One Match Fire for BSA Bushcraft

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This video was Posted to our FB Group Yesterday in response to a challenge from a Young man doing a great job on the path to learning and teaching the art of Bushcraft-

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Video Transcription

okay guys well my buddy Abraham bus from BSA bushcraft put out a little challenge on the Pathfinder Learning Center page to make a one-match fire with no tools pretty simple process really I'm not a big fan of matches but I'm gonna do it because I like Abraham so I'm going to show you what I've collected up here everything I've collected has been collected by hand with no tools will process it with no tools the fire lay is the most important thing in getting yourself out of the wind to take advantage of what flame you have from that single match so we'll get this set up we'll fire it up okay so let's walk through what we've collected here I'll go a little at a time here we've got several different types of dead flower stalks here and these are point of the mono goldenrod and iron weed all of these are highly flammable so they make a very good initial area for your fire here at the base now the next thing we want is we want something that we can light very quickly and I've got some tulip poplar bark here that I've shredded up and that will take flame readily and let that flame rise up through our fire length on our initial layer which is all of those dead flower tops and weed stalks so we're going to break this up into a fine hairy mass that's going to quickly take flame and we're not going to bunch it up we're gonna leave it pretty loose and we're just going to put it right here at the base surrounded by these flower stalks I have some poplar bark here that hasn't been shredded all the way down that will give me longevity of the flame and I'm just going to spread that out in here leaving plenty of airspace pine needles I'm just gonna sprinkle them over the top again I want to leave plenty of airspace but they'll catch fire and they'll burn quickly I've got some pine sticks a couple cones I'm throwing those on the top and then just a series of sticks period different small sticks and things like that and something like this that you have you want this fire lay to be a couple feet tall when you're done and everything is taking advantage of updraft that's what you want open yourself up a spot here at the bottom to get flame in to move your stuff out of the way get your match and we're going to get ready to go so I'll bring the camera here so you guys can see how this goes up alright so we're going to open this up brand new pack of matches take one match out of the book and close the cover we're going to get right down here in our combustible material and lay our match right on top of things just like that

pull it over and let it eat that thing went up so fast and almost caught my camera on fire guys sorry about that I went to move it back it shut off on me but there you go there is our simple one match fire now all we have to do is add more kindling and fuel when we got plenty of time to do that okay Abraham hope that was good enough for your buddy and met your specifications of the one match fire using no tools for the processing remember deadweed tops and things like that are highly flammable most weed stems are hollow or have a soft pithy inside easy enough to break those up and expose those pithy areas all those flowers are going to be highly flammable pine needles are always King tulip poplar barks that you can shred by hand all of that stuff is highly combustible and building a high fire leg that the heat can rise up through take advantage of updraft from the bottom those are key elements as well as getting out of the wind to building a quick one match fire