hey it's Shug here. You want to know the question i get the most lately ? Iit's this... Hey Shug.... what are those little tables that you have around camp where can i get one
and how much do they cost ???? Well they're from a little german company called Schwarze Biene
which means black bee. They're expensive this is a german engineering uh Tommy and
his wife developed this company i'd say the one called the shorty the one i've got my
cook stove on right now got my hillbilly pot and my fancy feast
that is the actual table top and the poles that come with it
i i like them because they're aluminum they're cool they're stamped there's a lot of options
that go with them are they for everybody no are they for me yeah i i grew to really like
mine hey [ __ ] uh years ago him and his buddy christian they sent me this little one you've
probably seen this in my videos a lot and this they were just making for fun uh wasn't even a
business yet this one is called the um the shorty it's the smallest one and you know there's my
whole cook kit sitting on it right there and this one that i have is called the best buddy it comes
with these two little tiny little uh shot glasses and you know that's something you could bring down
by the water in the summertime stick it in you don't have anywhere level to put your drink
and you got a place to put your bottle of scotch or lemonade or whatever and poor little shots
and this add-on this disconnects this is called the universal holder you know you got little
hangers on it so you can hang things but i think it's really for putting your phone on if you
want to sit and watch a movie or whatever there's the universal adapter which has these two little
i don't know thumb screws you call them right here i can just take those off
and this is how you add it
so it's an add-on piece
right there
boom right here i have the best buddies sitting on a wooden dowel
because i have their connector on there called the woody and just for instance i have this
stick sort of whittled down right here so if you don't want to use the poles or carry that along
you can just whittle yourself a stick in the woods and use that little connector right
there which will fit all his little tables and that just comes right off
so that is a separate piece right there that you can buy extra if that appeals to you the woody
and i took this stick and i had carved it and there's a little set screw in there
that you screw into kind of tighten up against the stick
you can be a little sloppy with it and it's big enough that
you don't have to find the skinniest little stick in the world put it right on up there
tighten it up and with this i got me like a high table that i can set stuff on
you know i do like this now that the the poles break down into little segments and get like
three of those so of course you know if you just want to use one segment to screw your top in and
have it kind of short you can do that or second level or third level gives you a lot more options
on the height you want the table sitting at now in snow like i am now i just build a snow pile
and i stick that down in it and like a stake it'll set up in a little bit this little item
right here is called the baggie it works as a carrying case a holding case in your pack and
just works as a good little catch-all to keep keep throwing stuff in
while you're sitting around camp you know just toss all kind of stuff in there pretty handy so
hang in that baggie uh you can see underneath it's got a hole that the that the pole goes through and
you have these little bungees here and a little cinch tie that you can undo to hook it on and
change the length or sometimes i've noticed i like to have the front kind of leaning out a little
bit like that so i just keep throwing things in there but you just sort of take the whole
thing off and then put your cinch back on which i'm going to try to do here without my glasses
not too hard he's got the ends burned off and so that's how you attach that see i thought this was
really nice there's the hole with the grommet that goes up and attaches and there's even a
little flap there so everything is engineered nicely and there's a little sleeve in here
you can see right here so when you take apart your pole right there in the three sections
and that'll just slip right into that sleeve right here so very well thought out velcro to put it all
together and then here's the best buddy on its own and then that will just fit right in there
put that right in there and that let's just say with these pieces fold it in and uh
use this as a carrying case inside your pack
what was cool about that little baggie down there on my last winter trip
i i brought it to put my tables in because i wanted to bring them along
i just used it around camp every night i put it up under my hammock i had it by
my breakfast from the hammock in the morning and it was just my catch offer knife headlamp
uh batteries candle lantern just all the little things i was using throughout the day
well as long as i'm out here i might as well have myself a little coco from the hammock
on the little table yes indeed
lit and done
i get to smudge off my
a little bit like pot
and i like the uh shorty because it's just enough size
to hold me cook kit but mainly it keeps that fancy face from melting in that snow and then
just kind of tipping and it's dumping all my water that is a heartbreaker the little table
totally totally a luxury item
yeah you can go to the website for all the specs as far as that goes for me i love it
it's not that heavy but you know backpacking everybody makes choices on what they want to carry
or what they don't want to carry so with that said am i trying to sell you no not really i'm
trying to show you because where else would you see it because you keep asking because you see it
in my video so maybe that's the one place to see it so i see i got myself a pretty boil going here
we get that cocoa going yeah
that'll do me whoa buddy all securing sector 7.
hey if you want to take a listen to a podcast where we talk about some hammocks some barbecue
i was with chad on the sasquatch backpacking podcast
they make big cool all the links will be in the description box below this video