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A quick tip with the drip line, tie a rock to the end of the drip line. This will pull down the edge, and pull the water towards the drip line.

When washing in live water, I dig a small pit off to the side to pour the water that has the grease. Then scrub again and if the grease gone, rinse in live water. But don’t pour grease into live water! And no soap also. The pit works for it also. Then cover up your hole

I have over 4,000 long distance backpacking miles, bushcraft skills and tons of outdoors experience. This guys tips are top notch and maybe the best of this type of video I’ve ever seen. The red rope for the first aid pull is what I took from this.

Wasp hack- For the ones that are attracted to meat, take an empty water bottle and make it half full with water. Cut less than a dime sized hole in the bottle halfway between the lid and the water. Poke a stick through the top that protrudes toward the water but make sure the lid can still close back with part of the stick inside. Attach a piece of meat to the bottom of the stick and screw the lid back on with the meat inside the bottle. The wasps will enter into the hole, attack the meat, and will drown looking for the hole to get out. Instant wasp trap.

Never reverse batterys especially lithium ion they can burn very hot and / or explode!

Learning the taut line hitch was required in the Boy Scouts to get your Second Class Badge. I learned it in the 1960s.

Don't put batteries in backwards. It could destroy your gear, cause battery acid leakage or just discharge the battery and drain it anyway. Store one battery outside of the terminal or interrupt the terminal with non conductive material like plastic or paper

The Balsam Fir - _Abies balsamia_ The bark is covered in what my Plant Science teacher called "sap zits"! It's GREAT stuff! While it's not the right stuff to use for an active infection, it does make an excellent bandage to _prevent_ an infection. It has antiseptic, antibacterial, antifungal and analgesic properties. So it doesn't just patch tarps, it'll patch YOU too!

Great video with really good and practical tips, thank you so much! I'd like to add the bottlecap trick: take a plastic bottle cap with your tent stakes to get them into the ground easily and without injury or damage to your shoes by putting them on top of the stake and pushing them in.

If you're worried about any sort of Critters left on your pan after you wash them in a lake and you got the grease out just simply bring it back to the fire and gently heat them you can overheat empty pans and pots and such but you can get it hot enough or warm enough to dry the pan or kill anything on it without warping the metal if you're careful

Very helpful; thanks ! Lighter hack: I take a hair band or rubber band and wrap it around/under the top of a lighter so when it's in my pack, it can't accidentally be pushed down and release/off-gas the lighter fluid. (I wish I could attach a pic)

Been using small piece of pine bough to scrub and wash camp dishes for years, works like a charm.

I use woodash (cooled) as an abrasive and soap for washing up. Works well as sort of paste. Takes the grease and soot away fairly well.

If you have a greasy pan, just add a bit of ash from a wood fire . That and the grease and water will make soap. Just get some grass of some variety for a scrubber. You are all set. Scrub it clean and rinse. If you really want to make soap make a filter out of an empty water bottle. Cut off the bottom. At the mouth put grass ,sand , gravel in layers. At the top put wood ash. Slowly pour water over it all. Collect the lye the drips out of the mouth. Add that to animal fat and water. Equals lye soap.

One of my favourite thing to do for cooking , is I build the camp fire stones in a key hole shape fireplace, putting the grill on the smaller circle and the main fire in the bigger circle , I then move the amber on to the small circle to have a controlled heat .

Those black diamond lights have a lock toggle on them. Theres a little lock icon. Have to hold two spots down at the same time for 3 seconds. I was recently in the himilayans with a friend who forgot his. I lent him my spare. He ended up getting pretty sever altitude sickness(and the rest of the trip) . I had to leave him alone in a section while i carried his gear to the nearest hut which ended up leaving him to be walking alone in the dark. I ended up busting a$$ to get back to him because i realized i didnt think he would be able to figure out the toggle lock mode.. when i get to him he was in the dark lol.. Anyways. Theres a good chance theres a lock mode, which i always use now because those things are always soliciting light where you don't want them to😅

We used to coat the bottom of pots and pane with dish soap before using them over an open camp fire. It made the soot easier to clean up. Have used sand/grit for camp dish washing for years. It's almost like Ajax/Comet cleanser but back then there were no non-stick pans...

Cheese wax. That soft wax on the outside of those little round cheeses I can’t for the life of myself think of the name of right now..keep that stuff. One pinky widths worth using a little twisted cotton from a cotton ball will burn for about 10 minutes. I like to make up a few and keep them in an old metal cigarette case. You can also melt that wax into a cotton round and make your own fire starter. You can McGuiver the heck out of stuff with a little cheese wax.

1 hack i have is I fill my metal water bottle full of hot water and put it in my sleeping bag as a type of hot water bottle. Put your damp socks over it too which will also dry the socks as well as be more comfortable against the skin if it touches.

These are, without question, the BEST 🌟 camping hacks I’ve ever encountered! Thank you!!!

emm...Taught line hitch on those tarp lines? GENIUS!!! Thank You!

a minute in and its great stuff as always : ) God bless my friend!

Great Hacks! Love You're Vids, Keep Sharing Please💯💎

The taut-line + keeping your line bundle in it is actually pretty helpful to tidy up in many applications 👍

Hoarse tail grass grows by water. It has silica in it. Scrubs pots clean really well.

I have watched probably thousands of videos on camping and survival. Splitting the wood with the saw was a new trick. Very cool

THIS IS SORCERY!!! THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR EXPERT KNOWLEDGE. You are LITERALLY SAVING LIVES! Give yourself a Bear Hug! 🏆💯

A friend is someone who always helps and genuinely cares about your well being... You truly are a friend indeed DJ. Thank you 😊🏆 Great hacks 😁 Take care 💖

If you're chopping firewood at home, you can make the 'bundle split' method even better by replacing the line with an old tyre and bolting that to the top of your chopping block. It's a game changer for busting up a huge amount of kindling in seconds.

That was bloody brilliant. I watched the video expecting the same-old-same-old. Fair play though, I learned a few new tricks there.

I watched this expecting to see things that are new to people who have literally never spent a night outdoors or seen a tent in real life. Boy was I wrong! These are all amazing tips. Instant subscribe!

Been an outdoorsman for fifty years, and I think this may be the first time I've seen 'camping hacks' that weren't totally ridiculous - good job. For your last hack I was ready for you to suggest using horsetail grass if it's around. It apparently captures silica, and makes a great scrubber.

Thank you this is an extremely useful video. Your videos are my number #1 source for knots, tips, and tricks, so thank you for your work DJ :) I usually rewatch your videos many times before a trip to memorize stuff that I don't use on a daily bases. I saw you created chapters in this video that is incredibly valuable when I'm about to look up something. Can you setup chapter titles to be more specific? It can remarkably speed up the process of looking up information. I have a future video idea too: I usually use your tricks in sailing trips. As we use many ropes that have different size, length, and type, it's essential to coil them up neatly when unused. Can you create a video on how to coil different ropes?

When hiking in bear country, always take your chubby buddy along who doesn't run very fast.

You give the best instructional videos true blessing to the outdoor community. Thank you for your hard work making these. Please make more

I love all of the knots that you teach us. I never go camping these days, as I live in the woods!

Very good video. Some of the best hacks I've seen.

Thanks dor this video. The double rock method saves hauling extra gear. Down here I string a hammock or pitch a tent on a lot of sand bars while kayaking. A rock held in place with a pile of sand has a lot of holding power and if it does blow in a short storm (long storms you get OUT of the river bed of course) the wet sand holds even better. No rock no problem- a tie out to a piece of firewood buried or blockes in by sand on a rocky flat hand hold a lot.

The Dakota Fire Hole is a good one, two holes about a foot apart, then connect them under the ground, fire burns great Another interesting one is to use a king size sheet under a shade tent/pop up shelter 10 by 10, place a bottle cap in the center, connect that to the center of the tent, then use the clamp bungees from walmart to connect the sheet under the shade to all four corners it should lower your temp by 4 or 5 degrees. great video!

Hack #2 - I used a different method, a small peace of transparent foil on a battery that you can remove just by pulling out.

With the fatwood torch: If you can find a branch about two inches or so in diameter, you can split the end twice (So there's four tips), then put small stones for wedges inside, about halfway down. Next, get dry grass and rub in pine pitch (be sure to break open any hardened pitch balls to prevent popping in the heat). Stuff the grass into the crevices of the torch. You can store them like this (though I advise wrapping them in a covering if you want to put them in a pack), and the dry grass/pitch combo makes lighting them a breeze. Very good to have for quickly lighting an emergency signal. The two inch diameter torch will burn for about 3-5 hours. The time variance depends on how concentrated the resin is. The stronger that turpentine smell, the longer the burn. Subbed, as this is one of the few, no nonsense channels I've seen in a while. Glad you popped up in my feed. Will be sharing with the kids I teach about bushcraft and camping since you keep it informative, yet simple and short for their attention spans.

Best camp hacks video I've seen! Thanks!

I love the headlight hack.

DON'T FOUL THE WATERS WITH YOUR GREASY WASTE !!!!

You can use charcoal to clean your cookware. Crush it into coarse chunks, wet it with some water and put it on a sponge, then scrub away. It adsorbs grease and it's abrasive just enough to get things clean but it crumbles apart before it can scratch more delicate non-stick pans.

I don't know if it's a 'hack', but I like to use the sun to light my fires. Obviously, I'm talking lens'. One is a convex lens about 5" dia. Simple. The other is an 8.5 x 12 piece/sheet of plastic, like the screen off an old big screen. I love betting my friends that I can light the fire from my chair, WITHOUT even using a source of combustion! Of course, having already set up the combustibles for the fire, and having the sun at my back... They never saw it coming. I carry at least one of those whenever I go camping. Justin, ya know? Even when I ride up to the mountains, I take a tiny, little 'space blanket' stored in my bike-pack. It is 1" x 1" x .25", and weighs next to nothing. No brainer.

Thank you! I’m an old gal, who once followed her Eagle Scout father around. Thanks for passing along great knowledge!

Some pretty good tips here... But may I comment on the head lamp, battery switch idea. I'm starting my 16th. year in our counties SAR. Years ago, I tried switching one battery around in my headlamp to keep it from coming on and I'll never do it again. The problem is when need your head lamp, you have to fumble around in simi-darkness, often with cold fingers, trying to open the thing up, switch the center battery BACK around and then get the cover back on correctly. They make head lamps with simple to operate locking systems OR you can use WHITE surgical tape, (so it's easier to see in low light conditions) and block/cover the switch. If you fold one end back on itself, (sticky side against sticky side) you'll have a handy little tab to get hold of and easily pull it off with. Also, pack your headlamp where you can get to it without having to dig around for it.

First aid hack, like you suggested it is good to mark the pouch holding your kit with different coloured ties. You can also attatch a coloured plastic disk or some other tactile object to the pull to make it easier to identify in the dark.

I love Candle lanterns. i always throw one in my bag when there is a burn ban.

I love watching videos of bushcraft and such and am subscribed to many channels.I stumbled upon your channel a couple months ago and I am extremely impressed and grateful with/for the shared wisdom and experience I have gained from here. Thank you for this channel. I’m constantly excited to see/learn more from you!

Great ideas! Well done video! Wadded grass works well as a pan scrubber. It is not as aggressive. Works well for cast iron.

Wow, every one of these was awesome, thanks for sharing!

If you are dry camping its possible to get grime off cookware with just sand , plants & then set the items out to catch the dew ,be swift & with 1 steady swipe, using a clean cloth for each item,wipe out the residual debris & you're ready to make breakfast!

Excellent tips thank you very much

I have watched countless videos offering the promise of the title of this video - and this, by far, was the best. Absolutely fantastic, and I am a new subscriber. So well done!

Some great tips, including a few I hadn't heard of before. Thanks.

I love when I came back to some channels and see that I'm already subscribed. That helps me to know that I did the right choice even if I'm not gonna watch them all the time but when i will need to learn new stuff regarding that matter. Which is what it meant to be. You can't watch surviver, cooking, tech, gaming or w/e else videos all the time. You just binge a lot of them for a time, then go for another "trip" then another and... so on. till you came back again to one of them and binge some more... I suppose lot of us do that and that is a healthier growth for any channel. Not just once and then never come back. Am i right?

Please do more of these…super helpful 🤝

Always love when I see a helpful video posted by you

Amazing video. Informative, concise, with great production 👏

Awesomely helpful list!

Excellent hacks. Thank you.

Спасибо . Достаточно толковая подборка что для Ваших коллег , откровенно говоря , редкость. Один момент из ролика слегка удивил и улыбнул. . У нас на руси без армированного сантехнического скотча не то что в лес даже просто в город ни кто не выходит. Это обязательный компонент любого EDC набора. И тут начиная от заклейки тента , как Вы показали , одежды , до ремонта дуг палатки и экстренного ремонта обуви не говоря о прочем )))) К стати найдите информацию по грибу трутовику очень жирный лайфхак от комаров и мошки .

I’ve watched many videos of hacks for camping and this one by far was most useful thanks!! 😊

Great camping tips DJ. I definitely like the field repair a tarp. Pretty sweet. Nate

Very good ideas....hopefully I will remember them next time I go out camping.

Great video! Greetings from Sweden 😃🇸🇪👋 The birch thing reminds me of how the swedish Sami native people did. I ve learn alot from Sami. Also I dont use plastic anymore in my gere (almost) I wax with melted beeswax my canvas tarp and shirt and everything. It tend to make me dry, and breath and feel great, I cant go back to any else material than natural nowdays. And here we have a lot of pine. In heavy rain I learn that it is always dry inside by the foot of the pinetree. And there is also dry wood. The pinetree suck upp all the water or something 😆 I make stelth shelter inside pinetree always, winter or summer 👍🏻

Thank you for sharing these tips awesome information

Awesome hacks thank you for sharing!

Very useful tips for when i go camping

Thanks for sharing 😊

Nice. Very helpful. Thanks

I always do the double rock for my awning!🎉 sometimes 3-4 with this crazy wind!

I don't camp, and yet, those are interesting to keep in mind.

tip: never do clean up in a lake or stream. Aways away from the water. Dry sand also works in a dry camp

great tips....thankyou

Great show,straight to the point 👍🏻

Always great tips here 💪🏻

Great video thanks for sharing 👌👍

Amazingly well put together. The best I’ve seen.

Great tips, quite a few we have never heard before.

Incredibly well done video !

Some great tips here, thanks for the video!!!

Good stuff - as always. I'd like to see a longer presentation on the cordage keeper using the tautline hitch.

If you get potassium permanganate, you can mix it with a crushed sugar cube or just suger, find a piece of wood with a shallow hole, put both in the hole and start to grind the 2 together, and you'll have fire.

Damn, that sharpener is cool AF!

Save your dryer lint if you have no pets. Works wonders with a flint stick to catch!! Idk what it would do if you have pets but that just what I learned.

These are some great tips I can’t wait to use in some future videos. Thanks!

Some great tips. Thanks for them!

You need a little piece of plastic to cover the battery ends, then pull to remove when you want the light to work, reinsert for protection. Just like how some toys are shipped.

Excellent content. Ty for this.

Great ideas all!

I have watched hundreds of camping hack videos and this one is one of, if not the best. All the information was relevant, the production quality was great, the sound was top notch, the camera angles and lighting were wonderful, especially with regard to the knots. Thank you for making this!

I always keep some birthday candles with me they're fairly cheap coming like a 20 to a pack and they're great to put around pieces of wood to start a fire if you don't have a lot of kindling or if it's been wet, also has a hike I will pick up a bird's nest I find on the way and I use that for the tinder to start a fire

Awesome video and hacks. Your videos are very professional and easy to understand. Great job, thank you for sharing.

Love this video and the 13 hacks! New subscriber. Best hack was the one about lighting. The sap on the branch makes good lighter fuel. Sharpening knives, good too!

Some excellent tips there. Liked the birch bark and spruce sap tarp patch. When cleaning use the white ash from a fire and mix into paste with some water, this method is used extensively in India for cleaning pots and pans and it works really well, natures bar keepers friend.

All so good