Natural Cordage | No String? No Problem! | Ex-Royal Marine Shows You How | Nettle Cordage

[@dshe8637]

Love this video! If you are going to use the finger twist method, remember to rest your hands from time to time. A couple of minutes every half hour or so is good. It's easy to get carried away with activities like these and then end up damaging the tendons in your fingers because you forget to pause. Tendons need to lubricate themselves as they slide through sheaths near the joints. If you keep running them dry, they build up damage. I have tendinitis in one finger because I kept working away at a plant fibre basket I was making. It's meant that whittling, spinning and braiding are now painful to do. Enjoy making wonderful things by hand. Just remember to stop, straighten your fingers and rest them to keep tendons lubricated.

[@danqrl]

I started making nettle cordage s couple of weeks ago. My daughter got fully involved after watching me do it and now we do it together and have made each other nettle cordage bracelets. Definitely good for quitening the mind, makes my tongue come out too lol

[@tattoochef]

I love this damn channel. Im so happy you live "across the pond" cuz id be broke from taking classes

[@Jaden48108]

I just completed 14 feet of cordage. The mental aspect of creating cordage has value. It's calming. I feel like I can take on my mum who knits quite a lot.

[@nightrazer85]

That is what I like about diy, focus on something other then worries and grief. Doing something productive and useful. Later just enjoying the outdoors, doing nothing, clearing the mind. 👍☕🔥

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

A good skill to know, I hope the leaves were used, very nutrional if you just hold the full stem and wave it over the flames for a few seconds, the leaves are then instantly edible without stings, it's a bit like spinach.

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Busy interesting week teaching skill set's, good man. Another good use, dry the leaves naturally then just crumble them up into an air tight container, add to soups, stews, or anything really 👌🏻👍🏻

[@Tykepaints]

Didn’t attempt the cordage yet but had my first cup of nettle tea off the back of this, thanks. Surprisingly refreshing 👍🏻

[@moiragoldsmith7052]

Or sweat slightly in butter...cool, add to Greek yoghurt with a good scraping of fresh nutmeg and some lemon zest. Food from the gods!

[@MaxSafeheaD]

Drying them also works.

[@michaelbannerman-roberts1518]

Absolutely, one of the most chlorophyll-rich plants there is, also high in minerals and vitamens.

[@grumpyauldman]

I was making nettle cordage whilst drinking nettle tea a few weeks back, it's slow and good for the mind 😊

[@larryjimbob]

@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Absolutely no lie I promise you.....I was thinking about how to make nettle fibre cordage yesterday. How strange 😄

[@larryjimbob]

Nettle soup.is good too 👍😊

[@cheguevara5940]

With the leftovers of the nettle, you can also make a fertilizer for almost all of your plants, fruits, vegetables etc! You can make the rope and with the rest one of the oldest, cheapest and most potent fertilizer and natural pesticide too, it's called Nettle Manure (slurr) and it smells like it later on!

[@alexandermichael117]

I as a dad,with three children,was always aware of the countryside and some plant dangers,but very little,until I saw your videos.Thanks again for such insight,and info.about the countryside many enjoy,as I do.

[@pamwalker7823]

I thought this video was to prepare nettles for eating. I’m glad I found your channel. Amazing use of resources 🙏🏻🌹🐝🌱

[@lawrencee9655]

My father would show me how he made cordage, on the run, with nettle strips hanging from his belt that he would use throughout the day. This brought back some very good memories and a good insight into how to learn, Nick. Thank you.

[@cujomojo]

I find breaking the node’s underfoot very fast and effective, I just lay a bunch of stems on the ground and press down the length of them with the sole of my boot. Obviously need a firm surface to lay them on but you can process a lot fast using the method.

[@Catweazzle]

Yes, likewise👍.

[@SMTRodent]

Great to see a method that doesn't involve retting (soaking them in water for some time to rot), which was the only method I knew of before today for getting the fibres out.

[@Zero_Reaper13]

Ive just started getting into this, I find its a great way to pass some time while wild camping.

[@Catweazzle]

Informative vids as usual, always good to gain more knowledge. Nettle/Willow etc cordage making, is such a calming pastime, especially with some Nettle tea. Peace to all👨‍🌾✌️

[@timsbird1971]

Good skills. As you know I make a whole load and make my cordage in the evenings in the winter. It's as close to bushcraft knitting as you can get. 👍🤜

[@neilday551]

A great tutorial for a beginner like me. I subscribed because you used Fan Dabby Dozy. I'm putting together a fishing and hunting display for a living history group that I'm part of. Learning about making cordage for fishing nets brought me here. It looks like it'll be a fairly small fishing net.

[@edelmurray1260]

Coming to your channel really calms my mind so glad I found it 🙌 moved to countryside 14 yrs ago away from city life still want to go further this helps 😁 would love to bring my 2 teens here 🌹

[@Whydoibother943]

I’m off down the local marshes later to pick nettles for soup and tea. All the leaves you chucked are what I need! The cordage tip is great!

[@SEAFISHINGwithCJ]

Loving the channel mate, sitting off grid down in Cornwall, surrounded by hemlock water dropwort, foxgloves, lords and ladies. And other interesting fauna. . Also some really tall nettles, so im trying to make cordage, although must admit tried your method of grasping them and got stung, everyday a school day, going to have to work my way through your back catalogue. Keep them coming.

[@gordonlawrence1448]

Nettles are one of the best things in Britain. They are obviously good for chordage but dry out the tips of the big leafs and they make a tasty tea, the smaller leafs are good after a quick boil to eat, and some of our rarer butterflies like munching on it EG Red Admiral catterpillars.

[@andsewforth]

Sally Pointer has an amazing method twisting and adding in new fiber. She’s here on KZbin

[@peteturner3267]

I've actually made nettle tea last year..I don't go far but do use dandelion leaf from my garden in my salad mix.. Great info again.love this channel.

[@jenkinsmig]

I love the fact you use this, I was showed this method by a farmer I used to do some work for, don't forget the tips of those nettles makes a darn good brew, and is good for easing hay fever especially if you sweetened with the honey from your bees.... Just saying cordage and a brew

[@WELLBRAN]

My Dad was a Japanese pow ww2 and he said the Aussie POWs knew all the tricks with plants for medication etc being in the outback with no doctor handy

[@WELLBRAN]

@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 I know this as I was told by an American with my father that they used to wire up wounds and cuts with bark as it contained quinine. Also even in Those days they used leaches and maggots to clean skin. My father used to tell doctors what happened to him but they scoffed and said no one could live through that! He told them to get lost.

[@magicaldr]

Something I look forward to trying with our scout group, thanks. Really been enjoying your videos since finding you a couple of weeks ago. Hope to meet you one day on the trail.

[@madgardener5820]

Thank you for this one, I never get tired of your instructional techniques. I hang my nettle fibres up to dry in my wife's airing cupboard next to her laundry. I don't think she minds. Also cordage made from fresh nettle stems is useful to tie a burdock leaf around a fish before you bury it in some embers to cook it. I like the stinging sensation.

[@daftphil9706]

Your WIFE'S airing cupboard"😂 "Your WIFE'S laundry."🤣 Why don't you hang up nettles in your own airing cupboard next to your own laundry? Very funny!😂

[@KFUURE]

Class royal, love seeing the different path lads take.

[@LordMarps]

Fantastic video, many thanks. I've seen it done with willow bark boiled in a wood ash solution, but this is even better.

[@LordMarps]

@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Look forward to it, sir!

[@bristolrovers27]

Nice simple and well explained video

[@simonpackham5780]

Great video with new skills (for me). Thank Nick

[@lildevilgamer]

I'm on a vacation at Baltic sea. On the way to the beach there are many nettles near the footpath. I think I won't be able to not gather some and try this, as I was waiting for this video since you said in one of your replies to me that you will be making it

[@danbrown4420]

Useful to know. V well put together vid. Cheers.

[@jamiedanieltaylor]

Good stuff! I'm not sure if I could be arsed to ever make cordage out of them though. The work vs the the reward is not great 😆But I definitely would have kept those leaves you chucked though, for a brew later. 😉👌👍

[@Gr0nal]

I think I need to work on my technique handling nettles. I got stung loads doing this xD

[@soggz4246]

Put the leaves next to your camp fire to evaporate the Formica acid. They taste like spinach and are packed with Vit C.👍🏾

[@jack_batterson]

Nice tutorial!

[@DisneyMarkUK]

I’ll give this a go, wish me luck. Thank you

[@russellbaldwin708]

Using Bramble after removing the thorns by running a blade up and down the stems is a good alternative if nettles can't be found!

[@TheGodlessGuitarist]

yeah I saw something about that elsewhere, using young blackberry bramble vines

[@user-ov6jx9qp7s]

Fantastic. Thank you ➰

[@SonofChurchill]

1.24 what that link flower in back ground is it a weed? Too too 😎 I learn a lot from your video. Thanks

[@forrestphoenix318]

8:28 great comment about being memorized in the current moment

[@robman247]

Nice show and tell there And informational Nick 👍👌✌️🇺🇸

[@robman247]

@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Its getting better here, came over to the Texas cost to see family and do some fishing 🎣 did get nothing, lost my fishing lure in the channel and then my favorite fishing rod broke 😭 and my reel got a tangled up line 😤 😂 but all is good 👍 I have a backup rod , 2 is one 1 is none, right 😅 hope y’all are doing well also 👍👌✌️🇺🇸

[@JaresTech]

Great Videos - Thank you!. Do you have any info or even better any videos on the canopy you are using there? Thanks

[@whatsnottohike]

I hope the leaves were used. Make amazing tea! Just simply boil them for s few minutes. Delicious!

[@benmccarthy2796]

Love this !

[@mrspudly1]

Hi Nick hope your well, did you have nettle tea using the leftover leaves ?

[@Roscoe.P.Coldchain]

Loved this, subbed 👍🇬🇧

[@adamsmith9918]

Glad this channel popped up I'm now subscribed and loving it, do you do weekend lessons?

[@LIVELAUGHLOVEWELLY]

You mut ask us to like comment and subscribe in all your videos. You just reminded me x Fab vid

[@FeriAriyatmoko]

New subscriber, Sir! Great Content, thank you

[@willjohnson1273]

I don't know if you mentioned it but obviously you can keep the leaves for that nettle tea.

[@destinedtodevinespiritualc119]

I use this technique with my palm leaves in my garden

[@malj7890]

When I was very young the "big boys" pushed me into a ditch full of nettles, I can still see the sun shining through the leaves as I lay on my back, 70 years later.

[@opts9]

I rollerskated myself into a nettle filled ditch as a child - but I also have a vivid memory of the sunshine and blue sky through nettle leaves!

[@anonymous4201]

Absolute legend…!!!

[@phuaphua4301]

👍👍👍Nice video 📹

[@phuaphua4301]

@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Welcome, stay blessings and take care 🙂☺

[@ishbelcoulter8681]

this man has iron-clad paws for hands

[@danchampz5253]

Educational

[@karldeegan1009]

Top man!

[@moiragoldsmith7052]

Stringing us along eh!

[@kelvinsparks4651]

Fan dabby dozy . By remembering that we showing our age 🤣🤣 . Great video though.

[@macdonaldsadler]

I'm just glad you didn't take the pith. 🤪😀😀😀😂😂😂😂

[@AdventureSonick]

13:31 nomnomnomnom

[@TheGodlessGuitarist]

What do you do to stop it turning brittle?

[@TheGodlessGuitarist]

@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 I dont think I watched the whole vid to be fair, as I spent whole summer making nettle cord and was really disappointed that it all fell apart when it dried out. So I guess butter, tallow and other greasy substances will probably work. Is there anything you can find in the bush for this purpose?. Thanks for responding. P.S. Top tip: don't harvest nettles and bring them home and work with them in your garden. We had several years worth of nettle infestation in the garden after doing that.

[@mrsrimskie5493]

Your videos are brilliant, I think I may actually survive a zombie apocalypse!!! 😁

[@antrog1895]

When it comes, I’m joining his gang/commune 😀

[@chrisroberts313]

Using the dogs water I noticed 🤫

[@gabejohnson97]

I've taken your advice and started using my butt cheeks to grasp the lot of my unrefined nettles.

[@rockymarciano6750]

Cheers Nick. And don’t waste middle nettle leaves - soup at a pinch (not that tasty tbh) best for me - nettle omelette. Love the cordage and will give it a go, but, (soz Nick) you’ll never get me away from my paracord 😂. Mind you, I never leave any behind, too expensive and useful.

[@MaxSafeheaD]

WHAT, on earth, is fan-dabby-dozey?!😂

[@mustamuri]

✨🧸✨😳....👍

[@koudacyen]

Doggo taking lessons

[@Allthedifferentcheeses]

Or you could pop down the shop and buy some string. This prepper bull is such a waste of time