There may indeed be a bunch of great videos out there already but most are not showing how to use the Oz bush. Very refreshing, we're always looking for Aussie bushcraft.
i have done alot of looking for good people to learn from and i found Dave Canterbury is amazing but for Aussie bush your channel is amazing also. your quiet and show hows it done no bullshit. im on nsw/vic border and if i look north i see FLAT and if i looks south i see mountains.. we are rite on the separation of the high country.
Gday. Really enjoyed this video. I always like the genuineness of your stuff. No fake smiles or Hollywood glam just real relatable content and presentation. Well done. Cheers
Gday James. Thanks for watching and the comment. I like to think Im a pretty simple down to earth bloke and hopefully that comes across in the videos. Thanks again
Well done lots of interesting info with an Australian look at fire in less than optimal conditions. I'm up on the boarder with no access to flint but lots of quartz, it works well. All the best keep up the good work.
Another great vid mate. I really hope you can continue to grow the channel, and that youtube help promote your content. You deserve more popularity. 👍🏼
Wealth of knowledge in this. Loved it, mate. Would be curious to know more about how to source flint sources in the Australian bush. Looking forward to more vids. Thanks for this one.
Gday mate. thanks again for the continued support. The flint I use was found in South Australia, near the coast. I know the local indigenous here traded whats know as Silcrete. Its similar to flint and is found in outback South Australia. Cheers
Just came across your channel mate, stoked to come across some local information and your presentation is amazing! Looks like a beautiful part of the world you've got there ❤️ thank you for your work 🙏💙💙
Hey mate, great video. No idea if you're active on this channel anymore, but was wondering where you got that jacket and if its still available somewhere online to purchase? Many thanks, mike.
Great to see you back, enjoyed the vid. I've been experimenting with cool temperate rainforest alternatives for traditional fireIighting recently, as most of the information I've found is for drier forest types. I charred a bunch of Myrtle (Nothafagus cunninghamii) punk wood from an old log while in the Tarkine recently, it's been very reliable with the flint and steel. As a birds nest to get the ember to flame I used dead Richea dracophyla leaves, I processed it down a bit and they took to flame amazingly well from the ember. I'm yet to try other species of the Richea genus yet but I recon they'd work just as well. I reckon you've got them in Vic rainforest too. I'll do a vid on it when I finally get some time.
Good one mate. Always 👍 the vids mate good to see the hut still standing too mate. Fires the no 1 need in our sort of weather we get down here keep it up
Thankyou for videos and sharing your knowledge. I have a paper bark tree outside, I will definitely be following your experiment to build my knowledge bank.
@@Southernlandbushcraft Ah thank you. I figured it was either that or maybe trying to dry it out to use later. Great videos, I find them very calming and insightful.
hey, thanks for the videos! I am learning as much as I can about bushcraft and survival, I'm 57 and a woman, so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage, but with things now looking bad I'm trying haha..I have to get out there ( in the blue mountains nsw) and practice but don't really want to go bush without someone else for obvious reasons. Anyway, I'll try getting someone else to come along and do some practice runs. Especially fire making and learning traps and shelter. Cheers, great to see aussies who are down to earth and helping with those of us especially women who are not quite sure how to get out into the bush to start..bit scared to be honest, not of animals and nature but other humans, I've camped a lot, not glam camping, basic rough camping, but haven't for quite a while now.. i know a woman shouldn't go out there, unless it was absolutely dire circumstances, then if needs be..but probably stuffed if that happened! Thanks again love your calm and practical take etc.
Great to hear from you! It's never to late to start. Your definitely not at a disadvantage. So don't worry about that. I know how you feel about other humans being out there. But don't let that stop you. Its a great idea to head off with a trusted person, particularly when learning. Bushcraft and Survival skills is such an important skill to practice and have and very rewarding. Good luck with it all and let me know how you go. ATB.
Great job with the channel bloke, I'm 61 now but did 3 years in Transport with the army here in Townsville from 83'-86' so you get my support with a sub, well done.
Awesome vid on the subject! I’ve only tried a couple of times but I still haven’t been able to get any natural tinders in VIC burning from even the hot sparks of a ferro rod, I can’t find any stringy bark or paper bark trees in the wild here (yet), I found a spiny mattrush (lomandra) bush which seemed to have dry dead leaves (supposedly as good as stringy bark and paper bark for tinder) which I tried to get to take a spark but still didn’t work 🤔 I can get a nest of very dry dead grass to ignite from an ember (using tree fungus) but the only thing I can get to ignite from a ferro spark is man made cotton wool. Next time I think I’ll try really preparing the tinder well next to a fire to really dry it out for the next fire before trying to get it to ignite from ferro spark just in case my natural tinder (lomandra) has been too damp
Great video mate. I just got my new flint and steel and heading out to the mountains this week so this was a good to watch. I had a bunch of dried grass prepared in my pack but I might give the stringy bark a go.
@@Southernlandbushcraft it is, I've used Blackwood for knife handles, looks awesome. do you have Bloodwood down your way? I found breaking/shaving the outer bark down into thin chips chars pretty well, it's fragile though
Hey mate. I know you touched on it in an earlier vid, but can you please show us your bedroll, how you sleep in it, how you pin ur blanket and the leather straps you use to carry it. Please....
G’day mate, great vid. I do a bit of what you do except I take it on the road and camp up overnight between sites. How old is the Kelpie? Looks old but acts young. Good on ya.
Hi mate. Transporting them can be done a few different ways. Try putting them in a billy or something similar. I've made up a paper bark container to transport them as well. Some will late longer than others. Ive had some last about 3hrs then I would light a spare one and continue on. As far as providing air. Same thing. Some will require a bit more maintenance/air, others will happyly smolder away by themselves, with very little air. It just depends mate. I hope this helped.
G’day Legend, mate I would love for some Aussie bloke like you to make videos on making fire using the Rudger roll method (not sure if I spelt it correctly) using natural fiberous plant material and animal scat found in the areas that you roam around in. String bark and dried rabbit , pig, deer, goat , possum and what else you can find that works. Check out US David West and Boggy Creek Beast channels. Boggy Creek Beast has a video or two where he used fiberous plant material pulled apart into stringy strands then dried in the sun and ground up or powdered up dried deer scat as the filler and rolled it between two flat stones to get ignition. You can use 3 or 4 inch split logs or un-split logs to roll it. As far as I know there is one Australian video that’s made a video using this method of make fire with plant material and animal scat in this country. You can be the first. I’d be a an awesome challenge for ya. You can show your subscribers and viewers that you don’t even need a knife to make fire in the Australian bush. ICheers 🍻 🍻 man. I hope that you give it a go.
Thanks for the video. I guess there are a bunch of vids out there on fire making, but this is one of the first I've seen for Australia, so thanks for that. Also, in your last video, what were the two types of wood you used for the bow and drill method? I'm also interested in how you make cordage. Thanks...
Thanks mate. I have plenty more to share. I used the flower stem from a Grass Tree and I found that Wattle works pretty well as a base board. I will do a video on cordage making soon
Good old lantana actually works pretty well too for bow drill. Paperbark is good for tinder but it can get moist pretty easy. Fat wood is a pretty universal tinder if you can find it.
Great video, my friend! Enjoyed watching, your bushcraft skills are terrific! And the surrounding nature is amazing. Cheers from Russia, buddy, and welcome to my channel about special Russian bushcraft tips and hacks! Regards, Yuriy!
Are you referring to the large white bracket fungi that grows on the side of Gums? I know it as Fire Fungi. If so yes I have its great. I do have a vid coming up on it
There may indeed be a bunch of great videos out there already but most are not showing how to use the Oz bush. Very refreshing, we're always looking for Aussie bushcraft.
Thanks for the feedback and support. I have plenty more to show. Thanks again
@@Southernlandbushcraft awesome mate, we'll be watching👍
Yep, same here, great to see another Aussie bushcraft video, there's not enough on here.
Great info my friend! Thanks for sharing 🤠
Thanks Herb ATB mate
Good helpfull info. Cheers Peter😀👍
No problem 👍.
i loved it Ozzy bush craft. well done mate very informative.
i have done alot of looking for good people to learn from and i found Dave Canterbury is amazing but for Aussie bush your channel is amazing also. your quiet and show hows it done no bullshit. im on nsw/vic border and if i look north i see FLAT and if i looks south i see mountains.. we are rite on the separation of the high country.
Thanks so much for the support mate. Im happy that you got something from the video. Cheers.
Thanks so much for the support mate. Im happy that you got something from the video. Cheers.
As a hiker and fisherman in blue mountains this information is amazing. Well done and thanks
Thanks mate. I'm glad ya got something out of it. Good luck out there
Love it mate 👍
Gday.
Really enjoyed this video. I always like the genuineness of your stuff. No fake smiles or Hollywood glam just real relatable content and presentation.
Well done. Cheers
Gday James. Thanks for watching and the comment. I like to think Im a pretty simple down to earth bloke and hopefully that comes across in the videos. Thanks again
@@Southernlandbushcraft it sure does.
I still enjoy watching things like bush tucker man for the same reason.
Hahahah! Yeah but sometimes you look like your not enjoying anything!
Well done lots of interesting info with an Australian look at fire in less than optimal conditions.
I'm up on the boarder with no access to flint but lots of quartz, it works well. All the best keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot John. ATB mate
Knowing the environment where ever one comes from or going to is a huge clue on surviving absolutely. 👍
legend thanks for sharing!!
No worries mate
I recently started reading a Bushcraft book I bought. Between that and your very easy to follow videos, I am learning a lot. Cheers.
Cool mate, I'm glad you got something out of the vids. Have fun out there!
@@Southernlandbushcraft For sure. And cheers I will.
Another great vid mate. I really hope you can continue to grow the channel, and that youtube help promote your content. You deserve more popularity. 👍🏼
I really appreciate the support mate. Thanks again Luke.
Wealth of knowledge in this. Loved it, mate. Would be curious to know more about how to source flint sources in the Australian bush. Looking forward to more vids. Thanks for this one.
Gday mate. thanks again for the continued support. The flint I use was found in South Australia, near the coast. I know the local indigenous here traded whats know as Silcrete. Its similar to flint and is found in outback South Australia. Cheers
Just came across your channel mate, stoked to come across some local information and your presentation is amazing! Looks like a beautiful part of the world you've got there ❤️ thank you for your work 🙏💙💙
Thanks for supporting the channel mate
Like u attitude, we honestly need more people like you out bush 😊, not that city trash who leave their remnants everywhere they go !
Always a good idea to have a way of charing a bit of nature and getting into the habit of carrying 2-3 methods of fire lighting.
Thanks Paul. Yeah pays to be prepared doesn't mate. I hope all is well over where you are mate
@@Southernlandbushcraft All good here mate even the weather is clearing up. Take care and atvb to you and your family.
Great video. Love to see the Australian content! Tnx for sharing. Subscribed.
Thanks for the sub mate
Hey mate, great video. No idea if you're active on this channel anymore, but was wondering where you got that jacket and if its still available somewhere online to purchase? Many thanks, mike.
Hi Mike. This jacket isn't made anymore. But there is heaps that are similar online. Outback Trading comes to mind.
Great to see you back, enjoyed the vid. I've been experimenting with cool temperate rainforest alternatives for traditional fireIighting recently, as most of the information I've found is for drier forest types. I charred a bunch of Myrtle (Nothafagus cunninghamii) punk wood from an old log while in the Tarkine recently, it's been very reliable with the flint and steel. As a birds nest to get the ember to flame I used dead Richea dracophyla leaves, I processed it down a bit and they took to flame amazingly well from the ember. I'm yet to try other species of the Richea genus yet but I recon they'd work just as well. I reckon you've got them in Vic rainforest too. I'll do a vid on it when I finally get some time.
Great stuff mate. I enjoy your stuff. I cant wait to see your vids.
Great video, really enjoyed it.thankyou for sharing. Much appreciated.
Thankyou mate. ATB
Great video mate! Hope to see more content
Cheers mate.
Great video mate. Awesome skills
That was great, more to come , cheers
Your dog is just top-notch!!
yeah shes great mate. chers
Great analogy about fire. Thanks for your knowledge.
Good one mate. Always 👍 the vids mate good to see the hut still standing too mate. Fires the no 1 need in our sort of weather we get down here keep it up
Yeah its been changed up but its going good. Stay warm out there and straight shooting mate.
Thanks bud and you too, hope your getting out and getting amongst it too
Another great video mate, cheers!
Thanks mate. I appreciate the support
New to the channel, this was brilliant. Thank you 🙏
Thankyou for videos and sharing your knowledge. I have a paper bark tree outside, I will definitely be following your experiment to build my knowledge bank.
Your welcome mate. Have fun out there.
Fantastic as always. Thanks so much for sharing
Thanks for watching Mike, I really do appreciate it. cheers.
Many thanks. Luv yur puppy. Will try the banksia seed pod for fire transport.
No worries mate. Yeah she's a good old dog. Thanks for watching mate
What is the purpose of the foliage over the fire? Love your dog btw.
The purpose is to protect the fire to some extent from rain. Thank for watching
@@Southernlandbushcraft Ah thank you. I figured it was either that or maybe trying to dry it out to use later. Great videos, I find them very calming and insightful.
hey, thanks for the videos! I am learning as much as I can about bushcraft and survival, I'm 57 and a woman, so I'm at a bit of a disadvantage, but with things now looking bad I'm trying haha..I have to get out there ( in the blue mountains nsw) and practice but don't really want to go bush without someone else for obvious reasons. Anyway, I'll try getting someone else to come along and do some practice runs. Especially fire making and learning traps and shelter. Cheers, great to see aussies who are down to earth and helping with those of us especially women who are not quite sure how to get out into the bush to start..bit scared to be honest, not of animals and nature but other humans, I've camped a lot, not glam camping, basic rough camping, but haven't for quite a while now.. i know a woman shouldn't go out there, unless it was absolutely dire circumstances, then if needs be..but probably stuffed if that happened! Thanks again love your calm and practical take etc.
Great to hear from you! It's never to late to start. Your definitely not at a disadvantage. So don't worry about that. I know how you feel about other humans being out there. But don't let that stop you. Its a great idea to head off with a trusted person, particularly when learning. Bushcraft and Survival skills is such an important skill to practice and have and very rewarding. Good luck with it all and let me know how you go. ATB.
Great job with the channel bloke, I'm 61 now but did 3 years in Transport with the army here in Townsville from 83'-86' so you get my support with a sub, well done.
Thanks mate I appreciate it, and thanks for your service. I was in Infantry in Townsville. Great spot up there. ATb mate
I learned something today, thanks for sharing.
Great stuff mate. Happy days
I love your channel. Thank you! 🙏
Thanks heaps. Im more active on Instagram if your interested
@@Southernlandbushcraft under what name? I looked up Southern Land Bushcraft on there and nothing came up. 😊
Sl.bushcraft.survival. Try that
Love your work. Thanks mate. Very helpful
Happy you got something out of it mate. ATB
Was good. loved it mate.
Another good vid mate, good info. Cheers
Great stuff! Good tips.
Awesome vid on the subject!
I’ve only tried a couple of
times but I still haven’t been able to get any natural tinders in VIC burning from even the hot sparks of a ferro rod, I can’t find any stringy bark or paper bark trees in the wild here (yet), I found a spiny mattrush (lomandra) bush which seemed to have dry dead leaves (supposedly as good as stringy bark and paper bark for tinder) which I tried to get to take a spark but still didn’t work 🤔
I can get a nest of very dry dead grass to ignite from an ember (using tree fungus) but the only thing I can get to ignite from a ferro spark is man made cotton wool.
Next time I think I’ll try really preparing the tinder well next to a fire to really dry it out for the next fire before trying to get it to ignite from ferro spark just in case my natural tinder (lomandra) has been too damp
Always glad to see a new post . very good info on here . I watch all your vids over and over ...Sweet dog you got there ...Cheers
Thanks Greg. I glad you enjoy my content. Yep the dog is a little legend. Shes a great mate
To add to me comment below, Boggy Creek Beast used that fire roll method described below in 90% humidity. Cheers 🍻
Great video mate. I just got my new flint and steel and heading out to the mountains this week so this was a good to watch. I had a bunch of dried grass prepared in my pack but I might give the stringy bark a go.
Great vid mate, some handy info. Ive used Bloodwood bark with some success but never thought about melaleuca as a char material, good stuff.
Thanks mate. Blackwood bark. I might give that ago. I milled up some blackwood, beautiful timber.
@@Southernlandbushcraft it is, I've used Blackwood for knife handles, looks awesome. do you have Bloodwood down your way? I found breaking/shaving the outer bark down into thin chips chars pretty well, it's fragile though
Yeah we do have blackwood here. Yeah I found hitting the bark with back of an axe worked great in removing it before milling.
Thanks for the hot tip about the banksia mate. Great video, really enjoyed the conversational style. Have a good one
Thanks for watching mate. I'm glad you enjoyed it and got something out of it
Love your videos so much!
Thank you kindly. I hope your well and getting out there. Cheers.
Just found your channel. Subscribed.
Cheers mate. Thanks for the support
Hey mate. I know you touched on it in an earlier vid, but can you please show us your bedroll, how you sleep in it, how you pin ur blanket and the leather straps you use to carry it. Please....
Sure can mate. I will get one up soon. Cheers
Great video mate
Thanks for watching
Awesome video! Will the fire transfer method work with any species of banksia?
This will work with others mate. I have used Saw Tooth Banksia before. Coastal should work as well
Great vid. A few new tips for me so thanks. I'll have to give it a shot
Thanks mate. Glad you got something out of it.
Really enjoyed this vid , picked up some great tips .
Sweet as mate. Glad it was helpful in some way
Great video thank you
G’day mate, great vid. I do a bit of what you do except I take it on the road and camp up overnight between sites. How old is the Kelpie? Looks old but acts young. Good on ya.
Thanks for watching mate. Shes 12 years old now and yeah still acts like a pup lol. I guess she'll slow down one of these days. Maybe not.
@@Southernlandbushcraft yeah I’m a Heeler man myself, my bluey is 7 now and I don’t even want to think about him checking out.
Gday mate, you changed your YT pic. Looks good
Yeah I did mate. Thanks. Yeah I think it came out well. ATB Mate
Great video thanks don't suppose you can do one on a bow drill with tips and tricks and what sort of knife is that
Hi mate. Thanks for watching. Yeah I will keep that in mind. The knife is a Camp and Trail knife from the Pathfinder Knife Shop.
If you carry charred cloth, why not just a lighter? More useful question is whether it will take a spark (like nettle will(.
Great video mate are you in Vic.
Thanks for taking the time to watch. Yeah Im in Vic mate
How do you transport the travelling embers.....How to carry....how long will it last without continual air/fanning?
Good vids by the way
Hi mate. Transporting them can be done a few different ways. Try putting them in a billy or something similar. I've made up a paper bark container to transport them as well. Some will late longer than others. Ive had some last about 3hrs then I would light a spare one and continue on. As far as providing air. Same thing. Some will require a bit more maintenance/air, others will happyly smolder away by themselves, with very little air. It just depends mate. I hope this helped.
@@Southernlandbushcraft cheers mate. Thankyou.
G’day Legend, mate I would love for some Aussie bloke like you to make videos on making fire using the Rudger roll method (not sure if I spelt it correctly) using natural fiberous plant material and animal scat found in the areas that you roam around in. String bark and dried rabbit , pig, deer, goat , possum and what else you can find that works. Check out US David West and Boggy Creek Beast channels. Boggy Creek Beast has a video or two where he used fiberous plant material pulled apart into stringy strands then dried in the sun and ground up or powdered up dried deer scat as the filler and rolled it between two flat stones to get ignition. You can use 3 or 4 inch split logs or un-split logs to roll it. As far as I know there is one Australian video that’s made a video using this method of make fire with plant material and animal scat in this country. You can be the first. I’d be a an awesome challenge for ya. You can show your subscribers and viewers that you don’t even need a knife to make fire in the Australian bush. ICheers 🍻 🍻 man. I hope that you give it a go.
Cool video, well done :)))
I love your Twin Thailand
Mate what jacket are you wearing?
Just an old Aussie made oilskin mate
Thanks for the video. I guess there are a bunch of vids out there on fire making, but this is one of the first I've seen for Australia, so thanks for that.
Also, in your last video, what were the two types of wood you used for the bow and drill method? I'm also interested in how you make cordage. Thanks...
Thanks mate. I have plenty more to share. I used the flower stem from a Grass Tree and I found that Wattle works pretty well as a base board. I will do a video on cordage making soon
Good old lantana actually works pretty well too for bow drill. Paperbark is good for tinder but it can get moist pretty easy. Fat wood is a pretty universal tinder if you can find it.
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Thanks mate I appreciate it
is that a driza-bone or different oilskin lookss deadly
Its a Dinkum Dri. Old Aussie made thing. Its great. cheers
Great video, my friend! Enjoyed watching, your bushcraft skills are terrific! And the surrounding nature is amazing. Cheers from Russia, buddy, and welcome to my channel about special Russian bushcraft tips and hacks! Regards, Yuriy!
Thanks mate! Russia, cool. I will definitely check your stuff out. Thanks
@@Southernlandbushcraft you are very welcome! Cheers!
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Are you referring to the large white bracket fungi that grows on the side of Gums? I know it as Fire Fungi. If so yes I have its great. I do have a vid coming up on it
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