Ten Best Survival Fire Starting Methods
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Awesome video!
Thank you for taking the time to teach the world on the different aspects of the craft. Not just on this video but on all the other ones that you have created. Good job!
Excellent video. I’m glad to see your channel taking off. You should have a lot more viewers with the quality content you’re delivering.
Really good knowledge to have. Thank you for passing this along!
Great presentation, I've used these methods but never saw the bamboo fire starting. Thanks.
Very good. Thank you very much
Awesome video! Love the Colorado tee! Thanks for the knowledge god bless
Respect to you for mastering and showing us how to achieve these techniques.
Jack of many trades, master of none. I appreciate that, though!
Love to watch hand drill fire. Thanks for sharing that brother
Superb!
Outstanding
Great demos Joshua! Extremely well versed in these methods and I don't foresee you going cold in your camp anytime soon :)
Thanks, Matt! I do like to keep warm, brother!
Awesome video brother
One Foot In The Wild thanks bro!
For a more deliberate air blow using a straw give it a concentrated effect
a 9v battery works great with steel wool, just jam it on the connections for a second and its going
Works great with an 8 1/2 by 11 inch page magnifier too...poof....
Fire is Man’s only magic. Prometheus would be proud! Awesome tutorials on multiple methods.
Blacksmiths were the first "magicians" those who knew fire and iron...and steel...😀its all interconnected...rust is slow oxidation...burning is fast oxidation. Fire, water, wood, steel...sword, knife...and the steel without care returns to the "fire and water" that gave it.
I like the demonstration of different techniques, but it demonstrate ideal solution. You have your tools and tinder nice and ready.
It would be great to show the available fire starting techniques under not ideal circumstances. I would like to see the answer on questions such:
What if is raining, everything is wet and I don't have a tinder or any tool (not even a knife)?
How to find the right tinder and right wood to make a fire? How to find and make the right tool for making a fire? What wood to use? What other materials are available to be used as tinder? How to protect the fire against the rain? What if I am drenched and have to make the fire as quickly as possible? What in the winter when is cold and snow?
Once is one able to make the fire in the adverse weather condition and without prepared fire kit, you can do it almost anytime and anywhere.
every survival expert understands when it rain, go to McDonald
Can't use a bowdrill...CP...so I use a fire piston...those things are so cool and easy...once you figure out ember picks are not a necessary thing.
Really good video! I like that you demonstrate these methods in nature instead of your backyard. Hopefully this encourages others to get out of their backyards and practice these methods in nature. So tired of these hobbyist videos. I'll send you a few more views.
Agreed. Its good to practice, but once you're comfortable its time to take it to the next level. Going beyond the backyard builds real skill.
Right on, I appreciate that toe funk 1! I have done a few things in the back yard to keep the skills going but there really is no substitute for being in the woods (and filming there is a good excuse for me to go to them)
facksnack that is the truth, backyard practice is one thing, but you have to go apply it out in the wild and continue to push your own limits and skills
Joshua Enyart What a humble likable guy. Subbed! :)
facksnack Agreed! Subbed too ;)
Great video!
I didn’t consider myself a real mountain man until I could make fire with a bow drill.
As for the hand drill, I haven’t tried it yet, but I’ve been told that a short piece of paracord with loops on the ends works well if you put your thumbs in the loops and run the cord over a notch the top of the drill. Then you can apply constant downward pressure on the board. I was wondering if you have tried this or if you know if it is viable.
That's a great idea. Thanks for sharing
Im definitely focusing on this year hand drill and fire plow for fire. I definitely want to take a few courses at your flint and steel courses in the future along with the off grid medics courses. Im hoping to some day become a rural physician in the future before i become a senior citizen. Im currently and phlebotomist and a medical assistant, with adhd go figure lol.
Come on out! Would love to have you. Fire plow is a challenging one in that I have never found the proper materials for it here in the eastern woodlands. I look forward to giving that one a run out West soon. The fire thong is another that I don't have access to the right material for but want to try it.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret im in rural central Alabama still assimilating to the woods out here im still figuring out here to what burns best out here. I originally from norcal
Here on the great plains we use cow dung since the buffalo no longer run as free as they use to, can also use deer scat.
This is the survival version of a Jordan highlights reel. ✊🏾👨🏾🦲 #Reapect
Fire piston if you have one handy.
would've never thought of using rabbit crap 🔥
Just about any dried poop, or just barely damp smoulders and works well. Chicken poop is fertilizer...which can be combined with other things to create fire as well
What material(s) did you use for the hand drill? I've yet to produce an ember with one. Bow drill, yes...put myself on the spot recently starting a fire for a bbq with friends.....lol
Successful(*whew*)
I think this combo was yucca spindle on a cedar hearthboard. I have a handful of species that I like to use, all more or less interchangeable depending on what is out on this particular landscape I am on
How do u get the circular hole in the wood for the bow drill and stick method
Watch my video on "Complete Bow Drill for Beginners"
Which side of the knife did you use to strike the stone ?
Always the spine, never the edge
Hey Josh,
I’m puzzled by a couple of things, and hoping you can help me to understand them better...
First up, in every single friction fire I’ve ever seen you or anyone else do, there’s the crucial step of bringing, finding or making a flat surface for the ember to land on or be transferred onto from the hearth board, before being oh-so-gingerly transferred from there into the tinder bundle. Given that most folks are likely to be a little jittery after all the effort involved in the process of creating that ember (and risk dropping it, in between Point A and Point B), why wouldn’t you just put the tinder bundle directly underneath the hearth board and knock the ember directly onto it?
And second, do you carry fatwood with you, as a part of any of your fire kits? I always have, both when camping, in my EDC bag, car kit and camping/BOB, but I only rarely see it, green (resinous) conifer needles or sap, or birch bark being stressed very often as absolute mandatories for prepping videos. If you’re cold & damp and need heat _now_, wouldn’t that be as much of a no-brainer as a waterproof shelter?
And, last but not least (though probably most resourceful of all), given its oiliness and constant presence in our lives, wouldn’t you think using ear wax on Q-tips would make the easiest and most sensible emergency tinder to carry?
Many thanks, as always, for your exceptional content.
There are a few reasons we don't go directly onto the tinder bundle and we go onto a flat coal catcher. Most importantly, the dust has not formed a fused coal in the beginning and will not form that coal if it is not confined and given time to do so. The notch shape coupled with the flat surface creates a small confined space for the dust to collect. That is a separate step from ever lighting that dust. The dust lights on the very top edge of the pile, the board is removed and that introduces more air, and time is given for the dust to fuse into a more solid coal before ever transferring it. Placing it on top of the tinder bundle directly would cause all the dust to fall down into all the nooks and crannies and you would never get that pile until all of those nooks and crannies were filled and then dust started falling on top of that (essentially until you've filled it into a flat surface that the dust can collect on like we do with the coal catcher). You would also be putting your weight on the hearth board as you are creating friction and that smashes the tinder bundle which is also counter-productive as you need air circulation for that portion. Anyway, the amount of time a person has between igniting the dust pile and actually having a fused coal to transfer is typically between 5-15 minutes. It should not be transferred until a coal the size of your pinky nail is visible (maybe even the thumbnail if its a large pile). That is also time to settle down and get your breathing and heart rate back down, there is no hurry like many folks think. If you transfer before having that coal fusion, the dust will scatter all through your tinder bundle and you will likely not get the fire. On the flip side of that, I have dropped coals that were properly fused to the proper size and they didn't fall apart and I was able to pick them up and still get the fire. I believe that was actually captured when I did the bow drill natural cordage video. The coal fell over and I just picked up half of it and got the fire.
I do carry a stick of fat wood with me in every kit. If you watch my Possibles Pouch video or really any of my fire kit videos you will see it in there (I don't think it is in my BOB video fire kit). Matter of fact, most everyone I know carries a stick of fat wood somewhere.
I think that earwax and q-tips would work. I have never tested it, but doubt that it would outperform the fire tabs or the mini-infernos I carry for emergency tinder as far as length of burn time. When I think emergency tinder, I think of being able to light it with a lighter, matches, or ferro and having several minutes of burn time to dry out marginal tinder and get a fire going quickly. Chances are its poor or wet conditions that are the reason I need the emergency fire. I don't use any sort of emergency or artificial tinder for routine fires (with the exception of fat wood if its rainy out or if I am teaching emergency fires) so I don't think the q-tips would be something I would carry personally.
Thanks, The Gray Bearded Green Beret ! As always, I really appreciate the rationality of your insights & explanations. As in most other areas of life, when I have a solid grasp on the “why”, the “how” becomes a whole lot easier to reach. Thanks again for that!
Douglas Turet I’m with you, the why is where the real understanding of a skill lies
also a magnifying glass...
For sure. Mag lens was number 4 on the video.
RLTW
No sound.
There is definitely sound. Has to be on your end.
@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret Thanks for the reply. I tested it on a different computer and it works here. Will check out the other one later.
Awesome job brother. You da man. Thanks for sharing pal.
Thanks, Chief!
Joshua, I've enjoyed this and learned something, thanks for sharing !
Thats awesome! Glad to hear it
Thank you for the video,Joshua We should all sit down and think of the ways we really know.
You are welcome, thanks for watching!
You are the Fire Master for sure man.... well done.... if i have to use and one of half or 2/3's of those methods i am in a world of hurt... J
Thanks, I still have a lot to learn. We all need to be eternal students and learn from everyone we can. But yes, ten ways should get you through most anything!
Joshua Enyart yea man.. i particularly dig the rock and knife....that is a hard one, quartz is fin but when you are in a the blue stone world of the Catskills, finding something hard is a challenge, there is some chert laying around if you can identify it. i love being a student of the woods J
Jeff Notti this is true, the Onondaga chert belt runs through there hugging the Hudson up towards Albany and then shoots west through the Mohawk Valley on to the Great Lakes. Good bit of chert laying around in the valleys
but I can't say I found as much up in the mountains (Adirondacks or Catskills) so I can see that
Another awesome video and as always, picked up some new stuff. Never thought about using dung to start a fire. Will have to go find that video to pick up the techniques for that. Going to try hand drill soon. Just got back from Dave's place with a couple of different spindle materials to try out.
You helped me really get the bow down at intermediate over the summer. Much appreciated for the guidance.
Hey Jon! Great to hear and happy to help! That footage from the poo fire isn't public, I need to do another one for the channel. That video I did for American Protection Alliance for their subscribers awhile back.
Roger that. Very interesting way to get an ember. I'll research further until you can get a video up.
Nice....!!!
Thanks, Todd!
Joshua Enyart Well, I've spent all day at Lyster Army Hospital, so I couldn't say much this morning....but I thought it was a fire promo.....covering the bases pretty dang good.....!!!
Good stuff. That Steel wool one shows no gray beard...so looong time ago. :)
Haha that and the blurry footage gives it away. I don't do electrical ignition much. That video was done probably 4 or 5 years ago believe it or not
BRILLIANT!!! (roarin round of applause)
Thank you, sir!
Which knife are you using for the knife and stone section? I have tried both a Mora Triflex carbon, and an older hawkbill spine for these and no joy. Evidently all carbon steel knife spines are not hardened equally as we are led to believe..thanks. Rock Im using is chert and displays known characteristics, scratches the soup out of the knives. I'm not dead slamming the spines...glancing blows like light passes with a grinding wheel
That was a PKS (Pathfinder Knife Shop) Kephart in 1095. The only Mora's I have had great luck with for this is the Carbon Garberg, the Bushcraft Black, and the Bushcraft Pathfinder. I have never used the Triflex. Hope that helps.
But yes it will scratch the spine pretty well. This is an emergency technique I don't use often, mainly for demos. I just touch up the spines once in awhile with a file.