Making Bushcraft Chairs at the Shelter - Axe, Fire and Cooking too
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Date: 2019-09-10
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jussa101
the theory of evolution states that we can from a common ancestor not that we came from monkeys just wanted to point that out. My belief about the fire starts a bit like this. There is a theory out there that the purpose of the human brain is to allow for complex motions. There are a few things that the person who argued used to present his theory, when sponges are young they have a very primative nervous system that allows them to move. As soon as they latch on they immediately digest this nervous system for a source of energy, the same can be said about koala's who used to move and rely on a variety of food sources but as they adapted to eucalyptus leaves the size of their brain shrunk. Us humans were nomadic all we ever did was chase after our prey to the point of exhaustion. This meant that humans were exposed to so many unique environments. Lightning, snow fall, forest fires. At some point these humans saw a fire being made and being nomadic decided to carry some of this fire with them it could have been hot coals (maybe they saw a forest fire that had been put out on it's own and saw the coals reignite. This is what in my opinion could have caused them to know about fire. Their nomadic lifestyle played a large part in promoting that intelligence that they could use the elements to their advantage. Or it also could have occured during the tool making process (this isn't likely but it could be. Someone rubbed wood together to make a spear or something and noticed that the heat produced embers.
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the theory of evolution states that we can from a common ancestor not that we came from monkeys just wanted to point that out. My belief about the fire starts a bit like this. There is a theory out there that the purpose of the human brain is to allow for complex motions. There are a few things that the person who argued used to present his theory, when sponges are young they have a very primative nervous system that allows them to move. As soon as they latch on they immediately digest this nervous system for a source of energy, the same can be said about koala's who used to move and rely on a variety of food sources but as they adapted to eucalyptus leaves the size of their brain shrunk. Us humans were nomadic all we ever did was chase after our prey to the point of exhaustion. This meant that humans were exposed to so many unique environments. Lightning, snow fall, forest fires. At some point these humans saw a fire being made and being nomadic decided to carry some of this fire with them it could have been hot coals (maybe they saw a forest fire that had been put out on it's own and saw the coals reignite. This is what in my opinion could have caused them to know about fire. Their nomadic lifestyle played a large part in promoting that intelligence that they could use the elements to their advantage. Or it also could have occured during the tool making process (this isn't likely but it could be. Someone rubbed wood together to make a spear or something and noticed that the heat produced embers.
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Sacwriter
Here's the theory I heard. Grass fires caused by lightning strikes are pretty common in some areas, they spread faster than most prey can run, so there was a lot of dead, roasted animals lying around. Most scavengers would stay away for days, but early man saw this as an opportunity for free barbecue, and learned to fire. Later on, someone was chipping flint to make tools when he noticed that if you strike a flint rock against a red rock with iron in it, then you could get sparks, which proved a pretty good way to impress the ladies on the cold and lonely winter nights in the back of the cave. Sooner or later the sparks fell on some dry grass or straw, and then the ladies were REALLY impressed Now we had fire, although getting it was probably pretty difficult. Then one day, maybe a couple of thousand years later, another cave guy has found out how to make a bow drill to drill holes in wood, probably to make decorative jewelry to impress the ladies (are we noticing a pattern here) To his delight, he finds out that if you use really dry wood for your spindle and hearth board, you can actually get smoke And then one day he tried using a piece of wood with a crack in it and an ember formed, and now he had a better way to start a fire, which once again REALLY impressed the chicks. And that's the true story of how mankind learned how to make a friction fire: it wasn't to stay warm, or because he liked him some barbecued ribs. It was so he could get laid.
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Here's the theory I heard. Grass fires caused by lightning strikes are pretty common in some areas, they spread faster than most prey can run, so there was a lot of dead, roasted animals lying around. Most scavengers would stay away for days, but early man saw this as an opportunity for free barbecue, and learned to fire. Later on, someone was chipping flint to make tools when he noticed that if you strike a flint rock against a red rock with iron in it, then you could get sparks, which proved a pretty good way to impress the ladies on the cold and lonely winter nights in the back of the cave. Sooner or later the sparks fell on some dry grass or straw, and then the ladies were REALLY impressed Now we had fire, although getting it was probably pretty difficult. Then one day, maybe a couple of thousand years later, another cave guy has found out how to make a bow drill to drill holes in wood, probably to make decorative jewelry to impress the ladies (are we noticing a pattern here) To his delight, he finds out that if you use really dry wood for your spindle and hearth board, you can actually get smoke And then one day he tried using a piece of wood with a crack in it and an ember formed, and now he had a better way to start a fire, which once again REALLY impressed the chicks. And that's the true story of how mankind learned how to make a friction fire: it wasn't to stay warm, or because he liked him some barbecued ribs. It was so he could get laid.
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Alexander Maach
Well, wouldn't it make since that, just like we create friction with our hands when we are cold and try to warm them up, could be the way they came up with it? I mean, you often do it, right? put your hands together and just create friction. Your hands will begin to get warmer and it will feel nice. Maybe they just did that. Ofcourse, that can't be the whole story. So how is doing friction with your hands have something to do with fire. Well, let us say that we are not in the cold north of the clobe, but in africa like climate. The air is hot and fire might just happen by it self from the dry grass. One day you take this grass and use it for patting on the ground. Somebody get angry and is throwing stones. One of the stones is a flint and hit a another stone near the dry grass. That is create a small spark and light the grass up. The beds are gone, but now they learned something. Fire by smaching stones together. Later they learn that if you don't have a stone then sticks can do it too. That might also happen because of one getting angry at the fire not getting lit. Well, that is one fast and ill discribed theory I came up with on the fly. But I hope you can see the idea behind my words.
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Well, wouldn't it make since that, just like we create friction with our hands when we are cold and try to warm them up, could be the way they came up with it? I mean, you often do it, right? put your hands together and just create friction. Your hands will begin to get warmer and it will feel nice. Maybe they just did that. Ofcourse, that can't be the whole story. So how is doing friction with your hands have something to do with fire. Well, let us say that we are not in the cold north of the clobe, but in africa like climate. The air is hot and fire might just happen by it self from the dry grass. One day you take this grass and use it for patting on the ground. Somebody get angry and is throwing stones. One of the stones is a flint and hit a another stone near the dry grass. That is create a small spark and light the grass up. The beds are gone, but now they learned something. Fire by smaching stones together. Later they learn that if you don't have a stone then sticks can do it too. That might also happen because of one getting angry at the fire not getting lit. Well, that is one fast and ill discribed theory I came up with on the fly. But I hope you can see the idea behind my words.
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Old Boy Adventures
Most of my theories are related to Biblical references / stories. Like Noah's Flood. some wonder whether it was a global event or just localized to the Middle East region. Some say that the glaciers formed our Great Lakes areas here in North America from the last ice age. Yet the water isn't salty in the lakes as if the salt from the oceanic water from Noah's flood somehow disappeared. So. if the flood didn't happen in North America, how did the water level from Noah's flood get to the mountain tops in the northern Middle East? Something BIG in geosynchronous orbit above that region could have drawn the water level up and kept it there for an extended time. Something BIG is mentioned in scriptures. the New Jerusalem coming down from the sky. like a freakin' mother ship If it had the mass of 1/3 of the moon perhaps. who knows? I came up with this theory myself about 20 years ago. as my interest in prospecting for gold in Indiana hit a snag. since we only have small flakes in our streams (if at all) and some say it was pushed down her from Canada in the last Ice Age. Just trying to make sense of what I see as I sift through the ground beneath my feet.
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Most of my theories are related to Biblical references / stories. Like Noah's Flood. some wonder whether it was a global event or just localized to the Middle East region. Some say that the glaciers formed our Great Lakes areas here in North America from the last ice age. Yet the water isn't salty in the lakes as if the salt from the oceanic water from Noah's flood somehow disappeared. So. if the flood didn't happen in North America, how did the water level from Noah's flood get to the mountain tops in the northern Middle East? Something BIG in geosynchronous orbit above that region could have drawn the water level up and kept it there for an extended time. Something BIG is mentioned in scriptures. the New Jerusalem coming down from the sky. like a freakin' mother ship If it had the mass of 1/3 of the moon perhaps. who knows? I came up with this theory myself about 20 years ago. as my interest in prospecting for gold in Indiana hit a snag. since we only have small flakes in our streams (if at all) and some say it was pushed down her from Canada in the last Ice Age. Just trying to make sense of what I see as I sift through the ground beneath my feet.
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Returning Shadow
Well here is an idea of how a caveman would think about rubbing two sticks together to make fire. Perhaps when he rubbed his hands together rigorously and he felt the heat develop between his palms he thought of doing the same with other items thinking the heat will keep him warm but then suddenly fire developed and it indeed kept him warm. As for the monkeys flying in jets. It's already a proven fact, which millions tend to ignore mostly due to religious reasons, that human did indeed develop from primates and the reason why we have humans now and STILL have primates is because of how the species evolved and geography had a large amount to do with it. The primates living in temperate climates with sources of food around evolved and the ones that lived in harsh environments with little food died out. Those that evolved were also nomadic and the ones that were not nomadic stagnated evolution wise. The nomads ever developed their brains as well as their bodies to adapt to their environments and thus eventually becoming humans. Those that stagnated remained as apes.
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Well here is an idea of how a caveman would think about rubbing two sticks together to make fire. Perhaps when he rubbed his hands together rigorously and he felt the heat develop between his palms he thought of doing the same with other items thinking the heat will keep him warm but then suddenly fire developed and it indeed kept him warm. As for the monkeys flying in jets. It's already a proven fact, which millions tend to ignore mostly due to religious reasons, that human did indeed develop from primates and the reason why we have humans now and STILL have primates is because of how the species evolved and geography had a large amount to do with it. The primates living in temperate climates with sources of food around evolved and the ones that lived in harsh environments with little food died out. Those that evolved were also nomadic and the ones that were not nomadic stagnated evolution wise. The nomads ever developed their brains as well as their bodies to adapt to their environments and thus eventually becoming humans. Those that stagnated remained as apes.
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Bob Anderson
A long long Long time ago Men being the fool they are, Decided it was a good Idea to slide down a long hill to get home again. The first man said hold my grog and watch this. That man sat down and slid away. He Got his butt all scraped up and gave up. So the second man used his brain to come up with, sliding down the hill on a large flat stone. But it went so fast with all the friction, he burnt his butt and jumped off before he got far. The third man used his big brain to come up with, ridding a log down the long hill. He reasoned the wood could keep his butt off the ground where the heat comes from. So all 3 men climbed on and down they went. Sure enough the ground where the heat comes from started to smoke the log. By the time they hit the bottom, the log was almost on fire. That is when the men's mother found them Smoking again and grounded them. It was another 1000 years before man found out, it was friction and not just sliding on the ground made things hot. I enjoy your videos of the camp. Stories are a plus.
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A long long Long time ago Men being the fool they are, Decided it was a good Idea to slide down a long hill to get home again. The first man said hold my grog and watch this. That man sat down and slid away. He Got his butt all scraped up and gave up. So the second man used his brain to come up with, sliding down the hill on a large flat stone. But it went so fast with all the friction, he burnt his butt and jumped off before he got far. The third man used his big brain to come up with, ridding a log down the long hill. He reasoned the wood could keep his butt off the ground where the heat comes from. So all 3 men climbed on and down they went. Sure enough the ground where the heat comes from started to smoke the log. By the time they hit the bottom, the log was almost on fire. That is when the men's mother found them Smoking again and grounded them. It was another 1000 years before man found out, it was friction and not just sliding on the ground made things hot. I enjoy your videos of the camp. Stories are a plus.
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Liam Lynch's Lynchland
Love your vids with your Dad. Good stuff. Here's my theory: I think fire came about two different ways. One would be flint mapping, whereby primitive man was banging rocks together to make sharp edged hand tools. You would have to bang many rocks together before you'd find two that sparked. The other way I think it could have happened, would be in making spears and arrows or bows. They wouldn't have many tools for smoothing down sticks (before more advanced hand tools occurred) and so their main way of smoothing down a walking stick, or spear, or arrow, would be to rub another piece of wood against to remove bark or small edges. Obviously, one of them realized the sticks had warmth to them after being rubbed and so they rubbed longer and soon smoke was happening. So my guess basic tool crafting led to the discovery that two sticks got hot or smoked when rubbed together.
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Love your vids with your Dad. Good stuff. Here's my theory: I think fire came about two different ways. One would be flint mapping, whereby primitive man was banging rocks together to make sharp edged hand tools. You would have to bang many rocks together before you'd find two that sparked. The other way I think it could have happened, would be in making spears and arrows or bows. They wouldn't have many tools for smoothing down sticks (before more advanced hand tools occurred) and so their main way of smoothing down a walking stick, or spear, or arrow, would be to rub another piece of wood against to remove bark or small edges. Obviously, one of them realized the sticks had warmth to them after being rubbed and so they rubbed longer and soon smoke was happening. So my guess basic tool crafting led to the discovery that two sticks got hot or smoked when rubbed together.
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Shaun Simmons
The plastic isn't the best for blowing on the fire except when you're starting it. I have a metal 3 piece tube (2 piece now, but I still have the 3rd somewhere) from a lamp or summat. 1/4 inch or a little bigger, so it concentrates the breath quite nicely, and stainless steel, so it doesn't melt when you use it to prod the fire later on. The PVC will melt and burn (and produce toxic gas, so you have to be much more careful with it, but any metal pipe, especially one that's threaded so that it can be taken down or put together to create more length, is prime. In a pinch you can use a cane from Phragmites, Bambusa, or Arundo, so long as you cut between the nodes or pierce the nodal walls. Or cut a piece of birch bark (or a similarly papery bark, think Eucalyptus in Mediterranean climates) and roll it into a tube
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The plastic isn't the best for blowing on the fire except when you're starting it. I have a metal 3 piece tube (2 piece now, but I still have the 3rd somewhere) from a lamp or summat. 1/4 inch or a little bigger, so it concentrates the breath quite nicely, and stainless steel, so it doesn't melt when you use it to prod the fire later on. The PVC will melt and burn (and produce toxic gas, so you have to be much more careful with it, but any metal pipe, especially one that's threaded so that it can be taken down or put together to create more length, is prime. In a pinch you can use a cane from Phragmites, Bambusa, or Arundo, so long as you cut between the nodes or pierce the nodal walls. Or cut a piece of birch bark (or a similarly papery bark, think Eucalyptus in Mediterranean climates) and roll it into a tube
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jjtrasher
I'm gonna make a guess, I would imagine that the first people to discover friction fire truly discovered it themselves, and didn't learn it. Maybe they accidentally created a friction fire, and then tried to replicate it. I also noticed that your father rubbed his hands together during the video whilst talking about it, and thought that perhaps the primitive man noticed that rubbing his hands (to keep them warm) together generated heat, and then attempted to apply it with sticks? It's true science, in it's most basic state. Observing something, creating a theory, and then testing it. Very clever indeed. Where abouts in England are you? I live in Manchester and there's not really many woods nearby, unfortunately.
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I'm gonna make a guess, I would imagine that the first people to discover friction fire truly discovered it themselves, and didn't learn it. Maybe they accidentally created a friction fire, and then tried to replicate it. I also noticed that your father rubbed his hands together during the video whilst talking about it, and thought that perhaps the primitive man noticed that rubbing his hands (to keep them warm) together generated heat, and then attempted to apply it with sticks? It's true science, in it's most basic state. Observing something, creating a theory, and then testing it. Very clever indeed. Where abouts in England are you? I live in Manchester and there's not really many woods nearby, unfortunately.
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william Gates
There are very rare cases where people brains release a chemical called DMT. People like Nikola Tesla, Einstein and many other geniuses had this evolutionary step up. This chemical is usually only released when the brain is in a rest/meditation state(or sleep. The chemical can also be produced by eating magic mushrooms. What this chemical does is makes different parts of your brain that wouldn't normally communicat, to do so. Making it easier for us humans to realize the reality around us. ( make us become conscious and aware of our own being and the world around us) it's also what makes us ask questions.
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There are very rare cases where people brains release a chemical called DMT. People like Nikola Tesla, Einstein and many other geniuses had this evolutionary step up. This chemical is usually only released when the brain is in a rest/meditation state(or sleep. The chemical can also be produced by eating magic mushrooms. What this chemical does is makes different parts of your brain that wouldn't normally communicat, to do so. Making it easier for us humans to realize the reality around us. ( make us become conscious and aware of our own being and the world around us) it's also what makes us ask questions.
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