Splitting Spruce Roots

[@natureboreale4709]

Super belle récolte de racines. Ça me rappelle de très bons souvenirs sur la construction du canot d'écorce d'épinette qu'on a fait l'an dernier!

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Oui ! En espérant en bâtir un autre un jour ! j'ai bien hâte de vous voir !

[@natureboreale4709]

@@NomadicWoodsman C'est certain qu'on en fera un autre!

[@rickfromvirginia]

Awesome video! I actually learned a lot! First was doing the cool music to hide the neighborhood background noise 🙂 lol. But on a serious note was learninghow to make a root stripper and how to use it! Very cool! then the soaking of the root to get it ready to split! But you guys make it look real easy. The sign of true craftsmanship! As always thanks for sharing this awesome how to do video. I might never be a very good bush crafter but I have learned a lot about the hard work it takes to be one. Thanks for sharing! RICK from Virginia

[@lalanterne3248]

Vraiment intéressent, je n'avais pas à ma connaissance cette possibilité d'utilisation. Concrètement il faut beaucoup de patience et de la rigueur, ça me plaît bien. Merci beaucoup du partage !

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Merci beaucoup d'avoir écouté. C'est un talent qui disparait malheureusement, mais très agréable et satisfaisant cet artisanat traditionelle :)

[@isadelavilla4458]

Nice job ! Lots of roots there !

[@mushercdn]

Really interesting and good stuff to know I always wonder if you could snare a hare using roots.An elevation system would be required but that would be illegal here. Buddy's good humour had me smiling the whole video. The dukes jokes were good. Thanks for the video.

[@NomadicWoodsman]

I love Jon's humor and he knows alot of stuff on bushcraft and search and rescue. I am trying to get him to grow his youtube channel more :). I have an old book that does mention the hare snaring with roots. I will read it again and look at that. Should I do a few videos on traps and snares ? :)

[@mushercdn]

@@NomadicWoodsman The old trapping techniques are interesting and could be useful in a survival situation. However, they are no where near as effective or humane compared to what we do and use today. The audience for such a video would be limited and maybe some of them focusing only on the negative. But you're the guy that actually made a spruce canoe. I'm sure some were put off by your harvesting of the bark for the canoe. I dither more killing a tree than killing a bear just because of the time nature requires to maker them . Bush craft and trapping are closely linked and a logical pairing.The rainbow and unicorn people will be unhappy no matter what.

[@BuckMckawtheotherone]

Nice! I got me a bit of birch bark last week. I need to get me some roots, somewhere near Edmonton, and make some lashing for the baskets and other bark thingies I'd like to try. Inspiring, and fun. Did the Dukes of Hazard make it past Boss Hog's Billboard station?

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Nice you should be able to find roots easily in a small wooded areas around there or just outside the city. :) Send some photos of your projects ! :)

[@timothylongmore7325]

I gotta get busy. My knee wasn't letting me kneel at all so I haven't dug any roots yet. Still looking for bark too. Those are some nice roots you found nomad. You see the video where the native woman chucks the bundle of roots right into a bright fire for about thirty seconds then pops them out and strips them? Most of the little rootlets are singed off. Haven't tried it but looked like a good idea... if ya get it right.

[@NomadicWoodsman]

I just watched that video today actually. It would be a good method to test out right now when the spruce tips are coming out. I would dip them in water first just to make sure they don't burn. I am sure the heat helps, same way as boiling. Always things to learn ! :)

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Hope your knee gets better for the summer !

[@timothylongmore7325]

@@NomadicWoodsman Probably a good idea. I don't think that clip showed where they were prior to the singeing. Probably soaking. Knee is coming along much better now thanks. Slipped in the barnyard and landed on the one knee back in februrary. Thought it was broke but miniscus ( I think) was what was bothering lately. Haven't found you any good cedar yet for ya but I'm looking. I saw a video a while back with natives building a canoe. They were using very thin , quite knotty white cedar for planking. Not exactly traditional but might be a passable substitute? I also can get black ash , for ribs and gunnels in any quantities. Its what I use for my adirondack pack baskets. You should do an adirondack out of spruce roots. That'd be bomb proof.

[@Urdasein]

Hi. What roots are those ? Spruce ? Thanx.

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Yes they are prime quality spruce roots from Canada. :)

[@trailtrashoutdoors8173]

Normally I don't mess with strippers since my wife beats me whenever I do 😆...although...I could get down with these! Neat little contraption!

[@NomadicWoodsman]

hahah I got a good laugh with you comment. I am in the same situation as you in regards to strippers, I do believe. :)

[@TeacherSBD]

Did I get it right? You boiled them first and soaked them for a while? How long? And another question: for the bigger roots, can you split them in 2 again after the first splitting? Thanks for sharing your experience.

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Yes and yes, gather, boil for 20-30 mins. Strip off bark. At that point, after boiling and being fresh you can start splitting them. If you do not have time to split them all, you can keep them in water and split within next few days. Yes you can split them twice to make them finer, you then lose the interior part. I usually split them all in 2 to start and then when I am working on a project and need it to be finer, I remove a layer on the inside. Hope this is clear. Check out Jon's video where we show the boiling process too. :)

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Jon's video : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5aYnmdpnsd0gJI

[@TeacherSBD]

@@NomadicWoodsman Thank you Steve, it's all very clear. I definitely got to give it a try.

[@васяегоренко-х6щ]

надо и себе такую чистилку корня сделать.

[@васяегоренко-х6щ]

что вы делаете с корнем? корень ели?

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Изготовление корзин, каноэ и других поделок

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Making baskets, canoes and other crafts

[@васяегоренко-х6щ]

красивые корешки.

[@NomadicWoodsman]

Спасибо !