Fire Tinder | Reverse Wrap Cordage

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you the extreme basics of reverse wrap cordage in relation to his fire kit.

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hey what's up turtle it's creek here with black outdoors today I want to do a video showing how to do sort of the basics of reverse trap cordage and how it's going to be used today is how I store the tulip poplar bark the inner bark in my fire kit because it's convenient store basically just a store it in my little 10 in a reverse wrap cordage here's just a little bit i did earlier today and this is probably all i'd put in my kit because you can imagine it being sort of some elasticity in there if being sort of you know bent storing an Altoids container and this is really thick but this is what we're going to end with so let's get started and get some raw material and I'll show you how to from the beginning to the end here's about Oh 12 13 inches of a piece of tulip poplar bark liriodendron tulip affero i prefer genus and species over common names that way resources don't confuse because there's so many common names for areas and that you know regionally specific but anyways this is the tulip poplar tree inner bark so what we're going to do is some reverse wrap cordage and the first step is to get a hunk of a bark in general so I'm going to probably take probably try to at least get an inch little maybe a little more than an inch to start with of width you want to start that here I want all of this the comments all right if it's not coming off in one piece or one big piece sorry if there's little striations in it I'm going to just gently take this off I want all these fibers to stay intact and just work my way down I can tell this is a little damped it's coming off pretty nice see what it looks like underneath it so yeah it's this coming there's still a little bit of fibers in here but coming off pretty well just keep working this down slowly and when you're making cordage in general it really is a touch in patients you don't just want to bear through it if you hit sort of a spot where it's often you're some resistance you don't just want to rip through it you want to kind of slowly work around it and this isn't is sort of delicate or as fine of processing as I would do if I wanted some actual cord because I'm just storing it for fire tinder here's the raw piece fibers in here the fibers are going after and the outer bark here so actually what we can do now i'm going to get my stool out i'm going to sit down and get comfortable and start processing this down a little bit more here's our piece now i'm going to start breaking off this outer bark and this sort of method of processing sort of rough for 40 so we're time welcome for thick bark off of a plant that may be very fibrous and elongated fibers in here is a characteristic I'm looking for in any sort of natural plant that's going to be either work well or work really well for four chord is you want to break out sort of break the star to break this up in sections I'm just doing it down right now breaking down pieces in this method you know you sort of do it the same if you were what was a dogbane canna bynum sorry you break the stems and get the outer bark off in the same manner it's a pretty common way to to get inner fibers off specific types of a plant and then once I start doing that breaking soft insects and start just peeling off the bark the outer bark and leaving the light-colored brown or tan inner bark and like I said if I was really really trying to make this really finally processed for cordage I probably taken my time a little bit more and being really more diligent with the amount of bark I was taken off and or the really hard or rough spots see how this is really holding together still but for today's purposes and for how I'm storing it for fire tender it's really not necessary so I'm not going to do it just pops up once I sort of break them into sections let's continue doing this and I'm going to work my whole way down all this brown bark I don't want any of that in there or not the brown that sort of grayish color bark I don't want any of that in there as best that I can because it's really not going to ralphs or allow for a tight wrap when I'm making the storing cordage you can work both ways to if you if it starts to pull up too much so the inner fibers that you don't want to keep continuing this sort of like you would if you hit a nod or grain change in a wood it's come from the other direction and peel it off Tim coming this way I don't like how it's pulling up just reverse direction take it off from the other way no problem with that no problem Bob no prob Bob about the burgers no problem this can be very time intensive depending if you want to make you know a couple meters you know worth of rope or cord it's going to be very time intensive with this resource with lyra dendron species yucko works really well for this really well really strong so much stronger tensile strength in this bark but that's what we have in the Eastern woodlands so is what I'm going to be using for obviously fire tender Yoko not for not for fire tender but for cordage using this for cordage in the Eastern woodlands coming off of a live tree this would be much stronger the painter fibers but I don't want anything alive for this because I want it to be dry and dead for a spark getting down to the very last bit now processing this outer bark off and that probably took me right around 10 minutes maybe a little bit less and this is what we have now final product to a degree this is what I'm looking for none of that gray bark on there just all this long fiber spark if I wanted to make actual cordage out of this I'd be pulling pieces off even this wide right here under my finger over my finger and even thinner if I want to depending what I wanted it for if I wanted really really thin stuff for potentially anto fletching putting fletching on an arrow or something like that I'd process this down but I'm going to keep it this because like I said before with this piece I showed you I want it thick I'm storing us for fire tender I want a big you know i miss rope like thickness next my pinky little bit smaller so I'm going to keep all this at this you know mass if you will I'm going to put a little bit of water on this maybe before I do that I'm going to start to break these fiber ups fibers up a little bit pull them apart and that will help me get a tighter wrap and it'll just help it uh sort of twists on itself more because I'm keeping it very thick and the thicker so do you keep your starting starting points of your fibers the more difficult it can be for at the bind on it selves and to get a nice tight wrap but it's going to break this up a little bit just keepin on keepin on just pulling us apart a little bit more in the more I do now the less i'll have to do once I you know cut the cut of section off that I want to use for a fire I'm going to actually probably put a little bit of water on this because it's dead bark and it might be a little brittle and partly rotten or starting to degradation it pour some in my hand losing at all cool so if i was actually making cordage from this i would not want these to be meeting at the end here I wanted to be staggered because I'm going to have to splice in obviously length if I'm trying to make you know four or five six feet couple meters I'd want these to be staggered so my splices don't meet up evenly but I want these to meet because I'm just putting the length of this is I'm lakme splicing it that's just how it's going to be so once i find the middle point it's right here i'm going to go on both sides of that and start twisting i left hand towards me or right hand away from me see what's happening here so I start twisting that twisting that's getting tight now work towards the center a little bit it's getting tight and once I get to I feel like it's not going anymore I want to go a little bit farther than that so it'll actually keeping this and framed for you all fold yen's go tight and go a little bit farther and pass that and then sort of kinks and binds on itself right at the beginning and that's how i'm going to start it now at this point this is the see how this is twisted over top right here I want to keep that twisted holding with my left hand and this side that's underneath I'm going to twist that away from me grab that piece that's under pull it over and then move my hand up just keep repeating this process this is the part that's underneath right now I'm going to twist this to get it tight make sure this piece of staying tight to grab this tight pull bring it under move shift my hand up to grab what I just twisted and keep doing this process and this is just takes a little bit of practice but once you do it you can get really good do this really fast this is sort of marginal material like I said this really isn't as clean or as process finally as I would 12 if I was actually trying to make some fine cordage out of it but for our purposes this is all we need it for probably put a little bit more water on this but that's alright just going to continue to finish this off these last few wraps and there we go I'll hold the end this is the end we started with that we had kingkahn itself that we had bind and this is down here as a working in I pushed on himself you see the two pieces we do it right should stay together should be nice and tight this is wet because I put water in to help its bind together but obviously I'm doing this for just you know putting it in my kit for for later use nothing i'm trying to use right now obviously that's why i got it wet or why you wouldn't want to get it wet but at this point let's take the piece i had already in my pocket drawing and show how it works this is the piece I made earlier before the video and it was probably damp on the ground we're going to see if it dried out enough it's been on my breast pocket since we've been filming maybe about an hour i'm just going to cut up a little piece off just unwrapped I can still feel it's damp but this will be a good test to see how this reacts even if it's a little damp if I can process it down

try to warm it up just a tad bit my hand create some friction create heat dry out that little bit yeah oh yeah I feel this is just so much warmer just by doing that creating that friction in my hand it's actually I can feel the heat from that process of doing that this might be marginal but and this is just a very very very small amount I'm doing it for a demonstrative purposes just to show you but cause obviously trying to get a fire going for real I could still use this amount no problem or if I really need to fire and I wasn't really want to take any chances I will just get a whole bunch of this see how see how she fares fat maiden see if they'll take a spark prep the area damn ground

there you go to process a little bit more but you see it's all there is to it if you have any questions about anything I did in the video leave a comment don't hesitate anything you liked I did leave a comment don't hesitate anything you can add don't hesitate leave a comment it's correct signing out back outdoors later turtles

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