@@maxwatkins5166 what they're explaining is the pyrolyzation process of the rope when snuffed in a low oxygen environment (ie hence the comparison to charcloth) more so than the fire triangle.
Looks like the same type of rope on a smoke pencil I've got. A smoke pencil, what's used to create whisps of that thick white smoke for the detection of air drafts at windows and doors, an old timey low tech tool.
Trench lighters use lighter fluid like a zippo. There would’ve been some pissed off soldiers trying to use that. I’ve got one similar to that one and if it gets even remotely damp you’re done. It’s a neat party trick like a fire piston but that’s all either of them are good for. Just remember this is a commercial he wants a thicker wallet.
I was rather complimentary about him in a separate comment comparing my peevish acidity as a Brit - specifically English-flavour - to his burly charm and evident enjoyment in small and uncomplicated things. However, your starkly realistic and corruscating assessment appealed to my enjoyment of small and uncomplicated things😏❤
I'm very jealous of the ability of charming bearded Southerners to remain so amped about such simple pleasures - from a dour and embittered Englishman 😉
In world War 2 smarter soldiers on both sides used wick lighters to create an ember like this rather than an open flame to keep from being seen at dusk / night time
I'm subscribing I'm subscribing ghee wiz where was this when I needed it. I cut a shot shell open and used my lighter flint wheel to light the powder as the lighter wouldn't work. You realize you don't know shit when your in need of it. Looked on wish, 4 bucks, 5 bucks shipping. A month from now I got me one of these.
That is pretty cool. I love outdated ish like that. There's so many more convenient things you could use today, but with this, you don't need fluid, wind doesn't blow it out, all you need to replace is the flint (I assume) Just all around a cool little tool.
Y'all never hear of a punk wick? This is how we used to light our fireworks. Dad would give us about 6 in of smouldering cotton rope and then off we'd go. It was a lot safer than giving us a lighter or matches, (of course, a brick of a thousand black cats and hundreds of bottle rockets were trouble in itself).😂😂😂
If you can carry this, you can carry a zippo. This is dumb beyond words. If you are in a survival situation, this would last longer, presumably, but you'd have to be on a desert island for years for its value to show. How likely is that?
You really should have left it a couple of seconds longer before flashing up the first caption because as it is, that does not look like it says "Rope Lighter" 😂
And here in england it's a jail lighter & aka A (wick) lighter they used to make the wicks outa the new mops heads ( in jail.) As they banned matches and gas lighters in prisons I should no !!! 🤣🤣💯👍🏻🤦♂️
If I am gonna go out of my way to prepare for a day when I need to make a fire, I will buy a pack of 20 BIC lighters. I'm not messing with these primitive toys. I'm not trying to look cool or honor my cavemen ancestors, I'm trying to cook food and stay warm
These are great I recommend these to everyone I know... Even if they aren't hikers or campers or doomsday preppers I think everyone should have one of these
Very cool and all but why this instead of regular lighter?...is it just cuz it seems cooler?If that's the case than ok but I really see no other reason to use this over lighter
Man I've been looking for the best Firestarter to keep in a car, because a lighter would explode in the heat. I've just been keeping a ferro rod in there but I might get one of these too
Is it waterproof too? I know BICs will give you some trouble if you get them wet but they're not totally out of commission. They're far easier to dry out than a soaked cotton wick.
They're most certainly not water proof. Not ever water resistant. However, it is not supposed to be your only way of starting a fire, rather an alternative that you have alongside your Bic, your matches, maybe even a magnifying glass so that you always have a way to start a fire in different conditions.
When I was in college for outdoor education my survival teacher taught us one important thing. That we live in the modern world and no matter how many ways he teaches us how to start fire to make sure to use your head and always carry a Bic lighter in your pocket because yes as though adverse conditions may cause it to be harder to start if that's always in your pocket you have a guaranteed source of 3,000 lights. Not to mention they're small enough you can keep a couple on you or in different places making sure no matter what if you do end up stuck. I've gotten caught up in thinking all these different ideas and ways to start a fire that people try to sell you is going to be useful but in the end it just ends up being more clutter and unnecessary stuff to weigh you down.
If you fall through the ice the bic will likely fail when you need it most. Ferrocerium is totally reliable and longer lasting than a lighter. Both can be lost so friction methods are useful to know.
@@forlexer pulled out another Bic. Listen you people can preach this more primitive tec all you want but the same weight I you can carry 4 lighters but better yet just carry a lighter and a fire steel. But out of all my time I've had like 2 bic lighters fail
@@miked4152 if you think so lol. Except not. Again you can preach it all you want but this is literally just a rope and flint. It's a lighter flint at that so it's not going to have longer use and again if it gets wet it's done for like it's really cool but not actually useful. Granted I'm sure you can change the flint but still let's say the bic and when I day bic I mean bic not a circle k crap lighter, but if it does run out you still have a flint that you van start fire with.
A Beatty Jet lighter is cool too. Been collecting them for years and to shoot a flame like that on just lighter fluid is great. These are great survival tools too. Carry on.
As a little kid I got a really nice trench lighter to give to my grandfather and he absolutely loved it!! He showed it of to everyone who would look! He was genuinely really happy with it . He lost it at a fair ground and he actually cried! I was like why’s my granda crying? NEVER SEEN HIM CRY BEFORE OR AFTER! Anyway THE CRAZIEST THING HAPPENED!! SOMEONE ACTUALLY FOUND THE LIGHTER AND REALISED IT WAS SO UNIQUE AND IT WAS ENGRAVED WITH THE DON AND BILLY ON IT! THE PERSON WHO FOUND IT HANDED IT IN TO LOST AND FOUND!!! LIKE IT WAS A LAST DITCH ATTEMPT TO GET IT BACK AND LOW AND BEHOLD IT WAS HANDED IN BECAUSE WE WENT TO LOST AND FOUN AND LEFT A NUMBER TO CALL AND LATER THAT DAY HE GGOT A CALL SAYING IT HAD BEEN FOUND
@@Stroke-it-2Handed Electric BIC lighter.... Your not outside when its below freezing and windy. You will be in some kind of a shelter playing with your bic lighter.
@@derangedpsychos8143 Jungle is the wilderness, wild,the bush... Junglee is the one from the jungle...he lives in it. Now go make a primitive friction fire! A la Junglee style...
A salty fellow Marine swore by trench lighters. He had OD Green colored rope. The rope was dual purpose. Cut sections off for the wick and the rest for bivouac tasks & securing equipment as this was during the dark time of ALICE gear.
Yeah I would never carry this thing. I mean if you're going to carry something like this you might as well just pack like 15 Bic lighters. I'm in big lighters are unstoppable. If you got like five big lighters You're good to go. I mean even when the fluid runs out you can still use the Flint the sparker the plastic to start a fire
They used these in ww1 to avoid snipers picking off poeple at night. They usually smokey back to the enemy against the trench so the open flame would iluminate the your position. 10/10 survivors said it was safer than matches
Those lighters saved a lot of dudes in trenches and foxholes head's from Sniper fire back when they were made. Crazy history behind the design of such a seemingly simple tool.
Fun fact a strand of a prison mop head ( British prisons ) used to make a perfect wick, though in some prisons they started to use different mop heads that had a coating to prevent them smoldering ( admittedly it has thankfully been a while 20+years) since I last had access to such mops and things may well have changed lol).
Mini soldiers in World War I used rope type lighters the Open Flame would give off their location to lighters which is why many British soldiers who normally Smoked Cigarettes had to switch to pipes
Those things have been around for more than a 100 years...in ww1 and 2 soldiers used them for among others things lighting their smokes...helped keep them from getting spotted by enemy snipers
I've had mine for close to 5 years now and still haven't used up the rope. I don't use it a lot because I'm trying to save it for emergency purposes. I've used it to light a few tobacco pipes as well. It works like a charm. A great piece of kit in my opinion.
or just get a few bic lighters, that contaption is literally a shitty lighter, how many bic lighters can i buy for the price of that? Not to mention when a bic lighter runs out of gas you essentially have the same device. Wrap some of that fancy twine around your lighter and you're good to go.
I got one to smoke a pipe....it works great, but you end up inhaling a bit of rope smoke, which isn't nice. I'll use it next time I'm in a crow's nest in the rain 👍
Rope match. This is what you use in a matchlock musket too. I have a piece of charred cotton rope in a .30-06 case with a 9mm on top as a cap. I use a dead lighter to spark it up
I have something similar to this. Actually two things similar to this one is a hemp rope that inside of a metal tube and you push it out just like yours and you can hit it with a Ferro rod. I also have a Zippo fire starter, that has tinder inside the waterproof case that floats. And all you do is put it onto a stick, roughing up the tender and light it the same way that yours works. The Zippo one was only $5.
The only problem with a lot of these is that they don't have any ways to replace the flint. At least on the cheaper ones. Just something to consider. They work great untill they get wet. I have one in a small kit kept in a Ziploc with a moisture absorber.
Some guy from Spain gave me this as a souvenir now I know what it is Lmao
I was in Boy Scouts in Spain. I had one of those in my kit. It was as reliable as as a zippo for lighting fires, and 20x cheaper
Hahahha whack
@@jorgecalero6325 If it gets wet?
@@stevenc8717 keep it in a sealable bag, a screw top tin, or 8n any container where it won't get wet
@@stevenc8717 if you don't keep fire supplies in a sealed container you are messing up.
Wow that's clever
Holy shit. Years after getting one of these I finally know how it works! 🤣
Pretty stick tool, looks like something I need to hand when out in the woods
Perfect for combat where you wouldn't want to give away location at night but still need a smoke
If you post a Amazon affiliate link, I'd buy a few.
Yeah that comes from a powder pan musket before the flintlock come out
Like holding a joint
That's a lot of lighters
Grandpa used one of those during WW2, made from a spent brass cartridges.
German side?
Probably a 50cal a 308 is a little small
@@johngoguen36130-06 or 50
Actually even the method of snuffing it out creates a medium that's even more susceptible to starting from a spark. The oxygen reduction is key
no gas (air/oxygen), no fire(spark/ember/flame).
@@maxwatkins5166 what they're explaining is the pyrolyzation process of the rope when snuffed in a low oxygen environment (ie hence the comparison to charcloth) more so than the fire triangle.
A very interesting style of fire starter
Looks like the same type of rope on a smoke pencil I've got. A smoke pencil, what's used to create whisps of that thick white smoke for the detection of air drafts at windows and doors, an old timey low tech tool.
Trench lighters use lighter fluid like a zippo. There would’ve been some pissed off soldiers trying to use that. I’ve got one similar to that one and if it gets even remotely damp you’re done. It’s a neat party trick like a fire piston but that’s all either of them are good for. Just remember this is a commercial he wants a thicker wallet.
I was rather complimentary about him in a separate comment comparing my peevish acidity as a Brit - specifically English-flavour - to his burly charm and evident enjoyment in small and uncomplicated things. However, your starkly realistic and corruscating assessment appealed to my enjoyment of small and uncomplicated things😏❤
Love it, love your stuff dude!
Much appreciated!
I'm very jealous of the ability of charming bearded Southerners to remain so amped about such simple pleasures - from a dour and embittered Englishman 😉
In world War 2 smarter soldiers on both sides used wick lighters to create an ember like this rather than an open flame to keep from being seen at dusk / night time
I used to have one of these when I was in the boy scouts everybody wanted one a lot easier than rubbing two damn sticks together 😁
FINALLY a lighter that remains unmolested by the wind 😎👍
This would be really good for lighting a joint and use the joint to start a fire 😂🔥
420 smokers like your idea. 👍
I really enjoy the videos
The soldiers in the trenches used these to smoke cigarettes at night without alerting the enemy of their positions
Lol a cigarette ember is bright on a pitch black night seems they wasn't thinking to hard.
I'm subscribing I'm subscribing ghee wiz where was this when I needed it. I cut a shot shell open and used my lighter flint wheel to light the powder as the lighter wouldn't work. You realize you don't know shit when your in need of it. Looked on wish, 4 bucks, 5 bucks shipping. A month from now I got me one of these.
Hey, even as long as 10 years ago it was standard to have it on ships.
We sailors tend to be heavy smokers, so it was fairly needed lol
How do you keep it dry?
Omg I would not make it 1 day living in nature.. the first day I will freeze with the light lmao 🤣
As a smoker this is what I’m gonna carry around now instead of my zippo!
🎩*tip*
The font on the box that says "Rope Lighter" though, on quick glance you could read it something completely different
I just picked up the parts to solder one of these together this weekend.
That is pretty cool. I love outdated ish like that. There's so many more convenient things you could use today, but with this, you don't need fluid, wind doesn't blow it out, all you need to replace is the flint (I assume) Just all around a cool little tool.
And flints are super cheap
I just ordered 3 for $22 on Amazon.
Y'all never hear of a punk wick?
This is how we used to light our fireworks. Dad would give us about 6 in of smouldering cotton rope and then off we'd go. It was a lot safer than giving us a lighter or matches, (of course, a brick of a thousand black cats and hundreds of bottle rockets were trouble in itself).😂😂😂
If you can carry this, you can carry a zippo. This is dumb beyond words. If you are in a survival situation, this would last longer, presumably, but you'd have to be on a desert island for years for its value to show. How likely is that?
You really should have left it a couple of seconds longer before flashing up the first caption because as it is, that does not look like it says "Rope Lighter" 😂
Ahhh yes, don't get your rope lighter confused with ze rape luger! Bad times to be had that's for sure
And here in england it's a jail lighter & aka A (wick) lighter they used to make the wicks outa the new mops heads ( in jail.) As they banned matches and gas lighters in prisons I should no !!! 🤣🤣💯👍🏻🤦♂️
If I am gonna go out of my way to prepare for a day when I need to make a fire, I will buy a pack of 20 BIC lighters. I'm not messing with these primitive toys. I'm not trying to look cool or honor my cavemen ancestors, I'm trying to cook food and stay warm
And it’s Already about 100 x better than the hacks where you put matches inside a different container
These are great I recommend these to everyone I know... Even if they aren't hikers or campers or doomsday preppers I think everyone should have one of these
That's really fucking cool, love your vids man
Smart!
Very cool and all but why this instead of regular lighter?...is it just cuz it seems cooler?If that's the case than ok but I really see no other reason to use this over lighter
Dad left me home one time as a wee lad, long story short... my wick was pre chared 😭
Man I've been looking for the best Firestarter to keep in a car, because a lighter would explode in the heat. I've just been keeping a ferro rod in there but I might get one of these too
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣lighter blow up? Do you live in a volcano or is your neighbor the devil??
I prefer the old way. I carry around full acetylene/oxy tanks and just fire up my torch when I'm trekking miles into the mountains.
Lmao 😂🤣😂
I remember Dave Canterbury charring some good cotton rope to basically make char rope. This has that feel.
The rope is what I used as a kid to light fireworks on new year's eve.
The subtitles really helped me watch it. Don't even need youtubes auto ones
Is it waterproof too? I know BICs will give you some trouble if you get them wet but they're not totally out of commission. They're far easier to dry out than a soaked cotton wick.
They're most certainly not water proof. Not ever water resistant. However, it is not supposed to be your only way of starting a fire, rather an alternative that you have alongside your Bic, your matches, maybe even a magnifying glass so that you always have a way to start a fire in different conditions.
When I was in college for outdoor education my survival teacher taught us one important thing. That we live in the modern world and no matter how many ways he teaches us how to start fire to make sure to use your head and always carry a Bic lighter in your pocket because yes as though adverse conditions may cause it to be harder to start if that's always in your pocket you have a guaranteed source of 3,000 lights. Not to mention they're small enough you can keep a couple on you or in different places making sure no matter what if you do end up stuck. I've gotten caught up in thinking all these different ideas and ways to start a fire that people try to sell you is going to be useful but in the end it just ends up being more clutter and unnecessary stuff to weigh you down.
If you fall through the ice the bic will likely fail when you need it most. Ferrocerium is totally reliable and longer lasting than a lighter. Both can be lost so friction methods are useful to know.
Yeah but if it gets wet one of those flint sparky sticks will be better
I could use that to make an Extra Large Lighter.
Fun fact: they used this lighter in ww2 cause if they seen the flame to your lighter. More and likely a sniper would pluck you off.
Yep. That's why '3 on a match' is bad luck. Lighting 3 cigarettes got the 3rd guy shot.
I agree that's pretty freaking cool 😎
So it's a lighter that doesn't work unless you have some other way to light it initially? Just let that sink in.
You can use the flint to char it
First time I’ve seen this. Thank you.
Mom caught me charring my wick. She told me I would go to hell.
I saw this type of thing along time ago.
It might have been in my dad's WWII Army Air Corp stuff..
Damn. Now I’m gonna have to add a couple of these to my kit.
A bic works better
@@nickgamble4544 let's say you run out of Bic fuel... You fucked now... Oh wait... I have my rope fuel.
@@forlexer pulled out another Bic. Listen you people can preach this more primitive tec all you want but the same weight I you can carry 4 lighters but better yet just carry a lighter and a fire steel. But out of all my time I've had like 2 bic lighters fail
@@nickgamble4544 don't be jealous that this thing is better then a bic lighter....lol. I can get a hundred times more use out of this then a bic.
@@miked4152 if you think so lol. Except not. Again you can preach it all you want but this is literally just a rope and flint. It's a lighter flint at that so it's not going to have longer use and again if it gets wet it's done for like it's really cool but not actually useful. Granted I'm sure you can change the flint but still let's say the bic and when I day bic I mean bic not a circle k crap lighter, but if it does run out you still have a flint that you van start fire with.
A Beatty Jet lighter is cool too.
Been collecting them for years and to shoot a flame like that on just lighter fluid is great.
These are great survival tools too.
Carry on.
That's cool and convenient 💯
I think Bic has perfected this device
Need a fire to start a fire with that.. Yea ok
trench lighter I have a couple different ones
Ah yes I need to char it with fire...
Why not just get a zippo bro
That is a pretty nifty roach clip my guy
So you need fire to make fire...
All good and well until it gets wet!
Nice
As a little kid I got a really nice trench lighter to give to my grandfather and he absolutely loved it!! He showed it of to everyone who would look! He was genuinely really happy with it . He lost it at a fair ground and he actually cried! I was like why’s my granda crying? NEVER SEEN HIM CRY BEFORE OR AFTER! Anyway THE CRAZIEST THING HAPPENED!! SOMEONE ACTUALLY FOUND THE LIGHTER AND REALISED IT WAS SO UNIQUE AND IT WAS ENGRAVED WITH THE DON AND BILLY ON IT! THE PERSON WHO FOUND IT HANDED IT IN TO LOST AND FOUND!!! LIKE IT WAS A LAST DITCH ATTEMPT TO GET IT BACK AND LOW AND BEHOLD IT WAS HANDED IN BECAUSE WE WENT TO LOST AND FOUN AND LEFT A NUMBER TO CALL AND LATER THAT DAY HE GGOT A CALL SAYING IT HAD BEEN FOUND
Pretty sure youre supposed to coat the wick with fat or grease, then soak in lighter fluid.
No, that would be messy and cause a flame and then the whole rope could light up burning your hand, this is an ember lighter, not a flame lighter.
Whats wrong with a BIC lighter?
Try using a Bic when it's below freezing and windy outside.
@@Stroke-it-2Handed
Electric BIC lighter....
Your not outside when its below freezing and windy. You will be in some kind of a shelter playing with your bic lighter.
nothing, dude ist just tryng to sell his hilarious subscription boxes
What's wrong with the spelling of the word Jungle
@@derangedpsychos8143
Jungle is the wilderness, wild,the bush...
Junglee is the one from the jungle...he lives in it.
Now go make a primitive friction fire! A la Junglee style...
Oh great! Now I can light a fire without needing a lighter! Step one: "use your lighter to char this rope."
A salty fellow Marine swore by trench lighters. He had OD Green colored rope. The rope was dual purpose. Cut sections off for the wick and the rest for bivouac tasks & securing equipment as this was during the dark time of ALICE gear.
I have something like it made by Bic. Works pretty good too.
Yeah I would never carry this thing. I mean if you're going to carry something like this you might as well just pack like 15 Bic lighters. I'm in big lighters are unstoppable. If you got like five big lighters You're good to go. I mean even when the fluid runs out you can still use the Flint the sparker the plastic to start a fire
Well that is a nifty little gadget!
Simple and effective the way I like tools!!
I like your work, looking forward to more!!!
They used these in ww1 to avoid snipers picking off poeple at night. They usually smokey back to the enemy against the trench so the open flame would iluminate the your position. 10/10 survivors said it was safer than matches
Those lighters saved a lot of dudes in trenches and foxholes head's from Sniper fire back when they were made. Crazy history behind the design of such a seemingly simple tool.
Fun fact a strand of a prison mop head ( British prisons ) used to make a perfect wick, though in some prisons they started to use different mop heads that had a coating to prevent them smoldering ( admittedly it has thankfully been a while 20+years) since I last had access to such mops and things may well have changed lol).
Mini soldiers in World War I used rope type lighters the Open Flame would give off their location to lighters which is why many British soldiers who normally Smoked Cigarettes had to switch to pipes
Wow I want one ❤️
I was in Boy Scouts in Spain. I had one of those in my kit. It was as reliable as as a zippo for lighting fires, and 20x cheaper
Those things have been around for more than a 100 years...in ww1 and 2 soldiers used them for among others things lighting their smokes...helped keep them from getting spotted by enemy snipers
I've got a Zippo that's been to more countries than most people. lolol I'm good with the Zippo. And the can of fluid takes zero space in my ruck.
Pretty cool, but my Zippo does the same thing packaged in a little rectangle. Also, I make the flame when I turn the wheel.
I've had mine for close to 5 years now and still haven't used up the rope. I don't use it a lot because I'm trying to save it for emergency purposes. I've used it to light a few tobacco pipes as well. It works like a charm. A great piece of kit in my opinion.
Last Night I Charred My *Wick* ,Got My *Wheel* Spun Too 🤠
survivalists: look at this way of starting fires, very convenient, super useful in a survival situation
Lighters: am I a joke to you?
So even if you run out of rope you'd b le able to make your own twine and keep that thing usefull for hella days. Yeah,??!?!
At home we call those lighters fuck you wind, for the more it blows, the faster it burns, totally wind proof.
or just get a few bic lighters, that contaption is literally a shitty lighter, how many bic lighters can i buy for the price of that? Not to mention when a bic lighter runs out of gas you essentially have the same device. Wrap some of that fancy twine around your lighter and you're good to go.
I got one to smoke a pipe....it works great, but you end up inhaling a bit of rope smoke, which isn't nice. I'll use it next time I'm in a crow's nest in the rain 👍
Isn't this basically just a Zippo but more complicated xd
They have a show on Netflix if y’all didn’t know
Rope match. This is what you use in a matchlock musket too. I have a piece of charred cotton rope in a .30-06 case with a 9mm on top as a cap. I use a dead lighter to spark it up
It is cool but, It’s just a more convoluted zippo…why not just get a couple zippos?
First step to start a fire use a lighter to char up your rope lighter .......? Ok got it...... Wait a minute
I have something similar to this. Actually two things similar to this one is a hemp rope that inside of a metal tube and you push it out just like yours and you can hit it with a Ferro rod. I also have a Zippo fire starter, that has tinder inside the waterproof case that floats. And all you do is put it onto a stick, roughing up the tender and light it the same way that yours works. The Zippo one was only $5.
Ummm...Dollar General doesn't sell lighters where you live?
The only problem with a lot of these is that they don't have any ways to replace the flint. At least on the cheaper ones. Just something to consider. They work great untill they get wet. I have one in a small kit kept in a Ziploc with a moisture absorber.