How to start a fire in wet conditions

[Takkantis]

If you guys wanna see a guy start a fire in the rain with wet wood, in the outdoors, check this out, pro fire starter /watch?v=c90jBC31lrU

[solobackpacking]

Just use the nylon carpet. It will catch fore more easily then the grass.

[solobackpacking]

LOL !

Looks like a body with a tiny shrunken head.

[badbrainz1980ify]

Get yo ass outside! Nice try though.

[heidbrain]

i counted 25 strikes !!!

[DugbaLaser]

One weakness of survivalists is their ferrocerium (lighter flints & fire steels) don't store for long. They eventually turn into powder, particularly quickly near the coast. (Ruined overnight if dunked in sea water.)

So long-term store your Bics in their original plastic bags, insuring they are virgins with their protective coat still intact. Paint all other ferrocerium flints & fire steels with nail polish. Store lighters in zip lock bags. Zippo type lighters can use gasoline as fuel.

[smoothblue12]

@DugbaLaser Excellent advice.Thank you.

[DugbaLaser]

Wallmart sells an orange wooden-match container with an attached ferrocerium fire-starter (lighter flint) for 97 cents, sporting goods.

Use cotton balls with Vasoline squeezed out rather than char cloth as a water resistant tinder, lights: poof!, burns big & long. Stuff that tinder into a plastic straw and melt the ends shut to waterproof it.

In wet conditions this tinder is often more valuable than a Bic. A piece lightly fluffed to marble-size burns about 90 seconds, 2-1/2 inches high.

[will78962]

the thing about dry grass is that it burns to easily so like every 2 min. you have to go get firewood

[harleyxxfabco]

MOM Jej171 is burning the house down!!!. If you have wet tender your screwed. You have to get dry material. If all else fails tear up some pieces of your clothing if they are still dry. I one used my tee shirt pocket to start a fire.

[crsbt]

i wanted to know how to light wet meterials

but like most youtube vids

it doesnt do what it says on the can !!

[Jej171]

@crsbt the title doesn't say "how to set wet material on fire". Instead, it says how to start a fire in wet conditions. i.e. the weather. not the material.

[Syrius187]

you're in your condo.. use a god damn lighter

[DSMANDARIN]

it's hard trying to survive in a house these days

[fpstina]

its not raining very much in your living room, nor is it very wet... :/

[Jej171]

@fpstina it was outside. so i gathered all the materials from a field by my condo.

[ilikenirvana2]

wtf doing a survival video in your house???

[Jej171]

@ilikenirvana2 i live in a condo so i don't exactly have a yard, but i have a fire place. so i went outside and gathered all the material to make the vid and started the fire in the fire place.

[ilikenirvana2]

@Jej171 fair enough but is this not to teach you the skill of doing this outdoors? Some of your video tags are "wet conditions bushcraft wilderness survival". You should do it in some local woods or something.

[Jej171]

@Jej171 ya that's a good idea

[diosdadoapias]

@Jej171

try getting moss beneath trunks they usualy do not get wet.

[Jej171]

they are good. apparently there's a new generation of firesteel out. i think i'm gonna have to get one and make a vid about it.

[HollowForm222]

I like those light my fire steels. Picked up one of them not to long ago at cabelas.