Northwoods Survival Season 2 Episode 3

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00:00Never feel more alive when you're on the ocean.

00:05It really goes to show the power of Mother Nature.

00:10Expanding the trapline is a very big job.

00:13It's an uncharted territory and I'm very excited to see what I can find out there.

00:18I've got to move this big daddy.

00:21I really don't want to be covered in .

00:23Now that Annie's nine years old, it's time for her to learn how to hunt.

00:27Any time you're pulling along with tension, it's always dangerous.

00:31If it doesn't work, there's going to be a sight.

00:34Oh, I need your scabies.

00:36Look, phermigan tracks.

00:39You can do it.

00:41Excuse it, Annie. You can do it.

00:43You can do it.

00:44I'm going to be very careful here.

00:46They weight at least 600 pounds.

00:49Oh, .

00:57This is a traditional Newfoundland salt box built back in the day by old fishermen.

01:14Every board in the house was made by logs that the men here would cut and drag from the woods.

01:20And it's just steeped in history.

01:23All these old planks are handmade.

01:26As you can see, each one is individually unique.

01:29These things are over 100 years old.

01:31I'm going to have to replace all of these.

01:33And that's why we're going to build the sawmill.

01:35And the mill of all these boards now.

01:38Because a lot of these are rotten.

01:40There's plenty of trees and stuff here on the island.

01:50But everything is pretty small and scraggy.

01:52I'm looking for some bigger stuff.

01:54And the good stuff is in the next harbor over.

01:57I've got to get all this s*** over to the mainland.

01:59Find a nice spot to set up the log mill.

02:01And get some lumber pumping out before it gets too cold here.

02:05This is 100% custom built and tested.

02:09My God.

02:11This thing is going to eat some f*** logs.

02:16I had to buy this lumber in order to make the mill.

02:23But the amount of construction we've got to do in this house to get this thing fixed up.

02:27I'd go broke if I had to buy all store-bought lumber.

02:30So getting this mills up is a great investment.

02:39This tree is everywhere.

02:40But as you can see, half of that is dead.

02:41And the other half is like a Charlie Brown Christmas tree.

02:42A couple of the old timers told me there's good logs down here.

02:43So I know they're here.

02:44And it looks like I see some decent logs up in there.

02:51Next stop, Log City baby.

02:52We've got a nice looking little beach here.

02:53We'll land this old girl on the beach.

02:54And then we'll bushwhack up through the woods, find a good drop, good logs, and pick a spot

02:58and put a mill.

02:59Newfoundland is known to be tough bush to whack through, so lots of sweatin' and gruntin'

03:12and cursin' today.

03:13I love it.

03:14The newfoundland is known to be a tough bush to whack through, so lots of sweatin' and gruntin'

03:25and cursing today. I love it living off-grid in the woods brings me a lot of happiness and peace

03:44but when you're in the cabin with no plumbing an outhouse is your only option and mine is not

03:51in a great shape it's leaning this way oh it's a house it looks like a medieval torture seat you

04:05know you know it's a rustic outhouse in the woods

04:10the others it's so important you know rain snow you know just want to be comfortable you know when

04:24you have your needs you know still pretty good shape though but oh yeah forget it it's like the hole

04:34it's collapsing even you know the rocks are going into the holes the outhouse will just collapse into

04:43the holes you know 20 years ago the goal was to make it fast and i didn't have the experience so

04:53you know a lot of things collapsed i need to get it done as soon as possible

04:57the hole over there just collapsed with time but here i'm going to do a nice little box inside

05:05which you know will prevent you know this sandy soil to fall into the hole

05:13it's more work but it's worth it because it will last longer

05:18for that i need wood

05:27i'm looking for some green tree because green is full of sap and it's gonna last longer into the ground

05:41oh yeah

05:44yeah this one looks great there is still a lot of sap into it so that means this tree is good

05:57okay that's good that's perfect i don't want it to fall it down not yet because this is very

06:12unpredictable now because it can fall this way this way it's very dangerous

06:17so what i'm gonna do attach a rope here the pulley there with the winch from from the atv

06:28okay there we go so now it looks pretty stuck i'm just gonna try to help him a bit

06:37there we go and i'm just gonna use the winch

06:55all right it's coming along

06:59well doesn't want to it is very stuck there

07:07it is stuck on i don't know like 10 threes

07:21come on big guy almost there

07:26oh come on you can do it now

07:27oh man this is great that's a lot of work for an outhouse not even the outhouse like the underground

07:43like the box you know that nobody will see but i will know

07:55it's important for gilbert and i to be here for the kids

08:04and show them these skills because if they can thrive in the north then they can live anywhere

08:11yeah that's good

08:24today's a really special day it's going to be annie's first time shooting a rifle

08:28so annie when you carry a gun on you you always pretend there's a bullet in there

08:33it's a big step for her and i'm really excited that we're both part of it

08:41okay

08:44now that annie's nine years old it's time for her to learn more just living here and being on the land

08:51it's so much safer for her to know how to use a rifle

08:58you never know if she might have to defend herself and knowing your way around the firearm

09:04is crucial all right we'll be right here it's a nice spot yep right over there

09:14we're gonna show her how to target practice and eventually how to hunt

09:20all right there's doing

09:21i'm gonna do the big target first because it's her first time

09:30i think she's afraid of the sound because she knows how loud they may become but this one is not too

09:35loud all right all right look just come close come here there's no bullets in here there's nothing in

09:45there okay there's nothing in here so that's safe to fire

09:53that's to feel it yeah and then that's shoot here just come down go i'll go first firing in three two one

10:08is that okay all right i'm gonna go check

10:11yeah i don't want to do it what are you scared of but just scare me when i shoot

10:20honey here's what we're gonna do what do we're gonna do it together okay you want to try on your shoulder

10:29you can do it all right we only try

10:34ready look at it ready okay okay i need this hand

10:39just here okay all right you feel comfortable like this now look in the hose tell mommy when you're

10:48ready to fire look for the target

10:53there you go yeah that was easy is that good okay again again all right all right you're gonna graduate

11:02to the next step you're putting your hand there now yeah brave good so let's do it okay okay so our

11:10safety's on

11:13just aim safety's still on so it won't work

11:15you can do it you can do it no i want to do this squeeze it and you can do it yeah

11:24good job good job annie i'm so proud of you was that so scary you want to go see where you shot yeah

11:35all right wait wait

11:37whoa whoa look at that oh i think i can do better than that i might get it in the red or maybe right

11:51here in the yellow you did better than me look yeah i'm better than gilbert yeah

11:57can that's when we race again yeah let's race yeah annie's only nine years old and i think she's

12:05learned a lot of really good lessons today number one how to be safe number two how to confront her

12:11fears right grab your with annie you just have to be patient with her and then she'll come through

12:20and that's exactly what happened today you did really good work annie good job i'm really proud of

12:26you the skills annie's learning now are very important in the future the land can be very

12:34rewarding but the land can also be very dangerous and she needs to know how to survive

12:49we're hundreds of kilometers away from the closest road and the closest community

13:00pure wildness with nothing but animals trees and me and the dogs

13:06i'm packing up camp i spent the night here with the dogs for the first night of our little trapping

13:23trip okay guys okay i'm out here because it was always my dream to live in the wilderness but i don't

13:32want to just survive i want to actually thrive good job hop that's why i brought the dogs this place is

13:40far too best for me to do it alone so i think they're going to be the key to making a life out here

13:47i've already set a bunch of martin traps today i'm gonna keep going towards east

13:53and go further into the territory last year it was all about the cabin but this year

14:02it's about me the dogs and how we can expand the trapline

14:08so first i gotta find a place that makes sense to break a trail

14:12it's an uncharted territory and i'm very excited to see what i can find out there

14:16i'm packing the trail on snowshoes so it's uh easier for the dogs to run in the powder otherwise

14:24it's pretty hard for them

14:28so i parked the dogs just a couple hundred yards behind me

14:35start breaking trail cutting trees to make room for the sled to go

14:38i'm working with the terrain and try to find the best path for the dogs and for me to travel faster

14:54i'm breaking new ground and setting new lines that nobody has done before so it's pretty exciting

15:03and i'll go like this all day long for kilometers and kilometers

15:08okay guys okay breaking trail is very exhausting but it needs to be done

15:15key key being able to harvest fair is uh very important for me

15:24it would be almost impossible to live out here full-time if i couldn't

15:28you could just come in the bush do the basic minimal stuff just to survive but it's not what i'm here for

15:44i want to live here you know long term and thrive

16:02stay stay boys

16:04this time of the year is the best for martin fur so that's why i'm focusing on martin right now

16:15i'm taking the last safety off and then the trap is hot

16:23good dogs i think i've been far enough to this direction so i'm gonna find a spot to turn around

16:30and head towards the cabin i set a lot of modern traps on my trip so i'm gonna check them all on the

16:37way back and uh and hopefully i got something

16:44whoa guys

16:47stay

16:48the trap trips the bait is gone so i don't know if it's a martin or just a squirrel or something else

17:06that's still the bait up there i don't know if the trap trips before or if they set it off and

17:13we're smart enough to get to the bait i'm not sure i'm gonna reset this trap put some new bait and uh

17:21and hopefully next time i catch the little guy

17:28okay let's go there are no guarantees in the bush

17:32you can uh bust your all day and still come home empty-handed but uh giving up is not really an option

17:45good boys

17:54it's really hard to compare anywhere in the world to a place like this

17:57you got rough bush you got beautiful ocean and there's this rugged coastline the fog and the

18:05weather no one really cares what's going on in the rest of the world out here on this big rock in the

18:10ocean

18:23tides on the way up right now when it does come up this entire beach right to the bush line

18:28will disappear in the water

18:32then the real challenge is to find a place up here in the woods fair enough away from the water to be

18:37safe from high tides and storms accessible enough for the log mill all that gear that we brought in

18:43in boat has got to go up through this new plan is infamous for having some tough bush and you can't

18:49move through it without a chainsaw really

18:51see if there ain't no nice wide open park or nice big trees and lots of open space this woods is a complete

19:05show

19:12pretty level along here dry as we're gonna find we're gonna start building a mill

19:21so

19:24oh yeah baby look at that if you're a hillbilly that doesn't make you happy

19:30i don't know what the will this is great

19:34yeah exactly what i had a picture pretty much

19:37only sad part about it is it looks like the weather's starting to turn

19:41we can't sit and wait for the weather to get here we got to leave before it arrives and i can feel it and

19:44see you coming so sucks but she ain't going anywhere she'll be here tomorrow

19:53let's get out of here ronnie once the weather hits back to cape millie around

20:03around here on the coast of newfoundland weather comes up quick and things go wrong fast

20:07the water's here

20:21living in a bush is not easy in order you know to feel comfort you've got to work on it

20:37it's great i'm gonna put the boards make a square so that will be the walls perfect

20:55that's good

20:56there is a rock

21:04aha just gonna quickly remove the rock because i really want to put it there

21:14and that's a big rock big nasty one at the worst place ever in the cold here we go

21:26it looks good to me so it will prevent the soil from coming into the hole so i just need you know

21:42just a frame just to hold you know the boards in place

21:54that's the thing working with logs the logs are not straight so i'm just trying to do my best here

22:07that looks good to me

22:09okay the hole is done and uh i've got to move this big daddy's just right here

22:17here on the top of the frame so what i'm trying to do just you know slide it or push it slowly all the

22:30way there i have no clue how much does it weight but it weight at least 600 pounds at least i will say

22:40i'm going to be very careful here i really don't want the outhouse to fall on me

22:43i really don't want to be covering so

22:49i'm just gonna remove the rocks oh that's good okay let's do the second rock

23:08oh

23:23we're a blended family of french canadian and cree and it's important for gilbert and i to teach our kids

23:31the traditions of both cultures

23:40take it

23:43annie is the oldest so it's time for her to learn how to hunt

23:48it's a way of life for the cree culture and it's the best way to survive in the north

23:53if your eyes peeled and your ear holes open

24:03right now we're looking for ptarmigans with annie

24:07she's really interested because she wants to shoot some more targets

24:11ptarmigans are the best targets out here i feel like i'm gonna become a good hunter

24:17maybe better than my mom and dad i'm really excited let's go all right

24:25she's very excited now that she gets to possibly shoot a rifle maybe look around

24:34look in the trees

24:35this is like level 10 fighting a ptarmigan you know why why because of the snow in the trees

24:47the ptarmigans are white so it'll be really hard to find a ptarmigan

24:53you need to hear them or you need to find the tracks first

24:57i think maybe we should look for some open space yeah so maybe in the mushkeg a little bit

25:05yeah around there yeah

25:10it's actually a lot of fun being out here i think i might get a ptarmigan maybe if i do i'll be proud of

25:19myself look ptarmigan tracks

25:27it looks like it goes this way yeah all right here look take a closer look any

25:35these ptarmigan tracks are old because you can see snow on them

25:39how old are they a day ago touch around it annie see

25:43this year it's been very challenging with hunting and that's the reality of living here

26:01you never know if you're gonna get a really good hunt or a terrible one

26:05what are you thinking i think it's time to go home yeah another day yeah right annie yeah

26:17it's not every time that you're gonna get something when we go hunting and that's okay

26:21yeah yeah but i think it's important now for you to carry your own medicine bag

26:27so the height here is from a caribou inside is tobacco that gilbert's mushum used to use

26:37anytime we're on in the land and we take anything you can put a little bit of tobacco

26:42and that's a show of respect that we took something from the land okay thank you mom

26:48we're gonna put it on you medicine bags are also memory bags you're gonna remember this as your

26:56first time hunting with a rifle how about we go home warm up my feet are frozen all right let's do this

27:07let's go i know annie's not born here she's not cree but annie has been grandmothered in meaning that

27:17people take her in as part of their own and she's very much a part of this community

27:26even though she's not cree she's definitely learning the ways here

27:42the coast of newfoundland has endless tales of storms and waves and just remote and harsh

27:56okay hold on the front of the boat my son sit stay that's gonna be around

28:06me and ronnie survived the storm it's been blowing a pretty hard gale here the past few days

28:10come on ron

28:19stay around

28:20oh

28:22holy

28:24light's full of water here

28:28oh it's sinking

28:29ronnie thank god we came in when we did she might never see the morning

28:39it's all right ronnie we got here just in time

28:51we got a fine swell on today it's all leftover swell from the gale that's been blowing past two days

29:01days and you can feel it never feel more alive when you're on the ocean we're going to show the power of mother nature you can't stop this

29:14you can't stop this

29:26you can't stop this

29:31see you around

29:38yeah she's still here

29:39you can't stop this

29:41survive the gale you old girl

29:43i was kind of worried with the high water that this here might be flooded but that seems fine

29:49no time to waste

29:50to me lumber asap

29:58making this lumber might be free technically but to get this lumber it's so much work

30:07you're painting for this lumber with sweat and grunts

30:12this is it this is the honey hole

30:16already right from here i can see one two three

30:20four knife-sized logs these are pretty much the biggest logs you're going to find around here

30:24in newfoundland if we can get a nine ten inch log

30:29we're set

30:37oh yeah boy

30:39we're logging now boys

30:40that's good one that's a good 10 inch log straight

30:51probably two pieces out of this one

30:58these are some big logs and some rough country to get them all the way to the mill

31:01it might have an idea to get it down there it's going to be greasy somewhat sketchy but a whole lot of fun

31:10change

31:12and there's something i think we need to stop

31:12if it works

31:25everybody talked about the invention of the wheel but up here the wheel is pretty useless and everything is about the sled

31:37back in the days everybody was trapping with sled dogs and everybody was living

31:43this way and it's what represents the north for me so it's very special to me

31:48that I'm able to be with my dogs and trapping here

31:55come on guys come on game hop

31:59I'm here to be self-sufficient so being successful is yeah it's super important

32:18right there

32:23I looks like we got something

32:26that's a nice martin there nice fur I can use a martin fur to do different things like

32:36trimming on clothes or a liner for mitts so martin is a pretty small animal so usually it takes me

32:44a couple martins to be able to make something out of it

32:47if I'm lucky I'll have some more on my way back

32:52I love animals but living this lifestyle I want to be as close as possible to the land

32:59it can be a pretty complicated relationship nowadays most people are pretty disconnected

33:08from their food or what they wear and if it's ethical which is pretty sad to me

33:15oh

33:38got another one

33:39nice that's the third one of the day so it's pretty good this one is a little bigger

33:55nice colors too i will definitely be able to make something out of those three martins

34:02i was not expecting to get as much for this first trip

34:06the dogs are excited to go home it's howling time it's a good start

34:13it takes me about half an hour to skin the martin after all these efforts it took me to bring those

34:32pelt so i want to do a good job so i have to be focused

34:37the first time i ever trapped or hunted an animal it was very emotional

34:46i mean i didn't grow up hunting or trapping so for me it was a very big deal

34:52it's still emotional for me at least it was done in a way that i know i can live with

35:00feels like i've come a long way since i first came last year

35:08my life is pretty set up here now now expanding the trapline it's a very

35:15big step it's a new chapter for the trapline and for my life here

35:20this rock is just too much in the front

35:35oh yeah it's going there

35:47this is cool

35:52it's tending on the logs

35:55you know it's not straight but so far i'm pretty glad it's working

36:04now i guess the best way to get this house over the new foundation is by force

36:12living in the bush like this there is my intuition mostly i never learn it too much

36:26another push

36:29you know i'm just trying to figure it out if it works

36:33good if it doesn't well let's find another way to do it

36:38there we go i'm getting there very close

36:44oh man that was too strong

36:54oh i surprised myself

36:57a little bit to allow this alert to get underneath

37:04yes sir

37:10oh man i got it

37:16so i'm just gonna push

37:19hopefully it's gonna roll a bit hopefully

37:22go

37:26oh

37:29oh

37:33oh

37:39oh

37:41oh

37:43oh

37:45oh

37:46oh

37:47oh

37:49all right oh there we go that's perfect no this is great actually

38:02success it's great oh man that was a lot of work the longest 10 feet in my life

38:13I'm so happy looks level the outhouse is done and it's very stable and it's gonna be there forever

38:24it was great it's a hard life right here but it's very very rewarding and each day is your own

38:43I really hope this works we're a long ways from the water line here

38:58better run them right down these rollers just get it right along like a hillbilly water slide

39:02except we got logs instead of children I think it's gonna work it doesn't work it's

39:07gonna be a sight that's for sure plan is use cave milling here as an anchor system to pull from

39:15and we'll use this boat to pull the rope tight and I should make those longer screamed out of

39:20that hill fall I have to bank into the water pull right to here to this block and we bring it to the

39:26mill it's a recipe for to go wrong but it's what we do it here right Ronnie definitely dangerous

39:34anytime you're pulling a log with tension like that especially when you're not near the log and

39:38go watch what's happening it's always dangerous but it's gonna be awesome

39:43hold on to your scavies

39:47hold on run

40:04she's doing it

40:09we're pulling

40:11hey we're in we're in log him in

40:16yeah it worked

40:20oh this one log knew how much energy it was to get this here it would stand up and thank me

40:40let's make some lumber this is a one-of-a-kind custom-built chainsaw mill this will be my first

40:52time using this and yeah we'll see if all works well should be able to make lumber as fast you can

40:57push us off because the shoulder sharp the chain is a little bit of duct tape the paper towel that'll be

41:09fine you want to learn how to do a real bush bandage sticky side out sticky side out for a few wraps and

41:20then sticky side in old grandfather lynch boy he'd be proud of that he took his finger clean out so that's all

41:37what really gets me about milling these planks is that you're really harvesting something from nature

41:42you're going out and taking just a healthy tree stand in the woods and then you turn that into lumber

41:47which then means you can turn that into basic anything

41:50you get to do the whole process right from the natural resource all the way to the finished product

42:06all yourself that's one of the biggest joys i get out here look at that that's a thing of beauty

42:15steaming home with a full load of boards like this i feel just like a rich king coming home

42:29it's really hard work by the end of the day i think the juice is worth the squeeze

42:38when i get to sit back and look at these handmade planks they'll sit in this house for the next 100

42:43years hopefully it's uh it's a great joy

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