In my opinion, Mr. Canterbury's videos are better than anything on TV. The short ads are a small price to pay.

Dave you are hands down one of the best educators on the internet.

Great lesson Dave! I answer a lot of "yahoo answers" camping questions and must have posted links to your videos (and store) ... seems like thousands of times. You are helping millions of people more than you know.

1) Hi Dave, excellent video. In my country we use this idea a lot. What I used to do a lot is use smaller sized round cone plates that are used for making fast "pita" only instead of using them for that purpose you simply build a small fire in the bowl area which allows for wind to get inside easily enough. There are MANY things that you can do with this and I'd recommend you to give it a try, it's the sort of thing you'd like a lot! You can find them from aluminum too so they weigh nothing.

Cool tip on how to blow on the fire, I never used a smudge pot, but have made fires to keep the bugs away, good idea with the smudge pot dave. Thanks for sharing

Great topic. Added to my Bushcraft playlist. Thanks Dave,

I have to tell you this, Dave. You are one of the main reasons I got into self reliance and survivalist skills. Thank you, I just wanted to tell you, thank you.

Howdy Dave, Just wanted to tell you i highly, HIGHLY appreciated the time you put into these videos, especially how frequently you put them out. You've taught me alot and this videos no exception. thanks for all your work brother.

I should have put your video to use when i went on my backwoods overnight-er. The bugs were unbelievable! Even my dog was going crazy. I did have some chaga with me which helped but when I ran out of that I used punk wood. Needless to say I'll be ready with a smudge pot setup next time! Thanks for the vid.

Additional info on Yarrow: it grows on dry(er) and poor ground; roadsides are a good place to look, also field corners where less fertiliser gets applied. some clearings in the forest on high ground might also be good spots to look for it.

thanks for covering this topic Dave!

Great video Dave. Very useful. Thank You for the great demo.

Dave, I've been watching your videos for quite some time and just wanted you thank you for sharing all the great information. I spend a lot of time out fishing and hunting, and I have learned/been inspired to try new techniques while out in the woods. Keep up the great work!

great video Dave, I live in Maryland and bugs are a crazy bad problem here. Next time I got out ill try a smudge pot. thanks for all the video's they're great with very good info on surviving. Which is something every1 should know something about.

when we camped on the intercoastal waterway here we cleared out an area in the middle of cedar trees. the sand gnats and mosquitos would eat you alive but wouldn't come in this area surrounded by the cedars. the cedar trees are the only thing we could think of that repelled them. we camped at this spot all different seasons. no matter when, still no bug problem inside the "wall" of cedars.

Nice:) Thanks for the yarrow tip:) I have a tip I bet you already know..if there is elderberry around you take a long thin branch of elderberry..push a rod or smaller diameter fire hardened stick and push it through the soft pith in the elderberry "firewand" , this will create a tube that can be used to blow under and into your coals...this why the elderberry tree is also called the Fire Tree or Fire bush...just my two cents..thanks again Mr. Canterbury:)

I wish I had all your knowledge Dave,your the best out there

Thanks for sharing Dave! great vid!

Try sassafrass leaves or bark...works decent and grows in the woods!! Great video. A smudge fire has saved my butt many times.

As someone living near the Everglades, I agree 100% that keeping bugs off you is critical for keeping one's sanity. That first time you see a 2 inch long mosquito...

Great video. Loved the tip about blowing across the pot! Will definitely use that with my Woodgas stove.

Keep em' coming Dave

You are the greatest dave.

I'm really glad that you are sharing so much, most people only give a litle and say: "Come to my expensive school and Iäll teach you the really good stuff".

i've used a simple smudge of a handful of duff,dry pine needles and such,inside my baker shelter to slow down-knock down the bugs that get into it.i just light i on the ground and let it burn a minute and that does the trick.once or twice i over did it and smoked myself out! this year i'm going to take a mosquito coil along and see how that works if i just burn a bit on a rock. the old,1920,30's ,outdoor books talk about how guys looked forward to camp at night and the smudge.

Good skill for Loxahatchee FL. I always learn something at your site. As always, thanks’ for taking the time to make this video! And I support this site. ~M~

great vid! never heard of this technique. glad you shared! love this stuff. youre the man Dave!

Awesome stuff. Hard keeping the bugs off down in the South. Look forward to seeing you at next year's Gathering Dave! Take care.

Recently I was out and bugs driving me even closer to nuts than I am normally. I dug a small hloe near my sleeping area and inserted some bigger coals from fire and then covered those with some rotten/punk wood and slept good for about 4 hrs and redid same and woke at sunrise!!! Wind direction is key.

Great Tip. Thanks for sharing Your knowledge with us.

That vortex idea is brilliant.

I love youtube, you can learn so much. This is what the internet is supposed to be.

great video dave. :)

Great video brother. Very nice

Saved me couple bucks on commercial chemicals, works the same way, thanks Dave!

Thanks Dave.COOL

Cool, good and important, as usual. Thanks.

Dave you are right about garlic brrother. The only difference is I take high potency garlic pills, two a day. It works great. Love your videos man, keep up the good work. You are the best teacher I've seen on youtube.

On Planet Arkansas where I live, there's nasty bugs and critters everywhere. Seven different venomous snakes, ticks the size of Alaskan King Crab and skeeters that can drain the blood of a small child in one meal. Not to mention armies of fire ants, chiggers and no see ums. I always use a hammock with a bug net. Keeps me off the ground and gives me a bug free, critter free, un-bitten nights sleep.

Dave, have you ever used a thermacell? Not very bushcraft, but they've been the best things we have found for bugs during early Teal season.

You are such a good teacher, brother. Keep it up! :)

Take the tumbler out of an old dryer put a steel lid on the open end of the tumbler and you've got smudge pot. I welded mine to a base of an old lawn mower so you can move it around.

Dave I liked your video and ideas. I understand the purpose of this video, is to find a bushcrafting way to ward of bugs with natural materials, and to use natural materials as insect repellent. Okay fine, I got that. But I have to ask, what about bringing along a bug net?

Great info. Cheers

Here in sweden we used to make something called, "beckolja". It is destilled pine tar. you should try it!

Wild Geranium seems to work, too. Northern Lady Fern, Red-Berried Elder, Labrador Tea, and Wormwood Seems to all be the same way. Plus you could put it in some kind of vegetable oil & slow cook it- phreshayr has a video on that). Don't know why he said that yarrow doesn't work. Never tried it, myself- but smoking tobacco tends to help.

another thing i've found to be really usefull against bugs, here in australia, are: green eucalypt leves on the fire, green cypress pine wood/leaves, cedar boughs/bark/timber and the internal parts of termite mounds

Man I could of used that a couple weeks ago flys were eating us alive pine needles on the fire only does so much ,,good to know about the yeuro Think I’ll make up a littel potion as well Should I use just the leaves or the flower or bouth with the ever clear? Thanx Dave

screw him man you got a good channel that alot of people enjoy keep doing what you do

I know where you are coming from. in the words of the great Uncle Si-" When you slap em, you better make sure you knock them out, or they'll slap ya right back, Jack!" 100% deet straight from the factory in a GLASS bottle works, it would eat through plastics- i have melted flashlights!

A method wich i think is pretty good is that you can put a whole horseshoe fungus in your campfire and the smoke will keep most of the mosquitos away.

Dave, Any thoughts on keeping ticks at bay?

awesome video I watch every one of them. can you do one about the pathfinder bow

Thanks grows all over up here...

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good stuff. i guess if you dont have a spare container you could do all this in a hole in the ground near your camp. or make several around your camp

i have used a dakota hole beofre for this in the swamps of alabama you will be eatin alive if you dont do something to keep the bugs at bay..great video dave..safe journeys

In the Army use to suck on matches in the field. And it keep the skiters, sand fleas and ticks of me.

ive heard you are putting together a physical store in Indianapolis. any new updates. thakns keep them coming brother

Tree mulch may smoulder as well but is not quite as effective as ungulate poop. As the bugs really don't like the smell of burning poop at all.

ill have to try that vary cool thanks!

That's an interesting idea!

I think you had to click on the "auto 320" text to allow the full res of 720 to show. If you didn't click on it, it didn't show as usual. Some bizarre reason, i'm sure. LOL

Great video. I had never heard of a smudge pot before. Dave do you think pipe tobacco would work good down in the pot to create slow burning smoke? I have about 20 pounds of fresh pipe tobacco I picked up at an estate sale recently. Thanks Dave, you are a great teacher.

Id love to see a vid of u makin the tincture bug repellent

Dave when making the tincture is it better to to use green yarrow or closer to it dying out for the year? I live in the upper midwest so not to sure if i have yarrow here, but I will certainly be looking around. Great video.

Great video as always! If you did poke holes around the bottom of the container for oxygen, how big would you make them and how many would you put in? Thanks kindly.

Hey dave, nice video, just learnd another lesson! now i got a question for ya: what hat is that like the company its made by? im just curious :D

i went out last week with my dad and i get bit up really bad we got two weeks or rain straight up here in michigan where i live and the bugs were just crazy and i had bites all over my face and arms so i was wondering if there is anything i can put on my skin or something after the fact to help bring down the swelling and make them heal faster

is it just me or is it quite entertaining to blow on the bucket? i tried this after the video and it kept me entertained for hours...

oh thank you sir!

If I'm not mistaken nicotine is also an insecticide or at least a repellant.

look for wax myrtle bushes as well- they dont go in there much at all either

If you only have one Bush Pot, where you boil and cook in, would you use it for a smudge pot, as well. If you would, what would you use to clean it afterwards to eat from it again. Thanks!

Hey Dave, I live in northern Arizona and I have a blood type that attracts mosquito's like crazy. Everyone in my group wont get bit once, but I'll get bit literally hundreds of times if I dont use high levels of Deet. There is however a certain gourd Cucurbita foetidissima H.B.K. that grows here. And in my research it says the natives used to dry out the leaves and spread it on their crops to deter bugs. Do you think burning it would have this effect? Thanks

Catalpa, too.

I have access to vast quantities of horse dung. In this application, would it be better to use moist or dry dung? Also, will Marigolds work in the place of Yarrow?

seems yarrow would be the easiest plant to come by for making bug repellent. putting some yarrow tincture in a small spray bottle should be enough for most pests. but growing catnip is like growing weeds, so it would be a good plant for a self reliance garden. just be sure to put in a pot/bucket since it is invasive, best to kill it before it spreads it's seeds.

Dave is giving all this info, free of charge to you. Beggars can't be choosers. If you're not happy, just go out and BUY books and videos. Your wallet will be lighter, but hey, at least you won't have to be bothered with ads.

I use Vinegar for skeeters and bugs.

goodday man left a message on criter 's moonshine clip there but do you guys have a video on canning sorry little off topic

You can use termite infested wood or nests it's smoke is repellant just another tip

Hey dave what do you use to repel ticks and how do you remove them? jon

Dave, how well does burning cedar work for repelling insects?

Could you just drag some coals towards the side of your side and set the yarrow on top of it? Or would it burn to quickly? Thanks for the video

I've had terrible luck with bug repellants. They seem to attract and make it worse.

Tobacco--cigars work, but cigarettes do not. What about garlic? I heard if you eat a lot of it, it repels mosquitoes.

Now that is what I like about your videos. You mentioned a plant for us who live in others areas of the eastern USA. The Deep South is much different than Ohio.

Where did the intro go?? You need a hair cut brother man ;-) Keep up the good job Dave.

It takes time and money to make videos. It takes money to run a website like this for people to watch videos---all the hardware, humans and electricity probly don't come cheap. A brief ad is a small price for free information.

Horse mint works great in texas

Wen I wanna save a fire long time then I have stones in button of the bucket it work for me and it dont cost you any to test it.

Man gonna have to make another batch of nessmuk bug dope and send you trust me i don't know what i done different but it WORKS brother. Jim kane made a video using it he got bit where he did not put it. My video on it is the exact batch he got some from check it out and try it brother it works VERY well.

I just set cattails on fire from the top, seems to do the trick for mosquitos.

IDK about the greens while using smudge pot Tier 1 of WoodCraft

A hobo stove would make a good pot.

The pot makes it mobile. You can just dig a hole in the ground instead.

looks like really good tinder to

And what was Dave selling the yarrow or the lighter ? and like he said the other day " if you don't like it stop watching his channel .

What are you talking about? i believe that you should work for free to tecah me life skills. I shouldn't have to sit through 20 seconds of comercials to get your expertise! Just kidding. Some people have such a sense of entitlement these days. They can't just deal with adverts so you can continue making awesome videos for us. If i didn't live in california, I'd take up your classes and drop the 400-500 dollars for it. On that note, and recomendations for bushcraft classes out here?