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 😉
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
"really hard birch" Canadian for "Forgot to sharpen my knife"
LMAO Thanks! Blessings from 🍁 Canada 🍁
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 💪😎👍💖 🔥
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.
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👍🏼
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.
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...
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!
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.
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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.
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...
Excellent. Great job.
Andy!? Here??
@@maxhammer7570 I am a survival instructor in real life
@@andyisyoda That. Wow.
Taking minecraft survival to the next level
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?
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
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.
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 log from Hell: Burns forever.
THANX FOR THE EXCELLENT TUTORIAL!
There are giant Canadian Candles set up at the local cemetery during Halloween night. They can burn for a long time and generate heat for visitors.
I love this, usually don't use wire in the firebox stove but this is the best way to load the stove with wood, esp for cooking. Someone tell me why we don't load dakota fire pits like this? One should make a video of swedish torch in a dakota fire pit.
Awesome!! Thank you for teaching us these survival skills!! Helps me feel more confident!!
Title Log: I will last until the last star burns their last fuel and I will survive the heat death of the universe
Actual log:
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
The great things about those stoves is that you could just grab just random twigs around as long as they are dry and cook with that. With fire starter tinder and a lighter you wouldn’t even need a knife. But where is the fun.
Great for long treks and don’t have to carry fuel around. Also great for bugout situation with “unlimited” fuel. In non bugout mode you could throw in charcoal as a simple portable stove.
Putting the Swedish torch into a firecan, and you have greater control of the fire and airflow, but also concentrating the heat inside the circular can, vs the square firebox. The open Swedish torch heats the surrounding area, while the firebox keeps some of the heat inside its metal container. All the fire/heating/cooking gear fits inside the john-firecan, and you have a rocket stove, and all kinds of cooking methods. The firecan provides the necessary trivet cooking platform for bottles, cups, pots, pressure cooker, even cooking with cast iron, ....
John Lord is firecan a brand name or just a classification of tool?
@Publik Channel Firecan developed in prepper groups in last few years - out of the original 1930s Hobo coffee can fire container. If using coffee can, then need to cut air flaps around bottom of can, and at the lip. Flaps around can catch air into fire and pulls it up (like rocket stove) and out the upper flaps. Coffee can bottom is the heated platform of a hobo can. Razor sharp flaps that need to be pushed out for use (and pushed in when not in use). Firecan is the modern stainless steel (no rust) design with already punched air holes in the can side and bottom. Smaller size, more uses.
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@Publik Channel Using a Dakota firepit, with a firecan having an open portal cut from the side, you can also turn it into a rocket stove and hot air pipe outside of a tent/shelter. A 3-piece pipe and 2 elbows make a surface level hot tenting option (without having a massive stone and hot chimney pipe poking through a fireproof tent/shelter fabric. A pipe piece has an elbow joint screwed onto each end. The elbows will face in opposite directions. The elbow is put vertically down into the firecan. Then a small pipe piece is screwed into the other portion of the elbow. A longer pipe piece is attached to the vertical elbow joint, and the long pipe is placed under the tent, within a small ditch if possible, and allowed to breathe out upwards. The firecan is put into the proper-depthed Dakota fire pit, and filled with wood pellets, BBQ briquets, charcoal, or vertically placed sticks and burned ... and the fire heat will superheat the pipe, and shooting out the heated air into the shelter - spark proof, burn proof, and properly heating a tent from the bottom upwards. No more holes in the tent/shelter roofing. One just needs to continually feed the firecan with product and keeping the hot fire. If you don't think a firecan can get hot, watch the 4 foot flame coming from YT Eat Carbs Outdoors firecan (!).
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Try splitting like you did but don’t carve any of it out. Turn two opposing pieces outward so that the bark will be inside. The curve creates a draft on two side in the center.
+akbychoice great idea
I loved that you showed survival lilly sharing is SO good.
Good video. Much better step-by-step explanation than most others.
Legend has it the wood is still burning creating a never ending quest.
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.
Keep a wad of tightly packed dryer vent lint in an ziplock baggy is good for kindle and weighs nothing and takes up virtually no space.
Key to rationing is to figure out how to make use of all the heat escaping from the fire box. A stone perimeter around it is great because you can dry your damp clothes, boil your drinkable water keep warm all while cooking your meals.
I put my dryer sheets flat and add wax to them. Makes them waterproff and make good fire starters too.
´Here i thought u had defied and broken laws of physics but all you did was to build a log stove.
Instead of carving, maybe use the silky saw to make a cut in the center of the inner quarter log, than remove the surplus material with batonning technique. Faster,, easier and less risk of injuries. Not including less sharpening of the knife later on. For easy and cheap fire starter, round cotton pads for makeup removal(Dollar store) impregnated with wax will burn for up to 5 minutes.
+Bob Léponge Great idea!
Freaking cool. Never thought about a Swiss log on a smaller scale.
Thx for review! you dont realy need that wire or cut the hole log to 4 pieces, just take a hole log and make a x bit down :) greatings from sweden.
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I have NOT seen a metal coat hanger for 10+ years...
Second hand stores are great for them or eBay and inexpensive too 😉
It seems to me that one could use flat rocks as the "box". A plus would be the rocks hold and give off heat for quite a while, like to warm a survival shelter.
Make good and damn sure those rocks are dry, though. Internal moisture + heat = mineral shrapnel.
split with hatchet is easier.
Outstanding video.
Even in the rain, with a pot on top it would keep burning. 🔥
For boiling water with minimal wood, nothing beats a Kelly Kettle.
Another thing for me to obsess over... I love it my brain is racing. Thank you excellent video.
This has to be one of my favorite videos that I have watched from your channel. Thank you.
Very well done! Thanks
Finnish candle. All northern tribes were doing this in tundra. You can prep them a hundreds and take with you on sledge. I was doing them on rafting trips.
Save a lot of time by using your SAK or Silky saw and notch out a cut in the interior corners, then split out that section. This way you can save about 3/4 of the time that he took in this video to carve out the center section.
Great idea! And while you are sitting around waiting for the water to boil or food to cook, you could make up a couple more to take with you to your next location to save you that 30 or so minutes set up time that MIGHT be useful if it decides to rain or you ran out of daylight.
Great video. Your videos are very informative. Thank you
It would be interesting to see a comparison of the burn time of this torch and the same amount of wood cut, split and burned in a regular fire. Great video though.
A properly portioned & chimneyed Finn torch will burn for a solid hour. It will cook a whole family meal and still heat the water to wash up after. No open pit fire can match it for point-of-effect efficiency... it's just a matter of geometry & physics. Even that little birch round, if it's not carved too wide in the center and if you wedge it just enough (at the bottom instead of the top) to create the draft, will cook a small feast for you.
Great video and great idea + really like the APO survival knife too
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.
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
I'd be tempted to sit a brick on top of the log (the type with holes in them), and then add the stainless steel bottle. This would protect the bottle and stop it getting so sooty.
not only does it work in the rain but look at how much uncooked fuel there was ready to burn for hours there was when it fell apart
It looks like your wire holder could be twisted tighter to hold the burned wood closer together as it burns lower.
Dude can I recommend something to make it easier and possibly more consistent in burning. You used a saw right, once split into quarters you should saw a stop cut into each quarter at the same position, the. Simply baton with knife down to said stop cut. I think it will make for a quicker and cleaner job, in turn I think it’ll make these Swedish torches burn more consistent
Thank you. What a great idea! Love it. I'm going to do this with my stove..
Great tip, thanks CP!
I enjoy the quality of your videos, you have my subscription
Meeeen I love this trick! Big up from Switzerland!🔥
Originally kelotuli or jätkänkynttilä from Finland, where forest workers burned a dry patch of cloth while heating and cooking in a forest workplace.The Hakkapelites (Finns) spread the knowledge to others during the Thirty Years' War.
Jätkänkynttilä yes -"swedish log fire" no
sauna yes - "bastu" no
sauvakävely yes - " scandinavian walking " or " nordic walking" no
Hi! Thanks for the GREAT information. Im a Biblical Prepper I guess. We've been told by our organization for about three years to get it together because "critical times hard to deal with" have begun. Sad to say people are so distracted they're blowing valuable time on nonsense or just ignoring the signs. Me being from NYC, I'm really surprised that I've taken these warnings to heart. I shocked myself this afternoon when I built my first Rocket Stove from some bricks I had my contractor leave after putting in a carbon monoxide vent. It was really fun and empowering. There's nothing like being prepared and self-sufficient. I like the stove you made also. Gonna try building a Canadian Candle next. Thanks so much once again. All the best to you...
thank you for putting this out here
Thank you you always out do ur self on the videos love them keep up the good work
Easy to way to hollow out the inside is to split it the same way you did it the first time. Knife on top hammer with another piece.
Absolutely fantastic. Thanks Nate.
This is so cool! I appreciate the tutorial.
You're in luck! The Swedish government just posted a leaflet to all homes in Sweden requiring people to be ready for a natural catastrophe where you'd be without food and/or power or clean water for about a week or so.
You can also bundle a number of various size sticks together, if you don't have a way of spitting that log.
Why, in a emergency this is a terrible idea, risk of getting cut and use of energy to make..... just tie 4 sticks together if you want this.
It’s like a three minute job with a hatchet...I really don’t understand the obsession with batoning knives.
A roll of concrete tie wire will do a better job than that clothes hanger and it's cheap and will last longer than you need
Love the rain and you kept going with your demonstration. Love the rain as I live in the PNW.
Here in Australia, we call Flashlights 'Torches'.
Wonderful and useful information. Thanks!
Thanks for this demo.
Do you have a favorite all around shtf knife . Mine is a18inch kukri
Work even better in the rain when your pot is on top of it of course. 😀 Great idea. I don't carry a fire pit, but I wonder how well it would work in a Dakota fire pit?
thank you. no more burning tons of wood to stay warm overnight
I'm going to use that in my little portable camp stove can cook a full meal with a fire like that instead of feeding the fire with small twigs and I've saw this with large logs and I'm going to measure just how tall and thick I can make them to carry when in going to be out camping or fishing.
Does the bottle threads stay good after bottle has been in fire many times ? Does the lid thread on and no warping after lots of heat to bottle. Thanks.
Could probably use this on a through hike this Fall on the Mohawk Trail. It's a 100 mile hike if I am correct.
Thank you sir.
Great info and you presented it well. Thank you.
Excellent video.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but where I am metal (wire) coat hangers are getting as rare as hen's teeth. 👍
I can't remember the last time I saw one. Just those bunged up plastic ones or the ones you get to keep when stealing pants from myers.
Copper wire? Aluminum wire?
@@IAMGWH1 I guess any stiff wire will work.
Would it be possible to contain the wood with 2 handles instead of one? As wood burns down maybe twist the 2 coat hangers from opposite sides to tighten the grip on wood and maintain fire longer? ( provided whats sitting on top isnt wider?
If you are gonna use the firebox you can just turn the sticks around so the inner 90 degree part of the wood is in the 90 degree corner of the box
Hmmm, I would consider these techniques useful for survival.
I shall need a metal coat hanger for survival.
As a former sheep Drover in Country nsw Australia, in the dead of winter. There was always a good camp fire going.😁👌Regardless of the rain.
Thanks, I have large torches. I will have to try this. Take care.
You can also just baton out the middle instead of carving it, way faster and safer!
I like the idea of feathersticking the inside too
You can't be a prepper channel and not start your fire with a flint rod.
Thank you for this info!
Awesome video, never thought about a mini log fire. I'll be sure to try this one
Neat ideas. Would like to see more of these videos .........
its great for those times when you are trapped on a boat in a middle of an ocean and need to boil some water and for some reason your brought a tiny log with you.
What does boiling water in the middle of an ocean do? You can't boil the entire ocean and just walk home, you know.
Suggestion- To remove the wedge center, make a stop cut halfway down with the saw and baton off the wedge point.
Wow thx this is great knowledge to have thx I enjoy ur channel
In theory, you could just baton the inner corners of the logs off probably
Be quicker and then you have your kindling for starting the fire if you don’t do the feather stick idea. 🤔
Indeed sir that is a great idea, but the only downside would be it being split all the way down. Another person had the idea of nocking it half way and then batoning it which indeed would be a great idea! Thanks for watching!
I naively thought you were being literal.