1:58 you're right, never piss in the soup, it's rude! Notwithstanding this particularly refined joke, thank you for sharing this almost forgotten and interesting knowledge. Thanks also for the real artistic quality of your videos, it's the extra thing that makes sure that even if I'm not passionate about a subject at first, I'll still watch, enjoy it and learn something.
In Scotland we have the same - fomes fomentarius (horse hoof or tinder fungus) and it’s very common - it grows nice and thick so you get plenty from little effort. I have added crushed charcoal rather than ash to the pot and it works v well. Also look up cramp ball fungus which grows on dead ash - v prevalent (daldinia concentrica). That’s ready made ;). Thank you for the time and effort you put into your enjoyable videos.
First put ash into the boiling water and leave it until its become cold. Then the ash Will setle on the bottom, then U use the clear water for boiling mushrum. After boiling hit the warm mushrum with the hamer for the while, then let mushrum dry. No insects Will destroy mushrum after such preparing. Such prepare mushrum I use for tinder in bee smoker.
I have just made some. I find it is better to scrape the outer ‘toenail-like’ material off first.Then take off the internal ‘tubelike’ material which cuts easily. Then you are only left with the stuff you want .It is quite a small proportion of the whole.Then boil this with ashes as shown.
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@@capandball Thanks. I ask because I'm not convinced that there IS a difference. Japanese matchlocks have a similar shaped cock and accept a thin piece of matchcord, not tinder. Obviously you *could* use tinder, but what's the evidence that it was used?
I've a recipe for making tinder from a Finnish outdoors blog. It uses the Fomes fomentarius fungus which is the traditional ingredient all over Europe, but it grows on birch only. The pores and the outer parts are removed. After that the fungus is soaked in a birch ash solution for a couple of days and then dried, after which it can be hammered and stretched into leathery 3mm thick pieces. It is supposed to look a lot like leather, maybe you chose a bad piece? Some funguses have only a little portion suitable for the tinder making after removing the pores and the hard outer shell.
I'm no chemist, but it wouldn't surprise me if you just leached the lye out of the ash oxidize the mushroom might get a better product if you just used the lye (store bought or leach your own) edit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou, -nope, niter, not lye- edit 2: there's no niter in ash, its lye
God help me! I had to go full screen and pause this video at 0.02. That forest is transcendently beautiful!! I assume you are somewhere in Hungary; can you tell us where you filmed this?? I have watched this video multiple times now just to get the "feel" of the forest. God bless Hungary!
@@capandballI love Hungary and it's rich history from the waves of nomadic khanates which invaded the Ukraine through Hungary Poland to the Magyars settling and calling the Carpathian basin home. But it gets more interesting during the 16th and 17thc with the constant power swaying and war with the Hapsburg armies inc Hungarians and the Ottomans. Your people certainly earned the land you live upon. It is gorgeous too.
Its for the nitrogen content. Im not certain it acts as an oxidizer, but its certainly annimportant component of all explosives up to and including modern ones.
Again a nice video!!! To my opinion the urine should aply some salpeter to the fungus. Hopefully you didnt use the gulasch pot, than the taste will be different next time Ha ha.
Japan has its place in the history of musketry. One of the very first occasions of using volley instead of firing the muskets individually happened on the island. In 1575 Oda Nobunaga was the first to use sequential loading and firing method for his musketeers at the battle of Nagashino. Although their muskets were copies of Portuguese matchlock this method seems to be a Japanese invention. The European versions of sequential and volley firing however are not connected to the Japanese method. They are parallel inventions.
Who in the heck came up with this technique? Heck, I think I'll take that fungus, boil it down with some ashes, hammer it a bit, dry it for a couple days and hammer it some more and see what I come up with...
We tend to think we are really, really smart, and that our ancestors were much dumber than we are. In fact, the inverse may be true. When you can't buy all of your "stuff" at the store, you learn to make do with what you have.
,sir I love your show! I'm new leather work, I'm making gun crates , period correct, if you ever can't find what you need! Feel free to call ! Many blessings to you you and family!
1:58 you're right, never piss in the soup, it's rude! Notwithstanding this particularly refined joke, thank you for sharing this almost forgotten and interesting knowledge. Thanks also for the real artistic quality of your videos, it's the extra thing that makes sure that even if I'm not passionate about a subject at first, I'll still watch, enjoy it and learn something.
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Love the warning about possible dramas with "her indoors". Great informative Video as always.
2:11 "Don't be niggardly" That's the best part.
That was very interesting. I will stick with my flintlock.
In Scotland we have the same - fomes fomentarius (horse hoof or tinder fungus) and it’s very common - it grows nice and thick so you get plenty from little effort. I have added crushed charcoal rather than ash to the pot and it works v well. Also look up cramp ball fungus which grows on dead ash - v prevalent (daldinia concentrica). That’s ready made ;). Thank you for the time and effort you put into your enjoyable videos.
First put ash into the boiling water and leave it until its become cold. Then the ash Will setle on the bottom, then U use the clear water for boiling mushrum. After boiling hit the warm mushrum with the hamer for the while, then let mushrum dry.
No insects Will destroy mushrum after such preparing.
Such prepare mushrum I use for tinder in bee smoker.
I'll try that clean method. Nearly 50% of my tinder does not seem to work.
@@capandball
I'll send the picture off mushrum whic is better for use then this in the video
@@capandball
sr.m.wikipedia.org/sr-ec/Труд_(гљива)
U will find it on tree which is in bad condition but stil alive not on dead ones
@@isimisokoThanks! We have that in Hungary as well!
@@isimisoko Here in Holland we call it the Tonderzwam it was even found in the pocket of Ötzi the 5300 year icemummy they found in the alps.
Your winter videos are awesome.
Spring is coming. Hope to catch its beauty as well!
These kind of videos where you demonstrate some outdoor knowledge along with old fire arm techniques are easily my favorite so far! Awesome channel!
I have just made some. I find it is better to scrape the outer ‘toenail-like’ material off first.Then take off the internal ‘tubelike’ material which cuts easily. Then you are only left with the stuff you want .It is quite a small proportion of the whole.Then boil this with ashes as shown.
Loved the outside warning
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I have never seen that technique before, love the videos.👍👍
Great video as always
What is a tinder lock gun and how does it different from a simple matchlock?
Its like a matchlock, but you clamp a glowing piece of tinder fungus into the serpentine instead of the match cord of the matchlock.
@@AldanFerrox Right answer. Not much difference. Tinder snap lock is an interesting version: www.vikingsword.com/vb/showthread.php?t=7138
@@capandball Thanks. I ask because I'm not convinced that there IS a difference. Japanese matchlocks have a similar shaped cock and accept a thin piece of matchcord, not tinder. Obviously you *could* use tinder, but what's the evidence that it was used?
Urine used to be used as a source of saltpetre. So urinating in the pot was probably intended to introduce saltpetre to aid ignition.
My thought too
I've a recipe for making tinder from a Finnish outdoors blog. It uses the Fomes fomentarius fungus which is the traditional ingredient all over Europe, but it grows on birch only. The pores and the outer parts are removed. After that the fungus is soaked in a birch ash solution for a couple of days and then dried, after which it can be hammered and stretched into leathery 3mm thick pieces. It is supposed to look a lot like leather, maybe you chose a bad piece? Some funguses have only a little portion suitable for the tinder making after removing the pores and the hard outer shell.
Excellent! What kind of bowie knife did you use?
That's an old Cold Steel Trail Master bowie. 15 years old at least. Regripped with antler.
Gorgeous knife
Great video. Thank you.
Great educational video, you would make great reenactor 💪
peeing in the water probably helps increase the amount of nitrites.
I really like these types of video's.
Well you learn something new every Day
(Great video)
👍
Very old school ! 🔥💥 💛
Great video!
Is that a Scheffield Bowie used to colect the mushrooms? Nice vídeo, by the way!!
I'm no chemist, but it wouldn't surprise me if you just leached the lye out of the ash oxidize the mushroom
might get a better product if you just used the lye (store bought or leach your own)
edit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou, -nope, niter, not lye-
edit 2: there's no niter in ash, its lye
God help me! I had to go full screen and pause this video at 0.02. That forest is transcendently
beautiful!! I assume you are somewhere in Hungary; can you tell us where you filmed this?? I have
watched this video multiple times now just to get the "feel" of the forest. God bless Hungary!
Hungary, mountains of Mátra. I have a small - very small - log cabin here for my family.
@@capandballI love Hungary and it's rich history from the waves of nomadic khanates which invaded the Ukraine through Hungary Poland to the Magyars settling and calling the Carpathian basin home.
But it gets more interesting during the 16th and 17thc with the constant power swaying and war with the Hapsburg armies inc Hungarians and the Ottomans.
Your people certainly earned the land you live upon.
It is gorgeous too.
I always swipe right for capandball ;-)
Ja, das alles, auf Ehr',
das kann ich, und noch mehr!
Wenn man's kann ungefähr,
ist's nicht schwer, ist's nicht schwer!
I think the piss was supposed to add an oxidizer to the stuff. They used to use piss to make black powder cakes before granulating it, too, right?
Its for the nitrogen content. Im not certain it acts as an oxidizer, but its certainly annimportant component of all explosives up to and including modern ones.
Love the videos!!
Very informative video :)
Again a nice video!!! To my opinion the urine should aply some salpeter to the fungus. Hopefully you didnt use the gulasch pot, than the taste will be different next time Ha ha.
you have to use the right fungus, otherwise after inhaling the fumes you wil lsee beautiful colors and pink elefants and so on
thx
Never new this was a thing
I'm so glad it works without urine! Recipes involving pee are not my thing!
Hey do you know anything about the Japanese and their use of Matchlocks?
Japan has its place in the history of musketry. One of the very first occasions of using volley instead of firing the muskets individually happened on the island. In 1575 Oda Nobunaga was the first to use sequential loading and firing method for his musketeers at the battle of Nagashino. Although their muskets were copies of Portuguese matchlock this method seems to be a Japanese invention. The European versions of sequential and volley firing however are not connected to the Japanese method. They are parallel inventions.
@@capandball That's awesome!
Why not use salpeter and sugar?
That hurt watching that blade smack frozen rocks 20 times....
After flattening those things look like those weird non meat steak alternatives.
Can you eat this mushroom? Looks really delicious like a nice jerky
The good knife good for everything. :)
Never heard of a tinderlock. Isn't this just a matchlock with a different match?
What is a tinder lock gun?
Here is a nice example. A variation of early match locks: www.feuerwaffen.ch/index_htm_files/Draw_10_TargetTinder.pdf
Interesting..
Nice knife This blokes like a Hungarian Rambo
:) :)
Dang.... I thought I was watching a video on how to game Tinder. Lol 😅🤗🤓
You don't hear "niggardly" too often lol
Who in the heck came up with this technique? Heck, I think I'll take that fungus, boil it down with some ashes, hammer it a bit, dry it for a couple days and hammer it some more and see what I come up with...
Thomas Mobley : Central Europeans.
We tend to think we are really, really smart, and that our ancestors were much dumber than
we are. In fact, the inverse may be true. When you can't buy all of your "stuff" at the store,
you learn to make do with what you have.
I was wondering the same thing. Who looks at a mushroom and says " Yeah , I can shoot something with that".
My question is, can we eat it ?
,sir I love your show! I'm new leather work, I'm making gun crates , period correct, if you ever can't find what you need! Feel free to call ! Many blessings to you you and family!
That's not labor intensive at all.
Don’t bogart it man.
Es schtinkt vie die pest!