Just found this channel and I love it! I’m a 60 year old woman but my grandfather was a hunting, fishing and camping guide in Nova Scotia in the 1920s. He taught me so much, had amazing knowledge about the boreal forests and foraging. You remind me of him with your clear explanations and wisdom of the woods, and where other channels show off, you teach real information. I can still make spruce tea, beds from fir branches and a decent open front lean-to with a fire. I’ve never made a long log fire ,but know I know how! Thanks for your great videos!
Yeeees! No one ever talks about the leaves! Choice greens for me honestly, love basswood. Even the more mature ones are great :) Such a gift from God this tree ❤
Basalt is a groundstone lithic. Not knappable but you can grind and polish it into a god chopping tool. Niagara to Missisauga Ontario you can find a vein of Onondaga chert, and up in Collingwood there a decent deposit of Fossil Hill Formation Chert. Where abouts are you located?
@@CanadianBushcraftChannel Thanks a lot for th info. Where is the best place to find them? I have tried shorelines, streams, and lakeshores. No luck, what is the trick?
I have some maple wood, anout firewood size with a few longer limbs I picked up last summer. Im wondering ifv I can still make some implements out of them. Ive never done anything like that before. I have the Woodsman 4" knife, spoon carving set, a fro, some wood chisels, a smaller set of carving chisel from a yard sale, and some other cutting/chopping tools. I want to learn some self reliant skills like bushcrafting, pioneer skill, Indian crafts, etc. I'm 70 with a few physical annoyances. I'm not into that old age thing and can't just sit around. I craked an arm several months ago which has healed from a bike wreck in Caltrans's roadway mine hole i couldn't dodge. I walk a lot, but up hill is stop and go till I get there.
It would have been nice if the camera was a little closer so i could better see your techniques. Im trying to learn new things instead of retiring around the house.
Speaking of tools, I'm having trouble finding how-to books on other tools and implements made from bone, chert/flint, wood, and other tools. Im not very good at using search terms on the Internet. Watching videos, while good for general knowledge, but they can be hard to follow and you can't carry them outside.
I wonder if there's a book for the northern California area? I'm on the east side of the Klamath Mountains. Not having much success on the Internet. Do the books you have also give timelines on when to harvest?
I heard that coals were carried in a blanket of ash inside some type of carrier. I know that ash is used to make charcoal. But can ash put the coal out?
Buddy, that one tool is replaced with like 8 tools in 2024. The simplicity and capabilities of that thing is amazing. Wish they were cheaper. Beautiful exhibition of the tool
Helpful hint. Keep a few bean bags and a small bean bag pillow. Lay the next to the fire so they can absorb some heat. Put the bean bags in your pockets and zip the pillow up in your coat. This will help keep you warm.
Work, energy, elasticity: As a practical matter a static line is most time efficient, as you don't waste it storing energy in the stretching line (with the added risk of much more movement in the case of winch line failure). Also, a single layer wrap of line is preferred to a stacking which eventually collapses, wasting recent effort. I see two options for this special modified use for the principle of the ancient "Spanish Windlass". First option, where the lines wrap the toggle log, on opposite sides of the pulling log, which puts a consistent tension on the long end of the toggle (preferably away from the anchor, to simplify its control with a simple "control" line from the anchor to the long end of the toggle. The second option, where the ropes wrap around the toggle log, on same side of the pulling log, which puts much less torsion on the toggle, but makes the system clumsier to use because the ropes (even closely wrapped) spread along the length of the toggle, farther from the crossing (than if they were on opposite sides of the pulling log). A more recent video than this one (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QFDGGht3CQU.html), which has more than 4M views) has my '230824 comment with a more explicit description of this setup and several variations that are worth understanding.
I just enjoyed eating the young male pollen spikes tonight. You have a very short window of time to harvest the male pollen spikes before they go to pollen. I harvested my first batch on May 25th here in Ohio and I harvested some today on 6-3-23 with most being already into pollen stage. Once boiled for about 5 minutes and dipped in melted butter, they taste very much like corn, but with a different texture. Every part of this plant has a use depending on the season. But you must choose plants from a healthy environment where chems aren't used if you're going to eat them. So that eliminates railroad ditches, golf courses, under powerlines and so forth.
That's why I always carry 3 things to make a fire lighter, Ferro rod, flint and steel .one this is not true sir i have a old file it throws Sparks like 4 th of July you don't need blacksmith to make a steel striker
@@CanadianBushcraftChannel I bought like 5 old file from flea market a 1 dollar for each one I used the grinder for the side flies to smooth them they throw awesome Sparks
Your videos are great, I just wish I had found them when you were still making them. I like this one in participating, because cattail is, by far, my favorite wild plant. Every year I look forward to cattail pollen biscuits and pancakes!!! And the cordage is petty good stuff, and easy to harvest, process, and make into cordage. Excellent to teach beginners. The other thing that really drew my attention was your mention of the Dragonfly Multi-tool. Looking it up online, it looks fantastic, for a bushcrafting and foraging tool, but unfortunately I can't find them anywhere. I don't suppose they're still made or sold anywhere are they?
