Simple fire lighting

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In this video I show you a simple method for lighting a fire under ideal conditions with the best available sources. once you have mastered lighting a fire under ideal conditions you can then begin to test yourself in less than ideal conditions!

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hi guys what I've got for you today is a rehash of a video I've done previously and what I'm gonna be showing you is the basic techniques for fire lighting so today what I'm going to do everything is in prime condition it's not going to be a struggle this is the easiest conditions Latvia is it's warm it's dry all the stuff in the floors i if you concede just behind me there's plenty of devastation from recent storms we've had it which has brought down lots of this this dry these dry large twigs so today this is the easiest way to make your fire and what I'll do from this is I'll an progress on and go and make fires for you under slightly more difficult but conditions as we go along for today everything is in prime conditions it can be really easy and this is the basic techniques so what I've done is one of the most important things remember with violating is I've taken quite a bit of time to pre prepare all my stuff that is a key thing I'll say this a few times out the video patience and taking your time makes it a lot easier to get your fire going so what I've done is I've pre collected my bundles of firewood here I've got some kind of string thickness or pencil led thickness I've heard it referred to nice bundle that rates gone that's all nice and dry and then I've got my second stage ready to go all within easy arm's reach so I'm going to kind of look around for it I've got slightly thicker than that I'd say but half the width of my little finger thickness and then from that point I then get into pencil thickness bits of wood and from this point then you just gradually go up go up and up the size of what I'd say double the size of wood each time for your fire so first thing I prepared is down here on the floor which is what what's call our fire bridge I've only got a small lakes and we be like I'm going I thing a small fire for what the fire bridge does is act to protect the fire from the cold damp ground by raising it up also the gaps in between the sticks I'm not really push them together too much helps to draw oxygen in and through it and quite importantly it also protects the ground from our fire if we were on dry Pete ground this will help to raise that fire or Puff the ground for a period of time so please be careful that so get started we're going to use a type of fuel called tinder and for my tinder today I'm just going to using

more balls really good little thing to have had with your cotton warbirds because you can pull them apart they make absolutely fantastic tinder take a flame really easily and and yeah they just get going really easy and what we'll do as we progress on the fire lighting techniques is I start to show you natural tinder bundles that you can find and make so I'm doing is I'm keeping this a nice bundle but i'll actually pulling it apart to let oxygen get in as you can see when you get these cotton wool balls they're actually quite tightly packed so you just need to pull them apart ever so slightly making sure they stay intact keep them together I've got that in the center now i'm going to get my pencil led thickness or string thickness split that into two bundles ready to go on how awful not to mention i've also collected some shavings of fatwood here as well just to help either get the fire going that was brilliant it burns really really hot and really slowly so that all goes are called flame to work with initially so I'm now going to ignite the cotton wall once that's Bernie I'll give it about a second to get going and then I will start to put my fuel on in states and you hope you'll see the fire growing so here we go let's ignite this so I'm going to use my flint and steel for the stills brilliant and so I ferrocerium rod and steel it's not flint this is really good because it works even when it's wet and you get lots of sparks out of it quite easily and there we go there's our tin to go in I'll put my foot and steal away give that a second then on goes the fact then our first bundle of pencil fit so you'll see that fire drop so what we're waiting for is those flames to come up through that bundle aboard I just put on you just about to see them starting to come out here and once they turn into real flames give it a second patience is key remember i'm going to get my second bundle on i'm going to put it on a slightly different angle to allow oxygen to get through again you'll see that fire drop i get ready with my next set off a lot much more breeze out tonight yeah the lack of a breeze has made this slightly more difficult it would be but it does mean the smoke looks pretty much go straight up so again you can see those flames starting to come through the top of our wood there and then I can start adding my slightly thicker pieces and I don't be too don't rush this part this is a bit most people i find rush out this one is going to take slightly longer to actually ignite itself so you've already got a nice bed of embers in there

something I forgot to mention when you're looking for your wood to tell if it's dry through one thing that you want to listen for as you snap it it snaps a nice clean break and you get a nice loud snapping some that wasn't the best one let's do it at all see ya a nice sharp sound that's how you can tell you all to drive through generally crackling away nicely there it's slightly thicker pieces on be very careful at this point not to smother your fire again it's all down to not rushing to taking your time let it really heat up don't be what about giving a little bit below

and I was taught in my confidence so as you can see there's not much actual flame at this point but don't be disheartened by that it's still very hot and it will eventually take and some more little thin bets on this nice nipples appear when you struggling that we are because there's no oxygen getting to it give it a little bit of power something just really feed the oxygen

we got as you can see it's not like you usually see it on TV just go instantly unless your stuff is incredibly dry now this Y is going really nicely now so if I wanted to make this into a bigger fire I can i'll be starting to add slightly larger pieces but really start a little fire today just with demonstrating how to actually light it so just slowly build up and build it up until you've got the fire that you need and that's all there is to it now remember if you go out somewhere and you're like the fire always make sure it's safe or secure it's not going to affect the ground around it make sure you've got permission to light the fire in that area particularly here in the UK you're not allowed to light a fire just anywhere and also make sure you clear up the area and Leave No Trace that fire when you have done I hope this has been useful to you guys thank you all for watching and we'll have some new videos up here as soon as possible thank you very much guys