Mini Swedish Fire Torch: Tiny Log Burns Forever
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In this video I explain how to cook large amounts of food with very small amounts of firewood. Make a fire thats long lasting, self-contained, transportable, has minimal smoke, a small footprint, uses no stove, and uses very little wood. This is a variation of a canadian candle or swedish fire torch with an improved lighting method and way to contain the fire. This can be crucial in a survival situation where there may be little firewood available or you need to make a low key fire. Swedish firetorch
Things you will need
1) A small piece of wood (round) 5 X 5 inches
2) A coat hanger or piece of strong wire
3) Some tinder i.e. birchbark, feathersticked wood, fatwood, wood chips
4) A pot with flat bottom to cook food or boil water
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When you have a tiny wood, you need to know how to make it last.
Proper lol 😆
Ha!!
😉
Who has Tiny wood I don’t have tiny wood ?
Hahahaa 😉
"really hard birch" Canadian for "Forgot to sharpen my knife"
LMAO Thanks! Blessings from 🍁 Canada 🍁
I'm late to the game, and I'm sure that at least one of the 400+ comments covered this, but when using the Swedish torch in a firebox, you just need to quarter the log, no carving required. Put the pieces in so that the curved bark side is to the center, and the pints of the log go to the box corners. The curved surface of the log backs creates the air channel.
Thing is, if he did that, the video would be two minutes long 😂😂
Easier to set up, but doesn't that negatively affect burn time?
Sometimes the only "dry" wood is on the inside
We made these when I was in Boy Scouts as a kid in the 70's. I forgot all about the Swedish Candle until I saw the video. Thanks for bringing back the childhood memories with this refresher video.
There is a second aspect to this. The less wood you have to gather, the less calories you need to survive. The less wood you have to gather, the less likely you are to be spotted by people you don't want to get spotted by, and the less wood you have to gather the less room you need to store it.
Gordon Lawrence the less you talk the more you listen
And the better your wood burns, creates less smoke, less chance of being spotted again :-)
who you trying to hide from lmao
If you need use this and keep from being spotted . Then you got bigger problems than calories bro .
@@drrghgh5105 "The less you talk the more you listen"
You may not have said as much as he did, but you're not listening much either if you ignore anyone who talks with the logic that speakers don't listen.
In alaska a fungus grows on birch, we would harvest a bunch and put them in a can full of holes with a bunch of coals and hang it up up wind frum camp and the smoke would drive off all mosquitoes
Chaga !!! Dried out it makes excellent Fire Tinder and a mighty tasty ( acquired taste lol) Tea.
I NEVER considered a small Swedish torch in a stove. Amazing.
Shut it . Mug
In Canada its a Canadian torch , in Sweden its a Swedish torch, in China its a Chinese torch, either way it could save your life if you remember how to make one in the great outdoors not complaining on your computer from the great indoors!!!!
In ‘merica it a Freedom Torch! :D
Then you should visit the Firebox Stove channel. Steve has many great ideas, including the Swedish torch in his stoves.
@Timothy Mckee how you gonna wipe your ass then?
Yep rationing is a great topic. And rationing every aspect of everything you use and do in life is even better.
@Petrazenka I have been privileged enough to have never had to ration water or toilet paper in my life but I fully agree with you. I think worldwide that ALL packing materials should be both recyclable and compostable for a start. Only plastics that are fully recyclable should be used in anything. Ebikes and electric cars should be tax-free purchases for the next decade. Taxing should be done on a consumption basis at around 22%, the less you spend the less tax you pay. I like your attitude though. Plan on swimming against the current for the rest of your like. The world doesn't think like you.
Agreed we should all start using only what we need NOW before we run out
Yes. Too much love and good feeling corrodes the soul.
@@SMA1mommy ,
Sounds good in theory, but, like Socialism and Communism, once you add humans it's corrupted. In the early '70's there was a so called Oil Shortage in America. The President ( Nixon ) went on the telly to ask all Americans to conserve gas. The gas stations were only allowed to sell gas to cars with an even or odd last # on the licence plate. Meaning i could only buy gas every other day. This was ment to cut out frivoious driving. My buddy had two cars, one with an even plate and one with an odd #. Ergo, every day we went joy riding. My Mother thought we were doing so good by "saving" gas, all the while everything we were "saving", he was burning up, and surely a little bit more. You can scrimp and save for ten years, and another can burn thru all your "savings" in 10 days. A good life lesson for me ...
Are you the one they call the Spaniards?
Excellent go to fire set ups are ....the *Canadian Candle & Dakota stealth fire*
gonna add these *MINI CANADIAN CANDLES* to the tool box...thanks again for all you do . Cheers 💪😎👍💖 🔥
As a Swede, boyscout (when young) and with normal levels survival training, I’ve never heard about this thing myself. But after asking around a bit with friends I got it confirmed as beeing used. Never been where fire wood been scares, but I definitely see the use like out in the outer archipelago in the Baltic Sea, where’s there almost no trees. I love clever ways making a fire without “cheating”, so thank you for the excellent tip!
Or up north in the mountains when above the tree line. If you needed to hike across them barren mountains, you could probably carry enough wood for couple of days using this, if you prepared the candles beforehand.
Thanks for taking the time to share. As for the "hard part" (whittling halfway down), just baton 1/4 the way in halfway down and set it back up and Baton from the top. No muss no fuss, quick and easy.
This is the best thing I’ve seen you do in a long time. Keep it up. Something everyone can use and make at no cost and a little time investment to the camper.
I have made lots of swedish torches out of larger wood. I'm very impressed with your method of making and using your design . I will use your method from now on! Thanks for sharing!
The more you learn about survival when the SHTF the better chance you have to survive. Thanks for the lesson.
The S has already HTF, we're just easing into the consequences....
THANX FOR THE EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!
Hello recently got introduced to this video and really like this idea...I tinkered around a bit with it and found that if you put the log back together with the Bark side in the middle the curve of the log makes a perfect air channel Or Chimney. Thanks again👍🏼
Made my first one tonight after watching this video. I used seasoned Beech & definitely found initial light up to be most difficult part(just as you said). There’s definitely a certain art to getting the right amount of ventilation & Tinder. I’ll definitely be making more of these. Thank you for the video.
Thanks for showing.
Been using this method in my bushbox for a while now, but this is the 1st time I’ve seen the coat hanger used.
From now on I will keep an old wire coathanger in my bag.
Brilliant 👍😀
Hey Nate . I received my Silky Zumbat 390 today and I'm in love. The blade teeth is fantastic. I compared it to my Fiskers and it's much improved. I'm really knocked out buy the sheath. The saw fits so snug the saw will not fall out no matter what. Thank you
Great choice!
I'm glad I found the Canadian version of preppers! Thanks for all the info. Went to the website great things to get in my future! Thanks again!
Awesome!! Thank you for teaching us these survival skills!! Helps me feel more confident!!
Excellent demonstration...and would make a great camping/bushcraft project. Thanks for sharing, keep up the good work!
Excellent. Great job.
Andy!? Here??
@@maxhammer7570 I am a survival instructor in real life
@@andyisyoda That. Wow.
Taking minecraft survival to the next level
Great video. Nice multi camera use, great audio overlay and superb editing. Love the fire log and the demo. See you on the next one.
Nicely done sir. First video of yours I've ever seen. Nice to see great vids by fellow Canadians. Subbed.
And I love this torch. I've made these before but not that small. So cool!
Note to self. Never go into the forest without a coat hanger. Actually, a metre of 1.5mm galvanised wire is a great addition to any basic survival pack....
Wrap wire around a bundle of nails ;)
Burning Zinc creates toxic fumes, jackass.
@@DerekNS74 only until the zinc is gone. No biggie
Zinc is only toxic in excess, just as copper is toxic in excess.
Try tasting a zinc solution and if you can't taste it you are deficient. If you have enough it will taste nasty. That's the "zinc challenge test" I learned about 40 years ago.
Your video editing and use of multiple cameras really gives your channel an entertaining edge
Your last name means "Log" in swedish!!
@@nenikiato3230 and it means branch in the netherlands haha
@@nenikiato3230 or stick
His productions are big studio quality. He is seriously bank rolled and not who he appears to be. In one of his more recent videos he addressed ME calling him out on that because others were beginning to notice things don't add up with him. He ALWAYS falls on the side of the globalist narrative.
It’s 9:20 AM here in South Texas, it’s 86°. It looks so funny seeing you in a full hat and a jacket in a rainstorm. Please send some our way we need it.
Thank you. What a great idea! Love it. I'm going to do this with my stove..
Good video. Much better step-by-step explanation than most others.
Thanks sir! I wish I grew up Canadian! You have hockey and a lot of great ideas. Never thought of doing this and it's so simple and logical.
How to make your resources last longer is a great topic! Rational use of water is also important. There was a lack of water in my house for several times. This kind of situation make you think about the efficiency of the resources immediately
same here,it has change the way we use water.
I loved that you showed survival lilly sharing is SO good.
Coat hangers made from metal are few & far between in my area of Northern California. But i do keep a spool of heavy gauge metal wire around for things like this. Great video! Thanks.
Ahhhhhh you are so good. Loved watching you and Lilly. You guys are the cutest, and so inspiring. Thanks for the love aka knowledge!!! 😍😘😍😘😍
instead of carving out the middle, you can use your saw and crosscut the inside and then baton the middle out make matchsticks as kindling.
I was thinking the same as you while he doing this...good point...
What you do is that after splitting the wood, just rotate every four stick 180 deg. So that the outside is facing in. Ready!!!
No need to carve away anything...
Good idea in a hurry, but then all your tiny embers fall to the very bottom and you burn your wood away more than twice as fast. He's talking about making the wood last.
don`t forget to find wire or a metal box or this won`t work...
@@frankc6430 A grass binding around the log will work just fine; it'll just leave you without the handle option.
And the box can be replaced by a ring/ box of *_DRY_* stones, too (River rocks are just going to send rock-shards into your eyes when the internal water steams up and pops the rock). Anything that'll catch and reflect the side heat back in and keep the wind from blowing away too much smoke before it has the chance to combust. Wider gaps in the side of your candle will counteract the lack of wind pushing O2 into the flame.
@@frankc6430 you can also use longer logs and bury the bottom in a hole.. just make sure there is a space betwixt the pieces
@@MoonbeameSmith hmm. now wondering if it would work it into a dakota fire!
Good lesson! Thank you.
If you have good small axe skills you could use a hatchet to knock out the insides instead of the knife and would probably be pretty quick to put these together. Looks cool I'll have to try it!
I got that candle box, but this will totally optimize it’s usefulness.
Thank you for posting this🤙🏻
Thanks for this demo.
Outstanding video.
Even in the rain, with a pot on top it would keep burning. 🔥
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks Nate.
Awesome, here in the south USA, We have fatlighter. Southern pine that dies and the sap runs to the bottom. It's very flammable. What we get turpentine from.
I like the intro and layout of this video over older ones. Good editing
Pretty cool, It never crossed my mind to use a small log
A few thoughts 1. I am always concerned when people strike knives like that some are made for it, most are not and in a true survival situation you don’t want to break your only knife. If you don’t have an ax/hatch then maybe try the wedge method. 2. Instead of a coat hanger look for haywire (there are haywire tools you can make or buy) and pliers. 3. Finally For us Canadians the CCFR is having a Go. Union. Now. raffle ends the 25. Please take and look and think about supporting the cause.
Love the rain and you kept going with your demonstration. Love the rain as I live in the PNW.
Thank you you always out do ur self on the videos love them keep up the good work
Dude! Wedge the bottom, not the top, and only carve enough center channel to get the drafting started, no more. That's what the wrap is for, to hold the tops closed when it's wedged open at the bottom. Just 1 slot wedged should do to start it, and it should shoot like a blow torch. Later, you can open up other wedges if you want to accelerate the burning and/or even out the amount of wood left in each quarter.
As good as that example worked for you, it was still only about half-efficient. You should be able to end up with literally 4 semi-arcs of hollow charred crust burnt from top to bottom inside and along all the seams.
animist channel
Please do your own video.
I want to fully understand what you are saying.
I am a visual and tactile learner.😊
Thank you.
@@tonis204 I looked around YT and saw several "fire torch" videos, including some mad Russian with a chainsaw that was so funny, but no one doing it quite the way I learned. Lots of people working way too hard with it, or being -- I don't want to say wasteful, because it's inherently frugal with wood to even get the general form of it -- but not getting full fuel efficiency.
(The most similar was on "Advoko Makes" channel from St. Petersburg with his "Heating a tent with a log torch" video where he heats shelter & cooks simultaneously, and he does draft from the ground and keeps the split edges tightly closed, but he still has it high up on stands so it burns faster.)
This technique is basically fennu in origin, i.e. Finnish or Sami/Suomi or Savo or Kaerelian, as far as I know. In the arctic, they have to plan their wood consumption 300 years in advance in order to be permanently sustainable as in traditional times.
So if you can get 3 meals out of a log-piece instead of just 1 meal, you only use 1 cooking tree instead of 3 trees each year. That's saving whole trees! Each little bit of increased efficiency greatly extends your resources. I was literally taught to even stretch my open-fire cooking coals with damp or wet wood, even among generations born in North America.
I guess this is another thing to put on the list when I get a video camera going. People have developed a fascination with "the old ways," both physical and spiritual, which I think is a good thing, but after so long of watching folks chase after plastic culture, it's a bit of a shock-change lately. It gives me hope the tide is indeed turning, and future generations will learn to live in balance again.
@@animistchannel2983 I've seen that russian guy haha, they're always a bit mental.
I love your insight and outlook. Did you ever get a camera setup going? I'd be very interested in your content. And I also hope to see more people become self sufficient in a proper way. I look around the world in 2021 and fear there are only going to be a handful of people left in the near future, who can actually live without the products of a throwaway society.
Can't wait to try this!!!! Thank you C.P.!!!
1st saw this video last fall and didn't see any application in it for me but after the Texas grid down situation I'm thinking a little more. With grid down and no fire place or barbecue this could also be used for "bugging in" cooking using a minimum amount of wood. You wouldn't need logs, any scrap lumber would suffice. Somewhere (The Outdoor Boys utube channel) I saw a mini rocket stove/Swedish candle made from a drilled out, 6 inch long 4x4 that burned for over an hour, plenty for a hot drink, water for an MRE or what ever you have on hand.👍
Great video, these are the ones that keep me watching, this technique is great for burning out a stump!
I stumbled on your videos I do find them more down to earth then some. Keep up the good work.
Thank you sir. I learn from you each time...
Thank you so much for your time and help
Outstanding tip! I must give this a try!
Thank You for Your Video. Informative.
+canadianprepper Flip each log to make an inverted Swedish torch that will burn longer. The corners of the logs will fit snuggly in the corners of the Firebox.
Sounds like a great idea!
Brilliant!
What a great educational video CP! Thanks!
What a beautiful and immensely useful video, CP! Thanks once again!
Great idea, C. P. ...... combining fire box w/ Swedish candle !!
Your dog got my dog all riled up! He's still standing at the door barking and growling.
I raced to hit MUTE before my dog could respond in kind.. damned half-beagles..
Are you sure there isn't someone just hiding in your front yard, waiting for you to go investigate, so that they can knock you out, tie you up and have their way with you?
I have the firebox stove and wax wood sticks, may have to invest in the large plate for the top of the firebox. Love your products!
Nicholas Bezanson Finding fat wood in the wild is more fun. The joy you get when finding it and splitting it into sticks is pure, and the smell is heaven.
Just up in Nova Scotia last week, and you have an abundance of birch. It was great to easily get a fire going. Thanks for the video.
Great info and you presented it well. Thank you.
This was an awesome info video! Loved it! Thank you!
So glad to see you supporting Survival Lilly. I bought one of her APO-1 knives when they first came out.... I have a lot of knives, but that one is the sturdiest of them all. Absolutely appropriately named! :-)
Good method ! But actually you can try something to improve this even better. We usually cut one of 4 peaces shorter and let the opening down. This creates little feeding door and creates draft like chimney. Then you dont need wedges or wind to get it going better. Draft helps it light up very quickly. Keep good videos going my friend !
I bet it burns out faster tho.
I never considered a smaller size Swedish torch...Great idea....larger ones can be split into thirds instead of quartered...not a huge difference though...works either way...
That is a great idea also...cutting g one smaller...it would work like a Dakota 🔥 firepit...I am going to try that one because I know it would be effective...
This has to be one of my favorite videos that I have watched from your channel. Thank you.
The Firebox is an excellent piece of kit. I use mine regularly. I've seen videos of Steve burning a Swedish torch in his, but I've not tried it yet. I think I will on my next outing.
Great idea. Used to be used out west and in woods by natives. Not the firebox but the low smoke fire. Burning under trees helps dissipate what smoke there is.
Never thought of this. Thanks CP!
Wonderful and useful information. Thanks!
Great video I appreciate all your work You truly put out some good stuff
The log from Hell: Burns forever.
Solid and useful video. Thanks again, CP!
I seen another You Tuber that did a larger version of this, then placed pipe inside of it to heat a tent, this is awesome.
GunsOfMassEffect I saw that one too. Very creative way of heating a tent that way.
@@glen1arthur it was freaking awesome, I want to spend a year in the wilderness in a large canvas tent.
Just checking in to say I saw that as welll.... freaking genius
Cool!
I use my Firebox like that too!
But ur's looks way cool!!
My husband does a variation of this. Bigger chunk of firewood, cuts a cross in it with the power saw, about six inches down. Hammers a nail into each quarter, not all the way down, puts the wood chips in the crack and lights it up. The pot sits on top of the nails. This will burn for hours.
Very well done! Thanks
We do make something simular down here on the texas coast with very very hard woods in the brush or with palm trees but the log needs to be much larger the hard wood is very hard to start sanz using some candle wax and the palm tree sparks fast even when only afyer about two hours post cut. It helped out greatly post harvey and videos like this can help us all help each other after a disaster
Awesome video, never thought about a mini log fire. I'll be sure to try this one
Very versatile.
I use a Bushbox Stove and, inter alia, a dried used tea bag soaked in Paraffin as a Fire Starter. Beats having to throw them away.
Great idea
My idea of "forever" is different from yours.
Gustaaf Argoan, forever is a relative term for sure. This candle is a pretty good item to know how to use, skills add up. Watched YOUR first video, tear repair and tooth brush,,, BRILLIANT, truly. More power to yah
@@prairiecracker214 your original post was, "what do you know, really? I know what I think is best for me, that's it.
Gustaaf Argoan , you’re right, then I watched your video and it changed my mind so I changed my comment. Is that fair enough
@@prairiecracker214 it just so happens that it is fair enough. I had an inkling based on your original reply that you were being sarcastic; I was mistaken. No harm no foul.
Gustaaf Argoan, I made my first comment and I thought maybe I should see if this guy has any content before I go shooting my mouth off. Sure enough, you did and I watched your first vid and thought it was really good. I regularly see guys with a pack full of every survival gadget on the market and never once think of a toothbrush. Also, the funny part is that I’ve been looking for a GOOD fabric glue for a while and you gave Tear Mender a solid demo and endorsement. I thank you for that and mean it when I say, more power to yah. Respect
Thanks, I have large torches. I will have to try this. Take care.
In Norway we call them Finnish fire torch,maybe because we dont and never ever liked the Swedes. The Finns hate the Swedes and so does the Danes. So Canadian fire torch is not a dumb name,but Canadien people have maybe alot of Scandinavian blood in them,our society's are also very much the same. They have been used for ages here in Norway too. It was usally a fire used by loggers to cook food
What is so particularly off-putting about the Swedes?
Great video to get the most energy out of wood, thank you.
Great tip, thanks CP!
Very cool. Thanks for demonstrating!
Theoretically if you want to use the shavings that you're cutting off of it it would be wise to do it aiming the wood towards a tent or have like a rock or something something that you're carving towards a tent would be better because as you're kicking the shavings off it'll hit the tent and then I'm just kind of slide down and have a big end up being a pile that would be easier to collect for tinder or future fires
Something also to consider is that if can find tree resins or sap from cedars and pine and run it onto the inside before assembly you place dry pencil lead size twigs first without over stuffing it leaving air flow than it would assist in it starting faster and lessen your chance of it burning out at beginning...just an idea to keep on mind...
Awesome. Thanks for this video
Great Idea, thank you for sharing this. I am going to try this
Awesome! Thanx!!!!
Freaking cool. Never thought about a Swiss log on a smaller scale.
Never once thought about doing something like that with my Firebox... thanks very much, great tip.
+Canadian Prepper I have some DIY self videos may I ask about the nail polish on ends of qtips.They are for lighting fires in the rain .You can buy nail polish and 500 qtips @a Dollar Bill's everything is a$1 store. Also instead of a tarp A Heavy Duty shower curtain with the holes already punched? What do you think of the ideas .They were some ideas from Several videos I remember alot more. The rain made me think of the qtip trick as well as the water proof shower curtains. You could sit there a few minutes and put them in q ziplockbags/ waterproof how ever you have your SHTF bag .They are light weight plus you will use the qtips and if theres a wife at home nail polish .Everybody should have a lightweight bag if you gotta run esp in urban areas . Again my area of expertise is medical survival in a Urban(Which is not easy SHTF ppl are already there in areas of the US.) I want to head back towards the mountains I live not far from the Applachian Trails which go from Main to Georgia .So that Birch was a fine piece of wood.
Now I know what to do with the nail polish I never seem to use. Could also put some nail polish on the ends of small sticks to but you would need to pack the nail polish.
I like this. Will use the method next camping trip! Or maybe even the next backyard event!
Dude, i like your channel because you don't sell bullshit like "what if lizard-man topples the government and have aliens cut earth's electricity? We need a way to fight zombies, then!". Your videos are always realistic like what would we do in a 3 day long power outage. I really like that. You are not only doing service by teaching these but also by injecting some sanity into people about what should they really prepare for.
When my new folding stove arrives I'll be trying this. Always wanted a firebox but never could justify spending the money for one, anywhere I looked always expensive, thankfully I found a folding titanium wood burning stove for half the price with a couple of features that are a nice touch