Green River contest vid pt1

All right, so this is going to be the video for the contest to win the Green River. And the contest, obviously, is to talk a little bit about what tree you use the most and what you use about it. Now, I did a video and a couple pictures back saying that I found a hardwoodsman's birchbark substitute, and I showed how to use it, but I didn't know the correct name for the tree. Now, I figured out what that tree is, talked to some people at a nature reserve, and they informed me that it's this tree right here i knew it was this tree but i didn't know the name so see how the the branches grow in a tangled mess that's like a they grow almost downward this tree right there it's an oak and i knew it was an oak but i thought it was a black oak turns out it's a pin oak so not the chinko pin so they all grow in this bird's nest mess hanging down it's a great the the twigs are a great uh tinder or sorry uh kindling but what i use is the actual bark now this bark is a lot or way too old for it it's already got the grooves and it's already thick the bark that i'm looking for is thin and it peels off almost like birch bark but in smaller pieces up to another good example pin oak it's not small like i need it but it's this tree right there just want to show the growth form again so that's all the Tangled mess how the branches grow almost looks like a the bottom part of a spruce tree How old the dead branches are just hanging coming from the same tree is a branch or an extra shoot It's got the natural check in it that goes up all the way out there Now what I'm really happy about finding on this piece is the bark is already curled up for me I don't know if you can see it and just peels right off like that that peel all this bark off it's not the whole piece of bark you want either it's not this underbark with the lines on it it's this stuff that peels off you can almost hear it like so that's what i'm talking about right there and i drop it right there like i said i don't just use the the bark for the the birch bark substitute i also use the wood um because it's very straight grain it burns really good and i make uh it makes really good scraping go go just splitting down the wood as you can see it's got really really straight grain uh no effort at all it splits it's also small it's got a check in i'm using my hatchet but uh so what's really good is to split it or my knife whatever sometimes i feel like using my knife shavings the quarters my favorite one to use uh for all the reasons i've listed like i haven't seen anywhere else anybody talking about the bark the bark being used like that uh i could be totally wrong you know what i mean there could It could be a well-known thing. I've never read about it. I've never seen it on the internet, never seen it on TV or anything. So I'm glad I figured that out or at least realized it so that other people can use it, people who are like me and don't have birch around. And then it's not even necessary, obviously. You guys know how to do the one-stick fire. I do the one-stick fire without it, but it really is cool. I like it. Always looking for new things in the bush, things that pique my interest. I pretty much come to the woods, make fire, have a lunch. That's what I usually like to do on my days off. So it gets kind of mundane, kind of same old, same old. But when something comes up that I practiced before or never really realized about before or knew about before.