In an emergency, the last thing I would use is a pair of socks. I would use one of the other options. A dry pair of socks is important to have. Great video though! Thumbs up
When using torch, keep it at your side rather than front of you. In darkness the torch will blind you and your visibility will be greatly reduced. But when kept at side it provides light without blinding you (well at least that much). Also drips are less likely to land on your foot and if you happen to trip, you are not faceplanting into the torch.
Reading comments is an education beyond words. Fire is #1 survival rule of first order. The learning never ends. Thanks for opening mind up to endless possibilities.
I like that you took the extra time to do this with a voiceover instead of live narration. The audio level is uniform and everything is clear. Additionally, you have a great voice. You speak clearly, with a strong resonance.
Agreed! I much prefer a voice-over to live narration. FWIW: I feel this not only sets a more serious tone, it also provides a wonderful effect when mixed with live ambient audio from the on-screen environment.
Put the can in the end of the torch, stuff in socks let it soak and set, light it inside the can. It doesn't drip and will burn longer and you can just add more chunks of dry resin as you go.
Ok Fuck you Google, Fuck you Google ok. So tell me then, do you think doing it your way would keep the sap hot enough to continue gassing? I am not certain lighting it in an open can would keep it gassing without an external heat source.
@@rallywagon261 the op and offensively named fellow is reffering to making a pine sap lamp. They work well enough and have an ancient history of use. But, then so do torches.
I remember doing this with a small pine we had in the back yard. You can make a really small cut in a tree and it will OOZE resin within an hour, I find fresh resin is easier to work with.
Use catcins but allow them to sit in the really hot resin, submerged. Once saturated let them cool and harden. Once hardened wrap/ bind them with green bark like a tight woven basket and then dip just the top half inch in resin and leave it to cool and harden again. Make as many as you can and when you need them they are at hand. Only light them at the very top so that they burn down slower, also use as emergency fire lighters. 😀
Save lid of can. Cut slit in lid. Cut cloth into strips and pull through slit. Put resin in can and the tail of the cloth. Secure lid on can. Just like a kerosene lamp.
I soaked the sock with the pine inside burned for 35 min came in handy I hiked up the mountain went off trail and got lost got dark the torch helped to find the trail again. Thanks a million I saw ur video 2 days before this. 2 miles off .very great full.
My grandmother had a Christmas tree farm. We'd head out there in November amd early Demeber to make wreaths. To take the pitch off our hands wed take a cube of margerine and wash up with soap after. Margerine works like no other and its super cheap.
I usually just rubbed my hands in the dirt, it doesn't remove it, but the dirt sticks to it, so you can't tell you've got resin on your hands. Of course, you'd clean it off as soon as you can, but its a temporary fix
I've used hobo stoves mounted on a stick as a torch. Burned for a good hour+ and whenever the wind put it out it just re lit itself like a trick candle. A very good makeshift torch idea I'd say
I'd like to see this experiment again, but with soaking instead of coating. I hypothesize that the cattail burned shortest because it simply had a coating of resin with no reservoir. The cone had the spaces under the tabs of it. the socks worked best due to the fact that the weaving process produces so many small holes and natural wicking action pulled more of the resin into the fabric creating a larger reservoir.
First time watching your video, thank you so much for teaching me about the tree and also taking the time to make sure you left enough resin for it. It's something so small, but so thoughtful and kind, which is a rare commodity these days.
Other ideas? Historically, torches were made by soaking natural fibre ropes/cordage in kerosene (or any other mixture you can think of/find) and wrapped on a stick. The idea was that the fuel would be consumed but not the "wick", which could be cooled and resoaked and reused. So if you had any time to prep these "just in case" torch heads, try cutting lengths pf thick manila rope, whip the ends to prevent fraying and pre-treat them in your choice fuel, then you can bag them or better yet, dip them in wax of any kind to seal and preserve them, also adding to the burn time. That way all you have to do is source a good stick.
Torches were rare historically ( I recommend Lindeybeige’s video on it) they were blinding in the dark if too bright and were far less practical than just carrying and lantern or candle.
As x-army officer in greece...we use the same technique with socks...but if u find a dry open pinecone.not so closed.it will keep the flames longer due to some openings of the petals than a sock...at your test you use a pair of socks...thus they can hold more resin than a cone but if you do the test with the same volume , socks will burn almost the same time...all the best
Great video! I honestly have not once considered making a torch and I really enjoyed the video! Only suggestion would be regarding splitting the wood for the torch containing the wick. Just wanted to say instead of trying to pull down on the axe, just get a decent sized log about the width of your arm and use that to hammer the axe. Minimize your chances of injury. Great video dude!
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I remember my brother and I making those up when I was a boy. We thought that we made that up ourselves. No one ever showed us how to make them but we used pine cones in between a split four way stick and just used a little pine pitch and stone and steel to ignite them. When we got a little older 3-4 grade, we found out that this was just one way that was known for as long as known. Funny how it all just seemed to be naturally known something that we knew how without being taught or shown one before. Miss those days in the deserts and wooded mtns of the West by northwestern down to the west by southwestern lower 48
i loled, but i actually have more problems climbing down (in vertical) than up so i would probably literally jump (and perhaps, very possible to hurt my ankle tripping on a pine cone)
Binding the torch with spruce root, packing the inside with dry sticks, and load it with resin. The spruce roots will make a basket, they're wet, etc. Great work.
I usually get some birch bark curls, some eastern red cedar bark, and some resin to make a torch. The cedar traps the pine resin in as it burns, and the birch bark also burns, but it prevents you from losing any resin. I once had burning tree resin burn me. It wasn’t fun.
great video. I like the torch material comparison, very useful. if I know that a pine cone burns at 15 mins and I know the distance to be traveled, I can prep enough cones to walk all night
Cut the socks into long strips about 4 inches wide (if possible). Smear the fabric along the length of the strip with warmed (not melted) resin. Roll each strip up, strip over strip and place into the receptacle you fashioned from the green wood. Great channel!!! Thanks!
I’ve done this too as a demo for my kids. But there is one very important step that you left out. Avoid trees with poison ivy. No matter how much primo resin is up there, a bad case of poison ivy will make things much worse from a survival standpoint.
Something else for a torch? Flashligth burns very long. Seriously doing this with a voiceover was very professionnal, clear, very educative. thumbs up!!
The first thought that came to my mind for another wick test was Spanish moss, but regular moss might work also. If you lashed reeds tightly together, they might act as tubes to hold the resin.
Thank you for the demonstration. Years ago when my semi-dry Christmas tree caught fire I discovered how potent a fire hazard its resin was. I learned to stuff a few cones as "accelerant" when I would start my wood stove. Now, my son's old socks would be used as Tiki torch for summer lighting and mosquito repellant on our porch. 25 minutes is a lot of time for one pair of old socks! LOL.
I think Jute Twine would make a great wick for a pine resin torch. You could even use it with an open (seedless) pine cone by wrapping/weaving it through the cone and the natural scoops may even hold the resin better.
Jute twine is interesting; I think it would make a marvellous wick for any given candle, the twine can be put to use as lashing or made into rope, if the circumstances TRULY called for it you could drop the whole roll into resin, soak it, and light it to have a decently long lasting torch. I would say that might last as long if not longer than the socks honestly; will test when next I habe a spare roll. (I made a garden fence from it once before, lasted all year in the desert despite bad monsoons. The elements calcified it so it took some time to actually light)
Jute Twine is one of those things I always have a roll of in every pack I own , truly awesome stuff... Light weight , takes up next to no room , dirt cheap & much like Duct Tape has a 100 uses..
My grandad made torches from evergreens by chopping into the trunk of the tree around a branch about 1.5 inches in diameter by using the burl wood in the trunk he had the resin needed for fuel. The branch needs to be alive and pliable for the torch to last. I tried it once and it worked pretty well.
Wowww, what a interesting video. Very exciting comparison between socks , cattails and pine cones . Thank you for this great video !! Greets from Switzerland Felix
Its actually pretty dumb though. Almost all recorded fatalities that occur in the wilderness is when someone is alone and injures themselves. You can survive for many weeks with just water, and there are safer ways to make a fire, so traveling at night doesn't make a lot of sense anyway. It would be far too easy to accidentally fall when climbing down a tree like that, or it has a termite infested branch or is more slippery than you thought, or even just the final dismount you hit a root and twist your ankle badly, and now you're immobile with no one for help. The #1 rule for survival is to avoid all unnecessary risk.
Super video! Looks like a great way to 'light' the night plus carry fire from one campsite to another easily, especially if you use several of your torches to keep the fire going! Thanks for such a great tip! Save bushcrafting to you and yours always!
@The Outsider Good clip, thanks. I appreciate that you had to use what was available WHEN it was available, just as one has to do in a real survival situation: that said, if the cat tails can are picked long after they have seeded, they are often still on the plant many months later, and they are then really fluffy, like a Fat Freddy.s Cat tail, so much so that a good stand of them could provide not only a much better wick than the one you were obliged to use here, but as the down is easily plucked out, a good stand of them will provide very warm down (each one provides about as much insulating down as big as.a base ball). If you have any sort of bag, or can improvise one, you can easily make a pillow, sleeping bag, etc in about 30 minutes ,and/or stuff you clothing with them. I'm sure you know this, but it's worth pointing out that the stems of dead ones make a reasonable fire drill, and the roots can be roasted (they're not bad, and full of carbs. The young stems can also be eaten. When the heads are really fluffy, they should burn longer and drip less- packing dry grass into the resin should also help to "key" the resin and make it drip a little less.
These are great videos. After watching the Alone tv series and with me not knowing ny of this stuff, it's great to be able to gain some knowledge from your videos. You never know when you'd be in a real survival situation
Kathy makes a good point grind in the cats tail or anything fibery to add to the integrity of the resin when it cools might add a little time too it. Excellent video I’ve learned a lot
I always made my resin torches using nothing but resin, some cedar bark, and some sort of clothing or something to hold the resin in place. The finer in the bark would help hold and contain the resin as it burned, and the thing holding it in place would keep it in place. It’s a really good survival/bushcraft skill to have as well.
Thank you for the memories, these old skills will be the what will matter if the world ever tried to do that “green new deal” or extremely bad electric grid destruction no matter if natural, terrorists or war attack, these skills will be the difference between living or dying. Life of the pioneers, mtn men and the first peoples, including my father’s blood father and my mas grandma’s ancestors skills of survival. How many Idahoans remember back in the 60’s the schools would try to teach some desert survival skills in the class rooms before and while out in the desert to learn about the pioneer history by partnering up, two by two, to make a shelter, fire using one of a few different techniques, find water and or make a ‘watergen’ water collection system using rocks, dirt, fine cloth or plastic garbage bag with homemade water catcher. Make up own hunting traps and other hunting/self protection tools using natural materials as well as any other tools to help survival chances such as fire signaling setups and great SOS signs with contrasting materials. I remember the only things that they supplied to us was a plastic bag, roll of string and rock of obsidian if I remember they also let those who brought a lunch could keep it for the end of the trip.
You can do something similar with rush, take a long piece and soak it in the heated resin and you get a candle that can last from an hour to only ten or so minutes depending on the length of rush used and the amount of resin soaked into it. Traditionally, animal fats were used, but resin will work just fine, rushlights as they're called are also brighter than most traditional candles.
There are mushrooms that grow on trees called conks. There's on called a tinder conk and it will last for a super long time. It's very hard and dense, and it's very common. You don't need sap, it doesn't hold a flame, but it will keep an ember for a long ass time. It's safer to travel with IMO. It also has some medicinal uses but you need to alcohol extract the compounds.
horseshoe or charcoal Fungus works like that too. charcoal Fungus is recocnisable by its charcoal like appearance. and horseshoe Fungus by its crème like horseshoe appearance
Echo Chamber Infiltrator You are referring to a woody mycelium known as chaga. Very medicinal. A double decoction of alcohol then water will extract all of the available bio nutrients however a hot water extraction will suffice as well. I routinely perform long decoctions using water only. You are correct in using a piece of chaga to transport a coal from one place to another. One technique is to bore a hole through one end of the piece of chaga and attach a lanyard. This allows for easy carry and the lit chaga can be twirled occasionally to ensure that it remains lit. Primitive skills instructor and herbalist 30+ years experience Bill
Tinder bundle fungus. Grows on dead Beech and Oak trees. In WWI the soldiers got their wounds treated with those fungus to help stop the bleeding and to counter infections and bacteria from doing nasty things in the wounds.
great video as always. I swear you need to call audible and start reading books for them. your voice is incredibly soothing. LOL. Thanks for the informative video. that could come in very handy.
i remember as a kid my dad wanted to chop a tree down in the garden i hacked at it with my toy hammers and plastic saw the next day we went to chop it down. my mum said the tree had been crying snd that was the sap at that point i told my dad i didnt want to chop it down. the tree still stands!
Great demo! Thanks for taking the time to teach! This answered a life long question of how and what to use. So, The internet does have a little to offer! Thanks Brother!
He's possibly doing a Native American tribe style cut. I thought maybe he might have Native American blood in him and that he was following in the footsteps of his ancestors. But yes its possible that all it is, is a mohawk and that's how he rolls. Either way, it doesn't matter.
@@traininggrounds9450 dude get over yourself and stop trying to tell everyone what you THINK this man's haircut is for. You're wrong. It's 2020, thats why he has a fu**en mohawk. Not because of some Native American tribute.
@@SkinnySkinch Man I said nothing wrong or pretentious. You come at me like you've got something to prove. The thing you said of me is true of you, get over yourself. And what does 2020 have anything to do with my comment? Are you inane? Yes you are
Excellent. I think the upside to the cone wick is the ability to resupply. Use up your socks and you’ve got big problems. Better to have a short-burning, sustainable-wick torch than a long burning torch and wet feet.
I've melted wax in a BBQ before. It's a charcoal BBQ. The wax chunks are placed in a tin can, and a small tea candle is placed in the bottom of the cheap charcoal bbq. Then, the lid is closed as the temperature slowly rises. The BBQ is meant to sit on a table, and isn't that great in general, but it's been good for this and other small projects. It takes a long time for the wax to melt, but it's very low heat and safe. I also use the same method to try to render cooking grease and fat to make little tuna can burners with cardboard wicks in them.
Here in the Northern rockies, I have made very similar with pine sap and "moose moss" a long stringy lichen that grows in conifer trees everywhere. Its a great wick! 25 minutes no problem with a wad the size of a golfball.
Excellent work. I would be interested to see some fibrous material stuffed into the sock and the resin poured into it. That may make it hold more resin and burn longer. Maybe stuffing the pine cone into the sock first??
I like the use of the twigs as spacers. A length of cotton fabric, like a light duty scarf or long bandanna could be laid flat and liquid resin poured over the length of it and then rolled into a tight bundle may provide for a long burn. I'm keeping the socks for my feet! LOL
It would be interesting to see how well a tightly balled up piece of old man's beard does. Maybe it would act as the sock being porous enough to absorb the sap well. Although it would have to be harvested somewhat alive so combustion would be prolonged.
Excellent, excellent, cant wait to give it a go , big thanks from daz in Australia. Our winter season here spending heaps of time in pine forests, during this COVID time keep well keep safe
>In college, the middle of a blizzard. >Walking to class. >Suddenly, blizzard becomes really intense. >Whiteout.jpeg >See an orange light in the distance. >My best bet for survival. >Walk towards it. >See a man in a hoodie with a fucking torch made from a pine branch and resin.. >We have to walk to class together. >Get to the class. >Torch is extinguished is the snow. >Fin
Adding a few tin cans to the bug out bag seems like a good idea. You can do things like this, store things, and easily make a perimeter alarm system with a few pebbles. Still not burning socks. A high temperature metal lattice might make a good resin basin.
Boberoni. All these celebrities deaths lately and all the RIP comments to who ever. The one guy that gets it right is saying R.I.P. To socks. That's cracks me up. Thanks.
Im so happy you left a layer of resin on the tree. Tree rot is no joke. Great video. Wish there were resin trees here. You need to go to a pine plantation for it and its usually private property.
Good point. I generally hold it at my side, and even tilted slightly behind myself if possible. Or if you're wearing a hat with a peak, just hold the torch above your brim's line of site. Just like how you put down your visors in the car when driving toward the sun when it's low on the horizon.
I would add that if you want to take the time to make a more effective torch, you can attach a piece of thick bark that cover 90 - 180 degrees around the flame, so you can shield your eyes from the direct light and retain at least some of your night vision. Then you can see fine.
i like that you always care about the trees. its possible you are actually an elf. my squirrel tak-tak likes your channel but he had a fit when you climbed that tree. he barked until you came down. it was so funny!
heat the knife, stick the knife tip into hot coals for about a min and let the pine resin drip off, be careful if you have a nice handle (which i would ask "why are you using a good knife to scrap pine resin?").
Great experiment. I liked it. Good to know an extra pair of socks and some resin could lead you out of the wilderness at night if I was to get caught out.
@@gametrue2229 Broom (esp a straw broom). When we moved out of a place, we'd 'walled off' a section of the storage area with boxes and furniture. The area under the stairs behind that wall, when we moved out, I swear there was enough cobwebs to weave a swimsuit for a Drow!
Man, I was listening to your voice and it sounds so professional and educated, then.... boom! A Mohawk!! Well, maybe I’m growing old.... The experiment was awesome, I learned a lot, thank you.
If you have the time to look for fatwood, it's like a pre-made version of this type of torch. I've used fatwood for light and kindling that I could light just as easily as these torches, even with a single match, and have hade it burn considerably longer. It can be almost volatile in its flammability, and smell like turpentine or even kerosene, all from sap that pooled in the base of a dead branch. One year, I got a log of the stuff with a load of firewood, and while it was VERY hard and knotty, almost impossible to split into large chunks, as splintery kindling, getting fires started in my over-sized wood stove felt almost like cheating. I don't think I used more than 1 match at a time that whole winter. I could even use cut bits like (dangerous) little candles that smelled like incense! My point is, keep an eye out for possible fatwood, if super-easy-to-start, wonderfully fragrant fire & torches appeal to you!
I read a few comments, not all. Try a combination of those materials, I would save the socks, but ripping a strip off the bottom of a t shirt and wrapped around the pine cone, or just poke holes in the tin can and mix the resin with the cattail. Awsome video, I can tell you enjoy your time in the bush. Semper fi bro.
Good vid. No one has 500 pair of socks. Burn them. Make sandals. Make cordage soaked in same resin. Keep adding wrapped layers for additional 10 min st a time. Your stick will burn and peg structure will be gone. Best bring a duplicate backup. 1 is none 2 is 1
"keep it away from anything that might easily catch fire. basically just use your common sense." yea. like lighting a non secure fireplace in a dry clearing, adding fire-accelerants, and then running arround with that in spruce woods....
puppy in pants evergreen cones are built to survive fire and some will only open if they are burnt- giving their young a chance to out grow the other trees in the burned spaces and fill the canopy using the ashes as fertilizer- fire climax forest creatures have predictable habits
Made some emergency torches using a stick that I wrapped a small book of matches around the tip of, wrapped a tight layer of cheap paper towels on then coated it in wax. The matches allowed me to light the torch easily using either a small flame or striking it on the side of the matchbook. Mine burned for about 35 minutes. Stick was about a half inch thick and wax soaked paper towel made it about an inch thick so could definitely make it last longer using more paper.
In an emergency, the last thing I would use is a pair of socks. I would use one of the other options. A dry pair of socks is important to have. Great video though! Thumbs up
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ShaddyCrunchum it’s the truth. Dry socks are important. If your feet get messed up you get messed up. Lol
My feet are afraid of the dark.
@@ShaddySoldier LUTENTEEEENT! ;D
When using torch, keep it at your side rather than front of you. In darkness the torch will blind you and your visibility will be greatly reduced. But when kept at side it provides light without blinding you (well at least that much). Also drips are less likely to land on your foot and if you happen to trip, you are not faceplanting into the torch.
Reading comments is an education beyond words. Fire is #1 survival rule of first order. The learning never ends. Thanks for opening mind up to endless possibilities.
Your skill says "prepared", your haircut says "apocalypse".
Deadhorse905 Don’t know about you but I saw this guy’s haircut and thought, yup I trust everything he’s about to say...
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@Lance Rattie You sound like a little rat!
Whitewalls.
I like that you took the extra time to do this with a voiceover instead of live narration. The audio level is uniform and everything is clear.
Additionally, you have a great voice. You speak clearly, with a strong resonance.
Thanks! Your feedback is much appreciated.
Agreed! I much prefer a voice-over to live narration. FWIW: I feel this not only sets a more serious tone, it also provides a wonderful effect when mixed with live ambient audio from the on-screen environment.
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Agreed .I like this guy, straight to the facts no annoying music to fill the quiet of the Forrest .easy to watch great channel
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Put the can in the end of the torch, stuff in socks let it soak and set, light it inside the can. It doesn't drip and will burn longer and you can just add more chunks of dry resin as you go.
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Nah, wouldn't make nearly as much light and would blow out pretty easily.
@@rallywagon261 Not if you perforated the top half of the can. This would only be advisable, however, if you have two cans.
Ok Fuck you Google, Fuck you Google ok. So tell me then, do you think doing it your way would keep the sap hot enough to continue gassing? I am not certain lighting it in an open can would keep it gassing without an external heat source.
@@rallywagon261 the op and offensively named fellow is reffering to making a pine sap lamp. They work well enough and have an ancient history of use.
But, then so do torches.
grind the cat tail up, mix it with the resin, in the can, & mount the can in the torch. Refillable!
Kathy Trombley that's genius!
now her is a prime example why woman will always out survive the men.
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Mate, you're an idiot.
Stupid Man your name fits you very well.
Cut holes around the top of can and it doubles as a stove!
you get my respect sir (if that means anything to you) for not just cutting the base of the tree
I remember doing this with a small pine we had in the back yard. You can make a really small cut in a tree and it will OOZE resin within an hour, I find fresh resin is easier to work with.
Use catcins but allow them to sit in the really hot resin, submerged. Once saturated let them cool and harden. Once hardened wrap/ bind them with green bark like a tight woven basket and then dip just the top half inch in resin and leave it to cool and harden again. Make as many as you can and when you need them they are at hand. Only light them at the very top so that they burn down slower, also use as emergency fire lighters. 😀
Save lid of can. Cut slit in lid. Cut cloth into strips and pull through slit. Put resin in can and the tail of the cloth. Secure lid on can. Just like a kerosene lamp.
Good call! Fun
The sap cooling to a solid would be a problem.
@@markbergemann1894 a hot rock or two might give some extra time
When refilling the lid will be to hot to touch so it would kind suck if you need light right then and their
I am going to give it a try. The flame should keep resin liquid enough to wick. Good thinkin'.
I soaked the sock with the pine inside burned for 35 min came in handy I hiked up the mountain went off trail and got lost got dark the torch helped to find the trail again. Thanks a million I saw ur video 2 days before this. 2 miles off .very great full.
Useful resin fact: it is oil soluble, if you got it on your hands/tools and soap doesnt work oil will
My grandmother had a Christmas tree farm. We'd head out there in November amd early Demeber to make wreaths.
To take the pitch off our hands wed take a cube of margerine and wash up with soap after. Margerine works like no other and its super cheap.
I usually just rubbed my hands in the dirt, it doesn't remove it, but the dirt sticks to it, so you can't tell you've got resin on your hands. Of course, you'd clean it off as soon as you can, but its a temporary fix
I just imagined somebody making a torch by spraying fat wood with WD-40.
*I would be that somebody.*
@@WayTruthLife2100 my grandma always used Mayonnaise. Us kids ran around smelling like sandwiches lol
@@danielhamilton2427 Interesting, Mayonnaise and margarine are both made out of oil, good to know.
I've used hobo stoves mounted on a stick as a torch. Burned for a good hour+ and whenever the wind put it out it just re lit itself like a trick candle. A very good makeshift torch idea I'd say
I'd like to see this experiment again, but with soaking instead of coating. I hypothesize that the cattail burned shortest because it simply had a coating of resin with no reservoir. The cone had the spaces under the tabs of it. the socks worked best due to the fact that the weaving process produces so many small holes and natural wicking action pulled more of the resin into the fabric creating a larger reservoir.
Good point. That would be interesting to see.
First time watching your video, thank you so much for teaching me about the tree and also taking the time to make sure you left enough resin for it. It's something so small, but so thoughtful and kind, which is a rare commodity these days.
Other ideas? Historically, torches were made by soaking natural fibre ropes/cordage in kerosene (or any other mixture you can think of/find) and wrapped on a stick. The idea was that the fuel would be consumed but not the "wick", which could be cooled and resoaked and reused. So if you had any time to prep these "just in case" torch heads, try cutting lengths pf thick manila rope, whip the ends to prevent fraying and pre-treat them in your choice fuel, then you can bag them or better yet, dip them in wax of any kind to seal and preserve them, also adding to the burn time. That way all you have to do is source a good stick.
kevlar burn realy good. I use it in the army, almoust melted a stove :)
Because we all know how available refined petroleum mixtures like kerosene were throughout history : P
Or just carry a lamp
Torches were rare historically ( I recommend Lindeybeige’s video on it) they were blinding in the dark if too bright and were far less practical than just carrying and lantern or candle.
@LagiNaLangAko23 glass has existed since the Egyptians.
And yes oil and fats/grease is what was used in lanterns, not kerosene like the OP suggested.
As x-army officer in greece...we use the same technique with socks...but if u find a dry open pinecone.not so closed.it will keep the flames longer due to some openings of the petals than a sock...at your test you use a pair of socks...thus they can hold more resin than a cone but if you do the test with the same volume , socks will burn almost the same time...all the best
Nothing speaks like the voice of experience.
Right on Greek brother. I was thinking the same thing during the video, just thought "well the socks soak up more resin and can hold a lot more
Great video! I honestly have not once considered making a torch and I really enjoyed the video! Only suggestion would be regarding splitting the wood for the torch containing the wick. Just wanted to say instead of trying to pull down on the axe, just get a decent sized log about the width of your arm and use that to hammer the axe. Minimize your chances of injury. Great video dude!
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Nice video as always.
how to ruin your knife 101 video.
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@@thetawave2473 jealous of what?
I remember my brother and I making those up when I was a boy. We thought that we made that up ourselves. No one ever showed us how to make them but we used pine cones in between a split four way stick and just used a little pine pitch and stone and steel to ignite them.
When we got a little older 3-4 grade, we found out that this was just one way that was known for as long as known.
Funny how it all just seemed to be naturally known something that we knew how without being taught or shown one before. Miss those days in the deserts and wooded mtns of the West by northwestern down to the west by southwestern lower 48
You should always fall out of the tree, it's faster than climbing down .
+WiIdbiII lol
i loled, but i actually have more problems climbing down (in vertical) than up so i would probably literally jump (and perhaps, very possible to hurt my ankle tripping on a pine cone)
into freezing water just before night fall..a wise decision .lol
The Outsider if you want your torch to last longer mix birch oil with the resin.
An unexpected chuckle ALWAYS brightens the day. WARM greetings from TOronto!
Binding the torch with spruce root, packing the inside with dry sticks, and load it with resin. The spruce roots will make a basket, they're wet, etc. Great work.
Yes, wrapping birch bark tightly and inserting resin in between layers.
I usually get some birch bark curls, some eastern red cedar bark, and some resin to make a torch. The cedar traps the pine resin in as it burns, and the birch bark also burns, but it prevents you from losing any resin. I once had burning tree resin burn me. It wasn’t fun.
great video. I like the torch material comparison, very useful.
if I know that a pine cone burns at 15 mins and I know the distance to be traveled, I can prep enough cones to walk all night
Replacing the cones isn't ideal. If you don't have something to light it with. It will probably go out while replacing bit still a good idea
Ideally you would carry a few chunks of solid resin in a pouch, and just keep smearing it on the burning torch as needed
Cut the socks into long strips about 4 inches wide (if possible). Smear the fabric along the length of the strip with warmed (not melted) resin. Roll each strip up, strip over strip and place into the receptacle you fashioned from the green wood. Great channel!!! Thanks!
I’ve done this too as a demo for my kids. But there is one very important step that you left out. Avoid trees with poison ivy. No matter how much primo resin is up there, a bad case of poison ivy will make things much worse from a survival standpoint.
Also avoid trees that are protected by mountain lions or bears. They do not like people stealing their resin.
Unless you happen to know for a fact you're not allergic to poison ivy. Then you can use it like fucking Virginia creeper.
Good point but painfully obvious.
He said, use common sense
well duh
Something else for a torch? Flashligth burns very long. Seriously doing this with a voiceover was very professionnal, clear, very educative. thumbs up!!
The first thought that came to my mind for another wick test was Spanish moss, but regular moss might work also. If you lashed reeds tightly together, they might act as tubes to hold the resin.
Spanish moss isnt really a moss. But what regular moss were you thinking would work?
We soaked cat tails in gasoline for torches when we was kids. We explored the sewer systems using them for light. Good video. Thanks.
"Keep away from anything that might easily catch fire." ***walks into dense pine forest***
I was searching for this comment :DDD
Thank you for the demonstration. Years ago when my semi-dry Christmas tree caught fire I discovered how potent a fire hazard its resin was. I learned to stuff a few cones as "accelerant" when I would start my wood stove. Now, my son's old socks would be used as Tiki torch for summer lighting and mosquito repellant on our porch. 25 minutes is a lot of time for one pair of old socks! LOL.
I think Jute Twine would make a great wick for a pine resin torch. You could even use it with an open (seedless) pine cone by wrapping/weaving it through the cone and the natural scoops may even hold the resin better.
Jute twine is interesting; I think it would make a marvellous wick for any given candle, the twine can be put to use as lashing or made into rope, if the circumstances TRULY called for it you could drop the whole roll into resin, soak it, and light it to have a decently long lasting torch. I would say that might last as long if not longer than the socks honestly; will test when next I habe a spare roll.
(I made a garden fence from it once before, lasted all year in the desert despite bad monsoons. The elements calcified it so it took some time to actually light)
Jute Twine is one of those things I always have a roll of in every pack I own , truly awesome stuff... Light weight , takes up next to no room , dirt cheap & much like Duct Tape has a 100 uses..
My grandad made torches from evergreens by chopping into the trunk of the tree around a branch about 1.5 inches in diameter by using the burl wood in the trunk he had the resin needed for fuel. The branch needs to be alive and pliable for the torch to last. I tried it once and it worked pretty well.
Wowww, what a interesting video. Very exciting comparison between socks , cattails and pine cones . Thank you for this great video !! Greets from Switzerland
Felix
Felix Immler s
Its actually pretty dumb though. Almost all recorded fatalities that occur in the wilderness is when someone is alone and injures themselves. You can survive for many weeks with just water, and there are safer ways to make a fire, so traveling at night doesn't make a lot of sense anyway. It would be far too easy to accidentally fall when climbing down a tree like that, or it has a termite infested branch or is more slippery than you thought, or even just the final dismount you hit a root and twist your ankle badly, and now you're immobile with no one for help. The #1 rule for survival is to avoid all unnecessary risk.
Great! You are so resourceful !!
@louiseleu OK bigfoot.
Super video! Looks like a great way to 'light' the night plus carry fire from one campsite to another easily, especially if you use several of your torches to keep the fire going! Thanks for such a great tip! Save bushcrafting to you and yours always!
When I was in Boy Scouts, about fifty years ago, we would sometimes put the pine sap into a can, heat it up, and then light it directly.
@The Outsider
Good clip, thanks. I appreciate that you had to use what was available WHEN it was available, just as one has to do in a real survival situation: that said, if the cat tails can are picked long after they have seeded, they are often still on the plant many months later, and they are then really fluffy, like a Fat Freddy.s Cat tail, so much so that a good stand of them could provide not only a much better wick than the one you were obliged to use here, but as the down is easily plucked out, a good stand of them will provide very warm down (each one provides about as much insulating down as big as.a base ball). If you have any sort of bag, or can improvise one, you can easily make a pillow, sleeping bag, etc in about 30 minutes ,and/or stuff you clothing with them.
I'm sure you know this, but it's worth pointing out that the stems of dead ones make a reasonable fire drill, and the roots can be roasted (they're not bad, and full of carbs. The young stems can also be eaten.
When the heads are really fluffy, they should burn longer and drip less- packing dry grass into the resin should also help to "key" the resin and make it drip a little less.
These are great videos. After watching the Alone tv series and with me not knowing ny of this stuff, it's great to be able to gain some knowledge from your videos. You never know when you'd be in a real survival situation
Great ideas!! I could almost smell the resin. Love it.
Awesome video! it's nice how you tried three different materials to see which would burn longer! Thanks for sharing!
Kathy makes a good point grind in the cats tail or anything fibery to add to the integrity of the resin when it cools might add a little time too it. Excellent video I’ve learned a lot
Great video man.
It's cool to learn these things you can do with natural materials.
I always made my resin torches using nothing but resin, some cedar bark, and some sort of clothing or something to hold the resin in place. The finer in the bark would help hold and contain the resin as it burned, and the thing holding it in place would keep it in place. It’s a really good survival/bushcraft skill to have as well.
Thank you for the memories, these old skills will be the what will matter if the world ever tried to do that “green new deal” or extremely bad electric grid destruction no matter if natural, terrorists or war attack, these skills will be the difference between living or dying. Life of the pioneers, mtn men and the first peoples, including my father’s blood father and my mas grandma’s ancestors skills of survival.
How many Idahoans remember back in the 60’s the schools would try to teach some desert survival skills in the class rooms before and while out in the desert to learn about the pioneer history by partnering up, two by two, to make a shelter, fire using one of a few different techniques, find water and or make a ‘watergen’ water collection system using rocks, dirt, fine cloth or plastic garbage bag with homemade water catcher. Make up own hunting traps and other hunting/self protection tools using natural materials as well as any other tools to help survival chances such as fire signaling setups and great SOS signs with contrasting materials.
I remember the only things that they supplied to us was a plastic bag, roll of string and rock of obsidian if I remember they also let those who brought a lunch could keep it for the end of the trip.
The best survival torch I've seen is not getting lost in the first place 👌
i liked your turch and no anoing music you got a suscriber.
nice.
Jose Lopez I hate when videos play background music. And it is inevitable on a short loop and it just gets really annoying and repetitious.
You right tbh
You can do something similar with rush, take a long piece and soak it in the heated resin and you get a candle that can last from an hour to only ten or so minutes depending on the length of rush used and the amount of resin soaked into it. Traditionally, animal fats were used, but resin will work just fine, rushlights as they're called are also brighter than most traditional candles.
There are mushrooms that grow on trees called conks. There's on called a tinder conk and it will last for a super long time. It's very hard and dense, and it's very common. You don't need sap, it doesn't hold a flame, but it will keep an ember for a long ass time. It's safer to travel with IMO. It also has some medicinal uses but you need to alcohol extract the compounds.
horseshoe or charcoal Fungus works like that too.
charcoal Fungus is recocnisable by its charcoal like appearance. and horseshoe Fungus by its crème like horseshoe appearance
Echo Chamber Infiltrator
You are referring to a woody mycelium known as chaga.
Very medicinal.
A double decoction of alcohol then water will extract all of the available bio nutrients however a hot water extraction will suffice as well. I routinely perform long decoctions using water only.
You are correct in using a piece of chaga to transport a coal from one place to another.
One technique is to bore a hole through one end of the piece of chaga and attach a lanyard.
This allows for easy carry and the lit chaga can be twirled occasionally to ensure that it remains lit.
Primitive skills instructor and herbalist
30+ years experience
Bill
Great tip guys didn't know about that fungus. But to be fair that wouldn't work as a light or to fence off wildlife
Tinder bundle fungus. Grows on dead Beech and Oak trees. In WWI the soldiers got their wounds treated with those fungus to help stop the bleeding and to counter infections and bacteria from doing nasty things in the wounds.
Whoever invented this is a genius!
great video as always. I swear you need to call audible and start reading books for them. your voice is incredibly soothing. LOL. Thanks for the informative video. that could come in very handy.
Maybe he's already using audible 🤔
delighted that you left resin on that bark :)
i remember as a kid my dad wanted to chop a tree down in the garden i hacked at it with my toy hammers and plastic saw the next day we went to chop it down. my mum said the tree had been crying snd that was the sap at that point i told my dad i didnt want to chop it down. the tree still stands!
Random story... lol one time, at band camp. ...
thats sweet 😊
It was crying fr tho
Great demo! Thanks for taking the time to teach! This answered a life long question of how and what to use. So, The internet does have a little to offer! Thanks Brother!
I did not expect a mohawk
He's possibly doing a Native American tribe style cut. I thought maybe he might have Native American blood in him and that he was following in the footsteps of his ancestors. But yes its possible that all it is, is a mohawk and that's how he rolls. Either way, it doesn't matter.
It's not a Mohawk, it's a Hawk named Mo.
@@traininggrounds9450 dude get over yourself and stop trying to tell everyone what you THINK this man's haircut is for. You're wrong. It's 2020, thats why he has a fu**en mohawk. Not because of some Native American tribute.
@@SkinnySkinch Man I said nothing wrong or pretentious. You come at me like you've got something to prove. The thing you said of me is true of you, get over yourself. And what does 2020 have anything to do with my comment? Are you inane? Yes you are
Excellent. I think the upside to the cone wick is the ability to resupply. Use up your socks and you’ve got big problems. Better to have a short-burning, sustainable-wick torch than a long burning torch and wet feet.
A safe way to melt anything from wax to resin would be to have put the can in a pot of boiling water so the temp never goes above 100 degrees C
@@SamLopeZz No, if it's immersed in the water, the water will keep it at 100 degrees.
I've melted wax in a BBQ before. It's a charcoal BBQ. The wax chunks are placed in a tin can, and a small tea candle is placed in the bottom of the cheap charcoal bbq. Then, the lid is closed as the temperature slowly rises. The BBQ is meant to sit on a table, and isn't that great in general, but it's been good for this and other small projects. It takes a long time for the wax to melt, but it's very low heat and safe. I also use the same method to try to render cooking grease and fat to make little tuna can burners with cardboard wicks in them.
Just Wow. I had no idea in the forest nature really does provide everything you need. Awesome video 👍
6:36 damn.. Where do you live to have a forest that dark in the daytime.
A fairytale forest.
Probably late afternoon or early morning with good tree density
Here in the Northern rockies, I have made very similar with pine sap and "moose moss" a long stringy lichen that grows in conifer trees everywhere. Its a great wick! 25 minutes no problem with a wad the size of a golfball.
Excellent work. I would be interested to see some fibrous material stuffed into the sock and the resin poured into it. That may make it hold more resin and burn longer. Maybe stuffing the pine cone into the sock first??
I had a similar thought but found this comment first lol
I like the use of the twigs as spacers. A length of cotton fabric, like a light duty scarf or long bandanna could be laid flat and liquid resin poured over the length of it and then rolled into a tight bundle may provide for a long burn. I'm keeping the socks for my feet! LOL
It would be interesting to see how well a tightly balled up piece of old man's beard does. Maybe it would act as the sock being porous enough to absorb the sap well. Although it would have to be harvested somewhat alive so combustion would be prolonged.
You're scaring me!!!
Kevy Moranski Not that kind of Old Man's Beard! Nice beard though.
I'm curious to know where I can get some old man's beard!?
+Melo M
$5/" here, I have 7.5".
+ Kevy Moranski
you lost me at + Melo M
;)
Excellent, excellent, cant wait to give it a go , big thanks from daz in Australia. Our winter season here spending heaps of time in pine forests, during this COVID time keep well keep safe
>In college, the middle of a blizzard.
>Walking to class.
>Suddenly, blizzard becomes really intense.
>Whiteout.jpeg
>See an orange light in the distance.
>My best bet for survival.
>Walk towards it.
>See a man in a hoodie with a fucking torch made from a pine branch and resin..
>We have to walk to class together.
>Get to the class.
>Torch is extinguished is the snow.
>Fin
Bilbo_Gamers lol
i dotn get it
Adding a few tin cans to the bug out bag seems like a good idea. You can do things like this, store things, and easily make a perimeter alarm system with a few pebbles. Still not burning socks. A high temperature metal lattice might make a good resin basin.
R.I.P socks
Boberoni no toilet paper? good bye socks
Boberoni. All these celebrities deaths lately and all the RIP comments to who ever. The one guy that gets it right is saying R.I.P. To socks. That's cracks me up. Thanks.
Focusing on the Mohawk you end up missing the heavenly glory
Very good video thank you
Getting bush oil out of dead tree roots is a hoote as well.
Nice tip, thanks for sharing
Im so happy you left a layer of resin on the tree. Tree rot is no joke. Great video. Wish there were resin trees here. You need to go to a pine plantation for it and its usually private property.
I want to know how to hold the torch so I can see! If you hold it in front of you, you can't see a thing!
Good point. I generally hold it at my side, and even tilted slightly behind myself if possible. Or if you're wearing a hat with a peak, just hold the torch above your brim's line of site. Just like how you put down your visors in the car when driving toward the sun when it's low on the horizon.
I would add that if you want to take the time to make a more effective torch, you can attach a piece of thick bark that cover 90 - 180 degrees around the flame, so you can shield your eyes from the direct light and retain at least some of your night vision. Then you can see fine.
Hold your other hand up between the fire and your eyes.
Must everything be explained...
i like that you always care about the trees. its possible you are actually an elf.
my squirrel tak-tak likes your channel but he had a fit when you climbed that tree. he barked until you came down. it was so funny!
blu juju this comment confuses me completely lol
He will never be able to get that knife (or that sock) clean again.
i had the same thought.. pine resin is damn hard to get off things. any solutions to this problem?
Yes but it would make a handy knife torch...!!!
vibhupande you could use anything... you could sharpen a stick and then take it off with that, then only use that stick to take of the resin 👍👍🌲🔥
+vibhupande
Late response, but alcohol works well to get rid of sticky substances.
Flour will also work, but not quite as well.
heat the knife, stick the knife tip into hot coals for about a min and let the pine resin drip off, be careful if you have a nice handle (which i would ask "why are you using a good knife to scrap pine resin?").
The socks held more sap than the other items, hence the longer burn time. That is a cool video. Thanx.
resin is mother nature wax.
obsidian is mother nature glass.
yep.. and also a game developer.. :D
No, bee's wax is mother nature's wax.
Great experiment. I liked it. Good to know an extra pair of socks and some resin could lead you out of the wilderness at night if I was to get caught out.
Combining the spruce cone with the cat tail in the resin save the socks to keep your feet warm
I was a pyrotechnics technician in the entertainment industry we found that tampons made great wicks
That was a very cool idea. I have to try that. :)
i use to make torches like this... i used spider webs as the wick 1 time (an experiment). they work OK but burn too quickly,.
Michael Weigel tf did you get spider webs from?
@@gametrue2229 Spiders, I'd imagine.
Tom Roberts ... how would he harvest it
@@gametrue2229 Broom (esp a straw broom). When we moved out of a place, we'd 'walled off' a section of the storage area with boxes and furniture. The area under the stairs behind that wall, when we moved out, I swear there was enough cobwebs to weave a swimsuit for a Drow!
Tom Roberts cool, i thought it would be too old and be brittle
Man, I was listening to your voice and it sounds so professional and educated, then.... boom! A Mohawk!! Well, maybe I’m growing old.... The experiment was awesome, I learned a lot, thank you.
cotton or wool socks ok...synthetic socks = toxic smoke 😫
😌👍
Ben Joseph Ben survival nuff said
Socks you already wore= toxic
Burning wool may emit cyanide
If you're doing it right the socks aren't suppose to burn much. Remember it's just a wick
If you have the time to look for fatwood, it's like a pre-made version of this type of torch. I've used fatwood for light and kindling that I could light just as easily as these torches, even with a single match, and have hade it burn considerably longer. It can be almost volatile in its flammability, and smell like turpentine or even kerosene, all from sap that pooled in the base of a dead branch. One year, I got a log of the stuff with a load of firewood, and while it was VERY hard and knotty, almost impossible to split into large chunks, as splintery kindling, getting fires started in my over-sized wood stove felt almost like cheating. I don't think I used more than 1 match at a time that whole winter. I could even use cut bits like (dangerous) little candles that smelled like incense! My point is, keep an eye out for possible fatwood, if
super-easy-to-start, wonderfully fragrant fire & torches appeal to you!
Be awere of flaming pieces falling of the tourch and starting an accidental forestfire it can decimate whole forest ares of Wood.
I read a few comments, not all. Try a combination of those materials, I would save the socks, but ripping a strip off the bottom of a t shirt and wrapped around the pine cone, or just poke holes in the tin can and mix the resin with the cattail. Awsome video, I can tell you enjoy your time in the bush. Semper fi bro.
I wish I could still climb like that...So, the socks burned longer & brighter, but they probably stank the most...
You sir look nothing like the typical outdoorsman. I approve so very much lol. Thanks for the content.
No, he looks like a skater who got lost in the woods in 1981
I used a John Wick DVD.
Noice
I now know of a good use for my old socks! Thank you for the tip.
4:31 a wild pidgeotto appears!
Literally nothing appeared there..
the dude looks like pidgeotto
DOOO! made me look..lol...
Good vid. No one has 500 pair of socks. Burn them. Make sandals. Make cordage soaked in same resin. Keep adding wrapped layers for additional 10 min st a time. Your stick will burn and peg structure will be gone. Best bring a duplicate backup. 1 is none 2 is 1
A twinkly, a corndog and a Yorkshire Terriers
Who would thumb this down, really this was awesome.
You shoulda edited that tree climb bro
I like your videos. They make me want to go out into the backwoods and forage.
"keep it away from anything that might easily catch fire. basically just use your common sense."
yea. like lighting a non secure fireplace in a dry clearing, adding fire-accelerants, and then running arround with that in spruce woods....
No good story EVER started with, "after I took the proper safety precautions I proceeded with care"
You got a point
Killjoy
Just wanted you to know that my obsession with different saps and fat wood started here. So thank you. It's a lifestyle now.
hello, i am a evergreen tree... i love being burned down.... not only am i made out of wood... but i also PUMP MYSELF FULL OF FUCKING NAPALM
puppy in pants evergreen cones are built to survive fire and some will only open if they are burnt- giving their young a chance to out grow the other trees in the burned spaces and fill the canopy using the ashes as fertilizer- fire climax forest creatures have predictable habits
Made some emergency torches using a stick that I wrapped a small book of matches around the tip of, wrapped a tight layer of cheap paper towels on then coated it in wax. The matches allowed me to light the torch easily using either a small flame or striking it on the side of the matchbook. Mine burned for about 35 minutes. Stick was about a half inch thick and wax soaked paper towel made it about an inch thick so could definitely make it last longer using more paper.