Bushcraft Skills | Winter Warmers: Making a small fire for a brew

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In this video i demonstrate making a small fire in order to boil a kettle. this method is fatastic when you are out and about, its reallly quick, really simple and the fire even has a built in pot stand!

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alright guys so I'm out about doing a bit of filming today I'm about to make myself a brew but i thought i'd show you the process that i'm going to use for doing this because it's a really handy little trick so what i'm going to do is I'm going to create a very very small fire which will burn quite small and give me just enough heat and time burning to actually make a broom all it's going to do is boil a kettle then it will burn out a great thing about this little technique that I've been using is the fact that the fire itself kind of is almost like a built-in stove so to get myself started what I've done is I've got four pegs a roughly equal length and put spikes on the bottom of than these going to be driven into the ground will see that in a second and I've kept the tops of them as flat as I can sure the tops of them so I'll flatten them off with a knife and now hope that one's not much of a spike on it now three of these will suffice if that's all you've got well I've upped it before simply because it will give me a slightly sturdier Base to put my and my cattle on so let's have a look at how weird is this alright so all my stuff ready I've got my tinder and dry firewood ready to go so what I've got to do now is just to construct the kind of fire circle the fire area and the stove kind of top so using my pegs I'm just go drive these into the ground at distances I know we're going to be suitable for the kettle because it needs to be slightly the whole thing needs to be slightly narrower than kettle in order for the kettle to sit on it nice and securely I'm aiming to get these flat pieces roughly the same height so I've got a nice flat base to work on and this is really really handy because it means that like I'm working now on a very slight slope if i was using just a normal stove or whatever on this it's going to be off at a slight angle choose the cal to push all right now so it means that i can manage the kind of level but i want to be working out so they're pretty straight now you can see that kettle standing nice and flat level on that so I'm ready to go start the fire now one note about these little pegs that uses I've used green wood because the fires gonna be in the center of this I don't want it to burn out really quickly I don't want to burn these pegs because obviously my cattle it's going to fall so before I get before I like my tinder what I'm going to do is I'm actually nap reconstruct the fire inside this so I can just put my my lip tinder in there and get it going so I'm going to create a little base of this dry Bracken I've got here and what I'm going to try and do is leave myself a little opening here to put my my lips tinder into I've got some really dry fly or only a little bits of firewood whoops it's just pressing it all down a little bit there pretty much put it all in facing roughly same way about couple bits at different angles some of the sting still action so just to manage the weight of that tinder some bits on there and then obviously when it's lit the cat was going to sit on top of there and I'll just get my brew going so the next thing we've got do is I've got to like this so in order to light my little fire what I'm going to do is I'm going to use a bit of fatwood and I'm going to make myself a little base out of this bit of birch bark I've got here so I can clear a bit that loss away and what I'm going to do is I'm going to take some shavings off the spot which should theoretically take a spot so I'm gonna use the back of my knife to really get really fine shavings off this so that will take a spark so we can see the shaving starting to form here those you some dry fingers just peel those off and then get to take a spark

now using your back your knife in this way it's a really effective way getting really fine five fluff off the spot would rather than trying to get really fine shavings using the blade of it what's gone everywhere so and it's also used hardly my fat what kind of until it's been done so i'm gonna move this over to where the fire is so i spark into it and hopefully get this thing going so I'm going to use what more my fire tin it's a nice sturdy base to get this going just like my first back up a little bit just to make it a little bit easier now should be able to just throw a spark into this able to get the thing going so let's see how we get on go this by it I'm just going to pop straight into here hopefully I so get it going

so you see cattles almost bought almost boiled there the fires just on its last legs going to give it a look of a blur to give a bit more of a kick my cattle is almost boiled it's gonna stick a wee bit more on that wiggle up with a problem i've done here is i've just made it a little bit too high but not a big issue you know the kettle's boiling normally when i do this i am i don't have to actually feed it anymore would

but I've obviously been a little bit lacks due to filming so I'm not been paying as much attention i could have done little bit but it works really nicely obviously the conditions and the weather and stuff affect this I had a little bit sort of light in it due to the fact the grounds really wet but I got it there in the end just you know using those well practice by lighting skills all it's happened here is the fight it's just move out slightly what's a great alternative to using a stove and it means that you don't have to get a massive fire going just to get a brew on it gives you that nice little stand here really really like this method really fond of it how's the water dude what was pretty much going on there you go you can see it just once it gets going what's the wind hit it just really really goes if they want one bit of a problem with this is because the way it's stacked in it just struggle a little bit to get to get some of that nothing moving straight or especially when you've got a bit of a breeze like this and it just stops a bit of spit locks you get there but once it's going it does really well you

why is burned down it's anything left to do now is to make my break cough it tuck it right way we will do what the smoke is I have just got my Bush box going because the weather taken a bit of a turn for the worse there we go there's more brew ready spoiled enough water for two cups of tea or coffee or whatever so it's gonna take those pegs out check that's all out and cover it over to kind of Leave No Trace ash and charcoal there but there you go that's all there is to it there you go guys that's all there is to make a nice little land nice little kind of natural stone I like to call it I hope this has been useful for you it's an amazing method point especially when you're on the trail all it takes is a handful of dry wood a couple of green sticks and your kettle to boil your brewing so there you go another winter warm for you really really quick and simple way of making a break that's what you guys you