FRED OUTDOOR SURVIVAL PART 6 - Fire! (sub. )
Hello and welcome on the episode fire of the Fred Outdoor survival serie in many survival situations the skill to make a fire is the difference between life and death alright fire, fire... provides in many needs it provides warmth and comfort you can desinfect your water with it you can do cooking and roasting with it it can serve as a signal for SAR you can make and improvise weapons with it for example and harden a arrow head or spearpoint and it can protect you against wild animals okay... safety fire can also cause problems it can start a forest fire it can destroy or damage your gear imagine your tarps burns down you don´t have an shelter anymore it can cause burns... life- threatening!
and in shelters it can cause carbon monoxide poisoning ventilate your shelter if you have a fire going also think of smoke poisoning the fire triangle to make a fire it is good to know the basic principles understanding the concept of the fire triangle is very important to make and maintain a fire the three sides of the fire triangle... oxygen heat and fuel if you remove one of those components the fire goes out the correct ratio of these components is very important to get the maximum return from your fire the only way to get a feel for it ... and to learn this... is to practice this alot the location and things you need to keep an eye out for what is the weather, climate the environment you are in? do you have tools to make a fire? and line this up what is your need? why do you start a fire in the first place? to cook or warm yourself up for example find a dry covered spot find a good spot towards your shelter if you have one look if there is enough firewood/fuel in your surroundings you can gather these are things you need to think about alright a firekit bring it all times with you... if you are going into the wide outdoors/wilderness so you can make a fire at any moment if necessary keep this dry at all times why a firekit? circumstances can be tough think of exhaustion, tiredness imagine you are soaking wet you start to get hypothermia and you fine motor skills are gone then it's handy to have a firestarter or a solid lighter or something to start a fire with to light a fire quick and easy use of primitive items to make a fire... require the necessary skills...
know how and practice besides that... they could be exhausting you need the right materials and you need to gahter them circumstances need to be right and even then you aren't guaranteed of having a fire what you want... is to have a fire quickly if necessary and that's why you bring a firekit with you when going into nature in the end your life depends on it the firekit... i have everything in a pouch in a seal bag so everything is packed waterproof always keep your firekit dry okay matches... larger matches spare matches and waterproof matches a firesteel I carry on me and a lighter I also carry on me here I have a spare lighter in my firekit, in my pack besides that I have a solar card a magnifier to make a fire with use of the sun besides that I have a few... firestarters brought with me check this video... it's about firestarters
brought some esbit with me a candle and a can to make charcloth I will come back to that later in this video besides that there are some tools to ease... you in the gathering of firewood/fuel or tinders the well known hatchet the camp hatchet also very handy for shelter building like mentioned last video a saw... same... very handy to gather firewood a quick way to build a durable fire survival knife multitool it has a small knife and saw and paracord maybe you need to make a firebow you also can replace your shoe laces with paracord so you always have some brought with you hostile environment, high risk area, you name it... making fire is really out of the question there only if it is your last resort if there is no other way you cause: smoke, smell and light you leave a trace all this increases the chance that you will be caught with all it's consequences weigh the need to make a fire against the possibility getting caught you die of hypothermia? that's a bigger concern than getting caught the Dakota fire hole you are not in the situation to become hypothermic you decide for whatever reason to make a fire in a hostile environment... then a fire under the ground can come in handy the advantage is that it hides the fire somewhat out of sight and reduces smoke the dakota fire hole has a good combustion and makes it handy to cook on when building a dakota fire hole pay attention to where the wind comes from because of the hole for ventilation build it under a tree to disperse smoke dig a hole about 20-30cm deep with an opening about 15-35cm when you did that you need to go about 20-30 cm to wind direction side dig a ventilation hole with an opening about 15-20cm breaking it off...
leave no trace fill the space of the ventilation hole don't leave a trace so far... hostile environment if you find yourself in a woodland area and you are going to make a fire clear the brush and scrape the surface soil about 1 meter in diameter this prevents fire from spreading once you have done that you can continue digging a small firepit if you don't have a camp shovel you can use a big digging stick when the situation allows it and you have time when you have a shelter, you can make a fire reflector like this one this wall helps you to reflect the heat of your fire .... back into your shelter it helps also to protect your fire against wind so you have less sparks and it will cut down the amount of wind blowing into your fire so it preserves your heat be aware you keep enough wind to let the fire burn properly remind the fire triangle you can make a fire reflector also from rocks you also see that with campfires, that there are stones around dont't use wet and porous stones when heated the could explode and you just want to blow the fire with your face close to the fire and a stone explodes right into your face... you want to prefent that at all times firestarters quick and easy I carry firestarters in my firekit this one from the video I always carry some esbit you can't light this one up with a firesteel when cutting in little pieces maybe it will work more work but esit burns realy long right now I don't carry them with me in my firekit... but I do want to show them the well known cotton balls in vaseline real handy firestarter It gets one spark... and it lights up and you can make them yourself at home last but not least a can to make char cloth and to use char cloth flammable liquids maybe you are lucky you carry those with you and do want to mention this think about ethanol alcohol methylated spirits benzine lampoil you also can use insect repellent liquid to light a fire char cloth... charred up cotton
this only uses a spark to create an ember make sure you can is filled up before leaving and in your firekit when needed you can make yourself firestarters when the duration of survival gets longer and you don't have any firestarters left you get yourself a piece of cotton you need a can with a hole in it you put the cotton inside and you lay it into the fire you also can use punkwood and put it in your can and "prepare" it the same way as the char cloth to make a durable fire you need the following materials and gather them we are talking about 3 categories tinder kindling fuel tinder... tinder is material to light up a fire tinder is flammable material that uses a spark to light up it is very important you keep this material dry don't lay it on the wet ground store it dry when not in use you move from a to b so you are travelling and you find tinders on the way, take them with you put them in your pockets or a pouch they can always come in handy later tinders... there are various tinders you can use to start a fire birch bark resin wood shavings from the inside of batonned wood dead pine needles some twigs you can light up with a match or lighter very small twigs bark various dead grasses for example you can bundle it like this and light it up with a match or lighter straw thistle fluff fatwood it has a high dosin of resin in it dry punkwood and this isn't a natural tinder maybe you carry a local newspaper you can tear it up to make a tinder out of it a big list of tinders you can use and find in nature this needs knowledge on how to find and process them in some area's and some tinders require a specific way of lighting them kindling is fuel you add to your tinder this needs to be dry material also...
to increase succes you add kindling and it increases temperature eventualy to let burn less flammable materials you build it up twigs... pencil thickness dry... what burns well... if you add this to your tinder if you don't have any dry materials you can baton some wood and use the inside of a piece of wood fuel...
fuel is less flammable material and burns slow and stable you add to your fire to build a durable fire to have the most efficiency out of your fire in particular when you just started your fire make sure the fuel you add is dry dry wet pieces of wood... next to your fire so they get dry and you can add them later on trunk pieces and split pieces of wood big logs you can burn in half if the fire burns well fire layering there are several ways to layer a fire depends on the situation which one you choose layering surface trunks or split trunks this makes coals that retains heat keeps the fire of the wet ground v-shape v-shape to lay the tinder on for the airflow make sure you don't compress the tinder keep enough space for a good airflow it started raining I'll go on the first method of layering I build... the log cabin method aka Jenga style you build it like this a twig like this... and then like this and so on... until you have some sort of log cabin well if the fire is burning you can build it up like this that's the idea okay, second method... the teepee the teepee method commonly used method make sure enough airflow get's trough the teepee to maintain the fire triangle there are more method's like an "upside down" fire this one is very suited for winter conditions and you also got the star method...
that's a very good way to burn logs in half you have big logs and your fire is going well you add two logs across and burn them in half and add them bit by bit ignite your fire... make sure you prepared eveything your tinder ready you have enough kindling and enough fuel not that your tinder with a little bit kindling is burning... that you need to gather firewood that when you return at your fire... your fire burned out, well that's disappointing so prepare everything well before you light it up there are certain ways to ignite a fire one of them is a lighter the most easy and simple way to ignite a fire... and to get fire really ideal a few things when the fire is burning...
you go inside your shelter get some sleep bank the fire to keep your coals alive so you can blow them on when waking up when it starts raining that's a different story maybe your fire goes out are you with more people? then you can do a firewatch you make a schedule and do turns of firewatch so the fire stays on during the night toniight I sleep in the Gapahuk I'm going to have a bite, it is late tommorow we continue with the methods of ignition see you tomorrow methods of ignition... we talked about the lighter ideal way to light up your fire and to carry one in you survival kit or in your pocket like me now okay, next... matches I carry two kinds of matches one... the regular match but these are a bit longer for easier access to the tinder and I used a sealbag so they doesn't get damp and besides that I carry these... well... survival matches
windproof/waterproof matches I use two ways to light up a match one of them is striking this way away from you not towards you when the head breaks I have a hole in my shirt you name it so away from me this way that's one way second way... I use when the match is a little damp pushing you hit the match downwards this way you can use matches very good to ignite bundles from straw, small twigs or in my case pine needles okay I am going to give you a demo of the survival match it is a different kind match than a regular and also burns different so you can see what is does on the inside there is... a cotton ball over here is a strikestrip... under the cap also on the side and bottom a candle... for example a little tea light well did you light up a match you can decide to light up the candle as well if you need to ignite more things a candle burns very long slide it inside your tinder in your teepee to ignite the fire and remove it afterwards next... the firesteel the firesteel needs a bit more practice than the lighter and the matches matter of doing often the advantage is...
this one also works when soaking wet works very well when you are in wet area's like now everything is damp this works just fine when all other fails it is very durable you can ignite many fires with it with this firesteel of Light My Fire swedish brand it comes with a scraper and whistle you can also use the backside of your survival knife if it has a 90 degrees spine you can scrape it that is also something you need to practise you use a new firesteel you need to remove the black coating before use I am going to use a piece of birch bark alway scrape a little bit... of the topside so you got some fine dust/tinder the firesteel the magnifier card (translation in dutch) I carry this in my firekit as an option when I need it I can doesn't weigh much in my case I have a little bit of a challenge because you need sunlight and it takes practise selecting the right tinders now the can of charcloth is very useful add a piece of charcloth to your tinder to increase your succes protect the tinder against wind so it doesn't blow away angle the lens to concentrate the sun rays on the tinder hold the lens still blow softly on the material if it start to glow next one is not in my firekit I do want to mention this one because I noticed this one mentioned alot in the survival community or bushcraft, outdoor for some reason steel wool and the 9volt battery maybe you brought some steel wool with you to clean pots and pans I did that once well the 9volt battery... maybe you are you dealing with electronic devices and... in my opinion this is a little bit of a urban survival thing urbanized areas you know this as a skill, as an option to increase your options take the steel wool apart make sure you have thin dreads this way you can...
start a fire when you need to use this the 9 volt battery and steel wool okay next... I came back for it in last recordings I did a few attempts but it didn't quite worked out well a primitive way of firemaking in my case the the bow and drill like I mentioned in the show and tell of the firekit a primitive way of firemaking requires... knowledge and practice and the right materials earlier I had succes with this set I brought my own set with me consisting of a... firebow with cordage... paracord
a drill a fireboard and a socket firemaking with a bow and drill this time I managed great like I said it takes alot of practise and that turns out I am glad it worked now it worked twice I also used another set that I got from the fire master of Limburg Hans thank you and also thanks for making this socket for me very cool it takes alot of practise you don't always have a guarantee that it will work you need the right materials etc, like I mentioned before survial related... it is an option to increae your options in making a fire but I fall back... I keep saying this on my firekit that at least you can save yourself for those 72 hours with the firekit and maybe even longer fire making... a extra long episode of the Fred Outdoor survival serie fire making is just very important your life can depend on it maybe you need to make a signal to signal a airplane or heli that fly's by you need to make a firesignal imagine you need to warm yourself because you become hypothermic or need motivation or you are tired imagine you need to desinfect your water grill someting cook you name it I hope you guys liked it, please let me know in the comments you guys did liked the video please put a thumbs up and I would like to say...
until next time bye!
2021-08-15 09:37
