Natural Cordage Thriving not Surviving, get your cordage skills under your wing and this will become one of your best friends in the wild, for want of a better way of saying it, add another string to your bow.
Wonderful resource! We have the same plant here so, Im anxious to at least start harvesting enough of it just to try out the process. Your knowledge base is impressive and I'm grateful that you carefully pass on all these wonderful things to us from the ancient ones! ❤ 👍
Thank you so much for answering my question from the other day. Your teachings are so amazing! I watch and listen to your lessons for hours on end. Your a born educator. Thanks again!
Just subscribed absolutely amazing if there was a world wide disaster it wouldn't be the iner city rich man that survives it will be people like your self .I wonder why they don't teach kids in school about things like this
What becomes clear is just how much problem solving and engineering is involved in all of this, it really gives you a greater appreciation for the work and accomplishments of our ancestors.
I did enjoy the journey as I knew I would. A great vid, showing those fantastic experiments that our predecessors carried out too, because they didn’t get it right first time? Once again, thank you Will.
@@WillLordPrehistoricSurvival then you have no excuse my Lord. A letter on your fastest mammoth must be sent asking if he can attend. . . It would be amazing to see you and phill going head to head making stone tools. Or some kind of comp
Those leaves are delicious boiled. I ate loads of them when I lived in the woods for a bit. Never considered making cordage out of them. That would have been fun. Great content.
@@kenteno822 I do not mean to tease...but that was legitimately answered with the first few words in the video man. If you watch it again though it will probably give you a good laugh. Haha. Take care.
I started getting into doing stuff with nettle and bramble fibres late last year so missed the peak season for collecting. Nettles near me aren't quite ready yet but should be really soon. Looking forward to getting a good amount this year to keep me busy through winter.
I make nettle cord (strangely, this year the nettle has been replaced by dead nettle and is ground hugging rather than the normal tall stalks - I wonder if it will still mae a decent nettle beer?). I'm going to have a go at waxingand seeing if I can use it for my leatherwork....can't beat free materials 🙂Thanks for the video!
Did you know that stinging nettle will alleviate Arthritis, just take some with a piece of leather then pat the affected area of the joint, I like to immerse my affected area cold water after, and there you have it it takes down he inflammation. I have a bad knee it helps allot while I'm hiking.
If we were hanging out together people would ask me if you were my uncle from the UK and if that's where I learned primative skills from. You don't know what I look like but there are enough similarities we could be family 😅
How long do you need to let it dry out. How long and when to soak it? Basically the idea is to break up the fibers so it blends together? So once it starting to split of each other you know its done right soaking wise yeah?
bee's wax is the first one that springs to mind. can give it a good coating to help it shed water and stop it rotting while still being flexible. If you have used it to bind something then melted resin pitch will seal it like its been dipped in plastic.
@@richpurslow3283 sinew probably I’m currently making a bow string from my own hair 😂 each time I brush my hair I add the fallen hair in I’ve got about 18 inches done so far 😂
