Some uses for the Sassafrass Tree

I'm in the bush today with Scout. This video is going to be a bunch of uses for the sassafras tree. I'm going to use this as part of my hardwoods and challenge for identifying and find two uses for two trees, two plants. I've already done one tree which is the basswood tree. I have that on video. Today I'm just going to do sassafras for the other tree and worry about the plants later. So this is a down sassafras limb. There's a bunch of twigs on it and I want to use it for a twig bundle now I know any any twigs can be used for a twig bundle why is why is this a use specific to the sassafras tree well in my neck of the woods here there's no no softwood no spruce pine stuff like that where you can gather twigs easily like this and they're a good size and actually the sassafras twigs if I'm not mistaken have fuel have oils in them that make them burn better like there's a fuel and then that'll make a burn hotter and easier so I want to try and get a twig flare going with one paper match and if I can get it with a twig bundle I'd say that's a pretty good candidate for a wood for a twig bundle around these woods anyway. Here's my paper match and my twig bundle. This one is pretty good. I'm going to air it a little bit. I could have really tied this bundle off. One paper match is pretty good. You can use any kind of tinder in there at all. The smallest twigs don't even touch the red stuff much. Some sassafras trees around here get very large and when they get this big even when they're a bit smaller they have this furrowed bark on it. I like to take from this one because it's half dead anyways and it's got all sorts of pieces missing from it but just pop a piece of the bark off and get a few pieces of these and show you what the bark can do alright so you can see what I've done here I took the sassafras bark and I just drilled into it a bunch okay until there's all this powder I've been piling the powder here on this log and then I've taken my knife and just shaved off a few slices okay now the slices don't come into play until after but I just wanted to show you and they're not even necessary but I'm gonna take this one step farther than I've taken it before so before when I tried this it took a spark from a fire steel ferro rod whatever you want to call it and held it pretty good so let's try this so that's in there right again it's flaming up we go gonna let it die out so what we're doing here it's getting a great coal extender okay and if I continue to blow on it it will flame up and I'm planning on making a little fire with these shavings might take a minute it though hopefully you're not too bored and shut the video off took a little long all we used all we used a sassafras bark uh and a fire steel now it's not going as good as i had hoped the fire's not staying lit but it is a great uh ember extender and you can get a fire going with that you can get a tinder bundle put that in the tinder bundle whatever yeah so for for actual actual fire starting with just the bark itself probably not the greatest idea but uh as you can see it'll work fine as an ember extender. Now just as a side note the sassafras can be used to get a bow drill fire going it's not working for me today it has worked in the past I've got the bark to go and you can also use the roots for tea I'm not gonna make a fire and have tea today it's getting pretty warm supposed to go 30 degrees today so that's hot. I'm done for today I wanted to do more I failed at the bow drill a few times and it's just uh just not my day for it's like 90% humidity or something crazy like that so i'm done hope you guys learned something