Bush Craft. Quiz. Hope you do better than I did

[demented dale]

https://www.gotoquiz.com/bushcraft_o_meter
3 4 8 9 13 and 15. These are the ones I dont know the answers to. The shame, the shame . the bear or ray question is subjective and the moss question there is no actual answer as moss grows any where damp, not predominantly anywhere north facing. I am particularly interested in the answer to question 8. DD xxxxx

 

[slaine_23]

You can make soap from birch and ivy if I recall, but not nettles as that can sting the nether regions.

 

[Toddy]

No 3, Amadou is made from the corky layer under the hard shell of fomes fomentaria, the devil's hoofnail or horse's hoof fungus. It's truly excellent, and worth the work to make it.

No 4, a withie is just a thin flexible woody stem....like willow, or privet.

No 8, well beech is traditionally used to wash with, particularly the fresh green leaves in Spring for hair.
Not what that site says. It says hazel.... never used hazel for that. Witch Hazel's a different plant entirely.

No 9, chagga is a fungus that grows on birch growing someplace really cold at times of the year. It makes not just an excellent tinder, but a superb healing tea.

No 13 is muddled.....cramp balls are found on beech and ash too.

Horse's hoof on birch, beech and sycamore.

No 15, a kuksa is a carved wooden cup, something fun to sit and make around a campfire

No 17 too is 'off' somehow.

Who made up this quiz ?

M

 

[TeeDee]

Who made up this quiz ?

M

Probably A.I , the potential future portent of an Oracle of Delphiesque splurge of misguided misinformation and start of things being quoted as 'facts' rather than half truths.

I realise we are verging on the cusp of a ' I blame the Parents ' type vibe but more aimed at digital creators.


< Broch - Have your soapbox back >

 

[Crac]

20/20

I think it comes down more to recollection?

• Q 8. I used a little deduction.
• Q10. Abstraction needed... if I could see it I might know it?
• Q11. Lore... I wouldn't use this... given you'd have a more trees, and some sun
• Q12. Seriously unfair question, I've never heard of that other guy!
• Q13. Messy question I think they've got that one wrong. My answer was 'changed' since I was confident in Q17... and didn't think the answers should be the same.
• Q16. Messy too, I guessed this one.

 

[Broch]

5 - is way off - 'traditional' i.e. for thousands of years before the long bow, bows were made of pine and even willow

11 - is plain dangerously wrong - I can show you two trees 20m apart in my wood with the bark on opposite sides. This 'rule' is so outdated as to be laughable.

12 - is wrong I know who I would rather spend the evening in the pub with!

16 - wrong - nettle and blackberry are not barks

 

[Bhod]

85% got my cramp ball and horse hoof mixed up.

 

[demented dale]

No 3, Amadou is made from the corky layer under the hard shell of fomes fomentaria, the devil's hoofnail or horse's hoof fungus. It's truly excellent, and worth the work to make it.

No 4, a withie is just a thin flexible woody stem....like willow, or privet.

No 8, well beech is traditionally used to wash with, particularly the fresh green leaves in Spring for hair.
Not what that site says. It says hazel.... never used hazel for that. Witch Hazel's a different plant entirely.

No 9, chagga is a fungus that grows on birch growing someplace really cold at times of the year. It makes not just an excellent tinder, but a superb healing tea.

No 13 is muddled.....cramp balls are found on beech and ash too.

Horse's hoof on birch, beech and sycamore.

No 15, a kuksa is a carved wooden cup, something fun to sit and make around a campfire

No 17 too is 'off' somehow.

Who made up this quiz ?

M

13 you say horse hoof fungas on sycamore? i have always thought there was no large fungi grew on or near that tree. Have I been wrong? xxx

 

[demented dale]

it was not a good quiz but I have learnt something again from you lot. xxxxx

 

[demented dale]

5 - is way off - 'traditional' i.e. for thousands of years before the long bow, bows were made of pine and even willow

11 - is plain dangerously wrong - I can show you two trees 20m apart in my wood with the bark on opposite sides. This 'rule' is so outdated as to be laughable.

12 - is wrong I know who I would rather spend the evening in the pub with!

16 - wrong - nettle and blackberry are not barks

I watched ray mears prog on the history of archery only yesterday and yes the oldest bow found is made from willow. forget the date but ancient x

 

[Toddy]

13 you say horse hoof fungas on sycamore? i have always thought there was no large fungi grew on or near that tree. Have I been wrong? xxx

Sycamore is pretty clean, but the spores of fomes fomentarius will infest any damaged bark on our hardwood trees.
It is much, much, more common on birch, but it'll even have a go on chestnut and oak.

 

[demented dale]

Sycamore is pretty clean, but the spores of fomes fomentarius will infest any damaged bark on our hardwood trees.
It is much, much, more common on birch, but it'll even have a go on chestnut and oak.

interesting thanks x

 

[HillBill]

95% survivalist, Man i need to get out more

 

[HillBill]

5 - is way off - 'traditional' i.e. for thousands of years before the long bow, bows were made of pine and even willow

Was mainly Ash tbf. The flatbow.

 

[HillBill]

I watched ray mears prog on the history of archery only yesterday and yes the oldest bow found is made from willow. forget the date but ancient x

Its called the Meare Heath bow, and was made from Hickory. (in the UK anyway) The oldest bow EVER found was in Denmark and made from Elm. (circa 9000 years ago)

 

[HillBill]

16 - wrong - nettle and blackberry are not barks

Nettle and blackberry both 100% have bark... Bananas are herbs (well, the plant that produces Bananas is a herb) and Strawberries are not fruits, though contain many fruits. Weird world is it not.

 

[Keith_Beef]

"You are 90% survivalist"

The ones I got "wrong":
8. Which leaves can be used as a soap when boiled (I answered Beech, but the quiz claims it's Birch.)
17. What fungus grows on dead/dying ash(I answered Horse-hoof, but the quiz claims it's Cramp Ball.)

I don't see how anybody would mess around trying to get the bark off nettles and brambles to make cordage. I thought that you'd process nettles like flag, by retting.

And it's odd to not mention Chaga made into a drink.

 

[Harold Godwinson]

Got no13 wrong... But like many I contest the answer... Still 95 percent is still a good pass

 

[John Fenna]

An ill-informed qiuz.
I gave the answers (largely wrong) that they were looking for and scored 100%.
The authors - seemingly - have watched all the YouTube vids but not tried any of it for real ... or they would still be lost or dead in the woods!

 

[Broch]

Was mainly Ash tbf. The flatbow.

Ash was a relative latecomer, but, yes, before yew.