I could have told you guys that you were gonna get rain in all those holes in the bark. I'm a 75 yr old great grandmother guys! As a child I had to play outdoors till dark...lol. No headlamps. We learned how to make waterproof shelters to stay warm in. Clay mixed with moss was my favorite for holes. While it was dry out, we filled our hut with dry grass and dry leaves. I see so many so called survival videos from all over that pull out huge plastic sheets and cover their whole structure. What Walmart did they run to for that in their survival bag. No wool blanket, but, lots of plastic!!! You guys are at least genuine. Keep doing your best guys...😊😊
I love the collaboration!!! Keep them coming. As a Cherokee, whose people lived in wigwams, I love watching this. And yes, we used huge birch trees and so forth. BUT we used what was available to us, just like you guys are doing. It is awesome. Looking forward to seeing it finished. Thank you for doing this stuff, entertaining and informative.
There is a abundance of birch trees left in Ontario, the Provence that i had grown up and built rafts to play on the lake. I have lived in London for over twenty years now and what I miss most is the lakes and forests. You are so blessed.
In North America, they mainly used animal skins which were plentiful at the time. And with small skins cut in ribbons, they would sow the large skins over the armatures. Barks were not used much as they are easily damage in transport because the Amerindians were nomad thus moving from and to different locations many times a year. Teepees were also covered with skins for the same reasons. Great series as usual and I am an avid follower of your father. Thanks for sharing.
@@TAOutdoors I love the word and every time you said it, it reminded me of Welsh actor Rhys Ifans who said it in the movie Formula 51. Made me smile the whole time :)
As a Canadian of mixed Native, (Huron), and Settler, (European), heritage living in the Eastern Woodlands, (where the Wigwam was used as a nomadic structure, NOT a permanent one). I applaud your attempts to recreate a structure that you likely have not seen in person. A couple of observations regarding the wigwam, it tended to be oval with the door east facing in the center of the structure, not at the end of the structure. The smoke hole was to the side of the opening above the fire. The bark was laid horizontally, with a slight overlap on the sides of the wigwam with a greater overlap towards the top of the wigwam. To ease the heating of the structure and to minimize the use of materials, (the birch bark was rolled up and carried to the next campsite), it was set up so that one needed to crouch inside the structure and as most Eastern Woodlands First Nations people were on average 5' 4" to 5' 8", this resulted in a wigwam of approximately shoulder height. Well done. A good attempt.
Je n'ai qu'une chose à dire face à ça !! C'est BRAVO !! J'ai regarder ces vidéos je ne sais combien de fois !!! Je ne m'étais jamais abonné je ne sais pas pourquoi alors que j'adore tout ce que vous faites depuis longtemps !! VRAIMENT BRAVO !
I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier , but you could use cattail rush as a substitute for the thatch .On your "Saxon house " . It was used by First Nation people and by first settlers in North America . The cattail must be cut green then dried before bundling . It will shrink A LOT ! A 12" bundle green will end up being about a 5" bundle when dry . By cutting green and drying it will retain its strength . If you cut after it has died it will be brittle . I have used it in the past and it will last for 3 too 5 yrs. with only minimal repairs . I hope this helps . have a great day !
That's what I've used to weave with but you have to dry/shrink it and then rehydrate it and then when you weave it together it won't have large gaps when it dries and if twisted it makes serviceable cordage if greased or oiled so that it remains a bit supple. I made a 60 foot rope from it and soaked it in hot oil for a half hr. And it did ok. Not like willow bark or cedar but it had its uses.
I really like these types of videos as I live my fantasy through them. The only type of DIY I can do is shelfing, acrylic, resin and small stuff like that. Reason being : me and my family rent a house and we have certain restrictions on what we can and cannot do.
The bark changes color in the same process as the potato changes color when cut. It's called oxi reduction. Some tip science folks! Thanks for the video Mike. Great work!
I have complement you both on how well you work together. A well working team on every task you go throughout every time. Keep them all coming . Please.
Man in that scenery you can workout a appetite and your meals can turn someone into the hulk in the morning and specials the way u make it from that grind levels and heat gives it what we call the cowboy kick 🦵. I would fly all day in a meal like this sir . Yes sir
If you leave a small opening in the top you can bring a small fire inside for heating. Look around among the pines and ceders for where the trees have sealed up wounds with sap, super good for sealing up all of your holes. A little plug of bark and a slathering of sap. I'm not an expert either, but as I say often; "I learn from you and you learn from me and, lookie there we have become experts. Keep up the great experiment. Good stuff. Dustin, the book, the book. ;-)
We used birch bark with cedar poles, but one thing you didnt cover is actually the use of Rushmats. Theyre naturally water resistant so we would use stitched rushmats as a second layer of water repellant insulation, stuffing rush bundles between the layers for the winter
Make sure you use those great denuded cedar cedar logs. Makes a good closet, or chest or maybe even a nice wooden floor if you can get to a mill and have them plank them!
The American Indian also used animal skins on their wigwams. Later, they acquired duck canvas to use instead of skins. If you have pine trees that exude sap, you can make a glue by mixing it with some charcoal to patch your holes. All in all, you're doing a great job.
Will you use pine pitch to seal the holes. ? Yes Wigwams used birch bark and other barks as well. but also would have been lined with moss, grass or pineboughs before the bark waa applied in some cases mixed with mud as well. for insulation since in the Northeast USA our winters are extremly cold so insualion of some sort is a must. But honestly the long houses were much longer with many families living in each one, probably 10x the size you are making and some even were built in dugout style.. similar to the house your building with the thatch. Yes I live in the Northeast USA and have seen these houses first hand...
the long houses were built to hold 10 families in them, 5 per side, with overhead storage and multiple shared fires along the middle. when you think that a village would have a half dozen of them inside a log palisade you can begin to understand just how heavily populated the northern woodlands were before the white mans diseases began to wipe them out. it was worse then the black death (i think, no one cared enough about the natives dying to record things properly)
The word wigwam is Ojibwe (an algonquian language) in origin, and it means "house" or "dwelling". Cedar was commonly used for the shingling but birch was also common. My people, the Mi'kmaq, used the word wenji'guom (when-jee-goo-ohm) and typically used birch for shingles but, unlike the Ojibwe, were more in the tipi style shape, with spruce sapling rods lashed together at the top with split spruce root cordage. A lot of people are surprised at how comfortable and sturdy these shelters can be, even in snow, rain and high winds, but if you remember that the people of North America have a nearly 14 000 year long and incredibly rich history... we've had lots of opportunity to perfect our wenji'guoml. In fact, some community elders still remember growing up and living in a wenji'guom until as recently as the 1960s! This eventually stopped when their use became illegal in most if not all communities to try and force the population to shift to a more "american/canadian" way of life. Great job guys! I would've appreciated a little more elaboration into where these structures originated and who made them, but the rest was amazing!
Awesome video. I'd love to see you two and Haze Outdoors overnight and try to complete these:. 1. Flint knapp a crude arrowhead, make a bow and arrow good enough to hit and penetrate a doubled paper plate, 2. make a hand drill fire, 3. make and smoke a peace pipe. 4. drink and describe a brew from a brewery that is new to you.
Can't wait to see your wigwam completed. Awesome job so far. Keep up the great videos and more importantly continue to enjoy sharing your bushcraft skills.
It's awesome seeing a bushcraft channel still doing bushcraft. I've seen so many turning into reality tv or fishing channels. Nothing wrong with fishing, your Dad has a great channel and I watch him but throwing in a little fishing in around bushcraft is great but not to take the whole channel over. Awesome job guys. We love watching and always learning from you.
Wow! Great video! Thanks for the information about the bark. Personally I like hearing all the info because I'm a young Bush crafter so you guys really help me out! Thanks for sharing!
I’ve been watching your channel for about a year now and I’m finally taking the basics to rebuild my childhood fort in the woods of my grandparents home since I can’t go camping (I’m only 16 at the moment)
Great vid as always going on my scout camp next week hopefully me and my mates can build something like this in the forest, probably not but worth a try!
Mike, You should make the roof cap as long as the wall lengths so you can start at the top of the doorway and then go over the top to the other side. And use a 4 foot wide piece so you can do it all in one piece.
Always liked the Ojibwa houses. They used Basswood ( Lime, Linden) and put the siding on vertically but whatever works, works :-) I think the overlapping vertical siding minimizes all those little holes.
One of the advantages of the dome shape is that snow won't pile up on it, which was a concern to the Native Americans in the northern parts of the Americas.
You guys are lucky to have so much hazle and cedar around, i live in middle georgia where all the forest are pine with oak around the water ways, we only jave like 3 cedars in a mile and most of them are saplings
I love your channel SO MUCH!!! I am always thrilled to see another video, because I can trust that there will be great content, good work, thorough effort, and the whole time will be fun to watch. Thanks for uploading, can’t wait for the next one!
Traditionally the Algonquian peoples of the northeastern woodlands (a language and culture group, not to be confused with the Algonquin tribe) would have used elm bark to cover our wigwams in southern New England, New York and surrounding areas during the colder months. During the warmer months we would make cattail mats to cover our warm weather homes in, as we had two different homes we would be living in depending on the season. Up north, in Maine, eastern coastal Canada and the Great Lakes you see the birch bark covered wigwams as well as other types of barks.
Dir a trench around the outside of the wigwam, to collect rain water from the top and sides and dig a trench on the backside from the door out into the woods from the ringing trench to drain heavy rains away from the wigwam. Use the dirt dug out of the trenches to infill against the inner walls to seal it against wind and rain. The ring trench should be 2-4 inches deep and the back side trench should be 4-6 inches deep. Make it deeper at the back side and then out into the woods, so the water will flow downhill.
We did the first overnight in the hut!! WATCH PART 3 HERE: ruclips.net/video/HwOA5OQM_FU/видео.html - Thanks for watching
Awesome to see you took our suggestions to use a flattened ended stick to help peel off the bark... =)
12:49 your dog is so cute! Whats its breed?
TA Outdoors On the 1st overnighter you should eat some fish that you caught with your dad that day. 🐟
@@bobsyouruncle3344 łøł that's a good suggestion, Bob
Spit roasting a side of 🐖 pork?
Or like some have said fishing with your dad, cook at camp. 🇺🇸
I could have told you guys that you were gonna get rain in all those holes in the bark. I'm a 75 yr old great grandmother guys! As a child I had to play outdoors till dark...lol. No headlamps. We learned how to make waterproof shelters to stay warm in. Clay mixed with moss was my favorite for holes. While it was dry out, we filled our hut with dry grass and dry leaves. I see so many so called survival videos from all over that pull out huge plastic sheets and cover their whole structure. What Walmart did they run to for that in their survival bag. No wool blanket, but, lots of plastic!!! You guys are at least genuine. Keep doing your best guys...😊😊
I love the collaboration!!! Keep them coming. As a Cherokee, whose people lived in wigwams, I love watching this. And yes, we used huge birch trees and so forth. BUT we used what was available to us, just like you guys are doing. It is awesome. Looking forward to seeing it finished. Thank you for doing this stuff, entertaining and informative.
There is a abundance of birch trees left in Ontario, the Provence that i had grown up and built rafts to play on the lake. I have lived in London for over twenty years now and what I miss most is the lakes and forests. You are so blessed.
In North America, they mainly used animal skins which were plentiful at the time. And with small skins cut in ribbons, they would sow the large skins over the armatures. Barks were not used much as they are easily damage in transport because the Amerindians were nomad thus moving from and to different locations many times a year. Teepees were also covered with skins for the same reasons. Great series as usual and I am an avid follower of your father. Thanks for sharing.
Bark lodges were made by Eastern woodland Indians, who weren't nomadic.
The best part of this series is the word wigwam
The Huntsman I’m British and I can say I’ve never heard the word but t is a good one😂
Crisps it is given most of my audience is US - I felt it appropriate!
It's a type of lodging some indigenous tribes had in North America ( not all ) before they were westernized
@@TAOutdoors I love the word and every time you said it, it reminded me of Welsh actor Rhys Ifans who said it in the movie Formula 51. Made me smile the whole time :)
As a Canadian of mixed Native, (Huron), and Settler, (European), heritage living in the Eastern Woodlands, (where the Wigwam was used as a nomadic structure, NOT a permanent one). I applaud your attempts to recreate a structure that you likely have not seen in person. A couple of observations regarding the wigwam, it tended to be oval with the door east facing in the center of the structure, not at the end of the structure. The smoke hole was to the side of the opening above the fire. The bark was laid horizontally, with a slight overlap on the sides of the wigwam with a greater overlap towards the top of the wigwam. To ease the heating of the structure and to minimize the use of materials, (the birch bark was rolled up and carried to the next campsite), it was set up so that one needed to crouch inside the structure and as most Eastern Woodlands First Nations people were on average 5' 4" to 5' 8", this resulted in a wigwam of approximately shoulder height.
Well done. A good attempt.
Je n'ai qu'une chose à dire face à ça !! C'est BRAVO !! J'ai regarder ces vidéos je ne sais combien de fois !!! Je ne m'étais jamais abonné je ne sais pas pourquoi alors que j'adore tout ce que vous faites depuis longtemps !! VRAIMENT BRAVO !
More vids with Dustin please Mike, these are among the best videos on the Tube. Both of you fishing with Dad would also be awesome!
I like your buildings
I love that you're showing different kinds of shelters. Who knows? This might save someone's life one day.
I don't know why I didn't think of it earlier , but you could use cattail rush as a substitute for the thatch .On your "Saxon house " . It was used by First Nation people and by first settlers in North America . The cattail must be cut green then dried before bundling . It will shrink A LOT ! A 12" bundle green will end up being about a 5" bundle when dry . By cutting green and drying it will retain its strength . If you cut after it has died it will be brittle . I have used it in the past and it will last for 3 too 5 yrs. with only minimal repairs . I hope this helps . have a great day !
That's what I've used to weave with but you have to dry/shrink it and then rehydrate it and then when you weave it together it won't have large gaps when it dries and if twisted it makes serviceable cordage if greased or oiled so that it remains a bit supple. I made a 60 foot rope from it and soaked it in hot oil for a half hr. And it did ok. Not like willow bark or cedar but it had its uses.
I really like these types of videos as I live my fantasy through them.
The only type of DIY I can do is shelfing, acrylic, resin and small stuff like that. Reason being : me and my family rent a house and we have certain restrictions on what we can and cannot do.
Once again, going above and beyond.
Nice one mate!
Love it when you two work together! I watch both videos too.
This isn’t camping this is being one with nature
A good way to free up some small saplings so more sunlight will hit the forest floor. Thanks for the natural housing lessons guys!
I love it when you and Dustin get together on a joint project.
The bark changes color in the same process as the potato changes color when cut. It's called oxi reduction. Some tip science folks! Thanks for the video Mike. Great work!
Brilliant tool for debarking! Wonderful idea!
Beautiful structure, bet it smells wonderful too.
I have complement you both on how well you work together. A well working team on every task you go throughout every time. Keep them all coming . Please.
Always respect!!
That's a great idea leaving the bark in the water to get them how you want. Never heard of that before. Great video 👍 👍
Awesome. Still waiting for the camp through time.
Loving this wigwam series!
Man in that scenery you can workout a appetite and your meals can turn someone into the hulk in the morning and specials the way u make it from that grind levels and heat gives it what we call the cowboy kick 🦵. I would fly all day in a meal like this sir . Yes sir
it looks amazing.thank you for all the hard work dont change your format for no one
Cedar peels easy on April 1
As the summer goes on it becomes more difficult as the cadmium layer grows in the summer . Scott from New Hampshire
Cambium layer, cadmium is pretty poisonous. Cheers from GB
If you leave a small opening in the top you can bring a small fire inside for heating. Look around among the pines and ceders for where the trees have sealed up wounds with sap, super good for sealing up all of your holes. A little plug of bark and a slathering of sap. I'm not an expert either, but as I say often; "I learn from you and you learn from me and, lookie there we have become experts. Keep up the great experiment. Good stuff. Dustin, the book, the book. ;-)
Awesome film again! Thank you Mike! 👍😁
"ive got a short one, dustins got a longer one, so he could stand up if he wanted to"............lucky Dustin! LOL
greg h lol
Dustin’s is quite thin thin though 🤷🏻♂️😂
@@johnheckles8239 Better thin thin than short short.
Very impressive. Can't wait to watch future episodes.
Excellent. Miss Dustin cooking. My favorite part
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That Wigwam is coming out really cool. Thanks for your hard work.
This looks AWESOME !!!!!!!
Looking good guys!
Currently sat in my 1 million tshirt watching this. i love the viking house but this wigwam is sweet
TattooedConfusion thanks for getting merch and for the support
@@TAOutdoors no problem keep it up
The wet barkwood is brilliant
We used birch bark with cedar poles, but one thing you didnt cover is actually the use of Rushmats. Theyre naturally water resistant so we would use stitched rushmats as a second layer of water repellant insulation, stuffing rush bundles between the layers for the winter
Mike it is oxidation. Same as when you peel an apple and it turns brow, or cut a potato and it turns brown/grey.
Make sure you use those great denuded cedar cedar logs. Makes a good closet, or chest or maybe even a nice wooden floor if you can get to a mill and have them plank them!
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Coming along really well, awesome job guys.
The American Indian also used animal skins on their wigwams. Later, they acquired duck canvas to use instead of skins.
If you have pine trees that exude sap, you can make a glue by mixing it with some charcoal to patch your holes. All in all, you're doing a great job.
Will you use pine pitch to seal the holes. ? Yes Wigwams used birch bark and other barks as well. but also would have been lined with moss, grass or pineboughs before the bark waa applied in some cases mixed with mud as well. for insulation since in the Northeast USA our winters are extremly cold so insualion of some sort is a must. But honestly the long houses were much longer with many families living in each one, probably 10x the size you are making and some even were built in dugout style.. similar to the house your building with the thatch. Yes I live in the Northeast USA and have seen these houses first hand...
the long houses were built to hold 10 families in them, 5 per side, with overhead storage and multiple shared fires along the middle. when you think that a village would have a half dozen of them inside a log palisade you can begin to understand just how heavily populated the northern woodlands were before the white mans diseases began to wipe them out. it was worse then the black death (i think, no one cared enough about the natives dying to record things properly)
Wow! Great project and near completion. Mike has to cook the first feast in the dome hut! Cmon, that is a challenge!
The word wigwam is Ojibwe (an algonquian language) in origin, and it means "house" or "dwelling". Cedar was commonly used for the shingling but birch was also common. My people, the Mi'kmaq, used the word wenji'guom (when-jee-goo-ohm) and typically used birch for shingles but, unlike the Ojibwe, were more in the tipi style shape, with spruce sapling rods lashed together at the top with split spruce root cordage.
A lot of people are surprised at how comfortable and sturdy these shelters can be, even in snow, rain and high winds, but if you remember that the people of North America have a nearly 14 000 year long and incredibly rich history... we've had lots of opportunity to perfect our wenji'guoml. In fact, some community elders still remember growing up and living in a wenji'guom until as recently as the 1960s! This eventually stopped when their use became illegal in most if not all communities to try and force the population to shift to a more "american/canadian" way of life.
Great job guys! I would've appreciated a little more elaboration into where these structures originated and who made them, but the rest was amazing!
Awesome video. I'd love to see you two and Haze Outdoors overnight and try to complete these:. 1. Flint knapp a crude arrowhead, make a bow and arrow good enough to hit and penetrate a doubled paper plate, 2. make a hand drill fire, 3. make and smoke a peace pipe. 4. drink and describe a brew from a brewery that is new to you.
Awesome video!
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Doggo is always the best part.
thats a great little wikiup. fantastic.
Awesome job, guys! 👍
lovely videos of both of you and your energetic lovely father
keep it up and thank you
T - E - D - I - O - U - S work guys, tedious work, great job!👍👍
Natures tarps!
Can't wait to see your wigwam completed. Awesome job so far. Keep up the great videos and more importantly continue to enjoy sharing your bushcraft skills.
Well done guys
It's awesome seeing a bushcraft channel still doing bushcraft. I've seen so many turning into reality tv or fishing channels. Nothing wrong with fishing, your Dad has a great channel and I watch him but throwing in a little fishing in around bushcraft is great but not to take the whole channel over. Awesome job guys. We love watching and always learning from you.
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The Wigwam is looking absolutely amazing. Great job and can’t wait for the overnight. Cheers!
Very interesting and relaxing. Love the bark tee pees and long houses. You both work well together. 😺💞
Looks awesome👍👍👍
Extraordinario trabajo ARTESANAL jamás imaginé que se pudiera hacer un buen. Refugio así !!!!!!!
Wow! Great video! Thanks for the information about the bark. Personally I like hearing all the info because I'm a young Bush crafter so you guys really help me out! Thanks for sharing!
Great video again mike, banger after banger.
Alex Hutchison thanks Alex
I’ve been watching your channel for about a year now and I’m finally taking the basics to rebuild my childhood fort in the woods of my grandparents home since I can’t go camping (I’m only 16 at the moment)
hmmmmm...
Thank you for your time from Phoenix Arizona ;
Talk about been education thank you guy, Will received, I love everything you have put together on your video
Gran Trabajo, saludos desde Uruguay.
Nice job, brothers, love Amber, you should bring Jaxx
Nice job !
How incredibly interesting and awesome, kudos to you and your family!!
always interesting best
excellent job!!
Nice work very archaic.
You guy’s did a excellent job making the dome hut! Great looking supper!
Great vid as always going on my scout camp next week hopefully me and my mates can build something like this in the forest, probably not but worth a try!
10:57 "You guys go ahead. I'll get this piece." - Amber
Mike,
You should make the roof cap as long as the wall lengths so you can start at the top of the doorway and then go over the top to the other side. And use a 4 foot wide piece so you can do it all in one piece.
Love the program, keep up the good work! TA Outdoors rocks.
Always liked the Ojibwa houses. They used Basswood ( Lime, Linden) and put the siding on vertically but whatever works, works :-) I think the overlapping vertical siding minimizes all those little holes.
Nice debarkng tool gentlemen...great channel
Another great video guys, just love your new place , and hello Hazypoos as well .... :)
The time you put in to make it, wow is amazing how it is turning out, nice guys, I love Amber what a girl, can't wait for your camp out in it.
One of the advantages of the dome shape is that snow won't pile up on it, which was a concern to the Native Americans in the northern parts of the Americas.
now for plugging knot holes .use a screen and sift clay dirt mixture . play in the mud add grass plug holes let dry .it works
And it's so important to use completely dead grass in that mix. Good idea for the use of grass in the clay plugs!
Daaaaaaaaamn that's good 👍👍
We don’t have near as many birch as we used to over here, I hope one day they’ll make a come back
You guys are lucky to have so much hazle and cedar around, i live in middle georgia where all the forest are pine with oak around the water ways, we only jave like 3 cedars in a mile and most of them are saplings
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I love your channel SO MUCH!!! I am always thrilled to see another video, because I can trust that there will be great content, good work, thorough effort, and the whole time will be fun to watch. Thanks for uploading, can’t wait for the next one!
Traditionally the Algonquian peoples of the northeastern woodlands (a language and culture group, not to be confused with the Algonquin tribe) would have used elm bark to cover our wigwams in southern New England, New York and surrounding areas during the colder months. During the warmer months we would make cattail mats to cover our warm weather homes in, as we had two different homes we would be living in depending on the season. Up north, in Maine, eastern coastal Canada and the Great Lakes you see the birch bark covered wigwams as well as other types of barks.
Bro love what you guys do keep up the good work
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Dir a trench around the outside of the wigwam, to collect rain water from the top and sides and dig a trench on the backside from the door out into the woods from the ringing trench to drain heavy rains away from the wigwam. Use the dirt dug out of the trenches to infill against the inner walls to seal it against wind and rain. The ring trench should be 2-4 inches deep and the back side trench should be 4-6 inches deep. Make it deeper at the back side and then out into the woods, so the water will flow downhill.
All I can imagine is me being there with a book and a tankard of ale. Just enjoying life 💯
Way cool with a shot of haze with you