That would take literally years lmao if he would do that you see how long it took him to carve that handle like I love watching his videos by all means but he needs better technique
Uh. ... U think hes capable of that? Lmfao... End up with some sticks leaned against a tree and still somehow not be able to figure that out. Lol. But hey its entertaining
Your ferro rod worked just fine. What you need to do is process your fuel down to tinder before trying to throw sparks onto it. The lining of that sleeping bag is polyester which is synthetic. You need organic material like cotton, etc to catch a spark. Another spot you could have sourced cotton tinder from in by scraping your knife along your jeans to get a wad of cotton lint. Keep working on your fire building skills and you'll get it.
I ws thinking the same with the jeans but also couldn't he scrape a pile of dust from the ferro rod onto whatever tender he was using and catch the ferro dust on fire? Also isn't pine sap flammable?
@chelseawebb8461 pine sap is flammable, but you still want it to be as fibrous as possible. Throwing sparks onto pine needles won't start a fire. If you take the time to process them into fine material, they may take a spark. Scraping fat wood into shavings will be one of the most effective fire starters you can have.
FYI your doing the striker wrong. you swipe your blade towards whatever your lighting while the striker stays stationary. (preferrable with the end of the striker right against the material your lighting. Bring your lint from your dryer just keep a bag of it in some ziplocks and you will have no issue to strike/start a fire that is "free" so to speak lol.
His method of striking the ferro rod is just fine, especially for new users. It keeps you from sliding a blade around and prevents you from knocking your tinder pile over by hitting your knife into it. That being said, I strike mine towards my tinder pile, but that's because I'm comfortable with my gear and have lit many fires this way. That dryer lint idea is great though. My chosen fire starting tinder is dryer lint with a spoonful of Vaseline (petroleum jelly) worked into it inside of a small ziplock bag. The Vaseline keeps the fire going after the sparks hit it and helps light up the rest of your fire.
@@dickmonti9899 The steel wool and battery trick is such a weird and niche idea to pack for a camping trip. You know what else starts a fire every time? A lighter. If you're gonna bring something like that just bring a stupid lighter...
@@TheSquizzlet Weird and niche? Steel wool and battery has been used for DECADES. Ever go ice fishing? BIC lighter does not work well (or sometimes at all) in extreme cold. Steel wool/lighter works EVERYTIME. Many people don't/won't buy a lighter because they do not smoke.
This is the best cold steel knife commercial I've ever seen. So strong, not even a caveman can break it lmao 😂. Had me rolling in the floor watching you put those tent poles in lmao 😂 🤣
Next time you find yourself in a situation where you are using the rod, scrape a small pile of the rod onto a leaf. Put that leaf onto a pile of other leafs then strike the rod onto the small pile of rod. This will cause a small fire that would have lit the pile quickly. I hope that makes sense. Basically you are grinding the rod without lighting it until you need to strike it.
Not only could he have used anything else, but he picked the middle of the tree where he had to make two cuts, to get the literal worst / hardest to work with piece of a tree. to save himself absolutely 0 effort splitting wood.
F- for survival. Every single thing poor Tyler did here was a complete failure. 😂😂😂 Putting the tent on a slope, the completely unnecessary wood chopping, starting the fire, making the food - EVERYTHING went against the book. 😂😂
I thought that too ! small dry stuff for kindling,plus bigger stuff around to keep the fire going,plus the green stuff will smoke more it's wet and not burn as easy ! i learnt all this in the scouts ! UK a long time ago though ! plus it's not really survival he is doing,it's just camping !
Every video, no matter what he gets, he always finds something to complain about. I can tell Tyler is the type of guy who thinks he's right about everything and always has to argue. Also he claims he watched a lot of surivorman and learned a lot from the show yet he does everything wrong 😂
Your “Cotton” is polyester fill… it chars because it’s melting. Pine needles, leave chips, and wood chips will not light in the forms you had them in. You literally need wood that is crushed to a pulp… like ground between two rocks. Polyester will light with a lighter, but not from a spark
Coming from a seasonal bushcrafter and camper I know you did your best with the knowledge you have but OMG I just want to reach through the screen and help you, we all started out somewhere
Buy a good survival guidebook. Practice some of it in your back yard. What works for you and what doesn't. $100 to $1,000, it's all useless if you don't know how to use it. You would be in a world of hurt if you were in a real survival situation. Please don't cut down any more trees. There is more than enough falling trees to work with.
maybe scrape a bit off the tip of ferro rod in a little pile, hit that with a spark. anchor knife and pull ferro rod back. i prefer to square up the spine of the knife for scraping too. sock lint works pretty well as tinder
hey man i absolutely love your videos keep up the great content , and done let some haters get to you , we there you accomplish it or not we’re all here to support you and to laugh at your videos, do more vids like this
Better to use the spine of your knife to rack back and forth for good dry soft wood to start fire with, and do the same with the Flint, racking fast with spine of blade angled toward the wood.
You already have some trees on the ground you could use. And chop them into campfire wood. I would have got a cheap $5 wood saw and a $5 fixed blade knife.
Need firewood... spend 2 hours choppin wood with a knife to make a club to chop wood... with a knife, because "I work smart not hard" While in the back ground is A SHIT LOAD OF LOGS AND BRANCHES LITERALLY EVERYWHERE,
That over the shoulder headlamp and pot toss were on point! Also, I have never seen tent structural posts go in like that....we always slid one segment in to the connector, connected the next to it, slid it in, connected the next...so you dont have a long unwieldy rod sticking 4ft behind you as it fights you when you line it up...that was odd to watch. I kinda like this a an example. This is exactly how 90% of the "preppers" would end up. All the gear they dont actually know how to use, enough youtube knowledge to dunning-kreuger themselves, and blind confidence....then they burn calories hacking at a tree, 12ft from one that is already downed, to make a baton that is way too big with even more effort. Work Harder, Not Smarder!
Please don't cut down and kill green trees. You should be able to find a still solid, non punky baton by looking for some dead standing wood. It should still have lots of strength and that way you will only be taking from a dead tree.
I actually have the same knife he's using in this video, and while the blade stays sharp for a while, anything outside of the blade, and holding the blade in, everything else besides the case and the blade itself is useless. The only way you're going to be able to get any use out of the ferro-rod that it comes with is by shaving some of it off into your bundle, and THEN trying to light it with it. Even then, it's honestly easier to just use a plasma lighter, or use a torch
that knife... is actually a spearhead!... and you gotta see the Chinese copy of that... for the same price, shorter thicker handle, [just enough to handle] longer, wider, thicket blade, that can be used as a short machete too... only downside it doesn't come with a sheath... but I'm making one out of leather my self... I forgot... it comes in 4 different shapes too...
Yes those yellow leaves in a pile without crumbleing them up would have started a fire! However unless you take waterproof matches or a lighter, the best thing to take camping to make a fire is some glycerin and potassium permangenate. pour the the two together and a few seconds, instant fire.
Once down I use the fire to cut my wood. Just let it burn itself in half and then put the two halves let them burn themselves in half and so on and so on.
dude had me screaming at him in my mind at that part with him bending the wood.... "just bend it the other direction not chop the rest off! work smarter not harder!"
Tyler I so wanted to be there just to help you with starting that fire 😅. I would suggest in the future to use a piece of your beard with some tinder and have the tinder closer to your face so you can blow lightly on it. I love watching all your videos. You really make me laugh 😂❤ Please share more of these kind of videos. I do enjoyed it.
Broooo easy way to start a fire with a magnesium stick is to hold the stick in the tinder and don't move it and scrape with the knife really fast up and down to make a lot of sparks fast, everything you tried would have worked even without the bark under it (though a rock would have been better)
Tyler "I'm basically an expert." Proceeds to put one tent pole in the assembled position before even inserting the other tent pole. Me, who's put tents up way too many times to count, "hmm... He must be new to this."
You need a good bushcraft knife! (Makes all the difference in the world) then you need to feather stick! And before all that, you should've collected some fat wood!
