Thousands of bushcraft/survival channels that imitate what others are already imitating... Then Felix comes along, says "Be open, try out new things..." And surprise, something new. Valuable, entertaining, NEW knowledge that fits perfectly into my mental toolbox. Merci vielmal, Felix. 🙏👍
Felix “Attenborough” Imler; explorer of the woods; teacher to the infidels; adventurer of the East(CH); incinerator of the barks…..thank you once more, for another great video and sharing of your knowledge, enthousiasm and passion. Cheers
Great video! The low dead branches on the side of the trees in the US is called squaw wood. It is excellent kindling wood because of its low moisture, even in the rain. Used alone , it can easily be broken off to make a smokeless fire.
Duely noted, many thanks once again. Knowledge is free to share and weighs nothing so I take all I can get and pass it on. I'm going out for few days soon, I'll keep my eyes peeled. Greetings from Scotland.
Your Holly grove is beautiful and not invasive at all. Ben ("Ein Mann im Wald") made a great video about this wonderful and unfortunately endagered European plant. Fun fact: Holly not only gave its name to the famous Hollywood (LA), but also made an appearance in Middle-Earth: the lost Elf realm of Eregion at the west gate of Moria is named after the Holly trees growing there, humans called it Hollin.
Das mit der Stechpalme ist sehr interessant, werde ich auch mal ausprobieren. Und endlich habe ich mal wieder ein Sackmesser in Deiner Hand gesehen 😂 Dir und Deiner Familie ein schönes Wochenende
Hi, Felix, the dead tree you see at the end was, in my opinion, a Salix caprea/S. aurita, not a Populus nigra. Congratulations for the channel and kind regards from a user and admirer of SAK. 👏 Alessandro.
@@FelixImmler Thanks for making such great content. There are not many people on RU-vid who do what you do. I try to catch most of your videos and have given credit to you when one of your videos has inspired me to make my own video.
There is so many bush craft video's showing different fire starting barks / fibres (naturally and heat dried)as well as the ones i was taught i am collecting samples to make a video testing, thank you for sharing another species to add to the list. Mike.
Another fantastic video Felix,, I think knowledge is far more important than equipment, in a survival situation, (or just on a walk in the woods) ,, All the best my friend,,, 👍👍
Hi Felix. What a well researched and tested set of practical ideas. Thanjk you so much for the hard work and sharing the knowledge. Bleib gesund. LG. Nigel
This is very helpful! Personally, I really enjoy teaching videos like this that show the WORST ways to use a resource, with the ways to try to use the resource get more and more successful until you find the very best method. Too many times, people set themselves up for the best success off camera without showing the things that do not work as well. Felix, you made the "mistakes" for us right on camera, which makes your successes much more trustworthy. This way, success does not feel like a trick, but the result of good old Trial and Error. Thank you very much for doing the trials for us and still showing them, since even the methods that do not ignite with a fire starter rod are still very useful once you have an open flame. I am happy to have found and subscribed to your channel! Enjoy your day! :)
Fantastic. I use bark as tinder. There is always bark falling off the logs I heat my house with. But I have never tried to ignite fresh bark like that. That’s fantastic 🔥
Excellent. I will now collect all the Holly bark from the dead branches on the trees around my garden!! Lucky that where I live, there is a ton of Holly. Thanks Felix!!😊
This is magical! I had never even considered holly for tinder because of the amount of green. But what an amazing resource it can be. Oh, and thank you for discussing the importance of keeping trees and the forest environment unharmed.
Hi Felix. Good Tip. I think I have understood the principle. As a rule of thumb. If the bark is peeling off dead wood from deciduous trees. There is a high probability that it is flammable. So collect it.
Great observation. I live in Holly Cottage, so we have a little in hedges around us! In terms of common growth, it is not so frequent but certainly is around in the UK. Great to experiment, thank you Felix!
Hallo Felix ich bin immer wieder erstaunt wo du deine Ideen her holst was ich von dir schon Alles gelernt habe das ist der absolute Wahnsinn vielen Dank 👍👍👍👍
Great tips, thanks Felix. I just went for a walk in my local woods. I found a broken branch on the floor, ignited the bark with my Bic lighter and wow! it went straight up with black smoke coming out just like you said. Definitely not Holly or Silver Birch but it was like rocket fuel. I took a piece home for my fire kit. It's fun to experiment. 🤩 Keep up the great work! Cheers 👍
I've started collecting bark from dead/fallen Prunus avium trees after watching your first video, and boy can you collect tons of it with that method. Even if the trunk has started to rot, it's quite easy to brush off the moist rotten residue from the bark, which burns as well as birch bark. And it's quite easy to identify. As Holly is also a very easy tree to identify (ouch!) and tends to grow in thick and dense plots (ouch! ouch!), this is also an extremely interesting bark to add to the "let's start a fire with it" list 😂
Is it really 2 years since you shot your bark video? How time flies. Thank you for doing all the research, then generously sharing your findings. It is much appreciated.
Here in Western Washington state I don't recall seeing birth trees, or maybe I just don't recognize them, but I have seen Holly tree. My former cubscoutmaster would always say the best bark for firestarting was western red ceder, but maybe that's because it is so common in our area.
Ein klasse Video Felix, super erklärt. Der Ilex steht bei uns allerdings unter besonderem Schutz. Aber zumindest mal geistig abgespeichert, so als Notnagel und alternative zur Birke. Schönes Wochenende, Grüsse, Marco
Very fun to watch! In real life skill its the one that matter. I remember that i bought a Zippo and not being able to light a candle in wind conditions! Not only that but i slightly burn my fingers closing the lid, lol. I returned at my jet lighter and the results were great again! After a while I also improvised a large plastic cover with a small cut-out and i can light it with a long oven lighter even its a snowstorm around!
This is fantastic information! I've always been jealous of this magical birch bark which doesn't grow where I camp. But Holly? It's all over! Can't wait to try it!
Genau so ist es lieber Felix! Man sollte erlernte Vorgehensweisen auch versuchen abzuändern, sei es durch alternativen Materialien, oder durch leicht abgeänderte Techniken. Das zeigte ich auch in meinem letzten Buch (anderes Thema😁) auf. Die Vorteile liegen auf der Hand, denn man wird dadurch unabhängiger, hat mehr Möglichkeiten zur Verfügung und tut sich in so mancher Situation einfach viel leichter! Vielen Dank für das tolle, lehrreiche Video! 👍👍👍Ein schönes Wochenende und liebe Grüße aus Wels!
Very interesting, educational (I never studied the layers of a tree!) and even a bit scary - that last tree's bark ignited too easily. It's easy to see how swiftly a forest containing some dead trees can be lost to a forest fire! Thanks, Felix.
Excellent tips! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Felix. We have a good bit of American Holly on our property so I look forward to experimenting with it. Take care my friend!
Haa ha haa, du bist der Erste der das merkt. Natürlich habe ich die Späne alle Viertelstunde wieder aus der Hosentasche herausgekramt und geschaut ob ich die Dinger schon abfackeln kann :-D Liebe Grüsse ins Elsas!
Felix, here you go "Pete and Re-Pete walk into a bar. Who was the 2nd man to walk in?" Answer: "Re-Pete" "Pete and Re-Pete walk into a bar. Who was the 2nd man to walk in?" Answer: "Re-Pete" You'll get it. Repetition alway pounds it into our heads! 😂😂😂 Great video. Holly must have a higher oil content in its bark. Have you tried willow yet or do you have that over there? In North America, we do have beech trees and cottonwood and aspen may work the same. Cool!
Showed my son the birch bark trick. Told him it lights wet and he gave me the I don't believe you look. Took some bark put in water then took it out and started the fire. That was 42 years ago and he still starts a fire with birch bark.
Magnifique ! Je ne savais pas le houx si puissant pour le feux... j'utilise le bois du houx comme paumelle pour l'archet mais ne connaissait pas du tout son pouvoir de combustion ! Je vais vite essayer. Concernant ton arbre inconnu, je pencherais pour un saule marsault ( si tu as de l'humidité à proximité ou en sous-sol ) sinon un peuplier tremble / blanc. A 17:55 je note des lenticelles losanges en haut à gauches... les saules et les peupliers sont les seuls à en posséder chez-nous ( en Suisse ). Et le coté "vert" de l'écorce, ainsi que les veines verticales de l'écorce corroborent également cette hypothèse.
Bonsoir Félix, Merci pour ces amadous de fortune très intéressants comme économiques ! En fait, bon nombre d’écorces sèches d’arbres morts peuvent remplir cette même fonction je pense. Il faut simplement le récolter discrètement sans donner des idées pyromanes à tout un chacun qui pourrait tester l’amadou sur place 😉. Merci pour l’idée et pour le partage,Michèle
There are many holly (Ilex) trees native to roughly the eastern half of the contiguous United States. An especially interesting species, native to my state (among others) is Yaupon Holly, Ilex vomitoria. Although the species name, vomitoria, doesn’t sound promising, it is possible to make a tea from Yaupon Holly leaves that contains caffeine, theobromine, and theophylline, a similar profile to coffee, chocolate, and the South American plant Yerba Mate (Yerba Mate is another Ilex species). Yaupon Holly has bright red berries. I think the berries are inedible for people, but many birds love eating them, including Cedar Waxwings, one of my favorite bird species. An advantage of holly bark as tinder is that holly trees tend to keep their leaves in winter (at least, in Texas they do), so they are easy to identify even when other trees are bare.
Holly has much cultural resonance in the English-speaking world. Holly branches are one of the most traditional Christmas decorations, and the folk carol “The Holly And The Ivy” (which is mostly about holly, not ivy) is very popular. I knew a girl named Holly, but she didn’t like the name, so she called herself Ilex, which is Latin for Holly. As a boy, I listened to a music group, The Hollies. They weed named for Buddy Holly, a singer and songwriter from Lubbock, Texas, whose band was named The Crickets. Holly has an interesting white wood, but it isn’t used much for construction or furniture because most of the trees are too small to make into good boards.
Interesting, thank you :) As I am not a specialist of trees and If I need I will try with all the stuff I find if I need to start a fire (te most important thing is that it must be as dry as possible) :)
👍👍👍 Sehr interessantes und aufschlussreiches Video, vielen Dank Felix! Man muss sich halt nur mal mit freiem Geiste und unvoreingenommen Gedanken über die Mechanik der Natur machen ... Andererseits ... mit einem Feuerzeug ist man ja nicht zwangsweise darauf angewiesen Rinde zu verwenden. Denn da kann man auch gleich Reisig anzünden. Vorausgesetzt man hat und es ist trocken genug. Trotzdem, super Video! Btw ... langsam wird er grau, der Felix! 😄
Excellent ! Tous les mercis du monde pour ce partage. Un rasoir à légumes ou un taille crayon pourraient aider à prélever de l'écorce fraîche. Je vais essayer !
Hello Felix, thanks for the reminder regarding the Holly tree. Regarding your dead unknown tree at the end I'd guess it is an old cherry tree. Based on those knots, the bark and the overall look. (The shoot high up also if they need more light) Weekend Stuff
@@FelixImmler you’re the best Felix. Keep working hard we appreciate your work. Just a thought, could you do some research on jungle knots and do a great video? Thank you for all you do.
Hallo, Felix, wieder mal ein hochinteressantes Video. Ich habe das mal nachgeschaut, Ilex enthält wohl Triterpene, die auch für die Qualitäten von Zunderschwamm, Chaga und Birkenporling verantwortlich sind.
@@FelixImmlerDas könnte den Ilex auch ggf in der Krebstherapie interessant machen. Hat jetzt nix mit Bushcraft zu tun, aber ich schau auch das mal nach. Und ich habe irgendwie die Erinnerung, daß der wohl auch in einer Art "griechischem Feuer" zum Einsatz gekommen ist, weiß aber nicht, wo ich das gelesen habe oder ob das nicht bullshit ist. Ich schau mal nach.
@@FelixImmlerTatsächlich hat Ilex aquifolium in vitro die Fähigkeit gezeigt, Krebszellenwachstum zu hemmen. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19579185/ Zum griechischen Feuer bin ich noch nicht weiter gekommen, das könnte aber mit dem Harz zu tun haben. Vielleicht könnte man mal Pech daraus machen, wie mit der Birke, und dann mal schauen, was passiert...
Danke dir Felix für ein weiteres intressantes Video. Was das zuletzt für ein Baum war weis ich leider nicht, die Rinde brennt ja sehr gut. Vielleicht hast du ja schon eine idee. Gruss Michael
Hallo Swissopa 🤣 Danke für Deinen netten Kommentar und deinen lustigen RU-vid-Namen ... Nein, aber ich werde im Sommer in der Umgebung nach der gleiche Rinde suchen, dann finde ich es schon heraus.
Dankeschön für den Tipp die Rinde der Stechpalme zu verwenden. Ich habe gute Erfahrungen mit der trockenen Rinde der Waldrebe gemacht, diese eignet sich auch als Birdsnest um mit Char kloth ein Feuer zu entzünden. Vorher etwas mit den Händen zerreiben. Grüße aus Süddeutschland
At first I thought you were calling it a "Holy Tree" because of your accent, since in America we say Holly with the 'O" sounding like ahh, (Hahh-lee) . In the US, Holy is how we spell the word that means sacred, and it is pronounced Ho-lee. Then you started talking about how the tree is protected in Switzerland, so now I'm unsure about your pronunciation. This doesn't have anything to do with your tip, but I have to ask, did you mean "sacred tree" or was it just the accent with the English translation? I would never have ever dreamed that you could get a resinous, hot burning flame from a fresh cut green limb of any variety. That was an amazing demonstration! Do you think a large knife with the super spine, that you taught us how to make recently, would be able to scrape the bark from a standing tree better than the edge of a pocket sized SAK? The next question will be, "can the oils of other barks be collected like birch oil by using a campfire?" You would be the man with the patience to find that out. Great video and glad you're back creating.
Thanks a lot for your comment and your intersting questions. No a bigger knife with a super spine dont work better. I work with almost no pressure, because i din't want injure the bark.
Hey, Thank you so much again! Du bist ein QUELL des Wissens, sooooo gut, und deine gute Laune macht mir auch immer gute Laune nur vom zusehen :):):) Hast du mal Lust ein Video auf "Schweizererisch / Schweizerdeutsch" Your Homelanguage zu machen? Würde wahrscheinlich fast niemand verstehen, fände es aber extremst interessant, kann ja ein ganz kurzes Video sein ;););) LG aus Rheinbach, Germany Henning
