Fantastic as always !! 2 bonus tools: shovel & tin snips (or heavy sheers) Roman Legion has shovels. Lewis & Clark carried shovels, too. Midwest pioneers & Vikings made "grass/ sod" dwellings. The spade was key to American development in the 1800s. *Tin snips allow for the modern scavenging of thin sheet metal from a modern environment.

The awl was really interesting, when stone age tool finds are told about there are always an awl found. I have to consider that in future.

A very useful tool that not many consider is a medium sized cooking pot. A good cooking pot can be used for preparing meals, sanitizing water, digging, carrying water etc. And it will last practically forever. I could live comfortably in a temperate wooded zone for a very long time with only a knife, an axe and a cooking pot. And greetings from Norway.

Surprised you didn't mention a folding shovel, especially the army type that can lock at 90 degrees. An invaluable tool for digging rocks, edible roots, holes for shelter/traps, dirt/moss for improving shelter, moving coals/ hot rocks from the fire.

When I was in scouts we were taught a similar thing. 1. Spade shovel/ folding spade 2. Axe 3. Bow saw wood frame or metal 4. scout knife (the most important in my opinion) it has a knife blade, awl,can opener, and bottle opener/ flat head screw driver We would always have a file and sharpening stone in our patrol box.. To maintain your tools

Hey Dave this may be a dumb suggestion, but for a long term tool, how about a decent size drawknife? Stripping logs for a long term shelter, making larger wooden tools, bows etc. As for Saws Silky saws are by far the best I have seen.

I love Dave's videos! They are incredibly educational and full of priceless information. Thank you so much for what you do Dave! You are an awesome example. God bless you & yours!!!

So, Chop, Saw, Cut, Carve and Punch. I like it, easy to remember.

Dave, thank you for this video. It validates, what I have learned from you over the years. These are the tools that I, have pre-packed into my kits. Again, thanks for all the great videos you make... I most certainly appreciate them. 1, 26" Single pole "Camp Axe" 2, Single pole "Gerber Hatchet" 3, Tops "Tahoma Field Knife" 4, Bacho "Laplander" saw 5, Leatherman Multi tool

No bs. Only solid information. Good to watch your videos Dave!

A nice versatile backup knife is the Victorinox Farmer, which includes a nice Blade, a Saw and Awl.

Awesome intel! Thanks for sharing Dave!

Thanks Dave, I used to live in the desert and an axe just bounced off of Mesquite trees, however the bow saw was perfect

Thank You, for passing on the knowledge. Reading your new book now, and find it enjoyable and a must have in my collection. God Bless

Your tool choice's are perfect for each area of the environment that your in Dave Canterbury.👍☘️😎

I just finished the SAN shoot: Extreme camp makeover. We were allowed to utilize the 5 tools listed here. Each was used, and there was not really a need for anything else. It works.

Thanks again Dave! I'm saving up to go to some of your classes next year.

Might be a good idea to add a pair of pliers and a small prybar as tools #6 and #7 (you usually have those on any multitool).

Great information. I live in the Pacific Northwest so it's an axe, hip knife, awl, carving knife and a bucking saw. The first five items you mentioned is what I have.

A very good and informative video, thank you this. One thing I did learn from an old documentary that was made - Alone in The Wilderness, which is a true story - is to take the tool heads that you are going to use - such as an Ax or tomahawk head - and then make the handles when you get to where you are going - not an emergency, just a long term camping - so the weight will be much less than with the tools complete. One other thing you could do, you may have suggested it about the bow saw, would be to make it out of PCV pipe and have all the parts stored in the long pipe with the two ends capped off. Again, thank you for a great video and all the information you have given us over the years.

The very simple thank you for all you for our business and family that you express at the end of every video is refreshing. So many KZfaqrs should follow your example of humility.

Thanks David, I just bought your 101 book and looking forward to practicing some of your techniques. More for hobby and to develop skills and reconnect with nature as I explore the Catskills :)

GREAT video Dave. Thank you for sharing.

Pretty much covers it all. One tool I would add, for me personally, would be a sharpening implement. Thanks again, Dave.

Hello Dave! Thank you for so many great and informative videos. It's very inspiring to listen and watch to people who can teach you a lot and give answers or at least an inspiration for questions i ask myself since long time. For those who are thinking about long term sheltering in wilderness i would also suggest to take a log hook with them. Even better when your big axe have a hook extension. If you know the techniques you can easily move big logs (25+cm diameter) anywhere you want, even on the top of your shelter to build a stable roof!

Congrats on the DVD series Dave, looking forward to watching it. Appreciate your knowledge and willingness to share it!

Schrade makes a hatchet with a pommel and a stow-away limb saw. Great for camping, but, as a hatchet, it'd cost ya more time at the wood pile if you're going to be out long during the winter.

thank you brother Dave. I always learn so much from you. plus you confirm things I already knew. my hatchet needed serious sharpening and only a fine file would do the job in short order. so I would add a file to my kit. be blessed

Thanks for doing this video, Dave. I like how you show how an axe is not necessary in places that get 3 or fewer months of 32 degree weather. I'm a big fan of having and using the right tool for the job, but we can't bring our entire tool shed with us to the woods. In a longer term self-reliant/homesteading scenario I would have a couple hundred tools, vehicles, machinery, animals, etc. But for the woods I usually just bring my carpenter's axe, a belt knife, a multitool and SAK (always in my pocket), a folding saw, an E-tool, and 2 light sources. One other tool I always bring is a Lansky's diamond sharpening rod, you got me on that kick about 3 years ago and I can never thank you enough. And I always have at least 1 firearm on me, I EDC my Glock and sometimes take whatever long gun (12ga, 10/22, etc.) for hunting and/or a fishing pole. My belt knife has different criteria than yours, it needs to be a fighting knife primarily, a bushcraft knife secondarily, but it can do everything you require in a pinch. I EDC a push dagger in my normal daily carry, but when I go to the woods I swap it out for a large fighting knife since getting to anything inside your waistband is nearly impossible when you are wearing a pack and a battle belt (holds my knife, sidearm, carpenter's axe, canteen, and survival asspack). But I tend to bring with me whatever other knives I need for specific tasks (i.e. a fillet knife if I am going to be fishing, or a skinning knife if I am going hunting, etc.) so that I never have to use my belt knife for anything but a defensive tool. I don't carry a lot of things "I might need" with me, so the extra weight of another tool or two doesn't figure into my thinking. I'd really like to see you work with your knife maker friends to get a tomahawk made with splitting wedges on either side of the blade from the eye tapering toward to the blade. Would make for a better splitting tool while keeping all the advantages that a tomahawk has for utility, easily replaceable handle, axe poll, light weight, removable handle for delicate carving tasks and skinning, etc. Semper Fi

Big Axe, small axe, a good whetstone, a sturdy pot and binoculars(you can’t make this). If I really needed to limit it to five tools. You can make the other tools, like a Knife, bow, shovel, fishing equipment, etc.

You are a humble man. Sharing this expertise and informative video is kindly. Gracias y Muchas bendiciones Buen amigo...

Reporting in from Florida. In regards to your regional large cutting tool topic. I own and use: Long Collins Legitimus latin machete Sugar Cane knife Vintage W. BINGHAM CO. Rigging hatchet. Vintage 1.5lb 16-inch pack ax. Collins No. 1005 Bolo machete. IMO the Bolo is the only machete even worth trying to use on the pines and hardwood here. Latin style and cane knife are to thin and lack the weight. I reach for my pack ax all day when it comes to chopping and splitting. The machetes are for trail clearing and dealing with our saw palmettos. I find a good saw and ax are still necessary here in the swamps for wood processing. Keep up the great content. Can't get enough!

Great video & very informative. Thanks for sharing ur tips & techniques.

LOVE IT, subscribed, really dig the no nonsense, tell it like it is discussion on tools, really appreciate it! Hope this doesn't sound bad, but you remind me of my my grandfather, WWII vet who did NOT have time to beat around the bush and told you exactly what you needed to know, no BS and right to the point! I grew up in the woods of Louisiana and we never went out into the woods without a backpack or saddlebags on our hose and most of those tools in tow, you CAN get any job done while out there, just depends on what you needed to do, small lean-to's, hatchet and small ax to cut small trees for cover, etc. Always take care of your tools and they will take care of you!

Thank you Dave...

Dave, some great information! Your covering a lot of options, that apply to many situations. Awl is for sure an important item. I carry a Leatherman Tool daily just to go anywhere I go. For sure outdoors those others in some form are essential. Great video. Thanks for all your doing.

I guess you don't consider a file or whetstone as a tool, but the others begin to be worthless pretty quick unless you have some means to sharpen them

Great video Dave! I remember from the Dual Survival show how much you suggested a multi-tool.

Thanks for more good tips Dave. My little girl and I learn a lot from you, like the 5 Cs and will be reviewing this with the Girl Scout Troop next meeting. Most of her troop can now feel more confident in these types of situations and are way more eager to explore our great wildernesses. Keep em coming brother.

I can’t believe I wasn’t subscribed as many if your videos as I’ve watched! I’m subscribed now!

Dave, you still amaze me after all these years. You continue to bring us knowledge that is useable and real world stuff. I love learning something new all the time. You present things so us common men can understand and apply them in our adventures. Thanks again for showing us how it's done!!

Good video. I always figured the need for needle nose pliers could come up.

Thank you again Dave.

Love ya Brother Dave! Excellent vid!

Great video, I like how you break it all down and explain each thing in depth.

you are awesome brother. My son and I have been watching your stuff together the last couple of days. we live in Africa and have been exposed a little bit to bush craft. I will be buying your books locally / online (at least Bushcraft 101 in the next couple of weeks). Thank again for good quality counsel and teaching ...

Thanks Dave

Add a military style entrenching tool ( E-tool ) with one side sharpened to an axe like edge and a canteen cup for a 7 tool rule. Now you can do anything from cook your meals/purify water, dig in posts for a shelter, and chop your light wood and brush. Along with a knife, an axe, and a small saw, those two have always been part of my 5 tool rule but now I'm going to add a small hatchet, a bow saw, and an awl to my pack. Thanks for the great ideas.

ty for passing on your knowledge

Thanks for doing these videos. Huge info for those willing to learn.

Fencing pliers another overlooked multi tool.

Lots of good if not great information. I'm new to the survival aspect of prepping, but I'm getting there. Thanks so much!

Amen dave thank u for this video I would have liked you to talk about knives or tool maintance along with this vid. Great work mate

very concise video,Dave is presenting to us about the different tools to use depending on our environment.Lots of options,so that we do not carry useless tools,simple.

thank you. nice subject, good info, done well.

Love the style of video you've done, this time. Very helpful, very informative for those who will need to survive................

Great Video Dave 👍

Good short video to help set up a basic long term kit, even some items to use in other areas. I need to see this type of vid for fire making and wet start kits. Your build from tulip poplar is great little thing to carry for rainy day, I need a Southeast twist to the base wood?

I saw this video when it first came out years ago, before I knew much about survival and back then I said "ok, well what about a pot?" You know, for safe drinking water, eating things like acorns which are inedible without boiling, being able to sterilize other tools like carved wooden spoons, or boil down urine to make a wound antiseptic, or even distill very poor quality water, aa pot makes a lot possible, and now that i know more, im amazed it isnt meantioned

Great video, clear reasoning on the need to chose wisely depending on need and tool use to carry one through the challenge of trek life with intelligence and common sense.

Geez…… how often have I forgotten an awl? If I ever left the house without the SAK, that's how many times. There are not many folders out there that have one. I usually pack the carpenter's awl with the bulky round handle on it; but I like your flat doo-hickey there, it's a great space saver.

Your videos are the best on this subject!!!

How about switching that hatchet out for a crate hammer. Its a hatchet, hammer, and pry bar in one. The pry bar can be used as a digging stick or bark remover for shingles , a hammer and of course a hatchet. Include a few nails or galvanized staples in your kit and you can hang things or secure noose hangers. Its also the perfect tool for urban survival. Combine that with a sawback machete and your carrying more than the 5 tools in 2 tools. Add a good multi-tool that includes an awl type tool. The leatherman wave can use the scissors as an awl. Lastly the full tang fixed blade knife and thats your tool kit. Ide like to see you do a review of a good crate hammer/hatchet. Also called a roofing hammer/hatchet also a riggers hatchet but it doesnt have a crow bar. It would allow you to carry both the roofing hatchet and sawback machete instead of choosing between the two.

I have found as a good combination a Leatherman Signal modified by me with a little bit bigger blade and I also put a longer saw because it is still enough space. This multitool combined with a Fiskars XX5 weight togheter about 750 grams.

I miss this guys from Dual S.Good to see you Dave

Nice video, picked up a few things I never would have thought about. Would be cool to see a similar video on how to take a minimal amount of tools & hardware that you could then use to make other tools when needed. For example, maybe you keep a ax head and band saw blades in your go bag, then be able to crate crude but usable ax handles and frame for the saw, etc.

Thank you I've been looking for days and this is the best video

Great video Dave, ive been waiting for you to put a video out like this for awhile. My 5 tools are a Old Hickory Butchers Knife on my belt, a high carbon paring knife as a back up blade, a scheffield swiss army style knife, a fiskars folding saw & a old timer hatchet. The first three are always on my person. The other two are in my pack.

Sounds like a good overview of the subject. Can do a lot with those tools.

what are your thoughts on the cold steel trail master?

Love the show thank you for the info bro

Great video! Really enjoyed. Hal

Iv seen some sailor knives with marlin spikes and have been thinking about adding one for rope work but maybe a large awl wood work for rope if its not sharp

Great video

What would your 5 tools be on the Tundra, On the NW Coastline, and in the US Southwest?

thanks dave for covering what i do and ideas for less weight options you missed pocket chain saw mine has not failed me when I use it pocket chain saw is my belt carry as back to these tools

great video many thanks.

What Heavy cutter would you recommend for Central Texas? It's a combination of piney woods, oak forests, and Mesquite flats. Along with parts of Mountain juniper/cedar.

Dang good info ;)-

Do you have a video on how you made your leather sheaf. Would like to make one

Nice one Dave.

Dave you are doing great

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and opinion on this topic, I appreciate it sir.

With a love for the outdoors and a nomad-born Tapletop game character, this video is extremely helpful.

Good topic, well covered. Excellent!

Great video keep them comming mate

What tools would you use in the great plains or western dessert area like Texas?

Great video. I learned a great deal about knifes and tools in your short 20 minute video. Perfect!!!

Personally I think as a break down in conceptual terms you need a durable chopping, cutting, piercing, sawing and crafting tools but of course what each tool is depends on you and your surroundings. Although it's like what you said "the tools you carry with you aren't ones you can easily make or find without specialist materials and knowledge."

Very nice video! The bowsaw is my favorite. could you show how you have built it?

Your awesome dude! I love everything you do! And have done

Thank you again Sir. I love your approach and no nonsense style of presentation. One question, I have seen on 2 videos now the notches on the back of your lite axe. Bigger than an inch yet regularly spaced. what is their purpose? Perhaps measuring, gription, weight reduction, all.. am I right and is there more?

What do you think about alternative sawing options like machetes with saw backs or those wire and thumb bail saws? Personally I've not used one of those wire saws. Where it regards machetes that are jimped to have a built in saw. I've not used any that I thought were very good at sawing.

Great video. A good rigging knife will give you a good blade and a good awl Ive found bush uses for the shackle key as well

hey Dave. why do you prefer a non coated blade over a coated? thanks again for another great video! :)

Good Info for everyone. Thank you.

learned much here , Dave , but as you have said many times , I find what I enjoy or prefer by getting out and "playing in the woods" and even at home . some woodcraft knives and such make butchering easier , cooking simpler .

I would like to know more about the 1st crooked awl

This is amazing!

Outstanding