Lighting Feather Sticks with a FerroRod - Winter Fire lighting

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as much data survival and say I'm going to go over building a fire in the winter what it takes to get down to a usable surface don't go away all right so we want to do is we want to have a snow away near this so you get down to the fourth floor so you just keep doing that make a perimeter or on your fire give you fire some room plus it's melts the water doesn't go into your fire and stop causing problems I always start the top work my way down so I'm not lifting all that snow at once I'm going to keep out this and I'll get back to you all right so just to give you guys an idea of how deep it is standing it so snow is bony high so this is what I want one workable surface down the forest floor so I can stop building my fire on this and I'm gonna go ahead and do that now so I'm gonna go collect some materials I'll be right back with you okay so you want to do is build a raft one way and then a raft the other way so I'm gonna finish building my raft it's almost there and I'm gonna start back up when I'm at the next stage alright so for my next stage like to produce some feather sticks would curls like that very easily you know you're in the the dry section of the wood that's what I'm gonna make very fine curls so I can ignite them with my fire out with my Ferro rod down right there make a little bundle of very fine shavings right here second catch with spark

and by angling my knife I can direct where it's gonna go so if I angle this way when I cut it's gonna push this way my angle this way I lift my arm it's gonna go that way so if I drop my wrist it's gonna go to my left if I raise my knife it's gonna go to my right and I always put them in the same spot from the striking with a firesteel so I won't condense

okay so hopefully you guys can see this there's actually two stages at the initial stage over here which is to catch sparks very light and fluffy and then I kind of have the became the kindling stage back here where the shavings are a little thicker a lot longer much more much more airflow going through here to ignite the next stage of my tinder all right so I'm gonna make a few of these and I'll get back to you guys

all right what I'd like to do is harvest some of these really fine shavings and I make like a flower with them where I'll place place a shaving like this I'll go out of 45 next to it and then another 45 the opposite way so it's like three in front of me free behind and I put my fire steel right with a right would they meet so all the curls will be sitting right here ready to be ignited all right it's just what I was telling you about some get down the frame so my fire steel is gonna go here strike this way do these these shavings soon turn that around for you guys to see okay all right so now I'm going to ignite my Chavous smell a little pop here we go transfer it over to my bundle my friend the stick rather my other feather stick crossing over it and the third over that put my knife away and my fire tool away it's a foul rod in this case obviously now my kid mine I put it I used I usually use an X works really well that way

and once the flames start to break through like they are right now that's when I start adding more fuel but I wait until it's not just one little piece it's really the whole the whole base the whole circle like right now this can start adding a little fuel as you use a star pattern forms a teepee good airflow nice high fire it's easy to change into other fire styles other fire ladies later on so I'm gonna let it build up now now as you can see it's very easy to build a fire in Enola winter even when there's you know we have maybe two and a half feet of snow at least just standing in but you have to get down to the earth and I like to use feather sticks there reason why I use feather sticks is because with all the snow you know all the grasses and things like that that are really dry good tinder they're all covered so you have to start looking at other things things in trees and like feather sticks for your kindling and tinder to get you know to get your fuel started alright so by using feather sticks

I really never run out of ignitable fuel is this always going to be sticks in the woods as long as I'm in wood once you know like I was saying it's it's harder to find some of the fluffy material under all the snow and you know you really have to know how to be adaptable to find tinder so this is a good fire now it's a good sustainable fire so I'm pretty happy with this and I can keep building from here on so I'm gonna change angles and be right back with you

all right what's been mentioned native survival thanks for joining me today and now this is how I build a fire in the winter and I appreciate your views your comments and you support I'll see you the next one take care