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My world no longer makes sense. Also I'm looking for a good lawyer to sue my Boy Scout troop leader.

You haven't researched far enough into the internet for similar instructions because this same method and variations thereof have been posted on several channels for several years!

really cool seeing experiments like these. It would be strange if our ancestors didn't know of things like this. But somewhere along the line, we likely just forgot that these uses existed. Makes you wonder how many other bits of common knowledge have been completely forgotten by now.

Nice

Is it good to make a smaller version of this? Like starting with medium sized sticks at the base, and when it takes good, you just turn it to a normal campfire adding wood. So you keep the benefit of the easy start, because you don't struggle with the oxigen by starting from the top, and turn the advantages from the autoburn to a good fire for cooking in a pretty fast time¿

Props to you for making this

That’s a pretty cool system for fire ! I’ve read about the upside down fire but have never tried it !

What if u have allergies 😭

Another video I saw explained that you have to hit the flint against the striker to have the sparks go down. Maybe a lot of your fails were because you are doing the opposite causing the sparks to go up as if you had chat cloth on top the sparks were going up and having considerably less heat by the time they fell on your tinder.

Try dead milkweed stalks.

It makes sense kind of. These plants grow with high water content when dried they have thin cell walls lots of space after water has dried out

Love how educational and practical these videos are

I'm sure you'll get this same question from me on other videos as I watch them (and possibly already have from others) but being a PNW native I have come to believe that this is the land that the God of Knappable Stone forgot. Where/how do you go to look for chert/flint? Have you come to rely on bone or ground stone tools in lieu of sharp stone tools?

I see that it has been 9 months since a post, I do hope you and your dad are well and good, the material you post is absolutely wonderful! I would hate to see you disappear.

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this burn is what I knew as a kid, as a Indian (native American) smokeless fire. Hello from Denmark

Great stuff like usual. I have a twist put soil or sand or ashes in between the wood pieces, this will slow the fire dropping serval levels too fast and will more than double or triple the burn time of an upside down fire with dirt between the round pieces.

Pearly everlasting makes a great Kinnikanik

How did primitive man start a fire without steel? Striking flint against flint does not produce enough sparks...

I just stumbled upon your channel and subscribed after viewing a single video (Ethnobotany | Essential Plants & Trees PNW Native Americans) and plan on viewing all you've posted to pick up some tips. It doesn't hurt to have some of my own ideas and experience validated either! I've spent "unplanned" nights in the PNW and Rocky Mountain outdoors more than once after running out of daylight or being isolated away from camp due to weather (once, a headwind arose on a high plateau of the Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness that was so severe I knew I couldn't hike into it to return to camp) or other circumstances. Usually, I've relied on fire to make such experiences more endurable, if not comfortable. That noted, when an "oh crap" situation develops too close to dark in a location lacking a nearby abundance of dry firewood, I've used natural vegetation to supplement the insulation of my clothing. Stuffing the space between my teeshirt and outer flannel with Salal foliage provided enough insulating loft to make the night temperatures bearable during one September bow hunting adventure that I did not need to kindle the meager firewood supply until nearly 2:00 AM!

...Wait. Scouring rush? ...I know where I can find some of that. But hold on--those are deer ribs? Which one--they seem pretty big for white tail, even the big Northern type I'm used to. The mule deer I saw on the Olympic Penninsula seemed awfully large to me, but I was a kid. I know elk, deer and moose are all technically 'deer', but do you know which these are from?

If free it would require no work to make it what you needed. The cost is your effort to make the tools you needed. Nice work 👍

So informative i wish i can do double tumbs up ❤❤

Well, it wouldn't be an exaggeration if I said, that this video... is fire! 🔥🔥🔥

I caught the flint and steel bug several years ago while hosting a camp meeting with Jim Buller. I haven't looked back and still love it!! Thanks for all those strikes! Every blow is an aim at higher education!

Did you try hemp?

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is great advice it is the same as crawling into a haystack for warmth. Awesome idea can work even better by trowing a tarp or plastic on top to make it rain proof. in my opinion the sticks to corral the vegetation in are needed to keep the pile together at night and after moving around inside some. You don't want to have to get up at night and mess with wood and other stuff if you can avoid it.

birch tree work to

but you turned the whole process around everyone is following you thank you i have a flint and steel and felt like there had to be one plant now you found that out

You could hollw a hole out the stick and sit thorn into it ❤ add pich or sap cold water makes it even harder like chewing gum inncold water

Huamn hair was for sure used bro 😅

You can also use stinging nettle seed fronds when harvesting the highly nutritious seeds around about the same time you would harvest the stalks but saves you double the time in terms of processing as you are getting 4 resources at the same time. 1. The highly nutritious seeds as Food. 2. No Char Tinder. 3. Pot scourer. 4. Exfoliater.

Hey buddy just turned me on to your channel. I just found your video on primitive fishing kit. Outstanding video. Thank you now I'm spending most of this day binge watching your videos.

Holly Crap. How did I not find this channel sooner?..!! I too live here in the PNW. I too teach some primitive wilderness skills. But not as many as I would like to know. My buddy asked me if I had seen you Chanel. He sent me this video after I had made him a traditional hook for fishing. I am now a subscriber. And if you are looking for someone to truck around and practice primitive skills. I'm your guy. Thank you for making this video and happiness channel I thought I was just a loner and a crazy person.

I made my first hand drill ember with pomegranate tree. I haven’t heard that one said on TH-cam

Crazy what a cranberry is capable of

Can you also use rose thorns or will they not work well

But how is it damp.... 😢

Rare to see it done with stone tools

Best survival channel

Greetings. Thanks for your work. Do you have an email? I have some questions about Burdock. I have harvested a bunch of dead and live leaves from various plants up in Minnesota and have been trying to catch an ember. No success and further more, it wasn’t receptive to a lighter. Curious about time how it works best. Whether time of year, moisture content, the stalk leaves, the lower bigger leaves, or type of processing works best. Thanks

Amazing! 🙌🏻🙏🏻 Did you try Mullen?

every place aint got ferns and you're still on the ground. which is often muddy. Carrying a very few lbs of proper gear, to include a 1 lb net hammock, make life SO much easier, safer, pleasant.

Legends! 🙌🏻 I keep coming back to y’all’s experiments and and so thankful for your discoveries and hard work, I always thought there must be some good natural materials as well. For the ones that are on the edge of working, I wonder if the older steels they used back in the day worked better than the ones now?

No reply necessary. Thanks for sharing. Terrific discovery. Had we been universally literate very early on, l dare say we could have extracted all seasonal lists of suitable spark catching material. Which may make this a rediscovery. All Credit to you, and for sharing too.

when I escaped from Terre Haute camp (un-fenced) in mid February of 1990, first, the 4 trash bags I had saved my butt, and when the rain turned into freezing-rain, I found an old truck bed up on drums. It had a huge hole in the roof, but not at the back. It had no rear covering, but some wonderful soul had put a big pile of wood chips back there. I spread the chips into 2 piles, had a layer under me. I pulled the chips over me and passed-out. I woke twice (that I remember) during the night, cause the chips had fallen off of me I had 4 layers of cheap cotton clothing, a pair of cheap cotton gloves, cotton socks, a beanie, and an Army field jacket. The prison officials dont exactly help you with the very best outdoor clothing! :-)

yes IF the debris is dry. if it's not, you need a way to dry it out, That can be done with hot rocks, or it can be done by exercising, but you have to hit the sweet spot of generating heat, but not sweating (much) Doing air-squats, while swinging your arms, slowly, seems to work best for me.. But you have to wonder, what the HELL are you doing out there without proper gear, or at least, a knife and a way to make fire.? ESPECIALLY with a kid depending upon you.

Köszönjük! Engem mindig zavart az a tudat, hogy előre szenesített (Otthon gázon vagy nagy tűzön !) tindereket használok. Ez a videó nagyon jó. Gratulálok a kitartó kísérletezéshez és köszönöm a közzé tételt!

I loved the part about how to identify rocks that would make great tools. There are not many videos about how to make stone tools where there's no flint or chert. Thank you!