Very good point about the potential of dexterity to go, had it happen a couple of times last winter in damp/cold/windy conditions, though as you demonstrated, with a little preparation this need not be an issue. Thanks for the vid!
I was on a hike and roles down a very long hill and was out cold from a minute or two.could not remember how to get back and was stuck out there for two days. I had a very close replica to your kit and your regular bushcraft kit. I had a good idea what to do because of your channel.Thank You, you could have very well saved my life
Outstanding points in this video. The redundancy of tender material is a great idea. I also really like the idea of the duct tape around the edges of your tens. I've recently seen a really great idea that I'm going to go for called the roll up tool bag that has various size pockets in it and some little elastic areas as well. Really great for organizing. I will definitely be putting a fire kid much like yours in that roll up bag. I believe that bag is made by Bucket Boss.
Great vid Brian, I couldn't agree more that fire prep begins before you leave the house. You need to know how to use these tools in order to make a sustainable fire. Keep up the good work Bro!
I use the waxed jute too. In playing around with it I discovered that you can fray one end about 1/4" and strike a spark into it with a ferro rod to make a "match" to light wood shavings or other tinder. It can be blown out and reused over and over. This way a single length of the jute can start several fires. Nice video!
Great kit, good vid, good info. I personally would throw in a couple of short pieces of car tire or inner tube (thanks Ray Mears) and also squeeze in a birthday candle or two in the corners. But all the rest looks just like my kit!
I carry candles a well and e iner tube trick is good however I'm pretty I can start a fire here with this kit lol! Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
I have noticed they do in fact have a shelf life. I actually spoke to the manufacturer and they said that if it doesn't have the air pillow feel to it they would expire. I have since just use Mini infernos or tinder quick. thanks for your input!
Looks like we have a lot of the same things in our kits. Great video. Been thinking of getting the mini inferno for awhile now. Will have to get one and try using it. Thank you
I love the mini-inferno. outstanding product. I take one brisket cute it in have and wrap it around my rod and place it within my Fire steel tube. I have a belt pouch for EDC for my knife flashlight and fire starting on me every day ~M~
Great Video! Excellent presentation! Don't sweat the editing. Excellent use of C.C.S.A.M! Collect, Consider, Select, Arrange and Master. Iroquois used to carry a deer hide bag similar to a dump pouch but with an over sized lid, drawstring made of deer hide and the whole thing waterproofed with tallow. Eight to ten inches long and three to four inches in diameter worn on the ring belt with the bottom stuffed with sun dried Sphagnum moss. As you walk through the woods you find tinder and stuff it in the bag and the moss draws any humidity out of the tinder. After all, the moss was used to line the babies' loin cloth. It would absorb all the unwanted liquids and matters and was easily buried and replaced with fresh. Hey! Disposable diaper liners! Think it would sell?
Thanks for the great ideas.Did my "dirt time" last weekend, Tinderquicks and matches worked best for me . #2 was the ferro rod and jute twine. I tried vaseline impregnated cotton balls but I got them too wet and they didn't work well for me. am going to do the waxed jute twine next...Is pine where the fatwood comes from?
On your wetfires, might I suggest looking into the weber firestarters, or lighter cubes.. They practically the same, but have no expiration date... I've had them for years .. They come in packs of 24, and I'm just getting down to the last row of the pack which is about 3 yrs or more old.. Great vid and thanks for sharing the knowledge Sir !!
Have you ever used dryer lint? I save it and put it into small "jewelry" plastic bags and keep it in my kit. It lights instantly with a spark...awesome to have in my kit. I too have several ways to light a fire, but I use the "reusable" methods until I absolutely have not choice but to strike a match or use my lighter (to save lighter fuel).
Really good video, like the way you spoke about getting tinder first. I have always thought and done that, just like everything else in the world it is always harder to find something when you really need it. I also always carry a magnifying glass in the kit because getting older sucks so if my cheater glasses get lost or damaged as well, I will be able to read my map or tiny cell phone screen.
Birch and fatwood will get anything going. Anything beyond that is purely fun and of course functional as well. Just to many fires to light a fire out there so have fun with it !!
In the 1980s, I assisted a school friend's father, who made his own wooden trimaran and sailed the world. He was making sawdust shavings-candle wax firestarters using small muffin/cupcake papers. You would peel the paper edge off the puck and light it. This then started the rest of the shavings tinder and wax to burn, and burn for a VERY LONG and VERY HOT time ... for a frigging BEACH BONFIRE! Best woodsman and survival idea. SMALL homemade saw "dust" tinder and wax fingernail firestarters. Use kitchen metal measuring spoons (1/4 teaspooon size) as pour molds. Have small container holding ice cubes, and place paper towel over cubes. Use tiny piece of cotton mop string, jute string, or dryer lint twisted into tiny wick. Lightly oil or PAM spray spoons - (and wick and lay aside). Put saw dust into spoon. Pour melted wax over dust. Push wick into dust and wax. Let wax harden up. Place spoons onto ice cold paper towel. Do not dip into cool/ice water. When entirely chilled, pull out mini firestarters by wick, pry out, and bang out. Can change out saw dust for jute string fibers, cotton (mop) fibers, dryer lint, etc. But wood dust "candle" is better than fiber candle for longer burn and higher ignition heat with wax. Size and half elliptical shape makes for great firestarting options hidden within tinder bundle. Fray wick for greater fire ignition and flame size.
An option for your tinder kit (commented to Dave and Darrin): Dave mentioned using such cotton cordage from a cottom mop. By using charring, you can get some dynamic fire starting material. I have a different approach. Using the same cottom mop dreadlocks, Create the following processing protocol. Epsom salts, i.e. magnesium (sulfate) Wood ash (potash) potassium ash salts Crushed (carbonized) briquet (Micronized) iron powder, or (Brillo with, without soap) steel wool crumblings Vaseline Take mop and cut off cotton dreadlocks. Pull apart the larger ropes into the smallest of strings and twine. Rub the strings and twine into furry fibers between fingers and hands. Do not pull apart. Just make furry fluffy string and twine. Use plastic utility bowl. Add warm water with small drop of dishwashing liquid (helps to break surface tension, and used as wetting agent). Insert cotton string and twine into water, and thoroughly wet and soak cotton. Let soak for maximum absorption of water into fibers. After ~30 minutes (?), drain out excess water from cotton strings into small second container. Lightly squeeze excess water. Leave cotton in bowl. Crush/grind epsom salts, wood ash, and briquet into very fine powder. Put fine grind onto cotton fibers and thoroughly work into cotton. Leave out for cotton to dry. When dry, work in small volume of vaseline into cotton, much less than conventional vaseline and cotton ball firestarting material. Pour out micronized iron or brillo (w/wo soap) crumbles on flat surface. Pull out cotton, and roll across iron powder, working into fibers. Let set for 1-2 hours. Pull out small amount of fibers and roll into 1/2 inch cotton ball pills. Or pull out fibers and twist into long strings. Put balls and wound strings into firemaking tin. When you need tinder material, it can be fluffed back up into a cotton fire ball in a bird's nest, or used individually as a fluffed cotton fire ball, for sparks, ... or flame-lit as a cotton string tinder material. A tiny, but long, cotton string can be woven around and into the tinder bundle, creating a greater cotton ignition surface inside the bundle. The carbon, sulfur, and potassium will start burning first (duh, it is gunpowder). The soap dust and vaseline will ignite as oils. The magnesium and iron powder will create greater metallic powder heat. The cotton provides the base material for extended burning of the tinder material. Also tiny needle-thin slivers of (super dry) hard soap make super tinder bundle ignition. Have mini bar soap in Altoids, knife sliver when needed. Would like to see you make and use it for demonstration purposes.
John Lord I make slow matches all the time from mop heads and they work well with the right materials. Again thenk you for your imput it's niice to share thought and ideas and yes they are welcomed
Excellent Kit! I was just thinking perhaps aluminum foil would be a good add - as it can be an instant dry base for your fire - boil water etc .. this is great video I will definitely be making some changes! Thanks!
A recent REI backpacking course mentioned using small 2 inch birthday candles, or the self-reigniting birthday candles, for firestarting. They just mentioned using them as such. I have my own woodsman and survival opinions about that. These candles can be cut up into 2, 3, or 4 fingernail candles. Shave (or sliver) off the candle wax ... leaving a tiny wick. Save both mini candle and shavings/slivers in the kit. Configure mini candle sizes into ...1/2 wick to 1/2 candle ... or 1/4 wick to 3/4 candle length. Leave unburnt wick, or burn the small wick into its charcloth condition, and snuff out. These tiny fingernail candles burn for a minute or more, and the dripping wax impregnates other tinder material for ignition and greater heat production. Sprinkle the candle shavings/slivers into the tinder bundle. The self-reigniting candles have a tiny wire in them, that relights the wick wax and gas in inclimate weather, so this is a further positive, with higher heat production for tinder firemaking success. Fray out the wick, then drop a spark or coal ... or just BIC lighter/match flame the wick for ignition, and producing larger flame.
John Lord good idea although I usually have a candle or two in my gear I have always had at one time or another I like beeswax, especially if traveling and trekking 18th century
Mostly i would tell you to experiment and base your kit around your needs and what works tried and true for you bro. Then keep changing and evolving your kit.
great kit... the only thing that I have a thought about is you have all your eggs in one basket (so to speak),. I have my fire kit in 4 different location in my pack and body so if something happens I don't loose my "easy" means of fire starting. Just a thought.
@WhitetailBushcraft Thanks Nick yes I'm back slowly getting computor up and running have about 76 vids I need to watch I know theres some of yours that caught my intrest bro!
Would you feel uncomfortable about getting a fire going if you only had the Mini Inferno's and, say, a 1 inch square x 5 inch long piece of fatwood, to go along with a fero rod and knife, of course? I haven't been in conditions (weather) that fatwood would not start a fire when scraped to make it very fine, and it does not take much to get even marginal tinder burning.
Great Fire Kit ! Made a One Hand Fire Kit from a KiWi Shoe Polish tin. And My Swedish Fire Steel kit has connected a large yellow plastic C.H. Hanson Pencil Sharpener from Home Depot. Maybe add a small Pencil Sharpener to your kit to make tinder. Thank you for the video ! tjl
For your altoids tin I would put a ferro rod blank in there since its your back up or a just in case kit why not carry an ignition source for the tinder in there?
Snowalker13 Always doesnt hurt to carry more my fiance thinks im a little nuts cause i usally have two to four on me depending on what im doing or wearing lol but that is a nice char tin the round one is that bought as a stand alone or recycled after you used what ever product may have been in it id like to get one about that size any suggestions?
@briargoatkilla - Thanks well thats' just it if it works for you then use it if i find something new along the way i change it, this way it's a progression and fine tuning so to say.
For me it's habit to carry multiple ways to create fire 2 is 1, 1 is none so this is the reason for redundency. I carry 0000 steel wool that take the place of your metal poliher in my case, I maintain my stance on what works for you so as long as your kit does the job then thats the final goal. Thanks for your comment!
If your going to put down plastic bags because of supposed condensation, explain what part of the world you live in and why it is a problem for you! I live in what is called the high desert... Condensation is not a problem around here. Have fun, as always thanks
Great video. Love the comment "Fire prep starts before I hit the woods." Excellent advice.
awesome vid snowwalker please put out more and thanks for all the hints and tips
Very good point about the potential of dexterity to go, had it happen a couple of times last winter in damp/cold/windy conditions, though as you demonstrated, with a little preparation this need not be an issue. Thanks for the vid!
+jelkel25 You're welcome thanks for your comment
I was on a hike and roles down a very long hill and was out cold from a minute or two.could not remember how to get back and was stuck out there for two days. I had a very close replica to your kit and your regular bushcraft kit. I had a good idea what to do because of your channel.Thank You, you could have very well saved my life
Great job, Brian. I'm going thru some of your older videos again. They are very helpful. Blessings from Kendall. John
Nice kit, and you hit the nail on the head; if it works for you, that's all that matters. I'm enjoying the new vids.
Great video Brian, my friend. Fantastic fire kit!! I am really enjoying watching your vids. God bless. John
in times like these you never know whats gonna happen so thank you for your videos big thumbs up
Outstanding points in this video. The redundancy of tender material is a great idea. I also really like the idea of the duct tape around the edges of your tens.
I've recently seen a really great idea that I'm going to go for called the roll up tool bag that has various size pockets in it and some little elastic areas as well. Really great for organizing. I will definitely be putting a fire kid much like yours in that roll up bag. I believe that bag is made by Bucket Boss.
Thank you very much Steve
Great vid Brian, I couldn't agree more that fire prep begins before you leave the house. You need to know how to use these tools in order to make a sustainable fire. Keep up the good work Bro!
Thats a brilliant kit! Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Jack
Thanks very much Jack
Awesome kit! I love your mentality.
Thats a damn good fire kit anyone woukd be lucky enough to be 'stuck with'. Nice vid
Thanks
Nice video, very interesting, very aducational! Thanks for sharing!
Youre welcome thanks for watching
You're welcome I'm glad you're ok and and safe. Thanks for the tremendous compliment and I'm glad some of my info helped, stay safe
Great video man... Lots of info and very humble. It's like I always say. Let's all learn from each other. Thanks for making this video.
Thanks for taking the time to watch and then comment bro! Stop back often!
I use the waxed jute too. In playing around with it I discovered that you can fray one end about 1/4" and strike a spark into it with a ferro rod to make a "match" to light wood shavings or other tinder. It can be blown out and reused over and over. This way a single length of the jute can start several fires. Nice video!
Good deal sounds like you put thought into your kit as well.
nice kit, love the redundancies. I was telling JJ at the class that Iiked your kit the best for the mix of primitive and modern
Just now finding your channel. Thanks for all the great tips. Subscribed ! :)
Brother, you have a great kit! Thanks for sharing, Thumbs up~~John
Great kit, good vid, good info. I personally would throw in a couple of short pieces of car tire or inner tube (thanks Ray Mears) and also squeeze in a birthday candle or two in the corners. But all the rest looks just like my kit!
I carry candles a well and e iner tube trick is good however I'm pretty I can start a fire here with this kit lol! Thanks for stopping by and commenting.
I have noticed they do in fact have a shelf life. I actually spoke to the manufacturer and they said that if it doesn't have the air pillow feel to it they would expire. I have since just use Mini infernos or tinder quick. thanks for your input!
Looks like we have a lot of the same things in our kits. Great video. Been thinking of getting the mini inferno for awhile now. Will have to get one and try using it. Thank you
Hi Brian just found your youtube channel and subscribed straight away, brilliant stuff mate.
steven king Hey thanks man much appreciated
Great fire kit, I gotta get some jute twine and try it out ;)-
Cheap tinder for sure bro!!
Great review my friend, I really appreciate your sharing the information. Take care and be safe out there. 🤗
Thanks very much! You be safe as well
I love the mini-inferno. outstanding product. I take one brisket cute it in have and wrap it around my rod and place it within my Fire steel tube. I have a belt pouch for EDC for my knife flashlight and fire starting on me every day
~M~
One thing with your strike.force is that you can put about a dozen tinder quiks in the compartment of them
You can use an Altoids candy tin, an old shoe polish tin will work as well. The canteen shop sells them I think.
Great Video! Excellent presentation! Don't sweat the editing. Excellent use of C.C.S.A.M! Collect, Consider, Select, Arrange and Master.
Iroquois used to carry a deer hide bag similar to a dump pouch but with an over sized lid, drawstring made of deer hide and the whole thing waterproofed with tallow. Eight to ten inches long and three to four inches in diameter worn on the ring belt with the bottom stuffed with sun dried Sphagnum moss. As you walk through the woods you find tinder and stuff it in the bag and the moss draws any humidity out of the tinder. After all, the moss was used to line the babies' loin cloth. It would absorb all the unwanted liquids and matters and was easily buried and replaced with fresh. Hey! Disposable diaper liners! Think it would sell?
Ahh yes these little tidbits of info for the journal to be referenced later.....I think it would sell lol
Thanks for the great ideas.Did my "dirt time" last weekend, Tinderquicks and matches worked best for me . #2 was the ferro rod and jute twine. I tried vaseline impregnated cotton balls but I got them too wet and they didn't work well for me. am going to do the waxed jute twine next...Is pine where the fatwood comes from?
I like the jute twine in wax, great idea. Will add to my kit.
John Galt Yes a quick cheap idea, thanks for your comment
On your wetfires, might I suggest looking into the weber firestarters, or lighter cubes.. They practically the same, but have no expiration date... I've had them for years .. They come in packs of 24, and I'm just getting down to the last row of the pack which is about 3 yrs or more old..
Great vid and thanks for sharing the knowledge Sir !!
Have you ever used dryer lint? I save it and put it into small "jewelry" plastic bags and keep it in my kit. It lights instantly with a spark...awesome to have in my kit. I too have several ways to light a fire, but I use the "reusable" methods until I absolutely have not choice but to strike a match or use my lighter (to save lighter fuel).
Really good video, like the way you spoke about getting tinder first. I have always thought and done that, just like everything else in the world it is always harder to find something when you really need it. I also always carry a magnifying glass in the kit because getting older sucks so if my cheater glasses get lost or damaged as well, I will be able to read my map or tiny cell phone screen.
Thank you very I have cheaters too bro!
Birch and fatwood will get anything going. Anything beyond that is purely fun and of course functional as well. Just to many fires to light a fire out there so have fun with it !!
In the 1980s, I assisted a school friend's father, who made his own wooden trimaran and sailed the world. He was making sawdust shavings-candle wax firestarters using small muffin/cupcake papers. You would peel the paper edge off the puck and light it. This then started the rest of the shavings tinder and wax to burn, and burn for a VERY LONG and VERY HOT time ... for a frigging BEACH BONFIRE!
Best woodsman and survival idea. SMALL homemade saw "dust" tinder and wax fingernail firestarters. Use kitchen metal measuring spoons (1/4 teaspooon size) as pour molds. Have small container holding ice cubes, and place paper towel over cubes. Use tiny piece of cotton mop string, jute string, or dryer lint twisted into tiny wick. Lightly oil or PAM spray spoons - (and wick and lay aside). Put saw dust into spoon. Pour melted wax over dust. Push wick into dust and wax. Let wax harden up. Place spoons onto ice cold paper towel. Do not dip into cool/ice water. When entirely chilled, pull out mini firestarters by wick, pry out, and bang out.
Can change out saw dust for jute string fibers, cotton (mop) fibers, dryer lint, etc. But wood dust "candle" is better than fiber candle for longer burn and higher ignition heat with wax.
Size and half elliptical shape makes for great firestarting options hidden within tinder bundle. Fray wick for greater fire ignition and flame size.
Great info. Easy to understand.
Awesome thanks for watching!
An option for your tinder kit (commented to Dave and Darrin):
Dave mentioned using such cotton cordage from a cottom mop. By using charring, you can get some dynamic fire starting material.
I have a different approach. Using the same cottom mop dreadlocks, Create the following processing protocol.
Epsom salts, i.e. magnesium (sulfate)
Wood ash (potash) potassium ash salts
Crushed (carbonized) briquet
(Micronized) iron powder, or (Brillo with, without soap) steel wool crumblings
Vaseline
Take mop and cut off cotton dreadlocks. Pull apart the larger ropes into the smallest of strings and twine. Rub the strings and twine into furry fibers between fingers and hands. Do not pull apart. Just make furry fluffy string and twine.
Use plastic utility bowl. Add warm water with small drop of dishwashing liquid (helps to break surface tension, and used as wetting agent). Insert cotton string and twine into water, and thoroughly wet and soak cotton. Let soak for maximum absorption of water into fibers.
After ~30 minutes (?), drain out excess water from cotton strings into small second container. Lightly squeeze excess water. Leave cotton in bowl.
Crush/grind epsom salts, wood ash, and briquet into very fine powder. Put fine grind onto cotton fibers and thoroughly work into cotton. Leave out for cotton to dry.
When dry, work in small volume of vaseline into cotton, much less than conventional vaseline and cotton ball firestarting material.
Pour out micronized iron or brillo (w/wo soap) crumbles on flat surface. Pull out cotton, and roll across iron powder, working into fibers.
Let set for 1-2 hours. Pull out small amount of fibers and roll into 1/2 inch cotton ball pills. Or pull out fibers and twist into long strings. Put balls and wound strings into firemaking tin.
When you need tinder material, it can be fluffed back up into a cotton fire ball in a bird's nest, or used individually as a fluffed cotton fire ball, for sparks, ... or flame-lit as a cotton string tinder material. A tiny, but long, cotton string can be woven around and into the tinder bundle, creating a greater cotton ignition surface inside the bundle.
The carbon, sulfur, and potassium will start burning first (duh, it is gunpowder). The soap dust and vaseline will ignite as oils. The magnesium and iron powder will create greater metallic powder heat. The cotton provides the base material for extended burning of the tinder material.
Also tiny needle-thin slivers of (super dry) hard soap make super tinder bundle ignition. Have mini bar soap in Altoids, knife sliver when needed.
Would like to see you make and use it for demonstration purposes.
John Lord I make slow matches all the time from mop heads and they work well with the right materials. Again thenk you for your imput it's niice to share thought and ideas and yes they are welcomed
Cool thanks for the support!
Thanks man they do work well
Good job brother 👍🏽👍🏽😎 best wishes friend
Thanks man
Thanks bro much appreciated!
Thanks for the info, jute twine dipped in wax is something I haven't seen before
Always learning
-David
well thought out kit..safe journeys
+blackoracle69 Thanks Blackie
Excellent Kit! I was just thinking perhaps aluminum foil would be a good add - as it can be an instant dry base for your fire - boil water etc .. this is great video I will definitely be making some changes! Thanks!
Thanks for you taking the time to watch and comment, stop back often, I could add the foil but often find dry material enough to make the base.
Thanks! Great video!
Nice kit !
Hello Brian , great fire kit ,atb Martin
Outlander Bushcraft Thanks Martin much appreciated
A recent REI backpacking course mentioned using small 2 inch birthday candles, or the self-reigniting birthday candles, for firestarting. They just mentioned using them as such.
I have my own woodsman and survival opinions about that. These candles can be cut up into 2, 3, or 4 fingernail candles. Shave (or sliver) off the candle wax ... leaving a tiny wick. Save both mini candle and shavings/slivers in the kit. Configure mini candle sizes into ...1/2 wick to 1/2 candle ... or 1/4 wick to 3/4 candle length. Leave unburnt wick, or burn the small wick into its charcloth condition, and snuff out. These tiny fingernail candles burn for a minute or more, and the dripping wax impregnates other tinder material for ignition and greater heat production. Sprinkle the candle shavings/slivers into the tinder bundle.
The self-reigniting candles have a tiny wire in them, that relights the wick wax and gas in inclimate weather, so this is a further positive, with higher heat production for tinder firemaking success.
Fray out the wick, then drop a spark or coal ... or just BIC lighter/match flame the wick for ignition, and producing larger flame.
John Lord good idea although I usually have a candle or two in my gear I have always had at one time or another I like beeswax, especially if traveling and trekking 18th century
Yes it will but you don't need it to ignite steel wool. Thanks for the tip!
Congrats! You're the first person to ever pronounce "fresnel" correctly on youtube! ;-)
Nice kit, btw! And a very good vid.
Great video, nice kit, 1 question? Where can I find those round tins?? I need about 3-4 of them!!! thanks,
Medic 45 hey bro just google tin containers lots of place carry them in bulk, cheers
Thanks bro!
holy ness you've got everything in that altoids can
No worries I try to keep up on that!
Nice kit.
+Mama Ren Thanks very much
Mostly i would tell you to experiment and base your kit around your needs and what works tried and true for you bro. Then keep changing and evolving your kit.
Thanks bro yes I like that idea as well, stay tuned I have some new tricks coming up!
Yes you can collect it from the stump of downed trees as well as at the branch when it is dead
You would make a good Scout Master
What size tin is the large tin and where can I score one? Great video.
+FishinBoat119 $ inch tin you can buy them in bulk or I think Rob at the Canteen Shop has them. Tell him I sent you
Right on. Ill be sure to tell him. Thanks.
Do you carry everything together? I've always carried many sources for fire but never in the same place.
I cant find a closing container like that though :P were did you get it? Would an empty paint can work?
great kit... the only thing that I have a thought about is you have all your eggs in one basket (so to speak),. I have my fire kit in 4 different location in my pack and body so if something happens I don't loose my "easy" means of fire starting. Just a thought.
You assume that but I have a ferro rod attached to my knife sheath, and one in anny out coat or shirt that is with me bro...
Snowalker13 Wonderful!!!!!! just had what I saw on the vid to go by. Was not criticisum. just an observation... like I said, Great kit.
No worries I didn't take it the wrong and I knew what you meant lol!
Yeah i do love fire kits modern and primitive a new video I'm editing now on my long hunter kit not sure I like it but we'll see
@WhitetailBushcraft Thanks Nick yes I'm back slowly getting computor up and running have about 76 vids I need to watch I know theres some of yours that caught my intrest bro!
Thanks
Would you feel uncomfortable about getting a fire going if you only had the Mini Inferno's and, say, a 1 inch square x 5 inch long piece of fatwood, to go along with a fero rod and knife, of course? I haven't been in conditions (weather) that fatwood would not start a fire when scraped to make it very fine, and it does not take much to get even marginal tinder burning.
Not sure I understand the question entirely? If I had what you had I should be able to make a fire relatively easy.
Great Fire Kit ! Made a One Hand Fire Kit from a KiWi Shoe Polish tin. And My Swedish Fire Steel kit has connected a large yellow plastic C.H. Hanson Pencil Sharpener from Home Depot. Maybe add a small Pencil Sharpener to your kit to make tinder. Thank you for the video ! tjl
+Tim Lipinski Thanks on the tip search my channel you'll find I did it awhile ago and it works well
@romeodelta1178 - Thanks for the compliment, glad you enjoyed it!
Yes I have and grab it on occasion, Thanks for the input and for watching
I won't to thank you for your comments I love them when I am shut in and can't get out do to the winter and virus going a ramped
For your altoids tin I would put a ferro rod blank in there since its your back up or a just in case kit why not carry an ignition source for the tinder in there?
Nope what you don't see is the other 2 ferro rods I have. Thanks for the suggestion though
Snowalker13
Always doesnt hurt to carry more my fiance thinks im a little nuts cause i usally have two to four on me depending on what im doing or wearing lol but that is a nice char tin the round one is that bought as a stand alone or recycled after you used what ever product may have been in it id like to get one about that size any suggestions?
I did, and thanks for taking your time to get back to me.
~M~
@briargoatkilla - Thanks well thats' just it if it works for you then use it if i find something new along the way i change it, this way it's a progression and fine tuning so to say.
@UStacticalmedic36 - Thanks bro for the words, but more for your service watch your six!
Great 👍
Thank you
We always called fatwood Lighter knot here in the south.
What kind of knife is the one you had here?
I have electrical tape in my survival kit. You have duct tape on and in yours do you have any advice for me.
Thanks
Sorry about the long long response it was blockec as spam, you can purchase Mini Inferno thru the Pathfinder Store
@EastWoodlandSurvival - Thanks Darrin
@WORRO01 -Glad you like it thanks for watching!
I always keep a spear kit with extra materials in case my main fire kit runs low
Daniel Isabelle I have a couple of kit's per se on me at at any given time thank for watching!
@snaponjohn100 - Glad you dig it bro thank you for your support!
What kind of container is the charloth in?
@Trailtraveller - Thanks bro!
I carry a small pencil sharpener for making tinder from dry twigs.
I have one on me as well it works well for this!
Bridge the terminals of a 9 volt battery with the steel wool you carry & it'll create a fire.
Cool brother. Liked it. Bring it. (LOL @ enter name here)
I spread some things around but what you see is what came out of the dry bag
For me it's habit to carry multiple ways to create fire 2 is 1, 1 is none so this is the reason for redundency. I carry 0000 steel wool that take the place of your metal poliher in my case, I maintain my stance on what works for you so as long as your kit does the job then thats the final goal. Thanks for your comment!
@briargoatkilla -Thanks man!
@sevengable -Thanks bro watch your six!
i now opt for lint / vaseline over wetfire because of the fact that it dries out.
@shippen2010 - Thanks for the compliment and thanks for watching!
@xlr8n99 thanks Mike!
If your going to put down plastic bags because of supposed condensation, explain what part of the world you live in and why it is a problem for you! I live in what is called the high desert... Condensation is not a problem around here. Have fun, as always thanks
It's not supposed condensation in the Northeast it's a given, also no matter where you are you insulate you fire materials from the ground, cheers!
@robbabcock1969 lol thanks I know haha!