Today we take a look at the Off Grid Tools 33-Piece Fire Starting Kit. A great kit for around $30. Enjoy! Off Grid Tools Website: www.offgridtools.com/
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The foil paper works with a double or triple A battery. Cut the foil paper into butterfly bandage strip. Then twist the strip to touch the foil side to the ends of the battery. The 9 volt battery is for the steel wool the finer the wool the better.
Making fire is easy. What folks really need to learn is how to properly put out a fire or how to bed a fire so you don't need to restart in AM or after coming back from scouring or what ever.
The foil paper is also very useful as a base to scraping your fat wood on and collecting the shavings, easier than doing it on a leaf, tree stump, wet ground etc. I always have a thick piece of foil in my fire kit for that purpose. The magnesium powder tablets are awesome and great to see it in a commercial kit. Been making my own for years by scraping magnesium off those magnesium fire starters and using old medicine tablets. Much easier than doing it in the field and I always have a bunch in my fire kits. Combine it with fat wood shavings and strike it with a ferro rod and tou have a fantastic fire starter to ignite kindling in almost all weather conditions. Great kit for the price and it's great to see a commercial kit that has char cloth and even puts a zip tie on the Bic lighter.
11:48 some things that can be added..are : 1) a straw container filled with vaseline 2) expandable tube fire bellow 3) Small Tin, for making more char cloth ? 4) some birch bark pieces 5) a cardboard wax candle / hobo candle 6) Fire Piston 7) Ranger bands
@Cyndi Rothrock Geez...what a great tip, about the High-density charcoal briquette , that everyone buys....thanks...I will try this out as well and add to my kit.. . never heard or seen anyone , char up tampons...interesting
The ferro rod looks like The Friendly Swede brand ones. Those are nice. Stuff comes in individual ziplock bags. I like that. Included Bic lighter with a ziptie? Never seen that before. Excellent assortment of tinders. Even a brearing, string, and foil paper. wow, this kit covers a lot of bases. Great video, Eric!
Nice kit! Thanks for reviewing! We did that battery trick in school using a gum wrapper with an AA battery. Much easier to handle. I wrap my bic lighters with a piece of floral wire under the starter. That way I don’t have to mess with trying to cut the zip tie in an emergency situation plus dual purpose and can use the wire if needed for something else. Tfs!
I would add a couple of "trick" birthday candles, the ones impregnated with something in the wax so they can't be blown out. Very small form factor and great in windy situations. I buy mine at the local dollar store.
That kit is amazing. I got one and that is probably one of the best fero rods I own. The magnesium tablets always work, the fat wood is easy to feather, I mean I just have no complaints about that kit
Pretty good kit! They include a lot of different methods, that's for sure. Sometimes I think a larger amount of robust items is better than a huge variety of items; for instance, I'd rather have two boxes of matches than one box and a foil strip to maybe get fire with a battery! Still it's cool and well thought out. I love that the overbag is waterproof yet they still pack each component in its own waterproof bag. That's a very nice touch that could save your bacon if your canoe capsizes, etc. $30 is maybe a smidge high but reasonable given the quality of the items. Those waxed tablet-thingies are extremely potent and work well. IMO the WetFire is not ideal. It works great but if you get even a pinhole in the packaging it will be worthless in a few days to a week, depending. But there's a lot of options, most of them good. That's one kit you really don't need to add to. But I suppose I would still add a couple of ESBIT hexamine tablets (I love that stuff). Good stuff!
I agree with you. This is a very comprehensive kit that you could throw in with items meant to satisfy other survival needs and you could be confident that you had fire starting covered. Sorry, but Fatwood is absolutely NOT the heartwood from a Pine tree. It is the result of the resinous sap running down a dying Pine limb or trunk, due to the pull of gravity. The resin eventually pools at the junction where a limb exits the trunk (most knots in a pine board are resinous and technically, fatwood) or, in the case of the trunk, it pools and solidifies in the roots and remaining stump of the dead, rotting tree. It is actually the outer sapwood, not the inner heartwood.
I have found that foil to work best when you use some tissue paper or cotton ball, and kinda wrap it around the thin part of the foil. Keep up the great work.
Fat wood can be found at the end of dead branches on the lower end of Conifers. I gather it just for fire kits for camping or in emergency kits. Thanks for the review... Jason
looks a decent kit one of the better ones, keep an eye on the bic lighter if you have one in your kits, i found the flint had disintergrated in an older kit
If you had a tinder bundle with the foil paper and battery or the jute twine it would start pretty good. I likehow you open up and try stuff in the kits. Thanks a bunch. I helps
This is a learned skill. Must scape the coating and then carve with a sharp spine high carbon steel scraper into the tender bundle. Tender bundle another skill as well. Hope this helps my friend.
I would add a pencil sharpener, that can handle the biggest diameter wood possible for making shavings. Stamford outdoor supply makes several in different sized.p, part of the Bug Out Survival Supplement (BOSS) series the foil paper can also be used as a base for wet ground
@@KitbashedSurvival education is everyone’s responsibility and ideas can come from anywhere. I think I learned the pencil sharpener trick from the BOSS kits but am 1,000% sure it was somewhere on RU-vid.
The foil paper works best with standard cylindrical batteries. The lower voltage of a double "A" gives you a slower burn to start your tinder bundle (bird's nest) with.
I first thought they were copying BOSS kits but the reason why the look so close os it is a team up with BOSS and Off Grid Tools. BOSS contains a lighter, the issue with lighters is shipping laws.
the foil paper and battery trick works much better with an aa or aaa battery 9v is just too much power and tends to melt foil before it set fire to the paper backing...great vid by the way
Forget the battery trick, there are enough methods already included to make fire. However the tinfoil by itself can be very useful for making a wind screen.
I don’t like tea candles. The wax all melts once they burn for a few minutes then they can spill. I think regular candles are much better because it is much less of a danger if they tip over.
Do you have plans to review any of the B.O.S.S. Survival packs? At first I thought this was one of the B.O.S.S, products from the bag design. Good video.
The battery trick is how people in prison make a lighter for smokes. Not easy to do and will drain a battery basically in a single use. Broke a radio for the copper wire to try this, and it took quite a long time with two AAA batteries. 9V would work best if you can get them.
How many ferro rods have you got now? I know some people have the belief you never can have enough of say knives, but building a ferro rod collection would be something very different and unique. Nice review and a good set. BCB have something along these lines but not as comprehensive. Oh what about adding a small blow bellows/straw to improve the kit? $30. Wow
The reason you use a 9v battery is because both terminals are on the same side next to each other. It's not that other batteries 1.5v AA or AAA even C or D cells wont work. It's just a lot easier to have everything in the same vicinity. The goal of preparing kits or having someone make one for you (or to buy as in this case). Is to make things easier for you when its critical. If you want to fiddle with connecting two ends to get a spark go for it. The question to ask yourself is Which is easier for you to do. Find that out and stick with it and practice. Someday your life or the life of someone else could depend on it.
If you are set on using something from a AAA thru D cell then You might try getting a battery holder where you can soldier two wires to the terminal ends and bring them together in a holder (maybe tape them together about 1/4 to 3/8 inch apart) so that both bare wire ends are next to each other. That way if you have spare batteries for other items then if one batter dies you could remove the dead battery from the holder and replace it with a fresh battery. However what you are still faced with is a 1.5 V versus a 9V to start your fire. The holder and batteries are more weight and more things to carry and worry about. When your wet, cold, hungry, tired believe me simplicity is your friend if your life depends on it. With a 9V its as simple as touch the posts to your steel wool and get going.
@@sambrandt3688 I use the 9v on steel wool because of the placement of the terminals being in the orientation that makes it easy to touch an ark. However as we saw in the video they are to close get a good purchase with the foil paper method. It is easier to pop the battery out of your flashlight for the foil method because you can get your (my) fat fingers to hold the paper on the terminals and not burn said fat fingers when the paper lights on fire.
