Building a Shear to Make Natural Cordage Rope
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- Опубликовано: 20 окт 2019
- Building a simple knife shear will help you process natural fibers into consistently wide strips for making higher quality cordage/rope. I process willow bark and cattail leaves in this video.
Great instruction.
Very interesting and would be useful if in a crisis situation where cordage was needed and of course just for fun. Thank you much appreciated.
Thanks for your comments. It was definitely a bunch of fun. Take care
This captivated me for some reason. Guess I've never really thought about rope making before or seen anyone do this. But it's probably a very good thing to know, just in case! Thanks :)
Thank you for sharing this method of making rope as my grandparents used to use the inner bark to make twine and weave beautiful lace baskets not seen it done only the finished baskets that they made, after watching your tutorial l am tempted to go out and do this but to find the right tree
As a wilderness survival and pioneering merit badge counselor this video was amazing. Thank you. Please keep up the content.
Very cool. I like the versatility the shear affords you. Thank you for sharing
Thanks a bunch Mark. Take care
That was great .. Never seen such a device and how to make cordage with Willow & Cattail. Very useful thanks.
I've been making cordage for some time now but I would boil the ball for a long while before. This method seems to be a lot more practical especially if not worried about aesthetics. Thanks for sharing!!
Awesome. Thanks for your comments. Take care
Such a great system, and something I've never seen before. Thank you for sharing this!
Thanks for your comments NW Primate. I'm super stoked to hear that it was something new - there is a lot of repetition out there. Take care.
Thank you for sharing this excellent video! What a great help this is to off the grid living!
This is really cool! I've made rope like this for years but its never been strong enough to hold my weight! and I've never used a shear set up, that's great, thanks for sharing!
Beauty Dale!! Original 👍
Thanks man. Seems like lot's of your recent adventures are in the Mountains. Are you out West???
Thanks, Dale, for sharing this very clever means of producing natural cordage in the bush. After having spent too much time watching way too many YT vids on paddling in Ontario, I was beginning to wonder what happened to Bushcraft - did it die off or something, lol? Looks to me like it's still very much alive and well! Good to see you out and about, doing what you have been doing for quite some time now - practicing and teaching the fun, practical and rewarding skills of bushcraft , woodsmanship and wilderness survival . Your very first YT vid ("Bushcraft At It's Best"...) was largely instrumental in opening the door the rest of the way for me into these very rewarding endeavors. Thanks again, and ATB to both you and Colleen.
Sorry for the late reply North Woods.... Just wanted to make sure I took the time to write a quality reply...…. It's comments like yours that inspire and motivate me to keep making videos. Thanks so much. For me, the biggest reward of making RUclips videos, isn't the little bit of money I make, or the amount of views, instead, it's the thrill I get when people write in and express gratitude and share information about the videos and their experience. It really makes all the effort spent on getting the footage and editing the videos worthwhile. When I first started teaching outdoor skills 25 years ago, I never dreamed that I would be able to reach out around the world and have an effect on people I never get to meet face to face. RUclips has really opened up an exciting world of sharing information in a good way. Thanks so much for sharing and commenting again. Take care and happy adventuring.
@@NatureAliveAdventures You are most welcome, Dale, and thank you so much for your thoughtful reply! As a viewer, You Tube has really opened up an exciting world for me as well. I have often described it as "informative, entertaining and educational" to friends and family. It has also, and perhaps even more importantly, allowed me to connect with other interesting and like-minded people, not only for my own personal enrichment, but hopefully for theirs too, with whatever little I may have to contribute, if anything, such as perhaps some encouragement and positive feedback, occasional helpful info on some specific thing that I may happen to know something about, or whatever. Thank you for having enriched our lives through your vids, not only with all the super cool bush lore you've been teaching us, your viewers, but also for just being you, man! And yes, that goes for Colleen as well. May God continue to bless you guys in whatever you do. Take care and happy adventuring to you as well! Glenn
God bless you too. Thanks for that.....
Thnxs for uploading and sharing this !
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Thanks for your comments Homefree. Take care
Just came upon your channel looks cool i subscribed and going to start viewing the rest. This video was awesome thanks.
Awesome technique and a great video👍.
Thanks for your comments. Take care
Well done! Very well explained!
Thx for your comments Barry. Take care
Awesome video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
That was awesome.
Thank you for your comment. Take care
Parabéns, Obrigado por compartilhar, tanta sabedoria. Abraço.
How much bark can you remove without killing the tree?
Thanks for your question Don. Unfortunately, removing the bark will open the tree up to insects and it will interfere with transportation of nutrients from roots to tips of the tree or shrubs. So I take the approach of carefully selecting trees that are weak or growing in clumps and competing with other nearby trees or shrubs. By pruning the forest, I believe it makes room for other nearby trees and shrubs to grow free of competition and live a long time. Take care
@@NatureAliveAdventures thank you so much for the information.
Hey, I'm not trying to be rude but I just wanted to ask, are you ever going to continue your series on Super Shelters?
Yup. Started last night. Thanks for the kickstart. Take care
@@NatureAliveAdventures Thanks
Who is the knife made by?
James Andel - Canadian Forest Knife
So you left the tree up when removing the bark, what happens with the tree, will it survive having the bark removed?
Thanks for your comments. The tree will likely dry out and die. I always select live material carefully- by ensuring that I am thinning out the type of plant/tree in places where they grow in abundance. Take care
@Anthony George Well to start it's not as simple as just planting the next one, trees take decades to grow.
Also I was simply wondering if the tree just created a new protective lair or if it dies.
@Mahtanify when you had breakfast this morning something alive was sacrificed. Plant or animal. Yesterday and tomorrow as well. Toilet paper napkins writing paper come from murdering trees. Maybe the cordage is not important to you. Though you invited yourself to his podcast. What did you have for lunch? What form of dead animal is rotting in your belly at this moment? Yes it's decomposing. The smell is a dead give away. How ya like those apples. Oh. You wouldnt!!