7 Ways to Use the Doan Magnesium Fire Starter

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Start a fire standing up, start rubber on fire, start a fire one handed, see how to use our Fire Starting Kit, etc.

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get a set like restarting right you got a spare tire or you find them by the road look this thing's just hammered piece of junk so what you can do you're down fire starter you can come in here and just take your pocketknife start cutting start cutting a little strip out of here rubbers kind of sticky so what you got enough to work with then just pull up on a little bit I'll make your knife slice through it you take that little chunk right there now we'll we'll use that to start us a fire all right we've got a piece of rubber here get the bunch of magnesium shavings here and the rubbers right next to it now we're going to throw a spark into there get this thing ignited and still we have here all right so you see right there there we go we've actually ignited we still got plenty of magnesium left like that we ignited this piece of rubber right here so right there I stood like I still got magnesium left here but I've got this rubber ignited that's this is just like one one little knob cut off of a tire with my pocketknife so it works great another use for the dome magnesium fire starter let's say you're you know out mountain biking or you're wherever you broke down you can just take take your inner your tube or your bike or whatever if you need to just take that slice slice that like and slice that like so I like to slice it lengthwise too just so I have an edge to work with here and I like to just show you you know lighten that up alright I've got about a little pile here something like that right there now we're going to strike that off let's strike that with me let the picture a little bit I'm going to strike that off right there and we'll light our our rubber inner tube with it let's get this thing ready and here we go a little something in there now the easiest way is just touch it like that and what happens is some of that very hot magnesium just instantly sticks to that rubber and you as you can see we have fire no problem there alright so we're going to do this one-handed so what I've done is I've got a piece of a bark that I've broken off here and one of the things with magnesium is you want to have some more flat that all your shavings can drop into flat and smooth is what I like that way you can it's easy to collect them so I'm going to do is I'm going to put my magnesium bar in here now I'm just going to step down with my toe of my shoe we want to do is just start

carving some shavings out here nice thing about this Don Magnifico and uh okay so I probably got enough there normally we use our concentrator paper and I'd only have to scrape five five scrapes into a about a one and a half inch square of that and we start fire with that but we want to do it we want to do it a little harder way today so what I've done here is I I like to get it piled up the best I can and so what I'm going to do is get some material right to the side here some very fine bark that I've stripped out and it's kind of pounded down with a stick and so that stuff's ready to go alright so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put my magnesium bar back down here I might have to just I will hope you can see it you just so you can see it and that has worked at the same time here ophélie trying to stay out of the shadows and everything alright so I want to do is throw some throw a spark down in there I got a hurry and pull that material over get it started pull out over and I built kind of a cantilever fire light here so it's kind of all hollow under there just hoping you can see maybe a little better I shove all that in up under there to get the fire started so here we go this stuff rolling here okay it started I want to nest that to this next bark here that's a little bit bigger pieces

that going now I'm gonna shove that whole thing back under my cantilever deal here okay it's a little more awkward with one one hand but it's gonna go here you can see it's starting to go there it is it's starting to catch so I could go ahead and lay some bigger material on top of there I wanted to now and we got a sapphire right there so anywhere there's there's fire with the dawn one-handed not a bit of trouble you can actually do this in a way where well you're not even you're not even touching the ground or getting close to the damn gun anything what you ought to do you need about five scrapes of magnesium or so I got plenty here kept magnesiums right down on the bottom of there and I just want to shake it together so it's all in one little pile right there those little shavings can actually stick it into the bundle and strike it off that way which is that's what I'm going to do here it's going to tuck it right it tucked it right down into that bundle there now I can start it without even they can start this without even being down on the ground now which is one of the pluses here hey see that started like that okay now you hold that up like that we want to get that flame all up through there now here's the nice thing about this bundle the winds not going to blow it out it's only going to help it so now let's take this over here and get it into the fire now you notice we can just walk with this thing wherever we need to go now well position it here all that's good pull our other stuff up over here alright so this one here is the concentrator and I'm going to use my old doggie kit here hey hi old my old down magnesium stick that's pretty well used and abused but it's still going strong with 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 to get what you can just wipe it off on your pants or whatever and go ahead and use it works fine the 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 scrapes 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 how we 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 ring 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 get 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'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 that's all I did is use a little bit 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 like that in there you