4x4 Trip preparation - Ep 1 Camping gear

g'day jeff lewis here from seriously series and welcome to the first episode and probably a couple of couple of episodes i'll do uh courtesy of sean one of our supporters on patreon and a big thank you to our supporters on patreon and our other key supporters too via paypal very it's greatly appreciated and these contributions have allowed for this video and other videos obviously to be produced so we're going to call this trip prep and sean sent me a lovely message saying jeff would you mind showing us what you take when you go camping just wait for the breeze to go by so yes what equipment do you take when you go camping uh what kind of tools do you take and spare parts for the series 2 what do you take there what kind of food do you take what kind of food you eat when you're out in the bush so what have i done i've gone bush so i'm out here filming an episode in the golden quest series i'm out here in the great western woodlands of western australia and i'm on a four-day trip so i'm just going to take you around the camp a bit of a makeshift camp that i knocked up last night pitch black naturally and i'll just show you some of the equipment that i've got some of the tips and tricks and look if you're watching this video and you think you've got something well worth sharing then don't keep it to yourself put a comment down below and share it with the community on the world wide web more importantly if this sounds like a video of interest to you you know what to do stay tuned [Music] rodeo so i guess the first thing we need to think about before we go on any camping trip and i don't mean to teach people how to suck eggs here but you have to think about preparation and you know poor preparation leads to poor performance and i think that's very very true um you've probably seen it on a couple of my cooking videos where i've forgotten utensils and ingredients but uh pulled through with a thing called initiative which can be incredibly dangerous but preparation is actually very very important and the other thing that people forget about is research research is absolutely vital and i'm a big one for research as many of you know and i think if you research your trip well it can actually make it a much more enjoyable trip or adventure you could say so for example for this series of or this sorry this episode in the golden quest series um i've read a couple of books a couple of scientific reports on this sort of area in regards to the geology the geography the i guess the human habitation of the area and the flora and the fauna and i've been down this part of the world before but that's something that i've sort of looked into a little bit more this area by doing that i think you have a greater appreciation for the environment that you're traveling through and one of the most important things is you can actually help the environment to work for you so like the shelter i'm sitting under here this is nothing more than a canvas tarpaulin rigged up between two trees and then some makeshift guide ropes prime example there the other thing that you need to look at and i won't go on about this too much longer is the time of year that you're going to be traveling in what are the temperatures going to be are they going to be minus whatever or are they going to be you know 100 degrees 130 150 degrees fahrenheit or are they going to be 40 50 degrees celsius why is that of importance well you know that's going to reflect what kind of food you're going to take probably and it's also going to reflect on how much water you're going to take too water weighs a lot you know one liter of water is same as what is that yeah one liter of water equals to one kilo so if you've got to take a couple extra jerrys of water then that's going to affect your power to weight ratio in your vehicle because you're carrying more and a big thing out here in western australia and australia in general particularly in the outback is fuel fuel is absolutely critical the reason being is it is a long drive in between fuel stops and this is something that i am constantly mindful of and the first thing i do is i always look on a map i've got a big map in my study and i will look at that and i'll see roughly the distance and then i'll calculate exactly how many kilometers then i'll calculate that into miles if i'm taking the series two and then from that i can calculate how much fuel i need to carry on board you know how many jerry cans so that's probably one of the first things you know you should really look at doing the other thing is two permits are very important depending on where you're traveling and obviously can you have a fire here's another thing too is it the right time of year are you going in a conservation area or a national park it doesn't sound like much but there is a big difference legislation-wise between a conservation area and a national park so that's something well worth reading up on so you know do your research and give yourself plenty of time to prepare because if you have plenty of time to prepare then you have less chance of forgetting stuff which i do all the time but uh that's half the joys of it because you end up finding interesting means of getting yourself out of trouble but anyway enough of that and uh let's go on a bit of a tour around the camp eh so as you can see the back of the series too it's uh well it's a bit dusty obviously but it's not a very big area so you have to be careful with what you actually pack and i've always tried to adopt this with really any vehicle i've had because obviously as i said before the less weight you carry the better power to weight ratio that you'll have and you know the better performance that you'll have out of your vehicle off-road sorry the flies are a bit friendly here today and that's the other thing too when you load up your vehicle go for a little drive around the block first and just see how it feels because it will behave and perform completely differently to how you would normally have the vehicle because let's be honest ninety percent of the time your vehicle isn't actually carrying a load so thinking about what you're taking with you it's really really important and it's something that you don't get right you have to keep refining it all the time and the stuff i used to take back in tasmania is very different to what i take over here so anyway i'll show you the camp setup and just show you what you can actually achieve out of a camp with a very small payload and a very small area to actually store your kit in so as i said the the flies are a bit friendly out here today but a top tip if you're traveling to australia or well once the restrictions are lifted obviously but if you are living here and you're traveling to outback australia for a trip of some kind get yourself some of this it's called nature's botanical natural rosemary and some other wood oils and a cream it's great they used to use it on horses to keep the flies off their wounds because obviously they go a bit funny with all the flies hanging around so you just put a little bit on your cheeks like so and the flies will land but they'll take off straight away and it's all natural too so it's really really good stuff well worth getting it anyway um enough of that so this is uh i guess you could call camp jeff behind me here and simple basic but effective really uh the canvas tarpaulin i've showed in a another video how i sort of set that up and it's fantastic really the time that it takes and obviously it's not set up as good as it could be because i did it in the i guess pitch black darkness of night last night when i rolled into camp and i put it up because it was a massive thunderstorm coming through the camp too but it does the job it's a six i think it's a six meter yeah six meter by three meter tarpaulin i may have that wrong but i've got it inside out obviously at the moment so it needs to be the other way around but the overall weight of it's probably about five to seven kilos which sounds like a lot but really it isn't for the amount of shade and shelter that it actually gives you it's really really good i've got a couple of retractable poles that i use and then i've just tied it down on the other side and it works fantastic so the reason why i've gone down this road particularly with the series 2 is if you went down the road of getting a gazebo kind of setup like i know australia does one these are very long and incredibly bulky the great thing about this is i can just fold it a particular way and sort of fit it into the back amongst all the other gear and equipment so absolutely fantastic and just so versatile like i can take it off here and i can put it under the series 2 and use it as a drop sheet if i'm working on the vehicle obviously i'm not going to do that today but you can use it for that you know back in the i think 1930s 1920s even and even on d-day you know they used canvas as virtually like a soundtrack or a sand mat to distribute the weight of vehicles so you can use it for that you probably destroy it in the process but if you get out of trouble and you live to tell a tale or two then that's probably a good outcome so so yeah so that's that's sort of the setup that i've got it's great keeps the rain off you but more importantly out here in western australia it's the sun the sun is a real killer out here it can destroy pretty much anything it fades it perishes it just it's just brutal and it's very brutal on yourself so you need some form of shade the rope that i use is just generic hemp rope it's it's affordable it's cheap it doesn't stretch and then i've just got some nylon cord that i use as my guide ropes which work really well it's non-stretch too the swag is just an arb touring swag or as some of you have commented on our reviews and videos of the arb swag it's a it's a one-man tent and uh whatever you think of it i don't really mind it's a fantastic swag or one man tent we'll say and it's my home away from home i've spent i think six or seven months in one working in remote areas of wa and it's fantastic it's got a bookshelf inside nice comfy mattress it's reasonably it's not too bulky compared to some other swags out there on the market today and it's easy to set up and no pegs so it's great but anyway i'll take you in underneath the shelter and uh show you what's going on there and i'll show you a few little tips and tricks in regards to sort of food and sort of utensils and obviously the stuff that i take with me and that's worked very well for me for a number of years righty-o so field hq you could say so obviously this is the canvas shelter series 2's over there that's the field workshop which i'll uh do some repairs on shortly but big enough space definitely for myself obviously yep swag there camp table here the camp table i have is nothing flash it's a cheap yeah cheap and nasty little table well it hasn't been that nasty it's lasted me 10 years i think i paid 11 for it yeah 10 years ago camp oven billy is pretty much all i need to cook with as you've seen with cooking videos on this channel they're obviously quite unique to the hospitality industry because sometimes i forget ingredients and all the rest but we get there in the end but basically i can cook anything i need in the camp oven i've literally just done a damper now and i'm going to do a steak and onion pie this evening with homemade chalk crust pastry and if you want to find out how to do that you need to subscribe to this channel but really simple i haven't got a fridge on this trip because it takes up too much room in the series too so i've just got a small i think 15 liter or 10 litre uh ice box or esky and it's a june 4x4 one that i bought at the same time when i got this table so supposedly it's meant to keep your eyes for i think a week but it doesn't you're lucky if you get three days out of it depending on what the weather conditions are like so i generally like to use dry ice or i guess solidified or solid co2 sounds a bit odd but it works really really effectively because i think it's at minus probably minus 200 degrees centigrade so you put a kilo or two or that in of that into your ice box or esky and you'll get a week easy and the good thing about it too is you can freeze stuff you could actually freeze meat and you can also have ice cream and icy poles but sadly haven't got it on this trip obviously chopping board which doubles as a jacking plate for the vehicle um and obviously we've got the pantry down here and filming equipment over at the other end that's pretty much it very simple but with a few luxuries like a good solid camp chair anyway i'll take you up the other end and i'll show you sort of the food situation will probably leave it there so real simple setup the great thing is is i've got two plastic boxes here this one here is for utensils just move the tamper nice mixing bowl is always good for your bread and your damper and whatnot you can also use it as a washing up basin of some kind so utensils in here basically a fry pan couple of plates billy greater if i'm getting really fancy tin foil and obviously some garbage bags paper towel masher and peeler that's pretty much it and then this one here to get you in frame is a wolf pack courtesy of the expedition center these are fantastic a lot of people hate them but i don't i like them bang for your buck they're fantastic value and they fit in the back of the series too really really really nicely one of the great things about them too is you can actually stack them on top of one another which is great so if i'm doing a longer trip particularly in the series three i'll take an extra one with spare parts and you know stuff like injector cleaner and lead additive and stuff like that but this one here i used to use for my tools and now i just use this for my food so a bit of muesli always good got to keep the fibre up an array of tea bags i'm not really a coffee drinker makes me go a bit too crazy pasta is a great one to have i'm just talking on pasta one of the things i really try and do is bring things along with me that really don't need to be refrigerated ideally all i want is my meat to be refrigerated if i'm bringing meat or some kind of dairy product so pasta is a fantastic one pasta stir through can't go wrong with that so if jeff's feeling a bit lazy it's that and pasta just doesn't happen too often thank god salt and then basically i know it's probably going against what i've said but most of the stuff i have in here is actually tinned which i know weighs a lot more than dehydrated food but it's a lot cheaper and it's very easy to get out here in i guess outback wa around kalgoorlie it's quite difficult to get dehydrated meals you can get them but they're expensive and i can do a lot more with what i've got here you know curry powder i can do a nice jumbuck stew with that baked beans baked beans on damp or toast easy another meal done you know tomato puree i can use that for a jumbuck or a nice spaghetti bolognese sauce which i can then use for a few days good old bully beef or corned beef you know good prospecting food it's good enough for the old time it's time as it's good enough for me and obviously tin stew just a nice easy one too and a few you know pasta packs always make it easy and look if it's really got that bad and the zombies are rising and everything's gone to absolute you know what don't worry if you got deb you'll be all good because deb deb's the one constant in this universe you could leave it out here for a hundred years and the packet would still look the same and the content wouldn't have changed either and on another note if your radiator well probably yeah if you've got a split in your radiator or a leak put a bit of deb in it probably actually worked quite well anyway so that's pretty much what's in here and for some reason my wife claire's put a fuel filter out of a 4bd1 in here so i don't know how that got in there anyway and always a few tins of mackerel or sardines it stinks but once you've been out here a few days you tend to stink too so it doesn't really matter does it and i actually quite enjoy them so that's pretty much it it doesn't look like much but out of this and the other stuff that i'll show you that i've got out here i could quite easily live out here for probably two two or three weeks uh not really out of stretch because you know if you're looking at just one meal out of that then it's not very efficient it's the other ingredients that you bring with you that makes all the difference and i'll show you that now there you go so not to get all doomy and gloomy and boo-hooey and all the rest but one of the things i always think about when i come out you know on a trip like this and i'm pretty much i'd say 200 kilometers or what what's that probably a bit over 100 miles from the nearest town or settlement hmm very nice just a bit of ginger beer there non-alcoholic of course um yeah so you know a fair distance from any known inhabitation or habitation and you've got to think about it a bit because it's not necessarily because you're driving a more mature vehicle but you do have to dance with the idea or toy with the idea of what happens if something bad went wrong and i always think about it with something that could go wrong with the vehicle that i wouldn't be able to fix myself you know it could be an electrical component fails it could be the main shaft in the gearbox snaps it could be an axle that snaps which we all know is a very common thing to happen on the series two and series three and series one land rovers so you know you gotta you gotta think about it a bit so one thing i always do as you saw you know in the wolf pack as i always bring plenty of food and the other thing that i take and what i was getting to is i have one of these and this is a hessian hessian sack and this is fantastic i actually picked this up at a pet shop a mate of mine was going in there to get some stuff for something i can't remember and they had these as dog beds it's like no that's a hessian sack so i bought two of them so i've got one that i keep my hemper open for the capstan winch and the other one i keep my veggies in there now the reason why the hessian sack works really well and it's what i'm telling you here today it's nothing new it's been around for donkey's years is the fact that you've got a relatively coarse weave so air can move through it and if you keep the hessian sac relatively damp or slightly wet it evaporates no different to a water bag and so therefore it actually helps to keep the veggies cool but it allows them to breathe now if you pick up for example a sack of what we got in here potatoes from a supermarket nowadays majority of which are actually in plastic so what happens you get condensation builds up and your spuds will actually ripen a lot quicker than they should so it's even just a handy one to have at home that's what i use it for at home the other thing is too is obviously corn is a good one which i've talked about in previous videos sweet potatoes swedes any kind of root vegetable is going to last a lot longer out here and doesn't need refrigeration so you know that really cuts down on your weight the key thing is though is to keep it in a area which it isn't getting direct sunlight all the time or isn't getting too hot so i hang this up in a tree in the shade and that means the wind can slowly or the breeze can blow through and help to cool it down and the other thing is you don't want to have it on the ground because there's ants everywhere here and i did see a snake on the track yesterday and i hate snakes i'm an absolute coward when it comes to them and i'm happy to admit it but all jokes aside taking spuds and root vegetables like that is fantastic because they will keep for weeks and weeks so if you're out somewhere and your epirb fails your hf radio fails and you're so unlucky that your satellite phone file fails too and whatever else you have you know you really need to be able to set yourself up so spuds last for ages they're relatively lightweight and the other thing i always take and i'm plugging it again i know is a good good sack or bag of wallabies baking flour and the reason why i take this is it's light it's cheap it doesn't go off now the other thing is to think of how many i guess our cuisines or uh food that we eat on a day by day basis that flower is actually in think about it it's it's in it's staggering cakes muffins scones bread bread's obviously a obvious one but pasta even so if i've got this and i've got a bit of butter and a couple of eggs i can make my own pasta i can make my own ravioli and put a bit of tinned corn beef in it doesn't sound too bad does it not at all if i've got butter and flour i can make my own pastry and you know if i have to go shake a tree and get a drop bear and cut his leg off to put in it to survive then well you will won't you and have dropped their pie but you know it's stuff like this that's very simple and it just lasts and it's not expensive you know you don't have to go out and buy it by a dehydrator you you really don't and i guess my inspiration for sort of this and this camp setup is i i do read a lot and i do look at a lot of the early pioneers and early explorers and some of them obviously took way too much kit but the ones that didn't they really just took versatile pieces of kit that that that actually had multiple uses once again like the canvas tail pole in here they did take you know odd little bits of luxury like this chair and obviously a nice swag but they didn't over embellish on it you know they didn't take 120 litre fridge with them to keep their water cool you know or soda streams and you know plasma tvs and xboxes this and playstation that and all the rest they just took the bare minimum what they needed you know and realized that you know food food shelter and water are the you know three most critical things so anyway this is a basic camp of what i use out of the series 2. it's very different to what i take with the series 3 and the parenti because those vehicles obviously built for different applications so i'll show you that in the future if if you find this of interest so if you have been enjoying the content here at seriously series then please do consider supporting us via patreon and look if patreon isn't your cup of tea you can support us via our website by clicking on the link in the content section down below for seriouslyseries.com.edu and you can support us there via paypal all proceeds go to producing these videos and much more and if you're new to the channel then be sure to click on that subscribe button too click on the notification button also and that way you won't miss out on one single video but anyway hope to see you in our next video

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Published: Fri Nov 06 2020