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Ontario Bushcraft
Canada
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2015
Wilderness survival tips, Outdoor adventures
How to make cordage from Milkweed
Common milkweed is abundant and makes great cordage. It can be harvested green or later in the season. Be sure to dry out green milkweed for a few hours for best results. All parts of milkweed can be eaten as a wild edible. The young shoots especially are my favorite. Boil in a couple changes of water to remove the bitterness.
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Be careful with milkweed. The sap is toxic, so make sure it's away from your eyes and wash your hands.
This can't be milkweed, there is no sap.
Thank you for this Well-made Video! You explain the techniques better than anybody else I’ve watched. You Rock!
There is plenty for all, GOD is in charge here...
Yes ! Thank You . Great info / demo. Mtn Mel Ret USN SERE/ VN.
I'm allergic to milkweed unfortunately but I still liked the video 👍✌️
You get your strips from cat tails! And no not house cats. Go out to the swamp and pull them up. Then pull the leaves apart in strips.
The inner pith is edible. Cool video
Are you sure, isn't it toxic
Thanks for showing thiis
Awesome step by step. Thanks!
Thank you! 😁👍
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Very good video. Isn't the sap of milkweeds toxic (medicinal cardiac)? Have heard of severe corneal burns if sap gets in eyes.
Could you use this for bowstring for a hunting bow? I've heard animal sinew is ideal but I was wondering if this could be used as well. It's supposed to have a similar consistency to flax
You can also work the finer fibers in a drop spindle. to make one you need clay (airdry or fimo), a piece of dowel, a hook, and some hot glue. Sure it doesn't have that fine cordage twist, but it looks like actual homespun yarn rather than a rope. Currently I'm working in dogbane rather than milkweed. Much much stronger but you can abraid your fingers a bit from the fine slivers of stem you end up having to remove.
Amazing!
Dogbane* makes for a better cordage and is not food for the monarch butterfly which has a declining population due to human development. It looks almost the same as milkweed but with a red stem
Don't do this to living plants. Wait till they are done and dried.
What is that noise?
Very good advise using natural and abundant materials.
Wish I could show you how to do the beginning, and the end , when you are finished .
If you take the milkweed ,and bend it 1/4 way of the fibers ,, and twisting it till it turns back on itself .Then, you twist ,till you need to splice. the stalks ..Then you won't was so much tying the end off..
Love the video, clearly explained. It's ok to put it in your mouth?
The whole plant is edible, so it should be safe to put in your mouth. Good question!
How do you avoid getting the toxic sap on your hands?
You might be thinking of another plant. Milkweed is entirely edible.
@@Katya75RN milkweed is toxic unless thoroughly boiled and cooked
@@Zelleram55 interesting! I knew dogsbane was toxic, but I watched video of a guy making cordage from raw milkweed with his bare hands. 🤷♀️
Thanks man, have a ton of milkweed in my surrounding area
Here I am buying milkweed seeds and painstakingly growing them by stratifying the seeds and putting under grow lights to germinate for the butterflies and they get decimated to make cordage.
LOL
I know this is a whole year later than your comment, and unlikely to reach you CT, but I appreciate you. Also, head out to your nearest prairie wildlife area about mid-late October and harvest the seed pods! Saves you money :) Also also, if this guy were to wait a few months he could harvest the stalks and make his cordage long after the Monarch larvae have moved on and completed their metamorphosis. Of course, then it would affect the bees and other insects that rely on said stalks to make it through the winter. Nature, you cruel mistress.
Save the milkweed for the butterflies and go to the Dollar Store. 🙄
The butterflies will be fine. Also going to the dollar store to buy string ruins the whole idea of being able to make it yourself
Yep. Let’s use shit that’s processed in mills with chemicals. You’re a moron. Grabbing a few milkweed plants late in the season will not hamper butterfly’s in any way.
Im not sure you understand what bushcraft is. The butterflies will be okay. I doubt hes using thousands of the plants.
Wonder how many plants were destroyed to build the dollar stores
Absolutely stoked to try this. Tried to find text re the Miwok tradition, but good ole TH-cam had enough for this beginner. Many thanks for the vid! Oh, and my milkweed was yellowing/dead and the local Monarch lady gave the okay! Nobody panic!
Wow, excellent. Good to know this.
LOL, no cutting down a few milkweeds isn't going to endanger the Monarch population. Cool vid. I just learned the other day from a different youtuber that you can eat milkweed, if you cook it, and today I learned you can make rope too. Good job.
Right? You see all these mental midgets trying to virtue signal by correlating cutting down a couple of milkweeds to KILLING ALL THE BUTTERFLIES? Ridiculous, I hope he mowed that whole field afterwards.
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AVOID eating milkweed, it's poisonous! I'm surprised you suggested that novices ... EAT milkweed. www.almanac.com/content/common-milkweed-uses-and-natural-remedies#
Is the plant not dogbane, Indian hemp? #NoNationalBorder
@Blayr Lekavich Dogbane is Indian Hemp. But its not milkweed
Great video -- you explain it well and the camera work makes everything easy to see -- well done, and thank you. Also, I agree with Hani Karam that it might be better to wait until the Monarch butterfly breeding season is done with before harvesting plants. People could be inadvertently harvesting eggs or small caterpillars. The Monarchs are in trouble right now due to habitat loss -- mainly meaning there aren't enough milkweed plants to support them in their breeding range.
better yet plant your own milkweed then make cords in late fall. #Best of both worlds
Only time I've succeeded in getting monarchs to nest at the community garden is when I combine milkweed and mexican sunflower (tithonia).
I'd rather leave the milkweed alone and prosper for the monarch butterfly to lay its eggs on it so it regenerates more butterfly why destroy the specific plant of the monarch butterfly ?
hani karam omg... get over it.... fack
The Milkweed is an extremely common plant, And From late august, no more monarchs will be born in that year. As long as you take the milkweed after the second week of August, you are not threatening the monarch caterpillar's staple food. Do not take the plant during monarch season. Once all the Monarchs begin to migrate south, they will no longer need the milkweed.
@@fourteencrows1244 Why don't you be more learned and that might get you to be more understanding.
Don't worry. I agree with your line of thinking but milkweed is pretty resilient. Hopefully people are looking for monarchs and viceroy before harvesting and not cutting the whole plant. That's irresponsible for sure. 20% harvest rule.
Where I live this plant is an invasive and it harms others plants and insects. So I'll be happy to find a good use for it
At the home of (apparently) a Leprechaun, we see bows that need to be hung up vertically to prevent limb damage, a need for baseboards, and an otherwise very good tutorial. Thanks!
Needs a box of tissues too
@@Completionism Claritin. Apparently, he's allergic to weed.
Monarchs declined by 90% in the last 2 decades, are Endangered, and officially going on the Fed list - and you go and NUKE their ONLY food source for some shitty rope? F*cking idiot. You should nuke this video. Do you know how many millions of dollars are being sunk into bringing Milkweed back Nature Boy? Oh I'm going to make some rope and nuke milkweed. You realize some Milkweeds are listed as threatened and endangered?
oh noez, he cut down a couple milkweed plants. THE POOR BUTTERFLIES!!! You're actually a fucking idiot.
OMG - you're cutting down and stripping leaves off Milkweed and leaving them on the ground? When Monarchs are endangered and only eat Milkweed? And Milkweed is in mega decline - and you go decimating them? Didn't even check for eggs first at least? Wow. Now how many idiots followed your lead on this? How remarkably irresponsible.
karuna Maybe the best way to teach people about Monarch decline is to not belittle them with words like “idiot.” Try writing a response the way that you would verbally if you were face to face with this person and his viewers. Would you really call him and the people watching this video idiots to their faces, or would you perhaps take a kinder and more effective approach by briefly educating people about the plight of the monarch?
You can harvest after august
Lisa, I agree with the sentiment but you can't be sure he didn't. Otherwise, let's be glad he's not promoting the use of plastics. And until caterpillars chrysalis they move quite a bit. They know what they're doing even if they dropped to the ground. Climate change is the greater killer and we're all responsible for that. We all are "idiots" to your words.
Wow. You’re the “idiot”.... it’s called harvesting after August. People have been using this plant since time immemorial. Funny thing though, WAY less people are using it now.
Get a tissue and blow your nose. It's really annoying to hear you suck up your snot.