A Simple Fire Starting Kit - expedition, survival, bushcraft, preparedness and overlanding
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
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A client asked me about my fire starting kit so we put this video together. As with many aspects of bushcraft and wilderness skills - it's not about the kit or the brands, it's all about the mindset.
When I chose items to take with me on trips, either when I plan to light a fire or just as a backup, I go for items that I know work in all conditions. I plan for equipment failure, loss and unexpected events. I consider what would happen if I somehow became separated from all of my kit, or a key item became lost or unusable.
What I DON'T tend to do is bring natural tinder and fire materials from home. I don't bag up birch bark or Daldinia concentrica fungus and pack it into the woods again with me - I look for those items when I am out on the trip and adopt what Dave Canterbury calls the 'Possum Mentality'. I want to carry items that will get me fire ASAP - but I won't pass up opportunities to find equivalent items in nature.
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Go Prepared Sure Strips (Spartan Fire??): amzn.to/3gYkjMm / gopreparedsurvival.com/shop-n...
Hammaro Tinder Card: amzn.to/3Bvzd5U / www.proadventure.co.uk/dpt/fi...
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Chapters:
00:00 Start
00:05 Richard Prideaux's fire starting kit
01:33 The pouch used
02:30 No natural tinder?
04:40 The Possum Mentality
05:10 The Cost - Financial, Weight, Space
06:04 Reduncancy and contingency planning
07:28 FireAnt SAK ferro rod
08:10 SOTO Micro Torch
09:15 Old LMF Scout FireSteel
09:51 Cheap flint wheel lighter
10:45 Cyalume/glowstick
11:13 Plastic bags
11:42 Storm Dudley and Storm Eunice...
12:09 BCB FireDragon Blocks
14:33 BCB FireDragon blocks demo
17:33 Lifeboat matches
17:56 Bicycle inner tube wrap
19:12 Go Prepared Sure Strips / Spartan Fire
19:28 Hammaro Tinder Card
19:50 Consider water absorption
20:35 Order of importance
21:00 Thinking about survival the wrong way
21:59 Suddenly in the Stone Age - SERE
23:15 Other firecraft tools
24:37 Flint and steel
25:12 Summing up and final words
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_Not_ taking natural materials with you is probably good practice for general bio security - _not_ unnecessarily* transferring any of the range of diseases whence you collected them to anywhere you open your kit, putting the local forest at risk. Leave no trace is broader than we realise.
* when you can bring other materials and collect locally
An excellent, excellent point. Pinning this comment for visibility.
I absolutely agree, i do always have fatwood with me tho😅 its my go too starter if i am not using stuff i find wherever i am going. For emergencys tampons or cotton pads drenched in wax do the trick for me
You realize that the fire kills all of that? It’s not like carrying a load of firewood with insects. Anything that would survive in that would survive on you gear and any unwashed clothing items like hats or coats or on your shoes.
I use flint and steel just for the fun of it. So many ways it can be done. All you need to take with you is a good steel. Good hard high carbon steel files make great cheap steels if you grind the teeth off the edges. Don't overheat the steel. I carry a bic lighter, a ferro rod, storm matches, a fresnel lens and my flint & steel kit. Waxed cotton rounds or pads as tinder.
Good philosophy on your kit!
i like your presentation style and practical tips
Nothing beats a flame kit looks complete
Not only is this immensely informative for someone completely new to camping, but your humour really brightens up my day!
Thank you!
Not a bad discussion at all.
I like your kit.
Although….. when I use flint and steel to make my fire, it isn’t because the day has gone badly. It’s because I’ve been doing it since 1969.
I made my first flint and steel fire when I was eight years old. My Cub Scout Troop had the fire-booth at Scout-O-Rama in Austin Texas in 1969. We made fire every half hour for three days. I’ve been hooked on it ever since, and it’s my first choice when making a fire.
Excellent content as usual, Richard!
Absolutely correct about avoiding the transport of natural materials from location to location, as natural materials (tinder, soil, etc) can be vectors of disease transmission - for example, as evidenced by concerns about the increasing spread of disease in larch within the UK.
In addition, for overseas and expedition travel, there are additional concerns about contravening very strict biosecurity laws (NZ and Australia, for example, but many conservation areas globally are imposing stricter restrictions too) with punitive financial penalties and - sometimes - the risk of imprisonment.
Thoroughly cleaning all kit, tools, clothing and boots before visiting new locations - domestically and internationally - will enable us to enjoy these place longer.
The final thought is that developing knowledge of the destination's environment is fundamental to any trip, as it avoids unnecessary adverse impacts and - instead - promotes an awareness of the local flora and fauna. This includes the knowledge of local natural materials for firelighting.
Thanks Jan - these issues are always important, and rarely mentioned in the bushcraft community these days.
a practical and easy to use kit, thanks Richard! ,👍👍
No problem, thanks for taking the time to leave a comment
We have two seasons here, too wet to burn and too dry to burn. When we can have fires, I bring a mix of man made and natural tinders along with the usual lighter, matches, and ferro rod.
You've got to know what works for your environment
You know, Richard, you have a very pleasant face and I truly enjoy listening to you. ;)
Oh you
Any chance on doing a product review of our Firestarter?
Late to the game but I got 50 cotton cylendars (dentist style) for a couple of quid and soaked them in 70/30 molten wax and petroleum jelly.
Much lrss messy than the bag of PJ cotton balls.
If you have easy access to them then they work brilliantly.
@@originaloutdoors Ebay I think.
I put some valentines in my bike tube great for fire lighting. Multiple other uses
I guess you were ambushed by the autocorrect there, but it's too funny to ignore.
@@originaloutdoors my own fault for not Prof reading before posting, I meant vasaline. Sorry .what a big romantic I am. Sat in sainsbury car park while better half shopping
If you're looking for some information on natural firelighting material - here you go:
th-cam.com/video/PhZA3gFC1a8/w-d-xo.html
Great video, my kit is simular.
Thanks Bernard 👍
What mat are you using in this video?
They do make smaller BCB firedragon cubes (7g) compete with a alu foil container so can light direct inside.
The SOTO micro looks nice bit of kit, and looks right size to pack into my fire kit.
Do carry a Vic Walker in mine, for just in case tinder prep, or using back of saw for a ferrorod scraper.
Also noticed on BCB's site they have 14g blocks.
I need to source some of these - I only ever see the 27g blocks locally.
@@originaloutdoors Only seen them on The Bath Bushcraft Shop.
Is the glow stick in case the rave breaks out🎉
Beside pencil sharpener, she had a metal blade and Magnesium flint!
Do you have the exact name of the pouch? I don’t believe you ever mentioned it.
It's made by LokSak - it's the Arm-Pak or something like that. I'm not sure it's still made by them but you can probably find old stock somewhere online.
Did you have a weird accent are you from Arkansas
I understand that you are looking to bring the best, most efficient way of making fire in a way that you can repeat, that will work in all sorts of circumstances, and that you know you can rely on. From that perspective, I think you are making a mistake passing up fatwood. In terms of waterproofness, resistance to crumbling, long term storage, absence of concerns about packages opening or material evaporating or drying out, ease of lighting from poor fire or spark sources, amount of energy packed into a small and light package, and so on-fatwood is either unbeatable or close to it. The supposedly "better things on the market" (such as Wetfire, hexamine tabs, Fire Dragon, etc.) are not actually better when put to the test.
He yapped way too much on what he is not doing
You talk too much
You have a short attention span.