Creating a Fire with Aspen Punk wood and the Sun

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afternoon folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the path on your school and we're out here in a wildlife area and I found a fallen Aspen and I'm in an area where there's lots and lots of these Aspen that are on the ground but this one that's fallen and got lodged between two trees and it's starting to rot away now and become punk wood and punk wood is that dead wood that's very spongy it's starting to rot but it's not completely rotted away to dust yes so when you squeeze it in your fingers you'll see that it sponge you like but it won't crumble into dust and for a solar Ember Aspen is ideal if you can find the correct punk wood and that's we're gonna look at today so stay with me alright so I'm giving you a view from underneath here and when I push on these pieces of wood that are very spongy in other words look compress but there's still fairly large pieces that can be chipped off of here especially if I'm careful about it I use my knife because I don't want to break them into real small pieces because I want a fairly large Ember so what I'm going to do is I'm going to come in here and get between a layer of this bark and just kind of feel my way in there and try to knock off a piece that's pretty good-sized into my hand like this and if I can get a couple of those now that one there is not spongy so it's not there yet it's not where I want it this one will compress this one will not this one still feels very much like wood just snaps like dead dry wood whereas this one will compress in my fingers not exactly what I'm looking for and I'm going to combine a couple of those together to make my Ember all right so this is our second prize right here and this is the inner bark of the aspen tree and we want to get a good pile of this stuff that we can process down and once we've gotten a few good pulls of this off the side of this tree we can also come back in here with our knife to get there really far and stuff just like this stuff like this but don't underestimate this tree because even when you think you've got it all off of there there's still a lot left you're not seeing that 90-degree spine will help you to collect that up for the center collect a bunch of this up get us a nice big bird nest built and then we'll get to make it so far all right so I have collected a bird nest of material I have these small pieces of spongy with what I'm gonna lay right here now I'm going to get into my fire kit on my belt and get my magnifying glass out and I've set myself down in an area where I've got good hard sunlight coming between two trees here and the ones I don't lose that I'm gonna be in pretty good shape so what I want to do is I want to move this camera in so you guys can see what I'm doing to create this number then I'll try to move it out before I blow the bird nest aflame okay I think I've got this

camera and about the best light I'm gonna get here okay I think I've got this camera and about the best light I'm gonna get here so what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to that I collected these few pieces here and get the ends of them together almost like a small match and I'm going to kind of compress them a little bit and pitch them off to create more surface area right on the end of this and that's where I hope to create my ember so I'll find my magnification spot here of course my son would go away on me right when I do this and I'm trying to burn in the end of this Punk would so that I can use the length of it as an ember and I'm kind of moving the magnifying glass around a little bit to get it burning well and then as long as I keep giving it oxygen that should not go out so now I'm gonna lay it in my bird nest and move the camera so you guys can see what's going on

okay so the reason for this video was a I wanted to show you how to affect the fire without charred materials and without any kind of magical fungus off the trees it can be done with certain types of punk wood as well that you can find commonly in the Eastern woodlands but the softer the wood is the better it will work and that's why I believe Aspen is the best thing in the Eastern woodlands poplar will probably work as well as willow but I've only worked with or tried Aspen because it's very prevalent around here there's a lot of them they're dead and down around here and it worked very very well I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for saying to you for my school for our family for our business call our sponsors and structures affiliates and friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys