The 1 Log Fire Challenge

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all right oh this is Mitch in native survival

it's Iranian for a couple days so I figured I would try a little test the one log fire stay tuned okay so the test is to see if you can just take a log and make a fire with a filler rod so usually use your knife process it down into various stages of fuel excuse me and see if you can build a fire with nothing but that log no other tender nothing else just a fella rod and a knife and a lock let's get to guess I have a pine log nothing special and said everything's wet nothing's damp it's been rained on for a couple days including today just stop the reading a few minutes ago that's a cool one that's a new one for me never done a double feather simultaneously look at that there's a smaller feather within a larger feather that's crazy

maybe it's a viable Jack loss strikes again

sings an angel so just been plugging along making curls making some thicker so they have more burn time than others like that one someone can do very gentle put some of the gentle ones aside strike with my fellow ride some good curls so I absolutely have enough curls hair for a fire my log is hardly even touched hardly even touch them not even halfway through this section of it and what I have curls it's definitely a large amount as you can see it's about the size of a basketball that'll be good enough I'm gonna make a couple that are super light that will ignite very easily that's a very good one right there I'm just going to the little ridges

it's another really good one I'm very very lightly making feathers

there's a couple more I just made absolutely nothing to these alright so before I ignite the little stuff I'm gonna take a couple long pieces off this log by Abbott awning it not a big fan of its awning but it does get the job done it's basically what I'm looking for I'm gonna make a couple of those probably about five or six and I've already take night my fire should be good to go in a minute okay so here's my base for my fire little raft of sticks it's just chunks from the pine log as I was making feathers in Brittani that came off okay here's my mass of feathers and see it's quite large probably bigger than a basketball at this point over here I have some smaller feathers I'm gonna try to ignite my fire with it over here I just have some pine kindling that equate to thumb size sticks so I have my tinder bundle I have my initial tinder and I have my sticks on top of that I still have this huge log I've only taken not even a quarter of it probably alright so here's some of the real delicate feathers I'm gonna place them in the shape of a flower petals so I'm gonna have one going up and I'll take another one I'll have one to the right of it let's just work better the left I think

just like that now I'm gonna put another one to the other side just like this see that so is one going straight and the other two are on the other angles I'm gonna put my fella rod right here and strike straight down so if I get my majority of my spark straight ahead it's gonna hit this coil ignite or off to the side or ignite those as well I have at least they'll be nearby let's get to it bought a moisture near my feathers are starting to absorb that you can already feel them they get a little pool or the touch that's not good okay

oops

sometimes they move around on you a little bit you have to work with it two little fidgety at times that's okay there we go nope one up try again

nope didn't make it my pint smells good starts to burn okay that's two starts but I couldn't grow so went out really quick time to hit it again

all right starting to grow this time put my equipment away put all my curls on there put my kindling on there and I could put this log on there I suppose but I don't really want to burn it as soon as I'm gonna be leaving in a couple minutes while I'm done so the one log fire with feather sticks use pine just making sure that the kindling is well off into burning instead of just the feathers

what it is as you can see well sticks are clearly sustaining themselves so yeah I don't want to burn this log if I don't have to because I'm going to be leaving in a couple minutes anyways but obviously I could throw the log on here if I wanted to all right so I just did that would know let's just so you guys know there's no funny business or anything just move to camera with its stool burner so let's move into native survival thank you so much for watching this video on how to take a single log this one was made out of pine make a fire out of it just a Ferro rod the key to this is making a ton of feathers in my opinion if you have a knife which allows you to take a very small flame an inch or less and drastically change in and cumulative ly alter it and increase it so you go from one inch the two feet like that throw five six seven eight ten twelve whatever you want pieces of kindling chunks from here you can split them down to pencil size I use thumb size what was even worried about it spine and once those are burning and you're all set you can just go from there and keep adding more if you want you can go to a log just depends you have to build it properly so it can go to the next stage because the feathers act as the tinder bundle they act as the initial burst that takes a small ignition and turns it into something fierce now you have to harness that before it goes away quick and then you have to turn that into kindling which is what's going on here all those feathers are gone that's just some kindling running away and then obviously we move up to logs and that takes much longer to burn this kindling will burn for probably 20 minutes before it's like it's gone

log obviously it's gonna burn for an hour in a 45 minutes to an hour depending on the fire that's working with if I'm you know if I throw a log like this this size into a raging inferno it's gonna go up like a match stick and be gone in 12 seconds but if you do it on a smaller fire logs like this can last longer half-hour 45 minutes maybe even an hour so I do appreciate your time appreciate you views thank you so much take care have a good day