Fire Tube

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with the Pathfinder school I'm preparing to set up to brain tan a beaver hide so we're gonna do a brain tanning video a hair on brain tanning of a beaver hide but before we do that I need to start a fire and I wanted to show you today in a quick video a technique called the fire - now I've heard this called the sámi fire tube several times my buddy Morgan Garrett calls it the Sammy fire tube but I can't find any exacting documentation that makes us specifically a Sammy technique I would suspect that because it involves birch bark it was definitely northern technique but it could have been used by Native Americans of northern Canada it also could have been used by the Native peoples of the far north like the Laplanders and the sami as well but I want to show you this technique real quick it's real simple real effective and it's a great way to start a quick fire in a wintertime environment stay with me okay so in prepping our fire lay we have a good pile of kindling over here we have some finer materials here and then we have what's going to be our fire tube materials here in the center and I've scraped out a whole bunch of chunk wood and things that were laying in here wet like this because I'm going to use those later to smoke this high when I'm done brain tanning it we'll talk about that later so for now we just need to get a fire started here so we can warm up some water for a part of our brain tan process so I'm going to take I have a lot of different materials here this is just some shreds of material that I've used when I was scraping with my knife so these are just different types of woods that I've scraped down with my knife to make different projects out here spoons you name it things that we made on the stump vise in past videos where we've scraped it down I've taken all those shavings those fine shavings stuffed them in the pocket of my hammer sack so I would have them for a bird nest later I also have so tulip poplar bark here that still needs to be processed down now it's easy enough once it's dry and dead that's been in my hammer sock as well and this was dead poplar bark that I harvested when it was a little bit damp now it's pretty dry and I don't need to get this real fine because I've got some finer materials and shavings there and I need some stuff in this tube that's going to be longer lasting I need more coarse materials so I need to combine that with the finer stuff then I just need a piece of birch bark like this and this becomes my tube so what I'm going to do is I'm going to lay it out on the ground here and I'm going to put these materials I've got some sorts of bark here as well some river birch bark and I'm just going to put all this material with the finest materials to the front or the top right here just like this

and I'm just going to roll this up in a loop roll it doesn't have to be real tight in fact you don't want it real tight just like that okay once you've got this tube made you're just going to need to wrap something around the tube to hold it in place it doesn't have to be anything fancy it can be just a piece of cut off bank line that you got laying around it could be some cordage that you have spare natural cordage anything like that will work and I'm just going to pull that down and just tie it off real quick and like a half-finished fashion again this doesn't have to be anything that's holding really really tight it's just holding this together while I'm using it and if it burns away its spare cordage that I don't care about okay so we're going to use flint and steel for this fire today and I've got steel here and a piece of flint and then I've got a piece of char noble cotton here material that I've got preach hard material wrapped into and it doesn't have to be cloth necessarily it could be any type of char you want whether that's a natural charred material some type of a punk wood or some type of fungus it doesn't matter what it is as long as you've got a piece of charred material and then we're just going to get this ember going real quick just like this lay down on the ground while it's burning is it's not going anywhere I got time get this fire steel and stuff put away my kit real quick okay put it in the tube and we'll blow it fine lift the camera up a little bit see you guys go see this maybe a little better

so we're just gonna put that inside the tube and add air you want to hold this thing up a little bit so you get air rising through the two once you get that flame that's going to give you quite a few minutes if you need it at least a couple minutes anyway to get your fire started you can lay that in your fire lay let it start to burn get the rest of your materials for your fire lay in their fire loves chaos I don't try to get particular with my fire lace I just like to throw a lot of loose wood on there and give it plenty of airspace to breathe you smell that Rufus can you smell it