Hello and welcome to Ireland.
Today I'm looking at a rather special knife,
this is the Boker Tree brand trapper,
the steel is c73 carbon steel,
the handles are made from beer barrels
It's a rather pretty knife
and it's also special because it has been sent to me by a You Tube friend.
He actually sent me two knives
but this is the one we're looking at today.
Let's give you a closer look at this
Okay, so here we have the Boker Tree Brand trapper close up.
It's a very lovely knife
The wooden handles are very beautiful in my opinion
Everything about this knife is very well put together.
its very crisp and clean and very well, well made.
It's also very special to me because as I said
it has been sent to me by a youtube friend
It's not every day something like this happens
and I feel greatly honored and privileged
that he would take the time and trouble to send this half the way around the world to me.
Okay, so the weather forecast for today is not good
so we need to move hard and fast now to build a shelter
We're going to build a shelter to test this knife out.
so let's get at it guys, okay!
Okay, like a sniper in Stalingrad,
I've had to relocate
my original campsite was about six hundred metres that way
My rushes, that I'm going to use for thatch are about two hundred metres that way
and the intervening ground was just too rough and too wild
to carry the rushes over
so I've had to come here
I'll just give you a quick close up of my frame
I just wanted to show you one thing that I find useful
These supports, I have tapped into the ground
and I tied them together under this
so these are now acting as bipods
rather than resting them on this
horizontal pole, and putting weight on it
they're now supporting it
so it makes a very rigid and well supported shelter
okay?
One thing my friend wondered was
if this blade
would be good for filleting fish
or filleting fish if you speak Americanese
Well, there's only one way to find out.
Now the only fish my fishmonger had
were sea bass.
so that's what I'm using here
I would say yes
it works pretty well as a filleting knife
or filleting knife
okay
I won't even try to guess how Bear Grylls might season his food
but I'm going to use salt and pepper
This living off the land, you know
It's really tough and hard
You wouldn't like it very much
Nope
you wouldn't like it at all
This is hard going
Dyson
Eh Dicey
that was a very tasty feed
very nice!
Just getting a brew on guys
At least this time we have a waterproof shelter
We had some nice rain roll through
and it shed it pretty well
so we're grand
I've been watching tom in the woods
Hi Tom
and his experiments with his brew kit
and I saw that he was using one of these enamel mugs
I got this one in Halford's
for two euro's
I was using a big stainless steel mug
it's about five hundred mil's
it's a bit big, its actually a small cook kit
It's a bit big if you just want a cup of tea or a cup of coffee
this one is about, is a little over three hundred mils
and it's a more compact size to carry around
And I made a small alcohol stove for it.
I made it so the flame doesn't burn too high
it's a reasonably small flame
and that keeps it from scorching the mug too much
we're not too far off the boil now
Or off the hot enough mark
I won't bring it to the boil
she's just about to bubble, I don't want it too hot
don't want to spill it either
I like this instant cappuccinp
you've got sugar, milk and the whole lot all in one
I've made the sapling bed again
and it's not working out quite as well this time
because I'm on a slight slope this way
and I'm on a slope that way
and I've had to tie it together with twine and what have you
It works better on the flat
still makes a reasonably comfy bed
Going to get this into me
Now comes the tricky part, getting into the sleeping bag
I'll get bunked down for the night, okay?
Good morning
Well the shelter worked fairly well last night
but my love affair with the sapling bed or the stick bed is about at an end
it was a pain in the ass last night
because I'm sloping this way, and sloping downhill as well
it kept moving about
and I had to tie it in place, but it's still not great
also
we're so used to sleeping on a perfectly level bed
that when you're on a slope, I really found the slope last night
and really noticed it
Dyson's already up and about
so I'm just going to have some hot chocolate
and we'll get on the road
Just to be perfectly honest
for the rushes
I used my old beater knife
cutting rushes is very hard on edge
and I didn't have time to be messing about sharpening knives
I knew it was going to take the edge
so I used this
for the rushes
The little Boker knife
I found was very very nice, very good
It's a very well made, very pretty knife
very well put together
It's a good sharp knife as well
Now, it has blunted a little
but it did quite a lot of work
and it did, you know, we were cutting fairly fast and hard
and anyway
you have your second blade to back up
This is my first, ahm
This is the first time I've come across a Boker knife
and I'm quite impressed with them
I'm going to be having a long hard look at Boker knives from now on
Take a good look at all their models
Quite an impressive little knife
And to my YouTube friend who wishes to remain anonymous
thank you very very much for this, I really appreciate it
You're going to have to give me a hint of what to send back
otherwise I'll have to send you an autographed photo of myself for your mantle piece
That would be nice!
anyway
I'm going to have my hot chocolate, get home and have some breakfast
before this guy goes chasing deer or something
stay Dyson!
Thanks for watching guys,
Boker knives are lovely
Bye bye.
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