Dollar General Island Survival Challenge

all right another survival challenge this time something a little different people challenged me in the past to do a walmart but we're going to do a family dollar survival challenge walmart's easy you can buy all the fishing gear you can buy all the stuff you need but family dollar dollar general island survival challenge i think that's a bit different and since dollar general such a hot topic on reddit and everywhere else right now we're gonna have to do a really unique survival with it especially because the goal is since it's not walmart and i can't just buy fishing gear is to be make it as unique as possible i need to find the things and uh transform them into what i need to be able to catch and cook and survive for an overnight on an island let's do it i'm zachary fowler and you're watching fowler's makery and miss channel all right so the unique aspect of this whole survival challenge is that it's not walmart so i can't buy a fishing pole i can't buy hooks and lures and try to survive with just that there's all kinds of unique home stuff here so i'm gonna have to be inventive super creative if i want to be comfortable when i go out to survive on the island i'm even going to empty my pockets i'm not carrying my everyday carry with me so it'll be a true just what i can find here what i have on me for clothes right now my fall raven pants hat if i want sunglasses i'm gonna have to buy those stick to less than a hundred dollars but mainly what's unique and what'll get me through the night comfortably and help me catch and cook something right i really don't see anything even in the hardware aisle that's gonna help me survive i don't think there's a fishing aisle here oh we got a little kids slingshot i don't think that would help me very much some straws if i was uh trying to catch some turtles sorry is that too soon that joke we'll stay away from anything harmful to the environment everything we bring out with us will have to come back nothing in this aisle well maybe down in cooking at least i know there's something there that i can use to cook possibly a knife i don't see knives anywhere else there's that knife for a dollar i think that's a good start simple paring knife cast iron pan for 10 bucks that's tempting i need something that i could oil some water in be able to drink i don't know what the cheapest of that is nine bucks baking pan you know it's safe to boil water i'm gonna go with the baking pan i think i'm literally gonna have to go up and down every aisle i did not think of this in advance like scout this out this was just an idea i had two days ago and i purposely didn't come in the store so i'd have too much time to overthink it i just wanted to go for it four dollars worth of line um that might be enough laundry hamper i was thinking like a fish fish trap or something with the laundry hamper there's got to be something better than that or simpler than that i need something for a tarp and some bedding which i could sleep in style here i have a pillow although the question is will it be dry but attempt mixed out there cause you wait to see the boat i'm going to use i didn't want to use anything too frivolous so the boat is super lack frivole this twin set of sheets here is a little cheaper the cheapest 12 bucks what we got for a rain cover let's see eight bucks for a shower curtain or something else i'm gonna grab that for now i might exchange that for something else that should be enough for like a tarp and be underneath of it with my little sheets anything in the cleaning aisle i don't normally do this but i won't have a i won't have a screen so i'm gonna go with bug dope i'm gonna go with the most crazy bug dope or bug repellent this one the deep 40. whatever i can do to stay bug free because getting chewed on getting chewed up not on my list of things to do [Music] good old roll of traditional duct tape i think that's just got to be i mean already got plenty of duct tape left at home but i'm only allowed to use what i have here now i will need a little headlamp that looks like the cheesiest headlamp i've ever seen i don't know [Music] eight by ten tarp all right yeah shower curtain can go back there we go goggles only a dollar those might be handy i could use those to maybe swim around find some better lures and be able to catch something bigger like a bass instead of just something small oh here we go charcoal briquettes match light there's nothing on this island this is the one i did the one on earlier the tiny island survival challenge i've used up all the firewood and now since then chris has been out there and he did a survival thing and so if i'm gonna actually cook my meal i think i'm gonna need something to cook it on so we're getting briquettes only two aisles left and i haven't seen what i need to be able to catch fish just yet maybe some swim trunks get the camo ones with the american flag 2x i'll literally be swimming in these while swimming in these so but at least i'll be able to go and look for lures see if i can't find the lure oh no oh this is all i can find to use is fishing line hopefully that'll work i don't want it to be minty get a couple packets of those you just need hooks last aisle i don't need eye shadow i don't need shampoo we don't need shampoo where we're going i need some sort of a safety pin or a bobby pin or something i can use as a fishing hook and something i can use as a net no safety pins in the baby stuff unless everybody uses velcro diapers and things these days that goes my fishing hook idea some of these hair barrettes though might make a good fishing lure oh there are safety pins safety pins dry bag all right last but not least a lighter and look at this beautiful waterproof survival torch let's see does it work oh yeah all right we don't have any as seen on tv stuff yet so i'm going to trade in this little pan for the ascenian tv pot or this guy here so i'll give you that let's go with one of those guys there we go now i have everything i need this eggs don't stick to it it's as seen on tv is it good as seen on tv we'll let you know after this let's ring out see how much i spent [Applause] all right anything else whoa that's my total yeah a hundred all right we gotta take something out okay i gotta stay at least under a hundred i'm trying to be creative but all right we're gonna live without the duct tape we're gonna risk it we're gonna live without the duct tape keeping the pan getting rid of the duct tape that's better let's see that was more that i thought i was gonna spend like 43 bucks but i did get a little carried away [Music] all right you might be wondering why all of that cost so much there was four four or five secret items that i purchased so it was 95 bucks and you'll see the four or five secret items when we get out there and we do our thing let's go have an adventure we are off and away i got my supplies put it behind me got my camera box in here and other than that i dumped out all my everyday carry pocket stuff in the car i can already feel she's leaking i didn't do anything to the duct tape kayak for those who haven't seen the duct tape kayak check out the link below i built the boat and escaped an island with it so i thought i want to get some more use out of it i wanted to run this whole adventure as a kind of a cheap adventure and well we haven't sank yet all i really need to do is make it to the island so maybe more paddling paddling less talking oh and i haven't done anything more to the duct tape about the only thing i did is threw away my other paddle and built this kayak paddle in hopes that it would help me to paddle faster and less crossing over the boat and getting water into it so i think we're doing good i tell you one other weird thing about paddling this is the the way it moves with the water the the old aleutian kayaks that they built the alley indians built they would had like bone in between some of the joints so they could flex with the waves and stuff this thing is flexing and moving all over the place it's a kind of an awkward feeling i got about that one knuckles one knuckles worth of water in the bottom right underneath my butt i don't know about the front or back should have put the swim trunks on to start [Music] looks like we're up to about oh a whole finger's worth the water in the bottom right under my butt battle faster both ends of the kayak are still up out of the water uh oh uh oh we're about to swamp oh we're so close we're so close there's the island just ahead of us but it's almost over the edges i shouldn't have stopped to talk oh lord won't you make it help us make it to the island today i should have bought that roll of duct tape and got rid of something else if it goes over the edges or swamping it'll go under we'll lose everything oh no i just felt the bottom giveaway [Music] we're almost there oh we made it i feel rocks underneath me trying to get my get my feet out my shoes are stuck oh my bags floating off on my gear ah that was close that was close oh that was close ah phew camera box stayed dry what a mess i had a feeling i should put more duct tape on i just wanted to see what happened i think after it sat and then you know it's been three weeks so after all that sitting and stuff apparently duct tape unstuck from itself too much and she's taking on a lot of water so [Applause] i don't know what's scarier how fast that thing sank or how fast it was to pour the water out of it out of the top of it where it was supposed to be still be sealed or the sides of it it looks great on the bottom i don't see anything must be coming from just little pin holes between the duct tapes all over the thing even though it's got over four layers on the bottom but whatever we're out here we made it now we just got to catch some fish make myself something to eat and set up camp for the night oh gross this is where i was gonna sleep just so much goose poop i don't see any geese mullin rolling which uh it's not very much of it there it's illegal but if you did want to in a real real survival situation you could use mullen to poison fish if you had a small enough area and enough of it you could make like a spot for the fish to shelter and you put it in there and it uh makes them pass out or something i've never done it though because it's illegal i just know i've read about it this was not not like this last time ugh this place is just covered in it [Applause] there's some more big mullen and i believe this is purslane we can eat this but considering where it's growing with all the goose poop i don't know it's a kind of a succulent it's a really beautiful plant oh and uh some rose hips that aren't ripe yet aren't ready so unlike last time when we came here in the spring there wasn't anything it's all kinds of life here now all kinds of plants oh just look at it i could have been out here a week from now oh high bush blueberries just all through here oh my goodness um it's so rich you know what even though they're not ready yet some of these ones a little bit red it's probably all the goose poop there's some really rich soil here mmm one more week would have had the most delicious ripe blueberries maybe anywhere in the state of maine all this goose poop all right well that's not gonna help us much we gotta catch a fish with the stuff we brought with us all right this spot seems relatively goose poop free i can actually smell it now it's almost like all of it's fresh like lately they just mobbed the place again [Music] i did like i said a couple secret items it's super hot out today i bought a bottled water the water in this lake i like eating fish and catching fish out of here but something about it unless you really really boil it a lot it's it just looks so gnarly sometimes at this time of year that's part of my camera gear got my shorts i guess i could have saved some money and not got bugged up there's doesn't seem to be a single bug out here all right time to catch fish safety pins and dental floss let's see if we can make this happen all right if i could turn over some rocks here and find like a dragonfly nymph or something put on my hook something they can't resist maybe i should get the swim trunks on ants lots of vans they're hard to get onto the hook some larvaes and eggs that's fresh enough put on the hook oh yeah there we go and eggs need a rock for a sinker and casting that should do it what there we go turned out pretty pretty good i like my one of my favorite knots it was a clove hitch i'm going to use my water bottle to cast tie it around the neck hopefully some little perch or something comes along and just chokes it all right the little pads are right out there 18 feet away see if i can cast all the way out there that's i believe the hot spot i'm gonna set it right at the bottom of those ant eggs on there here we go oh yeah right there perfect cast that's like 20 feet oh look at all the weeds it's pretty good too oh lord could be a bite why don't you give me a fish for dinner my friends all have cheeseburgers i'd like a winner had a bite i had a bite a nibble some interest i don't know if he stripped me or not i'm gonna see if i can get him a bigger hunk of bait they commit to it for longer than a little nibble oh my hook's empty all right no luck on the fishing so far i think i'm going to before it gets too dark go swim around see what i can find if i can find something that uh a better fishing lure a better hook uh some bigger grub from down deeper hopefully i can still see all this maybe i waited too long i mean it's still three hours before dark but it's so overcast wow even for one dollar these goggles are pretty cheap i don't know it is so murky and these things have a slight tint it's so dark this is the worst lake for swimming around and trying to see stuff [Music] fever muscle i've never tried i don't think i've ever tried to catch something with one of those but maybe chopping it up maybe there's a certain part of them that'll uh that'll do it and then one of these zebra mussels we'll give that a try oh man i know i've lost fishing lures in here i'm sure a lot of other people have it is so creepy down there it's so hard to stay under it so i just want to get out of here it's so creepy [Music] [Music] [Music] two little little fish and one little fish this is that's discouraging no lures i had a crawfish and then i tried to grab him better and i out of my finger oh look i don't know between the murkiness of the water losing that one crawfish i thought maybe i could use that to catch a catch a bassin catch a bass bass yeah so murky i did see three fish all right make a new hook i'm gonna make a fire maybe that's preemptive uh pre-hoping to catch a fish like if i if i get a fire going i'll have something to cook on it i'll get it going my beautiful pink survival lighter here i just saw a toad frog oh yeah oh gotcha a little frog that might catch us a fish let's try for a bigger fish yes what did i do with him got some rope put them in my bottle all right that means we got to make a bigger bass hook now i'm wishing i really had found just one lure while swimming around just one lure with one decent hook on it that's one gnarly looking bass hook twisted three of the pins together and tried to use that as a treble with the frog reinforced it by lashing it all together just gonna maybe bend those hooks in just a little bit it's not pretty but she's snug it's all tied on now to get the frog on there and catch something with him i almost feel bad for the little guy a little bit i do feel bad for him a little bit but he's for catching me dinner can't lose him i just safety pinned him onto the to the hook let's see if we can catch a bass it's not pretty whether i can get a hook set or this i don't know maybe the other side something's got it something's got him should i let it run i got something fish on fish on nope lost it dang i gotta let him take it let him take it like i'm ice fishing oh if i had a good hook i would have had something all the way around the island back nothing doing i'm gonna leave him out here see if a chain pickerel or something bigger comes cruising through here and i'll take him up let him consider it all joy my brother when you encounter various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance and the endurance have its perfect result that you may be made perfect lacking for nothing wouldn't be fun if it wasn't difficult some of the time huh i didn't really expect though this to be a challenging challenge i don't know what uh happened whether it's the you know the lack of fish is due to the the storm recently is my guess and uh it just the water rose like a foot and a half and so the bite is kind of minimal i miss all my gadgets and gizmos i tell you oh the gadgets and gizmos are plenty and uh i know i could have nailed the fish by now even if it was a bad fish day i would have had the right stuff with me you know some worms they aren't biting i don't care you throw a worm on the right kind of lure just all about whatever is the right kind of lure that they're in the mood for whether it's something that they want to attack it's something they want to eat you find that right combination out the ones that are eating are down deep the ones that are eating are by the shore you figure that out you're doing good well it lights up that's something smokers driving by in there floating palaces [Applause] i think a chain pickerel found this guy and he just tore him to shreds but he couldn't get him so he gave up all right well the frog didn't work out so well i got that nasty muscle i found while swimming let's see if that does anything ugh when they're out there at the bottom of the lake looking all smarmy and they're like gulping or whatever they do to suck stuff in it looks maybe this one's fresher than others i've seen them opened up before and they're just full of scummy grossness this doesn't look very appetizing i don't even think you can eat these i mean i think there is a certain rhyme or something but i wouldn't eat him out of this lake i love this lake don't get me wrong it's just that seems kind of gross maybe if something chokes that down put that chunk of meat on there i'm just sitting here look what i see floating by a uh big old mayfly i don't dare to let go of it still kind of alive i'll throw that on the hook try that finally well i'm bored i don't think i've ever been so wildly unsuccessful as this you know i bought some tortillas i even tried that earlier you know i i have those eggs and stuff are getting me bites though better than a little piece of tortilla i've never used bread before so i thought i'd try that out um this was my secret ingredient is i have tortillas pork rinds olive oil i was gonna take some fish spread it up put it in the pan do it nice and fancy instead i'm sitting here frying up a couple tortillas for a snack because i'm bored so far the bug dope was a wasted purchase the uh the hair scrunchies i'll give those to my girls because my hooks aren't working well so i can't really do some active bass fishing with those try to use those as like baits um the tarp i think i'm just gonna lay that down and put my blankets on it and then over me blankets over me and then roll the tarp over me that way i'm not laying in goose poop i can't think of oh lord thank you for this tortilla meagre fair would have liked the fish but i understand you always give them to me on every other trip so i appreciate it then in jesus name amen i it's been a great day it's been more of a learning thing than anything else um i always knew it was a pain in the neck catching fish without a good hook but i've done it a couple other times i thought i could do it again but the fishing situation has to be just right you need to kind of cane pole type thing for something like this pluck them right out and they're just not biting now some tortillas i'm gonna roll myself up like a burrito and my blankets and maybe even snug a hot rock in there with me i'll get up early though i'm gonna get up at five and uh see if i can't change my luck here this might be comfortable okay that's working i'm gonna kind of use the uh tarp as a bivvy bag to increase my warmth should i get cold but i think i only need the sheet got my fitted sheet down around my feet the other sheet underneath of me all right so i literally didn't i don't think i have the tarp laying on any goose poop so i was thinking i would use my paddle to maybe scoop some out of the way and let it tarp so nothing's pooped here in the reason that's nice not to have to go to sleep and poop no mosquitoes i i'm going to bed i'll see you about uh oh sun up five in the morning something like that 4 30. see in a few i don't know i almost want to keep sleeping i mean it was like 11 30. um when i said goodnight to you and uh now it's five o'clock i want another crack of that fish but i am so comfortable so comfortable oh maybe i'm gonna hit the snooze for just a little bit all right it's 5 30 i never really fell back never really fell back asleep let's take another crack at those fish oh it's beautiful out i can't believe how well that worked out soggy what oh it's so damp out my pants didn't even dry a little bit i would like a sweatshirt right now but i didn't buy one at family dollars so i don't have one i kind of wish i had just grabbed some spam and eggs and my family's all there that's what they're best for is the late night uh munchie food uh bacon flavored spam or even regular bacon or croissants that have little cheeseburgers in them or oh man anything from their cooler section all that delicious little stuff i could have had a wonderful little meal out here instead i'm like i'll just get like one or two ingredients and i'll catch what i want have the most epic meal ever the blueberries aren't ripe should i come back and do a uh catch and cook blueberry pie another week or so those are going to be pretty ripe and pretty awesome [Music] tortilla on my hook i want a fishy come and take a look mr fish i've been out here too long i'm going crazy little tortilla fish let's start another little fire stay warm anticipating the catch of a fish there you go oh it looks like i did catch one thing i got a big old mayfly in my pant i'm gonna throw that on the it's all oily but maybe as soon as i get dark here it was crazy i was looking around there's just beetles and stuff just the whole thing just came to life i have to take another trip to family dollar after this grab me some spam and eggs for breakfast here's the last of my water i do keep pulling back a bare hook i don't know tortilla getting bit up or melting off all right i'm gonna try the folgers instant last of my silly purchases i haven't actually played with outside of the rope the hair barrettes and the bug dope i think so far the biggest winner of this whole thing was the briquettes the lighter and the knife and uh the dendavlos uh seems like it's a great great uh option for fishing line i don't think it was the dental floss's fault that i lost the frog to the chain pickerel uh you know all the other times my line was stripped it's my homemade hooks that were the big fail and uh of course the tarp and the sheet made a great great sleeping unit if it was colder it wouldn't have been so but i could have also taken the pillowcase and wrapped a hot rock in it and had been super snuggy with that maybe 20 degrees colder and i would have been a little uncomfortable and rolling around a bit more lake's pretty quiet all the mayflies that were here last night i would have thought there'd be some little in the morning well it wasn't this successful trip i was hoping for but uh it was a learning experience and that's what that's what it's all about i wanted to learn nothing i'd sit at home and watch other people have adventures on tv all the time right you gotta get out there and do stuff otherwise you're never gonna grow you're never gonna learn you're never gonna get better and it's not just about learning getting better about the outdoors it's you're learning about yourself you're learning about god's creation and how beautiful things can be when you just open your eyes and listen and look and experience and taste them except for this time we're not doing a lot of tasting here we're not doing a lot of tasting but uh we're out doing a lot of trying and that's that's what counts so in light of that i think this leaves a lot of room for somebody to do some fun videos about i challenge you greg evans wood of beardsmen ace videos uh outdoor boys and chris taylor mainstream adventures see if you guys can do a better job of this than me i think you guys up in canada greg and uh would be are there you guys have a dollar trees or something like that because you don't have dollar generals up there but the same company does dollar tree and uh everybody here in america there's a family dollar in any i give up corner so anybody could do this so if you do it tag me in it i'd love to see if you could do a better job catch something i think it's pretty neat aspect i love trying to catch a fish when you don't have a right hook i'll have to come back i'll do it again ah they're jumping out they're hitting stuff hard on the surface out there ah it's frustrating uh consider it all joy not even a nibble all right trying the instant pant coffee if this is a fail too i'm out of here okay i was prepared to spit it out and just run run for sure paddle for sure but that's about the best thing i got going for me right now it's so good it's so disgusting but it's it's so gross but it's so good oh thank you lord thank you lord thank you god oh thank you for folger's instant coffee this is so gross it's so gross but it's so good oh it's so good you just don't you don't even know you don't know oh it's so gross it's so good [Applause] um it's not comfortable my butt i did not get my seat as in as good a place as i did well goodbye little island thank you for another wonderful time all right we're doing good if i don't stop to talk to you i should be able to make it back before she sings one finger depth of water under my butt i don't feel wet yet it's a beautiful day in the neighborhood the neighborhood oh it is just sad though passing some of my favorite fishing spots you know like i don't even fish them more often than not anymore because i just know i'll always catch a fish there so we try other spots but i was hoping it would have panned out for me today or yesterday i'm gonna get home before we sink like i said before if you haven't seen it yet she was a lot better when i built it that first day and i escaped a choppy well not super choppy but a little bit choppy ocean island out in the ocean build and escape check out the link below if you want to see this duct tape adventure it turned out a lot better than this one what a wild ride that one was i thought i set myself a a smaller goal on this one i did not expect this one to be nearly as difficult to achieve the ideas i had still i spent a comfortable night and i survived well we're only up to one knuckles worth of water already i could just start to feel it on my butt that's not bad i just waiting to hear like a little or something and like one of the six pokes through and i just start going up straight down oh halfway there about three knuckles of water all of a sudden not looking not good taking on water faster than yesterday's i don't know if i'll make it back i might have to swim it in i hope that camera box stays sealed more water it is the more tippy it gets i got to keep it upright if i go over the the sides there's only three inches if i tip to the side she'll take on water and i'm down i think the worse the further it gets into the water the more tape holes there are closer to the top on the sides that's why i should take it on water quicker oh my arms are burning these paddles they weigh a ton and they're not doing a lot of work not nearly as much as a regular paddle 300 years to go on the water's up to here can't tip oh it's gonna be close whoo i think we got it ah they're grabbing at me [Applause] i think we did better than the way out we made it oh there we go terra firma touchdown and i still had i still had two more inches of freeboard two more inches look at that thank you duct tape boat what a champion thanks for watching guys i'll see you in the next one fowler definitely out i'm gonna go get some spam and eggs oh i broke it all right lord thank you for the spam thank you for the bacon [Music] can't all be gourmet meals big bite i should have just brought this stuff with me from the beginning all right so i bought this tiny house thinking that i would make some sort of a camper for ice fishing and for going out and it's kind of in a bad shape so we'll save the remodel of this for another video i was at the east coast slingshot tournament the other day though and i saw this really great tiny camper a little teardrop one i thought i'd build my own so my friend happy hippie built this it looks beautiful he just built it from a trailer at harbor freight and home depot plywood i went over to vikings i bought some of this marine plywood nine sheets of plywood a thousand dollars worth of materials and we're gonna build a camper so i picked up a trailer on facebook now the only question is what kind of camper to build do i copy him build a teardrop i was actually thinking about changing that whole teardrop idea and maybe doing something that resembled the lines of my car after my friends at ecoflow saw my new adventure camper ideas they said they have just the thing for me to power my new little adventure mobile and they sent me their new eco flow delta max which just came out today on kickstarter wow that's up that's a lot of power they also sent me two of their battery extension packs for this with the xboos technology in this thing you can power 99 of all corded items we're talking skill saws you know chop saws table little table saws contractor type saws anything that's like 110 99 of the stuff ac units it's perfect for your camps for your tiny campers your big campers and it charges off the solar panels i mean like my last adventure uh bigger one the 30-day survival challenge in the rockies we ended with one battery bar left on the camera because our solar panels and power packs just didn't pack enough power check out that link in the description here you get it now on kickstarter you can get it for 16.99 when it's done with the kickstarter though it's going to be 400 more so now is the time to buy in on that kickstarter i'm gonna go build my camper if you join us on the 23rd we'll see you there fowler out

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Length: 50min 59sec (3059 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 17 2021