Krik's Fire Kit | Tests & Comparisons

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Krik of Black Owl Outdoors not only goes over what he carries in his fire kit, but also demonstrates the weaknesses and strengths of the varying components.

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hey what's up Turtles Creek here with black outdoors recently I've done a video showing everything in my fire kit I wanted to do a video today showing how I use everything in that fire kit so let's get to it so to start this off here I have some the bark of the tulip tree in a reverse wrap quarter just a convenient way to store it within my fire kit and what to get this I'm just going to highlight this resource first and show you some of its advantages and slight disadvantages I'm just going to do a little bit unwrap this

and what's nice about this material is it'll take a spark really really easy which is great but the downside of that it doesn't really have a strong strong hot flame condition depending that could be non-ideal probably use this a lot so I'm just going to show this how it burns on its own I've used them tons of videos you can check out our sort of fire fire playlist

nice flame flames up you know and for most cases this is fine fine tinder option you got your you know just twig bundle your feather sticks ready on hand this will work fine don't need to do anything else besides get this the initial flame it's just a showcase the tulip poplar bark moving on to a next resource which is some homemade fat wood to degree not as great as fat what you'd find but where I am specifically there aren't a lot of really resinous or pitched conifers but this resource is really great if I really want a hot flame I want it to burn for a while maybe my twig bundle the next step off this isn't as dry as I'd like it to be this will hold a flame and a hot flame really well and I can take my lighter this I'd use this in conditions where I really want to get a flame quick get a flame quick and have it sustained even with the wind burning and what's nice about this it'll hold this flame and something like this if I'm doing it the prop is very important to make sure there's oxygen coming underneath this to allow this to burn around it because if I wasn't it would potentially just burn the top it would you know even smolder if I set it right on the ground so keeping it off the ground is really nice and this is just one piece you know put it out and use it again if I want to moving on to some birch river birch birch bark is really nice because it'll hold a flame for a while this stuff's really really thin really thin but with some small processing this should take a spark and see if we can do that right now

might not be enough but we'll see it's called hot flame not even going to put another piece and I could just keep adding to this if I wanted to don't need to nice hot flame going to burn for I'll let this piece burn just so you can see how long this piece will last I kind of followed prop this it would probably burn a little bit better okay so for the next option for helping get a fire going is a little thicker piece of birch bark I think this was off a yellow birch you can see way more sturdy than that really thin papery river birch again I could process us a little bit use my Ferro rod or if I really wanted to wanting to get you know really hot flame quick sustained flame start my fire pot my later on it goes up right away burning hot you can stand in a little bit you can put it out now this was very very direct direct you know I was focusing this fan right here and going pretty pretty hard with it but it works pretty well even in windy conditions next piece again something I'm gonna use with my lighter or if I have a weak flame from my Tula bark I can hold this on above it and get it going and this is this actually I think some bark from a pine tree that's really saturate impregnated with pitch put my lighter this instantly takes a flame and holds it and that's burning hot

ceil black that smoke is again another great little resource for helping get in fire going wax cotton ball completely coated in wax this is waterproof will float I can dunk this under the water and it will stay dry the inner cotton will stay dry and protected from moisture so it's a really great resource a couple things I can do with this open this up split it in half in really non ideal conditions bug on my face I can split this into two light both of them up a little bit spaced apart from each other set them like this then I have two spots to help put my tinder bundle feather steak something of that nature and I have two flames helping to start the fire instead of a single point and a little trick I found that helps with these is that I just ripped off a little piece of cotton and has some wax on here I'm gonna take out some of this extra cotton because I don't need it fluff some of this up and I'm gonna put this little bit of waxed cotton in my hand on the top here yeah I use my Ferro rod for this sometimes I might need to cut this Wow

it's catching the wax the actual wick if you will but takes a spark really easy and that little bit of wax on the top will help get the flame going right away probably can't see it from this angle it's a really weak flame right now but I'm trying to keep it visible to the camera while I'm protecting it to some wax ignites

and then this evens half of this will burn upwards probably a five minutes really really well this thing is I believe the best homemade you know firestarter you can make in my opinion so I put it out and last but not least in my fire kit some char cloth and a small birds nest so what I'm gonna do hit this turn this into an ember here with my fire steel char cloth works great if you prefer flint and steel take a spark off that i'm going to transfer this to here and blow it to flame right out

and with everything I've done so far I've been getting just the initial flame does the initial flame and I have a feather stick here a small one which you can use then for that initial flame it transfer to something that's going to help burn get the flame a little bit bigger to continue the process of a fire so that's everything in my fire kit and you see how it's being used I please or excuse me I just want to reiterate that it's very very important to practice safety when you're playing with fire learning how to make fire and just having a fire please please exercise safety and caution now I'm a little bit of a Firebug if that's not obvious but but that being said at one point I was certified I had my red card I was certified to fight wildland fires I went through fire school and I'm very I guess aware of the dangers and also the safety of being able to have fires even in conditions that might not be sort of suitable for fire but please please PLEASE exercise safety and take those steps when you're when you're playing with fire in the forest most days if I want a fire I'm not going to use what's in my kit I'm going to be walking through the forest coming to the spot I'm going to be hanging for the day or filming and as I'm doing that I'm going to be looking for resources to use as I'm walking and that keeps me sharp that keeps me you know scanning the terrain looking for resources I can use sort of adding to my database of where I found something that conditions the aspect the elevation the the soil drainage you know the vegetation all that stuff I'm cataloging just like sort of it as a naturalist because I consider myself a naturalist to some degree so I don't use this in my fire kit most of the time that's just there if I want to fire and I don't feel like I want to look for materials to start the fire I hope this video was helpful if you enjoyed it let us know thumbs up the video you know blackout is a small operation it's just Stoney pointing him behind the camera it's just him and I doing this or a small operation we need your support to continue to grow so we can put more resources into the videos do more things and just really make really really awesome content continue to so remember to check out black outdoors comm check us out our website our contest is going to be starting really soon really excited about that so keep looking for that as well this is Craig signing out with black outdoors later Turtles