i have two lol, a normal one and oversized kids pencil sharpener, so you can use it with thicker twigs, it creates a lot more tinder for the same effort.
I recommend getting the magnesium ones. I personally tested it, and the shavings will ignite when scrapped off (sort of like the DOAN Magnesium Bar). So it makes tinder and IS tinder. The brand I got was the KUM brand via Amazon.
The only thing I'm lacking is char cloth. Everything else I've got and used to good effect. I've made hot water for instant coffee using Tea Candles + Votive Candles during power outages in hurricanes. Last year ('21) I went through Hurricane Ida and was without power for two weeks. Kinda like being back in the military... Excellent video. It never hurts, ever, to go back and review the basics !
Excellent video. If anyone has "expired" hand sanitizer, don't throw it away. I dug up an old one from my kit bag that still had enough of an alcohol content to take a flame.
Great kit. The only thing I might add is a Spark-Lite one handed striker (either the cheap military plastic ones or the cool brass ones). You can’t always assume you’ll have two good hands in an emergency, due to injury or frostbite (or extreme shakes from hypothermia). They’re great and super easy with one hand, and super compact/lightweight. Also, as much as I love camo… my personal fire-kit bag and the tools in it are all orange/bright (where possible), in case I drop them in foliage.
That's a very good point you make. And people should practice operating "one handed/weak handed" for just such a contingency. We had to do that on occasion in the military (U S.) I have a fire kit in each (2) of my bags and they're in white plastic, water resistant containers that serve dual purposes - water collection and storage
I keep chips and shavings from any woodwork I do, soaked in old chip oil, wax or vaseline and then sealed in little zippit bags, trick birthday candles are handy and small and I keep my waxing cloths, cut into small strips and sealed in zippits. Always been a firebug haha!
Here's one I like to carry find a down pine tree cut into it looking for fat wood take home a piece about 4 to 5 inches round and drill into the fat wood not the bark make sure you put down some paper to catch the small pieces put as many holes in it without touching each other use a 1/2 inch drill bit then put all your shaving into an air tight container. Now cut that log about 1 inch thick and use them also to start your fire
My issue with the clipper is the spark wheel snapped in my pocket with all three I’ve bought. Only issue with Vaseline and cotton balls is they freeze. If you’re going camping near freezing you may want the wax cotton rounds instead. If you tear the duct tape into really thin strips it’ll light with the ferro rod, and if you roll it into a tube it makes a long lasting tinder. Gorilla tape works amazing in both forms.
I got 2 x 6" x 1/2" ferro rods recently for $28.00 nzd delivered. Great rods great price. I recommend them. Most ferro rods if used with a HSS WORK GREAT. 🪁🤘💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯 celluloid guitar picks.fresnel lense. Fatwood. Pencil sharpener. Bike inner chube is fantastic.😅 small light in case if use at night. 😊👍
Just found your channel. Very good kit! Looks very similar to mine. All the essentials. I also carry a flint and steel when I feel like playing around and a fire is not urgent. And yes,Clipper lighters are great, and they are refillable as opposed to the Bic.
Great advise buddy. My kit is almost the very same. I keep adding to it. Latest addirtiion are tampons and birthday candles. Your channel is very helpfull and a pleasure to watch..
Tampons and birthday candles, great suggestion Tank! Like yourself, I’ll keep adding to mine, we never stop learning! Thanks for the comment my friend, hope you’re well!
For me those wood chips and a ferrocerium rod, with a backup lighter. I often find the rod easier to use as you put the sparks onto it material rather than lifting it up.
Nice video . Think you should be pretty well covered with that kit mate . Handy to know a little bit about collecting stuff when you're out and about . Things like fatwood and birch bark . Take care man 👍
If you go in asda on the cig counter they have some sort of pipe lighter, it looks like a normal lighter but has a 2 inch tube that the flame comes out the top of, so your fingers and thumb are well away from the flame and whatever you are lighting, plus great for getting the flame into things like fire boxes so you have some wind cover.
I prefer the clipper over a bic. Clipper is refillable and the flint is replaceable. If the clipper tank leaks, you can remove the entire striker assembly and use it separately.
That's a nice kit. What ferro rod are you using? The sparks it throws off are superb. At 3:01 it's crackling and sparking on its own even seconds after you've struck it!
Clipper you can refill :-) Or if empty use the spark to light your char cloth! Never though of using the 64 for $1 fire starter with ferro rod.... so learned something :-) Have you tried lighting candle with
Another really good video Bud. Fire kits excellent topic and one of "hot" debate between bush crafters ! Sorry about the naff pun ! Best fire kits are what you have used, you know works for you and are easily maintained. Keep them simple I find works for me, and as for make your own tinder, loads of ideas that don't cost the earth out there. Waxed Jute twine, the cotton bud and vas, wax pads, char-cloth and loads more besides these. Look forward to you doing the "How to make vid" for some of them. Excellent info for the Newbees. Keep the vids coming mate I really enjoy the work. Thumbs up from the south coast.
I do love the puns! 😂. Absolutely agree with you, use whatever works for you, don’t need to get all fanciful so long as the fire gets going! Thanks for your comment Moosey, much appreciated sir! Hope you’re doing well 👍
My wife has a sensei and every time we go to change out the wax by just dip my cotton balls in it and let them cool and throw them in a Ziploc baggie I have half of a gallon Ziploc baggy full and I've tested at least 20 of them time them each and they burn anywhere from 8 to 10 minutes
Vaseline and cotton balls will never enter my kit because I do not like how messy that mix is. I made a home made version of fire plugs and that has become a favorite of mine (Next to wax paper).
I hike a lot but im not sure why the need for so many types of fire starter. Its just extra weight and space. I realize how important a fire is but carrying one or maybe two tried and tested methods will suffice. Im not critizing the video tho. Just an opinion✌️
No problem my friend, it’s a Wolf & Grizzly Ferro Rod, very good quality - WOLF GRIZZLY Fire Set; A Portable, Survival Camp Fire Starter with a Ferro Rod and Striker www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MLXMVHZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_VR0J7BMSEH3GVC3WZ0D3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 If you’d like to check it out further, I recently made a review on the Ferro rod itself - ua-cam.com/video/7mIGvk6jaCc/v-deo.html Thanks for your comment, it’s very much appreciated 👍
My Fire Kit consist of a pair of Reading Glasses for Solar Ignition, and a Key Ring Liquid Match, which gives me both a Spark Ignition Source with the Ferrocerium striker, and flame ignition with a wide variety of common fuels. 3 independent sources of ignition with two common items.
A pencil sharpener is a useful item to add, you can use it to make some fine tinder especially if the twigs are wet on the outside.
i have two lol, a normal one and oversized kids pencil sharpener, so you can use it with thicker twigs, it creates a lot more tinder for the same effort.
What a good idea 👍
@@jessiewhite1591 If you get one, get one that can do 2 different sizes.
I use the large ones for sharpening those carpenter pencils.
I recommend getting the magnesium ones. I personally tested it, and the shavings will ignite when scrapped off (sort of like the DOAN Magnesium Bar). So it makes tinder and IS tinder. The brand I got was the KUM brand via Amazon.
The only thing I'm lacking is char cloth. Everything else I've got and used to good effect. I've made hot water for instant coffee using Tea Candles + Votive Candles during power outages in hurricanes. Last year ('21) I went through Hurricane Ida and was without power for two weeks. Kinda like being back in the military... Excellent video. It never hurts, ever, to go back and review the basics !
Keep being prepared. Good job.
Excellent video. If anyone has "expired" hand sanitizer, don't throw it away. I dug up an old one from my kit bag that still had enough of an alcohol content to take a flame.
Great kit. The only thing I might add is a Spark-Lite one handed striker (either the cheap military plastic ones or the cool brass ones).
You can’t always assume you’ll have two good hands in an emergency, due to injury or frostbite (or extreme shakes from hypothermia). They’re great and super easy with one hand, and super compact/lightweight.
Also, as much as I love camo… my personal fire-kit bag and the tools in it are all orange/bright (where possible), in case I drop them in foliage.
That's a very good point you make. And people should practice operating "one handed/weak handed" for just such a contingency. We had to do that on occasion in the military (U S.) I have a fire kit in each (2) of my bags and they're in white plastic, water resistant containers that serve dual purposes - water collection and storage
I keep chips and shavings from any woodwork I do, soaked in old chip oil, wax or vaseline and then sealed in little zippit bags, trick birthday candles are handy and small and I keep my waxing cloths, cut into small strips and sealed in zippits.
Always been a firebug haha!
Zippits? Are those like ziplock bags?
@@MrTangent Yes, just another name :-)
Fantastic bro.😎🤘👏👏👏👏👏🔥🔥🔥
Here's one I like to carry find a down pine tree cut into it looking for fat wood take home a piece about 4 to 5 inches round and drill into the fat wood not the bark make sure you put down some paper to catch the small pieces put as many holes in it without touching each other use a 1/2 inch drill bit then put all your shaving into an air tight container. Now cut that log about 1 inch thick and use them also to start your fire
Zippit bags 🤘
Waxed jute twine in a little tube is my favourite fire starter. Waterproof, lights with a ferro rod, cheap to make....👍
Nice kit.
I keep a nice magnifying lens in my kits,
Excellent suggestion Arctodus, thanks for sharing my friend 👍
A lot of compasses have a mag lense built in ;-)
Great video. Thank you. You can also use the clipper as a spark maker when the fuel is gone. Better than the bic.
My issue with the clipper is the spark wheel snapped in my pocket with all three I’ve bought.
Only issue with Vaseline and cotton balls is they freeze. If you’re going camping near freezing you may want the wax cotton rounds instead.
If you tear the duct tape into really thin strips it’ll light with the ferro rod, and if you roll it into a tube it makes a long lasting tinder. Gorilla tape works amazing in both forms.
I got 2 x 6" x 1/2" ferro rods recently for $28.00 nzd delivered. Great rods great price. I recommend them. Most ferro rods if used with a HSS WORK GREAT. 🪁🤘💥💥💥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯 celluloid guitar picks.fresnel lense. Fatwood. Pencil sharpener. Bike inner chube is fantastic.😅 small light in case if use at night. 😊👍
Just found your channel. Very good kit! Looks very similar to mine. All the essentials. I also carry a flint and steel when I feel like playing around and a fire is not urgent. And yes,Clipper lighters are great, and they are refillable as opposed to the Bic.
Great vid. Well presented
Always have a thumb sized container of magnesium dust/shavings. Live saver
Great advise buddy. My kit is almost the very same. I keep adding to it. Latest addirtiion are tampons and birthday candles.
Your channel is very helpfull and a pleasure to watch..
Tampons and birthday candles, great suggestion Tank! Like yourself, I’ll keep adding to mine, we never stop learning! Thanks for the comment my friend, hope you’re well!
Upgrade to trick candles, they lace with wicks with KN03 and they relight, very handy.
The self re-lighting ‘trick” birthday addles are great in the wind.
For me those wood chips and a ferrocerium rod, with a backup lighter. I often find the rod easier to use as you put the sparks onto it material rather than lifting it up.
Great kit - magnifying lense would make it a little better but I don’t know if the sun shines enough in the UK to warrant the extra weight.
Very good. See you on another video.
Excellent info on fire starters. I also add dryer lint in my kit it ignites very easily however it does not last long. Happy New Year.
Dryer lint, another excellent suggestion, thanks for sharing Thaddeus! Much appreciated sir, hope you’re doing well and a happy new year to you too!
Aye its guid kit that will get ye warm bud. Birch bark does the trick tae, its so cheap it grows on trees
Nice video . Think you should be pretty well covered with that kit mate . Handy to know a little bit about collecting stuff when you're out and about . Things like fatwood and birch bark . Take care man 👍
If you go in asda on the cig counter they have some sort of pipe lighter, it looks like a normal lighter but has a 2 inch tube that the flame comes out the top of, so your fingers and thumb are well away from the flame and whatever you are lighting, plus great for getting the flame into things like fire boxes so you have some wind cover.
That’s an excellent suggestion John! I’ll look into acquiring one of those the next time I’m in the shop! Thanks for sharing bud, much appreciated 👍
Candle lighters, poindland or similar, three for a quid and 4-6 inch wand on em.
^Typed that in Irish lol, poundland*
Really interesting, thanks mate.
Love all these ideas. Gonna go and make my own fire kit with some of this stuff. Love utilising things that are lying around in the shed.
Great idea about the duct tape to catch the mag shavings.
❤ 👍 nice job
Thank you my friend 👍
I prefer the clipper over a bic. Clipper is refillable and the flint is replaceable. If the clipper tank leaks, you can remove the entire striker assembly and use it separately.
Clipper for the win 👊
Just love these videos mate. Got myself a kit with a lot of this stuff, but there a few more I'll be getting in future. All the best from Australia.👍
Thanks for the comment my friend, much appreciated. Hope you and yours are doing well over there in Australia!
Great vid
That's a nice kit. What ferro rod are you using? The sparks it throws off are superb. At 3:01 it's crackling and sparking on its own even seconds after you've struck it!
Frito chips work good also
Love your style great videos great content keep em coming
A mate mentioned Pringles, and yes, they do burn really well. Killing two birds with one stone.
Nice vid. What brand/model of pouch is that?
Clipper you can refill :-)
Or if empty use the spark to light your char cloth!
Never though of using the 64 for $1 fire starter with ferro rod.... so learned something :-)
Have you tried lighting candle with
Excellent suggestion about the char cloth sir! Next time my clipper runs on empty, i will give that a try!
Another really good video Bud. Fire kits excellent topic and one of "hot" debate between bush crafters ! Sorry about the naff pun ! Best fire kits are what you have used, you know works for you and are easily maintained. Keep them simple I find works for me, and as for make your own tinder, loads of ideas that don't cost the earth out there. Waxed Jute twine, the cotton bud and vas, wax pads, char-cloth and loads more besides these. Look forward to you doing the "How to make vid" for some of them. Excellent info for the Newbees. Keep the vids coming mate I really enjoy the work. Thumbs up from the south coast.
I do love the puns! 😂. Absolutely agree with you, use whatever works for you, don’t need to get all fanciful so long as the fire gets going! Thanks for your comment Moosey, much appreciated sir! Hope you’re doing well 👍
Just posted a prequel video Coleman Vs WOODS Fire Starter Kits…Doing a Fire It Up Friday video tomorrow!
I’ll check it out now my friend! Thanks👍
sparck wheel, tinder tube & fresnel lens
7×power magnification glass using the power of the sun whenever possible
You can get old bike tubes free at your local bicycle shop they have plenty in there rubbish bin.🤣👍
My wife has a sensei and every time we go to change out the wax by just dip my cotton balls in it and let them cool and throw them in a Ziploc baggie I have half of a gallon Ziploc baggy full and I've tested at least 20 of them time them each and they burn anywhere from 8 to 10 minutes
Awesome firestarter! 👍
Vaseline and cotton balls will never enter my kit because I do not like how messy that mix is. I made a home made version of fire plugs and that has become a favorite of mine (Next to wax paper).
I hike a lot but im not sure why the need for so many types of fire starter. Its just extra weight and space. I realize how important a fire is but carrying one or maybe two tried and tested methods will suffice. Im not critizing the video tho. Just an opinion✌️
Please could you provide a link for the ferro rod? “Thanks for making and sharing this video :)
p.s. “The application of knowledge is power” ;)
No problem my friend, it’s a Wolf & Grizzly Ferro Rod, very good quality -
WOLF GRIZZLY Fire Set; A Portable, Survival Camp Fire Starter with a Ferro Rod and Striker www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MLXMVHZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_VR0J7BMSEH3GVC3WZ0D3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
If you’d like to check it out further, I recently made a review on the Ferro rod itself - ua-cam.com/video/7mIGvk6jaCc/v-deo.html
Thanks for your comment, it’s very much appreciated 👍
My Fire Kit consist of a pair of Reading Glasses for Solar Ignition, and a Key Ring Liquid Match, which gives me both a Spark Ignition Source with the Ferrocerium striker, and flame ignition with a wide variety of common fuels. 3 independent sources of ignition with two common items.
Awesome Joe, thanks for sharing my friend 👍