During my time in the Canadian bush we always carried matches, an axe and Silva Ranger compass. Most days we would just brake off small dead branches from conifers to use as tinder. When it’s raining and all the fuel is wet then we would make shaving as you did in this video. Without a saw we would just make deep blazes into the dead tree, to produce kindling from the shavings. Forestry and mining exploration workers didn’t carry or use big knives but just used their axes.
i learned this from air cadet survival training, we actually shave them down a bit thinner. it always impressed the shit out of people when ive used them to start fires with wet wood in the rain.
I was doing this to start the fire 30+ years ago my dad taught me thus as a child it was our standard Firestarting technique. Everyday after school would do this. %10000000 the best way.
I learned to make fires properly from youtube. Because I live in an area that is mostly fir and spruce, the method I liked most was combining fatwood shavings with feather sticks. The trees here are smaller and windblown, especially on the coast, so larger logs are not available.
Love that axe. I need a better axe. I make feather sticks to light my fire at home but using my sheath knife and on a much smaller scale. I didn't catch what wood that was that Lars used. Oh and...Lars out in the snowy forest without his trusty joint of fatty bacon....what the hell....that has disquieted me! Just a bit of dried fish.... In my mind 'Lars equals "all that funky stuff", fatty bacon joint, Siberian log fire, "doing something awesome" and laughter!' "Do something awesome" is probably the best life advice I have ever heard, and it resonates in me every time he says it...."Get out and do something awesome!" Bloody good advice Lars.
Hi Lars, I've seen you mentioned this earlier, that this metod is not used anywere in europe. I'm from the north of Sweden and i've always been using this metod to start a fire, my dad taught me this when I was a little kid. I've also seen it widely used by many. Great content as usual, thanks!
Excellent videos. This reminds me of when I was a kid to keep warm once my brother and I were tasked with peeling a log in the middle of winter. We took the bark off of a log and some of the log shavings and burnt the bark to keep warm while we peeled the log with our axe. Many thanks, this brings back old memories. All the best to you and your family.
Hey Lars. Good to c u. I have been doing that. Even before I was, in the Canadian Boy Scouts. It is very nice of you. To remind people, of that information. Thank you. Cheers 🍻
More people should try to learn from the natives around where they live. Not only a good way to preserve culture but also it might be important for our survival in the future; who knows!
Hi Lars good tip my friend, and alot easier making feather sticks and kindling all in one go, brilliant. Thanks for another interesting video mate, stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
I've made larger feather sticks like these for many years. They work very well with the smaller feather sticks to quickly get your fire going strong. I usually use my kukri to make them and to split kindling.
Excellent technique! I have indeed seen you do that before and I think it's extremely important skill to know. And, you're right, most people don't do it that way.
@@philmickey7247 Excellent. I love watching the videos that Lars puts out as he is from such a different part of the world that there are unique things that he knows that are not common to us in the Eastern Woodlands of the United States.
I want to do these things, but, OLD and living too, too away from nature. But, it is fun to watch you fo the things AND to watch someone who lives it instead of someone with a camera who lives in the city and pretends! Good work, carry on!
Hi Lars! Funny with this native fire and so on. If it works for them - good. I personally try to make a thick bed of coals and than add some log time to time. Coals give tones of heat. These siberian method and finnish log over another..... well they are long lasting but it is difficult to warm up a whole body. This is just my personal opinion and experience. And yes, axe is my go to tool especially in the cold weather. Regards
I enjoy your survival training videos on this channel. I may never be in a survival situation, but just in case it does happen, I pay close attention to your video's instructions. Thank you for offering your time and expertise.
The evenk people call these kindling sticks "quagamda". Russians call it "petushki". In the village, wood chips are usually made from straight-layered pine or spruce logs, which are pre-dried on a stove. Previously, such sticks illuminated the dwelling, were called "luchina", which were rubbed off with animal fat for long-term fire
Where I live it's all hardwood trees. We just burn seasoned year old wood most times. It's not nearly as cold as your house. Your tools won't work our trees as easily. These trees we got is alot tougher than that straight grain wood your working. Your videos are super cool. Hickory,white and red oak, pin oak, black walnut, gum, sycamore, poplars, cottonwoods, pecan, cherry, cypress and so forth. The worst tree for me is a willow oak tree. The limbs are the most agrivating I've dealt with. God bless you all way from west ky.
Hello from Oklahoma! Good Video. Always an informative fun video. I like your method for feather sticks. I'm going to try it this weekend. We do not get the snow y'all do. But its wet and cool. Around 0 to 10 C. Thanks for all U do! 👍👍 God Bless!🙏
Hi! That's how I usually start a fire. Sometimes, in wet conditions, I use some finer feathers for the initial flame, but overall this is working quite well. Greetings from the northeast of Bavaria.
Vindicated!!! Thanks for showing this LOL. I've been doing this for years, mostly when I can't be bothered processing a lot of wood ad nauseum. I'll no longer feel guilty about being lazy!!!
@@SurvivalRussia I went out to record how ever I could, Lets see if it works out I don't have dry fire wood at home I had to harvest what ever I could from the wilderness.
My Russian brother greetings from Serbia. People who need to learn this very basic better never stay outdoors alone because if they can’t figure out this simple trick how in the world will they start a fire with bow and sticks or build a shelter.
They work well for sure in my grandfathers hunt camp if you couldn't make those and leave them at the ready for the next fire 🔥 or person arriving you were asked to not return. Now there's strict protocol. Grandad had RULES !! 👍 I can still make them 🤣👍
The "western bushcraft" aka American style TODAY relies heavily on Ferrocerium rods for fire starting so the feather sticks by default have to be very fine and light to catch the spark and start burning. Big feathers like those are obviously far more suited to matches or coals. But of course, you know this, my brother.
Bark is a little fire resistant. I usually strip the bark off the initial big logs to help the fire get started. I also scar up the sides of the logs to help the fire take. Once the fire is going and the coals are hot, the bark doesn't matter anymore. Just throw whatever big logs on the fire you want.
Haha cool love it. I'll look so cool when I do this in front of my friends who are clueless about any camping or outdoor stiff. Make me look badass. Hahahaha
I’ve really been thinking about moving my family to Russia. America is falling apart and I love the Russian people and the country is vast and beautiful. When I think of Russia I think of resilience and strength.
Let's remember he is Danish. A Dane living in Russia. Lars is ex Danish military who has a Russian wife and is living in the Russian countryside. That does make a difference in my eyes. I love this channel.
Very sensible! Feather sticks on a larger scale; it seems that in many cases (here in the 'West', at least) the emphasis for camping gear is light weight, and an axe is not, so for fire building, small, knife-made feather sticks are more common. Also, in many cases, open fires are discouraged so fire-making skills are neglected.
In the western US where I've done most of my camping, it's very dry and forest fire danger is always high. Like you say, campfires are almost always discouraged if not outright banned (national parks especially), stoves only. It's kind of a bummer but has become normal for me.
@@PassifloraCerulea In the East, there are often so many campers that woods are endangered by the foraging for fuel or there's simply no firewood to be had.
@@petesheppard1709 Not surprised. I don't want to tell people not to go out and enjoy nature, but even in the West there are a lot of people and it makes an impact.
Hey Lars, you should do more videos on how you preserve food such as "dried fish" or canned moose. Those are topics that are being lost in western society.
I recall this method being mentioned in the old boy scouts and Boys Life magazines, so published circa 40s-50s being on library shelves thru early 70s... What with the public trust of Boy Scouts thrown the window last 30-40 years doubt really many read any if that old stuff. But honestly Lars, joking aside, how many authors in the West are going to mention a Russian /Siberian Method for anything? I wouldn’t doubt some north american natives do that method...I know I have seen it used.
I don't know how commonly they're used, or if any native cultures in North America also developed this method. But Feather Sticks are not totally unknown here. Numerous American survival channels feature episodes on feather sticks, but since at least a few are from Alaska there's a chance that the method was carried from Siberia to Alaska by early Russian colonists who then transferred the technique to Alaskan natives, who in turn transmitted it to later American settlers. This doesn't exclude the possibility that Alaskan natives actually taught the Russian colonists, who then brought this knowledge back to Siberia when they returned after the colony was sold, but if the technique is widely used through out Siberia this scenario seems less likely. The other trouble is feather sticks are impossible to produce with a stone axe, and almost totally depend on the availability of metal tools, which many North American native cultures had never developed. Siberian natives, even if they didn't possess metal working technology themselves, could trade for them with various cultures, primarily Russians and Chinese, much earlier than North American natives could.
In a way, Siberians were the first Americans, c. 20,000 years ago. They knew what was out there then, to last near the arctic circle, and their wisdom still holds utility to this day. Lest we never forget, all, our ancestors.
Odd all the dry small pine for starting a fire split 🤣 ya okay I know this isn't a survival splitting kindling when nature supplies it! And it's usually the only dry wood that one can find on rain or wet conditions! Pine or fir is the greatest
During my time in the Canadian bush we always carried matches, an axe and Silva Ranger compass. Most days we would just brake off small dead branches from conifers to use as tinder. When it’s raining and all the fuel is wet then we would make shaving as you did in this video. Without a saw we would just make deep blazes into the dead tree, to produce kindling from the shavings. Forestry and mining exploration workers didn’t carry or use big knives but just used their axes.
I always carry industrial strength fire staters from camping/fireplace sections of store for emergences . I’m to old and lazy to take chances any more with survival. You always want to have a dead simple method of starting fires in an emergency.
During my time in the Canadian bush we always carried matches, an axe and Silva Ranger compass. Most days we would just brake off small dead branches from conifers to use as tinder. When it’s raining and all the fuel is wet then we would make shaving as you did in this video. Without a saw we would just make deep blazes into the dead tree, to produce kindling from the shavings. Forestry and mining exploration workers didn’t carry or use big knives but just used their axes.
i learned this from air cadet survival training, we actually shave them down a bit thinner. it always impressed the shit out of people when ive used them to start fires with wet wood in the rain.
I surveyed 30 years in the north.
I carried a hatchet that fits in my cruising vest, Silva Ranger, Swiss folding knife with saw and space blanket.
..our first aid kit comprised of a roll of electricians' tape and a large womens' sanitary napkin. I added an eye-cup.
I was doing this to start the fire 30+ years ago my dad taught me thus as a child it was our standard Firestarting technique. Everyday after school would do this. %10000000 the best way.
I learned to make fires properly from youtube. Because I live in an area that is mostly fir and spruce, the method I liked most was combining fatwood shavings with feather sticks. The trees here are smaller and windblown, especially on the coast, so larger logs are not available.
Love that axe. I need a better axe. I make feather sticks to light my fire at home but using my sheath knife and on a much smaller scale. I didn't catch what wood that was that Lars used. Oh and...Lars out in the snowy forest without his trusty joint of fatty bacon....what the hell....that has disquieted me! Just a bit of dried fish.... In my mind 'Lars equals "all that funky stuff", fatty bacon joint, Siberian log fire, "doing something awesome" and laughter!' "Do something awesome" is probably the best life advice I have ever heard, and it resonates in me every time he says it...."Get out and do something awesome!" Bloody good advice Lars.
I'm from northern sweden and we do this. Sometimes even with smaller sticks just by using a knife
Hi Lars, I've seen you mentioned this earlier, that this metod is not used anywere in europe. I'm from the north of Sweden and i've always been using this metod to start a fire, my dad taught me this when I was a little kid. I've also seen it widely used by many.
Great content as usual, thanks!
Here in Finland just about anyone who has ever been outside knows about this technique.
@murmenaattori6 Yes It's very common.
Think ahead, preparations always make the next step better, especially when you are cold and want warmth.
Great content for the morning time here in Canada!
Thank you from Minnesota I’ve been doing it that way for ever
I remember how my granny used to do this and thats in Portugal Awesome
I learned this from you years ago and has served me well a few times
Using my hatchet or ax has been my go to feather stick method for years. Also it's easier to hold the axe with mittens than it is a knife.
Stay warm…also really like your tracked buggy…
Excellent videos. This reminds me of when I was a kid to keep warm once my brother and I were tasked with peeling a log in the middle of winter. We took the bark off of a log and some of the log shavings and burnt the bark to keep warm while we peeled the log with our axe. Many thanks, this brings back old memories. All the best to you and your family.
Hum we do that in Sweden as well.
Swedes and Finns are also smart guys :)
@@SurvivalRussia I guess so :) it is a good way to get the fire going :)
Hey Lars. Good to c u. I have been doing that. Even before I was, in the Canadian Boy Scouts. It is very nice of you. To remind people, of that information. Thank you. Cheers 🍻
Expert tips are awesome. Thank you. Refresher in expert tips is awesome too. Thank you some more.
Weather this ‘storm’, stay this new course until 🤔🤔🤔
❤❤❤ You and All Your Loved Ones.
May His Hand of Protection Be Over You All !!!
More people should try to learn from the natives around where they live. Not only a good way to preserve culture but also it might be important for our survival in the future; who knows!
Hi Lars good tip my friend, and alot easier making feather sticks and kindling all in one go, brilliant. Thanks for another interesting video mate, stay safe, best wishe's to you and your's, Stuart UK.
Thanks 👍
I've made larger feather sticks like these for many years. They work very well with the smaller feather sticks to quickly get your fire going strong. I usually use my kukri to make them and to split kindling.
This is the stuff we love to watch and learn. Keep up the good fight!
Excellent technique! I have indeed seen you do that before and I think it's extremely important skill to know. And, you're right, most people don't do it that way.
Good to know :)
Watch your channel...and apparent we both watch this one too.🤣
Thanks!👍
@@philmickey7247 Excellent. I love watching the videos that Lars puts out as he is from such a different part of the world that there are unique things that he knows that are not common to us in the Eastern Woodlands of the United States.
@@WayPointSurvival Exactly!
Thanks!👍
As awesome as Always Lars. Greetings from Germany.
Fire day in Pennsylvania tomorrow, thanks for the inspiration.
I want to do these things, but, OLD and living too, too away from nature. But, it is fun to watch you fo the things AND to watch someone who lives it instead of someone with a camera who lives in the city and pretends! Good work, carry on!
Hi Lars!
Funny with this native fire and so on. If it works for them - good. I personally try to make a thick bed of coals and than add some log time to time. Coals give tones of heat. These siberian method and finnish log over another..... well they are long lasting but it is difficult to warm up a whole body. This is just my personal opinion and experience. And yes, axe is my go to tool especially in the cold weather.
Regards
Always enjoy your videos and experience. Thanks for what you do.
@3:55 It's called a "chisel grind."
Of course :) .....
I've never seen the feather stick being used in my part of northern Canada other than by me from watching you do it .
I enjoy your survival training videos on this channel. I may never be in a survival situation, but just in case it does happen, I pay close attention to your video's instructions.
Thank you for offering your time and expertise.
You can come to russia and try out what you've learned 😂🙏🏻🇺🇸❤🇷🇺
Cheers All!!!
The evenk people call these kindling sticks "quagamda". Russians call it "petushki". In the village, wood chips are usually made from straight-layered pine or spruce logs, which are pre-dried on a stove. Previously, such sticks illuminated the dwelling, were called "luchina", which were rubbed off with animal fat for long-term fire
Valuable input!! Thank you!! 🥰✌️🇨🇦
I’m a city boy and am amazed at how much you know about survival in extreme weather! Been watching you for years brother 😎🤙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Good lesson you are teaching us!! Thank you!!
You surprise us all the time 😊👏🏻 hello from Russia 😊
Hello 😊
We still do it this way here me and my family in northen sweden.
Where I live it's all hardwood trees. We just burn seasoned year old wood most times. It's not nearly as cold as your house. Your tools won't work our trees as easily. These trees we got is alot tougher than that straight grain wood your working. Your videos are super cool. Hickory,white and red oak, pin oak, black walnut, gum, sycamore, poplars, cottonwoods, pecan, cherry, cypress and so forth. The worst tree for me is a willow oak tree. The limbs are the most agrivating I've dealt with. God bless you all way from west ky.
Short and sweet as we say.
Fire making is fun regardless how it is done.
We used to do that in Boy Scouts
Hello from Oklahoma! Good Video. Always an informative fun video. I like your method for feather sticks. I'm going to try it this weekend. We do not get the snow y'all do. But its wet and cool. Around 0 to 10 C. Thanks for all U do! 👍👍 God Bless!🙏
My fellow American 🫡🇺🇸❤️🇷🇺
Thank you , Lars .
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You are very welcome. Thank you too :)
Thanks for the video Lars!!!
Best Channel on TH-cam..!
Thanks buddy :)
Thank-you! You can also get they call ""Fatwood from pine trees. Very good! Look on TH-cam!
When this guy does a number two in the woods, does he call it a Lars Bar ? I would.
great information
I've seen it been used in Finland.
You're tough my friend. You don't have to prove it to me! (lol) Thanks for showing me this.
thanks
That's a great method👍
Good video Lars , have a great day , thanks for sharing , God bless brother !
Thanks, you too!
Lars I think if you make merch you should go with a design with “all that funky stuff” on it.
Makes me smile every time
Don’t forget Tra la la! 😂
Cheers
Good job Lars! Love ya bro!
Hi! That's how I usually start a fire. Sometimes, in wet conditions, I use some finer feathers for the initial flame, but overall this is working quite well. Greetings from the northeast of Bavaria.
Servus!
@@SurvivalRussia Perfect Bavarian! 😉
Keep up the great work ! you are the best Survival we have !! Rollo 34
Vindicated!!! Thanks for showing this LOL. I've been doing this for years, mostly when I can't be bothered processing a lot of wood ad nauseum. I'll no longer feel guilty about being lazy!!!
Excellent!
An awesome method thanks for sharing Lars
Thanks for watching Viper!
🙌🏻 Very cool! I need to give this a go!
If you don't have any small sticks, this will help :)
@@SurvivalRussia I went out to record how ever I could, Lets see if it works out I don't have dry fire wood at home I had to harvest what ever I could from the wilderness.
Thanks Lars for showing your videos, you saved me time when making firewood for bbq :D Siberian fire methods za pobedu! :D
Cheers Lars !!!
My Russian brother greetings from Serbia. People who need to learn this very basic better never stay outdoors alone because if they can’t figure out this simple trick how in the world will they start a fire with bow and sticks or build a shelter.
In the west... this is in the Boy Scout handbook :) We just call it a 'fuzz stick' and use a knife to whittle the feathers.
in the old ones, new ones seem to be all tranny garbage
Awesome
Good demonstration.
👋🥶👍
Thanks 👍
They work well for sure in my grandfathers hunt camp if you couldn't make those and leave them at the ready for the next fire 🔥 or person arriving you were asked to not return. Now there's strict protocol. Grandad had RULES !! 👍 I can still make them 🤣👍
Right on!
The "western bushcraft" aka American style TODAY relies heavily on Ferrocerium rods for fire starting so the feather sticks by default have to be very fine and light to catch the spark and start burning. Big feathers like those are obviously far more suited to matches or coals. But of course, you know this, my brother.
Bark is a little fire resistant. I usually strip the bark off the initial big logs to help the fire get started. I also scar up the sides of the logs to help the fire take. Once the fire is going and the coals are hot, the bark doesn't matter anymore. Just throw whatever big logs on the fire you want.
Birch bark is very flammable, as it has a high content of bitumen.
@@SurvivalRussia That's not birch though.
@@Darkice77 Pine.
Good stuff Lars thanks for this good content!
Honestly, that is not a huge fire. Next video will be.
good job!!
really nice that you keeep making these old school style videos, its been a while since youv done the gear reviews and stuff ;)
Haha cool love it. I'll look so cool when I do this in front of my friends who are clueless about any camping or outdoor stiff. Make me look badass. Hahahaha
Love your channel! Thank you so much!
Hi Lars, you look after yourself my friend.
looks very cold. Hope you all are doing well. Tell the family I say hello. Hank
It was a chilly day. That's for dang sure! :)
I’ve really been thinking about moving my family to Russia. America is falling apart and I love the Russian people and the country is vast and beautiful. When I think of Russia I think of resilience and strength.
Thank you, sir, for showing the world how a Russian actually acts. Learned something new as well.
Let's remember he is Danish. A Dane living in Russia. Lars is ex Danish military who has a Russian wife and is living in the Russian countryside. That does make a difference in my eyes. I love this channel.
great job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Enjoyed the video! Tell me where along the Siberian Railway do you live?
general proximity please. I’m trying to determine how for north you are.
Very sensible! Feather sticks on a larger scale; it seems that in many cases (here in the 'West', at least) the emphasis for camping gear is light weight, and an axe is not, so for fire building, small, knife-made feather sticks are more common. Also, in many cases, open fires are discouraged so fire-making skills are neglected.
In the western US where I've done most of my camping, it's very dry and forest fire danger is always high. Like you say, campfires are almost always discouraged if not outright banned (national parks especially), stoves only. It's kind of a bummer but has become normal for me.
@@PassifloraCerulea In the East, there are often so many campers that woods are endangered by the foraging for fuel or there's simply no firewood to be had.
@@petesheppard1709 Not surprised. I don't want to tell people not to go out and enjoy nature, but even in the West there are a lot of people and it makes an impact.
Hey Lars, you should do more videos on how you preserve food such as "dried fish" or canned moose. Those are topics that are being lost in western society.
A fan of the long burn fire!
Thanks!
I recall this method being mentioned in the old boy scouts and Boys Life magazines, so published circa 40s-50s being on library shelves thru early 70s... What with the public trust of Boy Scouts thrown the window last 30-40 years doubt really many read any if that old stuff. But honestly Lars, joking aside, how many authors in the West are going to mention a Russian /Siberian Method for anything? I wouldn’t doubt some north american natives do that method...I know I have seen it used.
I don't know how commonly they're used, or if any native cultures in North America also developed this method. But Feather Sticks are not totally unknown here. Numerous American survival channels feature episodes on feather sticks, but since at least a few are from Alaska there's a chance that the method was carried from Siberia to Alaska by early Russian colonists who then transferred the technique to Alaskan natives, who in turn transmitted it to later American settlers. This doesn't exclude the possibility that Alaskan natives actually taught the Russian colonists, who then brought this knowledge back to Siberia when they returned after the colony was sold, but if the technique is widely used through out Siberia this scenario seems less likely.
The other trouble is feather sticks are impossible to produce with a stone axe, and almost totally depend on the availability of metal tools, which many North American native cultures had never developed. Siberian natives, even if they didn't possess metal working technology themselves, could trade for them with various cultures, primarily Russians and Chinese, much earlier than North American natives could.
tip top
Hej Lars sometimes just do it 😉🇩🇰
In a way, Siberians were the first Americans, c. 20,000 years ago. They knew what was out there then, to last near the arctic circle, and their wisdom still holds utility to this day.
Lest we never forget, all, our ancestors.
Alaskan and North East Siberian natives understands each others language. Not identical languages, but very close.
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Hi Lars, what jacket you are wearing in this video?
It's a Russian jacket which is not available in shops.
Good vid. Nice axe.
Thanks 👍
Nice content! I like your style. Do you know where i can get an awesome seberian axe like yours?
Thanks! I don't know. I made this one myself.
I live in Indiana and I was taught to do it that way, I thought everyone did that.
Odd all the dry small pine for starting a fire split 🤣 ya okay I know this isn't a survival splitting kindling when nature supplies it! And it's usually the only dry wood that one can find on rain or wet conditions! Pine or fir is the greatest
Not many tubers would go out in that weather just to video, let alone stay overnight. brrrrrrr.
During my time in the Canadian bush we always carried matches, an axe and Silva Ranger compass. Most days we would just brake off small dead branches from conifers to use as tinder. When it’s raining and all the fuel is wet then we would make shaving as you did in this video. Without a saw we would just make deep blazes into the dead tree, to produce kindling from the shavings. Forestry and mining exploration workers didn’t carry or use big knives but just used their axes.
I always carry industrial strength fire staters from camping/fireplace sections of store for emergences . I’m to old and lazy to take chances any more with survival. You always want to have a dead simple method of starting fires in an emergency.
Inner tube does the trick.