Peter Albano's 10 Items From Alone Season 11 - In Depth Look
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- In this video I go though the 10 items I brought with me on Alone Season 11!
A bit of my reasoning and and thought process for choosing each one, and some other items I considered.
Get your own shovel!
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once rain /warm weather is no longer a thraat, the ideal storage place for your food is a solid-ice igloo, 10m away from the door flap of your tent. You'll have to make a crawl-way entrance, an ice "plug" for that entrance, and 2m wide, 4" thick Ice "flashing" around the base of the igloo, so that a non-hibernating bear can't just get its claws under the edge of the igloo. Such a bear will make noise trying to enter the food cache. Emerge from your door flap arrow already on your slingbow and stick him a good one.
Dude if your bushcraft, survival skills and mental agility are as good as your item planning and selection then im putting you in my top 3 picks for the winner.
for the first 2 months or so, the 3 sets of coveralls and the backpack are debris-stuffed, pontoons, used to make the log-frame raft have adequate floatation. This leaves you with nothing but 2 pairs of longjohns for your legs. You've got lots of clothing for your upper body, so you make 3 pairs of pants out of the tarp that you dont need for the tent.; After you make the pottery, you dont need the stone-boiling pit or the water storage basket, so the 3x3 hunkt of tarp can become a tape sealed bag for storing food, buried under your shelter where you can protect it.
12 hours to make a shelter that needs no heat at 0F, 3 hours to make a raised pole bed. 1 hour to make a tarp plow work pavilion, , 2 hours to cover that pavilion with boughs once the tarp is needed someplace else. By the time you need the 3 sets of coveralls, you will be done net fishing So return the coveralls to being clothing So you'l have 8 layers of clothing on , with 6 layers of dry grass, mosses between each clothing layer. Wrap the bivy around you when you go outside Brisk movement is worth 20F degrees, and the tyvek wont let you get wet, You can wear some of the netting as clothing. it's very good at not letting your body moisture dampen your clothing.
Best of luck to you, Peter! Your tool choices were all well thought out and I'm sure they'll serve you well.
Thanks!
1) ar-15 w/100 round magazine
2) 34ft fully loaded RV
3) female "company"
Damn, I still have 7 more items to choose!!
That's really all you need...haha
Can't argue with your choices. Survival doesn't have to be ugly.
Lol
They launch in mid september. If you'll google for a monthly temp chart for this area, you'll see that i"m correct about the temps. A quonest hut shape is best for a shelters' ability to conserve body heat. Make your tent 8 ft long, triangular in cross-section, 4 ft high and 3.5 ft wide at the head end, and 3x3 ft at the foot end. This only requires half of your reflective 12x12 tarp. This leaves plenty of material for making the 3 pairs of tarp and tape pants, one of which is used to haul raw water to your camp, 5 gallons at a time. A 3x3 ft chunk of the tarp is used to line a 5 gallon sized basked, woven on-site, for storing your boiled water. Dig a 7 gallon pint and line it with the doubled-up, zipped up, 4 layers of reflective, tyvek XL sized bivy Line the bivy with (washed) grasses. and stone-boil 5 gallons of water at a time, once per week, not 2 qts at a time, 3x per day. This saves you 8+ hours per week of hassles!
Awesome Peter, looking forward to seeing you on the show!
Aboout day 30, you'll have to move the producer's tarp over to your tent, cause you'l have to protect the 6" of dry dry debris that you've had to add to the outside of the tent, as insulation vs dropping temperatures. this buys you 30 days in which to by making netting, a stake and log bait box for bears, a tree blind, clay refining pits, a kiln, and pottery. It only takes a very few hours to cover the plow point's poles with boughs, so that you continue to have a covered work place.
I worked in a machine shop for 6 years, when I was young, running a drill press that had an electrically engaged clutch and a hydraulic clamp for holding down the work-piece. I'd start the drilling process and when it was done, I' reach up face high and tap the disengage switch with my foot. I could take the ash off of your cigarette with that kick, no problem, if you shut your eyes and didn't flinch when my foot flashed up within 2" of your face. :-)
I can tell that you have put a great deal of thought into your selection of items. Wishing you well for the show.
Thanks. I have been a fan of the show for a long time, so I have had lots of time to think about it!
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h Listen Mr "Sonny Crockett" , or whatever pseudonym you are currently utilising to avoid folk realising that you are the same troll that always makes the same comments, you can "talk the talk" but you have NEVER , EVER , "walked the walk".
Please stop churning out your unproven, never used theories and let folk engage with those who have been selected for the show. As they say in Scotland . . . "Hold Your Weech and Give Us Peace" . . . (Translation, shut up and let us enjoy silence) . . .
so much looking forward to the show! Great item picks!
Thanks!
about day 60, youlll need to convert the producer's tarp into a debris-stuffed sleeping bag. So you'll have to add a 2" thick layer of damp debris on the dry debris, at dusk, letting it freeze over night. The next 2 evenings, lay a 3" thick, MUCH "wetter' layer of debris onto the frozen layer, letting each layer freeze solidly. With the backpack full of dry debris as your pillow, pressing against the door flap of your tent, you'll be plenty warm enough. Make a 1 ft long extension of the pole bed. Make a basket that you can partially fill with loose earth. this is your chamber pot, so that you dont have to go out into the cod, rain, wind every few hours. after use, put a bit more earth over the wastes. When you DO have to go outside, empty the pot into the latrine trench, cover the wastes, replace the dirt in the basket and set it beside your door flap When you have to go back inside of your tent, take the chamber pot in with you. When you need to kneel or squat inside of the tent, upend the bed extension and set it on your raised bed. this gives you the needed room at the head end of the tent.
Katana 500-- can't go wrong with that. Leatherman- P-4 is a proven choice that would satisfy any outdoor workaholic. Snare wire, fishing line, hooks gets a thumbs up. Shovel - very useful, tried and true, and a good back up to the saw. Pot- the unsung hero of survival. Like your creative use of colored paracord. Your choice of colored arrows also meets the awesome test. Your sleeping bag is obviously something bedbugs would envy. Ferro rod? Don't leave home without it. Well thought out. I believe you are a contender in my humble opinion. Try NOT to do what others have done and work yourself to death.
saw and axe are wasted picks. Just cut 8" of saw teeth into the shove and be able to make other lengths and configurations of handles for the shovel. Without ANY handle, the shovel is a "big knife', trowel, SKILLET and prybar.
Very cool! Looking forward to watching Season 11 - Thanks.
I haven't seen Alone since Clay Hayes won. Actually finding out he was on the show was why we watched Alone in the first place. Binge watched every season up through his 😂. But haven't seen it since, seems I have catching up to do. As for the shovel, I never took one in decades of camping, then got the Cold Steel shovel. Wow, how did I get along without it? Suddenly a million uses for a shovel! I hope you did good on the show!
The shovel was a great idea Peter. I have a friend who carries a very old and strong military one.
The shovel is a LOT better if you alter one corner to let you add 8" of real-deal, cut-on-draw-stroke" saw-teeth. You should also set it up to let you change out handles without any tools.. Having somebody do that for you costs $300+ Then you dont need the saw or the axe and you can do a LOT more than you can with those two tools. Without the handle, the shovel is a 'big knife', trowel, SKILLET, and prybar. With the right handle, it's a spear, stand up shovel, 2 handed axe (with stone weight) adze/pick/rake/hoe,, vertical ice-chipper/post-hole digger.. Make the issue handle have an oval cross section like a hatchet. Then it's a MUCH better chopping tool
Awesome! Excellent kit and great rationale for each! Can’t wait to see the prep!
Thanks! Thought I might get some comments on the shovel choice...haha
@@peteralbano yeah, the shovel hasn’t been a popular choice but the way you modified it, does have several uses. Can’t wait to see your shelter as I would assume that was one of the key reasons to choose it?
@@rusticlivingbushcraft the shovel was definitely just because of the environment. If I was pretty much anywhere else I would have brought an ax. It was like having an extra multi tool though
you can do much more with the slingbow, tarp, cotton rope hammock, bivy, salt, tarp, rations of gorp and pemmican than you can with the fishing kit, saw, axe, ferrorod, cookpot, paracord, snarewire, gillnet, sleeping bag and bow. When you have a pontoon outrigger raft and 2000 sq ft of netting, you can easily catch 20x as much fish as you'll ever catch on any number of hooks and line, especially in late fall, when fish are migrating out of shallow rivers into deep lakes. Those rivers are going to freeze solid, so about day 30, the fishing is over.
The shovel is so underrated, great pick i hope it worked out!
By episode 3 I had you pegged as the most likely to win it. You expended so little energy to build a nice camp, made an awsome large net. Caught 5 fish in one day, built a great smoker. ... No hard judgment from me but was so sad to see you leave. 🤜🤛
👍 Thank you for sharing your gear and your thoughts about each piece.
Thoroughly enjoyed your thought process and rationale on this, I subbed!
I carry that same shovel on day hikes. Admittedly, its probably been thrown more times than used properly, but it is SO GOOD at what it does. Cutting through root systems up here in New England can be a nightmare. That shovel has no issues with that at all!!
being able to throw it around is definitely a bonus! not something I would think of doing with an axe.
You use to teach me jiu jitsu and you were my favourite Librarian, hope you win!
subbed. good luck this season even thou you already know. good luck.
Looking forward to seeing how you done !
I love my cold steel shovel.
As for 10 items I have no clue?
I guess a knife, axe, sharpening stone, ferro rod, bank line, billy can, fishing kit, bow, wool blanket, tarp and or barrel of rum?
Make a 10" high, 30" wide, 5 ft long 'raised "pole-bed inside of your tent and stuff the tent with dry debris. You wont be doing much of anything in the tent but resting=sleeping. You use the producer's 10x16 ft tarp to make a plow-point work pavilion, which you can stand up in and work when it's raining/windy. If need be, you can have the one way projected heat of a Siberian fire lay out in front of the pavilion. Do you even know what such a fire lay IS? yt has vids about it and about the alternative Swedish fire torch, which is needed to ignite the Siberian when all is wet.
Great choice of items. Best of luck!! DFQ!!!
Great work my friend! Great video!!
Thanks! Had to tell people just how cool my shovel was! 😀
That’s amazing. I thought that show only allowed 3 items. Good pick.
Did you think of bringing a canteen? Always have boiled water and don’t have to worry about what’s in the pot. Also just to always be hydrated and you can warm it and keep it in your bag at night with you
Yeah some kind of water bottle or canteen would have been incredibly useful. But I would have had to give something else up to take it. If I could take 12 or 13 items, a water specific container would be on the list.
@@peteralbano when you know to take the tarp, and make your shelter out of half of that tarp and a bit of tape, there's plenty of tarp and tape left over for making clothing, bags for food and water storage, to keep your tinder/char/ashes dry, etc.
It's been forever since I've thought about survival and outdoor living, like at least 15 years, and this was suddenly in my feed. I'm glad it was.
Well thought out, I'd have made the same choices except the bow. Slingshot with the same arrows is much more versatile. The only drawback, pun intended, is the range.
But in my previous experience almost all shots were under 30 yards anyhow, so range didn't matter. I got pretty much the same fps on arrows and could use rocks most of the time.
I have never used a slingshot bow. but you would definitely need to take what you were familiar with.
Calling it now-- S11 winner : )
New subscriber here, great choice of tools looking forward to season 11. Good luck.
I like that sleeping bag.
Shovel is a great item
Wonder why you went with a longbow vs recurve? Looking forward to Season 11. Hope you enjoyed your experience.
I mainly chose the longbow because running around the woods with my longbow makes me feel like Robin Hood. :)
Also I wanted a 45lb bow and was already familiar with this one which was 45lbs.
@@peteralbano sounds reasonable… and if you can shoot it as good as Robin Hood then alright 👍🏹
@@peteralbano just watched your Alone profile - ok Mr Understated - you are solid - now we’ll see what cards were dealt
Do you recall what bag the producers gave you for the survival kit? I’ve been watching your season and I like the bag they supplied you.
@@craig1678 I don't know the model but it was a 110 litre bag by Kelty.
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I don't know if you can say yet since the show hasn't aired. Is there any of your 10 items you would have switched out now that you have hindsight. Thanks
Can't really talk about that yet, but I will definitely post a video about how all my gear worked out when the show is over!
You seem nice, hope you did well.
I don't think anyone has any issue with him bringing a shovel. The issue I see is not bringing an axe
I spoke with Leatherman in Australia (trying to get them to send me a free tool actually) they informed me that the Free P4 is now no longer in production, so if someone is interested in getting one they should do it soon. An alternative that I like except it only has one knife, but a bigger file is the Leatherman ARC.
Did you find with the shovel it can have a tendency to glance off wood when using it as an axe? Mine had a flat end to the handle that gave me blisters from extended use that I then filed and sanded to make the end round and a lot nicer to use.
Yeah there in a certain angle you have to hold the shovel to get it to go straight in to the wood. And it does twist if you are not holding it tight because the handle is circular rather than an oval like an axe
@@peteralbano If you had a chance would you have made a replacement handle before heading off to make it oval shaped? I suppose it would then need to be tested as a shovel to see if the handle functioned like this.
I figured an oval handle might make it harder to do everything else with, so I just left it.
Did you consider modifying the Leatherman to have two "main" blades?
@@AlexSwanson-rw7cv It had the one serrated blade as well, which I figured would be fine.
Given that you had a high-quality saw, I don't think substituting a shovel like that over an axe is a huge mistake. I have all three, but I'm not limited to 10 items.
Taking all 3 would be ideal!
What style of blunts did you bring? I love my judo points because they catch the grass if I miss
I brought two rubber blunts and two metal ones with a kind of claw at the end. There should be a picture of them in the video. I have a few judo points I use at home. Just didn't take any with me.
someone should take sprouting seeds (brocolli and chickpeas and maybe radish). you would have food for at least a month right there. all ya need is B12, so maybe catch a couple fish and eat sprouts. maybe take the Himalayan salt block too. you would only need a lil water to grow em, not even much light at all, maybe a lil indirect sunlight. you could even sprout em in logs i bet. someone will win without killin anything, watch
@@largefamilyreviews9 I remember hearing about someone on a different show eating tomatoes right before leaving so they could poop out the seeds and grow tomatoes plants. Not sure if it worked....
@@peteralbano hahaha, thats funny. but i dunno if ya would have enough time for tomatoes. we sprout seeds in jars in a dark corner. mung beans are done in two days. broccoli and radish take a lil longer 3-5, but they are powerhouse health nuggets. everyone should do it even in their houses prolly
So if you're only allowed 10 items, do like "hooks" count as one? Even though u have multiple?
Yeah your hooks and line count as one item. Just like your bow and 9 arrows.
cool stuff, wish you good luck even though u are done, have a great day :)
When you make these videos do you have to run them by Alone producers to make sure you don't accidentally spoil anything? Thanks for sharing the content! I hope you made it far!
you bet we do!
the time they waste on shelters, firewood, boiling water, fishing with hook and line bowhunting small animals and birds, is all wasted. If theyd put that 5 weeks of wasted time and calories into making netting, the pontoon outrigger raft, box traps (netting wrapped around stick frames)and just conserving calories in their shelter, they'd gain at least a month of staying power
That’s way more than Ten items!
Yeah they count some groups as one item. Like your hooks and line, and bow and arrows.
I wonder if you took the multi tools with built in fire steel, would that be allowed?
It was not. Someone asked.
A folding trenching tool would've been better.. Gives you a 'badza' for digging and an umpires seat so you can be off the ground in wet conditions
Except, he brought a shovel in place of an axe with plans to split wood and de limb with the shovel. Folding shovels aren’t good for that.
Fowler agrees
HI Peter, why you didn't pick any food ration?
For a long term situation like Alone, I figured the tools to get food would serve me better in the long run. if it was a short term competition, a food ration would have been a good choice for sure.
Why bring 2 of the same thing if one is better than the other?
I'm not sure what you mean.
@@peteralbano
2 wire types as an example. Or did I miss it and you just brought the steel and not the brass?
@@yakfishin4912 brass is better for some things. Like making braided snares for trapping larger game. It is also easy to work without pliers, so if something happened to my pliers on the multi tool I could still do some trapping. Steel wire is definitely better overall though. I think anyway.
Were you allowed to bring a tarp?
You are provided a tarp that doesn't count as one of your items. You could bring an extra tarp as one of your items though if you wanted one.
yeah, yeah, I know about the rules vs baiting, shooting grizzly- bears, having more than 60 lousy sq ft of netting, etc. So what? how will anyone know that you baited in an animal, as vs just stumbling across it by sheer luck? How will anyone know how much netting you made, what the mesh size was, or how you used it, hmm? /Are you so inept that you dont notice trail cams, drones, etc.?
Another unreality show that nobody watched!
you dont want or need the bow, axe, saw, cookpot, sleeping bag, ferrorod, paracord, belt knife, gillnet, snarewire or fishing kit. You want the saw-edged shovel, the modified Crunch multi-tool, the slingbow, the reflective tyvek bivy (XL size) the reflective 12x12 tarp, the big roll of duct tape, the salt, pemmican and GORP.and the two person cotton rope hammock. The hammock becomes 1000 sq ft of 2" mesh netting and 800 sq ft of 4" mesh netting.. The 4" stuff is used as a gillnet. 400 sq ft of the 2 mesh becomes a pair of baited net-weirs. 600 sq ft of the 2" mesh is often used as a seine, but is normally. left set as a gillnet. In 12 hours, you can make a pontoon outrigger raft and almost of the job can be done in camp, by firelight. A shelter that doest not require you to take a sleeping bag (and needs no heat-source at 0F) can be made in 12 hours, too.
I think it is rigged. If you watch season 6 you will see some things that don't add up.
Too late for that. Totally disagree with your choices.
@Jaden48108, The person you are responding to is a troll that has been making long winded “expert” opinion comments like above for years on videos related to Alone.
@@brawndothethirstmutilator9848 yeah this guy comments every season under various usernames. He’s a total armchair survivalist and loves to tell everyone how they’re doing it wrong. He couldn’t survive an hour outside of his mom’s basement
you can make 1000 sq ft of 2" mesh netting and 800 sq ft of 4" mesh netting out of the cotton rope hammock, with cordage left-over for camp needs. Use the 4" mesh netting as a gillnet. When the 600 sq ft seine is not being dragged, set it as a gillnet for smaller fish, Each of the two baited net weirs, set in 18" deep water, is 200 sq ft of 2" mesh. this is how you catch 400 lbs of fish in 6 weeks, after taking 2 weeks to make all of the netting. No, you do NOT have to wait until all of the netting is made in order to start catching fish with it. You can put each day's net-production into the water, using it as a baited net weir. When you get enough netting made to convert SOME of it into a seine, do so. When you get enough of it made to set it out as a gillnet, do so and add to it each day. This not rocket science.
OMG dude if you are not a bot then just shut up - you're like the guy who talks himself up only to fall over on day 2 "hunting trophy prey" and get medivac'd out.
Sounds like a lot of work . . . and that's a problem.
@russell2496, They’re not a bot. They are troll that has been making these types of comments on Alone related videos from multiple accounts for many years now.
That's a lot of stuff seems like more than 10 items
Some things are combined together, like all your hooks and line count as one item. Bow and arrows count as one item.
it's very easy to get your first fire by means of fire-rolling a 2x8" strip of your cotton shemagh. With a fire, you can make charred punkwood. With char, you can start other fires with any hard, sharp rock and the replacement carbon steel knife blade of your Crunch. Bury some coals and charcoal in your ashes and you can keep your fire alive for 12+ hours. Make a little, movable A frame primitive shelter for your ashes-pit, vs rain and snow-melt. Trench around the pit to lead water away from your coals.. Its much easier to start a fire with hot coals than with a ferrrood.
Either way works- hot coals or ferro rod. Having said that if the coals go out the ferro rod is always there.
you dont need a warming fire inside of your shelter, guys, ever. It's much more efficient, and much safer, to use a couple of Siberian fire lays to heat some head sized rocks on both sides, for half an hour. Put them in a row of pits under your raised pole-bed, with 2" of wood ashes around each stone. They will then heat your small, reflective, sealed, insulated tent by 20F degrees for at least 4 hours., maybe much longer, depending upon how cold it is and how much body heat you can put-out. You can handle 0F degrees without any heat source at all if you know how and still have body fat to metabolize. You'l never see 0F on this challenge, cause it doesn't occur until mid December and you launch in mid September. Under current rules, it's never lasted 11 week.
You do seem to have a lot of first-hand knowledge about fire making, shelter construction, food collection, etc. You provide a large amount of information that people could then decide to take on board or discard, their choice, but shared knowledge is what kept our ancestors alive in the wilderness in the past, so I don't get the negative comments about your posts. Anyway, if you don't mind saying, how did you become so informed about survival using limited supplies / tools?
@@cafecybernz yeah this guy comments every season under various usernames. He’s a total armchair survivalist and loves to tell everyone how they’re doing it wrong. He couldn’t survive an hour outside of his mom’s basement
@@jooky5Haha! 😂 Mom’s basement! 🤣
@@cafecybernz I'm 72 and have been doing this sort of thing since I was a kid All these people didnt even exist yet when I was learning most of this. The innuit lived for 10,000 years with no metal pots or tools. they had no fires inside of their igloos, for MUCH larger periods of time at MUCH colder temps. There's nothing special about snow as a building material, nor about a dome as a shelter shape. They used snow blocks to build their igloos, so the dome is a required shape. These people, under current rules, never see 0F and see at most 2-3 weeks below 20F. It never freezes for their first month and the next month, it always thaws in the afternoon. So it's not all that cold Sleeping bags are not necessary, cause they are intended to be easily PORTABLE. These people are not allowed to leave a 1.2 mile radius from where they are dropped off. There's plenty of debris to use for insulation, and they aint going anywhere. So a reflective tyvek bivy is more useful than any sleeping bag, because it's unaffected by its getting-wet. That means that you can wear it as clothin, which you dare not do with your sleeping bag.
@@jooky5 hey, punk. i"m 72, and I"ve taught karate for 52 years now. If you'd like to bet a year's pay on it, I'll take you on with one hand behind me. Hope you've got good med insurance, cause your knee aint gonna work again, ever, 1 second into the excitement.
Is bowfishing allowed?
@@johnlynch7834 I really don't remember if bow fishing was allowed. Not sure you would have been able to do it in that muddy water though.
@@peteralbano Hi In Maryland bowfishing for the invasive snakeheads is popular Thanks
when it starts to freeze, add some more poles to the outside of your little tent. use just half of your 12x12 reflective tarp and a bit of tape to make the completely air-tight tent, with dirt piled upon the bottom edges. Cover the external pole-frame with a 6" thick layer of dry debris and then cover this debris-layer with the 10x16 ft tarp that the producers give you. This will suffice to 20F degrees, without a fire, which you wont see until day 60. Then you convert the producer's tarp into a debris stuffed sleeping bag, put the reflective tyvek bivy into this bag. Remove enough of the debris-stuffing inside of the tent to let you install the debris bag on your raised pole-bed. and replace as much of that stuffing as you can.
Making the pottery requires that you spend half a day making some sedimentation pits on a hillside and a day making a mud kiln and charcoal. It takes a week or so for the clay to be refined out of the shoreline mud, but you can be doing other things as that process occurs. It takes a couple of days for the newly formed pots (and baked clay ball "ammo" for the slingbow to dry, but you can do other things as that occurs, (like make netting). it takes time for the pottery to be fired into its ceramic state and to cool, but you can be making netting and sleeping while those things happen. When you're done, you no longer have to boil water 3 x per day. You need only do it twice per week
it's not hard to make fishing-heads for arrows out of green saplings. Simply slip your existi arrow shaft into the Quarter-split the rear end of the wooden fishing head and secure it to the shaft with tape, or cordage. Quarter- split, sharpen, barb and fire-harden the front end of the fishing-head.
You dont want to waste a week or more on a shelter, and then waste 2 more weeks on firewood You want to stay warm by having a small, SEALED, reflective, insulated shelter, like an igloo You can't count upon having snow and it's likely to be too rocky to create a dugout. If you DO get snow, you can pile it upon the insulated pole tent that I'll teach you how to create (in one day) You can build the tent a bit at a time. 3 hours at first, cause it wont be cold, 3 hours for the raised pole-bed and the debris stuffing inside of your tent, an hour to convert the producer's tarp into a debris sleeping bag and to arrange for the hot-rock heating of your shelter. The hot-rock trick is only for the final 2 weeks of your stay and is not needed unless you dont have enough food.
Some of the advice you are giving seems decent. But flooding some guy’s youtube comments section really is going to irk some people ( or get you blocked). Ease off, think about taking those ideas and making your own video. I cant say I agree with everything you are saying, but at least you have a plan. Now see if it works.
with 3 piece, take down arrows, the slingbow can always be on your person. With baked clay balls as 'ammo', you dont lose or damage your arrows. with the vise grip and files of the modified Crunch tool, you can convert the cross wires of some of your 6 flu-flu-fletched Zwickey 'judohead" blunts into fishhooks.. A charcoal fire is needed, tho, cause those wires are TOUGH to reshape. you wont get 4 shots at a big animal and you wont lose or damage a broadhead every time you shoot it, either. The blunts suffice for small mammals and birds. The flu flu fletching limits the arrows flight-distance to 20m, which is as far as you can relibly hit such critters, even when you're NOT starving/exhausted. You can get whatever power rubber bands you wish and the producers let you take ONE spare band, The judoheads cross-wires wont let arrows slip under the grass and the coil spring head wont let the shock of hitting a tree or rock make your arrow-nocks and fletchings be shocked-off of the shafts, either. So you'll have some small game capability until you can make the baked clay balls.
Watch. The birds and anamals. There. Too. At. What. There. Eating like beavers. If any. There. You. Can. Eat. The. Inter. Bark. Of. Some. Certain trees. And. Grasses. Cattails.roots. etc. If. The. Fishing and. Huntings. Is a. No go. Too. Try. To. Winning. Sir. But. You. Proubly. Are. Ready. Know. That. Good. Luck. 😊
Wet-down some small debris and when it's nea-dark, convert the producer's tarp into being a sleeping bag. Then over the dry debris layer on your tent with a 2" thick layer of wet debris. Let this layer freeze over night. You can't risk this until it's too cold for rain to be a threat. Next day, add two more such layers of wet debris, letting each one freeze solidly. Then you will be able to handle 0F degrees without a heat source. You-ll never see 0F, cause it doesn't get that cold until mid December. You launch in mid September and under current rulles, it's never lasted 11 weeks. For it to do so, TWO peole would have to score a bear and they dont know how/dont have the courage to try to do so.
you only need to make ONE fire by fire-rolling a strip of your shemagh. It and the rust from shovel, should be kept very dry., Given a few 1/8" wide strips of duct tape and then a few cigar rolls of duct tape, its certain that, with the producer's tarp, staked out over some bushes, you can ignite a 4 log Alternate Swedish fire torch. Once the torch is burning well, rain cant put it out. and it can ignite a Siberian fire lay, which also is proof vs the rain. When you have ashes from the first fire, you can then fire roll the next fire just as easily. You can also make a big pump drill for easy friction fire starts If there's any colloidial-fracturing rocks in the area, like quartz, agate, flint obsidian, make some charred punk-wood. Then you can easily have fire with flint and steel. Bury some charcoal and coals in the ashes pit and the fire will remain "alive' for 12+ hours. Arrange a movable A frame primitive shelter for the ashes pit and trench around it vs rain and snow melt. Then you'll need to start very few fires "from scratch". Anyone who needs a ferrorod is a cheechako.
you dont want or need the ferrrood, sleeping bag, cookpot, gillnet, paracord, snarewire, belt knife, axe, saw, fishing kit. You DO want the reflective tyvek bivy, the reflective, heavy duty 12x12 tarp, the big roll of duct tape, the 2 person cotton rope hammock, the slingbow, the block of salt, the rations of GORP and pemmican,, the saw-edged shovel and the modified Crunch multitool. You can make a pontoon outrigger raft in a day, and 240 sq ft of 4" mesh netting (out of the hammock) per day. You dont want to have to waste half an hour boiling 2 qts of water at a time, 3x per day. You want to create a stone-boiling pit and twice per week, boil 5 gallons of water. Weave a basket out of vines, reeds, withes, roots, line it with a hunk of your tarp, and use that assembly to store your boiled water.
If you dont know how to make and use the Siberian fire lay and the 4 log, alternative swedish fire torch, yt has vids about those things. they are VERY helpful things to know.
I have used both of those. They are great!
with the various handles for the shovel, it's no big deal to dig a couple of pts on a hill side, about 1 ft deep, 3 ft wide, 6 ft long. Locate one above the other, into the top one, put shoreline mud and water, Keep adding water and stir the mix as the days pass. Every 2-3 dasy, drain off the water and its suspended clay into the bottom pool. When the clay falls out of suspension, dip out the water with a tape-made bowl. NOT the same bowl that you use to dip out your drinking-water from the boiling pit! :-) In 2 week or so, you'll have perfectly useable clay for making pottery. You'll also have made your kiln and charcoal Once you have made the baked clay balls and the five 1.5 gallon each pots, with close-fitting, gasketed lids, your life will be much easier.
many think I"m crazy for giving up the fishing kit, paracord, snarewire and gillnet. However, by instead taking the cotton rope hammock, I get 10x as much of those same things, so I'm gaining 3 gear picks. The duct tape, the 12x12 tarp and the salt are worth more, guys. Not being properly hydrated hurts your performance, both physically and mentally. Not having enough salt, magnesium and potassium soon shows itself in general malaise. and in not drinking enough water. Having to waste half an hour boiling 2 qts of water, 3x per day is a pita, pain in the butt. So you dont drink as much as you should.
you get to bring 7 layers of clothing for your torso, but only 3 for your legs. The coveralls and the backpack become debris-stuffed, tape-sealed pontoons for your outrigger, wood-FRAMED raft. So yuo'll have to make 3 pairs of pants out of the remaining half of your 12x12 tarp and some of the duct tape. Sew the seams with the awl of your modified Crunch tool and some of the cotton string that youve made from the hammock Tape those seams and you'll have fine pontoons Use one of the pairs of pants to haul raw water from the lake to your camp
the duct tape is useful in a dozen ways, and the tarp is just as utilitiearian. The main things about the tarp and tape is that they let you swiftly make a rain and wind proof tent. If it's raining when you launch, you'll soon know the value of that aspect. Yes, you can spread the producer's tarp over some brush and keep the actual rain off of you for a while and doing-so IS highly recommended-valuable, but there's no warmth available by so doing and having a fire under a tarp is a risky thing to do.. Wearing all of you 7 layers of clothing on your torso and 5 layers on your legs is an option, and IS adequate protection vs the cold, for a while. However, you're not allowed to puncture or cut up the producer's tarp and making shelter like everyone else has done is a waste of 1-3 weeks of time and calories, which you cannot afford to do. What you need to do is use the producer's tarp to keep rain off of you long enough to make the little 3.5x 8 ft tent that you need, doing so in 3 hours then you can set up the producer's tarp as a work pavilion vs rain, a distance away from your sleeping shelter. You can make a raised bed for the sleeping shelter in 2-3 hours.. You can make a Yukon chair for the pavilion in 1-2 hours. if you preserve part of the hammock,, you can make a chair with it in an hour. Mostly, tho, the hammock will be unraveled and made into netting.
Many think i'm crazy to not take a sleepng bag, cookpot or ferrrod. I say that if you need those items, you dont belong on the show.. You can fry food on the handleless shovel, or kebab small bits of food on wooden skewers, held on green Y-sticks, over low coals, using ashes to adjust the heat from those coals If you can't make fire 5 different ways, you're just lazy., cause fire-rolling and flint and steel are very easily accomplished. So is banking some coals in your ashes. The tyvek bivy is much more versatile than any sleeping bag, cause it's not affected by its getting wet. This lets you wear it as clothing, use it as a canopy and even use it to line the stone-boiling pit for your water. This latter purpose is only necessary twice per week for the first 2-3 weeks, until you can make the five 1.5 gallon each baked clay pots and their lids.
Look at the replies to this video, that is why we think you are crazy. Man, take a step back and look. Not even reading your replies, just looking at the length, and the amount vs everyone else.
How many contestants have got to final 3 without a ferrod? I'll save you the time of finding out - NONE. Good luck lighting a fire in the snow. And I agree with the many... you are crazy if you think you can bake clay pots. I think you've spent a bit too much time in your alone dream lol
Not! Which insane asylum did you escape from?
great prep, I would replace the bow for a big axe 🪓, you can create a multiple bow trap with arrows and sharp rock arrow points , if it it allowed
The only problem with that is you can miss out on a big kill. Winners in the past have won on the big kill. After all it's a calorie game.
The reflective tyvek bivy is a better choice than any sleeping bag, because it's unaffected by its getting wet. You'll have 8 layers of clothing, debris between each layer. You'll have 2 layers of tarp, one of them being reflective. the reflective tyvek bivy, 12" of compressed dry debris and 6" of wet, frozen debris, applied in 3 layers on top of the dry debris. Half of the dry debris will be in the tent and you'll be 6" up off of the ground on a raised-pole bed. So youll have no need of a heat source inside of your tent, at 0F degrees and you'll never see that cold temperatures, cause you'll never see the second week in December and probably not Dec 1. They launch in mid September and under current rules, it's never lasted 11 weeks. Season 10, they never saw Thanksgiving, even.
it wont freeze before day 30 and bears dont hibernate until it's been freezing for a few weeks. Bears can smell a 100 lb pile of rotting fish for MILEs. That's that you have to have in order to bring them in. A small stake and log box will ensure that no other animal gets your bear-bait. you can set this up anywhere, so first build your tree blind, 20 ft up in the air. Then set up your bear-bait 10m from your blind, upwind, of course. This will get you multiple shots at bears. You can only take one of any animal bigger than a rabbit. So you cannot hope to last more than 4-5 months, which is just halfway thru the winter. You'll need 3000 calories per day in order to hole up in the shelter and not lose any weight. If you're active for long, hard days, you can need 5000 calories per day. A fat 200 lb bear is a small one, but it has 200,000 calories. A bear is THE answer, but you need to catch a lot of fish to bait him in and of course, you can eat enough fish and cambium to cut your weight-loss in half, as vs eating nothing as you stupidly bow-hunt for grouse, squiirrels and rabbits.
Pay somebody $300 and they will modify your Crunch tool and shovel to be taken-apart and re-assembled without tools and to add the 8" of saw teeth to the shovel. You can make other, longer, different configuration handles for the shovel, 1 hour each. Modifiy the existing shovel handle to that of a hatchet. This makes your strikes more accurate and relieves a lot of stress on your hands, wrists and forearms., Without any handle, the shovel is a SKILLET, "big knife", trowel and prybar. Make with a longer handle and a stone weight, the shovel is a 2 handed axe. it can become a vertical ice-chipper and post-hole digger. It can become a standup shovel. with a right-angled forked sapling handle, 2 holes in the blade and some cordage, the shovel blade becomes an adze-pick-hoe-rake.
put dry grasses/mosses between each layer of your clothing, and you'll be much wamer, due to the enhanced insulation effect. Leave your clothing ON when inside of the shelter. Dont waste time and calories doffing and donning clothing. or on finding, cutting hauling and processing firewood. When you have logs to be hauled, dont shoulder-carry them one by one, either! that's a fine way to hurt yourself. Instead, make a padded rope-yoke and tie one end of the rope to the big ends of 2 logs. With the logs held under your arms, drag two at a time to your camp The rope yoke moves the weight to your shoulders, relieving your arms of most of the load. You wont be kinking your spine to one side and will be in much less danger of slipping and falling with a big weight on your shoulder.
people act like bow drill is the only other option, besides the ferrrod. That's a crock. If you can't make fire by fire-rolling a strip ofyour shemagh, you're total lop. Then you have char, and all you need is the spine of your knife and a hard, sharp rock to make flint and steel fires. You can make a big pump drill and get friction fire when it's raining, even. You can use fire-thong or fire saw, if you keep things dry with tarp and tape bags. Most importantly, tho, you only need to start ONE fire "from scratch". Then you can just bury some charcoal and coals in the ashes and keep the fire "alive' for 12+ hours. It's much easier to get a fire going with hot coals, charcoal and ashes than it is with mere sparks from a ferrorod.
there is no need of the cookpot. You can stone boil 5 gallons of water at a time, in a bivy-lined pit, twice per week ,for 2-3 weeks, until you've had the time to make baked-clay pots ad the 100 pottery balls needed as 'ammo" for the sling-bow.. Then theres no more lost or damaged arrows and no time wasted looking for them after shots at small mammals and birds.
it's very easy to trot 5 miles in an hour. Even if all the daylight you have is 8 hours, you can easily hunt a 5 mile radius from your camp and still get back to camp in a single day. So if it was for-real, you'd be hunting and trapping 75 sq miles of land, not a mere 2.5 sq miles,, as is the case for this challenge.
If you know to make a travois, you can move 200 lbs of meat 5 miles in 4 hours and you can do it after dark, if you know to make some torches out of debris and animal fat/marrow. . Unlike a certain dummy who carried 60 lbs at a time, leaving the rest of the animal at risk of being slobbered and pissed-upon for a day and a night by an entire wolf pack, he COULD have 'leap-frogged" the entire carcass back to camp in what remained of one day. For the Alone show, you're not allowed to roam more than 1.2 miles from where they drop you at the lake-shore. So it would not have been much of a strain. Also, if you have a brain, you keep your shelter portable, at least for the first month and move your camp to a big kill, not the other way around.
Because my way saves you a month of time and calories, you'll already have the win in your pocket. 30 days has been the difference between 1st and FOURTh place, many times on past seasons, much less between the winner and the runner up. That freed-up time lets you make the kiln and charcoal to make the pottery,. It lets you make the raft and netting, which provide the bear-bait and feed you as you do everything else. 30 days in, there will be little to do that is productive, and 60 days in, there will be almost nothing left to do. So you just hole up in your 8x3.5x3.5 ft tent, tossing pebbles at a little basket with your weak-side arm (left, for most people) making your self ambidextrous. If you can arrainge a soft 'catch" for your baked-clay balls, you can be practicing with your sling-bow., too. Rocks dont fly straight and you can't find rocks of the same shape, weight and size. So they waste your stalk/stand. Dont bother with them except for shooting small fish in shallow water, 6 ft of range, almost straight down.
the 2800 sq ft of 4" mesh netting can be mad in 2 weeks.If it wont catch fish, overlap two segments of the net and sew thru the meshes here and there, making 2" mesh, faster and using lest cordage. and cash small fire.
What season did you compete on? Or are you just the internet expert 😂😂
@@NickFallap ive run into hundreds of know-nothings like you over the years. You can't even imagine somebody who knows as much as I do about this subject.
@@SonnyCrocket-p6h No, I can imagine it pretty well. You did a great job picturing it with your 20+ comments lol
@@NickFallap let's see YOU produce even 10% of the help that I put on every channel about this show.
@@NickFallap this guy comments every season under various usernames. He’s a total armchair survivalist and loves to tell everyone how they’re doing it wrong. He couldn’t survive an hour outside of his mom’s basement
Make sure you learn from others in the show. May I point out that like 3 or 4 people won by living off their fat reserves and doing nothing. Put a lot of fat on your body.
All that extra fat storage is definitely an advantage!
It sounds like you are giving advice for before he goes, but the filming for season 11 is already done (episodes start coming out next month).
@@FlapjackMcGee 🤣🤣🤣 my bad
were they women?
@@nicklausmisiti5204 no
I can teach anyone to last 30-35 days longer than they would have without my training. A month has seprated the winner from 4th place on many seasons. A WEEK has made the difference between the winner and second place, on several seasons. If they know what to do with that gained month of time and calories, they can then last another 2+ months 4-6 months, folks, not 2-3. 4 months, losing 60 lbs, if you dont score a bear, 6 months, losing no weight if you score a big bear, or 5 months, losing only 20 lbs if you score a small one.
people are all worried about losing a few calories by meat/fish dripping as it roasts on a stick. BETTER to worry about how to average catching 5000 calories per day, not about "wasting" 100 calories per day on roasting. That's just 17 lbs of fish. When you have 2800 sq ft of 4" mesh netting, and run the seine 2-3x per day thru heavily baited water, forcing fish from 5 ft deep water into the baited net-weirs, set in 18" of water, to only catch 6 lbs of fish per "run" is ridiculous. You're moving that seine thru many thousands of cubic feet of water, 3x per day and butchering the fish in the weirs. You've got a 1/4 mile long chumline, a tarp and tape bait bag and wooden float tied to it every 20m.. In one day, you can make a pontoon outrigger raft, which can't be swamped, overturned or torn-open. It takes just 8 small logs to make the FRAME of this craft. That frame weighs less than 80 lbs, and each of the 4 pontoons will float a 200 lb man. Even if two of your pontoons takes on water, your craft will still float, even if your logs will not.
you need FAT in order to do well out there and there's really only one source of it (under the restrictions put upon you by the producers). That source is a bear, fat for hibernation and the way to get that bear is to have a stake and log bait box, with a tree blind set up 10m from the bait. No bear within miles of you is going to just ignore the stench of 50 bs of fish parts and 50 lbs of whole fish The bait box is contructed so that ONLY a bear can access the fish. Of course, you can keep adding to the pile of rotting fish and keep the bears coming, until you DO get a nice shot at a 200+ lb bear, which is 200,000 calories. 200k calories is enough food for 60 days of not losing any body weight at all, IF you hole up in the shelter., which gets insulated with layers of debris, tarp, wet/frozen debris. Harvesting the bear gives you the win, if you dont get sick or hurt. Baiting in bears is pretty easy and since you're stuck in a tiny 2.5 miles of allotted land, is the only way to get enough food to gain back the 15-20 lbs that you lost before you arrowed the bear.
when you dont waste 1-3 weeks on a nearly-worthless shelter, 2+ weeks on firewood, a week on boiling 2 qts of water, 3x per day, and 1-2 weeks on fishing with hook and line and bowhunging small game and birds, you have PLENTY of time to make the netting, the pottery, the raft, the bait-box, the tree-blind. Get the bs Boy Scout assumptions out of your might about what you need/intend to do and you'll see the value of the different gear. The 8" of real-deal, "cut-on-pull-stroke" saw teeth on one edge of the shovel, along with some wooden wedges and a baton, suffice to do what little wood processing you actually NEED to do..
The 2 replacement, carbon-steel Nicholson file blades in the Crunch tool let you keep-sharp the shovel and saw teeth. The double edged awl/drill that you make out of the Crunche's small flathead lets you make the mounting holes for the various handles you'll make for the shovel. Then it can become a spear, vertical ice-chipper/post-hole digger, a stand-up shovel, a paddle, an adze/pick/rake/hoe, a two handed axe (with stone weight) Without any handle at all, the shovel is a SKILLET, a prybar a 'big-knife", and a trowel. Alter both of these tools to be taken-apart and re-assembled with your bare hands. With the proper handle in the shovel (each one made in an hour or less) you can do 10x more work than you can get done with the saw and axe combined.
I think you failed math in high school.
Bears MUST fatten-up all that they CAN before hibernating. They are NOT going to ignore the stench of a 100 lb pile of rotting fish, half of it whole fish, half of it what's left after you ate all you could. Boil the heads, skins, etc, and skim the fat off of the top of the water. Let the water cool first, of course. A bear, ready to hibernate, is 25% body fat. Fat has 3500 calories per lb. Lean fish or meat offer only 600 calories per lb. At most half of any fish or animal's live weight is not edible flesh. Fat for the winter, a 200 lb bear is a SMALL one. You can't choke down enough lean meat or fish to keep from losing weight, but you CAN reduce your weight loss from 1.3 lbs per day to half a lb per day. In say, 80 days, would you rather lose 110 lbs or 40 lbs? :-) The former would require that you start the challenge at 6 ft of height and a very unhealthy 260 lbs, which means morbidly obese. You MUST take fat animals to get thru the winter. Since you are stuck in 5 sq miles of area and half of it is on the lake, only pure luck is going to give you a large animal. But 100 lbs of stinking fish IS going to give you SEVERAL shots at bears. For this challenge, you can only take one of any species bigger than a rabbit, but if it was for real, arrowing 2-3 bears, depending upon their size and how many fish you net, would be necessary to get you thru the winter.
you only need 8 small logs to make the frame of the pontoon outrigger raft. People never learn, man