Basic Fire lighting
Description
How to light a simple fire, THis video shows the easiest way of making a fire, under dry conditions with dry fuel and pre-packed tinder.
Tags: Fire,Fire lighting,Bushcraft,survival,camping,Flint and steel,bear grylls,ray mears
Video Transcription
alright guys what I'm gonna be doing today is I'm going to show you a bit of basic fire lighting skills now there's loads and loads of ways of light the fire everyone I've ever met that into their bushcraft and whatever they all have their own way of doing doing fires there's a few base principles you've gotta follow but everybody really does have the wrong way there's no right way of doing it so i'm going to show you the way that i find easiest today that the first thing you've got to do is you've got to find an appropriate place to light your fire and have your camp now there's a few things you've got to take into account firstly you've got obviously have the landowners permission to light a fire and camp on that area secondly and possibly more important is you've got to make sure that the ground that you're going to light your fire on is suitable so you don't really want to be lighting your fire on Pete ground because if you light your fire on Pete that can actually set fire to the ground itself and that fire will can potentially burn for years so you got be really careful if you're building a fire on Pete ground you need to have it on raised up platform and some of the fire can't get out onto the ground with so the earlier we've got here isn't p ground we have permission to come here it's a nice sheltered area so it's not the width the smokes going to pretty much go straight up most of the time and you'll be nice and shelter from the almonds you can see we've got all these bushes around us which protects us from the wind and we've got some trees above us which will protect you from the rain a little bit particularly summer when they've got leaves on them as well so the first thing we've got to do now is we've got to collect our fuel for the fire so we're going to have a look some fuel I'll show you what I've found alright guys so the first typology to find is type what we're going to call kindling now kindling what I tend to pay with my kids are these little bits of birch things that you get they get blown off the trees pretty frequently they burn really nice and usually pretty Friday actually burn unusually for but would pretty much straight off the tree you don't react to drive them out that much this is a nice dry windfall so are we even better then get it straight off the tree so what we need to do with this is just break the little bits of twigs off break some nice little thin bundles of these ribs then it's really really thin twigs a thinner the better to start with okay so nice and dry you can see how using a break in and there's other things we can use so for example over here we've got a bit this world engine which even though it's not latest release into screen which everywhere and again this does really dry dry bit so yeah you can either the snap that nice clean snapping sound means it's good dry wood and that'll burn almost straight away once you put it onto our tinder okay so we're going to find some more wood my birch ok through handily because the time here it's been really windy so there's lots of these dead branch and should we blow up the trees and because they've been in the tree most the year the nice and rice they're quite easy to break and hit yourself in the face with and then they'll go on next so I'll gather a lot of stuff up and then I'll show you the actual violating procedure alright guys so I've been out on a collectors all my ward now and what I've done is I've arranged it in ascending order of size so right next to me I've got my really thin stuff which will really get the fire going and then I've got slightly thicker bits which are about being a thickness then I've got up to slightly thicker than that with a few slightly larger bits thrown in and then we've got our larger logs now when these logs are going you can go off and you can find you much bigger things are really sustain your fire and get nice nice and hot what I'm going to use for kindling which is the material which will take the the spark is I've just brought some cotton warbles with me it's great stuff to bring because it's nice and lightweight it usually comes in a plastic bag sort of stage rye but what I will do for you in the very near future is throw out some videos and natural kindling you can use so what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you how to start the fire now don't easy just break up some of your cotton war woods so it's nice and fluffy the fluffier it is the easier it will take the spark you don't need to break it all up just saw just a bit of it to really get it going and then the ones that still take the bundle will burn much slower which is great because it will just keep going while you park your word on it's not broken up now so let my fire strike i'm not using matches or a lighter because they can get wet and damaged and then upgrade to use whereas your fire striker will stay easy to use even where you can drop in a pond but it'll still work ok so that's going now so we just slowly start to chuck your thin bits on on a birch bark birch twig story should start going really quite easily quite quickly wait for them to get going you know that you know you to adjust idle when you can start here and then crackle and then once they're really going to start it's got a windy and smoke it all so we do now is you wait a minute for the thickest of take and then we move what do I even thick of it it's not Jesus do this with breezy because the wind feeds the fire but it does throw all the smoke in your face you've got nowhere to sit properly ok so I'll think of it sorta going now start in the next size off so as you can see because I've arranged my wood piles separately for have started it's really easy I can just reach to one side and grab the Manila straight where they are so it is making the whole process much simpler to do so as you can see this is going nicely now this is a really critical point you're going to keep tended it nicely and keep the flames going one thing I would like to say is I've made a major error error here now as you know I started it with a fire striker very important that you always put your bio strike and back in your pocket on the whole that when it came from I've left it lying around and nearly lost it so just be aware that it's an error lot to people make and something you get there you kind of get the hang of doing is pulling it back but this time because I was filming and not really paying attention I left it on the core so just be aware of that back in there and we're nearly ready to start doing while slightly bigger logs city's going it looks like it's going out a bit just get right or close to it and give it a good sort of below underneath they'll feed it with oxygen and really keep it going because it's winter quite a lot this water is kind of wet so it's taking a while to get going but it is burning nicely
and file item really is I don't expect if it's the first time you tried it you know expect to kind of like bale the first few times it really does take a lot of practice to get to get a fire going well especially you cannot stop driving but i will do some videos on how to start by a book for you some speeding some more these little twigs a black line around sides get the flames going I started to put some of the bigger bits on get them warm through to really start burning as you can see what i'm trying to do with the slightly thicker bit is carefully play some over bits where those flames coming up because the flames are what I'll get them going but try not to smother your fire if you put too much on too quickly your start of oxygen your fire will go out and now it's just the weight in getting way to go as you can see it the fire is going nicely now if I wanted to know if I needed to from this point I can start putting slightly larger logs on to keep it tended what I wanted to do in the video as well as point out that it's important when you're doing your bush crafting your wild camping that disposing of bio correctly is actually really important you don't need to spread if it's been particularly hot and also leaving no trace of your campsite is the dumb thing of you in a place where you're allowed to go wild camping like in Scotland the weather so what you do is you let your fire bone down like I've done here it is still going a little bit but all you really need to do is if you got some water took a bit of water on it but if it's only a small fire that you don't really have to do that so what you do is you start to break it apart them so you just take your bigger logs off put it to one side we're not gonna catch fire or rather set fire to anything else so you get down to your banner members which is what you've been doing if you've been cooking on it anyway and then just start to break it up until it goes out remove all these leaves out of the way because they'll cut quite easily and what you'll feel is once you've done this you'll feel all the heat from it better members coming back up to which is really good because that means that the heat is not going into the fire it's going back out into the air so it's like a captain it okay so you let your embers go out you
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Forrester Bushcraft
Welcome to the Forrester Bushcraft youtube page. This channel is dedicated to teaching all manner of wilderness lore, whether it be primitive skills, traditional methods or modern adaptations. Here you will find all manner of information pertaining to the great outdoors. Based in the United Kingdom I explore all of the terrains and landscapes available to me. Here you will find full HD videos filmed and edited by my self showing bushcraft skills, plant ID wildlife experiences Journeys & adventures, and last but not least the odd bit of philosophy.
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