Survivorman - How to create a fire with a LED Flashlight

[SkiBaBopDiBop]

I thought he didn't want to create a fire.

[footymagooty]

My right ear feels lonely....

[dgl1962]

The correct title of this vid should be "how to make fire with batteries".

[matt9706]

i always carry my trustee guitar when trailing through the amazon jungle

[zomkillto5]

@matt9706 i always carry my homemade bow and arrows

[nicko978]

that's great for the environment

[raaaaaarr]

can you imagine if survivorman was just a guy posting his vids on youtube... he'd probably be even more famous than starting out on tv

[oYSpongebobYo]

does this work with fleshlights too?

[max465t]

@oYSpongebobYo well maybe.. using, Friction :D (budum tss)

[shippen2010]

Dude you rock Thanks for the Vid it was great.

[CanItAlready]

So let me get this straight... I've gone into the woods with a first aid kit, a headlamp and a guitar, but not so much as a fire steel, lighter or book of matches?

[GrenadeCatcher]

sorry but if im lost in the woods and im not gona live im pretty sure id set the damn forest on fire.

[guitarh3romast3r]

les stroude > bear grylls any day

[jrseney]

"I can't allow myself to breathe in any of the chemical smoke - so I'll sit right next to it and play guitar..." ???

[ib516]

Les Stroud Rules.  Period.

[lisaleeharpwaugh]

wow!

[mateinegriu]

No need to breathe in the fumes of the batteries. Once some flames are obtained , they could be used to light fire in an adjacent spot. Then, all he has to do is extinguish the fire on the batteries.

[Lex5576]

I prefer magnesium strike rods to start fires.......Soooooo much safer, and they'll last forever anywhere you keep them.....on a keychain....in a first aid kit....a backpack. The sparks and shavings can also ignite damp items , which is a plus vs lighters or flame producing devices.

[jpm4444]

LES; THE BEST!!

[Bustermaniax]

just saying, low video quality, better audio

[SpaceOut1337]

i don't like survivorman, i can't understand why people say he is better than Bear Grylls, when he doesn't start a fire with a LED flashlight and a piece of cotton... he does it with two sticks O.o

[Kches47]

What episode was this?

[PeRs0ni4]

survival: using all your resources to the best of your disposal. you run out of lighter fluid in the wild or don't have any you'll be forced to eat shit raw like that other guy

[Chrome1101]

I would laugh if someone made a how to how create a fire with a lighter.

[gcollin75]

gotta freaking love survivor man.

[mayimbin]

would make more sence if once the fire is on quickly remove the battery

[Fooy146]

dont batteries explode when they are lit on fire?

[emmey57]

its hot !!

[sohigh214]

Beast Mode!!

[cristianblackmetal98]

I thing that guy is a homo sapien sapien or a home less or a hoeboe

[hondahp18]

this guy could actually keep people alive in a survival situation, whereas bear would get people food poisoning and dead

[Ensensu2]

@80spodcastchannel so true when I go to bass pro shops for my agate and flint fire starters because I want more experience with that method I plan to get 5 or so because of the rule of thumb "when you think you have enough get 5 times that much" Les Stroud's exact words so duh get all of the survival experience you can while at least young and cared for because what if you get laid off of work and can't find a job so yeah find keep indefinite backups because you never know if you will need them

[Ensensu2]

Les stroud is a survival god

[yuckyfart]

Bear grylls is better

[redroverguy]

@yuckyfart bear grylls is a yucky fart. 

[yuckyfart]

@redroverguy shut the hell up .... how can you even say that? he was the one who goes into the wild without any food/water. Also he doesnt stay on the same place, he moves ahead.

[redroverguy]

@yuckyfart he has cheated a few times, and is not your average joe, vs survivorman. bear grylls does inordinary things for the hell of it, les is much more practical

[yuckyfart]

@redroverguy you just personally dont like him .........

[redroverguy]

@yuckyfart so does the majority of discovery channel viewers...

[PersonalWindowsXP]

Easyest way:

Use lighter or matches....

[shtfprepared]

can't believe all these idiots commenting and giving tips to a guy who lived for a whole year in the Canadian Boreal forest with no metal tools or whatever.

You guys probably NEVER even spent 1 whole day and night in the woods so why don't you just shut the F..K up instead of trying to be smart asses because you only pas for ASSES!

[vindeexyzditervi]

he should have sold the flashlight to the camera man and bought a lighter

[xXRetkuXx]

So was the Led Panel thing Burnig in the fire?

[bardoxvideos]

He didn't need to do that... If he had have gotten a tiny piece of guitar string and unraveled the wire off it he could have just passed a current through it and used that to start a fire... and kept his flashlight.

[DirtyDudeOnLin3]

@bardoxvideos Obviously, seeing guitars are abundant in the wild.

[bardoxvideos]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 Look at 0:18. He has a guitar.... Well smart-ass, he could also take some wiring off the flashlight, take 1 strand off it and run current through it. That would get hot too.

[TheCru3l]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 so are LED flashlights,screwdrivers to open the flashlight,cameras,tripods,etc­...

[20ftTurd]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 OMG when i read your comment i started cracking up you seriously burned that dude lol "obviously seeing as how guitars are abundant in the wild" lolololololololololol

[mrsocksman]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3

as are LED flashlights

[msa1985]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 you have to find guitars while they're drinking at streams, but it's very difficult to sneak up on them and then it's only possible to kill them with a trombone, and good luck finding THOSE suckers. they're known to hide from humans.

[asheradensein]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3

Uh... he had a guitar WITH HIM. 

[Deanozaur]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3

he had an unnecessary guitar that he could of used

[1lupus]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 He had a guitar with him. @GetMix he showed where the battery went, he didn't say he didn't have one. @salopy0 Rubbish . What are you people smoking anyway? Why all the weird uninformed illogical comments on this video? I only read the first page full and feel ashamed for the human race. Some people should not be allowed computer keyboards.

[1lupus]

@1lupus LOL I was so upset at you twats, I made a typo. It should read "He showed where the bulb went" , not battery. I don't know why I bothered correcting myself though? Really given the tenor of the comments so far, a lot of people can't concentrate long enough to examine the logic of a simple sentence before responding, let alone pick up on that.

[dexyland]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 no offense but neither are flashlights lol



[saratma8]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 You can get it off the guitar trees in the forest...common now :P

[nicko978]

@DirtyDudeOnLin3 So are flashlights?

[salopy0]

@bardoxvideos wrong there is not enough energy density in 3 AAA s to heat up any more wire than is featured there. Also they may have a high resistance and further reduce the change of shorting sparks.

[bardoxvideos]

@salopy0 The resistance of the wire is what starts the fire... The wires have resistance to the electricity and they heat up and ignite the wool. My friend put 2v through a guitar string and a tiny frayed piece on the top got red hot.

[Kches47]

@bardoxvideos I think there are a lot of things Les can do, but I think he just chooses to do certain things.

[powermaks]

@bardoxvideos they are not thin enough. trust me, i play one! (and have a electronics hobby)

[bardoxvideos]

@powermaks If you take a piece from the largest string, you can uncoil the wire on it, it's very thin.

[ArizonaAdventures]

great show!

[mrmark226]

the hell with that i would start a BIG ass forest fire and run the opposite way of it some one would see that shit for sure

[80spodcastchannel]

breaking NEEDED equipment ISNT A FIX.

also there is OTHER means to do so.

if you kill your flashlight and need to identify a threat AT NIGHT, you cannot do that outside the fire's area.

your points are valid and I respect them.but, DO NOT EVER RUIN ANY EQUIPMENT IN A SURVIVAL SETTING. YOU CAN NOT JUST STOP FILMING WHEN YOUR IN THAT SITUATION.

that was my point, it's bad example to insert that as an alternative to do that. if someone does follow that advice they may wind up dead doing it.

[leighrate]

If you have fire, you have light, but you are right that would have been better to ignite the cotton wool in a fashion that preserves the torch. If possible. Naturally, carrying a Bic might have been a wiser choice. A point Les makes very clearly in his book.

[12jason223]

@80spodcastchannel at night in a survival situation, you should not be outside the fire area at night, its dangerous and stupid and you will achive nothing by leaving your camp at night

[Ethered45lc]

Thats the point, I carry a blast match a bic and a road flare to start fires when I'm in the bush, and I have a bic in my coat even though I don't smoke, but if you loose, damage or for some other reason don't have your gear, well I think thats kinda what hes going for. Les is the man.

[80spodcastchannel]

I love the way he ruins equipment rather then CARRY a firemaking device.

a MAGNESIUM/FLINT ROD..2 ounces

a BIC LIGHTER..1 ounce

a BOOK OF MATCHES WRAPPED IN TWO ZIP LOCK BAGS....1 ounce.

a MAGNIFYING GLASS LENS..under an ounce.

all weight for all of this still not even noticable as a everyday carry

Les Stroud..uses the most convoluted means to light fires of anyone I have EVER seen on videos

[80spodcastchannel]

and your a stupid person who's too high on his supply to know the difference.

and I am nobody's n word,you can take you dumb comments and go away,your ignorant and your also so loser you havent a clue as to what I was even trying to point out..in short you suck and you made everyone who read your dumb comments see this,thanks for confirming your a idiot, and now everyone can see it

[SGThartman762]

That is completely besides the point of this show. Anyone who is remotely intelligent should already know how to use these devices. The whole idea is for him to show that there are other ways to make fire if you are caught unprepared and without these items. Should you have them, USE THEM! He is only giving intelligent and insightful additional options.

[12jason223]

@80spodcastchannel you droped your flint a mile back. your lighter doesnt work at high altitudes. your matches got wet beacuse the ziplocks didnt lock all the way like they ussaly do. magnifying glass lens got broken when you triped on a log, what do you do now?

[80spodcastchannel]

@12jason223 build a bow, carve out a catch board,and use a fire bow.. you didnt tell me the conditions of operation, use an ICE magnifying glass, rub two sticks, or one of the REDUNDANT lighters, flints, magnesium fire starters that I always carry. I have shown time and again in my videos the 'rule of TWO'. good comment and thought provoking as a theoretical. but I usually try to maintain backups for my back ups, and be smart about things.

also technology is your buddy, be safe

Seeya

Dude

[tokorev747777]

another way is to easliy break a bulb, but thats kinda hard,

[Shampoo450]

It which episode is this

[tns4]

sierra nevadas

[xARMINIUSx]

it works, but not with al battery's, sometimes u have to strip it, partly

[TJYoung80234]

"Haha and I got fire now"...

... haha and now you don't have a flashlight. :\ There's a million ways to use the heat of that flashlight without destroying it, and lighting it on fire.

[kaljam]

LED radiates alot of heat does it?

[sklzlm]

no, virtually none.

[USDAChuckSteak]

A million ways? Let's start by you telling me just 10.

[jackolannerhead]

uh lighter, uh matches, uh uh hmmm, butane jet crackpipe lighter, uh more matches, uh white phosphorus grenade, uh thermite grenade,,uh a miracle,,,uh potassium permanganate/glycerin,,,uh a welding machine,,,uh jeez maybe not quite a million

[USDAChuckSteak]

Just trying to "keep it real".

And just how hot do LED's get? And how to you suggest he should have used the "heat" off the flashlight?

[GexMix]

Didn't you hear him? He pointed out where the bulb would go..meaning he didn't have one, making the flashlight useless. Besides, a fire is way more valuable in a survival situation. A flashlight is basically only good at night and a fire can be used as a torch if done right. What I'm saying is, do not question Mr. Stroud's methods!

[razorboy6666]

@GexMix what the hell is the point in going into camping/tramping/getting stuck in the middle of nowhere in the first place, with no bulb in one of the most essential tools you will need while on your stroll. "Oh shit didn't remember to check my headlamp for a working lamp inside, but shit....at least i've got a guitar with 6 strings..."

[CanItAlready]

@GexMix

He said, "That's where the bulb would go", but it looked to me like there might still be an emitter there. So he phrased it funny, but why on earth would he be in the woods with a broken LED headlamp? Where would the LED have gone?

I'll question Mr. Stroud all I want when the situation seems absurd. As an entertaining exercise, it's interesting. As a survival situation, not likely. A guitar, a broken headlamp and a multitool? Yeah, that person's an idiot for wandering into the woods.

[powermaks]

@GexMix you look closly, that led is clearly there. (or it was) 0:26 it is not in the casing anymore because he took it out. it looks like an cree power LED mounted on a aluminum star base. and what is he doing with a guitar?

[jessemobster11]

lol

my psn is: jesseunit

[sicmoshd00d]

uhh what happened to rubbing sticks together? fucking show-off.

[RobA82390]

i have the same cable box/love survivorman :P

scientific atlanta 8300HD?

Also you know it has firewire ports on the back so you can actually record a direct video stream right from the box.

[DirtyDudeOnLin3]

Yea I have that :) and i didnt know there was a firewire ports on the back lolz i just used my cap card ;)

[RobA82390]

yeah but can your card record 1080i/720p?

[DirtyDudeOnLin3]

lol naa ill take a look at the back of it and try to record with it from now on :p

[death7unites7us]

wow kool =D

[0oniceyo0]

y u upload this lol

[swatgwapoI]

nice find ngu dirty

[DirtyDudeOnLin3]

naa i recorded myself lol