5 Minutes to Better Bushcraft Improved Fire Starting

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school one in our Series five minutes to better bushcraft today we're going to talk about five simple things that you can do to improve your fire-starting capabilities stay with me okay number one anytime you buy a new cigarette lighter and it should be something that's brightly colored go ahead before you even put this thing in your kit and remove the child safety thats all safety this makes it more difficult to push down to strike the striking wheel against the flint and if you just shove something underneath that and pop it completely off it's gone what that allows you to do is be able to dry that wheel out faster if you were to get this lighter wet so in an emergency you're not messing around trying to get that out of the way so you can dry that striking wheel off because we know the ferrocerium rod will work even if it's wet and we'll talk about that in just a few minutes but that wheel being wet doesn't allow it to strike the ferrocerium rod inside the lighter okay number two ferrocerium rods not to beat a dead horse but buy one is five or six inches long half inch in diameter that will you have longer contact time with the surface of that rod to remove more material that is the key element to successful combustion with this rod is removal of material from the rod so the longer you have contact time with the rod and the more mature you can remove the better off you are

to that end what we're going to do is most of these newer rods come with a hole drilled in them for a lanyard paracord of some sort take 1 inch duct tape again I always recommend gorilla brand because it's highly flammable they'll right below that lanyard and wrap that rod with enough one-inch duct tape that it creates a handle of sorts that you can grab on to even in a pair of gloves so if you have marginal tender sources and you get a small flame you can then use that open flame to ignite pieces of this duct tape to extend that coal and it doesn't take a whole lot of this just enough of a hump on there that when you put your hand in there and you grab it you've got something to stop the rod from pulling forward in your hand giving you better control number three always have a 90 degree spine on your knife whether it is carbon steel or stainless steel the reasons for that are because it makes it easier to process tender materials and easier to strike your ferrocerium rod once you get the coating off of it it makes it very easy to strike that rod without a lot of pressure okay

which goes into number four which is always carry fat wood that wood is something that you can buy at any local hardware store you can buy it online or you can find it harvest at yourself in the woods I've got videos on how to find this stuff however this is a waterproof fire-starting device and with your Fair cerium rod you are almost guaranteed to always have fire even in the wettest conditions I can take this material and dunk it underwater dunk the rod dunk the fat wood under water pull them out shake the rod off shake the material off come in here and use my knife to remove material from this rod again with a 90 degree spine I can use it like a spokeshave to remove material without sacrificing my blade edge because there's oils and resins in this wood it's fairly waterproof in and of itself get myself a pile of those shavings and even if the outer is a little bit damp it's still going to light right up with my ferrocerium rod okay the last step in this puzzle five trees that you should be able to identify readily during their lifecycle and also multi seasonal in other words when they have leaves on them and when they don't birches pines Cedars poplars and tulip poplar all of these trees have amazing fire storing resources some of them have resins or volatile oils others have inner bark sand some outer barks that can be shredded very fine to make fantastic tinder bundles and bird nest materials and if you can identify those five types of trees you can always find fire-starting resources beyond what you carry in your kit I appreciate you guys join me for this five minutes to better bushcraft today I thank you for your views I thank you for your support I thank you for everything you do for our school for our family report business all of our sponsor instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys