Had you actually been at the class and not on your couch watching YT, you wouldn’t be calling this “dry weather”. I suppose it is dry in your armchair at home
Top tips I learned from this. Good stuff. 1. There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always time to do it again. (great quote) 2. Fire loves chaos. (great to remember) 3. Fire suck moisture out of the ground. (never realized this) 4. Log cabins allow you to dry out larger pieces of wood without them collapsing inwards. (I've always tried to incorporate drying larger stuff, but a purpose-made lay makes sense.) 5. Consider wind directions as it can push your flames away from the fuel source, hindering development.
Awesome Josh. I see folks throwing several sticks of fatwood into one fire to get it going and it just feels like such an overuse/waste of resources. Great info!
AG Survival: Folks that are not sure of their skills may use an over abundance but if it gets them a good fire the first time then they have achieved their goal. Skill takes experience.
Laying a sheet of aluminum foil on the ground has helped me start fire in wet weather. I keep a couple folded up pieces in my fire kit. Just in case. Love the knowledge you give. Keep up the good work.
My dog gets a new Seresto dog collar every six months the tin that the collar comes in is great for keeping fire making material in and could be used in a wet weather environment to start a fire.
@@mikejohnson2098 Best flea collar, it does miracles. I like using a Kiwi shoe paste-wax tin for shorter excursions, the twist knob makes it easy to open plus it can fit most pockets.
Whenever camping with my cousins in 1963, as a kid of eight years, my hero, Uncle Bill taught me to judge the viability of kindling with the saying, " If it don't snap it's crap". I think he understood the value to me and other kids of that era of being able to use the word "crap", legitimately. LOL All I know is every time I test my kindling I think of him.
Same thoughts here. I was able to make a fire since I was 8. People have disconnected from nature and the elements. But there is no fire app as far as I know.
Thank you for all the work you and your wife do...much respect. How you explain what you're doing, the content, your temperament and your skills keep me coming back to your channel. Now I need to practice! I'm moving out to that part of the country next year and look forward to attending classes.
Nicely done!👍 U hit the nail on the head. Most people always rush or do things wrong. Get it done right the first time so you can move on to the next job.
Great to hear you talk your way trough and your ideas conveyed. You have to hear it over and over till it becomes do ingrained that you only get it right. Getting your tinder and kindling right is the place where i usually fail first, But when i get it right man does it burn well, Wet weather fire requires that you get every step in the process right the first time, from laying a base, to to building your stack, and of course your tinder and kindling. in the wet and cold the challenge is multiplied. But if you keep your head and take the time to get each step right, step by step, you'll warm up and dry out faster then you think.
So that's what I look like building a fire! LOL! Pretty much how I go about it except for a few minor details. You're a FAR better instructor than I though! Here in the northern Alleghenies its almost always wet on the ground if there is any sort of cover at all so I always build a base. I like the log cabin for the reasons you mentioned but I tend to build a cabin within a cabin. A smaller one of pencil sized tinder with finger sized around it. I also carry a piece of tyvek house wrap about a foot square to work on (and a larger piece to sit on!) Great video as always Josh! Keep it up!
You can also make a flat platform with oak, which makes a great coal base, under your teepee or square fire. That way when the coals drop they won’t go out on the wet ground and they will create a coal base to make your fire last longer.
I agree that you have more control over ventilation with log cabin, but in wet weather you need to actually start it; the teepee structure gives you more success with starting it it wet weather and you can build a cab I around it later. He mentioned it, but if he used a platform he would be more successful in sustaining a fire long term and would have allowed for the ability to transition to a log cabin.
My favorite parts of this video are when the tinder bundle did NOT light within three strikes, and when you “missed” the fatwood shavings. Perfection is not necessary for success, and even someone with your level of experience doesn’t get things to work ideally every time. The end result was still success, and the real time “mistakes” give someone like me, with emerging skills and who’s plagued by perfectionism some hope and some relief that I can build my skills (and fires) and it won’t always go the way I plan, but that it’s okay. Thank you for being real!
Great video! I've seen fires started many times, but it never gets old. I also practice in my back yard. Every scenario is different. Do you ever get frustrated with people not taking your classes serious enough? I'm referring to flip flops I see in the background. Maybe I'm too picky. Again thanks for the great video.
Richard Reedy I try to meet people where they are and bring them up to as close to where it is that I think they need to be. I try not to sweat the small stuff and as an Instructor I can’t want them to learn it more than they want to learn it
Awesome 👍 Hopefully there was coffee & venison ready to go on.. Have you ever built a 🔥 on 15 or 20 cigar size sticks to shield against very wet soil..? I was just wondering if that would work for a successful wet fire lay.. Keep em coming.. Great job teaching Bro..
Wondering ..... in building the framework for the log cabin fire instead of going square would it be "better" to go triangular (essentially compiling a Star of David form) that might be a little more stable and requires fewer pieces of wood? Less need for uniformity and all that? Maybe no difference.....
Hey Josh. Great class. I'd like to have you give a class at one of our local Atlanta Viking Preparedness Meetups. One note: If you're building fires around the area in which you're going to be living long term, I would try and use less resources per fire to conserve fire-building resources long term. And I might've cleared the leaves a bit more, but then a flying spark is probably more likely to start a fire than wet adjacent leaves, although the leaves will dry with heat, time, and sun. Regardless, I always enjoy your videos.
I wanna watch you make a fire in POURING down rain. Georgia, huh? What do you have as far as poisonous snakes and spiders? Ticks? Wearing sandals looks risky, grins! Your students? I'd also love to see you build a fire in the alpine with a foot or more of snow. I LOVED your stuff on finding fat wood. That was a wow. My hubby was flat out impressed when you pulled out that stump/root that was solid fat wood. How does the char compare with fat wood? Right away, the weight difference. I mean I broke the handle off my tooth brush before packing it. That weight becomes REAL when you have to carry it. Not so much when horse camping. grins! What do you think of Ka Bar knives? Got one as a gift...
Well, I have made many fires in the pouring rain, but the pouring rain isn’t something I bring my camera equipment out in. Maybe some day my channel will be big enough to afford waterproof cameras.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I didn't even think of that! I know! you've done this in pouring rain. My solution was to get out of the rain, get dry and THEN worry about a fire. I forgot about the cameras and stuff! Great giggle stuff, thanks GBGB!
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I shall ask all my other questions again and again...you are frickin' the gnat's ass, the bee's knees. Grins. What would it be like to go on a GUIDED hike with you and wifey...$$$? Seriously. I would pay top dollar even though I've been on so many free guided tours in the wilderness. I KNOW what you Green Berets are capable of and experienced with...wish I had stayed with George, Green Beret, Special Forces, Vietnam! Had no idea what a warrior I was 'married' to at the time!!
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Holy moly Josh I just finished watching a video right now and laughed my ass off... I then saw this response and decided ... holy cow josh will probably laugh his ass off at this. I sent it to your messenger, I got one of those automated messenger messages that say you're not available but when you are... lol enjoy
Great tutorial. But I'm just wondering why someone in a survival class is wearing flip flops? Wear some shoes or boots or nothing at all if you are into that. Wearing flip flops in the woods is not a good idea!!!
Step one of wet weather fires is to not be stupid enough to try and use wet tinder. I can find dry tinder in any conditions, but even if I couldn’t for some reason, I would do what I could to dry it out first. Not to mention the fatwood I used works wet or dry. Nothing misleading about this. This was an actual class with students, it had been raining all day, and all of that dry tinder and kindling was still found right off the landscape there.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Yes I agree there are ways to get dry tinder, such as dead rotting stumps etc but you dont cover how to find that in the video. I appreciate this was a class within a class outside of just this video but there is insufficient information here too be sure of being able to create fire in wet weather. Issues can happen, survival situations are not always predictable (e.g. a plane crash) so someone doesnt have to be stupid to find themselves in the wilderness with no dry tinder, I just think pointing out some methods of finding dry tinder in wet weather was an important step which was missed here.
@@paulosullivan3472 so take the class. You can't expect to get complete information from one video that is a snapshot of the larger class. All the actual students learned how to find dry tinder.
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Wow that's great - if you doing a video on how to start a fire in wet weather , you should do it in wet weather
Had you actually been at the class and not on your couch watching YT, you wouldn’t be calling this “dry weather”. I suppose it is dry in your armchair at home
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Top tips I learned from this. Good stuff.
1. There is never enough time to do it right the first time, but there is always time to do it again. (great quote)
2. Fire loves chaos. (great to remember)
3. Fire suck moisture out of the ground. (never realized this)
4. Log cabins allow you to dry out larger pieces of wood without them collapsing inwards. (I've always tried to incorporate drying larger stuff, but a purpose-made lay makes sense.)
5. Consider wind directions as it can push your flames away from the fuel source, hindering development.
I appreciate the organization of the tinder into different sizes. makes teaching others so much easier.
Awesome Josh. I see folks throwing several sticks of fatwood into one fire to get it going and it just feels like such an overuse/waste of resources. Great info!
AG Survival: Folks that are not sure of their skills may use an over abundance but if it gets them a good fire the first time then they have achieved their goal. Skill takes experience.
Laying a sheet of aluminum foil on the ground has helped me start fire in wet weather. I keep a couple folded up pieces in my fire kit. Just in case. Love the knowledge you give. Keep up the good work.
My dog gets a new Seresto dog collar every six months the tin that the collar comes in is great for keeping fire making material in and could be used in a wet weather environment to start a fire.
@@mikejohnson2098 Best flea collar, it does miracles. I like using a Kiwi shoe paste-wax tin for shorter excursions, the twist knob makes it easy to open plus it can fit most pockets.
Just good kit to have a baking foil in your haversack
Nicely done, thanks for sharing. Stay safe and God bless brotherman
"there's never enough time to do it right the first time but there is always time to do it again
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"fire loves chaos
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Whenever camping with my cousins in 1963, as a kid of eight years, my hero, Uncle Bill taught me to judge the viability of kindling with the saying, " If it don't snap it's crap". I think he understood the value to me and other kids of that era of being able to use the word "crap", legitimately. LOL All I know is every time I test my kindling I think of him.
Sweet memory...
I love that saying! I have a ton of grandkids between hubby and I so I will use that to teach the young ones. Thanks!
Same thoughts here. I was able to make a fire since I was 8. People have disconnected from nature and the elements. But there is no fire app as far as I know.
Nice! I like the “do it right the first time and you wont have to do it twice”
Thank you for all the work you and your wife do...much respect. How you explain what you're doing, the content, your temperament and your skills keep me coming back to your channel. Now I need to practice!
I'm moving out to that part of the country next year and look forward to attending classes.
Another Great video, Joshua. All those people Should Learn A LOT from your classes👩🏼🎓👨🏼🎓
Nicely done!👍 U hit the nail on the head. Most people always rush or do things wrong. Get it done right the first time so you can move on to the next job.
Great to hear you talk your way trough and your ideas conveyed. You have to hear it over and over till it becomes do ingrained that you only get it right. Getting your tinder and kindling right is the place where i usually fail first, But when i get it right man does it burn well, Wet weather fire requires that you get every step in the process right the first time, from laying a base, to to building your stack, and of course your tinder and kindling. in the wet and cold the challenge is multiplied. But if you keep your head and take the time to get each step right, step by step, you'll warm up and dry out faster then you think.
Yes, be mindful of the wind. It can help or hinder the fire starting process.
Great demo of the basics, should be helpful for lots of people!
Excellent information, as usual. Thank You
awesome tips as usual, J. thanks for the inside look at your class.
Most excellent.... second video of yours I’ve watched, second time I learned something. Good job!
Outstanding
Nice video, I have been practicing the teepee with my daughter. She loves it.
Looked pretty good. Thanks for the refresher as I'm headed to the woods this weekend. Been 25 years since I've camped and did a bushcraft camp. RLTW
Great job Josh. Thanks for sharing brother.
Very good. Thank you very much
Joshua, thanks for the instructional video !
Good job Sir
So that's what I look like building a fire! LOL! Pretty much how I go about it except for a few minor details. You're a FAR better instructor than I though! Here in the northern Alleghenies its almost always wet on the ground if there is any sort of cover at all so I always build a base. I like the log cabin for the reasons you mentioned but I tend to build a cabin within a cabin. A smaller one of pencil sized tinder with finger sized around it. I also carry a piece of tyvek house wrap about a foot square to work on (and a larger piece to sit on!) Great video as always Josh! Keep it up!
Nice brother great tutorial on how to build a fire lay ! Be good brother
Just found your channel very useful information
Well explained, and a nice knife greetings from Belgium
You can also make a flat platform with oak, which makes a great coal base, under your teepee or square fire. That way when the coals drop they won’t go out on the wet ground and they will create a coal base to make your fire last longer.
good job...!!
Nice
Great video and cool hat😎
I prefer log cabin over teepee. You have more control over the ventilation. In your teepee you go bigger than I do. Great video though.
I agree that you have more control over ventilation with log cabin, but in wet weather you need to actually start it; the teepee structure gives you more success with starting it it wet weather and you can build a cab I around it later. He mentioned it, but if he used a platform he would be more successful in sustaining a fire long term and would have allowed for the ability to transition to a log cabin.
Nice knife!
My favorite parts of this video are when the tinder bundle did NOT light within three strikes, and when you “missed” the fatwood shavings.
Perfection is not necessary for success, and even someone with your level of experience doesn’t get things to work ideally every time.
The end result was still success, and the real time “mistakes” give someone like me, with emerging skills and who’s plagued by perfectionism some hope and some relief that I can build my skills (and fires) and it won’t always go the way I plan, but that it’s okay.
Thank you for being real!
Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. This seems especially true when you are live in front of students. Just have to roll with it as it comes.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret or when you marry a Murphy girl like I did.
Great video! I've seen fires started many times, but it never gets old. I also practice in my back yard. Every scenario is different. Do you ever get frustrated with people not taking your classes serious enough? I'm referring to flip flops I see in the background. Maybe I'm too picky. Again thanks for the great video.
Richard Reedy I try to meet people where they are and bring them up to as close to where it is that I think they need to be. I try not to sweat the small stuff and as an Instructor I can’t want them to learn it more than they want to learn it
Yeah, I get that. You certainly do your part well. I imagine there is satisfaction, though, when you see “a light come on”. Small victories.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Loved your reply on that one !!!!
Awesome 👍 Hopefully there was coffee & venison ready to go on.. Have you ever built a 🔥 on 15 or 20 cigar size sticks to shield against very wet soil..? I was just wondering if that would work for a successful wet fire lay.. Keep em coming.. Great job teaching Bro..
Yes, I typically make a base for the fire like that.
Great video, thank u....I live in GA...do u teach classes?
Wondering ..... in building the framework for the log cabin fire instead of going square would it be "better" to go triangular (essentially compiling a Star of David form) that might be a little more stable and requires fewer pieces of wood? Less need for uniformity and all that? Maybe no difference.....
Good video thanks for sharing God bless you....
nick naming this one the photobomb fire making video :)
Hey Josh. Great class. I'd like to have you give a class at one of our local Atlanta Viking Preparedness Meetups. One note: If you're building fires around the area in which you're going to be living long term, I would try and use less resources per fire to conserve fire-building resources long term. And I might've cleared the leaves a bit more, but then a flying spark is probably more likely to start a fire than wet adjacent leaves, although the leaves will dry with heat, time, and sun. Regardless, I always enjoy your videos.
Do it right the first time,...normally would have a base, i think we'll be alright... only Josh could pull that off...lol
Doing it live!
ok great info and channel, but wth is river cane
Grass family, looks like skinny bamboo. Commonly used by indigenous folks for arrow shafts and atlatl darts
I wanna watch you make a fire in POURING down rain. Georgia, huh? What do you have as far as poisonous snakes and spiders? Ticks? Wearing sandals looks risky, grins! Your students? I'd also love to see you build a fire in the alpine with a foot or more of snow. I LOVED your stuff on finding fat wood. That was a wow. My hubby was flat out impressed when you pulled out that stump/root that was solid fat wood. How does the char compare with fat wood? Right away, the weight difference. I mean I broke the handle off my tooth brush before packing it. That weight becomes REAL when you have to carry it. Not so much when horse camping. grins! What do you think of Ka Bar knives? Got one as a gift...
Well, I have made many fires in the pouring rain, but the pouring rain isn’t something I bring my camera equipment out in. Maybe some day my channel will be big enough to afford waterproof cameras.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I didn't even think of that! I know! you've done this in pouring rain. My solution was to get out of the rain, get dry and THEN worry about a fire. I forgot about the cameras and stuff! Great giggle stuff, thanks GBGB!
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I shall ask all my other questions again and again...you are frickin' the gnat's ass, the bee's knees. Grins. What would it be like to go on a GUIDED hike with you and wifey...$$$? Seriously. I would pay top dollar even though I've been on so many free guided tours in the wilderness. I KNOW what you Green Berets are capable of and experienced with...wish I had stayed with George, Green Beret, Special Forces, Vietnam! Had no idea what a warrior I was 'married' to at the time!!
Sharon Sampson we don’t do guided hikes, we do teach physical classes though. Flintsteelcsg.com has some listed with more to come.
👍👍😎
Hey brother would you ever write a book or a simple pdf Manuel
Raymond Ruz I am working on one, yes. Hard to put the time into it so it’s slow going but yes it’s happening
Great brother. We are all standing by for this one.!
You made hard work out of that.
... and I cringed briefly seeing the flames come near your beard. LOL
Please tell us what kind of fixed blade you're using.
PKS Scorpion, maybe?
This one is an LT Wright GNS with a Scandi grind. I do also love the PKS Scorpion, yes.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret ah, is it the Larry Roberts Genesis? Looks wicked nice. I "need" another LTWK...
Jake Pullen the GNS is a different model than the Genesis. I do have the Larry Roberts Gen6 and it’s great
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I was trying to post a picture of mine but it won't let me.
Sandals..
Remember...No Pocket Bellows Allowed !!!!
your shoes, they salomon? i wont buy any other brand!!!
Pipe Thrive Survive they are, my favorites.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Holy moly Josh I just finished watching a video right now and laughed my ass off... I then saw this response and decided ... holy cow josh will probably laugh his ass off at this. I sent it to your messenger, I got one of those automated messenger messages that say you're not available but when you are... lol enjoy
No sound.
Video has been up for two years with 25,000 views, it has sound.
Great tutorial. But I'm just wondering why someone in a survival class is wearing flip flops? Wear some shoes or boots or nothing at all if you are into that. Wearing flip flops in the woods is not a good idea!!!
Is it safe to watch a survival class on TH-cam from your house in flip flops or are you wearing shoes or boots to judge these folks from the couch?
But you are using dry tinder here which is far from guaranteed in wet weather, a bit misleading in my opinion.
Step one of wet weather fires is to not be stupid enough to try and use wet tinder. I can find dry tinder in any conditions, but even if I couldn’t for some reason, I would do what I could to dry it out first. Not to mention the fatwood I used works wet or dry. Nothing misleading about this. This was an actual class with students, it had been raining all day, and all of that dry tinder and kindling was still found right off the landscape there.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Yes I agree there are ways to get dry tinder, such as dead rotting stumps etc but you dont cover how to find that in the video. I appreciate this was a class within a class outside of just this video but there is insufficient information here too be sure of being able to create fire in wet weather. Issues can happen, survival situations are not always predictable (e.g. a plane crash) so someone doesnt have to be stupid to find themselves in the wilderness with no dry tinder, I just think pointing out some methods of finding dry tinder in wet weather was an important step which was missed here.
@@paulosullivan3472 so take the class. You can't expect to get complete information from one video that is a snapshot of the larger class. All the actual students learned how to find dry tinder.
You need a better microphone setup