And there you go. Now, you can add more of your tender to it the bigger pieces and slowly you can add your small candling, the dry stuff. As you can see that was lit with just a fire steel and natural tender.
Now, I’m going to start adding some larger pieces. The reason why it’s not whooping up instantly is because the wood is somewhat damp. It is the driest wood I can find but we have had some decent rain over the past week. That’s all okay because I do know the fires lit. It will continue to stay lit. It’s just going to take a little longer to build up as a big fire. I’m just going to keep blowing on it and slowly adding wood in incremental sizes.
If you were to smother the fire with too much wood at this point, chances are it would suffocated and it might go out and you’d have to start all over again so you got to really be careful with over smothering the fire.
When making fire, it’s really good to protect your hands with gloves. You’re going to be breaking a lot of sticks, picking up rocks, putting your hands near or over the fire. So it’s good to protect your hands and keep them safe with gloves. As you can see, it’s going really good now. In a minute, I’ll be boiling up some water and making coffee.
Alright, now the fire is about good that I can start boiling water. That’s the way you can purify water in the outdoors probably one of your best ways is to have fire and get water from a stream or river, strain it through a bandana first to get out all of the large debris and as much stuff as you can get out with the bandana. And then, use your cup, your tin foil whatever you have in your survival kit.
This is a US Military canteen cup. These handles don’t get hot over the fire and this boils water pretty fast and you can cook food in this also. So what I did to rest this cup on is put like a flat piece of wood here so the cup can sit down on it and it probably will need adjusting. As it boils the fires going to move around as it burns, so you have to pretty much keep an eye on it. You don’t want the water spilling into the fire.
As you can see just after about four minutes or so, she is just starting to get ready to boil. In my bag, I keep a little coffee kit, coffee and tea and stuff like this. Chocolates are big morale boosters in the outdoors. If you’re lost, it’s probably going to be a little bit boring at times and you’ll be down, depress and stuff like this will help you out. It will give you energy and it’s just a big morale booster and as you can see, we now have a rapid rolling boil.
After about a minute or two with that, all of the bacteria should most definitely be dead if you’re purifying water. I won’t be putting any of the large fuel on the fire because I don’t want to waste resources, I don’t want to make it more dangerous than it has to be. If I was staying all night, that would be different but I’m not, so I’m not going to be adding any of the large fuel.
Another thing you can do with your fire is have smooth round rocks like this around your fire, not in the fire because what you’ll be using them for is to keep you warm in cold conditions. Before you use them, you should take them away from the fire and make sure they’re the proper temperature to keep close to your body and the last thing you want to do is burn yourself badly. Also it’s a good idea to have multiple warming rocks so you can rotate them in and out from near your sleeping bag or your way of sleeping in the campfire.
Fire making is a skill that everybody should learn and practice. It should be practiced in all kinds and different conditions, the snow, with the rain or whatever your climate might be. Even if you’re live in a city, you should learn about fire making because you’re airplane could crash somewhere and if you survive, you might need to make a fire to keep yourself warm and stay alive. So it’s an essential thing to know, that’s how our ancestors thousands of years ago survived and it’s a very important outdoor tool.
See, if you were in a campfire is number one. You do not want to burn the forest down or hurt yourself in anyway. Remember to keep it away from debris and dead trees and when you’re done with your fire, you need to put it out.
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