How to make Felt - Ray Mears Extreme Survival - BBC

Ray Mears helps to make felt by beating fleece with sticks in the tradtional Mongolian style

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[NewYorkRifleMan]

That landscape is breath taking, it just goes on for miles.

[SpookyJohnathan]

@fulanaarvore I'm a cannibal. I don't eat animals 'cause there's always enough people and they're way easier to catch. Also, I have no sense of guilt.

[fatibel42]

@fatibel42 I should say "traditionally." These days they obviously have some access to more modern materials - that glass bottle - but not exactly a corner store.

[fatibel42]

@fulanaarvore It's my understanding that the Mongolian nomads raise five kinds of animals and live almost exclusively off the products of those animals, from the milk of oxen, horses and goats (fermented and made into yogurt among other things) to their meat. They also use the wool, hair, hides and bones. They have a taboo against piercing the earth, which means no cultivation. They are herders.

[coolkidcater]

@fulanaarvore whats your point?

[mryellow123]

@fulanaarvore Agriculture and cultivation is the beginning of the trap which is the modern world of "I need more". Hunter gatherers don't "work", they "live". Try surviving in a cold climate on soy.

[buchan2]

@fulanaarvore and good on you i say! you are not pushing your options on other people and i thank you for that, i think there's nothing wrong with eating other animals as long as you respect the animal you kill by one killing it in the most pain free way possibly and two eating it all! if you do live in the city or town then please try eat different types of meat, maby one day buy a full chicken not just the breast and legs and then once you have Eaton as much as you can you turn it into stock.

[Tunteg332]

For all those Morally & Royally Offended People:

NO sheep is ever harmed in felt making process. If the herders don't take out the sheep's wool once a year in the summer, the sheep would be pretty uncomfortable and actually might die from overheating. How would you feel wearing your winter coat (designed to keep warm in -30C) in +30C of Mongolian summers?

[ustgagchvirus]

felt making is not an extreme survival it is a tradition.

[bookguy12000]

@fulanaarvore You're missin out, bud.

[herbatreanunion]

0:13 beat it!