A Canadian, in German Camouflage clothing, digs Japanese foxholes... I like it 😄😄

@SybrenKruijf

6 ай бұрын

Missa so confused

@gregborden1424

6 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thanks for posting .

Hi from the UK, Kevin. I don't tend to comment much on any KZread channel but wanted you to know that yours is the only one that I watch to the end pretty much as soon as a new video lands. Please keep the channel going. I look forward to them every week and they take me out of the tedium of my office-work life.

This series of videos strikes a chord with us Study Center guys. So many techniques that were very sound and useful in the past fade out of use over time without anything better filling in for them. We have, particularly, focused upon late nineteenth century cowboy life on the trail. A rig of horse and pack mule opened the world to the solitary man who depended on no governmental agents to guide and protect him; he was a true sovereign, the sole authority over himself. Friends were hard to come by but nearly impossible to fail. The lever carbine has never been bettered as a man's (or a boy's) only gun. The ability to hide out in forest or mountainous areas and to selectively strike out at a vastly outnumbering enemy is again becoming topical for us who have, perhaps, lived with peace at home too long. We prepare and train now for the inevitable, knowing full well that the root of all evil, by far the most deadly entity to a people, is its government.

Top cover is vital because of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrapnel_shell. Steel helmets were introduced in WW1 because of the sheer number of wounds from them. Being able to crawl underground under a tree during a mortaring/shrapnel shell artillery bombardment is good tactics. A couple of feet of earth would protect against all but a direct hit and a ground burst shell would likely be deflected by said tree, as you rightly point out. Also I think the most common descriptor is foxhole as this conveys that fighting positions were more than a hole in the ground, if time allowed.

I remember watching Robin Hood and watched the fighters dig a hole and cover themselves up with a blanket with limbs and leaves sown into the blanket . they would run up , lift the blanket and in a second they were hidden. Love watching your videos as I spend most of my life in the forest and learned all this stuff!!Greetings from Perth Ontario!

Thanks Kevin for taking us along on this project. I hope you never give your channel up. Alway enjoy watching every Saturday. I look forward to it no matter what you bring our way. Take care.

When you said "it'll give ya a wicked splinter!" I nearly spat out my coffee 😂😂😂

*Kevin Builds (Modern Self Reliance)* Bravo well done, thank-you sir for taking the time to bring us along. GOD Bless.

I will not be visiting until you get two stars!!! A veteran of WW1 was asked what it was like. The reply was. Go in your back yard and start digging a hole. Your neighbors will help you by lobbing rocks over their fences as you dig. You need a hole deep enough to be underground, with firing step and grenade sump. Your helpful neighbors will now spray you with their water hoses while throwing fire crackers. You now need to carve out a sleeping alcove above the always wet trench bottom. Now sit in your hole for two to three weeks without a toilet or running water[no cheating and going in to shower. ] Eat food that is never hot and normally cold. You enjoy this all the while your neighbors find larger firecrackers to pelt you with and the constant water hose barrage. If you are not bonkers when come out, you did not have the whole WW1 experience. For that at random time jump out of your trench screaming and run around your hole. Yes your neighbors will have the rocks, firecrackers and water hoses to pelt and soak you with.

I really enjoy these. Not only do i get to watch you create something from nothing, i learn stuff in the process. History is cool. 😎

You are my, saturday morning entertainment. Please don't ever stop making Content i enjoy watching your videos.

Great video and appropriate on Remembrance Day 🇨🇦

I believe the idea is to "fling" the diggings/soil as far and wide as possible.

Vietnamese use to dig under a tree in the jungle with a few bushes in from and cut guys down like crazy until you could get a grenade or good firepower. All vietnamese rat holes had more than one or 3 exits, plus they had numerous people help digging, plus some had been there fore centuries and decades. They are perfectionists at building these bunkers and fighting positions.

Interesting 😎🌵 oh, and we call them foxholes

@OriginalDragonmad

6 ай бұрын

Would probably had bovril to drink and tinned corned beef (bully beef)

@user-qo5kk5fx2h

Ай бұрын

I would have built a berm at the entry,left and right limit posts,possibly a rifle rest notch.

6:46 That little cylindrical part at the base of the space where it meets the handle should be threaded. Tighten it to tighten the shovel.

@ModernSelfReliance

6 ай бұрын

Think that ship has sailed.. the shovel is tired.

I just love that s channel.. Kevin's build.

Hey Kevin; Another great 1 in the Hole! 😉👍🤭✌❤🤗

When you mentioned having a tank run over your fighting hole. It reminded me of my uncle, who was a World War II veteran. During a training maneuver, his unit had been ordered to dig holes in a wooded area for the night, and he dutifully proceeded to dig his foxhole. He'd almost completed his hole when he said the ground began to rumble. He stood up poking his head out of the hole, and saw a tank heading straight for his hole. It was almost up to his position, and all he could do was drop back down and curl up in the bottom of his hole. Luckily for him, the tank was centered on his position and passed right over without collapsing the walls. He said that after the tank was through the area, his buddies came running to see if he had been crushed. He said the tank crew had no idea they had traveled through an infantry platoon position because everyone was in their fighting holes, and they couldn't see the holes from inside the tank.

@zianeshkasparen4358

6 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Soorry I am laughing. Your uncle has BAAAALLS OF STEEL. I am a woman with a lot of coyrage but I think I would have dine what your uncle did but I would have been praying like my life depended on it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I wonder if Kevin films himself about to fall asleep in his dirt hole or cabins and then turns off the camera and goes home and sleeps in his warm bed and then the next day whenever he wants during the day he goes back and pretends to wake up? Or he pretends that it is night and pretends sleep, and then a few minutes after turning off his camera, he pretends to wake up and it was day time all along? This is what I would do! 😅🤣

Lol! One of these times a wild animal is going to think "awesome! A ready made home!" And try to join you. Where I live it could be: snakes, skunks, possums, armadillos, rats, coyotes, fox....

Well done. Glad you're continuing.

Piew Piew Piew Piiieeewww 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Loved that Cedar Riffle.

We’re cracking up! 😂 “I have to keep the sand out of my underpants” “It’s a sandy crummy situation for being in a hole…. Although I’ve slept in worse situations.” “Pew, pew, pew, pew, pew…..” “There is snow in the forecast. I hope that doesn’t happen.” “I’m in my defensive fighting position for the night.” “The roots are sticking through the ceiling holding the blobs from getting me.” “This is dual purpose bread. It kinda smells like mold, or, is that the chocolate?” “It wasn’t comfortable I can tell you that much…. Don’t recommend it.” There’s just too many ‘Kevinisms’ to count Lol 😂 Kevin Builds and doesn’t disappoint lol Thanks for the break from real life lol

@zianeshkasparen4358

6 ай бұрын

He says it with a straaaaaaight face. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

love your videos and yes

Great video thanks for sharing it was good content 😊

Very cool Kevin.loved it man😊☮️

I am somewhat intrigued by your persistent interest in Japanese warfare strategies.

Thanks for the video Kevin!

I love these videos 😊

Awesome project!! Really enjoyed watching this one.

Sharp cheddar cheese w/ apple pie is amazing!!

A good one!

Your property is going to resemble Swiss cheese 😂. Great video

Kevin may you and your entire family have a blessed and happy Thanksgiving!!! Keep doing what you are doing..

Another good one as usual young man

These are the holes we designed flame throwers and napalm for. Replaced by thermo baric shells of course.

Love the variety of content.Thanks for the hard work and dedication to duty.You are an inspiration to a lot of people.

Aren't you worried about your little dog falling in that hole, Fantastic video👍.

Awesome man!

Kevin...sleeping in a hole.... "Ive slept in worse places..." Where, Kevin? Where is worse than sleeping in a hole?

Kevin, you're wearing camouflage but you're wearing bright yellow leather gloves LOL

Great video! Thanks. Try using Mylar space blanket along the interior overhead for added warmth and maybe keep the sand out of your face. Use a sleep pad and a waterproof bivy bag. Maybe use sandbags in front and overhead and cover up. That was a nice video. Thanks

Another cool video always enjoy the content never disappointed. Have a good weekend and stay safe Jimmy from North Attleboro Massachusetts

How many above ground and below ground living places have you built on your property. Gives us a tour of what you built. So many cool hiding places.

@julianblacksmith8539

6 ай бұрын

I am gonna be building this in the wild forest

I noticed on your shovel you did not have the nut tightened to secure the blade. You can also put the blade at 90 degrees and lock it in place with the nut. Some shovels come with a pick as well.

An additional bonus is your "weapon" can shoot from both ends!

Don't stop bud!!!!!!!!!

You would want to put some dry material if possible and ponchos to help keep moisture away from your body.

This episode desperately has me wanting as Steve Wallis- Camping With Steve collab.

As a hunter and survivalist your fox hole was very easy to spot if you rewind where you tied to show it was hidden it's obvious look for dark spots which again stuck out . For a effective fox hole it doesn't take much but use vertical sticks even small ones in front of your shooting lane it will break up the out line . I use to teach this to the air cadets and am still teaching it

So glad you not quitting..

I really don't much care what you do, I'm always amused & learn something! I do thirst for knowledge, with your videos, searching is complete! You have an incredibly good amount of imagination, you're a regular tree/dirt/you name it artist! Don't ever change, be you & keep these coming please! Afresh breeze among all of the strife "breaking news" we really don't need to hear, YOU MAKE ME LAUGH OUT LOUD, which does concern my dogs because they know nobody's here!

Your builds are always such fun. Please keep your channels going, I always watch and 👍🏻 even if I don’t always comment.

Like your Justin Turdeau weapon!

Tiyr entrenching tool is of the NATO Tri-fold type. It was designed in a time (1870s) when the military didn;t really believe in a soldier's need to dig in during a future war, so it was made cheaply. They usually break fairly quick in use. I have seen them fail at such simple things as digging astuck car's tire out of the snow. It is one of the more flimsy designs which is why yours is loose and rattles. A much more serious E-tool pattern is the combination folding pick shovel design as Gernaby used from 1959 to the early 1970s. Both originals and Chines reproductions are available online. Buy an original and ignore the Chinese knock offs (made with pot metal). Also good are the Glock and the Cold Steel E tools.

25:19... so... you're saying that no one could sneak up behind the tree and... give you a .... hug of anti-life? 😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😮 love the show!

I stayed awake all night watching the spider hole series and I was so excited to see the luxury bunker but this last video in the playlist isn't it :(

Kevin, maybe you could place a big umbrella over your sleep space where your head goes -avoid dirt chunks falling onto face while snoozing...just pop it up at night. And a teeny wood burner through the cold night perhaps - 🎉 Chrissie Australia

You turning into a dooms day prepper Kevin? 😂

So sorry. started watching your channel more after you visited Fowler. Me and my wife became fond of the little guy.

Digging holes is always cool.

2 types of holes for warfare, #1 hidden position, (flinging soil), #2 safety hole (pile soil around hole so you get safely behind soil layer asap.

Wow some people are so hateful. I personally enjoy your videos and i always watch them all the way to the end.

Nice BDU

You need to make a lid for it so it completely camouflages when you're sleeping. Think of the lid as a giant clamshell that would be the lid and the hinge would be the same. You would still have 180 degree viewpoint while you are in the hole. And you can prop it up enough to where you can see. Plus when you completely shut it it'll help hold the warmth in the hole and the cold outside air will not fall into the hole.

Sending you a Pennsylvania Dutch apple pie…STAT! 😂

Kevin... I know that you are prepared for defending Canada from a ground attack by ... who exactly? You seem fixated on the Japanese in ground defensive positions... but they lost their war.! Happy Armistice Day ... thankful for all of your Forces countrymen and women serving in NATO and other armed conflicts. Peace brother

Cool

OK,who else thought the dog in the beginning was a bear at first ?

I appreciate your struggles, cutting through the clay and roots looked difficult to say the least. Im surprised there wasn't more sand cave in on you though, it looked like Malibu in there...lol 😂😅 Love what you're doing 😊

You were probably the most fun kid in your neighborhood.

Sweet video Kevin.. if Chris was in the hole to your body heat would keep each other bit warmer. Or a candle in tin cans might help!

Sweet

He built it, we came. 🤣

It looks like a granade catcher with that open top front.

Multiple layers of wool to keep you warm in the woods. Even works when it gets wet.

Maybe a door with srub on it to cover the opening but other than that looks good and I keep my "tool" closer rather than at the opening because someone could take it before you can get to it js and I'm just thinking outside the box so to speak lol buy most definitely some sort of door opening with srub over so it's not visible to a point and watch your lighting as that'll give you away as well thats why red lighting is best and maybe some yellow but red the best instead of white because that'll give your location away quicker than smoke

Kevin's Survival Meals can be your new channel. I guess a stick/root stove in the hole would be a dead giveaway to your location. And I'm guessing they didn't have stick stoves back in the day.

The white sand is probably silica sand.

This is your second build based on Japanese techniques. You are starting to make me think you have a personal interest in Japanese stuff (WWII). It's like seeing another side of you, and it reminds me of my son who studies the Pacific theater of WWII. I love it. Thanks for sharing!

If you can do live videos where you are, you should do one per month and turn on the super chat feature so people can send you money for comments and questions. Could be another source of income for the channel. Then maybe a membership for extra content and behind the scenes footage. And sell more merch. We would buy it.

@ModernSelfReliance

5 ай бұрын

The PayPal donation button has been there for three years. It's completely covered in dust.

@christophergarofalo

5 ай бұрын

@ModernSelfReliance that won't get people to spend money. People want to buy things for themselves. And they will buy an answer to a question or public acknowledgment to their comment. It will be small amounts, but it will add up.

since you've dug all the way under the root ball then i'll mention a project that i always wanted to try but don't have the equipment to do... mount the undamaged root ball upside down so the undamaged root system is in the air ...

Kevin pops out of the hole…. Que Caddyshack outro music

I love that you rock the flektarn. Where do you get it? I don't dig holes and hide in them and I have gone through 2 milsurp and one heavier coat that was gifted to me I think was "mil tech" I play in the woods sometimes but not quite like that. Do you have a stockpile? A supply? Is it just video prop that you aren't rocking off camera?

Hey Kevin I think that if you invested in a king of spades you would enjoy it

Apple pie and Sharp cheddar cheese is Fire! Kev! Try it!

didn't you already do a fox hole?

Needed an insulated sleeping pad for sure!

THE ALGORITHM LIKES HOLES IN THE GROUND!

Gonna build this in the woods

I'm surprised you don't have one of the shovels Fowlers has.

I wonder if I could build one of these in Florida where we are just above sea level

cool

I am not sure your entrenching tool is worn out. I am pretty sure (from my own Army days) the ring between shovel head and handle is meant to be turned and tightened to secure the shovel (entrenching tool) head and handle

That's so cool. 😎ppp

I’ve always heard the term foxhole.

@valyd45

6 ай бұрын

Happy Veterans Day. This was an appropriate video for such a day and to remind us what our vets went through.

Enemy heard the squeek squeek squeek tool

😉 Sleeping with one eye open, huh??? Thanks!!!

Nice trick to know. I don’t mean to judge but, with that big opening in front if someone were walk up then your location is given away. You should have some sort of camouflage over the entrance that you can push up far enough to look out of.