Hi Dave, been following this series with great interest, and i harvested some of this fungus a month ago, from an Oak. Tried everything to ignite it with my ferro rod, with no success, but saw dust!! fantastic! Next time in the woods, walking the dog, will give it a shot! Thanks, Andy
Excellent video Dave, i usually find horsehoof fungus on the local birch trees here in southern ontario. The spongy material under the woody xylem type part of the fungus takes a spark well too as you probably already know. Thanks for uploading.
Ever since the Chaga vid I have been looking around here in SW Maine but have not seen any....very frustrating. I think I may be able to find this. Thanks for the tip and hope you can get out of bed for many more mornings.
Awsome video again Dave. It´s hard to catch a spark on horseshoe fungus with flint and steel great job. In my video I show it straight from the birch and with a swedish firesteel. Regards Adrian
I wonder if it would work to place a pinch of this stuff in to notch of your mantle in order to expedite a coal when using the bow drill or hand drill instead of spending all that time creating the dust pile in the notch the regular way?
What's funny is I've been trying to make fire with horseshoe fungus and having zero success. The problem was I was treating it like tinder fungus. I suppose if you didn't want to use a saw a file would as well. Thanks for the video good stuff as usual.
Is there a resin in the horseshoe fungus? Does it grow mostly on pines where it absorbs the resin? Speaking of fungus do you hunt morels? The time is near here in Illinois. I would love to see videos of that.
Every video is a golden nugget of practical knowledge. Hopefully I will be able to attend some of your classes one day, I can only imagine how much info ill walk away with.
was it a more recent or an older model? by which i mean korea wwII era. because i have 1 that i ve used for years ( it saw service in pacific, made in olean ny) batoned much. i ve never met any who said they arent bullet proof.
Thanks for the video Dave, I really enjoy the basic skills you teach, and I'm slowly picking up on the more advanced. It's great stuff to teach my own children.
Boy if you dried it out and ground it fine, you would really have something. Like Mitch said about Chaga, just break off a chunk and throw it in your pack and forget it for a while, and it will dry. I'll play around with it. Thanks!
@wildernessoutfitters Excellent Dave. This is the 1st thing I have witnessed in nature that will take a spark from "true" flint & steel right away without some kind of drying & processing. Is this a new discovery? My hat is off to you! In theory this should work in the rain or wet conditions. If harvested in the rain the material in the center should be the same and protected.
There are many types of Bracken fungus but is this like the hard Bracken fungus? I have looked for years for the horse hoof kind in WV but have not found any yet. I've not stopped looking.
Dave i went on your website to look at the trade knife and saw that it was $100. i dont mean to be mean or say anything bad about the knife i just was wondering if it was worth it because a few weeks ago i bought a USMC ka-Bar and the blade broke off simply batoning so i didnt want to spend another hundred dollars on something i cant rely on. again im not saying anything bad about it im just making sure its a good knife. thanks
I just picked some old dead ones off a dead birch a week ago. I use the hard old ones. I think it is part of the Polypore family like Chaga. I call them Horsehoof, or False tinder fungus, & Amadu is what I call the orange "wooly feeling" layer that's just underneath the hard outside . I also think we are likely talking about the same thing. But old growth/dead stuff for me. :) BTW, over time I have found that many dead bracket/shelf type fungus will work as tinders. Check it out! Enjoy! :D
In German this is Zunderschwamm in Danish this is Tøndersvamp both literally mean tinder fungus. I know this is NOT what is usually referred to as tinder fungus but it has been used as such for thousands of years in areas with no chaga. You can boil it in a lye solution to make it more potent. this is the traditional European way of striking fire with flint and steel. Thanks for a great vid. Keep them coming!!!!!!!
Hey Dave, I enjoy all your vids and have to share a quick storu. after watching a couple Chaga vids, I was out collecting birch bark and grabbed a couple of these and threw them in a burlap bag for a couple of months.After watching this one I checked it out , lit it , threw it out in a rainstorrm and it kept burning for hours! Good Stuff Man keep it up. thx
Horsehoe fungus is in finnish arinakääpä. That mean something like grate fungus, because they used to throw that on the grate in their ovens back in the days when those were wood-burning and there were no matches. Idea was to keep the ember alive for the next time oven would be heated. One fist size fungus doe ssmolder over 6 hours.
We definitely have them in Minnesota. I am in SEMinn & we use them all the time, but we dry them & /or char them like charcloth to use with flint/steel. Great stuff. We only use the orange layer that is spongelike. Just under the hard outside. Not the outside or the fibered inner part. Enjoy! :)
This is quite interesting to me...True tinder fungus doesn't grow out here in California, but shelf fungus is everywhere. I've been meaning to grab a chunk and dry it out and see how it works, but...hadn't yet. Now i'm going to have to give this a go.
Fomes fomentarius is what I am using. & it appears to be what Dave used here in the video.Wikipedia has a nice little article about it. :) Thanks to Dave for the video! Looks like it has generated quite a bit of interest! :D
This is off topic but I am trying to find a way to force a pantina on a stainless steel knife I have done with carbon using vinegar but did not work with stainless. If someone knows that would be great.
Great video, just wondering, sorry if I'd missed it, but have you ever covered the uses of punk wood? Tree fungus seems to be a bit hard to find, at least for me, around here in Oklahoma.
Lol well I hope you can get outta bed tomorrow so I can learn more! Seriously, thanks for the videos! Keep posting for as long as you can. We learn so much from you. Thanks again brother.
hey Dave i have enjoyed watching your videos and wanted to start doing more stuff along these lines was just wondering where did you even start to accumulate your knowledge?
How about a video on finding flint or rocks that will work like flint? Great video by the way! I really enjoy you common sense, common man approach to things!
Hi Dave! Not sure if you've seen this already but I just watched a video of a guy that did an experiment with hoof fungus. He cut the spongy part out, (don't remember what its called) and sliced it into slivers. Then he processed it like you would char cloth. Not all the way, just enough to have a char layer. It took a flint and steel spark on the first hit just like char cloth does. If you try it, it would validate his experiment. It would be great if you don't have a cotton shirt to rip up!
Hi Dave, been following this series with great interest, and i harvested some of this fungus a month ago, from an Oak. Tried everything to ignite it with my ferro rod, with no success, but saw dust!! fantastic! Next time in the woods, walking the dog, will give it a shot! Thanks, Andy
Thanks Dave, I have see those growing as east as MN.
Love me some Dave Canterbury! Thanks for sharing your wisdom, Dave!
Excellent video Dave, i usually find horsehoof fungus on the local birch trees here in southern ontario. The spongy material under the woody xylem type part of the fungus takes a spark well too as you probably already know.
Thanks for uploading.
There is a lot of horseshoe fungus here in eastern Canada. I learned something new today!
Ever since the Chaga vid I have been looking around here in SW Maine but have not seen any....very frustrating. I think I may be able to find this. Thanks for the tip and hope you can get out of bed for many more mornings.
Awsome video again Dave. It´s hard to catch a spark on horseshoe fungus with flint and steel great job. In my video I show it straight from the birch and with a swedish firesteel. Regards Adrian
Thank you. Appreciate all the help I can get...
just wanted to say again love what you do brother
Dave I would love to see a video with your opinion on "fire pistons" and "pump drills" for making fire.
Great tip. Thanks for sharing your skills.
maybe a birch bark cylinder would help direct the sparks to the tinder a bit
I wonder if it would work to place a pinch of this stuff in to notch of your mantle in order to expedite a coal when using the bow drill or hand drill instead of spending all that time creating the dust pile in the notch the regular way?
What's funny is I've been trying to make fire with horseshoe fungus and having zero success. The problem was I was treating it like tinder fungus. I suppose if you didn't want to use a saw a file would as well.
Thanks for the video good stuff as usual.
thats why here in germany we call this the "zunderschwamm" or tinder fungus;) thanks for the video dave
Keep on keepin on brother!!!!!!!!!!!!
You answered the question I had. I was wondering if this would work a few weeks back when I ran across some. Thanks for the research for me 8).
Great vid as always! We are lucky in Georgia. We have tons of it! Great info!
I wonder if you can char that stuff to make it work easier with the flint and steel.
Is there a resin in the horseshoe fungus? Does it grow mostly on pines where it absorbs the resin? Speaking of fungus do you hunt morels? The time is near here in Illinois. I would love to see videos of that.
Thanks Dave. Great video. How does it work as a hearth for a bow drill?
Nice find.
Great stuff Dave. Thank you!
@wildernessoutfitters can you use lint as charcloth of a fire starter in the same manner as you use tree fungus
Thanks I will check it out.
2nd!!! but anyways, do you know if there are any easily found, edible fungus in the Pacific Northwest?
So if you do in fact dry it out....would it work even better as tinder?
Nxt time Dave send me the Blanket.
Do you know if horseshoe fungus grows in Ky?
Thank you sir
thankyou
i have that stuff all over by my house lol need to save some for when im out and about
if i go camping dave better b there
Ciao quanto costa il coltello? lo spedite anche in italia??
Cool!
Every video is a golden nugget of practical knowledge. Hopefully I will be able to attend some of your classes one day, I can only imagine how much info ill walk away with.
does Chaga grow in mich and Ohio
works better after charring. alos charred works go
od in a fire piston...just dont char it too long.
know as amadou
I think you you could use a cameraman...
3rd!!!!!!!
was it a more recent or an older model? by which i mean korea wwII era. because i have 1 that i ve used for years ( it saw service in pacific, made in olean ny) batoned much. i ve never met any who said they arent bullet proof.
Love these old videos...young Dave laying the smack down...LOL
Thanks for the video Dave, I really enjoy the basic skills you teach, and I'm slowly picking up on the more advanced. It's great stuff to teach my own children.
Hey Dave is that the preform of Coxsackie Gren I gave you back a the basics class?
...with flint and steel..., very good!!! Thanks for showing.
Boy if you dried it out and ground it fine, you would really have something. Like Mitch said about Chaga, just break off a chunk and throw it in your pack and forget it for a while, and it will dry. I'll play around with it. Thanks!
Dave ..! why are you lighting this on your blanket ...? is that something acceptable/or your suggesting to do..to do in the wild ?
@wildernessoutfitters Excellent Dave. This is the 1st thing I have witnessed in nature that will take a spark from "true" flint & steel right away without some kind of drying & processing. Is this a new discovery? My hat is off to you! In theory this should work in the rain or wet conditions. If harvested in the rain the material in the center should be the same and protected.
There are many types of Bracken fungus but is this like the hard Bracken fungus? I have looked for years for the horse hoof kind in WV but have not found any yet. I've not stopped looking.
you don't "force a patina" on a stainless steel knife. that would make no sense.
This makes me wonder if a guy could just shred some dried mushrooms from the grocery store, and save it in a ziplock bag?
Dave
i went on your website to look at the trade knife and saw that it was $100. i dont mean to be mean or say anything bad about the knife i just was wondering if it was worth it because a few weeks ago i bought a USMC ka-Bar and the blade broke off simply batoning so i didnt want to spend another hundred dollars on something i cant rely on. again im not saying anything bad about it im just making sure its a good knife. thanks
I just picked some old dead ones off a dead birch a week ago. I use the hard old ones. I think it is part of the Polypore family like Chaga. I call them Horsehoof, or False tinder fungus, & Amadu is what I call the orange "wooly feeling" layer that's just underneath the hard outside . I also think we are likely talking about the same thing. But old growth/dead stuff for me. :) BTW, over time I have found that many dead bracket/shelf type fungus will work as tinders. Check it out! Enjoy! :D
In German this is Zunderschwamm in Danish this is Tøndersvamp both literally mean tinder fungus. I know this is NOT what is usually referred to as tinder fungus but it has been used as such for thousands of years in areas with no chaga. You can boil it in a lye solution to make it more potent. this is the traditional European way of striking fire with flint and steel. Thanks for a great vid. Keep them coming!!!!!!!
Hey Dave, I enjoy all your vids and have to share a quick storu. after watching a couple Chaga vids, I was out collecting birch bark and grabbed a couple of these and threw them in a burlap bag for a couple of months.After watching this one I checked it out , lit it , threw it out in a rainstorrm and it kept burning for hours! Good Stuff Man keep it up. thx
Horsehoe fungus is in finnish arinakääpä. That mean something like grate fungus, because they used to throw that on the grate in their ovens back in the days when those were wood-burning and there were no matches. Idea was to keep the ember alive for the next time oven would be heated. One fist size fungus doe ssmolder over 6 hours.
thanks for the great video dave. im going to be trying this. im looking into getting a ferro rod.
We definitely have them in Minnesota. I am in SEMinn & we use them all the time, but we dry them & /or char them like charcloth to use with flint/steel. Great stuff. We only use the orange layer that is spongelike. Just under the hard outside. Not the outside or the fibered inner part. Enjoy!
:)
This is quite interesting to me...True tinder fungus doesn't grow out here in California, but shelf fungus is everywhere. I've been meaning to grab a chunk and dry it out and see how it works, but...hadn't yet. Now i'm going to have to give this a go.
Fomes fomentarius is what I am using. & it appears to be what Dave used here in the video.Wikipedia has a nice little article about it.
:)
Thanks to Dave for the video! Looks like it has generated quite a bit of interest!
:D
This is off topic but I am trying to find a way to force a pantina on a stainless steel knife I have done with carbon using vinegar but did not work with stainless. If someone knows that would be great.
Great video, just wondering, sorry if I'd missed it, but have you ever covered the uses of punk wood? Tree fungus seems to be a bit hard to find, at least for me, around here in Oklahoma.
Lol well I hope you can get outta bed tomorrow so I can learn more! Seriously, thanks for the videos! Keep posting for as long as you can. We learn so much from you.
Thanks again brother.
hey Dave i have enjoyed watching your videos and wanted to start doing more stuff along these lines was just wondering where did you even start to accumulate your knowledge?
How about a video on finding flint or rocks that will work like flint? Great video by the way! I really enjoy you common sense, common man approach to things!
Thanks for sharing Dave.
you can "carry fire" with it i think i Ray Mears put an ember in the whole fungi and carried it for hours to light a new fire
Wow!! Good information! I will try this out! Thanks
Dave, I live in N. Calif. what kind of Fungus grows in my area?
Great video's and lots of good information.
Chuck
theres alot if stuff that looks like that in the northwest....would it work the same as that horse shoe fungus??
we get that in the northern regions too im from N.W.T and it grows there maybe not the same variety but similar
ok , thanks , I should know better ...lol.. sorry
God bless you, Dave! Does horse shoe have other useful benefits? Is it edible? Is it a good tea?
I love your videos because im in the eastern woodlands as well so they all apply! KEEP EM COMING!
Does anyone know of anything in Florida that works like this?
Dave, can this be eaten or made into a tea like chaga? Does it have any medicinal properties?
Great tip Dave. thanks for the great videos =D
Still loving the videos, best of luck in the future!
p.s Make some more Dual survival!
Thanks Dave so cool to see a tv person on RUclips making videos I love this Thankyou
great job, i dont nkow the real name, but in méxico this fungus grow in may trees
bad ass the real deal right there very hard to do love it 11
We got'em in canada so I'm pretty sure you got'em in Minn.
informative video, thanks!
what tree types does this little gem like to grow on???
I learned something today. That is good thanks Dave.
Good find dave.Thanks for sharing.
or any type of mushroom like the horseshoe fungus
Great vid brother, keep it up, we love it...
What is the name of the song in the intro ?
you need to do a vid on making moonshine
What knife were you using in this vid?
Hi Dave! Not sure if you've seen this already but I just watched a video of a guy that did an experiment with hoof fungus. He cut the spongy part out, (don't remember what its called) and sliced it into slivers. Then he processed it like you would char cloth. Not all the way, just enough to have a char layer. It took a flint and steel spark on the first hit just like char cloth does. If you try it, it would validate his experiment. It would be great if you don't have a cotton shirt to rip up!
WOW, cool. I dry mine to catch a spark. I never thought to just saw it and try it.Sweet. Thanks bro.
great stuff my friend great stuff
Looks like a Phellinus species.
Great man :)
Thanks for another great video.
also known as a black sorrel.
Great vid Dave! Greetings from Sweden in "spring clothing"...
its called artist's conk