Evolution of the 10 C's Part 1

morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters and the Pathfinder school what I'd like to do today is delve a little bit into an updated video on the 10 C's of survivability to give you a little bit of a look into where my thought process is present-day as far as each of these items within the 10 C's goes and I've done lots of videos in the past on kit mentality I did probably four videos on kit mentality over the course of a couple three four years and now eight to ten years later I want to give you my new thoughts or my present-day thoughts on the 10 season survivability because I believe that to this day is the most viable and reliable and multifunctional kit that anyone could carry on a day to day basis in the wilderness to effectively tackle that inconvenient camping or emergency scenario stay with morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school and I'm in my front yard actually right beside one of my instructor cabins out here at the Pathfinder school and I've got a hammock strung up between two trees and it's a simple military surplus jungle hammock it's from the Vietnam era but the beauty of a hammock like this is a it's very lightweight it's simple in construction it's only about four feet by 7 feet with tubes on the end to feed either rope paracord or sticks through there are several ways you can set this up you can set it up as a supportive type hammock with sticks or you can just run paracord through it or some type of heavy cordage and string it up between two trees like I have it now and one of the things that I want to talk to you guys about today was a little bit more in depth about a simple kit and simple 10 C mentality I've used this 10 C mentality for a long time and I've lived by it now for quite a long time and I carried the 10 C's with me the majority of the time and there are ways to build a kit with the 10 C's that don't have to necessarily cost an arm and leg and it's not really about the brand as a merchandise that you carry it's about the pieces and parts of that kit meeting certain criteria for what you're going to be using them for and what you need and that's what's important the other thing to remember is that even though it's called the 10 C's it doesn't necessarily mean 10 single items that's basically 10 categories or types of items that you need to carry especially when you're talking about the first five so cutting tools as an example doesn't mean that you only need one cutting tool now the one that's on your hip that's attached to your body should meet certain criteria that kind of make it a one tool option if you were to lose everything else but let's face it how often are we going to lose everything we own it's probably never going to happen to you so the best thing you can do is be prepared pack yourself a small pack of emergency items the one thing that does happen to people all the time or a lot of times is that the events are off into the woods unprepared so they force themselves into that scenario of an emergency situation because they aren't prepared for the elements they're not prepared for an injury that might have happened to them that kept them from getting out of the woods on time they're not prepared to run out of gas in their ATV 15 miles in those things can catch you with your pants down very very quickly so those are the things that we want to prepare for with the 10 C's and the 10 piece kit but it doesn't have to be extravagant it can be very very simple and it should be lightweight so let's talk about that mentality real quick stay with me okay one of the things that we have to realize in our own mind is that we venture into areas that aren't necessarily wilderness but they are unfamiliar areas to us or areas that are not our home quite often it could be a simple day hike with your kids in the middle of a state park somewhere on a 4 or 5 mile trail it could be horseback riding through a national forest it could be canoeing or kayaking down some slow lazy river for the day and something happens that keeps you from getting home and what you need to understand is how do I turn that situation that could be an emergency into inconvenient camping that's important to understand now we're not going to carry as a rule all of the great accoutrements that we might have if we planned to kit we probably aren't going to have a tent a sleeping bag a ground pad a full-on hammock system with tarp bug net and all of that stuff that goes with it the Atlas straps but we can carry some emergency gear that's very lightweight that's not going to take that much room and we can put it in a day pack for lack of a better word a go bag that's the way you want to look at it that we're going to take with us anytime we venture off the asphalt if we're going out into the woods for any reason we're going to take this pack of items with us and have it on our back the chance of losing it are very very slim your best chance of losing your equipment really in this day and age in the type of things that we do is probably if it falls out of a boat or a canoe or a kayak or something like that but if you are traveling a foot or by ATV or by horseback or by Jeep or something like that the chance of you losing your gear are almost none now if you're going to be carrying that gear we have to be weight conscious of how much gear we're carrying and that's where the simple 10 C mentality comes into play ok so let's discuss our backpack real quick first because the backpack is the core of this kit it's got to be long lasting and durable if it's something I'm going to use all the time this is going to be the bag that I'm going to grab and go every time I'm going through the woods unless I'm planning to camp and I'm taking a bigger bag this is my day pack if that's what you want to call it my go bag or every time I go to the woods I'm going to take this bag and I actually keep this one strapped to my Rokon that way if I'm out I've always got this with me now the backpack itself again needs to be long lasting it needs to be durable doesn't mean it has to cost a lot of all of the old riders like Thomas Seaton Daniel Baer horse cow park Warren Miller they all wrote in their books about the use of military surplus items for camping and tramping because they were built to last and they were as he do and they were readily available after the wars so this pack is a German military pack and it's a German military rucksack they're about $35 on sportsman's guide when they got him in stock actually got this one entry but what I like about the design of this pack is first of all it's completely waterproof I like that because now I don't have to worry about that you're getting wet inside number two it's got one large bucket I'm a fan of the bucket pack I don't want to have to search for things when I need them I want to know exactly where they're at and I want it to be quickly accessible in one simple spot not a whole bunch of little pockets everywhere I have to look through the remember where my stuff is now this one does have a sleeve on the backside of it probably for some type of water bladder but I generally just put a couple of quick emergency items in there like an emergency space blanket and a drum liner and that's pretty much all that goes in there most everything else goes in the main bucket this one has two outer pouches on it that are just the right size for 32 ounce water bottle so I put a water bottle on one side and I put some quick grab gear on this side like tools and cordage and then I put another water bottle on the inside if I'm going to carry two and that really is dependent on where I'm building whether I'm just going to carry one water bottle a nesting cup or whether I'm going to carry two water bottles a one nesting cup this time of year really really hot if I don't want to have to disinfect groundwater resources for the day I'm going to take two water bottles for sure and then if I have to do it it'll be because it was an emergency so this one also has pass-throughs on these pockets so if you were going to carry an axe which I wouldn't recommend if you weren't planning to be there I would just carry a saw you're going to be able to process plenty of wood for a fire for one evening or two with a saw you'll be able to cut poles and things that you may need for shelter very easily with a saw like a bahco laplander those are very good songs to put into some type of kit like this because they don't weigh a lot they work well and they're long lasting so that covers backpacks a little Alice pack is a great pack the old swedish and swiss mate ruck sacks are all very good and again these German backpacks it's got nice padded shoulder straps on it that are cotton again it's waterproof I just really really like this style pack and this size pack alright so real quick let's talk to cutting tools and again cutting tools are something that you can spend a lot of money on but you don't have to spend a lot of money on them they just need to work for the environment that you're going to be in and in an emergency you need to be able to trust those tools a bahco laplander folding saw this one's probably five years old and it still works just as good as it did the day I bought it and it will process any wood that I need it to for an emergency fire or an emergency shelter I have a small Swiss Army knife here that's got a couple extra tools on it smaller blades that I keep razor-sharp as well as a pair of tweezers and a toothpick so this becomes part of my first-aid kit as well as just being another small extra blade and I keep that in my pocket and then I have the more garber and the more gar bird again it's not a high carbon steel blade so the only problem you're going to have with this is if you have to start a flint and steel type fire but if you have that next fire mentality and you char material with your emergency fire this will strike a Ferro rod unbelievably well and you'll be able to ignite charred material with that or the magnifying glass on your compass that we'll talk about in a little while which gives you a lot of opportunities so is this the perfect knife in my opinion absolutely not it's not a five-inch blade it's not high carbon steel it does meet every other criteria and if it's something I'm going to put in my kit and I don't want to have to do a lot of maintenance to take care of it it's stainless and not carbon so it's not going to rust it's going to hold an edge longer so I'm not going to have to sharpen it as often so it does have merits in an emergency kit for sure and I've used this knife a lot actually this one's not even the prototype the prototypes beat up worse than this one is this is the second one of these that I've had this is one that I picked up when I was in Sweden but this is a really good utilitarian knife and it comes with a really nice sheath and that's what I really like about it is it has this nice heavy leather sheath I've got my sail needle taped in the back of it it's got a nice security flap on it it's not coming out of there on you it's protected it's not going to catch on anything it's easy to get that flap open it's easy to get the knife out of and I'm a big fan of leather so which is another reason I like this knife so well but again don't get hung up on brand don't get hung up on that because you can get a knife that will do everything you need to do very inexpensively all you have to do is look around just remember what you want that not to do and get used to using the tools that you have in your kit and you'll be fine this is just one of the tools I choose to carry in mine alright okay let's speak to combustion devices real quick I always carry three ways to start fire and if I have these three things I really don't feel I need anything else I have a cigarette lighter which gives me instant flame if it runs out of fluid it still has a sparking device that I can like charred material with next fire mentality I can also scrape the body of this lighter to make a fire I've done a video on that before if I have to make a last this fire it'll work if it's wet once I dry it out it's very simple to do that we teach that the basic class and it'll work if it's cold all you have to do is warm it up so it's a very good emergency tool for lighting fires and they're very reliable and they're very durable I always carry a heavy duty ferrocerium rod this one has a copper stub or a copper cap on the end of it that's been glued on with Gorilla Glue and I learned this trick from one of my past instructors named Chris wick and he put a copper stub in on his and this is not a stub and this is just a copper cap but what it does it makes this tool just a little bit more functional because if I don't have a way to strike this rod I can find any broken piece of glass or hard rock and I can use this copper as a Bopper to nap that to a sharp edge so that I can then strike the rod because anything is harder than this rod that has a good 90-degree edge on it will strike this rod so it just gives you one more purpose that this rod will do besides starting fire but a rod like this will last you a long long time and remember with that next fire mentality once you get this thing going the first time and you've made your charred material it takes very little if any spark hardly at all in this thing to light charred material so that makes this rod even longer-lasting because you're not sitting there doing this over and over and over again to try to start your fire you hit it one time and it's going to light that charred material use that with a bird nest or a tinder bundle and you're ready to rock and roll the third thing is I always have a magnifying glass on my compass that's capable of igniting shard of material this is not the best magnifying glass in the world it's not like a seven power or a larger magnifying glass that collects more light but it does effectively light char and it will effectively light fungus like horse type fungus so it's good enough to start fires with well if you have that next fire mentality that gives me three ways to start fire and this one is very multifunctional we'll talk about that later as well guys I really appreciate you joining me today for this segment in our short series on the evolution of the 10 piece kit I appreciate your views I appreciate your support and thank you for the thing you do for school or family and for a business follow our sponsors instructors are filling some friends and I'll be back with another video I've seen what I can thanks

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Views: 263,594

Rating: 4.9604473 out of 5

Keywords: Bushcraft, Survival, David Canterbury, Dave Canterbury, Pathfinder, The Pathfinder School, Archery, Hunting, Fishing, Camping, Primitive Skills, Fire, Water, Shelter, Navigation, First Aid, Search and Rescue, Signaling, Prepper, Preparedness, Self Reliance, Survivability, The 10 C's, Knives, Axes, Saws, Bow Drill, Ferrocerium Rod, Ferro Rod, Tarp, Hammock, Canteen, Cooking, Longhunter, Trapping

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Length: 14min 49sec (889 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 13 2016