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Jack Raven Bushcraft
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 8 พ.ย. 2011
Preparing sweet chestnut to make cordage
Cordage is an incredibly important resource in a bushcraft or wilderness living scenario.
This video shows how to ret sweet chestnut bark to produce fibres for cordage.
The retting took 7 weeks, longer than I'd anticipated based on previous experience using lime, but I suspect the time difference is due to the high tannin levels in sweet chestnut.
This video shows how to ret sweet chestnut bark to produce fibres for cordage.
The retting took 7 weeks, longer than I'd anticipated based on previous experience using lime, but I suspect the time difference is due to the high tannin levels in sweet chestnut.
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Interlocking supports on a debris shelter
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Preparing rosebay willowherb for cordage
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Lighting a fire with a goosegrass tinder bundle
Hardwood or softwood for bow drilling
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Hardwood or softwood for bow drilling
Brilliant. Time consuming,but brilliant. Thank you. All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧
Windows wound down on the way home 🤣
Even after a wash it has a certain odour!
Excellent instructional video. Any chance of seeing the prcess of making the cordage?
The process for making a 2 ply cord from sweet chestnut fibres is the same as for any other fibre. Here's a video from last year showing how to make a 2 ply reverse twist cord from lime. th-cam.com/video/A0Mv_60ppD4/w-d-xo.html
Nice vid. Good info. If you never carried para cord, or a spare shoelace, you could make some cord from a stinging nettle stalks. All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧😉
Nettle cordage is great. I did a video a few years ago on preparing nettle fibres. th-cam.com/video/k9yE9tenwvk/w-d-xo.html
great video!
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Earned a new subscriber. Thank you, sir 👍
Thanks, this was very useful.
Great Video and Channel! Any possibility of maybe doing a product review of our Firestarter?
Hi, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately we don't do product reviews, the channel is focused on skills and knowledge.
Great video and well explained what to look for the conferences
How can you tell if they are 50,000,000 years older than each other?
From the fossil record. One estimate I read suggested that about 80% of all ferns now alive evolved in the Cretaceous period.
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Very good.👍
Hi there. Would love to see how you would used the now charred birch polypore to start a fire. Thanks for sharing
I'll do a video on how to use the charred birch polypore to light a fire next week, keep an eye out!
I was joking! 😁
But can you ever really prepare a trout for this?
Hi Gary, I tried this today. I did get a slight taste of coconut on a couple of shoots but the majority of them were almost flavourless
Yes, lot's of variation in taste with brambles.
Beautiful! Thank you.
best instruction ever
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You don't need to carry glycerine, just mix equal amounts of PP and sugar on a hard surface and apply friction by rubbing with a stick. It will ignite. Most people carry sugar the only the permanganate is out of the ordinary.
I’m writing a fiction novel right now and this is so helpful both your article and this video are very very helpful and I just wanted to thank you
Good to know thank you. Never seen that done 👍 I assume that's not on the Jack Raven children's parties gatherings.
Excellent vid Gary, expertly done! My first time using bracken (and bluebell stems) was back in 2019 for the survival course at your woods (wow that was ages ago!) I've used it a few times since and I find that you often get a lot of dead bracken lasting through to spring/summer on shaded woodland boundaries that can come in handy but their stems can be awful sharp!
Cheers Jack. I hope everything is going well with you and Kristy. You're right about the stems, they're just as bad when the plant is alive too.
Hoping to visit with my sons in the summer. Want to teach my sons some bushcraft techniques
Be great to have you along.
Yes, I like timber hitches too. They're easy to teach, easy to remember and really useful! And because it's a hitch and not a knot, easy to undo as well :)
My favourite too was taught well 😀
Versatackle is the name of this system.
Interesting!
Good job Jack. Thank you. All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧🪵
Very nice explained
Well done Jack. That looks for a good strong basis to build a shelter which will last, especially in the storms that we’ve had here lately. All the best 👍🏾🇬🇧⛺️🍁
Thank you. I found a load of those today, so I took them home and are drying next to my wood burner at home. Will give it a try at the weekend. Liked and subscribed. All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧⛺️🔥
Really
Interesting
Interesting
I'm glad I didn't comment until the end. You described exactly what I've observed in the field. Of course no one should go into any forest without a compass but in a survival situation this is an important skill to know.
Same rule applies to a chainsaw.
New subscriber 👍
Thanks Gary, good vid as always. Can I ask what axe you’re using there?
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Sometimes it's the simplest most "common sense" things that are easy to overlook and forget that perhaps someone needs to hear or see them for the first time. Thank you for the explanation.
Thanks for watching!
I didn't think this needed explanation but this was actually good info 👌🏽
Great video. I'm in the north eastern US and while not familiar with western red I'm well aquanted with eastern white cedar. It'd be cool if you did a video on that and the similarities (or lack of). I've processed some white cedar for bushcraft and the first thing I noticed was the great inner bark. I searched youtube for info and only found videos on western red. I'm absolutely certain eastern tribes must have used this material but only found vague references to it being used as lashing material. Natives of the North east used white cedar extensively as I'm sure your aware. While I create some humble content , this one seems more your wheelhouse than mine. By the way I must have forgotten to subscribe last time and will remedy that immediately. Keep up the good work.
Excellent tutorial Gary thanks
Glad you enjoyed it
Cracking video thank you. As a Sea Angler with 42 years experience that was spot on! And of course if you have a few mackerel the head & remains etc make a great fish broth. Extremely good for you. Would love to see more food preparation videos.
Nice and simple. Thanks!
Thanks, for your video, so far I'm impressed with the lovely countryside and the interesting explanations.
First of your videos I've seen, great job. We've a lot of Hornbeam in our Sussex wood (only been wood ownersfor a very short time). Thanks for the knowledge.
When is the best time to harvest the rosebay?
I'd wait until after they've flowered. Collect the fluff as an ember extender and then use the stems for cordage.
Fascinating, thank you 😊
Best way hang you stems till they dry lay on flat sheet yous paint brush and tap so fast and easy
Great tip, many thanks.