Fire Starting with Waxed Rope

Description

Use rope pieces soaked in wax to give longer burn time for starting fires, especially in damp conditions.

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Video Transcription

hello I'm perry peacock with wilderness innovations and tonight I would like to show you some methods for fire building we've got some other videos using a flint and steel with charred cotton magnesium fire starter we've got video with using fine steel wool and this time I'd like to use a combination of methods but I want to show you a little something that we came up with the number of years ago that will allow you a long burn time when you're trying to start it what we would do is take pieces of rope and we'd get a double boiler going some boiling water and then on top of that container with some paraffin wax and when the one the wax gets all melted and everything we had dipped chunks of rope down in the wax and let it soak in there really good and we pull that material back out and we use just like some pruning shears like you'd use for pruning your fruit trees or bushes or roses or whatever and then just take the rope and just and just snip it down into shorter pieces it's just to help get this thing started at the very very first as I'm going to actually unravel the Rope a little bit here on the end just kind of once again you know you're doing the same kind of thing I'm just kind of unwinding the little strands here just to just to make it easier for this thing you get started so I've I've just got it all kind of frayed out like that this thing of course is just saturated with wax and we'll go ahead and and show you how to how this is done here I'm just going to do a little a little bit of some wax paper to use just a primarily so I can catch my shavings from my magnesium still stick them all concentrated in one little spot here pocketknife magnesium stick has so just a bar of magnesium on one and then on one side there's a spark rod embedded into the stick so we just want to start on the magnesium bar side first of all and we're just going to put a little pile of shavings carry through the squeaking sound but that's the way it is get a little bit in here and you see I've kind of formed this into a little kind of a cone shape here and shavings are all concentrated right in the bottom of it if I do this right it should be good to go here if not we'll do it over I'm just going to throw a spark right down into that concentration of shavings you'll see it flash up kind of a white flash and we want to get our rope down in here see our ropes burning now see that we got it started like that this thing will burn a long time if I want to I can also add another piece to it this stuff right here this'll burn for five or ten minutes like this you can't build a fire well this method you got a problem when you just take our take this into our leaves and we got us a fire we can throw our sticks on there ah

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you've got us a fire that's all there is to it like I say that's that's using that little rope method it's very very simple way to build a fire