10 Cheap Bushcraft Kit Items I Actually Use

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a pencil sharpener thats like a 10 pack in the dollar store. easy to make tinder, just treat a twig like a pencil

One or two bags from inside of a box of cheap wine. Useful to carry water but inflated makes great pillow or floatation. Outstanding quality vid too.

1. Moraknive 511 2. Cheap Folding Saw 3. Lifestraw water filter 4. Pocket Bellow 5. Dollar Store`s Fire Starter 6. Bushcraft Grill 7. Worksharp guided sharpening system 8. Cookware 9. Twine/rope 10. seat pad

I use all metal kitchen tongs. They can move coals and logs in the fire. They can lift pots off the flame.

Fast and efficient little video to get through all those items! Other channels take 30-40-minutes to do a Top 10 list.

You got me with the sit pad. Every pack, every vehicle should have those pads. They weigh nothing, add comfort , and could be a life saving piece of insulation if forced to remain overnight. Lean up against a tree and wait it out. Subbed.

For a nice, light, sharp,and short but powerful hatchet i love my Fiskars X7,easy to resharpen an virtually indestructible

Excellent suggestions, especially the budget kit. I’d like to add: 2 large plastic garbags, homemade tinder kits, Sol double wide emergency blanket, hollow hobo fisher with micro tackle within, Bic lighter with duct tape wrapped around it… Garbags: water or kindling gathering; leaf insulation; 2 pole bed or stretcher; other peoples trash; rainfly; poncho; dry sitting or vapor barrier etc. Tinder: cotton balls; bits of fatwood or cedar; cattails; empty bird’s nest; birch bark; UCO matches; FRod etc. Sol dbl wide mylar blanket: plenty of room for 2 or doggie; keep xtr kindling/ gear warm & dry; water collection- dew/rain etc. Hobo fish rod: wrap kevlar fishing line, cordage & ranger bands on the out, tackle inside with a tiny sewing kit etc. Bic: duct tape is good tinder etc. Vaya Con Dios Amigo!

Another great video Dave, thank you. 😊

Hey Dave, really like your choices, I'll try the blow tube for sure! One more cheap item is the emergency blanket for a surprisingly cold night, over the sleeping bag and you are warm for sure. And cause i saw that you are open for some different things, one of my favourite items is an umbrella, totally underrated, but when you are in rainy conditions and you are hiking or just sitting on your fire for example, i makes such a huge difference to have this extra roof above you, it is day and night. Once you tried it, you miss it next time without. There are these windproof lightweight ones which are awesome but don't match in the cheap items list. But i wanted to write it anyway, it's such a cool thing to have. Makes life so much more easy. Greetings

Great list - I love the jute twine as well. It makes one heck of a birds nest as well as cordage. A cheap item that I always take out with me is a Rada cutlery flexible plastic Cutting Board. They are fairly cheap - 3 for $10 and takes up no space at all in my pack.

A nail for poking holes in stuff or tapping a tree for sap. A painters drop cloth and a 4 or 5 tea light candles and you can make a heated shelter. Add extra pair of wool socks. You can treat them with foot powder and put them in a ziplock bag.

If you want a flint and steel for really cheap, you can get a used broken file for a dollar at a garage sale or even buy a brand new one as they are not expensive. If you hit it with flint or quartz it will throw sparks , you can even snap it in half with another rock and make it fit into an Altoids tin. Making charcloth is really cheap if you use makeup remover cotton pads or an old used 100% cotton t-shirt, use the altoids tin to make it just drill a hole into it, for mine I used an old hair pomade tin. Fun project to try start a fire from flint and steel. Be really careful when snapping the file, protect your eyes as it breaks with lots of small iron shards.

I’ve used the reflective windshield sun blockers to make a few cozys for rehydrating meals. About $4 at the dollar store and you can make 4-6 bags out of one, depending on the size you need.

I bought a stainless steel tea canister at the dollar store, and added a bale to hang it from and a ring bolt on the lid to make it easier open, been using it since 97 and it's still going strong.

Nicely done video. A roll, or proper hanks, of #12 and/or # 36 TARRED BANKLINE is real nice to have on hand. Jute twine is excellent for many tasks, and it is certainly multi-functional. Tarred bankline is simply better in every aspect (however not $1.50 per roll). It doesn't stretch, it doesn't rot, pretty damn flammable, extremely strong, can reduce the lbankine to be used as an excellent fishing line (twined bankline has 3 strands), and as an excellent strong thread for sewing pants, jackets, gloves, ...which brings up another inexpensive 'tool kit' that we should all include in our gear - A PROPER SEWING KIT! Never know when your tent/tarp, hiking shoes/boots, hat, sleeping gear may get injured and require repair to stay useful. Get a small selection of regular, upholstery, and sail needles. 5 or 6 needles with some bankline (and waxed thread), with a Speedy Stitch type awl takes up very little space, very inexpensive and VERY useful. Three needles (2 are hooked, one of them is curved, and one needle is straight with an eye hole), and the copper awl for $15.00 CAN (amazon), plus a few other needles; stuffs nice and tightly right inside of the bankline inner cardboard roll. An awl punches through leather, canvas, bark and boots/shoes without much effort, really. SERIOUSLY - needle kit! You're gonna' need it eventually! PEACE!

I use a piece of foam sheet from a hobby store as a sit/kneeling pad. It fits perfectly in my haversack. For the price and weight, its worth having in my kit.

I bought my first Cohglans Sierra Saw over ten years ago and it is still cutting well. Haven't had to break out any of the spare blades I stocked up on!

The interlocking anti fatique matt from Harbor Freight is $10 if you want to custom cut a seat pad .