PFODJ Ep 11 Wet Weather Fire Segment

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

Tags: Bushcraft,Survival,David Canterbury,Dave Canterbury,Pathfinder,The Pathfinder School,Archery,Hunting,Fishing,Camping,Primitive Skills,Fire,Water,Shelter,Navigation,First Aid,Search and Rescue,Signaling,Prepper,Preparedness,Self Reliance,Survivability,The 10 C's,Knives,Axes,Saws,Bow Drill,Ferrocerium Rod,Ferro Rod,Tarp,Hammock,Canteen,Cooking,Longhunter,Trapping

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okay I set this tarp up last night in its normal configuration because I knew it was going to rain but I still put a collection container in the form of a pot at the lowest point of my tarp where it is pulled down on the center line to a tree and that allowed it to collect some water and I would have collected much more had it been set up in a funnel type configuration and all the water had been funneled directly to one point that hid the tarp but for quick and down and dirty and just collecting water while you're sleeping at night you can see that that pot is about 3/4 of the way full and that's a 2 quart pot so I'll be able to use that for my morning coffee and we won't have to go to the creek what I'm laying in now was known by Francis Buzz ikot as the all-around combination camp outfit and he wrote about this in his book that was published in 1917 it's a piece of canvas that has a tubular form on one end and on both sides it also has a pocket at the top that can be used for stuffing for a cola or for also carrying items in federal fashion when it's rolled up the advantage of this type outfit is it can be used in hammock configuration like it is now it could also have pulse slid down the side tubes here be lifted up on to logs like a cot or it could be used as a ground cloth just sleep directly on the ground and it was combined with a wool blanket and all of these items were rolled up with spare clothing and a couple other things like that and your hygiene items in items that you really didn't want to lose or that you weren't protected in this pocket at the top and it will all be carried in bedroll fashion until you've got to your next camp it's a very versatile outfit when combined with the tarp this one's been out here through a rain last night and we had the tarp set up in a configuration to protect us from the rain and it did a really good job there's no water anywhere inside this nothing got into it last night we do have drip lines set up on the tarp as well as on the lines to channel that water down and away from the hammock so we caught some rainwater last night we need to heat that up this morning and knowing that it rained last night no we didn't have any firewood reserves underneath our tarp like we should have to kept it dry though it rained all day yesterday as well we're going to have to find material that we can start fire with and the most common ignition source of the period would have been the match so if you have a single match to light a fire in weather conditions like this you're going to have to build your fire leg correctly it's just as important to build a correct fire as it is to be able to light the fire almost anyone can strike a match or light a lighter but building a proper fire that you only have to do it one time is completely different so I've collected some pine here and basically it is just pine branches that were up off the ground on a fallen dead pine tree they're going to be wet and damp on the outside but this should be dry on the inside let's get started as I am collecting my materials anything that is in the trees like this icy pine right here in this tree anything that's fallen and is hanging high off the ground in these trees is going to be fairly dry those are going to be prime candidates for me to collect let's start my fire or build my fire there's a pine right here beside me any sticks on that pine tree they're sticking out are going to be dry they're also going to be the best place for me to find that wood areas like this on a tree where a branch has been cut off or the trees been injured in the past is going to secrete resinous SAP it's going to be highly flammable I'm definitely going to collect out or scrape that off with my knife and take that back as part of my fire leg because open flame will ignite that liquid very readily the first thing we want to do is we want to bring these pine branches over and if they snap they're dry on the inside so we're going to process this down to lots and lots of small pieces so that we have kindling for our fire and we'll separate that pile from larger things that are over pencil size that would be considered more like fuel but these smaller items that our needle size to pencil size are what we want to start our fire combined with a tinder bundle of sorts that we'll have to develop as well okay so we've forged everything that we need to start our fire and have a little bit of fuel to get it sustainable and I've got some Strangler vine here that's got a very loose bark on it that we can process with our knife to give us a good tinder bundle to put at the base of our fire I'll show you that in a minute but the first thing we need to do is we need to clear out a spot on the ground and we need to put some sticks on the ground at the base of where our fire is going to be so that we have something to build our fire on top of and it's not directly on the ground and that base doesn't have to be a real big or a labyrinth it can be made up of some of the pieces that you were going to use that are larger for fuel and things like that we just want something to set our tinder bundle on so it's not directly on the ground and then we're going to take our pile of sticks and we're just going to kind of put them in here in a loose tepee type fashion like this I'll bring the camera around so you can see what I'm doing but you're going to need a good pile of these sticks and most of this is pine and 90% of this was off the ground and I want to get this filled in really really well around the outside before I light it up remember that heat is going to rise so if I put a tinder bundle in the bottom of this the heat from that burning material is going to rise up into the canopy of this fire so we want to build that up really really good but we want plenty of airflow down here so we'll build this first and then we'll go to our tinder bundle okay well I can tell you is there's only one thing crappier than having to make a wet weather fire and that's having to make a wet weather fire twice so we want to make sure that we get this right the first time we've got our marbles match safe here we have our marbles wood craft knife and now we're going to bring in some of this tinder material and we can take the back of this knife and scrape this up just like this and it will shred that bark off the outside and that bark is what we're going to use for our initial tinder bundle so we're going to pile all that in one spot here as we pull it off and process it down again this stuff is not real dry but because it's so thin fine it will dry out quick and combust quickly so if we can put the open flame of a match in there for a few minutes or a few seconds we should get what we want as I starts to rain it becomes that much more important that we can do this quickly and effectively a little pine resin on my paint is there stick it to me all right one match see how a fire Li goes here now I'm just going to kind of crush this down over the top of a little bit like this let this flames rise into it and let it heat now as a flames break over the top I can start to put wood from the outside to the inside crisscross and as I go until the flames go above the fuel again then I'll add more start drying this vine out on the outside it'll burn really well once it's dried out

it doesn't matter whether we're using gear from the early 1920s like this marbles wood craft knife and this marbles match state that holds strike-anywhere type matches we can still easily affect our short term and longer term survivability as long as we have the skills to use these tools the knowledge of our surroundings and the resources on the landscape as well as in our kit