Hardwoods Challenges Pt. 2

There's a basswood tree right here. This is gonna be I'm gonna try and do a couple challenges in one here a couple challenges being identify Two trees. This is only gonna be one this is gonna be basswood and the uses are gonna be I'm gonna eat some buds from it like the the leaflets and a bow drill from it and The bow drill is gonna be just using my axe and that's the second challenge So I'm gonna try and incorporate them both into one. So I want to take this dead this dead standing basswood down with my axe Before I get that bow drill going or attempt to it anyways I thought I'd show the other use for the basswood leaf or for the basswood tree and it's edible So the camera they're actually pretty good tastes kind of like a lettuce like like a green anyways, they're good for sure Oh, it's definitely drier down at the bottom. Well near the near the bottom. This is why it's good for cordage Well I didn't do it there but it rips off in long pieces like that good characteristic cordage just split down and see what we're working with good and dry and unlike most punk most back foot it's not punky there's a very very good candidate for a bow drill I haven't had luck in this particular woods with the bow drill for a long time I've been able to find the right woods but this looks very promising and the bark can use as a tinder bundle as well as the as well as making cordage from it so that's gonna be a good base try to make the spindle out of this one might take a minute here we go bearing block from sassafras bark all-natural sassafras bark we use for bearing block so it would make the divot same deal as the knife use the tip this is gonna be my bow Happy about doing it because this thing is going to take forever to get back on. But then there's the brakes. It's the original ones that came with the boots. I had planned on replacing them with paracord but haven't gotten around to it just yet. Now we shall see. Should be a no-go with colors. Subpar. It was going so good called Tinder Bundle. Wood's in for life. The coal is too small. I don't want to give up. But after coming this far and just getting the coal and just not being able to blow it into flames I can't just give up so one got this Basswood inner fiber I found on a different tree. It's a lot more fibrous and like Easy to work with and the stuff I was using I think stuff I was using isn't quite dead enough For that anyway anyways, and I got some oak leaves off of the tree So I'm gonna combine these two into one tinder bundle I'm gonna make a new hole cut a new notch And then I'll show you the last step of me trying to get the coal and blowing into flames Moment of truth, this will be the last attempt, got everything brand new, new tinder bundle, new notch, new hole Hopefully it works, and I'm not taking any chances I don't know if you're supposed to build a fire with the coal after or the tinder bundle after I can't remember if that's a requirement but I went and got some crap enough to get any high flames just in case I don't want to I don't want to do it wrong Yes, where did my coal go? Oh, come on. We're giving out at least I got the coal this time. Okay, this has got to work That's the work is the easy part. This is the easy part. Yeah, it's looking good to mess around too much There she goes into flame. See it. Oh, I hope that's in frame. Nice Well, I'm glad I didn't give up, really glad. Okay, so as that's building I just want to try and make it clear what I did There was two, there's a bunch of challenges for the hardwoodsman's tab the second part of it what I attempted to do what I did in this one was one of them which was use an axe to build a fire or sorry an axe to build a bow drill kit to build a fire I did that all with my axe, there's another challenge that you are supposed to take two different kinds of trees identify them and show two uses of them so I only do that with one tree this time I'll do the second tree next time but the thing I did this time with the bat it was basswood tree I I did a bow drill fire with it and I ate the leaves, that's two things I hope that makes sense to everyone, it makes sense to my head, here's your sustained fire, thank god