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    Ray mears shows how to make the best cordage from nettles

    Mears picks a batch of tall nettles and strips them with ease, without receiving so much as a minor sting from the plants. He handles them with the confidence of experience, and shows how you too can make outstanding cordage from their fibers.
    http://www.wideopenspaces.com/surviv...rdage-nettles/




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    I hate those things. Evrry spring I go to war against them on my creek bottom. Cool vid though.

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    So those damn things do have a use.
    I'm reading one of his books on bushcraft in the north now.

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