Make a Primitive Birch Bark Bowl
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- This is step by step instructions on how to make a primitive free standing birch bark bowl. This bowl can be used as a cup as well though it is more useful as a bowl. It will sit upright on a flat surface unlike most of the birch bark liquid containers demonstrated on the net. To make this bowl it might be easier to first practice the design using a standard sheet of paper a couple times. Birch bark if handled too much in the wrong way can lead to splits and cracks therefore a finished vessel that leaks and won't hold liquids. Hope you find the video useful. Subscribe to my channel if this is the sort of videos you like to see. Thanks for watching.
Now this is a neat trick. I never heard of heating the bark first. Thank you alot for sharing !
This guy is more real world legit than probably anyone else on youtube. He shows the goods in real time. It's not practiced because it is so practiced.
I live in an area with absolutely no rocks that can safely be used for rock boiling. I have been desperately searching for an extremely quick way of boiling water to drink in a survival situation. You have just answered my prayers! =)
Thank you so much for taking the time to film and post this video.
really cool. natives of the northern forest were lucky to have such a versatile material.
Very cool. My Native Elders showed me this once. You could also make strips with birch bark and weave it like a basket. Soaking the bark in hot water will make it pliable to.And the water after infusing with the bark is good head ache medicine.
I had trouble doing this in the winter as the bark is very brittle. I knew the bark was resinous but didn't even think to loosen it up over the fire. Very very handy tip. Great video. Two thumbs up.
A confession from a hardheaded numb skull oldman.
10 or so years ago i was shown a youtube video of some teenage kids acting like teenage kids. I thought that was youtube.
I only started watching youtube about 4 years ago. WOW it is good to learn and learn i have. Some of the tricks that could save a life to just being fascinating.
After watching many of your videos i have never seen one that i did not enjoy. Your channel was among the first handful i watched and was hooked and subscribed after one video. I still am only subscribed to a few channels due to time and info overload. To much info in pushes other info out (small caveman brain)
Bless the two of you for sharing your time, life and joy's with the world.
You are an amazing guy! Thank you for teaching us how to make a bowl out of the bark skin.
The more bushcraft videos I watch, the more I get convinced that once you find a birch tree, all your problems are solved instantly :o)
Martin lol. Well indeed they are a very useful tree. On the other hand, most trees are very useful once a person learns their many uses.
Your voice sounds different, clearer without the beard. Nice example of natural tools.
A nice little rim of opposing sided bark around the top would keep it straight on the sides, too. I never saw pegs like you made. They would work well for a large container, then they wouldn't be in your way. I loved sitting by the fire (I enlarged the video) with you in your shelter. It was nice that there was lots of room for me! Now what were you saying about stew? Do you cook in the bowl?
this must be one of the best vids i have seen in a long time . great job
I ran across this on prepperdome.com, goods to see people are sharing your vids Lonnie! another great one.
You can also cook in it by filling with water and heating it to a boil by placing red hot rocks in it from the fire.
great idea.ill try this the next time im in the woods for sure!
great instructional, thanks
A valuable instructional video. Thank You..!
Great vid, Thank you. This would be useful to cool boiled water before putting it into a non heat-able container (like plastic) for carrying if you have a small metal container and a larger plastic one, like a military canteen and canteen cup.
Hello ole friend did you learn some of your many crafts from natives ? You sure are very crafty. Love watching and learning from such an awesome man
Most of the natives I know and have met, know very little about surviving in the wilderness. Connie and I were planning on going to a bible camp on the Yukon river to teach survival to the local Athabaskan children there in that region. Unfortunately we were not able to go. Much traditional knowledge has been lost over time. Some of the native elders still know quite a bit but they are dying off. The younger generations have not retained much of what the elders knew about wilderness survival.
Thanks for the awesome video Lonnie! I wonder if you can use your birch bowl to boil water in or can this only be used as a bowl and not a pot? Also can you cook with birch bark oil, and use it like a regular cooking oil? Thanks again!
Nice, could even drill some holes and tie each end off, or tie across to make a bucket.
Wow, I thought I was watching from the start of your channel bit I'm way off haha im only like an 8 year viewer. another great video
Nice one and educational. Thank you for posting it.
That's pretty cool! Thanks for sharing.
awesome show. i think ill try that. is that the same lean-to as in your other video? how warm is it in there with the rock reflector and that size of fire? thanks again!
Very cool thanks for posting
great! thanks for sharing.
@phreshayr
basically they did it the same way you did. They are many variations though.
Love your videos. Keep them coming
Hi. great video! Was bark full thickness? Would it burn over fire,if to close?
Its a Keeper... Thanks Brother
I wonder if it wouldn't have been more expedient to fully baton your clothespins, then once your folds were completed, lash the clothespins together to clamp the folds.
wow
so simple
Thanks.phreshayr!
Hi ya Lonnie! This is y I watch ur videos, u show the whole process, other video’s that show how to make containers do not explain the soaking/heating to make the bark more playable. Question...could I use smaller sticks as clothespins or are the bigger ones a must??? And I’m curious with all that BEAUTIFUL snow on the ground yet ur area is free of it, how did u clear it so well??? Thank u Lonnie
You do not want to go too small on the stick diameter in order to avoid weakness. In other words, the bigger the diameter, the stronger and more durable the "pin" will be.
Where I live in the south there are know birch. Is there any other bark u can use ??
Hi Lonnie ,
Great video ! It certainly opens a lot of possibilities.
Did you get that big and thick piece of bark from a dead birch ?
Malek Touzani Thank you. To tell you the truth that was over 4 years ago and I no longer remember. A while back a contracting company came through near here and cleared the power lines back again and they dropped a few mature birch trees not too far from here. I remember that I got a quite a bit of birch from those downed trees but don't remember if this piece specifically came from there or not. I still have a few pieces of bark from those downed trees.
***** I found your other video called Working With Birch Bark . Got my answer :)
Thank you for sharing all this knowledge.
Malek Touzani Good I'm glad you found an answer. Atb
thanks
Thanks for replying so fast & all the shared know now.
I like it I'm gonna have ago myself
Good job and thank you. CURRAHEE!
I.don't.want.to.seem.ignorant.or.anything.but.why.is.the.inside.of.the.bowl.the.outside.
of.the.tree.and.not.the.inside.of.the.bark?...Is.the.outside.of.the.tree.bark.better.for.the.
water.you.boil.for.any.reason?
Shouldn't it be inner bark - inner surface of the bowl?
As long as the bark is clean it can be either inner side or outer side. It just seemed to want to bend to the outside better in forming the bowl.
i bet it was