A Bush Guide to Kindling [How to Prepare Kindling]

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Krik from Black Owl Outdoors shows you the meat and potatoes of kindling and how to make properly and safely make it. The second step in the fire starting process, kindling is used after the tinder has caught fire and is used to create a solid base for the fire to grow from.

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good day Turtles this is creek with black ow outdoors and today I'm going to be showing different types of kindling I've already done a few videos or one video to show different types of tinder and the next step of that now is finding getting a fire starter the next step after tinder is finding appropriate kindling and kindling is basically just small pieces of wood still pretty small I'm going to show you how to some different types and first I'm going to Baton some this hardwood this Beach I found here and Baton Ying really small pieces of wood um really comes in handy if everything is soaking wet if it just rained and you know everything's soaked you can't find anything dry exposing all these inner surfaces you know you can get dry wood even when it's soaking so I'm just going to find a little bit on this is the more a companion mg I've done a review 1 i'm going to use it doing some shown some batani with it I'm just gonna try to get small thin strips of this you know it's not as big as I wanted it but you can see the size i'm sorting to break it down to exposing a lot of different surfaces different angles on it to help it take a flame that's a nice thickness little thick up on this end but i can take it down even more

that's a nice little piece so you get that you get the basic idea of how to take this down that I would just get a pile let's get a pile of a bunch of these I'll do one more for demonstrative purposes

and when choosing depending on the habitat you're in depending of choosing the fire material conifers pine and I'm gonna offers a hot coals just like these hardwoods would so just something to keep on something to keep in mind you know at times you don't even have a choice you have to use what's around you so that's one style it's one way to get dry tinder if if it's if it's wet if it's dry you can just get gather sticks of this size you know if it's dry and hear it cracking this would be good you know this size but a stick like this compared to this I baton down the exposed surfaces the angles you can see is a little just you know particles fibers of wood this is a much better whatever piece of wood to burn or these two will both work or you can use to get on top of your sustained flame if you have a really small flame going with your tinder this is just some gathered ends of small branches off a hemlock you can you know take this down to a little smaller file and you can put this right over a small flame and it'll it'll just start it'll just the the flame will creep up all these small things and you then you can just put your kindling on top of it so those are those are some options for kindling just step 2 and actually when you have a flame getting the fire going this is Creek black outdoors stay safe turtles