I agree with the majority, that's the best all night fire that I have ever seen. Totally badass and cool as hell. I won't forget this method ever. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.❤❤❤
This is the very best "all night fire" I've seen. The others were crazy convoluded gravity fed systems or ones where you needed to scooch logs inwardevery 2-3 hrs (kinda defeating the purpose of the all night fire...) 10/10 thanks for the info
If you have more than one person in camp, the Russian all-night fire is less work, assuming you are keeping watch through the night. To make that many 3-foot logs as was done in this video, is a lot of extra sawing. If you've got 3 or 4 guys, splitting the night into 3 or 4 watches is less work for the group than all that extra sawing. Plus you have more than 1 guy dragging those bigger pieces of wood to the fire pit. If you were alone, and especially if you had a chain saw, I think the fire method in this video is pretty hard to beat. At Valley Forge, the Americans made the "log-feeder" type fire, with poles driven into the ground at 45 degrees as ramps. If you're good at making that kind of fire, there's less time wasted packing dirt between the logs of every layer. You still use dirt and rocks to protect the ramp and to keep the fire from spreading at the base. But it's pretty quick, compared to the method in the video. I think the "Valley Forge" method is probably better, if you're experienced with it and have the right tools. The average newbie would probably have to fuss with angles and also probably burn that "ramp" up, wrecking a night's sleep.
Never heard of the dirt method before. Awesome! AND, never saw anyone blow through their fingertips before to create a blow tube effect. Very cool!!! Thank you.
We were beach camping and my kids made a large upside down fire like this but without the dirt. It started to pound rain shortly after it was lit - but after 5 hours of torrential rain it was still going strong. We use this technique for all fires - you just light and forget.
This is by far my favorite fire video. I've been hoping to find some advice on how to have a really long fire. Will be trying this, this winter. Thank you for sharing.
I love this fire lay -- never used dirt though, I guess it does increase the burn time a fair bit, makes lots of sense. The burn time you mentionned there are very dependant on the types of woods, e.g. if you're in a boreal forest with little to no hardwood, things will go a lot faster.
Awesome video!! My only question is that it looks like everything very closely surrounding the fire looks very flammable. Wouldn’t it be smart to clear the surrounding leaves, etc?
I honestly was not anticipating a good outcome. I actually prefer this method of gathering smaller limbs, not stoking it through the night and a remarkable heat! Thanks! 👍👍😁🇺🇸
Amazing version, i Sweden we call this a reverse logg cabin. The thing with the dirt to slow down burn rate was new to me. 2 questions. How long does it actually take to get this version going auto? And if this is to be made by a tarp shelter what is a good safty distance? im thinking this will give very high heat..
I think - partially joking, but only partially - that with birch bark and/or fat wood,we can start a fire under water. There’s a short story, by Robert Service I think, entitled “To Start A Fire”. A good one to be read AND remembered. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
I believe there is a time lapse in the instruction film this clip comes from... but we also don't care about "proving" anything. You can go try it yourself and see that it's the truth. ;)
Unless you're wearing Velcro shoes, you have cordage right at your feet in a literal sense. You can pull the laces from your shoes or boots and use it as cordage. Depending on how many holes your footwear has you can have up to 72" laces. That's 6' times two if you have two boots. That's just for regular boot laces. Cut the ends off, pull off the outer casing and you now have inner and outer sections totaling 24' of cordage in this example. OK, so you use a foot or two tying your boots back on... You can still make a bow drill and have plenty left over for making a shelter. I just got in some "Survival Paracord" that has fishing line, snare wire and waxed jute twine along with the usual 550 threads. It's rated at 620# test strength. I'm going to replace my boot laces with this "new and improved boot laces" option. Then I'll have survival cordage at my feet every day. Hey' it's just an idea that you may want to think about. The whole "If you have cordage" thing just depends on how you look at things. I'll relate a story from my youth... My Uncle Arnold had a dairy farm and one year when I was about 12 I went out to help with harvesting. I was out there for two weeks in the middle of summer. Well as this was a farm they had all kinds of equipment, implements and structures which all had various purposes and uses. Two of these structures were the corn cribs. Now this was a pair of steel cylinders about twenty feet tall that had conical roofs. There was a hatch at the top and a small unloading door at the bottom where the corn would feed into the feed mixer on the back of the tractor. One day my cousin and the other farm hand said we had to go up top and check how much corn was left in the cribs. We climbed up the ladder and got on top. They jumped from one crib to the other so I had to follow. We opened the hatch to check the level and they tried to get me to go down into it first but I said "You first" suspecting a trick. Well they told me to just shut the hatch and come back. As I was closing the hatch they both jumped the gap and raced down the ladder and pulled it down, leaving me stuck atop the corn crib. They rested the end of the ladder on top of the bottom door and laughed at me. They threw me a wad of bailing twine and told me to figure it out. Well I got the twine straightened out, then took off my shoe and used the laces and shoe and "fished" for the top rung of the ladder. I caught it and pulled it up and made my escape... Think outside of the box. Your cordage is at your feet...
That wasn't for him. It's for others who may or may not have thought of this before. My story was more about thinking about anything and everything you have at your disposal and using it to the best effect for your advantage. My cousin never expected me to get off the top of the corn crib until he came back for me. When he tossed me a wad of old bailing twine it was meant to torture and tease me. I was the young punk cousin from the city and he was going to show me "country boy" ways. Well guess what? I got off the crib by using my head. As I like to say, "This thing on top of my neck? Yeah, it's more than just a hat rack.." @@3AlarmBushcraft
go searching for big dead wood before you get drunk or at the start while your not days into survival, whole tree stump on fire burns for days, wake up throw wood on fire coals relight the fire cook breakfast drink beer etc etc
We have 12 training films on our website that go more into details. Wet environments still have plently of dry tinder, you just have to know how to find them, and it depends on the area what those types are.
This is a video that every bushcrafter must see! I don't know how after 40 year of camping, i had not heard of this method!
Excellent video !!! 😊
Non stop talking....
I agree with the majority, that's the best all night fire that I have ever seen. Totally badass and cool as hell. I won't forget this method ever. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.❤❤❤
This is the very best "all night fire" I've seen. The others were crazy convoluded gravity fed systems or ones where you needed to scooch logs inwardevery 2-3 hrs (kinda defeating the purpose of the all night fire...) 10/10 thanks for the info
Couldn’t have put it any better. This is ridiculously good compared to all the other attempts on yt.. awesome man, you know your stuff!
If you have more than one person in camp, the Russian all-night fire is less work, assuming you are keeping watch through the night. To make that many 3-foot logs as was done in this video, is a lot of extra sawing. If you've got 3 or 4 guys, splitting the night into 3 or 4 watches is less work for the group than all that extra sawing. Plus you have more than 1 guy dragging those bigger pieces of wood to the fire pit.
If you were alone, and especially if you had a chain saw, I think the fire method in this video is pretty hard to beat.
At Valley Forge, the Americans made the "log-feeder" type fire, with poles driven into the ground at 45 degrees as ramps. If you're good at making that kind of fire, there's less time wasted packing dirt between the logs of every layer. You still use dirt and rocks to protect the ramp and to keep the fire from spreading at the base. But it's pretty quick, compared to the method in the video.
I think the "Valley Forge" method is probably better, if you're experienced with it and have the right tools. The average newbie would probably have to fuss with angles and also probably burn that "ramp" up, wrecking a night's sleep.
Absolutely love this!
Nice to see a pro at work. Great fire
This was one of the first type of camp fire I learned to make. A very use tool to have, this and smokeless in ground fire 🤙🏾
Excellent demonstration and information!
Great video . I liked that you included shots of the fire at various burn times. Thank you.
Never heard of the dirt method before. Awesome! AND, never saw anyone blow through their fingertips before to create a blow tube effect. Very cool!!! Thank you.
We were beach camping and my kids made a large upside down fire like this but without the dirt. It started to pound rain shortly after it was lit - but after 5 hours of torrential rain it was still going strong. We use this technique for all fires - you just light and forget.
This is by far my favorite fire video. I've been hoping to find some advice on how to have a really long fire. Will be trying this, this winter. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you VERY much… great method!!
I would have watched a time-lapse of that with a huge grin on my face dreaming about the next time I am at camp :-)
This is the best technique yet. Actually does what it is supposed to do.
fantastic
Great information!👍
That is friggin awesome! First I've heard of it. Thank you so much for this video 😊
This is insane. So badass
Great cooking fire as well! Thanks man🙏...
That’s very lovely.
Excellent demo! Very simple and easy to do.
Seen the top down fire, and it does work great, just never seen it with the dirt fill..
Very good video 👍 Thanks for sharing.
First time I've seen the dirt method. Very cool I'll have to try it out next weekend 👍
very useful, thank you very much
Thank you very useful info. Thanks again be safe. Bless
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Your Video series is amazing. 🥾🏔️
Nice video, and idea... Just, tocut this size of logs with hand tools, could be difficult... But nice to know how to arrange it... Tnx
Great demonstration. Thanks!
Amazing! Thanks!! :)
Very informative 👍🏿
This is a great video. Truly a no (or very low) maintenance fire which could be life saving and certainly more convenient.
Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
Amazingly resourceful. Love learning something new. Might never in a position to use it but stored in my memory bank.
thank you
Amazing ❤
I love this fire lay -- never used dirt though, I guess it does increase the burn time a fair bit, makes lots of sense.
The burn time you mentionned there are very dependant on the types of woods, e.g. if you're in a boreal forest with little to no hardwood, things will go a lot faster.
Very good video! Thanks for the lesson!
Awesomeness
Awesome video!!
My only question is that it looks like everything very closely surrounding the fire looks very flammable.
Wouldn’t it be smart to clear the surrounding leaves, etc?
Great advice!
Wow !! I never knew....
I've NEVER heard of using dirt to control the burn. Wow!
I carry a butane torch , like the big ones you use in culinary school, with 2 cans of butane. And a small wind proof cigar torch .
I like the idea of set it and forget it.!
Kudos. I've never actually thought of this design before, but I like it. It's not some stupid sh-t that expects stacked logs to roll into place.
I honestly was not anticipating a good outcome. I actually prefer this method of gathering smaller limbs, not stoking it through the night and a remarkable heat! Thanks! 👍👍😁🇺🇸
Amazing version, i Sweden we call this a reverse logg cabin. The thing with the dirt to slow down burn rate was new to me. 2 questions. How long does it actually take to get this version going auto? And if this is to be made by a tarp shelter what is a good safty distance? im thinking this will give very high heat..
I've used this a few times and it works great. I used it with a super shelter once, I felt like a baked potato in it. Even in the morning.
Really good to know , thanks for the tip , it could be a real life saver.
Awesome fire training. How about the boss kit giveaway.😊
Am sure wind can be a huge factor. Your thoughts?
Using dirt to keep it going longer. Brilliant.
Amazing video, thank you. What would be a good distance to sleep from this fire?
What is the EDC Kit?. Will the fire survive a hard rainfall
Sounds nice not having to get up but im getting up anyway 😳
I’ve never heard of a fire lay like this! I had expected a sloped stack. Mmmm!
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
I think - partially joking, but only partially - that with birch bark and/or fat wood,we can start a fire under water.
There’s a short story, by Robert Service I think, entitled “To Start A Fire”. A good one to be read AND remembered.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
What clothing are you wearing ??
I always carry a bic lighter and a few packets of powdered magnesium. It burns quite easily and at greater than 5000 degrees. It will ignite anything.
Whats the name of this instructor?
Id like to see more of his content.
thesurvivalsummit.com/product/survival-skills/
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Never seen or heard of such a thing.
You have now
Nice Idea but I want to see a time lapse video of this fire lasting all night.
I believe there is a time lapse in the instruction film this clip comes from... but we also don't care about "proving" anything. You can go try it yourself and see that it's the truth. ;)
That exact fire last almost 2 days
Can't wait to see if I win the giveaway
Unless you're wearing Velcro shoes, you have cordage right at your feet in a literal sense. You can pull the laces from your shoes or boots and use it as cordage. Depending on how many holes your footwear has you can have up to 72" laces. That's 6' times two if you have two boots. That's just for regular boot laces. Cut the ends off, pull off the outer casing and you now have inner and outer sections totaling 24' of cordage in this example. OK, so you use a foot or two tying your boots back on... You can still make a bow drill and have plenty left over for making a shelter.
I just got in some "Survival Paracord" that has fishing line, snare wire and waxed jute twine along with the usual 550 threads. It's rated at 620# test strength. I'm going to replace my boot laces with this "new and improved boot laces" option. Then I'll have survival cordage at my feet every day.
Hey' it's just an idea that you may want to think about.
The whole "If you have cordage" thing just depends on how you look at things. I'll relate a story from my youth...
My Uncle Arnold had a dairy farm and one year when I was about 12 I went out to help with harvesting. I was out there for two weeks in the middle of summer. Well as this was a farm they had all kinds of equipment, implements and structures which all had various purposes and uses. Two of these structures were the corn cribs. Now this was a pair of steel cylinders about twenty feet tall that had conical roofs. There was a hatch at the top and a small unloading door at the bottom where the corn would feed into the feed mixer on the back of the tractor.
One day my cousin and the other farm hand said we had to go up top and check how much corn was left in the cribs. We climbed up the ladder and got on top. They jumped from one crib to the other so I had to follow. We opened the hatch to check the level and they tried to get me to go down into it first but I said "You first" suspecting a trick.
Well they told me to just shut the hatch and come back. As I was closing the hatch they both jumped the gap and raced down the ladder and pulled it down, leaving me stuck atop the corn crib. They rested the end of the ladder on top of the bottom door and laughed at me. They threw me a wad of bailing twine and told me to figure it out. Well I got the twine straightened out, then took off my shoe and used the laces and shoe and "fished" for the top rung of the ladder. I caught it and pulled it up and made my escape...
Think outside of the box. Your cordage is at your feet...
Trust me, Rob does have paracord for laces.
That wasn't for him. It's for others who may or may not have thought of this before. My story was more about thinking about anything and everything you have at your disposal and using it to the best effect for your advantage. My cousin never expected me to get off the top of the corn crib until he came back for me. When he tossed me a wad of old bailing twine it was meant to torture and tease me. I was the young punk cousin from the city and he was going to show me "country boy" ways. Well guess what? I got off the crib by using my head.
As I like to say, "This thing on top of my neck? Yeah, it's more than just a hat rack.."
@@3AlarmBushcraft
Fat wood etc God's provision for man 👍🇬🇧
1:03 that’s what she said
Bring Cheetos, Doritos work great for starting fires 🔥
I wish you could have done more of a time lapse. But I think you were fairly convincing without it.
go searching for big dead wood before you get drunk or at the start while your not days into survival, whole tree stump on fire burns for days, wake up throw wood on fire coals relight the fire cook breakfast drink beer etc etc
Won't the fire travel underground through the roots of this stump and start smoldering some other tree and eventually a forrest fire?
Yea great way to slow a camp fire and have it be self feeding.
is this dry wood or wet wood?
I learnt good skillZ.
Can you do a video teaching how to make fire in really wet forest environment?
And how to identify what trees are what?
We have 12 training films on our website that go more into details. Wet environments still have plently of dry tinder, you just have to know how to find them, and it depends on the area what those types are.