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5 Weird Ways To Start A Fire

– Today we make fire. – Let’s talk about that. ♪ ♪- Good Mythical Morning!– All right, Mythical Beasts, we need youto keep tweet-voting so that we can winshow of the year at the Streamys!- We can do this!– Yeah!All you gotta do is to tweet “I’m voting for #GoodMythicalMorning for show of the- year at the #Streamys. “– Yes. – A hundred times. You can do it a – hundred times a day!Okay, thanks for that. Now, one of thethings that has separated us from therest of the animal…

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How To Make a Fire By Rubbing Sticks

This might be a situation you never thoughtcould happen, but here you are cast away ona deserted island with nothing but the clotheson your back. In this project we’ll be makinga survival fire by rubbing sticks together,because if you can do that, you’ll have amuch better chance of being found alive. Looking around the island, the first thingyou notice are plenty of coconut trees andat the base are some old coconut husks. Thosemight come in handy. There’s also plenty ofwood lying around, so you just need to finda dry piece…

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Primitive Technology: Firesticks

With my hut completed, next I needed fireFor fire sticks I used a fast growing softwood The spindle and baseboard came from the same branchScrapping bark off with a stone flakeThe sticks were left to dry on a sunny rock to dry outCandle nut leaves were used for tinderDrilling holes in the baseboard with a stone bladeCarving a notch from the hole to let the hot wood powder to fall outThe base board is placed on the tinder with a stick separating them so more air can get to the…

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How to Start a Fire in a Survival Situation | Basic Instincts | WIRED

– Fire is one of the most importantand powerful of theprimitive technologies. It unlocked all sorts of potentialsfor us on every level. My name is Bill Schindler. I’m a professor ofarchaeology and anthropologyat Washington College anda primitive technologistand experimental archaeologist. Fire probably started as some sortof a natural phenomenon,like a lightning strike. A forest fire would havedrawn our attention,we would have seen it and probablystarted to realize thebenefits of fire over time. We could probably smell the cooked meatof the animals that weretrapped in that fireand not only died, but…

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How to Start a Fire in Rain or Wet Conditions Part 1

[autovid_profit_transcript] Krik of Black Owl Outdoors shows you how to make fire in wet conditions. You only need a few pieces of gear, persistence and an elemental understanding of . A short how to video demonstrating starting a camp fire in rain, wet, or damp conditions. We also demonstrate different types of tinder that can be ignited with a . In this video I will show you how to improvise an umbrella using plants and how to make a fire when its raining using resin from fir. Hello guys this…

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Making Fire in the Rain

  I’m out in the Swedish woods and it’s raining a lot. Without a tarp I’m not making it easy for myself when my mission is to get a fire going. Using pine resin, birch bark and some not-so-dry twigs … well, anything can happen 🙂 I’m just a swedish woman trying to learn the art of bushcraft and survival… As a biology / geography teacher I go from theory to practice – and it isn’t always as easy as you might think 😉 If you like this video, I…

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How to Make A Fire In The Rain or Wet Conditions

[autovid_profit_transcript] How to Make A Fire In The Rain or Wet Conditions https:// youtu.be/HT2Yukf9iJ0 http://outsidefireplacecenter.com/ Gather some kindling, dead wood that is about as wide as your finger or less. Pine will usually make a great fire starter, the sap/resin is flammable after it is heated. Use a sharp knife/hatchet to strip away as much bark and wet wood as possible. If you can use a hatchet to split larger pieces of wood into kindling, this will expose the drier inner layers. Start a small fire using the stripped kindling.…

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