That’s great James 👍🏻😉 Thank you so much for your kindness … appreciate that very much. Hope you’ll have a blessed new year and that I’ll see you again in 2020 🔥🏕 Tom
Yes 👍🏻 😄 and thanks 🙏🏻 And I collected some fat wood yesterday from a spruce tree as you suggested … and it’s looks promising. I’ll have to split it and see how much it contains. I’m making a short video about that 😉
If you had told me 45 years ago when I was a young man that I woud one day enjoy watching a Dane make coffee, with whiskey 😜, in the woods of Denmark, I would have called you crazy. I am glad I am much wiser now. Thank you for your videos.
Bro ...? This methods and what we loves doing in natures ancient people were doing it for millions of years long ! You are never be too late to tune yourself with natures ! 😉
@@cimbrerbushcraft-vikingheritag You are welcome ! I'm also getting to be an middle aged man as well. But when I look at those mountains, trees in a woods ... Rocks in a stream of creeks ... They are at least 100's of years old to 1000's of years old ... And I reflect l myself, feeling ... Well ? If Compared with them ...No matter how old I became ... I'm just same old little kid wondering around ! Even we became 90's ! To them, we are just little kids passing by ! LMAO 🤣😉 Our Great natures are so old , so welcoming , so dangerous and infinite ... One day we all go back to them . Then We repeat to wait new comers 😉
Thanks for doing that Rob 🤗 and welcome onboard my friend. If you get any questions … don’t hesitate to ask 😁👍🏻 And I hope you’ll enjoy some of my other videos too 🏕🔥🌲 Tom
Good video and pounding horse hoof with a hammer stone , axe or hardwood "baton" saves me a lot of time processing usable material for charring . Thanks for your video with great editing and have a wonderful time out here .
SAR TRACKING The Woods Witch & Night Hawk are the only 2 knives carried and my faves . See you at your next workshop in Feb. Canyon Clan says hello and all the best Bro .
Never used horse hoof fungus before. Many thing can be charred as well, "punk wood" (Partially rotted wood) is a well known item for charring. I haven't tested this yet but I'm told that most anything works, twigs and green leaves and such. Anyway thanks for the video.
You can get an ember without going through all that processing. You can use a saw to get fine powder and it will burn until consumed. Cut off a tiny piece, rough it up same thing. I’ve actually used dead bone dry ones using the woody pore section and same thing. It’ll burn on its own until burned up. Pretty neat.
Thank you so much for your feedback 😉👍🏻 and for sharing your experience and tips with us. I know you can use the Amadou without boiling it first 👍🏻 but my experience is that it works better when I boil it. Again thanks for supporting me and for sharing your knowledge with me and my followers 🏕 Tom
I’m glad you find my explanation easy to understand 😁👍🏻 and appreciate your feedback very much. Thanks for watching some of my older videos too my friend. Atb to you 🤗🏕🔥 Tom
Hello from Canada. I am a recent subscriber and have been enjoying your videos. You are correct that the fungus grows mainly on birch trees in N. America, at least in my part of Canada. I am told that it grows on other trees but I have only noticed it on dead or dying birch trees. I have some land with birch trees and the fungus growing on them so I have been researching what to do with all that fungus. I’ve read that the amadou has properties to reduce bleeding and can be used like an emergency bandage. Also the fibres can be used to make felt.
Vernon Edwards - What is known as "amadou" grows only on birch trees . It supposedly has medicinal properties and is not to be confused with the fungi shown in this video which are known as shelf fungi and are toxic .
Yes we do and yes I do 👍🏻😉 When you come to some of my newest videos you’ll see where I found it and how I make tea from it 👌🏻 hope you will enjoy 😊 Atb to you 🦌🌲
Then it great you found my channel 👍🏻 hope you’ll get out a find some Amadou 😁🌤 Here in Denmark it’s very easy … but I don’t know if it’s the same where you live? Atb 2U
Hello from Canada 🇨🇦 i look for Chaga that also grows on live Birch trees! I use it to lower my Blood Sugars for my Type 2 Diabetes i make it into a tea and it works quite amazingly im just learning about the Horse Hoof fungus thanks for the video
Ohhh yeah Chaga is an amazing fungus that is good for many things 😁👍🏻 and I’m glad you found out about the horse hoof fungus as well See you again soon 🏕🔥🌲 Tom
In England they are called cramp balls or King Alfred's Cakes. They grow on dead Ash trees. If you char the spore tubes from the horses hoof fungus it's very good for use with a magnifying glass. Really enjoy your vids.
Steve Clamp - You are correct and when I lived in Kent , they were common and work perfectly for fire starting . Cramp balls / Daldinia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daldinia_concentrica
Have seen it grated in it's raw none processed state catch embers. When can get more north I'll finally get me some. Debating on maybe processing with the ash and maybe a bit of bees Wax as extender. Time shall tell. Good one brother! Seen your post Bjorn.
Using Horse Hoof fungus as a tinder is dandy and noble from ancient times, but their true value shine when they are used as medicinal purposes like many other mushrooms are. When you study and research medicinal mushrooms on the Internet, you will find plethora of information. VR
Thanks a lot for your feedback 👍🏻 I have studied a little bit about medicinal plants and mushrooms … and made a video about it. But I’m not an expert so if you know a lot about that subject you’ll probably not learn anything by seeing it. But people that have no experience with medicinal plants 🌱 … can use … I think Atb to you and your family 😊
Hmmm 🤔 that layer in the horse hoof fungus that is used as fire tinder is called Amadou So it doesn’t matter if it’s prepared or not 👍🏻😁. The first time you get a spark into the Amadou … notice that sweat smell 👌🏻😋 It’s great Atb to you and your family 🏕
Thank you so much for your feedback 🤗 Sorry but I’ve got pneumonia and haven’t been able to make a new video or answer all the nice comments I’ve got So it’ll be a standard reply but I read all the feedback and appreciate those very much. Thanks for all the kindness and support your giving me … and see you soon my friends 🏕🔥🌲🇩🇰 Tom
Here in the states we have a fungus that also grows on the trees called hen of the woods. It's a very tasty fungus when it's young but it's also a very good tender when it's is old and brittle
Hi Thomas … I’ve found out that the fungus is growing here in Denmark But it’s not a common fungus in Europe … I’ve never seen one … but on the other hand … I’ve never looked for it 🤔 … From now on I’ll do that … and hope the luck will be with me. Again …thanks for your info and for your comment. 🙏🏻😁 Greetings from me 🇩🇰🤗
Cimbrer Bushcraft I have found that hen of the woods always grows on dead oak trees it resembles an antique hand fan that women used back in the old days. When it's young it can be breaded and fried (it's very delicious) it's a light brown or tan when it's young and turns dark brown to black when it's old
Good video. For me, amadou is one of those things it's a good idea to learn how to y never use in a real world situation.process, but that I'll almost certainly never use in a real world situation. There are too many easier ways to start make tinder and start a fire. But I don't carry tinder of any kind with me. I think you learn more by starting a fire with whatever you can find in the area where you set up camp. But that's just me. I like going into a new area, even a new region, and seeing what resources I can find there to start a fire. I don't worry about being able to start a fire because there's always friction fire, and I don't think I've ever been to an area that didn't have the resources to get a friction fire going.
the pores/tubules are also good coal extender. they can be dried up and saved for later use such as char cloth. the way that ppl see them as waste/no use material bothers me. It's a natural resource thus i believe it must be used responsibly and to the last bit.
@@cimbrerbushcraft-vikingheritag Glad to hear that, i have one piece of that fungi at home and appreciate every bit of it. I separated the amadou from tubules and dried both of them. I am saving the amadou if I ever get to practice primitive skills but i use dried chunks of tubules as coal hearth for myrrh and sweetgum tree resins. A good way to utilize them
@@cimbrerbushcraft-vikingheritag harvested my 2nd tinder fungus lately, and I decided boiling it,too. It was invested with probably insect eggs/larvae. For long term storage, they sure will pose a threat. Considering how rare i get to use it , my reserve will last me quite a lot of time.
Have.my stove and Kettle now waiting for a dry day Roman’s some char cloth as I have ordered a regular and try to make a spark Flint and a Titanium Flint
Den sidste lille du viste os hvad hedder den på dansk, jeg kender den ikke lige af udseende ? Syntes du laver nogle fine film, en skam vi bor så langt fra hinanden, kunne ellers være sjovt at tage en tur sammen, men er fra Lolland
Saw a video with ray mears using this czcams.com/video/GaHNWaBmNJU/video.html and he fuzzed it up with the edge of a knife into cotton looking ball before using a flint and iron pyrites 😊❤️ cool video, subscribed!!
I haven’t had coffee in woods since my Army days, Thanks Cimbrer Bushcraft, Im drinking coffee and reading Bible in the woods again!!
That’s great James 👍🏻😉 Thank you so much for your kindness … appreciate that very much. Hope you’ll have a blessed new year and that I’ll see you again in 2020 🔥🏕
Tom
Thank you for another great video. Nothing like making fire with flint, steel and amadou. And the smell is lovely.
Yes 👍🏻 😄 and thanks 🙏🏻 And I collected some fat wood yesterday from a spruce tree as you suggested … and it’s looks promising. I’ll have to split it and see how much it contains. I’m making a short video about that 😉
Amadou
If you had told me 45 years ago when I was a young man that I woud one day enjoy watching a Dane make coffee, with whiskey 😜, in the woods of Denmark, I would have called you crazy. I am glad I am much wiser now. Thank you for your videos.
Ha ha 😁 that’s great Douglas
… and I know that feeling 😇
Older and wiser 😉 Thanks for your support and kindness 🤗
Have a nice Sunday 🔥🌲🌤
Bro ...? This methods and what we loves doing in natures ancient people were doing it for millions of years long ! You are never be too late to tune yourself with natures ! 😉
That’s right my friend 😉 and thanks for your feedback 🏕
Tom
@@cimbrerbushcraft-vikingheritag
You are welcome ! I'm also getting to be an middle aged man as well.
But when I look at those mountains, trees in a woods ... Rocks in a stream of creeks ... They are at least 100's of years old to 1000's of years old ... And I reflect l myself, feeling ... Well ? If Compared with them ...No matter how old I became ... I'm just same old little kid wondering around !
Even we became 90's ! To them, we are just little kids passing by ! LMAO 🤣😉
Our Great natures are so old , so welcoming , so dangerous and infinite ... One day we all go back to them . Then We repeat to wait new comers 😉
Well spoken my friend 😊👍🏻 and poetic too 🤗 Appreciate that you came along and joined me again 🏕🔥Tom🇩🇰
The bottom of the fungus can be used to strop your knives when its dry.
Waw I actually didn’t know that 🤔 great knowledge to have 👍🏻 Thanks for your interest in my channel 😎👌🏻
I never thought that finding horseshoe fungus would be such a beautiful thing... Subscribed!
Thanks for doing that Rob 🤗 and welcome onboard my friend. If you get any questions … don’t hesitate to ask 😁👍🏻
And I hope you’ll enjoy some of my other videos too 🏕🔥🌲
Tom
Good video and pounding horse hoof with a hammer stone , axe or hardwood "baton" saves me a lot of time processing usable material for charring . Thanks for your video with great editing and have a wonderful time out here .
Thank you so much Alex 😁
I’m glad you like my video 👍🏻
and I appreciate your feedback. Atb to you 🌲🔥🌤
Hey Alex - Thanks for the PM and hope that blade is working for you . Good hunting and 5X5 .
SAR TRACKING
The Woods Witch & Night Hawk are the only 2 knives carried and my faves . See you at your next workshop in Feb. Canyon Clan says hello and all the best Bro .
From Tennessee, I enjoying this again. Thank for sharing.
Thanks 🙏🏻 😉🌤
Never used horse hoof fungus before. Many thing can be charred as well, "punk wood" (Partially rotted wood) is a well known item for charring. I haven't tested this yet but I'm told that most anything works, twigs and green leaves and such. Anyway thanks for the video.
Yes 👍🏻 😄 you’re absolutely right John 👌🏻😊 Atb to you
Thanks for the great info. I will look for amadu here in VA. As with all your videos i learn something. Stay safe and God Bless you and your family.
That’s great Joe 👍🏻😊 hope you’ll find some in your area 🏕
Tom
Here in Ms/USA I find it on dead black walnut, dead aspen and cottonwood trees
We do have river birch/paper bark birch which is an excellent tinder but I haven’t looked for it on any.
You can get an ember without going through all that processing. You can use a saw to get fine powder and it will burn until consumed. Cut off a tiny piece, rough it up same thing. I’ve actually used dead bone dry ones using the woody pore section and same thing. It’ll burn on its own until burned up. Pretty neat.
Thank you so much for your feedback 😉👍🏻 and for sharing your experience and tips with us. I know you can use the Amadou without boiling it first 👍🏻 but my experience is that it works better when I boil it. Again thanks for supporting me and for sharing your knowledge with me and my followers 🏕
Tom
Thanks for the video, very informative, looking forward to more A to Z!
Thanks 👍🏻 my friend
Great video. Perfectly detailed. I'm going to try this out.
I’m glad you find my explanation easy to understand 😁👍🏻 and appreciate your feedback very much. Thanks for watching some of my older videos too my friend. Atb to you 🤗🏕🔥 Tom
Hello from Germany. Another great Video, very informative, looking forward to more A to Z.
Thanks a lot Ingo for your positive feedback on my video and the series BC from A-Z 👍🏻😁
Hello from Canada. I am a recent subscriber and have been enjoying your videos. You are correct that the fungus grows mainly on birch trees in N. America, at least in my part of Canada. I am told that it grows on other trees but I have only noticed it on dead or dying birch trees. I have some land with birch trees and the fungus growing on them so I have been researching what to do with all that fungus. I’ve read that the amadou has properties to reduce bleeding and can be used like an emergency bandage. Also the fibres can be used to make felt.
Hi Vernon… that’s an awesome information you got there 👍🏻😁 thanks for sharing it with us 😎👋🏻 Greetings to Canada 🇨🇦 from me 🇩🇰
Vernon Edwards - What is known as "amadou" grows only on birch trees . It supposedly has medicinal properties and is not to be confused with the fungi shown in this video which are known as shelf fungi and are toxic .
I like to fluff the surface to catch the spark seems to catch more easily.great video as usual thank you
Thank you so much 😊 I’m happy that you like my videos
Happy New Years 🤗
T thanks for sharing I NG your woodlore knowledge.
Do u have Chaga that grows on Birch trees, there in Denmark?
And do U make tea with the Chiga?
Yes we do and yes I do 👍🏻😉
When you come to some of my newest videos you’ll see where I found it and how I make tea from it 👌🏻 hope you will enjoy 😊 Atb to you 🦌🌲
Thanks for the vidio... just found it July 4, 2018. Always wondered how to harvest it.
Then it great you found my channel 👍🏻 hope you’ll get out a find some Amadou 😁🌤 Here in Denmark it’s very easy … but I don’t know if it’s the same where you live? Atb 2U
Hello from Canada 🇨🇦 i look for Chaga that also grows on live Birch trees! I use it to lower my Blood Sugars for my Type 2 Diabetes i make it into a tea and it works quite amazingly im just learning about the Horse Hoof fungus thanks for the video
Ohhh yeah Chaga is an amazing fungus that is good for many things 😁👍🏻 and I’m glad you found out about the horse hoof fungus as well
See you again soon 🏕🔥🌲
Tom
In the UK the small round ones are called coal fungus or king alfred cakes.
Thanks Wayne for this information 👍🏻😁 great to know that Atb to my friend
yes , you find them mostly on dead and dying ash, ash sticks on the ground, too.
Thanks for your feedback 🤗 but I do have difficulty finding them in my area 🇩🇰
In England they are called cramp balls or King Alfred's Cakes. They grow on dead Ash trees. If you char the spore tubes from the horses hoof fungus it's very good for use with a magnifying glass. Really enjoy your vids.
Thanks for sharing your experience with us and for your support 👌🏻😉
Steve Clamp - You are correct and when I lived in Kent , they were common and work perfectly for fire starting .
Cramp balls / Daldinia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daldinia_concentrica
Hi Steve 👋🏻 thanks for your response 😁 Very useful info you have there
👍🏻😁
Funny !
??? Funny 🤔 ??
Nice video, I enjoyed it. This material is also used by old time fly fishers as a way to dry a sopped dry fly.
Well I didn’t know that 😌 thanks for your info and support. 👍🏻😉
You are most welcome.
Great content - there are not that many horses hoof fungus where I live - yes Cramp Balls - ATB
Well we have lots of them 👍🏻
I guess it’s a question of habitat and climate 🌤🤔🌲
Thanks for your feedback 🌤
Have seen it grated in it's raw none processed state catch embers. When can get more north I'll finally get me some. Debating on maybe processing with the ash and maybe a bit of bees Wax as extender. Time shall tell. Good one brother! Seen your post Bjorn.
Looking forward to hear if you found some Amadou Bjorne 😁👍🏻 and glad you like my videos 🏕🔥Tom🐕
Great stuff, cheers, and I'll be out trying it soon 👍
Hi Dougie 👍🏻 that sounds awesome 😎 good hunting for the fungus
And have a great weekend
Using Horse Hoof fungus as a tinder is dandy and noble from ancient times, but their true value shine when they are used as medicinal purposes like many other mushrooms are. When you study and research medicinal mushrooms on the Internet, you will find plethora of information.
VR
Thanks a lot for your feedback 👍🏻 I have studied a little bit about medicinal plants and mushrooms … and made a video about it. But I’m not an expert so if you know a lot about that subject you’ll probably not learn anything by seeing it. But people that have no experience with medicinal plants 🌱 … can use … I think
Atb to you and your family 😊
Wouldn’t it be Amadou after it has been treated? Just asking because I thought Amadou is the after product of soaking it in diluted bleach
Hmmm 🤔 that layer in the horse hoof fungus that is used as fire tinder is called Amadou
So it doesn’t matter if it’s prepared or not 👍🏻😁. The first time you get a spark into the Amadou … notice that sweat smell 👌🏻😋 It’s great
Atb to you and your family 🏕
Fly fishers use amadou to dry their dry flies …. it works wonders. Good video there atb Jim
Thanks Jim 👍🏻😉 I didn’t know that 🤔 I appreciate your feedback and support
Hope you’ll have a wonderful week ahead my friend 🔥🌲
I find mushrooms very similar to these in Michigan often on large oak trees, they might be a different type but they look fairly similar
Thank you so much for your feedback 🤗 Sorry but I’ve got pneumonia and haven’t been able to make a new video or answer all the nice comments I’ve got
So it’ll be a standard reply but I read all the feedback and appreciate those very much. Thanks for all the kindness and support your giving me … and see you soon my friends 🏕🔥🌲🇩🇰
Tom
Here in the states we have a fungus that also grows on the trees called hen of the woods. It's a very tasty fungus when it's young but it's also a very good tender when it's is old and brittle
Thanks for that info Thomas 👍🏻 I didn’t know that … and I don’t know if that fungus is growing here in Denmark 🇩🇰
I’ll try to find out if it does 😊
Cimbrer Bushcraft that would be cool to know. Let me know what you find out 👍
Hi Thomas … I’ve found out that the fungus is growing here in Denmark
But it’s not a common fungus in Europe … I’ve never seen one … but on the other hand … I’ve never looked for it 🤔 … From now on I’ll do that … and hope the luck will be with me. Again …thanks for your info and for your comment. 🙏🏻😁
Greetings from me 🇩🇰🤗
Cimbrer Bushcraft I have found that hen of the woods always grows on dead oak trees it resembles an antique hand fan that women used back in the old days. When it's young it can be breaded and fried (it's very delicious) it's a light brown or tan when it's young and turns dark brown to black when it's old
Thanks 🙏🏻 my friend.
Useful information 😊👍🏻
I love the smell of burning amadou..almost like incense..very nice 👍
Yeahhh isn’t a wonderful smell 😉👍🏻 very special and I love it
Thanks for your feedback my friend and for coming along and joining me 😁🏕🔥🌲🌤Tom
Nice job thanks
Thanks for watching 👍🏻😁 Appreciate that very much
Nice knife!!! Is Muela?
It’s the ESEE 5 👍🏻 great knife
Thanks for supporting my channel 😉
Good video. For me, amadou is one of those things it's a good idea to learn how to y never use in a real world situation.process, but that I'll almost certainly never use in a real world situation. There are too many easier ways to start make tinder and start a fire.
But I don't carry tinder of any kind with me. I think you learn more by starting a fire with whatever you can find in the area where you set up camp. But that's just me. I like going into a new area, even a new region, and seeing what resources I can find there to start a fire.
I don't worry about being able to start a fire because there's always friction fire, and I don't think I've ever been to an area that didn't have the resources to get a friction fire going.
Hi James … wise said 👍🏻 respect from me 🙏🏻😁
very informative
Thanks a lot 😉👍🏻🔥and glad you liked my video 🏕🔥🌲🌤️Tom
the pores/tubules are also good coal extender. they can be dried up and saved for later use such as char cloth. the way that ppl see them as waste/no use material bothers me. It's a natural resource thus i believe it must be used responsibly and to the last bit.
Thanks for your tip brother 😁👍🏻 I’ve never tried that but I guess it’ll work fine 🔥
Atb to you 🏕🔥🌲🐕Tom
@@cimbrerbushcraft-vikingheritag Glad to hear that, i have one piece of that fungi at home and appreciate every bit of it. I separated the amadou from tubules and dried both of them. I am saving the amadou if I ever get to practice primitive skills but i use dried chunks of tubules as coal hearth for myrrh and sweetgum tree resins. A good way to utilize them
It’s never worked for me … drying the Amadou 🤔 always fresh and boiled and it’ll stay soft and flammable
@@cimbrerbushcraft-vikingheritag harvested my 2nd tinder fungus lately, and I decided boiling it,too. It was invested with probably insect eggs/larvae. For long term storage, they sure will pose a threat. Considering how rare i get to use it , my reserve will last me quite a lot of time.
Have.my stove and Kettle now waiting for a dry day Roman’s some char cloth as I have ordered a regular and try to make a spark Flint and a Titanium Flint
That’s sounds great Edwin 👍🏻
Let me know how it goes 😉
Have a wonderful day my friend and stay safe 🌤🌲🔥
you have to scrape it to make it fluffy like in the Ray Mears video. no way you could get that many sparks using a flint and stone.
I usually scrape it with my flint 👍🏻😁🔥 and that works great 😉🏕
Tom
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Thank you so much 👍🏻😉🏕
Tom
@@cimbrerbushcraft-vikingheritag 👍
Den sidste lille du viste os hvad hedder den på dansk, jeg kender den ikke lige af udseende ?
Syntes du laver nogle fine film, en skam vi bor så langt fra hinanden, kunne ellers være sjovt at tage en tur sammen, men er fra Lolland
Dem må jeg ud at se efter, nu har jeg ikke så meget skov hvor der er asketræ men mon ikke jeg finder noget på et tidspunkt
boilet with( bicarbonate), sorry for my Englisch
Thanks for the tip 👍🏻👌🏻😊
Saw a video with ray mears using this czcams.com/video/GaHNWaBmNJU/video.html and he fuzzed it up with the edge of a knife into cotton looking ball before using a flint and iron pyrites 😊❤️ cool video, subscribed!!
Yeah that’s a great trick 😉👍🏻and I’ll maybe try that next time
Thanks for sharing this with me my friend 🤗 and for coming along and joining me 🏕🔥Tom