If you do want a tip, if you want nice oxygen flow without worrying about blocking the intake from above or beside the fire, if you dig a bit of a trench below the platform for your fire, that allows the oxygen to supply the flame from under it, along with on top and beside.
Thank you for caring about audio. People don’t realize you can have perfect video but if your audio sucks your video sucks. That makes or breaks your videos and most survivalist channels use the on board microphones
I think there are actually good things to take from this video and I appreciate the spreading of knowledge so the people posting rude comments should really just keep it to themselves
Great tips on starting damp wood. I always find dry brown/orange pine needles to start a fire. They burn super hot and don’t seem so soak all the way through ever. I will critic a tiny bit and say that if soft hands can carry a Steele around he can carry a Bic lighter just as easily and they light ALL the time. Even after getting wet. But cool wood maneuver (that’s what she said)
No real critiques here, a minor suggestion or 2 perhaps. As to the cotton ball and beeswax, I have found I prefer a cotton ball impregnated with vasolene or petroleum jelly is much easier/faster to light, and burns a long time. In fact a single cotton ball with vasolene could have replaced your poplar bark. Catch's a spark as well, burns longer, and is more waterproof if actually doing it in the rain. Not that I am not all in favor of using natural materials where possible. The other option would be to have some fatwood in your kit and make a silver dollar pile sized pile of fatwood shavings and fire that up. Again virtually waterproof, fast easy ignition, and a long lasting start to your fire. As to processing the wood, awesome job, and great explanation/illustration. Keep making good video's please! Bill in Fargo, North Dakota
Owned, lol. But, not really, just very cold and snowy, the only problem is the country is so diverse in climate and fuel sources, everyone owes it to themselves to be able to walk from their house 10 miles, sit down and think, if you needed heat to survive right now, how would you do it. Yes, in pouring rain, know fuel sources and huddle down. Have your go to flint, tindercatch, tinder, kindling, fuel. All there is to it. Firebending/craft is just that, dependent on your location and your tindercatch, I think. Very well produced.
not necessarily, I've seen wood chip piles, smoldering in the rain. All about awareness of the chemicals involved. Turpenes are gonna burn regardless of the humidity because it depends on the fumes evaporating. Also depends on your initiator. Plus, if you'd cover your fuel and initiator, you'd be fine. All good, burn on.
Very good video man.. I like how you took the time to actually explain and show people how the process goes down most videos are way to complicated and do not show in detail.. Good job You did a great job on this one
I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but with your chosen materials, I would've wrapped the cotton with the tulip poplar bark, laid it at the base of the fire, have your feather sticks over that and when you lit the tinder bundle, the initial flames would already be lighting up your feathers. It'd be a no-touch fire outside of stacking on your kindling afterwards. One it's lit, the last thing one wants to do is to maneuver it around. It should be stationary. The only parts of a fire being moved around after first flame should only be your feathers, kindling and fuel. Also, I definitely would've processed a few of those kindling sticks down to pencil sized so that when you placed them over our initial fire, there'd be far less chance for you so smother it. One more tip, spreading the logs underneath a little more right under your flame would've allow for a lot more airflow once the flame started to take off. It's going to suck that air right up. on it's own. Worst case scenario, it would've also have allowed you a channel for you to blow air into it without having to put your face close to the fire. I dig a trench in the ground towards my tinder base as well. JM2¢ :)
Your calm demeanour helped me learn from you. If a shelter were built first, and the fire pit created inside... then the heavy rains would not reach the fire and hunching would not be needed...
I had absolutely no luck getting a fire started last night while camping because literally everything was moist from all the rain we've been getting lately and I had no idea how to get my coals hot enough to burn the damp wood I had. Glad I found this video so that doesn't happen again! Thanks!
Awesome thank you. I enjoyed it pretty much anybody can start a fire but you. Have to practice each one of these details to be succesfull. Get out there and try it untill you succeed the time will come when you do need a fire and you will survive. 🔥
You guys consistently have videos with the highest production value I've seen on youtube. Especially for this subject matter. The editing in the beginning of this was great! This skill is great to know as well.
Everyone seems to be a pro and judge you. But i liked the video Krik and enjoy all your videos. The quality and content are always top notch and hope you keep them coming.
When you say wet you must mean something different from my term wet. I recently got hypothermia because I didnt know how to start a fire in a down pour. I eventually found an over hanging cliff and made a fire out of paper and small dry wood under rocks I found.
I like how you talk about getting under natural cover in a dry or at least not as wet area and then use your body to protect the dry tender (not everyone is carrying a tarp) , most people don't even mention this and if raining it it absolutely imperative to protect the tinder or you will just wind up wet cold and very frustrated.Good video - Thanks
halfwayuphill You're welcome. I was planning on the weather to be worse when we filmed this video. But for some reason, it was sunny. Go figure. I hope to shoot this video again when the weather is terrible. But, we have to figure out a way to protect the camera during that. Thanks for watching. -Krik
really appreciate the vid. I'll never carry a fire stick because I'll always have a lighter, but I really liked they way you broke down the fire construction.
I have found that if your original wedge uses longer sticks, you can lift the entire kindling bundle off the fire to open up air intake and have built in control. Love your videos.
Great demo and thanks for keeping real. One thing I have done is to place vertical pieces of very small kindling in between the horizontal pieces. I promotes the fire to climb and keeps the kindling being stacked so there is not any airflow.
The base part really works well. What I did differently was I used like a dry grass I found, and laid it across the base. I used paper cause I had it, (could replace with feather sticks) on top of the grass, and then kindling, and then fuel. Light the dry grass and it all ignites across the base. Worked really well.
holy crap dude! amazing camera work and cinematics!!! felt like the woods were sending me a junior high love note! way to inspire me and make me feel totally amateur at the same time! that takes skill! love it!
Step one) Wait till it stops raining. Step two) collect wood Step three) Peel off outside wet bark. Step four ) Make a fire the way you do with dry wood. Using your back to prevent the rain from getting on your wood. Genius.
Love the video, helped me a lot actually this last weekend when camping in the rain. Of course, it was not to your level of perfection in terms of splitting, but once we finally got the wood chopped down and collected the chips for kindling, we had the fire going in just a couple of minutes. But I cheat a little in the starting with something I learned by accident. I bring along one of those little catering pan heaters that is a gel base, I just dip the end of a twig in there and light it with a lighter, then put it in my base. But, I've used it on several fires already and this one can is still going strong. Heavier on a single occasion fire attempt, but has sustainable use over time without having to be constantly searching for or making new fire starting kits. Another thing I did, that I might get your take on was that I put a couple of non-chopped wet logs under the split log base on the assumption that the embers would just dry them out. Seemed to work pretty well. Do you foresee any difficulties that might occur with this, if conditions were worse?
+Sailor On The Trail That's a pretty good idea though. Glad you found some useful info in our videos! As for your question - I could see some problems with using whole wet logs on the base. If you didn't process your wood that much to begin with, those wet logs would greatly hurt your chances of starting a fire. But with processed wood, the fire has a chance to get roaring from the get go. So in sum, if you don't process your wood that much, I'd be careful using those wet logs on the base. If you do have nicely processed wood, then wet logs shouldn't really matter.
The back biting is just ridiculous. I think it is a fine video and I thank you for demonstrating these techniques. Very good video and very useful. I understand you're doing this in improving conditions (you said so) but also walking us through if it were raining here is what I'd do. I don't need to see you sopping wet and miserable to understand that if it were raining it might take a bit longer to get the fire going. Thank you to sharing. ~Sherrie from South Carolina
Good production, video quality and editing. I think you picked to nice a day for wet weather fire making tutorial. I like the feather sticks over twig bundle and I also prefer my hatchet - use it in place of my knife most times. Perhaps a tutorial on tinder bundle creation in wet and dry conditions - no bees wax, pitch or Vaseline.
Guys your best bet is to always have a small tinder and fatwood kit kit at hand because you never know when you might need it. Stay prepared! If you can get a fire going hot enough then from there you can dry wet logs pretty quickly. There’s an old country saying, always keep a fire going!
Amazing video my friend. i realy enjoy your chanal, its real down to earth and back to basics skills. you can see this is a passion for you and its great to watch. Much respect my friend
I saw a fella in a swamp, cut a standing dead tree, about 3 inches at the base, cut it in about 20 inch lengths, keeping it all dry. Then lashed all of the wood together, to form a pestle. then made his fire on top, cooking bacon all done in 6 inches of water . really well done...
Nice video. I would like to comment on one thing though. Rather than moving your initial flame, move and add the feather sticks and kindling to the flame. You almost put out your initial flame twice due to moving it.
Very good technique, nice woodsmanship. I couldn't agree more about using and having a hand ax with you. I know knives have been designed to take a pounding while batoning but it goes against all of my training to do so. Your knife is your single most critical survival tool. To risk damaging your knife is foolish in my own opinion. I would only ever do so if I had two or more belt knives and no ax available and fire was critical. JMHO. Good video and sound. Keep up the excellent work.
Great Video! I liked how toward the end you critiqued yourself and asked for viewer critiques as well. That's cool. It sets the mood that we are all learning together. I am obsessive about fire lighting in bushcraft. I spend a lot of time preparing to light a fire, and in the northeast where we get lots of rain and snow, that preparation is often a necessity. My friends joke that the only reason I camp is for the lighting and maintenance of fire. In wet conditions I would have a bigger tinder bundle, kindling pile, and fuel wood pile already made. Depending on how long you were staying with the fire, such as if this was a small fire to cook lunch on during a hike, or if this was preparing to turn in for the night, the prep is entirely different. Great Video. Keep it up. Seems like bushcraft channels are thinning out these days and I'm glad to see you sticking with it.
Very helpful as always... love your videos and reviews. Keep em coming. That said I also keep in my fire starting kit: jute and beeswax coated jute. I also carry at all times first aid which include cotton balls and petroleum jelly (in a handy small squeeze tube) when combined have worked for me in wet conditions.
This is quite a misleading video. A lot of the principles you talk about are good but when conditions are truly wet it can be very difficult to get a fire going. The conditions you were working in were a bit damp at most. People are going to be very disheartened when practicing these techniques when they find it extremely difficult to get a fire going. It’s not that you did anything wrong but you could have been a bit more honest on just how “wet” everything was.
2 questions how long have you had that hatchet it looks beautiful and what kind of knife is that I love the mirrored Edge on it no doubt stropped amazingly!?!?
Hey man your content is really informative, well explained, and the production is really nicely to watch. Starting from the clean video to the crispy sound and the smooth edits.
Laundry lint,,and a mag fire starter is what i,use...works great,,5 mins and if got a fire..also I always have lighter knot pine pitch with me..just a,little bit is all you need
I personally like the platform fire in which you have a base of wood going one direction, then another level going the other direction and so on. The base contains the thickest pieces and then progressively thinner levels above. I then light my fire on the top. The fire works its way down. That method is the least fussy fire. Light it and forget it. You don't need to tend it for hours depending on the size of wood you use on the levels.
IV fafed around with all the cram balls , feather sticks and cotton wool but I just found it easyer to strip up birch bark put a firer steel to it and put it under more solid bigger bits of birch bark then buying my kindling on and so on hope u find this useful 👌
Love watching your videos and the beginning of this video was awesome! love what you have done with the montage of clips and the lovely music, keep up the good work!
What a fantastically shot, mesmerising film! Your delivery is very relaxing - I just want to go to sleep now - in a good way! Thanks! (I'd have put the larger wood on little sooner mind, as there was quite a bit of heat wasted... each to there own though.)
A old bike or car inner tube will burn in wet conditions if cut into thin strips, the rubber burning will dry the small pieces of wet sticks etc. If your have a steel then you would have a lighter would you not?.
Great video and thanks for sharing Krik. Two questions that I hope you don't mind answering. Will you confirm what silky saw you are using in this video along with what knife you are using to make your feathering. Have the same hatchet but knowing the other two would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - KC
Here in WA State, this time of year, nearly all the downed wood is soaked to the core. The best you can do is find dead branches that are semi-protected and start those with the smallest twigs you can find. Then spend the rest of the night blowing on the smoldering branches to get them to flame again.
Great fire demo, i also use and keep wax impregnated cotton in my fire kit, i find if you break it open and expose the inner fibers of the cotton it can take a spark from the firesteel pretty easily on its own. Love the channel and vids, cheers!
That's what that was at one point. But some of the wax covered cotton balls soaked up too much wax and were completely impregnated. This was a smashed sliver of one of those. I have since made more. Thanks for watching. -Krik
And I agree with Bill from the Dakotas' about the vasoline soaked cotton balls burning great but if one is in a bind learning to use pine tree sap or pitch is a life saver also...
to make a more usefull tool of the hatchet wrap the handle big enough for a good grip right up to the head. If necessary file down and sharp corners where you grip. Make the sheath hole bigger to take the handle if necessary. The hatchet can be used for the feather stick and other carving and shaping with a good comfortable grip. I buy hatchets with a straighter edge and a wooden handle for that reason.
I really like the firm grip gloves... The cheapy ones... The ones that come orange grey and black pairs clip together I take my trustee folding scissors and carefully remove the wrist elastic so I can get them on and off was less struggle... back when road construction Crews lit kerosene smudge pots instead of electric lights to warn drivers away from unfinished pavement... We used to ride a motorcycle into the woods and set up camp... We take one of the pots and pour some of the kerosene on wood... that stuff a light anyting
If you do want a tip, if you want nice oxygen flow without worrying about blocking the intake from above or beside the fire, if you dig a bit of a trench below the platform for your fire, that allows the oxygen to supply the flame from under it, along with on top and beside.
You should make video
Thank you for caring about audio. People don’t realize you can have perfect video but if your audio sucks your video sucks. That makes or breaks your videos and most survivalist channels use the on board microphones
I think there are actually good things to take from this video and I appreciate the spreading of knowledge so the people posting rude comments should really just keep it to themselves
Great tips on starting damp wood.
I always find dry brown/orange pine needles to start a fire. They burn super hot and don’t seem so soak all the way through ever.
I will critic a tiny bit and say that if soft hands can carry a Steele around he can carry a Bic lighter just as easily and they light ALL the time. Even after getting wet. But cool wood maneuver (that’s what she said)
I almost exclusively use a log cabin type of fire build and it has never once failed me
No real critiques here, a minor suggestion or 2 perhaps.
As to the cotton ball and beeswax, I have found I prefer a cotton ball impregnated with vasolene or petroleum jelly is much easier/faster to light, and burns a long time. In fact a single cotton ball with vasolene could have replaced your poplar bark. Catch's a spark as well, burns longer, and is more waterproof if actually doing it in the rain.
Not that I am not all in favor of using natural materials where possible.
The other option would be to have some fatwood in your kit and make a silver dollar pile sized pile of fatwood shavings and fire that up. Again virtually waterproof, fast easy ignition, and a long lasting start to your fire.
As to processing the wood, awesome job, and great explanation/illustration.
Keep making good video's please!
Bill in Fargo, North Dakota
can you do one actually when the rain is pissing it down please
+Leon Rowe th-cam.com/video/E8mbbsOPR-c/w-d-xo.html&lc=z12acnfattahhnvoo04cj1ghzxqrdjdweq40k
Owned, lol. But, not really, just very cold and snowy, the only problem is the country is so diverse in climate and fuel sources, everyone owes it to themselves to be able to walk from their house 10 miles, sit down and think, if you needed heat to survive right now, how would you do it. Yes, in pouring rain, know fuel sources and huddle down. Have your go to flint, tindercatch, tinder, kindling, fuel. All there is to it. Firebending/craft is just that, dependent on your location and your tindercatch, I think. Very well produced.
Haha, you almost failed, even with all your studio perfect set-up. You woulda been F-d if it had actually been WET😊
not necessarily, I've seen wood chip piles, smoldering in the rain. All about awareness of the chemicals involved. Turpenes are gonna burn regardless of the humidity because it depends on the fumes evaporating. Also depends on your initiator. Plus, if you'd cover your fuel and initiator, you'd be fine. All good, burn on.
Sassy Sasquatch haha you fucking druggo
Beautiful fire. Good job!!
Very good video man.. I like how you took the time to actually explain and show people how the process goes down most videos are way to complicated and do not show in detail.. Good job
You did a great job on this one
This video you can use in any weather condition.. It works
I'm sure it's been mentioned already, but with your chosen materials, I would've wrapped the cotton with the tulip poplar bark, laid it at the base of the fire, have your feather sticks over that and when you lit the tinder bundle, the initial flames would already be lighting up your feathers.
It'd be a no-touch fire outside of stacking on your kindling afterwards. One it's lit, the last thing one wants to do is to maneuver it around. It should be stationary. The only parts of a fire being moved around after first flame should only be your feathers, kindling and fuel.
Also, I definitely would've processed a few of those kindling sticks down to pencil sized so that when you placed them over our initial fire, there'd be far less chance for you so smother it.
One more tip, spreading the logs underneath a little more right under your flame would've allow for a lot more airflow once the flame started to take off. It's going to suck that air right up. on it's own. Worst case scenario, it would've also have allowed you a channel for you to blow air into it without having to put your face close to the fire. I dig a trench in the ground towards my tinder base as well.
JM2¢
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In the first minute my mind just went "Woah..." That quality is soooo good! Your cameraman is talented! Those scenes were simply amazing!
(Including everything after those 1 minute) :)
Your calm demeanour helped me learn from you. If a shelter were built first, and the fire pit created inside... then the heavy rains would not reach the fire and hunching would not be needed...
i like that you showed exactly what you were doing the hole time with an emphasis on your hands
I had absolutely no luck getting a fire started last night while camping because literally everything was moist from all the rain we've been getting lately and I had no idea how to get my coals hot enough to burn the damp wood I had. Glad I found this video so that doesn't happen again! Thanks!
I did the same thing once... almost died from smoke inhalation... fortunately I finally prevailed when wood dried out enough to burn... lol
Awesome thank you. I enjoyed it pretty much anybody can start a fire but you. Have to practice each one of these details to be succesfull. Get out there and try it untill you succeed the time will come when you do need a fire and you will survive. 🔥
You guys consistently have videos with the highest production value I've seen on youtube. Especially for this subject matter. The editing in the beginning of this was great! This skill is great to know as well.
looks real wet.... title should say "making a fire in perfect conditions with every tool know to man". actually shocked you didnt use gas.
+Atwan Johnson th-cam.com/video/E8mbbsOPR-c/w-d-xo.html&lc=z12acnfattahhnvoo04cj1ghzxqrdjdweq40k
+Atwan Johnson No shit!
beat me to it
Atwan Johnson Bahahahahaha!! Right
To funny. Lol
I love seeing that hatchet!
Everyone seems to be a pro and judge you. But i liked the video Krik and enjoy all your videos. The quality and content are always top notch and hope you keep them coming.
When you say wet you must mean something different from my term wet. I recently got hypothermia because I didnt know how to start a fire in a down pour. I eventually found an over hanging cliff and made a fire out of paper and small dry wood under rocks I found.
Video or it didnt happen😁
Just kidding, glad that youbhave survived
Thanks a lot it helps to know how to start a fire especially for new comers. Thanks
Thanks for taking the time to film, edit and post your video, guys....always good to be reminded of the basics.
God bless!
Beautiful gear, sir.
I like how you talk about getting under natural cover in a dry or at least not as wet area and then use your body to protect the dry tender (not everyone is carrying a tarp) , most people don't even mention this and if raining it it absolutely imperative to protect the tinder or you will just wind up wet cold and very frustrated.Good video - Thanks
halfwayuphill You're welcome. I was planning on the weather to be worse when we filmed this video. But for some reason, it was sunny. Go figure. I hope to shoot this video again when the weather is terrible. But, we have to figure out a way to protect the camera during that. Thanks for watching. -Krik
really appreciate the vid. I'll never carry a fire stick because I'll always have a lighter, but I really liked they way you broke down the fire construction.
Thanks for sharing though, I do get it that you said the rain stop.
I have found that if your original wedge uses longer sticks, you can lift the entire kindling bundle off the fire to open up air intake and have built in control. Love your videos.
Enjoying your videos, guys. Going through your entire channel this week.
That is the cleanest burning fire Ive ever seen, Now I understand how to properly use feather sticks.
Great demo and thanks for keeping real. One thing I have done is to place vertical pieces of very small kindling in between the horizontal pieces. I promotes the fire to climb and keeps the kindling being stacked so there is not any airflow.
The base part really works well. What I did differently was I used like a dry grass I found, and laid it across the base. I used paper cause I had it, (could replace with feather sticks) on top of the grass, and then kindling, and then fuel. Light the dry grass and it all ignites across the base. Worked really well.
holy crap dude! amazing camera work and cinematics!!! felt like the woods were sending me a junior high love note! way to inspire me and make me feel totally amateur at the same time! that takes skill! love it!
Great to see the Estwing doing some work
It sure does work well, considering its price and all.
Step one) Wait till it stops raining.
Step two) collect wood
Step three) Peel off outside wet bark.
Step four ) Make a fire the way you do with dry wood.
Using your back to prevent the rain from getting on your wood. Genius.
Love the video, helped me a lot actually this last weekend when camping in the rain. Of course, it was not to your level of perfection in terms of splitting, but once we finally got the wood chopped down and collected the chips for kindling, we had the fire going in just a couple of minutes. But I cheat a little in the starting with something I learned by accident. I bring along one of those little catering pan heaters that is a gel base, I just dip the end of a twig in there and light it with a lighter, then put it in my base. But, I've used it on several fires already and this one can is still going strong. Heavier on a single occasion fire attempt, but has sustainable use over time without having to be constantly searching for or making new fire starting kits.
Another thing I did, that I might get your take on was that I put a couple of non-chopped wet logs under the split log base on the assumption that the embers would just dry them out. Seemed to work pretty well. Do you foresee any difficulties that might occur with this, if conditions were worse?
+Sailor On The Trail That's a pretty good idea though. Glad you found some useful info in our videos! As for your question - I could see some problems with using whole wet logs on the base. If you didn't process your wood that much to begin with, those wet logs would greatly hurt your chances of starting a fire. But with processed wood, the fire has a chance to get roaring from the get go. So in sum, if you don't process your wood that much, I'd be careful using those wet logs on the base. If you do have nicely processed wood, then wet logs shouldn't really matter.
Love the idea of the feather wood. Learned something so, thumbs up!
The only TH-cam video that split wood on the side rather than upright. It is a safer method and I used this method, but with a parang
Adrian J Nyaoi wth is a parang
Google it. Lol
The back biting is just ridiculous. I think it is a fine video and I thank you for demonstrating these techniques. Very good video and very useful. I understand you're doing this in improving conditions (you said so) but also walking us through if it were raining here is what I'd do. I don't need to see you sopping wet and miserable to understand that if it were raining it might take a bit longer to get the fire going. Thank you to sharing. ~Sherrie from South Carolina
All I ever use when camping Is a handful of pine needles & a few pieces of small wood, it works like using gasoline every time.
Good production, video quality and editing. I think you picked to nice a day for wet weather fire making tutorial. I like the feather sticks over twig bundle and I also prefer my hatchet - use it in place of my knife most times. Perhaps a tutorial on tinder bundle creation in wet and dry conditions - no bees wax, pitch or Vaseline.
Guys your best bet is to always have a small tinder and fatwood kit kit at hand because you never know when you might need it. Stay prepared! If you can get a fire going hot enough then from there you can dry wet logs pretty quickly. There’s an old country saying, always keep a fire going!
Thanks for telling use this, it worked and I have proof it works, I live in the Pacific northwest
the hardest test of making fire is the coast at the sea during winter,its just brutal to get anything going there,i learned alot from that
I agree. Here up North with all that winds at at least 5bft to 6bft firemaking can become quite a task.
Amazing video my friend. i realy enjoy your chanal, its real down to earth and back to basics skills. you can see this is a passion for you and its great to watch. Much respect my friend
+christian taylor Thanks Christian.
Excellent video quality. Professional, really.
I’m no turtle....
... Imma tortoise! 🐢🐢🐢
I saw a fella in a swamp, cut a standing dead tree, about 3 inches at the base, cut it in about 20 inch lengths, keeping it all dry. Then lashed all of the wood together, to form a pestle. then made his fire on top, cooking bacon all done in 6 inches of water
. really well done...
Not only was this video very informative, it was also stunningly well-edited! Thanks for posting; subsrcibed
Angela C. Thanks for subscribing Angela. Welcome!
You did fine. Thank you for your time!!😊
1:30 ish Damn! the mirror on that blade!!!! Respect.
Nice video. I would like to comment on one thing though.
Rather than moving your initial flame, move and add the feather sticks and kindling to the flame. You almost put out your initial flame twice due to moving it.
Nice job, I like to use a large piece of aluminum foil as my hearth. It helps reflect the heat back up. Keep up the awesome work.
Very nice video. The music at the beginning matched the tone of the video perfectly.
thanks Dan! - stony
Very good technique, nice woodsmanship. I couldn't agree more about using and having a hand ax with you. I know knives have been designed to take a pounding while batoning but it goes against all of my training to do so. Your knife is your single most critical survival tool. To risk damaging your knife is foolish in my own opinion. I would only ever do so if I had two or more belt knives and no ax available and fire was critical. JMHO. Good video and sound. Keep up the excellent work.
Great Video! I liked how toward the end you critiqued yourself and asked for viewer critiques as well. That's cool. It sets the mood that we are all learning together. I am obsessive about fire lighting in bushcraft. I spend a lot of time preparing to light a fire, and in the northeast where we get lots of rain and snow, that preparation is often a necessity. My friends joke that the only reason I camp is for the lighting and maintenance of fire.
In wet conditions I would have a bigger tinder bundle, kindling pile, and fuel wood pile already made. Depending on how long you were staying with the fire, such as if this was a small fire to cook lunch on during a hike, or if this was preparing to turn in for the night, the prep is entirely different.
Great Video. Keep it up. Seems like bushcraft channels are thinning out these days and I'm glad to see you sticking with it.
Very helpful as always... love your videos and reviews. Keep em coming.
That said I also keep in my fire starting kit: jute and beeswax coated jute. I also carry at all times first aid which include cotton balls and petroleum jelly (in a handy small squeeze tube) when combined have worked for me in wet conditions.
I am just impressed that you can start a fire when everything is "wet". Instead of the wax on cotton wouldn't Vaseline work better to start a fire?
great video! great advice! I'll have more things to try on my next wet outing!
+The Apprentice Thanks buddy!
This is quite a misleading video. A lot of the principles you talk about are good but when conditions are truly wet it can be very difficult to get a fire going. The conditions you were working in were a bit damp at most. People are going to be very disheartened when practicing these techniques when they find it extremely difficult to get a fire going. It’s not that you did anything wrong but you could have been a bit more honest on just how “wet” everything was.
2 questions how long have you had that hatchet it looks beautiful and what kind of knife is that I love the mirrored Edge on it no doubt stropped amazingly!?!?
Hey man your content is really informative, well explained, and the production is really nicely to watch. Starting from the clean video to the crispy sound and the smooth edits.
Very good instructions. Thanks for posting this video!
Laundry lint,,and a mag fire starter is what i,use...works great,,5 mins and if got a fire..also I always have lighter knot pine pitch with me..just a,little bit is all you need
I'm really impressed with Your base lay-out.
Thanks so much.. It's been difficult setting fire. This helps alot
nice gloves! do you have a matching pair of safety goggles.
This is a really good video for a video titled “Starting a fire with wet wood”
I learned how to make a fire! Thank you!
I personally like the platform fire in which you have a base of wood going one direction, then another level going the other direction and so on. The base contains the thickest pieces and then progressively thinner levels above. I then light my fire on the top. The fire works its way down. That method is the least fussy fire. Light it and forget it. You don't need to tend it for hours depending on the size of wood you use on the levels.
IV fafed around with all the cram balls , feather sticks and cotton wool but I just found it easyer to strip up birch bark put a firer steel to it and put it under more solid bigger bits of birch bark then buying my kindling on and so on hope u find this useful 👌
I personally use a big log behind my base to lean the kindling to. It gets lit after a while and keeps the fire going nice and hot
A smokeless fire you have going there, good distribution of oxygen - nice.
Love watching your videos and the beginning of this video was awesome! love what you have done with the montage of clips and the lovely music, keep up the good work!
Good tips guys!
Thanks man.
What a fantastically shot, mesmerising film! Your delivery is very relaxing - I just want to go to sleep now - in a good way! Thanks! (I'd have put the larger wood on little sooner mind, as there was quite a bit of heat wasted... each to there own though.)
I really like the cinematography - subscribed. :) How many cameramen/camerawomen do you have with you?
9:30 you pull out dry tender that you had saved in a tin!
I like youuu! Learning all this outdoor knowledge lately, thank you so much for sharing!
hey! what is the name of the folding saw you are using? and would you recommend it? :)
A well put together video with some useful tips and tricks. Thank you for sharing!
good post my friend, I subbed, all the best.
great demonstration of building a fire in the rain . all the wood is dried, and there is no rain! LOL
+Omar Samad This video was about principles and theory. Watch this for the real deal - th-cam.com/video/E8mbbsOPR-c/w-d-xo.html
A old bike or car inner tube will burn in wet conditions if cut into thin strips, the rubber burning will dry the small pieces of wet sticks etc.
If your have a steel then you would have a lighter would you not?.
Hahaha i think the same.. Bring the lighter , light the rubber ...
Outstanding informative video... Gracias
I subscribed in the first 2 minutes of this video
Great video and thanks for sharing Krik. Two questions that I hope you don't mind answering. Will you confirm what silky saw you are using in this video along with what knife you are using to make your feathering. Have the same hatchet but knowing the other two would be greatly appreciated. Thanks - KC
First! Great video Krik!
Here in WA State, this time of year, nearly all the downed wood is soaked to the core. The best you can do is find dead branches that are semi-protected and start those with the smallest twigs you can find. Then spend the rest of the night blowing on the smoldering branches to get them to flame again.
No chit... been there... lol
Good video. I think you covered all the bases.
Great fire demo, i also use and keep wax impregnated cotton in my fire kit, i find if you break it open and expose the inner fibers of the cotton it can take a spark from the firesteel pretty easily on its own. Love the channel and vids, cheers!
That's what that was at one point. But some of the wax covered cotton balls soaked up too much wax and were completely impregnated. This was a smashed sliver of one of those. I have since made more. Thanks for watching. -Krik
I found that it works best if you allow the wax to cool some before you dip the cotton in it. That way it doesn't turn them into wax rocks. Ha. -Krik
Look at the bright side... you can eat the wax when you don't get a fire going... lol
That was a cool lesson. In the rain...
And I agree with Bill from the Dakotas' about the vasoline soaked cotton balls burning great but if one is in a bind learning to use pine tree sap or pitch is a life saver also...
to make a more usefull tool of the hatchet wrap the handle big enough for a good grip right up to the head. If necessary file down and sharp corners where you grip. Make the sheath hole bigger to take the handle if necessary. The hatchet can be used for the feather stick and other carving and shaping with a good comfortable grip. I buy hatchets with a straighter edge and a wooden handle for that reason.
I really like the firm grip gloves... The cheapy ones... The ones that come orange grey and black pairs clip together I take my trustee folding scissors and carefully remove the wrist elastic so I can get them on and off was less struggle... back when road construction Crews lit kerosene smudge pots instead of electric lights to warn drivers away from unfinished pavement... We used to ride a motorcycle into the woods and set up camp... We take one of the pots and pour some of the kerosene on wood... that stuff a light anyting
You guys do such good work...
TacticalLumberjack thank you kindly! - stony
Thanks for the video! Very helpful & much appreciated.
you are absolutely correct split the wood to get to the dryer wood beneath and a feather stick is a good way
Very thorough. Thanks
You need to be as patient as you recommend for us to be when the fire itself is getting started. That is why being prepared is so important, right?
Great video, thanks for sharing!!!