600+ Year Old Woodsman s Skill: Bushcraft Traditional Skills
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Date: 2023-04-05
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SoulDragonWithFlow
If you don't have a shave horse, I would just wrap and tie/anchor the wire around a tree of suitable thickness, do each wrap on the broom and when you need more wire you just need to walk around the tree to unravel it. It means standing and a bit more exercise yes, but if you want to make one for an extended camping trip who TF is traveling with a vice or shave horse?
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If you don't have a shave horse, I would just wrap and tie/anchor the wire around a tree of suitable thickness, do each wrap on the broom and when you need more wire you just need to walk around the tree to unravel it. It means standing and a bit more exercise yes, but if you want to make one for an extended camping trip who TF is traveling with a vice or shave horse?
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Lora
Is there an alternative binding material to use besides wire? Hundreds of years ago wire would not have been available, right? Would a plant-based rope of some kind work? Perhaps braided grasses? Always love your content, but you almost always leave me with many questions about what would have been used before more modern technologies provided us with shortcuts.
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Is there an alternative binding material to use besides wire? Hundreds of years ago wire would not have been available, right? Would a plant-based rope of some kind work? Perhaps braided grasses? Always love your content, but you almost always leave me with many questions about what would have been used before more modern technologies provided us with shortcuts.
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Hebrew
Yes my family have been making these since I was a child in the 60's in the southern parts of the usa. This was our normal way of life. I made one myself years ago but instead stripped bamboo and made a bamboo broom just like this one. Last much longer and I still have it and use it on my camping trips. Thanks for your video
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Yes my family have been making these since I was a child in the 60's in the southern parts of the usa. This was our normal way of life. I made one myself years ago but instead stripped bamboo and made a bamboo broom just like this one. Last much longer and I still have it and use it on my camping trips. Thanks for your video
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Alecs
in Eastern Europe, we are still using those in gardens. The wire is thicker though and we use way less. If you peel the handle it will last longer and you can reuse it. Also, the wire if it's quality steel wire. So all you have to do in a couple of years is just to replenish the branches.
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in Eastern Europe, we are still using those in gardens. The wire is thicker though and we use way less. If you peel the handle it will last longer and you can reuse it. Also, the wire if it's quality steel wire. So all you have to do in a couple of years is just to replenish the branches.
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John
Please don t use southern banjo music. You have no idea how bigoted and racist they are. I ve travelled down there and my accent blows them away. They d call you British fags. To your face. Music at the end was way better. I have tons of birch on my land in Nova Scotia
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Please don t use southern banjo music. You have no idea how bigoted and racist they are. I ve travelled down there and my accent blows them away. They d call you British fags. To your face. Music at the end was way better. I have tons of birch on my land in Nova Scotia
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34r92i75
Interesting Fact = Witches are associated with flying on Broomsticks because the females put plants like Deadly Nightshade on the handle and inserted it into their private parts so they could urinate out the poison and get the OBE effect/Astral Flight.
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Interesting Fact = Witches are associated with flying on Broomsticks because the females put plants like Deadly Nightshade on the handle and inserted it into their private parts so they could urinate out the poison and get the OBE effect/Astral Flight.
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Courtney
I would love to see more on the hazel fence you made last year. Been a bad year for me, but i'd love to transplant a bunch of the hazel we have up to our property line and do what you've done. I'd love to see an update on that project from last year!
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I would love to see more on the hazel fence you made last year. Been a bad year for me, but i'd love to transplant a bunch of the hazel we have up to our property line and do what you've done. I'd love to see an update on that project from last year!
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schwab
Very interesting. You should try some making some birch syrup or birch beer! I have seen historic sites over here that plant sorghum. They process the cane for sugar and the tops for brooms.
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Very interesting. You should try some making some birch syrup or birch beer! I have seen historic sites over here that plant sorghum. They process the cane for sugar and the tops for brooms.
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Alexander
Any thoughts on modern brooms with their plastic fibres? Where does one find a horsehair or equivalent fibre broom which does not end up as an electrostatic mess of nylon and dust?
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Any thoughts on modern brooms with their plastic fibres? Where does one find a horsehair or equivalent fibre broom which does not end up as an electrostatic mess of nylon and dust?
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Curtis
That's amazing! What a great project to do with my kids. Love What you do Mike keep up the great work. By the way maybe your dad might have a old school bushcraft tip or trick for us.
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That's amazing! What a great project to do with my kids. Love What you do Mike keep up the great work. By the way maybe your dad might have a old school bushcraft tip or trick for us.
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Prometheus_Beard
This is great mate! I'd like to see the making and using of a foot powered wooden lathe. I saw and had a go of one at a country fair once, they're surprisingly good!
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This is great mate! I'd like to see the making and using of a foot powered wooden lathe. I saw and had a go of one at a country fair once, they're surprisingly good!
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Tim
Bezem is Dutch for broom. Especially your first pronunciation of Besom matches it quite wel. So your calling it a broom broom hahaha
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Bezem is Dutch for broom. Especially your first pronunciation of Besom matches it quite wel. So your calling it a broom broom hahaha
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Back2Good
That was amazing to see how simple it can be and the tree juice is something I never even thought of. very nice episode!
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That was amazing to see how simple it can be and the tree juice is something I never even thought of. very nice episode!
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