Please never change the intro style you have, it literally sets up your video to always be amazing!!! It is short, sweet, simple, to the point and usually funny :)

Using 2 branches, gaped to create space between them in place of the board, you could make a awesome latrine seat using this method.

A goal of mine is to be in a good enough place in my life where I can go through the Coal Cracker Catalog and build all the cool projects.

Hey Dan! Improvement suggestion... You can make this exactly the same way, but instead of 7 notches, cut in dovetails & knock in your cross members so the legs are held together in pairs... then you just offer up the seat plank & no falling apart! 👍👍

Dan, I look forward to seeing your smiling face. I live pretty much in the desert now, but I grew up in Ohio, I love seeing you out in the woods. It reminds me of my youth, probably.

I now that’s an original and useful bushcraft table build. Good job!

Make it longer, wider and use some cordage and you have an "easy" raised bed! Thanks for sharing. I am definetely trying this.

Cool! In all my years, I've never seen that cut. Thank You!!

You are the most entertaining Bushcrafter, bar none!!! So entertaining that I forget that I am learning

Going to teach this to my Sons weblo pack in two weeks at our first camp out in a year! Great video

That is probably the most epic bench I've ever seen.

I dig that you show the parts where you have to fiddle around and have some trouble in these videos. It helps :) Thanks :)

Nice thanks again all your videos have been very simple to follow and helpful. This will save my knees and back.

In " the ghost and the darkness " they build one of those on a large scale, it's high off the ground and they use it to hunt for the last of the 2 lions. True story.

I like the idea as for many years in the BWCAW a small table was something to cook from your stove. This would be a great answer to the problem.

Great idea with plenty of details. Thank you for the tutorial. If I may suggest, please build another bench to illustrate the suspension method instead of juggling the pieces in the air while we try to visualize where you were going with this. Still a great video.

I imagine you could alternatively use rope in place of the cross members to forego any cutting... I'll try it in the woods in a couple hours here!

Thanks Dan enjoyed this bush craft adventure!👍👍👍👍 Konrad

If you have a ready source of bamboo, this works right nicely with that, as well.

That was a "top notch" video Dan 😀

I don't think you actually need a 7 notch but a two half round notches on either side and use a round branch for your cross braces. Round branches would be stronger. Excellent idea. Easy to make and put away.

the most fun outside of the box thinking outdoor channel i've found - nice!

I liked when you put the first cross piece on and it came together. Such awesome stuff. I will do you the honors of spreading the word. Thanks. From south Jersey.

I'm seeing a bedframe, and in colder weather that can go over a buried bed of embers as well. After further perusal, it'd also make for a hammock/netmaking loom/frame too.

Здорово! Идея может сгодиться не только как скамеечка!Но и как мост через ручей!)))Возьму на заметку!!!

Dan, as always "GREAT"!!

An unexpected decision, I liked it! We need to take a note and try to do the same. Thanks.

Greetings from a Brit living in Latvia. Great bench, gonna make a few of these.

I love this one! Thank you! Will try that with the next sapling I cut down from my yard!

Just like a DaVinci bridge, pretty cool

Great project my brother! Stay safe and have fun!

Really cool idea, and great humor as always 😄

Love this channel , great presentations always , top. Notch , useful and very informative

Assembly of this bench is far less complicated than an IKEA piece. Great project.

I really loved this one. I would like to see more like this one.

I can see some good ideas with this. A simpler, possibly portable, bench. If you cut large square notches in the seat you can get rid of the small stick cross pieces

I don’t mind friction. It’s always done me right. Hell it even have me 4 kids 🤣

This is a take off of the Da Vinci Bridge. Love it.

Dan I love watching your videos, some has just came across KZfaq from years ago.... I've started a Playlist of your videos to keep & refer back to; I'm an arm amputee so some of this is going to be more of a challenge but, I love a good challenge 😉 I've watched other videos but alot aren't clear w/closed ups to see what they're doing or can't hear them clearly. Thanks for getting & explaining clearly!!! I wish I could attend some of your classes but, your a little to far from Georgia; Thanks Again, I appreciate what you do 😁

Great job! Love the bench. That would look cool in the garden or even on the porch. Amazing work. Thank you for sharing, Dan.

great fun little project - gotta try it out! thanks!

“Plus I like to use my axe” anyone who really enjoys bushcraft must have atleast a little addiction to axes hahaha

Great idea and something of a simple base to expand on. Another tool for the tool box. Keep up the awesome videos Dan

bankline jam knots or lashings for the lower crossmember on both sides would make life easier, could do one side at a time with one strand to keep from leaving the string; could awl a hole with a SAK and pin crossmembers with twigs, thats the route id take. great tutorial!! this video convinced me that i in fact like you and could hang out.

Wow i see so many potential uses for the 7 notch. Thanks for learning me something new

Dan I went on a weekend trip to a national forest here in Louisiana. I was able to apply some of the things I learned from your videos. I was in the Marines and was never taught these skills because of having to be tactical. Everyone asked did the Marines teach you that? I gave all the credit to your channel. Thanks for passing on this knowledge. Jorge

That is just fab! I’ve never seen a bench like that before! I’d love my scouts to build something like that. Thanks 🙏🏻⚜️

You call it a bench but I see it as a bar for pouring shots around the campfire 🤙

cool, thanks for this video! Practical and very useful as usual. I've tried making a bushcraft style workbenchafter watching your videos, and now I can add a 7-notch to my bushcraft toolkit :) Greetings from Germany

Great video 👍👍. 1 thing. If i was out in the woods, lost trying to survive, i wouldn't be wasting my time building a friction bench. Great fo the camper in their parents back yard, or home steading. Have to admit, cool bench. Not putting u down, ive been in the Western Forests my whole life and researched survuval during my time and I'm yet to try your fire starting ways. Some , I've never tried an great instruction 👍👍

Wow. A really nice bench. Friction fitting is always interesting. With all the bamboo in my backyard it would be easy to throw some shapes together. The simplest one is three lengths spaced parallel. Just get a few shorter pieces and alternate an over-and-under like a weave. Don't try to use it as a bench, though. Probably better suited as a simple framing for a lean-to.

After all that work to just sit down I'm gonna need a place to lay down 🤣

I use an 3/4 inch auger bit to make Adirondack type chairs and to make tables, I also use it to put pegs into trees to hang gear..

Love it! Quite an advanced build, but simple enough.

Sporting the Gerber Knives shirt today! LOL Good on ya!

Awww, man! I really wanted to see you stand on it to show how sturdy it is!! Now I'm sad. ;-) No, really, this is very cool. At first I wasn't picturing how you could possibly substitute logs for the board, but once you put it together it all made sense.

Great product. Can't wait to see if I can get it first time

Thank you for your constant up attitude its frigin owesome

Hey Dan here's a thought... Cut a round Circle in the Seat board and now you have a Toilet 🤣 No Squatting🤔😂😂😂

Using the field assembled Bucksaw basic design (doubled), you should be able to create a movable bench, maybe with space for fingers to grab in the center...

This uses the same principles as the Scouts used for a footbridge. I like the 7 notches, they make construction easier.

Instead of using those 7-notches and fidling with those thin crossbeams, you could attach those crossbeams into the legs with dovetail connections. You are basicly making a 2 squares each with 2 of the legs and 2 crossbeams all connected together. That board will than be inserted into that a square on each side. That way you can create very sturdy and a lot more stable legs on both sides of the board.

Make a big bean bag with your survival bag and a load of leaves. 😁

First let me say, you are so close to 250k subs man!!! Yeah baby!!! It’s crazy how fast your last 100k have come. When you guys hit 150k that seems like the springboard. As always Dan, the skills and techniques you teach make me wonder how else might I use this. The seven notch, yeah okay. But the reverse seven notch below it... friction or not.... yeah man, now we’re talkin’!

Simple and bad ass. Thanks for sharing.

Good stuff. I love stuff like this.

$10 says that Corporal Shawn Kelly will be sleeping on a larger version of this thing by the end of this week. :-)

Darn it Dan! I just got home from my first camping trip this spring. If you had uploaded this day or two ago, i would have tried this. Now i have to wait a while to try this :-D

Fun video! Thanks for sharing.

You are so totally awesome I have learned so much from you thank you thank you thank you🇵🇱🛶🧸🌈👩‍🍳🇺🇸

Very cool. Very practical. Great share Dan! You can carry the pieces with you everywhere too. That is awesome! ( :E

SIMPLY AMAZING. HOURRA.

This was really cool. Thanks!

This is seriously cool. Thanks for the instructional video Dan!

Great vid as always. Could make a drinking game of every time you say “7 notch” you take a shot. :-)

If I remember my geometry lessons correctly that shape between bench, legs and bottom is called a trapeze. If you would put this bench in an art gallery you ARE a trapeze artist.

If you are setting on that bench and it fails. It is going to hurt like hell. However I can see a number of great uses for it. Thanks for the upload

Cool project for some cub scouts

Outstanding!

Thank you for sharing this

Awesome bench

Just an idea.... but while explaining the legs with the double reverse 7 notches, call it a Z notch. Everyone will understand it easier. Just a suggestion. When ya look at each leg (from a side view) u should see the letter Z. Boom!! easily explainable design.

That's pretty cool!

Very good plug for skill share made me check them out

Great post.....gotta try that. Thanks

Brilliant!

Awesome dude thank you!!

Great idea!

Omg. Great video!!

Interesting project, and well executed, but I don't think I'd say it's held together by friction; it's due to the fact that two solid bodies can't occupy the same space. If you drop a block on the floor it's not friction that keeps it from sinking in. Of course, there is some friction involved (as there is in most mechanical systems). For instance if the wooden parts of your bench were as slippery as watermelon seeds it would be a lot harder to get it to stay together.

Genius build

Q&A Wednesday! And the bench is nice.

Too cool!

Cool man!!!!! So gonna try it.

Awesome!

just cut square notches into the legs, 2 inches deep,and twice the thickness of the board you will sit on and slide the board ends into the notches and angle the legs out to hold the board, no need to use the 7 notches or the extra sticks.

this is a da Vinci bridge, cool use.

I been watching some of your videos for a while now. I just recently discovered _Townsends_ channel and been watching through their videos (new to old). I just finished watching the one about _Fatwax_ and next on on the list is Also with you, which is about _Fire Starting_ . But gonna take a break and watch this new video of yours before I go back to that one.

Thanks Dan Now that was super kool.

That's clever right there. Next time I forget my camp chair, I know what I'm making.