Honeysuckle resources and a quick update

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance out--there's in a pathfinder school and I don't like just shooting talking head type video update blah blah blah so I went ahead and put some footage in here of how to utilize the resource that comes from the bark of the honeysuckle mine which is a very good resource for you using it's very common throughout the Eastern woodlands because it's an invasive plant just a quick update real quick on this video I want to let you guys know why I haven't been putting videos up for the last two three weeks it's not because I don't want to make videos it's really because I haven't had time I've been doing a lot of traveling and a lot of teaching and that's really my goal for this year next year is to do more worldwide traveling and teaching to give back to the people who've been supporting me overseas for so long and do some one-on-one teaching with groups overseas I just got back from a trip I went to Sweden and did a more adventure trip there we had about 70 people at that event just in teaching there I went from there to the bushcraft show in the UK where there were several thousand people I did lots of one-on-one and teaching platforms at that event as well and I came back and went straight to blade show with more knives and self-reliance Outfitters and cosplayers knife shop and I was there for four days now I came back and I've had a couple of days to recuperate and then this morning we started another class wilderness first-aid to medicinal plants which is a four-day class and I've got classes back to back for the next three weekends as well as a trip to Indianapolis store in midweek this next week then I've got to start to travel again I'm going possibly to China

I'll let you know details on that when it works out to do a project there I have to go to Louisville to a meat processing show there to represent more knives and then I also have to do the gathering the Pathfinder gathering as well as another trip overseas to Sweden and Denmark to teach in September so I'm doing a lot of traveling this year and it's kind of leading to not being able to put as many videos on one up too but I'd like to be able to put more videos up and I'll try to get some footage of some of these locations that I'm at but it's easier to get pictures a lot of times than it is video so I want you to quick update video today but I don't like videos where somebody just talks and talks and talks so I'm going to actually show you a couple skills today where

go out in the woods that talks about a resource in honeysuckle line a couple different resource that you can use from that vine besides the medicine that we talked about in a past series on materia medica it's also a great fire resource and a good cordage resource stay with all right so all of this designing stuff is back here for the most part is honeysuckle there's a piece of grapevine in here as well Wow grapevine but most of this is honeysuckle and if you get this stuff and break it off just like that you can see that when you pull that off the bark comes off in large shreds I can unwind that bark right off of there it grows up the tree in a spiral and I can continue to unwind that off the tree to get this the outer pieces of that bark that are already dead and dry are your tender resource the inner pieces of bark that still have some green left on them or your cordage resource and if you get a piece we find a piece that's got some green right here see if we can show you a really good piece of green material if you break one it's green it won't break real easy but it will break when you break it it'll be green on the inside and if you pull on that that whole sheath of bark will start to strip down off of that thing just like this and you'll have longer pieces of green bark that you can work with and those make your strongest cordage you can make cordage out of that stuff this a little bit more dead but it and it'll be okay but it won't be near as strong as this stuff will but this is what you want for tender material so let's collect some of this up take it back and we'll demonstrate part of it for a tinder bundle and we'll demonstrate part of it as cordage all right so here's some of that honeysuckle vine bark and it's been in my pocket for half an hour maybe something like that I'm just going to break that stuff up and process it down to increase the surface area just like I would with tulip poplar inner bark or cedar bark or anything like that you want to give it maximum surface area so that when you strike it with your Fair cerium rod there's plenty of place for the sparks of land to catch fire there we go

nothing to it a great resource for fire as well okay so just like any other material we're going to make cordage out of it I've got a piece made right here we're going to take this bark and we soak it now we just collect the fibers up to get the thickness that we want in a link that we can work with to start making our cordage and you're just going to twist it down until it folds up on itself just like you would with any cordage start a piece just like that as soon as it pulls over on itself you're ready to start making cordage out of it with the reverse-wrap two-ply method all right pretty simple stuff it's not rocket science I've got videos on how to do this how to splice the cordage and all of that stuff but this stuff makes pretty good cordage and you can see this piece here is probably ten inches long and this is plenty strong enough to use just wrap a tripod together or something like that but I spliced us here and I spliced it here and it's still good and strong you're not going to just break that stuff real real easily so it holds up really well it's a convenient resource that's easier to harvest a lot of times than inner bark