How to start a fire when everything is wet

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@EricTheSwede Год назад

If I could get a library worth of these 2 to 10 minute videos of just Kevin showing off small tips, tricks, and skills I'd probably never use another source of information ever again!

@Hinru13 Год назад

Yes. Second that motion

@mechanic3531 Год назад

Third

@OldNavajoTricks Год назад

Nope lol, can't rely on a single source haha, if it gets taken away you're screwed :-p But yes, these 5-10 min quick tips are gold 🤘

@bobwalski3003 Год назад

Gotta create your own guide with all the information

@HardOnGearChannel Год назад

@@bobwalski3003 Unless you’re solely hunting for internet stuff: Estela already has one of the best Bushcraft guides around-101 Skills You Need To Survive in the Woods.

@markalford5406 Год назад

When me and my friends would go backpacking and everyone took turns staring the fires. When it came to my turn I got the fire started in no time even in wet conditions they all thought I was some kind of Daniel Boone . But I all ways packed a small container of charcoal starter with me and when no one was looking I would sprinkle a little on the fire makings . Lol no one ever found out.

@thomassanio8745 Год назад

Easy when friends are drinking beer 🍺 ha ha!

@peteperkins3859 Год назад

It's bad being cold. But it's much worse to be wet and cold.

@BBQDad463 Год назад

Thank you for this video. Excellent tips and techniques! My fire-making kit includes a 30-minute road flare for the truly desperate situation wherein I need a fire immediately and may be experiencing symptoms of hypothermia, including shivering and/or numb fingers. I can use it to thaw out my fingers for five or ten minutes, and still have 20 to 25 minutes to get the fire going. Yes, I know it is an egregious form of "cheating" but when I need a fire, I _need_ a fire---and I do not much care how I get one. Again, thank you for this video. Very well done!

@stevehicks9374 Год назад

Kevin and his team are amazing instructors!! Thank you all for everything you do🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💯🙏🏻

@donfilkins298 Год назад

I have srips of duct tape made into a ball . Starts a fire well

@Heywoodthepeckerwood Год назад

If everything is wet, you already got the fire started. Oh crap, wrong context…

@chuckfarley567 Год назад

Lol...beat me to it ....

@jhutch1470 Год назад

@@chuckfarley567 You're going to have to do that yourself.

@solidmc90 Год назад

Duct tape itself is a great Firestarter too. A roll of it can really come in handy for many things from blisters to gear repair and starting fire

@martinmontez5950 4 месяца назад

Thanks. I didn't know that!

@Bushcraftnbaseball Год назад

Good stuff Kevin. The 2 years I lived in WA really helped with my firecraft skills. It was very frustrating for awhile.

@aPizzaStainedSlob Год назад

As a 35mm film photographer I may now have a business in selling old cartridges to people for survival purposes, haha

@TheRockInnRobin Год назад

Dryer lint. Works every time.

@shanepitzer4323 Год назад

You have to be careful of dryer lint. Most isn’t cotton anymore it’s newer materials not conducive to fire starting. FYI. 🤓

@TheRockInnRobin Год назад

@@shanepitzer4323 mixed with enough pet hair it will 😂

@deathlis Год назад

@@shanepitzer4323 Mine lights up easily. Only problem is I go through it faster during hunting season than I generate in a year...

@bbarker5766 Год назад

If you hold your knife/striker down. Lose to your tender the pull the fero rod away, and you will get even more concentrated spark going into your tender/fire starter material. I have also found that a knife with jimping on the back for the thumb to rest will produce even more sparks.

@user-dw4cv3xq5u Год назад

This is the proper way to use a ferro rod. Plant it in the tinder and pull it towards you.

@zekethefishgeek8690 Год назад

All day and all night long...

@brianleverich4467 Год назад

Always carry road flares in every vehicle , four wheeler , motorcycle, boat and canoe . from Minnesota

@alanwilliams2251 Год назад

Great information Kevin! Thanks for your time and God bless my friend!

@jerryj3047 Год назад

start a fire is one thing but keeping it live is another, anyway good video

@evanbordash8580 Год назад

I have taken a class with Kevin, great teacher and great guy, highly recommended

@feed_defend_evolve Год назад

I’m surprised more ppl don’t also carry Uco stormproof matches. A few of those are SUPER COMPACT AND LIGHTWEIGHT. If you’re gonna have a fire starting kit, pretty easy to keep some of those handy.

@tudyk21 Год назад

In an actual impending hypothermia situation, I found a nice wad of dry material under a log, against a standing tree (in a light rain). I got the fire going with a cig lighter (better than scraping a ferro-rod), then moved it to where I wanted to be situated. Dry pine or spruce sap make a good fire starter, btw.😊

@FluffPuffkotj Год назад

Ha! Julian turned me into a Vaseline hand model.

@sombra6153 Год назад

Really good presentation with excellent instruction and demonstration. I have a couple of fire starters, including a fero rod and something else I received as a gag gift. Going to did them out and see how they work for lighting my charcoal grill. I had heard dryer lint recommended as tinder. Ought to actually it too. Thanks for the lesson!

@zekethefishgeek8690 Год назад

Thanks for your time, I knew these already... But, it's always refreshing to see and hear a pro doing it again... Pre-she-ate-cha much, Mr. Kevin

@derekwarren1548 Год назад

How you get Vaseline off your hands inn the bush? Lol

@LoganCoutts Год назад

Up here in the PNW and spending a lot of time in the woods, stormproof matches paired with Vaseline and cotton goes a long way. Works well for 95% of the applications.

@Christianlucer07 Год назад

ok quick question, let's say all the wood is wet since it's been raining, will it burn?

@StefanieFaye Год назад

Thank you for this! Very helpful to know

@rogerjensen5277 Год назад

Another great tender is a tea light candle with 1/2 cotton ball partly melted down in it, the uncoated cotton catches a flame readily and burns a good amount of time. Also, if you need to move it while it's lit, the aluminum cup helps keep it together! Make sure you have a teepee of small twigs ready first. Even damp small twigs will be dry enough to be ignited by this method!

@williamyetman3609 Год назад

Great video. Thank you.

@trollhunter6934 Год назад

Been using the Vaseline/cotton ball fire starter for years. They work great!

@MooreReviewz Год назад

Kevin is the best for sure

@DWMurry Год назад

Good Stuff!

@tonberryhugs6435 11 месяцев назад

I was honestly hoping this was going to show making a fire with damp wood. Striking a farro rod on some flammable cotton is the easy part.

@11ccom Год назад

Good stuff.

@w3w3w3 Год назад

good video

@SkeezyFPV Год назад

I once started Little Cottonwood Creek on fire at The Spruces campground while making coffee 😂

@mikereese15 Год назад

Great info. Definitley lacking from my get home bag.

@chadclayburg1410 Год назад

Home,sweat home. Tough to make fire during the winter.

@derekwarren1548 Год назад

12 Guage marine flare waterproof and 12ga shell is fit to be packed, stored, worn.

@atlantaswelder Год назад

Sill using the Bic&Bike tube bands as a primary starter 🇺🇸 like u taught me

@ryos251 6 месяцев назад

Ive been in many environments had he ad to use survival skills . The hardest environment is without a doubt the Pacific Northwest in the wet rainy winter .

@driver3899 Год назад

to save you watching 8 mins of promotional material... 6:35 use cotton wool and petroleum jelly

@jumpvelocity3953 Год назад

You sound just like Dr. Mike from Renaissance Periodization, in both your voice and your demeanour 😂

@GrimrDirge Год назад

You're up in my hood. By March you can pick up wood off the ground and wring the water out of it like a sponge.

@dadbodincorporated4411 Год назад

Great information and insights. A couple of things I would add are salt water will corrode and deteriorate your ferro rod. I think that’s what you were going for.😉 Also instead of a 35 mm photo container, a diabetic test strip container is real similar. Good video!

@marmadukegrimwig Год назад

Excellent! What jacket and trousers are you wearing?

@EVLfreak666 Год назад

Thanks for sharing this.🇺🇸👍

@waylanator Год назад

Keep a LOT of that combo in. Y pack, especially during the cold and wet fall/winter months and the wet spring months here in Texas.

@melvayaredaguilar Год назад

a metal rod is a new way of creating a spark because it’s sold separately lol

@fredpeers1955 8 месяцев назад

So, Kevin, we're abouts in the PNW Are you? I live in the beautiful Sky Valley.

@nutthrower4415 10 месяцев назад

Excellent, my go to is FatWood here in the PNW, of course all the others you showed 👍

@JimEllwood002 Год назад

What knife are you using in the video? Thank you.

@jpaul8589 Год назад

I use 200 micron MAGNALIUM powder and a ferro rod. I call it my “White Dwarf” kit. Ignites and burns white hot above 5000F and immediately dries/ignites wet tinder which then warms/dries/ignites kindling. Watch out for your eyes if you use it and never pour the power over an open flame from the container - it will absolutely flare a whiteHot column of fire and go boom. Use small piles 1-2” across and once lit, take a knife tip and flip hot pile over once fully glowing and the oxygen in the air will cause it to glow white hot and start EVERYTHING on fire. Also - Don’t keep the knife IN the pile, it will melt the steel.

@kathiemcdowellday1108 5 месяцев назад

GOD BLESS YOU! 🏡💋

@melkorred6784 Год назад

FACTS!!!!

@kentonsoufal6340 Год назад

What is a good ferro rod brand?

@mvpjordan7584 Год назад

Make a part 2 of this plz, he didnt go over the tinder stuff

@donmckechnie4129 Год назад

That is the condition to train in. My wife and I went camping several years ago, we hit 3 different seasons in 6 hours, extremely wet than cold at night. We couldn't have got any wetter if we fell out of a canoe. It took 45 min to get a decent fire going, but it was done. Get out and practice.

@ajd0101 Месяц назад

def don't be scared to sleep under a tree.

@BarlitosC Год назад

So use a bunch of stuff that isnt naturally there and bring your own fuel. great

@danmoreno425 Год назад

What’s the name of pack you have on thanks

@colorblindexposures 3 месяца назад

If you need 35mm Film Cannisters HMU lol

@andrewjones5513 11 месяцев назад

I’d really love to attend one of your courses, unfortunately I’m in the U.K.

@2fastg35 6 месяцев назад

He’s so good at starting fires that he showed us how to actually start one and keep it going 🤦🏽‍♂️

@maxihuang8920 Год назад

F awsome

@sword-and-shield 6 месяцев назад

Go one step more, and learn to start them "while" its raining. If you think it about it, that is when you may likely get hypothermia.

@charlesl5226 Год назад

Another good option is coconut oil and small cotton pads.

@azimut5226 Год назад

Lowa zephyr boots! Hehe.

@Buddha-of8fk 2 месяца назад

Pine is your friend in the rain. This is why Christmas trees drive me nuts. Let's drag the most flammable tree in most woods wrap them in the cheapest electric wire known. Just saying.

@waltlongmire6277 Год назад

🤙🔥🤙

@withoutfurtheradoforever Год назад

👍

@Sourpusscandy Год назад

FIX THE BIC LIGHTER by using some tweezers to remove the “safety” band across the spark wheel. Do it first thing.

@zekethefishgeek8690 Год назад

Be careful it allows it to fall out occasionally

@Sourpusscandy Год назад

@@zekethefishgeek8690 never had that happen. The band makes it harder to get traction with your thumb running the wheel.

@georgehennen 8 месяцев назад

Video pissed me off, not a single "This is a natural fire without stuff". Some survival expert. "How to stat a fire when everything is wet.... with a tool that can be used anywhere, and man made stuff you gotta get at walamrt"

@ericthomas9915 Год назад

🚒

@AllWeatherFirestarters Месяц назад

Great Video and Great Channel! We have a really cool Firestarter, any chance of maybe doing a product review on our Firestarters?

@EV-ey5lm Год назад

Trains by himself. Gets mauled by a lion😂

@Provocateur3 Год назад

Absolutely none of my knives work worth spit on my ferrocerium rod. I bought a HSS lathe cutoff tool. Superlative results.

@deathlis Год назад

I found any softer steel whose edge rolls easily doesn't work very well. My high carbon steel Bear MGC throws tons of sparks by comparison. They're just a ginormous PIA to sharpen in the field.

@Provocateur3 Год назад

@@deathlis : I sure have my share of "surgical stainless" knives but I have some good steel too. Nothing holds a candle to M2 HSS (High Speed Steel.)

@therookiesplaybook 11 месяцев назад

Use cotton covered in vaseline. That's the answer.

@paaaatrika 9 месяцев назад

I always bring a vial of lighter fluid or something similar.

@bobmcelroy7289 Год назад

Training learn repeat!

@shaneburfield3196 7 месяцев назад

Heat is the product of fire. This is what you need to make a fire: 1-spark 2-fuel 3-air

@user-te8wr9bh7q 4 месяца назад

If you put the edge of the spark thing on the box lighter against a sturdy piece of flat wood and run it against it really fast a couple of times your bic lighter with light up again 😅 Stoners 1:1

@Sebs3bs3b Год назад

Didn't expect to be shown to start a fire with tools and a lighter.

@Nervii_Champion Год назад

What's up BJ Penn's brother

@Notonetime Год назад

Hey, that's my elk hunting spot.

@JosephJoestar_420 Месяц назад

Now without tools

@LZTANGO316 Год назад

Things I learned watching this video. 1. Kevin, you are a really handsome Filipino man. 2. Now I know how to start a fire in the rain

@zeph-8244 Год назад

Fat lighter works even when wet.

@drunken_master007 2 месяца назад

What??

@n.u.t.y. Год назад

If making cotton ball/petroleum jelly starters, make sure to get real 100% cotton balls. Most "cosmetic puffs" you find now in the drugstore are nylon or other synthetic fiber, not real cotton!

@jesseterrell2109 Год назад

Remii oh did me of home.

@cochiez Год назад

Good, simple tip that’s accessible for most. Well done. Gotta poke a little fun tho… First off, we have ourselves a new drinking game. One shot for every time you hear the words Pacific Northwest. Second, 90% of the Pacific Northwest is not a rainforest. Sorry, but as a three decade resident the stereotype bugs me.

@johnrourke4363 Год назад

Thumps

@jhtsurvival Год назад

Nice. I've Ben doing done for starting videos. Check them out

@Mike_Y. Год назад

Frito chips

@xDooksx Год назад

Always have a lighter.

@zekethefishgeek8690 Год назад

Torch lighter...

@top6ear Год назад

Use An old Indian trick I learned, gas and matches.

@chuckfarley567 Год назад

Gas = Liquid Boy Scout...

@deathlis Год назад

Lighter fluid all the way! The above video won't help when it's actively raining AND windy. Lighter fluid works regardless if you've got a good tinder bed. Just need to start with lots of teeny tiny sticks and feed it slower.

@zekethefishgeek8690 Год назад

@@deathlis sure it will... been there fought that.

@deathlis Год назад

@@zekethefishgeek8690 Well this last season, in a swamp, light drizzle after a hard rain, I had about 50 minutes before my buddy arrived at camp that I attempted to get a fire going with 10mph wind, damp wood and dry tinder. Kept going out. I didn't pack lighter fluid that trip as he was bringing it. After he got there I lit it right up. Maybe I just suck, but I've been lighting wet fires for years - wind on top of that makes it near impossible without shelter from my experience.

@dcahodl7189 5 месяцев назад

No knife. No rod. It's pouring with rain. Show me how to make a fire.

@Bleepbleepblorbus 4 месяца назад

Take two pieces of flint/chert/quartz/iron pyrite or any mineral with a hardness of five to six on mineral hardness scale And do the same thing as knife and rod technique but with the two rocks.