket Shot Arrow Kit,
and this is the Pocket Shot
evolution of the slingshot.
Let's just open each of these up,
and see what we've got here.
This is the ammo for the Pocket Shot,
and this is what it looks
like out of the packaging.
I think the idea is that you
put one of these shots in,
down in here, grab a hold of it,
and you just pull back and fire,
just like a wrist rocket, or a sling shot.
With the Pocket Shot Arrow Kit,
it's the same idea, except for you can
slip an arrow all the way inside,
and actually fire, like a bow and arrow.
We're gonna try that out as well.
I've set up three targets, about,
I would say 30 yards away from
the back of my teepee here.
This is like a realistic
shot, with a Pocket Shot,
maybe on a rabbit, or a
squirrel or something like that.
Let's see if I can hit one with this,
and the Arrow Kit.
I'm all set up to try out the Pocket Shot,
let's see how it goes.
Ooh, that went clear over. (Carl laughing)
I think I hit a tree, clear over the wall.
Okay, I'm gonna try
and aim a little lower.
Those shoot really hard, but it
is very difficult to be accurate.
It's gonna take a lot of practice.
Oh, I barely missed, it just
went down and to the right.
Let's try the Arrow Kit.
I'm only gonna try this
twice, hopefully it works.
- [Jinger] Ooh!
- That was pretty close.
Ooh, it just caught the wind,
and circled around.
Jinger can't help it,
she's got to take a shot.
- If you give me, if I make this Carl,
what'll you give me?
- [Carl] A big kiss.
- Yes!
Whoa!
- [Carl] Whoa!
- Whoa!
Okay, try number two, you guys.
Whoa, that was so close.
No kisses for me.
- Aw.
We've got our shelter,
we just hunted for food,
now we're gonna pretend that we got food.
Now we've just got to filter some water,
and start a fire, are you guys ready?
I'm gonna show you some
awesome gadgets to do that.
I wanted to check on the Black
Beard Firestarting Sticks,
I've got this one frozen in the bottle,
and I left the shrink wrap on it,
and then I thought we might as well put it
all the way to the test,
take it completely out of the shrink wrap,
and freeze it straight
in a bottle of water,
and see if it still lights.
I'm not gonna spend very long on this one,
but I wanted to cover the
importance of water filtration.
If you have a whole camp,
or you're taking care of a lot of people,
you're gonna want to set up
some kind of a water filtration system.
And one that I like to use is to actually
order these ceramic candle filters.
This one came in a four pack.
I set mine up inside a five
gallon bucket like this,
and with the bottom, poking
out the bottom like that.
You can have this hung up at your camp
so that it's underneath a rain catch,
or anything like that,
and you come back and check it.
You have a bigger bucket underneath,
catching all of the clean water.
Another one of my favorite
water filtration systems,
besides the ceramic water candle,
is the Aquamira Frontier
Emergency Water Filter.
It's basically just a
water filtration straw
that you can fit into your pocket.
This is literally all it is,
it's a plastic straw, and
the water filtration system.
So you just stick the
straw on the end here,
you suck the water up halfway.
See how it filled up with the charcoal?
How the first little batch of that
come out gray like that?
You don't want to drink that,
you're gonna clean that out,
and make sure it's coming through clear,
before you drink it.
It won't hurt you, the charcoal.
In fact, if you're eating in the wild,
you're eating wild game,
a little bit of charcoal in your food
once in a while, actually
helps deworm you.
So you can stick this in pond water,
any kind of scummy water.
Stick it down in there, tastes
good, but you know what?
Just to be safe, I think
we should get a fire going,
and see if we can boil it.
(ax chopping)
I got some weeds, some dry stuff,
and I chopped up some
more limbs and everything,
let's try out our first
Black Beard Fire Starter Set.
So I'm just gonna take this rope,
and I want to try some of
it right here by itself,
and then I'm gonna put
a little bit over here
in my tinder bundle.
Let's just see of this Black
Beard Fire Starting rope,
if it actually ignites
like it says it would.
Here's the tinder bundle,
let's see how this lights up.
Immediately lit up, and
have a flame right there.
Let's see if the Black
Beard stuff actually
catches fire here, at the same rate.
That's pretty good,
I think the part I'm most excited about
is to see if it could still work
when it's frozen in a block of ice.
That's what I've seen, and let's try that.
It's still burning, still going.
Well there's the advantage right there,
the burn time on the rope is way longer
than the regular grass,
so this went out immediately,
the Black Beard Fire Starting rope
is still burning strong inside,
so that's some really good tinder.
Okay guys, this is the final test,
I've got some of that Black Beard rope
I froze it, down inside a block of ice.
I'm just gonna take my pocket knife,
rough up the rope a
little bit, right here.
I'm just gonna try to set this with a Bic.
There we go.
And we are gonna start a fire with ice,
look at this, it's totally lit,
inside the entire thing of ice,
and we can just sit it right in there,
and it'll burn like a candle,
or I can touch it off on the tinder.
There you have it.
With a cylinder of ice,
and the Black Beard Fire Starter rope,
we were able to actually start a fire
in the fireplace, look at that.
How cool.
Time to load it up.
You guys, we totally did it,
we were able to use our survival
gadgets that actually work,
and put them to the test
to build a survival shelter teepee,
and also to get firewood, to start a fire,
get water, and food and everything,
in order to make it through Doomsday.
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Let me know what you think of this one.
We'll see you guys in the next one.
Bye.
That was way cool.
Oh look, the dogs taking a nap.
Hi.
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