Dave, I'm glad that _"we"_ got you before NASA did, because good engineers like you don't grow on trees.

Hi Dave, I really liked seeing the progression of your "design-on-the-fly" step by step. I could watch more of this type of work. Nick seemed happy with it so it's a success.

That thing turned out awesome brother! Absolutely ingenious! Love how you used some everyday items to help create it too 👍 Always great seeing you and Nick out enjoying time together... doesn't get much better my friend 👍 Thanks for taking the time to share this one buddy!

To the people who will be reading these comments and watching these videos, years in the future... I started watching these videos in 2020 during the pandemic lockdowns. A lot was happening in the country, and learning more survival skills was essential to becoming self-sufficient. If this is the first video you come across from this content creator, you're in luck. This is a good place to learn skills that may save your life. I vouch for this man. I have had the pleasure to become a part of this community and learn a lot in the process. Thank you, Dave! I am greatfull! Thank you too, Nick! Your video recording skills have gotten a LOT better over the years!

That went from a simple axe sheathe to a full on survival sash in no time! Nothing better than ole el cheapo'. Right on Dave.

Very nice crafting Dave. Sew in another pocket for a sharpening stone or file and your good to go. Thanks for the show. 👍

I would have cut the whole wall of the coffee jar and used some heat gun to straighten it and fold it and then model it on the axe head with an improvized press and some rubber, like kydex. But I guess power tape works too hahaha. Great to see you make custom things, as always. Cheers!

I love it when you design and create this kind of stuff. You could have your own line of gear already Dave.🐸🍺🔪🔥

Hello Dave. Good to see Nick ! He is getting handsome as he gets older ! That was a superb idea for carrying an axe and other gear into the boonies. Problem for me is that I don't know how to use sewing machines. I have to hand stitch everything with extremely tough thread or sinew , both imitation and or natural. Sewing cloth material would take me forever. Leather, I don't mind because of how stitching is prepared and it goes extremely smoothly. I love to do two or three rows of stitching on every leather item I make for myself. I plan for riveting wherever it is needed. Sewing cloth gets me flustered because you have to eyeball the stitches for it to come out looking right when you don't machine sew. For an outdoor man you really have it on the ball. I hope Nick takes your legacy forward someday. You have given me some ideas through your design and the fact that you can carry a lot of additional needs is incredible. Well I again thank you for the video presentation and some more ideas. You truly are an inspiration to an old 70 yr. old Marine vet. ! I keep you and your loved ones in my prayers continuously. God bless you and them ! A friend always ! Later !

You always come up with a great solution to the problem. Also, it is within the price range of anyone. Most people would go buy a fancy holder from some specialist leather worker for 350 dollars, I am a guy that would never in this lifetime pay anything near that. This is a great option ,and probably just as safe as anything you could make that didn't weigh 20 pounds.

I think that sash is brilliant. I love the way you made it in to a complete kit. ❤

It's GREAT to see a father-son team out in the woods! Excellent video! Thank you guys!! It reminds me when I use to take my sons camping many years ago! God bless you both!

I can imagine this to become a method for bow & arrows too. Super clever well balanced.

Loved the video and it was great seeing you and Nick together again. The axe sling/bug out kit was a total success and will be very useful. You do make some very useful stuff Brother David,and I really enjoyed watching you do it.

One of your better inventions Dave and Nick didn't even complain about not having a lighter fluid pocket! Good looking axe Nick. I'm into possibles bag carry more than backpacks so I especially liked this one. Been a minute since we we're in the gear room also. Cheers fellas, have a great weekend!

I'm imagining a sash covered in mollie webbing now that's fully customizable. Great concept design. Always love your ideas. Have the sash unzip to open the layers gives space for paracord or the tarp folded long. They can act as padding.

Hi, Dave. Love the Mr. Wizard inventions. That's awesome.

MYOG is not only satisfying, but sometimes the only way to customize to your preferred specs. You two are very inspiring and optimistic, the latter is even more rare these days.

You are awesome with these Ideas . Nick is blessed having a dad like you great job Dave. GOD Bless.

I saw a short documentary, years ago, about a Cambodian doctor who was making durable artificial legs for all his patients who had lost theirs to leftover French landmines. He bought used yogurt containers from recycling companies in the West and melted them with solvent -- gasoline, turpentine, acetone, whatever he could get ahold of then. Then he used cloth strips, dipping them in the plastic slurry, and built up metal armatures as if he were building a plaster cast. I really took to that technique, built a bunch of stuff with wooden forms, sometimes just a frame alone works. It's like paper mache, but durable and waterproof. White plastic is best, food grade. You can mix and match for different flexibility and rigidity. Stinks though, and takes forever to 'dry', so you can't make it too thick. Cheap, easy, durable, and sandable if you do it right. It ends up kinda like micarta. I've done small patchwork on plastic sort of the same, using fabric and a hot glue gun, but feeding through pieces of plastic coathanger. Holds really well around corners. You have to spread it with a knife or hard roller. You can do really cheap vacuform-like molding with hot sand. I use a crockpot to heat the sand, and usually big pieces of plastic from two liter bottles. You put the item or form in a box, then the plastic, then the sand. If the sand is too hot it'll melt into the plastic, puts holes in it maybe, too. And it doesn't get as good detail, but it's great for making things like hard sheaths.

Great show, Dave and Nick. Thank you. That is a nice axe sling. It looks like it will work great. Years ago, I carried an axe in a pack basket, and it had to be lashed down so it wouldn't flop around or fall out of the basket. Your design here looks great.

Love it. I liked how you addressed how the axe would keep slipping around while you walk. What about drain holes?

Improvisation is the key to genius! Nice one Dave, heavy duty ideas that help to motivate people to engage in their own creative abilities. Thank you. Have a good one and enjoy your weeks end!

I'ld just love to be your neighbour and share this creative thinking and just make stuff! We'ld be like two peas in a pot I'm sure 😁 I live in Holland, the Netherlands, though.... kids left the big house so I turned every room in a workshop hahaha! One room for woodwork, one for sewing, one full of boxes with materials and tools, and then the big attick.... boxes filled with leather (mostly harnesses from horses, perfect for making sheaths) all sorts of materials (wood, metal, plastics, textiles, etc. etc.) I always have fun when someone enters my house for the first time, yes I have a nice piece of livingroom but every other space is filled with (stuff for) projects.... they don't expect that from a woman 57 years of age 😂 I love it! Looking at your video's is like being at home, thank you for that! Nice to know I'm not that weird, there are more of us!

It's an artisinal reallybigmonkey design.

Hello Dave and Nick, that’s a good idea for sure and it looked like it was working very well too. Always enjoy watching you coming up with an idea and making it work. Love your channel, keep up the good work , be safe in the woods and on the job Dave , see you next time 👋

Always love seeing you and nick out together. The sling look a great idea

Great video as usual Dave. Excellent Axe sheath/sling along with the gear along with it. It’s nice to see Nick grow up here on your channel and see him develop as a woodsman. My roommate and I recently went back on your channel to the very first video you posted. I think it was either 9 or 10 years ago. You were so serious and probably too nervous to smile 😊. But it is amazing to see through the years how you and your channel has developed and grown through the years! Look forward to seeing you (and Nick) in the next one.

Nice setup it covers most of your needs in 1 package well thought out Nick will use that a lot look forward to your video each week

Genius!! A regular Bushcraft MacGyver. Very useful. I'm pretty sure you'll improve this in the future. It is a lot of fun watching the progression of this build.

Very cool. Probably have some room left for a puck or stone to keep that ax and Mora tuned up. I might swap the tarp for a good poncho for the ability to keep everything dry if it rains. Thanks for teaching us another outta the box idea. 👏👍✌️

Dave, loved this one. not only are you great outside in the woods. but also a handyman in house . thank for sharing this great vid.

You definitely need to start your own Etsy store with all your custom designed great! Just an idea for these dual shoulder sash setups - what about some clips on the water bottle holder & axe head so when you’re walking you can have a horizontal webbing around your back & maybe front clipping the water bottle + axe head so they stop each other from swinging forward and back by pulling against each other. Sorry if that’s vague haha 😂

Dang. Really enjoyed the entire video. I'm throughly impressed on your ingenuity and genius. From your shoveax to your custom sheaves. Your mind Sir, is one in a billion.

I love this design Dave. Very compact but filled with many essentials. I love how you find and repurpose materials. I have a Cold Steel Hudson Bay axe that came without a mask. My son made a Kydex one to fit it. I thought about attaching a sling to it somehow but your design would be much better. I still say you need to patent your designs and start selling them but I know that would be a huge headache and take up all your time. Take care and hi to Nick!

Great idea Dave!!!! Thanks for another awesome video!!!! One thing I've found that works pretty darn awesome...if you don't mind heat forming plastic....is old tide bottles or laundry detergent bottles... to heat form around what ever tool

Very ingenious, Dave! What a great gift for Nick! You’re a smart guy and a good one too! Looking forward to your next video!

Necessity is the mother of inventions! Brother Dave you hit it out of the park again. Good seeing you and your boy out and about buddy. God bless. Thumbs up video ~John

I know this one is a couple of months old but somehow I missed it, before and just came across it. Just wanted to toss out a couple of ideas: Being non-insulin dependent diabetic I have to keep in mind having at least snacks with me. A couple of meal/energy/protein bars or small packs of trail mix, etc. could easily fit in one of those pouches to have at least some food for an emergency. To add into the axe pouch, the other day at Tractor Supply I came across some Repel (my favorite brand of bug repellent) wipes - pretty much like body wipes - in a 'soft' package so Nick COULD have some bug repellent in the kit.

Dad of the year in my book. That turned out awesome brother.

Hey Dave, great job on the Axe /Sling Survival kit! Well done. Looks like Nick likes it. 🪓👍

Nice kit, it's got pretty much everything a person would need to get by for awhile if needed. Throw in a stainless steel Nalgene or some other container to boil water in and it's pretty much all you need. I collect blades of all sorts including axes and I've always wanted to add an axe from the Ox line to the collection. I like the German pattern axes a lot. I've got a few of them and find myself using them more than my other axes. Another great video, thanks for taking the time to make it guys. 😊

Nick walks up on trekkies dressed as Klingons. One brandishes his aluminimmumm bath lath and slaps his sash going into a combat squat. Nick pulls out the axe, mora and saw. Trekkies run away. Nick yells after them ‘ Georgia Klingons are without honor!’ Chris

Yeah...Nick's back in the woods.! That would be the best survival kit for the outback mate. Will try and make one for our girls, minus the axe though. All three of them got their own homemade tomahawk. Don't you reckon it's about time you & Nick do another camping, cook & coffee vid.???? Cheers cobber. Hi Nick we love you mate.

Always Enjoy Your DIY Shared Projects, Davey Great Job On This Thanks ! Hay Nick ! ATB T God Bless

You are a wizard at crafting things my friend. Thanks to your ingenuity, I've used some of your methods, and the Ontario SP53 truly is a "Chopping Beast" I strap one on my back in the knife/machete gear configuration you have shown before. THANKS FOR All YOU DO. You're awesome to watch and listen to

Thanks Dave. 👍😁

I feel like I have watched Nick grow up before my eyes. Great video, Dave.

Creative idea! I expect nothing less from Dave Canterbury's little brother! Keep up the good work.

For a fishing kit, you should add some small screw-in eyelet loops. You can get them from those small dollar store picture hanging kits. They are great for making a fishing rod from a live tree branch.

I think you were placed in time machine during the Depression era and sent into the future. You can take the most innocuous refuse and turn into something useful. Kudos Dave.

Another excellent video with your tremendous ability to create with whatever resources you find! I really like the sling/sash idea you created!

Awesome design! I know Nick will cherish it cause his Dad made it for him! Good stuff right there! Blessings to you both n safe safe.

Thanks Dave!

Always remember the milk jugs are made out of milk plastic similar to kydex so you can heat shrink any of your projects or pvc scraps that you’re covering so they’ll lock in if you stop the layers right and it’s anyone that reads this going to thrift stores and garage sales you can buy pouches, and all kinds of things and get buckles for cheap as hell in any size even you could pay quarter and get them for free.

You sure do come up with some very creative ideas. I love watching your ideas come to life.

Hello my friend as always you make it simple but practical and that is one of my reason to watch your videos thank you very much stay safe out there God bless you always

That came out great Dave 👍. Thanks for the video and God bless 🙏✌️

Hi Dave, another fun video, i think you should pack something for sharpening the knife and axe. Greate work , you and Nick seem to have greate fun in the woods... . Thanks for making this kind of videos.

Thank you Dave

Great design and very practical. Once again demonstrating that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

Great job designing and making this sheath system! Should serve Nick well! Thanks for sharing!

Hi bigmonkey I remember when you first stated sewing it is so awesome the ideas are endless great video again peace and love from 1 leg UK England

Nice idea, and good job. Just food for thought, you could cut a piece of pvc in half, heat it up, and flatten it out. After cooling, mark your patterns and heat and fold to shape. Very sturdy and durable. In the past, I've done exactly what you did until a friend showed me the pvc trick. The one thing that would've made this even better, have Nick learn how to do this, then he could do his own. But, you're like me, I'd rather do it for them, just because I enjoy doing it. Guess it comes in under those "dad" jobs. Thanks bud for another great video. God bless you and your family my friend, and ya'll have a blessed day.

Cool design. It makes the big packing axe a lot more comfortable to tote

It does look comfortable. I like when you make the slings and whatnot, it has the ability to use for multiple item.

HELLO! EVERYONE FROM HOUSTON TEXAS USA 🇺🇸 ENJOY THE VIDEO.💡

G'day Dave, Nick, really like the wide sash and what you did with the plastic insert, dont think there'd be a better way to carry an axe of its size/weight and the possibilities for "accessories" are endless. I was think'n; since the sash is hollow, you could even add some padding internally around the shoulder region in particular. Also; what about a couple of loops for carabiners, perhaps one at front for general utility and one at the very bottom of the sash to enable clipping to a belt loop on your trousers, that'd sure stop any swinging around, if you get the drift, + you'd have a couple available for a shelter or other use. Cheers Duke.

I could entertain myself for an entire week in your gear room lmao. Ive got some new goals in life now.

Thank you for so many great ideas. Really appreciate you!

I made a leather arrow quiver that goes over my shoulder like your axe sling and I had trouble with it spinning or sliding down because of the weight of the arrows so I cut the metal spring clip off a dog leash that you hook to the dog collar and sewed it to the strap and when I put the quiver on I reach behind me and clip it to my belt loop. Problem solved and works great. I love to sew so I may try something similar to carry my axe. I love the buckles a lot better than the Vel-Cro when buying or making a pouch or on a backpack. Don't laugh at me but I carry a 3 1/2 pound axe when I hike. It's really not that bad to me I guess because I have carried one for so long and I hike 2 or 3 days at a time with it. Don't Laugh Now !!!!. Love your videos a lot so keep it up. Kelly from Texas.

Thank you.

If you allow me the recommendation: What if instead of being carried at the back, be at the front? In this case, the pockets on the front strap could be placed over the ax handle, and could serve as a support on the same handle. If there is a need to carry a backpack with food, water and shelter or extra clothes or even other items, this way you can carry it. Still, if there is a strap gripping the other side of the ax holder, it helps to hold on better. In this position, the edge of the ax lags behind and does not interfere with the hand when moving. The plastic part that covers the blade, if you give it a little heat and adjust it to the blade, you can have greater control over for your safety. If there is a chance, try it and confirm the difference. I know this, because I did something similar a few years ago and opted for the ax weight ahead. With this one goes a pruning saw and a blade in separate pouches, plus backpack. If you test it, the changes are relatively small.

Love it, great home made stuff. Thanks guys :)

Looks good Dave, be great to see it in one of your adventures.

That's a great design for carrying survival gear. I enjoyed the video.

That is really pretty cool!! Only thing I could think of that Nick might want to add is to put some Lighter fluid in one of those pockets! Lol Great job Dave.

Very nice! I would have gone with some Kydex for the axe-head but that would have brought the cost up quite a bit as well as some additional weight.

I regularly check my local thrift stores for leather belts and purses. They’re a great source of inexpensive raw materials for craft projects like this.

Thanks Much Dave. It's been awhile since I've seen a Video. Mike M.

You always have such great ideas my friend. Sorry im a little behind on everything.. moving to the new house has been ALOT of work.. glad to see you two out having fun

Great project,the thing I noticed was the safety it provides.

Great video, thank you brother. Hope you had a great Easter.

I do believe that you are a master inventor . Think you need one more pouch for a way to sharpen the 🪓 axe when out in the bush . I have made pouches over the years first one I can remember was being showed by grandma . when we all went camping I ripped out my jeans was going to pitch but she said let's see what we can do see said cut off the legs then the croch . Ok see what you have to sew with at that time I didn't have a kit . She did but all she gave me was a med. Size needle so all I had for threed was 10 pound fishing line she smiled and said it will work so she had me do the sewing by hand made a sling bag then later the legs into 2 pouches. She said that men need to learn to and sew to cook . Grandaddy added we also need to learn to look at things and see more than the one use for it to improvise. Well 👍 to you for the way you improvise!

Great set up. Good idea. And can add another pouch if needed.

This is awesome! I carry a bottle bag kit when I go into the woods and I've been looking for a way to carry my camp axe.

You could probably leave the two emergency blankets out and put a bottle of lighter fluid in 😂 Very cool Dave you are a master fabricator👍 Always love watching you and son 😊

I think this is great! Especially that axe head holder! Brilliant!

After watching your videos I’m thinking of getting a heavy duty sowing machine to make and adapt my own canvas stuff. These axe and saw slings are going for between £70 to £150 [roughly about $85 to $180)

Would you consider making a video about the Skrama, comparing it to other choppers and talking about what tasks it's good for?

Good video. Good idea. Need a file and wool blanky. And canteen and cup. And some food. And go camping or test it out. For an overnighter. Don't forget the bug spray. Rap wool blanky around the ax. God bless. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts. That's if you want too. Cool.

What an excellent idea and project. Thank you.

Great video. Thanks. Maybe add a sharpener to the axe sash kit.

Genius idea Dave im sure Nick will have great times n memories with the sachel.

another great video... a way to attach the bow saw would be to sew a pocket on the axe head sheeth and attach the saw to the axe, since they are both long and straight

Brilliant invention Dave! So efficient and practical! I’d love to have a glance inside your mind!

Thank you for uploading your new video. I am a recent subscriber and i just wanted to let you know that you and your videos are lovely and filled with warmth. It always brings a smile to my face and teaches me very diverse and important informations on a topic i wasn't well acquainted with. I wish you all the best and God bless you and your family. Thank you for sharing with us your little adventures. 🥰

Another good one!! Thanks.. keep em coming!!

nice job Dave. I can't believe how much Nick has changed. Stay safe

Pretty cool . And great to see Nick in front of the camera ! Be safe out there .. gubs