Doan Magnesium - 3 methods of fire

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We love the Doan Magnesium Fire Starting Tool and have used it for decades, it's reliable, nearly unbreakable, and very hot at 5400 deg F. It will get a fire going. We have several ways we like to use it, and we show them here. To see our kit go to http://wildernessinnovation.com

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wilderness innovation real survival kids survival shelter simplifying survival at wilderness innovation calm fire starter kit or FSK as we call it comes in a sturdy Cordura pouch has Molly setup on the back for attachment has a couple of D rings on it also you can carabiner it or whatever you can also slide a can also slide a belt through it for belt attachment and inside the kit velcro closure we have two pockets in the back pocket we have we have our concentrator paper or many roll of that we've got our down magnesium stick on a stretch lanyard in the front pocket we've got our fire sticks and we're going to cover we're going to cover the kit this morning on how to use it just a little bit of a note on this video this is this one's aimed primarily at our customers that have purchased our kit and so just a little video demo but we thought we'd go ahead and put it on YouTube because can be useful for anybody who's already got a mag stick or something like that so let's get into what we're going to cover here today okay so we're going to show you today is with the FSK our fire starter kit there are three best methods that we think recommend to use infants starting a fire with it and number one we're going to show you is the we call it the concentrator that's for a very fast fire very minimal use of magnesium off your stick and for instant flame the next method we're going to show you is use the fire sticks and this is probably kind of a rare case when you use this but it can be a convenience that one when your tinder you have difficulty finding a good tinder can it can be an assistant and assist for you on that so that can help you out quite a bit using the fire sticks and the final method we're going to use we call it naked I know we're not getting naked nakedness but what we mean by that is we're using the dome magnesium bar naked by itself technically everything we do you can start just with the magnesium fire starter no need for any other aides or whatever these are just things over the years that that I've used that or just assists and speed things up or make things a little bit easier but you don't really need them at all you can do everything if you can light a fire at all you can light it with the adult magnesium fire starter by itself alright so this one here is the concentrator and I'm going to use my old doggie kit here hi old my old down magnesium stick that's pretty well used and abused but it's still going strong if our stretch lanyard that comes with everything our kid always comes with a stretch lanyard and a and a scraper stick scraper blade the advantage is you have a quick flame instant flame the concentrator paper comes on a mini roll this has been used quite a bit there's enough on there for about 150 fires and it's water resistant if this gets happens they get what you can just wipe it off on your pants or whatever and go ahead and use it works fine like i say instant flame no broke no blowing with the mag stick you're just doing like 5 strokes of shavings spark it off and you're good to go ok so basically how we're doing here is just using this too as a platform kind of to hold our scraping material this actually you can do this faster actually and you only need about 5 5 scraped and we kind of form that together so everything's all in one little spot there and then then at this point all we want to do is I want to do is just throw a spark down in there and we're good to go just like that okay now we're going to do is we're going to use the fire stick and they come in a little pouch in here there's about seven or eight seven of them in there and this is beeswax impregnated cord that is continence and cotton and synthetic material it burns very very well you can last it'll last about five minutes burn time you can stick the hing stick it in the ground underneath your tinder or kindling to give you about five minutes of burn time like I say we rarely use this but you know if you're getting a tough situation you want something to help you out a little bit this is a nice way to go it's water-resistant just wipe it off and use it now what I like to do is take the end of it and just kind of pound it out a little bit like that it makes it makes it start better to have a little kind of a fine raw edge on there to catch the flame so that's all you do right there to get it started and we do use the concentrator paper because that gives us our instant flame so we go ahead and do our scrapings into there just a few scrapings down on the bottom that's all we need so we just have those in the bottom just like we always do to get our stick ready here and so we're going to do is just strike a spark into their gut flame and as you can see even though it kind of got away from me for a second this thing lights up very quick and you can either hold it like this or you can lay it down in there you can wedge it in against a little piece of wood or whatever you can stick it in the soil or the dirt underneath you know whatever you need to do but see we got a fire now

now here's another nice thing see oh that's all I did is used a little of that got a fire started I still got quite a bit of quite a bit left that I can still use here so anyway so that's using the fire sticks all right now we're going to use the method with the naked method we call it and that is that we're using just just the magnesium bar itself this method you can start you can really start the fire with this without any of the other aids that we showed in the other two videos but you know this this a method that will always work anytime you can light a fire it can be lit with this method we're going to make about a quarter sized pile of shavings on this piece of bark tinder and everything and we're going to strike this stuff off here there you go shove that down into there okay so that's our demo on using the wilderness innovation fire starter kit featuring the dome magnesium fire starter tool and here's our some of our kit bag colors we've got our coyote or tan we got pink there hope that shows up decent a lot of the women like that when we got our digital camo red charcoal black and we've got our OD of course all the kits come with all the same components and the Mali attachment system on the backside you