Woo New Zealand! living here we do use it quite often. It's great cause its common in the bush so can make life easier out there. I hope you found some other cool plants and animals of ours while you were here!
charlyhorse7636 bro nobody uses the flax, nobody in Dunedin nobody in Auckland if you go to the Parks and walks you don’t see it being cut, it’s literally grows like mad, and the council has to cut it back every now and then
@@DragonSecLtd as if those two places are the whole New Zealand where I'm from it's common to see someone cutting harakeke to weave can go to any bush and see where people have harvested from it's becoming more common so much so I need to try and find a secret spot where only I know where it is 🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@DragonSecLtdyou have to go to the council if you want to cut the flax they've planted, otherwise what do you know, my whanau live in Auckland and waikato area and have paharakeke plantations in Auckland weaving kete, pikau, putiputi, piupiu. So stop giving out false information noah
ti kouka or the nz cabbage tree has similar fiber uses but its fibers are more resistant to salt and stronger, so maori would preferably use to kouka leaves when making rope for waka (canoes) and there anchor lines
Always good to learn of a plant with so many uses. Thank you. Mike issues? Too many sissies watching utube. Compared to 1950s-1960s tv....stellar sound. Thank you.
Try cleaning the microphone recess on your phone in case it's full of lint or dirt. My phone was doing the same thing a few months back and everything I recorded sounded like it was underwater or like I'd run a high pass filter on it. Gunk on the mic ended up being the issue.
I can't remember where, but I read that people will accept lower quality video much better than they will low quality audio. One of the best investments you can make in your channel is a good mic. Really loving the videos, keep 'em coming!
@@watsmaster9402 In Rotorua the Maaori arts and crafts institute where selling piupiu for decades, possibly purchased as a souviner while he was visiting, have sold heaps at Whakarewarewa village to non-Maori you know.
The maori culture is really strange... somehow they never used bows and arrows, and flintknapping was rudimentary to say the least, despite there being sources of obsidian on the islands. Its weird to think that something almost universal to primitive human societies everywhere was skipped here. At least with hawaii and other pacific islanders, they had no knappable stone to work with so they stuck to shells and bones for their edged tools. But I wonder why the maori never did.
@@zealantis yeah I know. I said flintknapping, not stone tools in general. ground stone tools are different from the sort of tools you can get through knapping suitable stones. You can't get razor edges no matter how much you grind and polish jade or even flint.
Woo New Zealand! living here we do use it quite often. It's great cause its common in the bush so can make life easier out there. I hope you found some other cool plants and animals of ours while you were here!
charlyhorse7636 bro nobody uses the flax, nobody in Dunedin nobody in Auckland if you go to the Parks and walks you don’t see it being cut, it’s literally grows like mad, and the council has to cut it back every now and then
@@DragonSecLtd i use it all the time. Its great
@@DragonSecLtd as if those two places are the whole New Zealand where I'm from it's common to see someone cutting harakeke to weave can go to any bush and see where people have harvested from it's becoming more common so much so I need to try and find a secret spot where only I know where it is 🤦♀️🤦♀️
@@DragonSecLtdyou have to go to the council if you want to cut the flax they've planted, otherwise what do you know, my whanau live in Auckland and waikato area and have paharakeke plantations in Auckland weaving kete, pikau, putiputi, piupiu. So stop giving out false information noah
Neat! I have a gigantic one of these growing in my back yard. Only today did I finally figure out what the heck it is.
ti kouka or the nz cabbage tree has similar fiber uses but its fibers are more resistant to salt and stronger, so maori would preferably use to kouka leaves when making rope for waka (canoes) and there anchor lines
Always good to learn of a plant with so many uses. Thank you. Mike issues? Too many sissies watching utube. Compared to 1950s-1960s tv....stellar sound. Thank you.
Thank you 🙏 for the knowledge
Try cleaning the microphone recess on your phone in case it's full of lint or dirt. My phone was doing the same thing a few months back and everything I recorded sounded like it was underwater or like I'd run a high pass filter on it. Gunk on the mic ended up being the issue.
Thanks! I'll have to check that out! That's a practical tip! JB
I can't remember where, but I read that people will accept lower quality video much better than they will low quality audio. One of the best investments you can make in your channel is a good mic.
Really loving the videos, keep 'em coming!
Thanks! JB
My father has one of those grass skirts that he got more than 50 years ago.
Way cool! JB
Must of stolen it from the natives because things like that have to be gifted to someone
@@watsmaster9402 In Rotorua the Maaori arts and crafts institute where selling piupiu for decades, possibly purchased as a souviner while he was visiting, have sold heaps at Whakarewarewa village to non-Maori you know.
Great for shelter also.
Awesome video, except for the sound quality.
Yeah... It's pretty bad. JB
These Kiwi vids are kinda "archival" though.... (that's what my friends who collect records would say).
edgeeffect oh, I see. I’m not complaining, mind you. I just love this channel and hope they can afford good mic equipment!
So too hope I. We'll get there. JB
Interesting
Broski needs better sound equipment
😲 bad man ~ did not cut at angle ~very bad for next growth and for next person going to cut ~ also disrespectful
Agree with you , the video was pretty good until he cut the rau (leaf) like he did.
The maori culture is really strange... somehow they never used bows and arrows, and flintknapping was rudimentary to say the least, despite there being sources of obsidian on the islands. Its weird to think that something almost universal to primitive human societies everywhere was skipped here. At least with hawaii and other pacific islanders, they had no knappable stone to work with so they stuck to shells and bones for their edged tools. But I wonder why the maori never did.
Maori also had stone and greenstone edged tools...
@@zealantis yeah I know. I said flintknapping, not stone tools in general. ground stone tools are different from the sort of tools you can get through knapping suitable stones. You can't get razor edges no matter how much you grind and polish jade or even flint.
I'd recommend you do a bit more homework on your plants. Especially cultural ones. Anyway thanks for sharing.