This Fungus will Blow Your Mind: Bushcraft Skills Primitive Survival Foraging
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Date: 2021-01-06
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Lord
What's frustrating about primitive technology is that even if you have nature in your area, certain regions have better material available than others. In a desert, you can use rocks, make mud bricks, and low effort roof materials due to a lack of rain. For you in southern England, you have pine; a wood that not only helps keep the bugs out, but is also much easier to find straight logs of, bark, and such, and easy access to reed thatch. Here in the midwest US, we don't have pine in abundance, nor dry weather so we don't have to make strong roof material. I find it very difficult to make shelters out here due to the fact that we lack basically all the materials that would make building a shelter highly efficient and successful. I tried to make one using golden rod as thatch, but it leaked through and was filled to the brim in mold.
Any suggestions on alternative natural roof materials?
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What's frustrating about primitive technology is that even if you have nature in your area, certain regions have better material available than others. In a desert, you can use rocks, make mud bricks, and low effort roof materials due to a lack of rain. For you in southern England, you have pine; a wood that not only helps keep the bugs out, but is also much easier to find straight logs of, bark, and such, and easy access to reed thatch. Here in the midwest US, we don't have pine in abundance, nor dry weather so we don't have to make strong roof material. I find it very difficult to make shelters out here due to the fact that we lack basically all the materials that would make building a shelter highly efficient and successful. I tried to make one using golden rod as thatch, but it leaked through and was filled to the brim in mold.
Any suggestions on alternative natural roof materials?
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Andreas
If you want to transport them for longer, you could hang it with a short wire in a can a put a lid on. Not air right though. This will burn the fungus slower and you'll have more time. And you have no risk to drop an amber and light an unintentional fire.
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If you want to transport them for longer, you could hang it with a short wire in a can a put a lid on. Not air right though. This will burn the fungus slower and you'll have more time. And you have no risk to drop an amber and light an unintentional fire.
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Terri
Happy New Year Mike. That is an interesting piece about the fungus. I knew that there was fungus out in the woods and some was bad and some are good. So you can burn the fungus? Thanks for explaining the fungus to us. Thanks for the video. StAy Safe
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Happy New Year Mike. That is an interesting piece about the fungus. I knew that there was fungus out in the woods and some was bad and some are good. So you can burn the fungus? Thanks for explaining the fungus to us. Thanks for the video. StAy Safe
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Miriam
Wonderful video, thank you so much for describing this fungus and it's properties. It actually looks like a lot of fun to play with, I'm sure that's why you were spinning it.
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Wonderful video, thank you so much for describing this fungus and it's properties. It actually looks like a lot of fun to play with, I'm sure that's why you were spinning it.
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Son
Yes! I Kept a coal going in a similar fungus for a few hours. I was at a bonfire and people were amazed that I started a fire without any lighters or flint. haha
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Yes! I Kept a coal going in a similar fungus for a few hours. I was at a bonfire and people were amazed that I started a fire without any lighters or flint. haha
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Richard
I love natural alternate ways to start a fire. Thank you. I can't find anywhere in Florida that has ash trees. Time for a road trip. Happy 2021 Mike.
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I love natural alternate ways to start a fire. Thank you. I can't find anywhere in Florida that has ash trees. Time for a road trip. Happy 2021 Mike.
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Eric
Good info, here in Canada our ash trees are being killed off by the emerald ash borer. Therefore we have an abundance of rotting ash trees.
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Good info, here in Canada our ash trees are being killed off by the emerald ash borer. Therefore we have an abundance of rotting ash trees.
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SURREY
Absolutely cool fungus. Perhaps there are other types as well to use as fire starter.
I'll look for it on my next forest adventure.
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Absolutely cool fungus. Perhaps there are other types as well to use as fire starter.
I'll look for it on my next forest adventure.
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Moira
In medieval times it was also a natural pigment to make a brown ink. Mother Nature. she's a good'in. Happy new year to all xx
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In medieval times it was also a natural pigment to make a brown ink. Mother Nature. she's a good'in. Happy new year to all xx
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