Here Preshayr (Fresh Air) takes you on a walk around his "neck of the woods" showing and demonstrating many natural materials which can be used as tinder or coal extenders to help light fires.
It is amazing the amount of tinders available if one just opens their eyes to the possibilities. Getting stuck on just one way of fire lighting is not good in the sense that you limit your skills. It is nice to see someone pointing out the alternatives. Thanks.
As always, great vid...always full of useful info. Not sure if you have cedar trees up in Alaska but if you scrape its outer bark and make a tinder bundle with it, it will catch a spark with a ferrocerium rod wich you can blow into flame.
It is because people like you on youtube that I have got back in touch with nature. Thank you for your hard work keep it up. You may have saved my life some day with your knowledge.
Thanks for that info. Lonnies. I really want to thank you so much for all the hard work that I know you must have put into this whole video. It has to be the most thorough video on this subject in cyberspace!! Its amazing when you have passion, and commitment to something the beautiful product that comes out of it. You are the man! Thanks again!
Your videos are just the best! Have watched so many now and am still learning so much and catching the adventure bug every time. You guys do such a great job!!
another fantastic video, I love your genuine no nonsense, non promotional way of teaching us life saving skills. I don't spend a day now without watching one of your videos. I bought a great 700 dollar 4 man tent today. the shelter and fire my little boy found too cold last trip we went so I bought the tent. 10 mins and it's up its one of these new air ones. all the best. nick
Your comment here is the first I have ever heard of the air supported tents. That is an awesome idea and i'm guessing that as this new tech evolves it may make poles obsolete.
Of all these tinders, the lichens and, in some areas, spruce, is about all you would find in my stomping grounds. Cottonwood is not very common, and wherever you find it, it most certainly won't be dry... well, nothing is dry around here actually, except during extreme forest fire seasons. Where I'm from, scraping up some fluff from cedar bark from just beneath the surface is your best bet, and really your only option for most of the year.
Great vid Lonnie. I have use most of the tinder you have described. They are great and abundant in our north woods. You did a great job with this instructional video. Cheers and enjoy the out doors.....
An excellent job of showing many forms of tinder options, much of your choices will depend upon the area in which you are located. Please keep up the excellent videos! 😎👍👍
Loved the lesson thank you, i love bushcraft and survival and can always learn more even when you think you have some knowledge. Thanks and all the best to you and family.
Great to see the resources you have at hand there Lonnie, much the same as we have here in eastern Manitoba though not as diverse with the grass seed for some reason. We have plenty of birch but I haven't run across any chaga yet which seems odd (but plenty of horseshoe fungus). We have more snow than you right now!? Don't think a man can beat spruce and birch for tinder/kindling!
So true especially the Chaga if your are lucky enough to locate it. I would imagine that Chaga is more plentiful in Alaska? Thanks for the Video Lonnie!
Enjoying reviewing your videos, am still learning from each and every one of them. Lots of information to put into practice yet but we are getting out every week and trying different tinder's and methods of fire starting, the hard way, lol.
I admire your videos so much, I've learnt so much about my local and native bush craft and I am fascinated at how much of a difference there is between the USA and the UK, makes me think what would happen if we switched places? Just goes to show there is so much to learn still
Chaga can be brewed several times, then dried and used for fire. Best of both worlds! It will still catch the weak, short lived sparks from F&S (Flint the rock & high carbon Steel aka Percussion Fire Ignition) even after being brewed eight times. Of course anything that works with F&S also works with magnifying lenses, ferrocerium rods, matches, lighters, etc.
Alaska looks like pure bushcraft heaven, we are limited to where we can wild camp here, only a few spots remain, may I ask, I've seen in your videos you sometimes carry a gun with you, is this for protection and have you ever had to use it??
Can any old pine pitch be used as Gum or should you only use pitch from a spruce tree? I'm fairly knew to bushcraft so I just wanna be sure. I'm glad I've found your videos.
Learned a lot, thanks Lonnie. I have been wondering about carrying a tinder when I leave home to head out on the trail, whether it's on snowshoes, foot, snow machine or quad. The Indians used to carry a fire, any idea how that was done? Would love to see a video on that in the future. All the best to you and Connie.
+Tall Cedars You are welcome my friend. The native Americans most likely carried "fire" in the form of a smouldering fungus. There are several different fungi that are suitable. Horses hoof and chaga to name a couple. These were then most likely laid in a bed of green vegetation and carried in a container of some sort. These containers could be made from birch or other barks or even leather. They could also be made from woven grass, bark, reeds, roots etc. If you are thinking of gathering a tinder while in route while out camping or hiking, often in the middle of a snowy icy winter, the tinders such as grass or lichens may be damp and unsuitable to use immediately as tinder. You can solve that problem though by collecting and placing the tinder in a cotton bag or bandana and carry next to the body where body heat will dry the tinder. I did a video demonstrating that and you can see the video if interested, here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-noBLNPNzFts.html Atb to you as well.
+Far North Bushcraft And Survival Thanks for the informative video you mentioned. I am in the process of watching all your videos but have a ways to go. Will collect grass and put it in my leather pouch to pack on every hike, one never knows when it's going to rain these days. All the best
bibleprophecy1st No pine trees or fatwood here. The spruce is pretty good wood for quick hot flames but doesn't really have the pitch saturated wood like pine fatwood. There can be pitch "globs" occasionally on the sides of spruce and are very beneficial to collect for quick hot starting of fires.
I live in Alaska. I have done a lot of gold panning and sluicing as well as even had my own gold suction dredge with hookah diving setup. I have also used metal detectors to find gold nuggets. Pictures of me have been published in a lot of "treasure" magazines due to a friend of mine was an author and wrote a lot of articles for those publications. I have not even picked up a gold pan in many years now though as my interests have slowly changed over the years. I have produced a couple videos on fishing however. Bushcraft Fishing ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PMD1HeSH0E0.html Clean Scale and Prepare Fish for Cooking ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SUhy36gvEmc.html How To Camp Cook A Fish ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qvQ_oD3ooTA.html Cooking Fish Bushcraft Style ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RVqT7z7zPXE.html
Far North Bushcraft And Survival Thank you for sharing these new video links with me, and also thank you for teaching about all the different methods to building a birds nest, very informative. Would love to see a video of you doing some gold sluicing. Is there still much gold to be found in Alaska or do you have to go all the way up to the Yukon and Klondike to find whatever is remaining?
what can you do with flash tinder? it seems to go up in flames in a few seconds. doesnt seem like it will burn long enough to light anything else on fire...
Flash tender can sometimes be useful for lighting a bit more reluctant tinder. Like even Vaseline soaked cotton balls which light fairly easy but may still take half a dozen strikes or more on a ferro rod to get it to light. If the cotton ball was laying on a bed of flash tinder it would most likely only take one strike on the ferro rod to light the flash tinder which would in turn light the cotton ball.
The bicycle inner tube band around the lighter waterproofs the lighter as well as slows down the fuel evaporation considerably. Zippo Lighter Mod For Fuel Longevity And Waterproofing ru-vid.com?o=U&video_id=yfU_OHNlOG4
Check out some of my survival videos im 15 years old and i survived black bear country- Two best friends go dual survival Tension trap Boy vs. Wild Birch bark fire trick
I have had that same firesteel for many years now and do not remember if that was the original striker or I used a striker from a former firesteel. In other words, that may not be the original striker but I no longer remember.
I carry this ferro rod in my vest pocket and so I just puled it out and looked at it and it says "Light My Fire" right on ethe side of the striker so that is confirmation that the striker did indeed come with the ferro rod at time of purchase since this is the only LMF ferro rod I have ever owned. Like I said though, this was purchased many years ago and so the LMF company may be using different strikers now.
