Midwest School of Bushcraft Ohio Class

Cook something up if you have extra food, okay, and kill whatever bacteria and blah, blah, blah in it, right? And then you can store it, you know, in a cool place. It doesn't have to be real cold. And then you can reheat it up to 24 hours later. And that will actually, the recooking of it, if there's any bacteria that got in it, will kill it, okay? And it starts to keep it somewhat cool, it's not going to rot. So cook and recook is a real good method to do. Standard stinging nettle, and this is the wood nettle. Wood nettles will whoop your ass, okay? They hurt a lot more than stinging nettles, at least I think they do, that's getting on my finger. The thing about it is, if you look at these you can tell the difference, especially in the stems is how I tell the big difference. The stems on the stinging nettle are almost ridged, okay, and the ones on the wood nettle are smooth. They both have real fine hairs on them, both of them are edible, both of them are very good when they're young, when you can just pull them right out of the ground. have to heat them up for a couple minutes because otherwise they'll sting the inside of your mouth and what the active ingredient needs is like a formic acid kind of like ants have a formic acid in them that's why they sting sting too so it'll go away eventually but use around here any skin irritations or anything like that this works real well you can grab them by the base and I just pop the leaves off without cutting into the plant too much and once again we're just prepping this cordage right now okay there's a couple different ways you can do it with the wood metal I prefer to take it take a round log this kind of does a couple things it separates the pith outer sheath is what we're looking for and it kind of beats on the needles a little bit and renders them helpless this is just a bag sewn out of a piece of parachute you can also so take it. That tenderizes it more. Kenny, just line this hole. This is just going to keep the dirt off our food. You guys picking up what I'm putting down here? And I like to use edible leaves. Just me. Alright, yeah, I was just going to ask about using some of that dry grass or something like that. You can use grass, you bet. Now we're going to build. You don't put the dirt back in? Oh, I'm going to put the dirt on top. This is pretty silty stuff. Usually if it's, you know, clotted up a little bit better, it works a They would start these braids, these natural fiber braids, and they'd get 100, 200, 300 feet of this all going at once, and then they'd start twisting from the end, and this twist was allowed to go all the way down. Where would they get that much natural fiber in one wilderness? I mean, what's 300 feet? I mean, where do you find something? No, no, no, yeah. It's all, like, spliced together if they're collecting. Oh, okay. You get this little slice. Okay, gotcha. Yeah, they're doing hemp or, uh, they're doing, yep, yeah, and then along, along with a lot of the rope walks, they had shot towers, because it was a tall structure, and they had figured out with molten lead, the different, the different size sieves, and the different height, for that reason I'm doing this, is because when you get a coal, like Don said, or you're ready to light your fire, you don't want to be running all over the place. Right now it's pretty dry, and I can get away with using twigs, right? But I did not get twigs that were up on the ground, did I? No. I got stuff that was up off the ground, dead standing. Dead standing. It is key. It will save you more heartache and grief than you ever know. You spend the time. Now this is taking me a long time. Am I really busting my hump doing this? You don't want little tiny crap either. Stuff that's pretty. You want enough so that you can have three fires. It was angling back towards me, and that's going to screw up the way I do my full drill. So I wanted to fix that. All right? Put that right in. I like welding my hand to my shin. Take nice long strokes before just burning it in. It's going crazy. Now we're mated. I've got my hole. The reason that you're doing this, all right, is we're putting this notch in here because all that dust that's coming out is what's going to be starch or coal. That's where everything's going to heat up. So you want something where your dust is going to fall down and gather up. We'll deal here to catch my pile of dust, alright? Does that make sense? Yeah, smoke already. Are you bearing down real hard the whole time? The smoke coming up there means I got a cold. Now look how much loft that has already. And all we're doing here, guys, is just laying a framework. Nothing fancy-schmancy. Watch what you're doing. Lots of excuses coming from you. That's coming from a Canadian. I don't know how to make a bow bed. They taught you that when you were sucking on your mom's teeth. It's in a boat bed. There was pine boughs in your crib. I'm on the highway to the danger zone, so I just want good pictures. Because the internet is what matters. There's going to be a lot of weird noise in the background of this video. You guys picking up what I'm putting down here? Just doing a real basic lean-to. Now we're going to start laying these on. We're going to have to criss-cross them a little bit. And we always start at the bottom, just like shingling a roof. We can do this in layers. Notice how they're putting the curve, right, the curve's this way. Now I'm going to tell you, there's probably not enough boughs here to make this waterproof. It takes a tremendous amount of boughs to make a shelter waterproof.