Learn The Long Fire Campfire
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- Опубліковано 30 січ 2025
- This is a step by step "how-to" showing how to build and use the "Long Fire". The long fire is especially suited for heating a shelter.
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I really appreciate how you include the viewer to the point that it feels like I'm almost there. Just camping. Great lesson
This man is most likely 50 ft from his house... Pretending and lying to play a flute and live in the backyard.. 😂 come on now don't be a fool
Not only are your videos relaxing, but amazingly resourceful. Thank you for what you do.
I can only add, from sitting around similar fires for so many hours myself, that the relaxation is simply a reflection of how Lonnie feels whenever he gets out in the wilderness and is at peace with himself and one with the nature that surrounds him. That is more than any feeling that one can express to another but more of a level of "mindfulness" of where you are and what you are experiencing at the moment. I envy the chance you and Connie have taken to experience that type of life. Had I only known, when I was young enough to physically do what had to be done to leave the life I thought I had for the life that I later found that I truly enjoyed, I would probably be one of your distant neighbors across the ridge and we would both be sharing one another's fire from a distance spanned only by the silence of the Northwoods.
What's amazing is that he's still reading comments from 5yrs ago and liking them 😀😁😀😁
And 2.5 million views later...yeah hes one of the good guys!
Lol. I just commented and he responded immediately. I didn't notice how old the post was.
This was published 9 yrs ago.
I love the fact that you timed it. Giving us the beginning time and ending time of around 4 hours without adding any extra wood or messing with the fire. Extremely informative video, THANK YOU!
I'm an old dog that took the path of working at an office...
I did spend a lot of my teens in the woods with my old folks.
Looking at this video makes it feels like it was yesterday.
Thank you! :)
6 years after this was uploaded- yourube makes it #1 on my list of recommendations, lol. Watching it next to a campfire, with a glass of Irelands best.
8 years for me
O the old Nigerian large funnily enough I have its very popular three 😊
I'm 62 and never spent much time camping or surviving in the woods. I wish I had learned what Lonnie teaches when I was younger. These are some of the most fascinating videos I have ever watched. I was stationed in North Dakota when I was young and in the Air Force and it gets pretty cold there and I used to think how tough and hearty the early settlers and Native Indians of that area must have been just to survive before all the conveniences we have now. A person really has to be knowledgeable, strong, and alert to survive. Thank you Lonnie for all this great information. I am still going to try to learn as much as I can just in case.
dried buffalo and cattle dung.
Right? I think about that often. Especially in today's climate of "everyone has the right to free medical". I think, uhhh, 5 minutes ago we didn't even have electricity and now everything should just be free???
I love the fact that although he probably knows how to start a fire using natural materials, he didn’t bother with messing about and just used a lighter.. 👍
I do indeed know how to start a fire many different ways. Even though I am very experienced in friction fire methods and lit my first bow drill fire over 40 years ago, I still light probably 95% of my fires with a lighter. I feel no need to try to prove anything by using more "politically correct" bushcraft fire lighting methods in my videos when it is not what i do when off the camera. In other words, I try to be just plain me whether on or off camera. I try to be *real*. Thanks for the positive feedback.
For those interested, they can watch my primitive fire playlists.
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@@Far-North-Bushcraft-Survival You dont need to explain or justify your method to make fire, when the real propose is showing how to build and use the "Long Fire".Great job, and continue like always.
@@haar71 I agree, his videos are instructional and very informative. I was wondering, to keep the fire heating the shelter, would you have put 3 7" logs on top of the 2 bottom logs before lighting? You did a video where you had 1 8" log on top of another 8" log to see if the fire would heat the shelter for 8 hours - 1" / hour. A good way to help keep you warm in the winter. Thank you for a great video.
Iron, flint, petroleum. Natural materials
@dangerous he has videos showing so....
It's 6 years later and I'm still learning from you. May the rest of your years be blessed!
These videos make me rethink bush crafting every time.
Lonnie, your channel is top notch. Highly skilled and extremely experienced, you share your techniques and knowledge so generously with all of us subs. Add to that you manage to reply to pretty much ALL of the comments on your videos! That shows just how kind and gracious you really are. Just wanted to thank you for taking the time to not only share your endless skills but answer questions and reply to the many different comments you receive. Thanks again for everything Lonnie/Connie you guys are awesome :) -Mark from Central California.
Thank you for you videos. I'm a city slicker trying to get back to a way of living that I believe to be better way than the way I was born into. I believe this world is moving more and more away from a true form of living. If I got stuck in the woods by myself, I wouldn't last very long because I was never raised in this art. All in all, at 34 years old I've learned that the way society has grown away from practical knowledge and puts more credit on a college degree than on how to live practically, is what has left people like myself yearning for a deeper level of life while I still have breath. Once again, thank you as I learn from watching your videos and look forward in applying this knowledge as I stay on the path.
+dustin mcalister Thank you for the encouragement. It always does me good to hear that people are benefiting from the videos.
This is like a Bob Ross video, but with fire instead of a painting... Nice one!
maasdude a little red coal here and a few embers over there...
Let's burn some happy little trees here...
@@IVANGARCIA-ks4vp seriously under rated post
I love this guy
IVÁN GARCÍA everyone needs a friend
I could listen to this guy all day his voice is so soothing
Listening to his calm voice, while watching the embers burn was relaxing. I almost fell asleep listening.
I usually steer away from slow moving videos but I like this! The guy takes his time and explains well.
First time I have seen a long fire anywhere . I think this chap has an awful lot of great knowledge he willingly shares . Something about his calm demeanour is reassuring . I bet he would make a great leader in a real survival emergency .
You do great on educating people on bushcraft and survival I'm 15 years old never did care to much for technology the outdoors and manual working is the only thing I've ever liked doing.. Me and my grandfather used to make traps with sticks and debris for crawdads when I was 9 years old I got pinched by a army crawdad he was helping me get it off but laughing to hard in 2019 he had a stroke and I had brain surgery. Thank you Lonnie and Connie
As a rank amateur in the survival game (meaning Im really interested but have little clue and zero experience) Im in such admiration of your skills and know-how. Thanks for taking the trouble to be so helpful to those of us ignorant in the ways of nature. I have always wanted to do some outdoors stuff, building, preparation, hiking fishing etc and these videos are a great way to get started. I appreciate it Lonnie, as Im sure many others do too. Wishing you and yours many years of health and good living.
I hope you have been able to get out and experience the power of raw nature in the last 2 years!
Lonnie & Connie - first time viewer, y’all do great work in educating us city folks.
Welcome to the channel. Glad you found us here.
Lonnie id like to thank you for the time and effort you dedicate to not only making these videos but the endless selfless comment you have in teaching the world your vast arsenal of survival skills using natures own building supplies . you're awesome Lonnie and so is your wonderful wife for all the help and support she shows you in educating us all !
Ah, a bearded old man, in the woods, beside a fire playing a homemade flute. You are gandalf the green (the flute being the replacement for the pipe). Absolutely amazing. Great aesthetic.
Why so many thumbs down? Did he do something wrong? I thought it was a great tool to add to my wilderness adventures. Can’t wait to try it out.
I dunno but I was going to comment on the fact that his shelter is too far away from the fire to capture the heat which basically ruins the whole purpose of the campfire. At the same time he's burning up 3 giant sized logs! So wasteful and worthless basically.
@@peartree8338 Nope, that's your opinion you're thinking of.. If you knew anything worthwhile you could have a channel too. Don't be jelly, green is so 2019!
All the thumbs down came from momma boys in their parents basements. Greta is now planning a trip to this guys site to complain about tree survival.
@@peartree8338 a long fire is extremely hot and reflects heat up to 8-10 feet away at a comfortable heat
Just ran across your video as a tag video from other survival videos I was watching You are very relaxing and knowledgeable
Glad to have you here
Lonnie that is going to be a classic. I think that is the best system I've seen to date for an all night low or no maintenance fire. I think if you really needed extra heat then a couple more logs standing by would be the answer as you clearly stated. Thanks for making these great bushcraft and survival videos. All the best to you and Connie.
+Catherine Perrett Thank you my friend. I hope you are right about this video becoming a "classic". I plan on doing another video this next week where the focus will be how to keep warm in a shelter using the long fire.
+Catherine Perrett Whoops I sent the reply off too soon. I meant also to say that Connie and I wanted to say All the best to you and your loved ones as well.
Looks like it became a classic
I can't get enough of you on your flute. That sound is so calm and soothing it relaxes me, ever thought of recording a relaxation tape, or CD. I would definitely buy it. White noise can make money so your beautiful sounds absolutely would. just a thought. love the channel and thanks for the GREAT ADVICE. BUSH LIFE 4-EVER!
I doubt that I will ever make a cd recording of the flute. After a while, all my "songs" start sounding the same.
It's beautiful music and I find it tranquil and calming, if I did have a cd of your songs I could listen to it all day.
Love the flute music! I’m a musician and you would never know that that was a PVC instrument! Just amazing!😮❤️
How could you not like this video? Great vid. Old school wisdom that makes since for a cold night out in the wild.
Seeing that windbreak stack of logs in the picture made me think 'the long fire' must be a fire that chambers a new log from a log magazine by using gravity every time a log burns up. Here I go overthinking things again
This was exactly the thinking that brought me here!
Same 😂
Me too!!
Oh man..read this before I watched...that's NOT what it's going to do????????? Noooooooooo
yep actually there are videos about it too search for it
Appreciate someone with true knowledge spreading his knowledge unto others. God Bless brother.
This mans voice is so cool and relaxing, he sounds so chilled...
I enjoyed your flute playing, Lonnie. This video is so interesting. Looks like a good way to minimize the amount of fuel you have to gather and use, while producing a lot of heat.
The flute in the beginning sounded spectacular
the beggining sounded like endgame portals haha
If you noticed he shut the tape off before he started talking. Lmao I'd like to see him really play it to see what it actually sounds like
@@wcutts06 I think that was his echo-plex tape echo effect that he shut off.
Well duh, he was playing a recording.
@@wcutts06 he shut off the effect so he could talk. who would leave in them pretending to play, when they edit their own video? Or y wouldn't he just add it in post? Use some common sense before making such accusations
It's refreshing to see a survival channel were the guy just uses a lighter to light the fire.so many feel a need to light it with anything other than a lighter.
This channels blows me away every time in the first 2 minutes. Starts off awesome background music and next minute camera pans to the long beard wizard playing the flute legit. Like wtf! Good stuff 👍
I ABSOLUTELY LOVED THE INTRO MUSIC! You should put together a camping album. ABSOLUTELY beautiful!
love this stuff, I live in the UK and spent my youth in the woods. wish more kids would do the same these days. I watch these video and the teach it too my kids at the weekends they're only young but are already really starting to love it. computers are ruining our kids childhoods. love the video, keep them coming. Kevin
kevin brown how many kids gonna see this or learn it without a computer....computers are not ruining our kids childhoods, they just have a different one to ours.. I’m a conservationist, I spend all my time outside.... one fo my kids learnt how to play piano from using a computer and another one learned how to code using a computer and the third one runs an online business with a computer ...it didn’t ruin their childhood....
kevin brown bb.
Totally agree. Obviously computers (and cell phones and tablets, etc.) serve very vital and functional purposes, but they also offer instant access to useless or corrupting entertainment, -bread and circuses of all types, from garbage movies, and music, to porn, to video games, and a lot of things kids shouldn't be exposed to or have access to.
It's not a forest when you can find civilization in less than 24 hours,
Kevin - I agree with you..especially the part where computers are ruining childrens' lives. I do my best to keep them away from the things.
Thank you Lonnie, what you share with us all, can save countless lives. May the great spirit watch over you and Connie.
I'm glad I stumbled on to you. Your videos are practical and loaded with a lot of what should be common sense, but there are a lot of preppers and bushcraft enthusiasts who are sorely lacking common sense. Thanks.
I'm glad you found the channel as well.
Nice Video ...
Cephas Martin didn't realize skills are common sense. wish I was born with your knowledge!!
Your videos are like relaxation therapy. I also immensely appreciate your knowledge and expertise. I specifically want to thank you for thinking about things through the eyes of newbies like myself, and anticipating the questions we might have, like what to do when the first three logs burn down (you mentioned how to add more logs, or push the existing logs together to keep it burning hot and to run it out). You're a good instructor. Your videos are fun and soothing to watch. Well done. The fact that you're doing it in Alaska lends a lot of confidence to people like me who live in Colorado. These Arizona and Alabama bushcrafters have _no idea_ how cold it can get out there.
Thank you, Lonnie and Connie!
WOW, I've watched a lot of bushcraft videos and have never seen a long fire before. Pretty cool.
Hey, I made a pvc flute after watching your video on how to make one. I took it with me and my girlfriend on a lake Michigan kayak camping trip. While I'm just a beginner, my girlfriend - who played flute in college - played it like a champ and was thoroughly impressed with how "enchanting" its sound was. Thanks for your video(s)!
Thank you ! Lonnie for probably my best fire building lesson ever. Like your style.
Greetings from anchorage Ak. Been searching everywhere for a northern bushcraft survival advice videos that will be suited for our climate . Glad to find your channel!
I am glad you have found the channel as well. Welcome to the channel. There is an upcoming "survival" course going to take place in Wasilla on July 27th. I will be one of the instructors for the course. I will be available for questions and visiting after the course. Hope you can make it. There is quite a large following of fellow Alaskans on the channel here. I will be sharing further info about this event in upcoming videos. I have many videos already recorded on the channel that you may enjoy watching as well.
Thanks very much for the information ! That event sounds wonderful, will do my best to attend ❤️😎
WOW! I am loving these videos! I especially like how he teaches you the WHY of each tutorial! I'm learning so much! Amazing stuff!
Im 20 and trying to get out my place and live off grid ive always loved survival stuff growing up and now i know alot about it ive been researching all kinds of stuff non stop for about 3 weeks and been taking notes ima buy a journal for all the stuff i know and to remind me and i can later on memorize them easily.
Thanks Lonnie for timing that burn. Useful info.
This dude is at the top of my learning camp tutorials.
Hi Lonnie! Let me start by saying thank you for your very informative video, along with the rest of your many many more. I wouldn't say I am new to your channel but I have been having to catch up and see your vids as I am on youtube when I can. I love all your ourtdoor passion and knowledge. Never had a grandfather growing up from mother or father side, but was blessed with a stepfather who introduced me to the woods in my teenage years. I fell in love with it. since then I had a 22 yr career in the US Army and now a state of Maine Registered Hunting and Recreation Guide. If ever I have the opportunity to come to Alaska I would love the opportunity to share a camp fire!
I've always been an outdoors kinda guy, and I'm very comfortable in the bush here in northern Canada. that being said I love watching your videos and picking up little tips and tricks. keep up the good work my friend
Only s pot full of Brownies can chill me out like this guy.
Beautiful neighbor
I have learned some more about having a fire from watching your video on making a long burning fire outside your shelter. I will remember this too and use it when camping out. That is nice information to know and I wish you all a great weekend.
A 5 hour burn and still going from just three logs, and with no maintenance other than shifting them closer. Pretty darn good for a guy like me that loves to end his day in the wild with a bottle and a bone.
I can't wait to replicate your entire setup there.
PS, your hint about shielding your shelter with rocks is a great idea. I also wonder if they will retain some of the heat through the night. I bet they would.
Yeah rocks do hold in heat. I never actually thought about doing that till i read your comment lol. Makes perfect sense!!
Medieval folks used to take a rock from their fire at night and wrap it in cloth of some sort to use as a hot water bottle of sorts.
@@wanna-be-cowboy just make sure you're using dry rocks.... I've seen plenty of people using nice rounded rocks they found in/near a waterbed. Those things will explode on you when they get too hot
@@martijnr82 some melt 2 lol
from someone who appreciates nature all your stuff is great!!!
Awesome instructional video. BTW, love the flute with the native Indian music.
+stevemichelle1203 Thank you. I can't read music so the music from the flute comes from my heart and ear.
One of my favorite bushcraft channels. You're awesome brother! 👍
There’s just something great about the sound of the fire. It is peaceful.
Hi,I to feel same
Wow! You are really good with the flute. Sounds like magic!
That heavenly flute music...❤️💓 made my day😊
Im thinking about camping in the fall and winter. You're giving me tips to stay warm and relax. Thanks
4-5 hours is a long time...im usually retriving more wood every 45 minutes! all the heat going in the sky
thanks for this video!
Lonnie & Connie, I admire & respect you both. Thank you for all the great information & videos. You're becoming an important part of my life, not just for information, but also because I just am feeling a certain kinship or fellowship with you. May God richly bless & keep you. Salt of the earth, the best kind of people there are.
I do not understand why anyone would “thumbs down,” this video. Thanks for the survival guidance👍
That majestic flute sound though, woah holy crap! I want to do that, I'm glad I found this channel. Seems so authentic and real! It reminds me of my olden' younger days when I was always out in nature.
That's a complete applied Physics training course : beyond engineer science, I am impressed by your skills on thermal effects and combustion science !
No doubt dude knows his s#!t
^This guy^ .....way to go off topic big bill. I think the idea of the video is how to make a great fire and enjoy amazing professional style music while being awesome in the snow. (How long did it take you to play like that? @Lonnie)
François Cauneau Indeed! It was great I whole heartedly agree with you.
Thanks for the information. Humble people are hard to come by these days. Thank you!
I feel my wild spirit wanting to run free when I here that beautiful flute man thanks
+Jontra Volta The flute was indeed being played live in this video recording. Let me explain. The video camera was indeed picking up me playing live as you seen, but I was also using the microphone on my Android tablet to to pick up the sound and run it through an app which adds reverb or echo sound effects to the video. The output from the video was then sent to my remote portable bluetooth speaker which was then picked up by the video camera's microphone. What you saw me reach for at the end of the flute playing was to turn the android app off so that it would not "echo" my words as well. That is also why that segment of the video had quieter spoken audio since my microphone was not on my person as usual but was out in front of the flute to pick up the flute sound
Far North Bushcraft And Survival that's amazing
I also would like to hear you play the flute more. It doesn't matter to me if it sounds alike after a while, as you stated below . Great video on the long fire.
Thanks for taking me along tonight,
Vic
It would be great if you could play your flute more often in your videos. It sounds good, unique and creates a special mood. Love your videos and I've subscribed awhile ago.
I don't practice on the flute like I should and so I don't have the skill to give my flute playing enough variety. After a while my songs all sound the same. Thanks for subscribing. I appreciate it. Welcome to the channel. I recognise your thumbnail picture as a frequent commenter and want to also thank you for your comments.
Beautiful flute music there. This was great, if you were staying the night as you say add another log or two, but 5 hours was really impressive, loved that shelter, the little things like protecting it from the heat with rocks, experience at play, cheers for this one👍👍
Very nice, I could smell and feel the fire. I need to get back into this. take care
You could smell and feel the fire? You should probably get out of the house.
Thank you for taking the time and care to make your videos. I am thoroughly enjoying them and learn cool stuff with each one watched. I also really like your flute music. May the Lord bless you as you enjoy His creation and teach others to enjoy and respect it as well.
Found this channel and I love it, I'm from the uk but some of the idea I can transpose to the uk.
I am glad you have found my channel.
Hello Lonnie , this looks like a better fire system, if you placed another say 7 in log on at the 4 hr mark would it buy you 2 hrs of additional warmth and sleep ? Thanks for these lessons.
Ahh. I see you found the video. Yes, adding additional logs as needed will prolong the burn. Very little maintenance is needed for this firelay but yet it still has a considerable heat output due to the max amount of glowing coal exposure in the direction of the user.
Very cool idea and helpful. thank you for being a teacher and showing us this! hope you have a great day!
nice authentic native Indian sound from your flute, very soothing nice playing. great video as usual.
Lonny, you are a scraggly pioneer who continues to provide us with very informative videos about living in the far north. I've been to Alaska in the "summer" from Anchorage through Fairbanks to Ft. Yukon. Alaskans of all ethnicities are incredible survivors in a most inhospitable area. Almost 24 hours of sunlight, followed by almost 24 hours of darkness. Mosquitos the size of dragonflies. I suggest a wonderful book, Two Old Women by Velma Wallis, who lives in Ft. Yukon. Please keep up your videos. We in the Lower 48 appreciate your efforts.
+GizmoBee1702 Thank you. Glad you are enjoying the videos. I think my wife has read that book before. She really enjoys reading true stories of the pioneer lifestyle especially Alaska based. During the winter it really isn't 24 hours of darkness. In our location we get 24 hours without sunshine but it still gets daylight. I spent a winter on the North slope and it gets daylight there during the winter as well. Here where we are located in South Central Alaska, we don't see the sun for 2 full months but that is because of the high mountains around us blocking the sun. Barrow, the Northern most community in Alaska, actually gets sunshine before we do. We do see the sun during the winter when we go down to town though and man is that sure a pleasure.
First saw this about a year ago and still like to view it when it pops up. Good job Lonnie.
He reminds me so much of the way my dad looked towards the end of his life it's scary. The beard and hat look is spot on.
I love listening to his calm deep voice while taking in his valuable knowledge. You are doing great work and i hope you are doing well
When I saw the thumbnail I was thinking that this would be an auto loading fire. I see now that the stacked logs act as a deflector. Is their an auto loading campfire set-up? love the flute playing Lonnie. So far, in addition to making a pvc flute; I need to cook bacon on a flat rock, make coffee on a mountain-top and make a fire that wont stop. Thank's for the video's my friend.
Bradley Knight well as long as it's not a fully semi-automatic self loading fire and his log magazine doesn't hold more than 10 logs he probably won't get in trouble for it.
Some liberals will argue that nobody really needs more than 10 logs. 🤣
Of coarse he's in Alaska in the middle.of.nowhere. they can be fed.to the bears.
@@michaelanderson1859 🤣🤣🤣
Lonnie,
I couldn't reply to your comment and you are correct. An addendum to my thought would be to make the cuts in the front log and close the gap until the top log falls. Separate after it does and the coals will have access to your shelter for heat. Or/ and rocks to aid in blocking the oxygen. My goal was simply to extend the burn after the drop.
Again, you and your vids are a great resource for me and I appreciate your efforts.
Great demonstration Lonnie, very informative, thanks for taking the time ....!!!
+William Larkham Jr (Bigland Trapper) You are welcome my friend. Glad you took the time out to watch the video.
+Far North Bushcraft And Survival Great video! Makes something useful much simpler. Did you ever see the one on the mini-rakenskald? The video "Mini All Nighter Camp Fire" shows how to do it. Can be used for cooking, as well- that's part of what makes it so cool, in my opinion.
+Atkrdu He did that fire lay after watching my video titled Make A Campfire Last All Night and the follow up video. He did an excellent job on the video. He refers to me in his video by calling me "Phreshayr". That is what my channel used to be known as. His idea of taking the top log off in the morning and laying it beside the bottom log in order to provide a good bed of cooking coals is a great idea.
Ha! I thought you had some soundtrack added at the intro of your vid. Then I saw you playing the recorder and was officially blown away. Your knowledge is outstanding and I appreciate all of the wisdom. Thank you sir.
Thanks for the kind words. The flute that I was playing is my homemade PVC plumbing pipe native American style flute. If interested, you can see how the flute is made at the link below.
How To Make A Homemade PVC Flute
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Loved the video. REALLY appreciate pulling out a lighter to start the fire. I can do bow/drill and I have a fire rod, but, really, isn't it just a 1000 times easier to pull out a lighter? I would not waste the calories on those other methods unless there was no other choice. I carry a small Bic lighter everywhere I go and replace it periodically. Simple, fast, effective. Glad to see you just be efficient in starting the fire.
+Dan Griffith I too can perform friction fire of many different types and rock and steel fire plus even been successful with rock on rock type fire starting. All of these rock and steel or rock on rock are using natural fungus to catch the spark instead of the char cloth that most people use. I am experienced enough with primitive fire that I am confident enough in my skills that I believe that I could light a fire with primitive methods under just about any circumstance. *BUT* like you, I still will use my lighter for everyday use and see no sense in doing otherwise. Thanks for the kind words.
Why use anything else if you got a zippo..lol
@jimmie because practice makes perfect. That trusty lighter could always end up at the bottom of a river and you will wish you had practiced. But I digress, I keep a bic lighter on my person, one in the truck, one in the rucksack, and a magnesium stick/striker with matches and lighter on the kayak. Fire will always keep us one step ahead of the monkeys lol
Firesteel is the bomb
I really appreciate your videos. Please don't ever stop educating and inspiring.
hello, I have tried different types of wood and I discovered that a lot depends on the type of tree and how dry the logs are. I live in Italy on a small island and the trees that I find of the right size are: holm oak, pine, ash. mainly holm oak, there are not many large ash trees, and pines are often much larger. I would tend to immediately discard the pine wood because what I find belongs to dead trees that the wind has dropped. the outside is punctured by termites and the heartwood inside is little and very resinous. once you get to the most compact part it is like putting 4-inch diameter logs. even healthy trees that I happened to cut down after an hour the trunk catches fire due to the resin. the advantage is that it also burns fresh. in emergency, the pine is the tree to be felled. as long as you find a small one because here they are centenarians and they are really big. Holm oak, like all oaks, is a hard and compact wood with short and irregular fibers. It lasts a long time but once the small pieces you put in the middle are finished, it will tend to go out slowly unless you add other small pieces to make a flame. the advantage of the holm oak is that once the fire is well started it will make a lot of embers which will continue to burn without flame. a well-made fire in the morning will seem out but under the ashes there will still be embers lit and restarting it will be simple. watching various survival programs such as Naked and Afraid I noticed that no one has the ability to juggle fire.I have seen competitors spend their days gathering wood and making huge fires all day even in the desert for fear of it going out and not being able to more turn on again. not knowing about fire is very serious for anyone who claims to be an expert in survival. many are good at turning it on comfortably seated at the table in the garden and believe that this is enough, the reality is very different.
i am a simple man...i see a well made bushcraftvideo and i subscribe
Welcome to the channel.
Really enjoy your videos Lonny, they are always spot on (in my opinion).
Peace
Larry
+TatDarYow Thank you Larry. Your long time support of viewing and commenting on my videos means a lot to me.
Those time call outs really do help one set realistic expectations. Thanks for demonstrating a method the requires so little mussing about. A reasonably wary person can almost set it and forget it for a spell. Gorgeous Fire.
That was a beautiful sound from the flute. Thank you!
you sir know your bushcraft! most of my fires tend to be for cooking but you just made a cold shelter a warm home for the night, really interesting to watch. best wishes from the UK
If a huge solar flare wipe our technology this gentleman can survive like a champ,thanks for sharing your great skills and make us remember how important is to be in touch with nature.
Thank you. Camped out up there for a salmon season years ago. Would liked to have known some of your insight then, but am more than grateful to know now!
Absolutely a fantastic long fire video. Thanks for teaching this skill.
Lonnie! I love it! I love this long fire! Thank you for showing it to us. Also, the flute! You play a nice flute. I have 10 Native American Plains flutes. I can appreciate your style of play. Your sound has a Carlos Nakai flare. Very nice. I will play my flute, as you have, when I create my first long log fire. Peace brother Lonnie.
Need to do this in the day time so we can see. Great video, Thank you.
Thanks a lot for this interesting lesson dear Lonnie!
You saw it live freely is indeed respected .
Once again , I should have seen this life alive .
Always put health, hope and wish the best of luck in future.
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Thank you and greetings from Alaska
So informative. The relaxed way you explain things makes learning so meditative as well. Great video. Subscribed. Mabuhay!
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