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Starting camp fire with a fire piston

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How to easily start a fire with a fire piston. This is real time no editing.

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perry peacock wilderness innovation today I'm going to demonstrate how to start a fire with the fire piston and this is simply a cylinder got a hole in it and a piston with a small diameter is very tight fitting when you rapidly press in on this it compresses the air inside the cylinder to a point where it will ignite our opinion which in this case we're using a charred cotton cloth there's a little recess down in there we'll just cram that right down inside of there and we put this cylinder inside of here and we make some rapid compression strokes on here sometimes I'm good enough to get it on the first try and

sometimes it takes a little bit can you see there we we've got a glowing tinder right there I'm going to flick that into the my other senior year and there we then we have it a fire with piston method

you see it's a very easy way to build a fire no no matches no flint and steel just some tinder and a piston it's not effective this is a polymer some kind of a reinforced high-temperature plastic that's not affected by humidity or or temperature anything like that so thanks for watching very peacock with wilderness innovation

Written on 03 May 2009.

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