I have found drying things out in my pockets as i travle works well also and to find it dry under logs sloping trees ect all good places for dry tinder.Charcloth helps though...
Very impressed with this video, it is much better than half of the videos on Youtube which just has some idiot with a can of petrol and a bundle of leaves. This one is very professional and you are just giving us good honest advice. 5* :D
I'm sure you could manage without the charcoal cloth, but I still think it's cheating. Might as well bring a can of gasoline with you, then at least you could light a fire in a flood. With an extra 10 minutes you could easily scrape together natural tinder for the firelighting which would make the process even more satisfying. Tiny scrapings of dry wood will take nicely to the fire steel.
@seanmulhall If you take a pencil sharpner with you, you can shave off the wet outa wood of larger sticks and then sharpen the dry inner wood. Collect the shavings from this and use that as tinder. (tip taken from army ranger Ricks website). have tried it, works a treat!
You can easily see how he cuts the video right when the tinder is going out, and suddenly something is burning quite steadily, from another viewpoint. Either the tinder has been replaced, or something was added between those cuts.
I have to disagree with you. When the video is cut back in you can clearly see that I have placed more sticks onto the pile. I thought I had shown enough time of me letting it get going. Even after the cut the fire is still small and is only just starting to take to the sticks. But we are all entitled to our own opinions.
You pulled the tinder bundle away from you to when you took a breath. Good technique. I learned something new about how to blow a tinder bundle into flame.
when it boils down to bare bones, the survival skills people choose to learn are the same as the college courses people take...its just an attempt by the individual to get along in the life path they choose to follow. no right or wrong, just preference. different people find value in a variety of different skills and knowledge. take whats useful and remember the rest just in case!
@sprucepantherkmt So i am a twit? Im not familiar with the name calling and tom foolery of the englishman, but i feel that i am supposed to take offense to that but i can't help but laugh. Also note the words "i think". I still do not think those were police firing those rounds. Anyway, I live several Thousand miles away, and have to worry about municipality in my own city/county/state/country etc. gun laws change here every 10 miles.
I love the guys who diss videos like this because they brought something with them. It's not a black or white world. Your skills develop along a continuum; you don't just wake up one day being a self sufficient bushman. These guys will not be satisfied until you walk naked into the woods and build yourself a Ritz Carlton with your bare hands, LOL.
@seanmulhall I understand what you are saying. I love being able to care for myself back to the basics. Not because I'm preparing for when I really need it but I personally feel mentally stronger every time I succeed beating my own challenges in the wilderness. Keep it up; you know better.
@seanmulhall when im 18, im gonna live in the country, not have a house, and do all this. and for fun! Have you watched lord of the rings? or played jak and daxter, they inspired me heaps. you remind me of aragorn when you wore the wool blanket :P
@theWZZA when it boils down to bare bones, the survival skills people choose to learn are the same as the college courses people take...its just an attempt by the individual to get along in the life path they choose to follow. no right or wrong, just preference. different people find value in a variety of different skills and knowledge. take whats useful and remember the rest just in case!
I am aware that Firearms are illegal in the UK. But call me crazy but it sounds like a handgun going off throughout the video. Anyone else have an idea of what it is? It does not sound like wood being chopped/ hammer hitting nail; it isn't quite frequent enough.
@steviezxr Why not carry the tinder? It makes life easier, and I'm sure someone who likes Bushcrafting doesn't need YOUR approval. Bastard, don't even know what you're talking about. You don't have one upload of a Bushcraft/Survival video!
on all your videos theres complaints that the intro music is loud and that you are too quite. stop dishing out advice and take some. Sort your sound out.
I guess it's too much to ask that you just be appreciative of him taking the time to make these really helpful videos. Instead of saying thank you, or telling him what a 1st rate job he is doing, you complain that he isn't doing enough. Quit being a lazy ingrate and adjust your volume if you need to.
One additional point I think could make it all easier: on a wet day, I'd advise gathering the kindling from standing dead trees, as opposed to gathering them from the damp forest floor. While the sticks on the ground will be soaked, the limbs on standing trees will be almost dry.
FAIL. as soon as you see someone using 'brought from home' materials its fail. if u prepare and remember to bring charcloth, then why not petrol? or matches? or a mobilehome complete with plasma screen. either light a fire using naturally found materials, or book into a hotel
@seanmulhall Good point, but are you saying that you never go anywhere without tinder, because in a survival situation it will be the one time you didn't think of it, that you will need to make a fire.
That's just the way the universe works.
Good video, but I would to see some starting with NO tools or tinder. For a true survival situation.
I have made a video of me using the bow drill. In that video I used tinder (dead bracken) I collected at the site. The bow drill is one I had in my pack though. I will make a video collecting everything from one camp site.
@ORCA4312 Well if you do thats your own fault. I keep a fire steel and striker on my edc that is with me wherever i go. Whether i am in the city and there is no way i am going to need it or in the woods. Its a pretty easy addition to make.
@ORCA4312 Well if you do thats your own fault. I keep a fire steel and striker on my edc that is with me wherever i go. Whether i am in the city and there is no way i am going to need it or in the woods. Its a pretty easy addition to make.
@ORCA4312 Well if you do thats your own fault. I keep a fire steel and striker on my edc that is with me wherever i go. Whether i am in the city and there is no way i am going to need it or in the woods. Its a pretty easy addition to make.
And by the way when i saw a comment consearning that the cotton balls are better, my favourite is curtisoft whipes ( whipes with a high prosent of alkohol)
the reason to this is that the curtisoft whipes, dont take any space, and they can also be used to steralise woonds
It's really about working you way up to the big stuff. You get enough heat going from the small sticks to dry out and start up the medium size sticks, then wait till the medium sticks are going well enough to dry out and and start up the larger sticks, then on to small logs, etc. He could also split open some of the bigger logs to get to the dry wood in the middle for a hotter fire.
The wetter it is, the more you need to prepare and the smaller the sticks will need to be you start with and build it up from there. Small spruce sticks are great for wet lighting. You can even scrape the bark of the small sticks to let them catch quicker. Most moisture is in the bark. It is possible to start a fire in the rain, but you have to prepare a whole bunch of sticks and keep your tinder dry -inside you pocket or so. Feather sticks will also help in wet weather.
are those gunshots in the background noise?Sounds like a busy place we have hundreds of miles of woods and lakes in northern canada.And best of all birch trees by the millions
I have not made a video on friction fire lighting because there are hundres of videos like it on Youtube. I have tried to keep my videos different to most. Also I would never choose friction fire lighting as my primary source of fire. For me its too hit and miss if I succeed. Also its hard work. I do not come from a survival stand point but from one of enjoying wild camping or bushcraft. I do demonstarte the bow drill on courses.
@nowhereusa no.not at all u can make one with natrual cordage found in the forest.dogbane,nettle,bass fibers.flax,yucca.plenty of plants man..u can also make a stone knife..u just need to know the right materials and know the woods. u cant be in a rush like people today..most of these skills have been lost.so sad too..cause our modern world is a joke cell phones computers cars..all material things that cant help u in the bush
yeah i was going to say birch bark too... its in most places. If you cant find that you can take wet wood baton it down to open up the dry center and then create fire sticks and thin tinder pieces from that
Yes it grows wild in all the woods around here. In my video 'Wild Walk on the Mndips part 2' you see me find some just at teh side of an onld disused railway along with other wild foods.
Yes it is but is in another valley and not in the woods I am using so I am completely safe. The sounds just seems to travel in my direction. I am under a flight path at the end of a runway so there is deffinately no shooting going on in the woods I am in.
What type of bark did you use? What;'s the common name for it. i'm in Belfast and our trees are very similar over here. i love the old camping trips but would like to use more traditional methods or at least learn now to do then or what I'm looking for.
I made a fire yesterday and i realised something. In this day and age we give 'value' many things. Generally, technological/expensive things. Mass produced plastic things. However, the bits of wood that I gathered to make my fire actually had the potential to keep me/my family ALIVE! Warmth, coking, keeping animals at bay.They were just small pieces of wood 'valueless' by todays standards. And yet in an emergency literally worth their weight in gold. We have lost the true value of things I think
So true mate. Me and my mates started camping about 5/6 years ago and we love it. Even started to introduce family and friend sto it, if more kids were given a chanceof doing something wholesome like this it might make better people out of them.
I'm 14 and in the scouts there is pretty good freedom with fire, now in the explorers section (14-17) we do a fire at practically every meeting, camping is great and I think I will buy the DD pack which Silver Fox did a review on, BTW don't ever use a camp bed under an Individual Survival kit, AND PUT DOWN A GROUND SHEET!!! I camped in a bivvy last night and got soaked because I thought I knew better than my leader.
Oh and Silver Fox, how do you know which bark is which???
There's always the option of not watching him! He's just inviting people to learn along side himself and he puts himself out to do so. Appreciate the good points or go some place else.
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ok one ive been watching your videos and they are pretty good but there is one thing that is just taking away from it all and its unfortunate because it is killing your videos for me. The ah whole silver homo thing yea thats not really something a grown man should be refering to himself as..... just an fyi
Where do you get Silver Homo. As for the Silver Fox its a nick name I've had since I was 20 because I started going grey then. Also have you never heard of branding and marketing.
I dont know what bit you are refering to. I had to cut out some parts to make the video fit onto You tube and to not make it too boring. If you look at the sticks they are in the same position but I have added extra sticks to the bundle. I also have to cut out the sound of airplanes as I am at the end of a runway. As for the construction noise that is shotguns on a pheasant shoot. Thanks for watching though.
The size of the sitcks is a standard size I instruct all students to gather. I found people use too small sticks and kept running out of kindling and fuel before the fire got enough heat ot self sustain. So the length of the sticks has nothing to do with the amount of moisute in them.
if you can find it ,an excellent kindling is larch twigs, even when they are wet/damp, the high resin concentration makes them easy to catch,they crackle and burn fast but if you have alot of them your fire will catch even when wet,an excellent wood to burn is Ash,it burns when green which will enable you to dry out wetter different types of wood.dont try and burn oak or other rough bark woods because they will just smoulder dur o the high water content.
So as a rule, is thinner barked wood better to burn when damp?
Im terrible with identifying plants and trees. I forget the names and what ive been told about them, but i have a very visual memory, and bark would be easier for me to identify.
Whats the name of the tree with the white bark? and it always looks like it has black claw marks in it.
good start ;) Thick bark might take up water. Anyhow ,between bark & actual wood is an often green tissue which transports water (sort of vessels) for the tree. it will store water even if the tree is dead & when it was raining. making a fire with damp wood?- always good 2 remove the bark to get the wood.
your claw-mark tree is the birch, i guess. Taking the paper-like bark is a good fire starter. it contains tar.
When using bark, to not cut the tree: you will distroy the ´vessel´. ..
what is it putting in to nest? cant understand what he says,charclock or something like that =) and what does he use to make spark with knife? its a bit hard to understand for me
Sorry the poor pronunciation on my part. I am using Char Cloth (Charred Cloth) to catch the spark and to create an ember. This is then blown into a flame in the Clematis bark tinder nest. I am making the sparks with a fire steel (Ferrocium Rod). Hope this helps.
nice one Sean. Man, either ye have hundreds of pheasants or they are a bad shot. You should have got yourself a pheasant for that nice fire ye made. I am guessing those pheasants are pen released and not wild, if so then they can be completely daft and easy to catch. Good luck.
You are correct the pheasants are pen released. I have never seen any in the woods I use though. As I said they are over the other side of the gorge in neighbouring fields and woods.
Alright. What about taking your wee dog out for a bit of pheasant traking? Thats what I do. Once you find where the cocks are groud feeding you can set up a trap maybe?... :-D Just dont tell anyone. I have found that pheasants like cover beside open green fields.
I use to do beating for a local shoot and the pheasants were always in the undergrowth. As I said I have not seen or heard them in the woods I use which is surprising.
you don´t need a charcloth to make a fire, with that nest is enough. I know is nice to use the firesteel, but is easiest to keep always with you a small BIC lighter, another one in your survival kit, another one in your first aid kit, and why not...another one in your car. You can light up 100 fires and faster.
i disagree, i prefer using a firesteel because theyre more reliable, and last much longer. you just need to know how to use one and then u are pretty much set for making a fire..
is there a fucking war going on in the background lol?
hazuninga 2 weeks ago
very fine grass will work BETTER than char cloth w/ firesteel
NPTuttle 3 weeks ago
what type of wood are you using for bed and twigs and what alternative tree for the tinder nest could i find
rowallanrob28 1 month ago
whats up with the bangin eh
gavinvilla13 1 month ago
the editing of this guy's videos is distracting
BravoAlphaLimaJR 1 month ago
I have found drying things out in my pockets as i travle works well also and to find it dry under logs sloping trees ect all good places for dry tinder.Charcloth helps though...
SilentWolf1966 2 months ago
Good music. Eddie Vedder +1
degekkejoop 3 months ago
"Preparation"
drelopes 3 months ago
You have the look of a man who has spent along time alone in forests.
Mrfordtoyou 4 months ago
nice video, and nice song..
thanks.
BlueDemonGTR 4 months ago
what was that brown stuff you ignited at the beginning? can you do it without it as well?
NorwegianKnifeDude 4 months ago
@NorwegianKnifeDude I used char cloth. I can light fires without it but it takes a bit more work. Good idea for a new video.
seanmulhall 4 months ago
@seanmulhall that would be awesome if you did! Because I'm kind of short on char cloth lol...
always wondered how to light a fire in wet conditions without anything except a firesteel...
NorwegianKnifeDude 4 months ago
@pkchaosmaker your well educated
Munch180 5 months ago
Very impressed with this video, it is much better than half of the videos on Youtube which just has some idiot with a can of petrol and a bundle of leaves. This one is very professional and you are just giving us good honest advice. 5* :D
danheyse 5 months ago
your face at the start of this vid is priceless
ubermcnoob 5 months ago
how can u relax with some guy firing off rounds like that in the background?
scottkottmann 6 months ago
Hi, I just had a question: is firemaking in the woods allowed in the UK? In Belgium, the country where I live, it's not allowed. Hope you answer.
Grtz, mandgsurvival
mandgsurvival 7 months ago
@mandgsurvival
Fires are not allowed in UK woodlands with out the consent of the land owner.
seanmulhall 7 months ago
@seanmulhall Yeah, it's the same in my country. Thanks for answering.
mandgsurvival 7 months ago
Yesterday I tired to start my first fire in the woods, there was a storm and it is a rain forest, so needless to say I failed lol
squathacker 7 months ago
Can anyone tell me what would use for making Maya dust? And is it the sap from the wood that gives it that smell?
paracordjunky 8 months ago
@paracordjunky
I dont know about maya dust its self but an equivalent can be made for the trunk roots from pine trees.
seanmulhall 7 months ago
@paracordjunky
all it is pine sap soaked wood
look up fat wood
reply if u think u need more help
17hmr243 6 months ago
I'm sure you could manage without the charcoal cloth, but I still think it's cheating. Might as well bring a can of gasoline with you, then at least you could light a fire in a flood. With an extra 10 minutes you could easily scrape together natural tinder for the firelighting which would make the process even more satisfying. Tiny scrapings of dry wood will take nicely to the fire steel.
vinternatten 8 months ago
@callummccusker
Feather sticks are brilliant. Other wise look for dry tinder and lots of it.
seanmulhall 9 months ago
@seanmulhall are you out alone or is someone with you
MultiCube69 5 months ago
@MultiCube69 I am out alone in this video.
seanmulhall 5 months ago
Sean what is all that shooting in the background?
hoosierarcher 9 months ago in playlist Bushcraft / Survival skills
@hoosierarcher
Shotguns from a local clay pigeon shooting club
seanmulhall 9 months ago
@callummccusker
In the woods where I am I nearly always use the Clematis bark. But feather sticks are also extremely effective in damp conditions.
seanmulhall 9 months ago
@seanmulhall If you take a pencil sharpner with you, you can shave off the wet outa wood of larger sticks and then sharpen the dry inner wood. Collect the shavings from this and use that as tinder. (tip taken from army ranger Ricks website). have tried it, works a treat!
SyrusCole 8 months ago
great vid thanks keep it up
brianlagasse1000 10 months ago
SNIPER!!!!
Dave54600 10 months ago
You can easily see how he cuts the video right when the tinder is going out, and suddenly something is burning quite steadily, from another viewpoint. Either the tinder has been replaced, or something was added between those cuts.
TzunSu 11 months ago
@TzunSu
I have to disagree with you. When the video is cut back in you can clearly see that I have placed more sticks onto the pile. I thought I had shown enough time of me letting it get going. Even after the cut the fire is still small and is only just starting to take to the sticks. But we are all entitled to our own opinions.
seanmulhall 11 months ago
i hear those bangs in woodland near me ..what it it???
pranksters2009 11 months ago
@pranksters2009 Shots.
TzunSu 11 months ago
hahaha stick sizes lol u got biggger sticks lol hahah
TheDumnAs 1 year ago
You pulled the tinder bundle away from you to when you took a breath. Good technique. I learned something new about how to blow a tinder bundle into flame.
Thanks..
TheSt1234 1 year ago
Your videos are really interesting
skeetabix36 1 year ago
sounds like your in a war zone hahaha
codcoda 1 year ago
i never knew you could use clematis for tinder, ive got LOADS growing around my area. THANKS SEAN!!
bbroegger 1 year ago
@bbroegger
Its my favourite tinder. Personally I prefer it to birch bark. Its easier to collect and is readily available.
seanmulhall 1 year ago
Wow there is a shooting range near?
Rhinoch8 1 year ago
@Rhinoch8
Clay pigeons in the next valley.
seanmulhall 1 year ago
when it boils down to bare bones, the survival skills people choose to learn are the same as the college courses people take...its just an attempt by the individual to get along in the life path they choose to follow. no right or wrong, just preference. different people find value in a variety of different skills and knowledge. take whats useful and remember the rest just in case!
MrJustinwlf 1 year ago
@MrJustinwlf
Very true
seanmulhall 1 year ago
Hehehe i'll need those skill to light a fire for tomorrow's night. We'll spend our year in a pine bough shelter.
Rhinoch8 1 year ago
watching a fire is still fun even if its only on my computer
madFlam1 1 year ago
I love you too brother
Bewarethe1 1 year ago
@lonepantherkmt Im sorry I don't understand l337 5p34k
Bewarethe1 1 year ago
Nice video. Really love the Eddie Vedder.
TheSurvivalResource 1 year ago
wow americans invading? i hear the gunshots..WATCH OUT SEAN!
sprucepantherkmt 1 year ago
Yeah and I don't even think the cops use guns in UK..
Bewarethe1 1 year ago
@Bewarethe1 yes they do u twit
sprucepantherkmt 1 year ago
@sprucepantherkmt So i am a twit? Im not familiar with the name calling and tom foolery of the englishman, but i feel that i am supposed to take offense to that but i can't help but laugh. Also note the words "i think". I still do not think those were police firing those rounds. Anyway, I live several Thousand miles away, and have to worry about municipality in my own city/county/state/country etc. gun laws change here every 10 miles.
Bewarethe1 1 year ago
I love the guys who diss videos like this because they brought something with them. It's not a black or white world. Your skills develop along a continuum; you don't just wake up one day being a self sufficient bushman. These guys will not be satisfied until you walk naked into the woods and build yourself a Ritz Carlton with your bare hands, LOL.
theWZZA 1 year ago 9
@theWZZA
I find it hard to understand why people cant just do this stuff for fun. Im not a paranoid survivalist.
seanmulhall 1 year ago 13
@seanmulhall I rather agree. Do it for fun now, and when/if, you have the skills..
dgr8zod 1 year ago
@seanmulhall I understand what you are saying. I love being able to care for myself back to the basics. Not because I'm preparing for when I really need it but I personally feel mentally stronger every time I succeed beating my own challenges in the wilderness. Keep it up; you know better.
Fridabeekman 9 months ago
@seanmulhall when im 18, im gonna live in the country, not have a house, and do all this. and for fun! Have you watched lord of the rings? or played jak and daxter, they inspired me heaps. you remind me of aragorn when you wore the wool blanket :P
GOODBADGAMER 5 months ago
@seanmulhall dido
hpoblp 4 months ago
@theWZZA when it boils down to bare bones, the survival skills people choose to learn are the same as the college courses people take...its just an attempt by the individual to get along in the life path they choose to follow. no right or wrong, just preference. different people find value in a variety of different skills and knowledge. take whats useful and remember the rest just in case!
MrJustinwlf 1 year ago
I am aware that Firearms are illegal in the UK. But call me crazy but it sounds like a handgun going off throughout the video. Anyone else have an idea of what it is? It does not sound like wood being chopped/ hammer hitting nail; it isn't quite frequent enough.
Bewarethe1 1 year ago
@Bewarethe1 Sounds like trap or skeet shooting to me....
c9ari 1 year ago
@steviezxr Why not carry the tinder? It makes life easier, and I'm sure someone who likes Bushcrafting doesn't need YOUR approval. Bastard, don't even know what you're talking about. You don't have one upload of a Bushcraft/Survival video!
braxtonamour 1 year ago
good job!
What is the banging sound in the background? Gun shots?
U8berGTI 1 year ago
Is That Raoul Moat In the background at 2:36?
jamielangley4ever 1 year ago
on all your videos theres complaints that the intro music is loud and that you are too quite. stop dishing out advice and take some. Sort your sound out.
timjamesmackenzie 1 year ago
@timjamesmackenzie
I guess it's too much to ask that you just be appreciative of him taking the time to make these really helpful videos. Instead of saying thank you, or telling him what a 1st rate job he is doing, you complain that he isn't doing enough. Quit being a lazy ingrate and adjust your volume if you need to.
kamden1980 1 year ago
sounds like fun in the background ;)
angel2rx 1 year ago
One additional point I think could make it all easier: on a wet day, I'd advise gathering the kindling from standing dead trees, as opposed to gathering them from the damp forest floor. While the sticks on the ground will be soaked, the limbs on standing trees will be almost dry.
ratbertovich 1 year ago
someone is crankin off some rounds out there...
Armor71 1 year ago
Good Vid well done
tjsurfervids 1 year ago
Is that a drum noise? Or a gun shot
podjkins2 1 year ago
your stuff are helpful but for a man you have squeaky voice
jtdbs 1 year ago
Eddie Vedder- Society!!!
wjlacey 1 year ago
who is being shot lol
miffin113 1 year ago
use no homebrought stuff please you won't always have them with you.
use birchbark or something(see my vid on that) it even lights when it's wet
survivingwilderniss 1 year ago
ha ha ha gun shots in the back round
SkeltaHelta 2 years ago 3
you have a actsend i doe poo
wog222 2 years ago
FAIL. as soon as you see someone using 'brought from home' materials its fail. if u prepare and remember to bring charcloth, then why not petrol? or matches? or a mobilehome complete with plasma screen. either light a fire using naturally found materials, or book into a hotel
steviezxr 2 years ago
Man has always carried dry prepared tinder on him. They found a frozen man 5000 years old and even he has a tinder bag on him contain amadu.
seanmulhall 2 years ago 19
@seanmulhall Good point, but are you saying that you never go anywhere without tinder, because in a survival situation it will be the one time you didn't think of it, that you will need to make a fire.
That's just the way the universe works.
Good video, but I would to see some starting with NO tools or tinder. For a true survival situation.
ORCA4312 2 years ago
I have made a video of me using the bow drill. In that video I used tinder (dead bracken) I collected at the site. The bow drill is one I had in my pack though. I will make a video collecting everything from one camp site.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
@ORCA4312 Well if you do thats your own fault. I keep a fire steel and striker on my edc that is with me wherever i go. Whether i am in the city and there is no way i am going to need it or in the woods. Its a pretty easy addition to make.
blinddesolation 1 year ago
@ORCA4312 Well if you do thats your own fault. I keep a fire steel and striker on my edc that is with me wherever i go. Whether i am in the city and there is no way i am going to need it or in the woods. Its a pretty easy addition to make.
blinddesolation 1 year ago
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@ORCA4312 Well if you do thats your own fault. I keep a fire steel and striker on my edc that is with me wherever i go. Whether i am in the city and there is no way i am going to need it or in the woods. Its a pretty easy addition to make.
blinddesolation 1 year ago
@ORCA4312 first the video is about Lighting a fire with damp wood not in a survival situation so chill and second its always good to be prepared
MrOhitsujiza 1 year ago
@MrOhitsujiza If it's not a survival situation - you wouldn't need to use damp wood.
ORCA4312 1 year ago
@ORCA4312 your uot camping and dont find dry wood?
MrOhitsujiza 1 year ago
@seanmulhall why not just carry a lighter? in waterproof bag of course, or the same way you keep your tinder dry.
maximillianof98 1 year ago
@seanmulhall Are you refering to Otzi?
Bewarethe1 1 year ago
@Bewarethe1 Yes
seanmulhall 1 year ago
@seanmulhall Are you referring to Otzi?
Bewarethe1 1 year ago
I really just like to use plain cotton balls, Goes up first strike with my fire steel.
Trsmoothie 2 years ago 2
And by the way when i saw a comment consearning that the cotton balls are better, my favourite is curtisoft whipes ( whipes with a high prosent of alkohol)
the reason to this is that the curtisoft whipes, dont take any space, and they can also be used to steralise woonds
Labamballl 2 years ago
when i saw this video the first thig i thougt was how hed heat up thode big logs, because honestly twigs dont last the night.
so u have any tips about that spesific consearn please make a video or just comment back to me:)
Labamballl 2 years ago
@Labamballl
It's really about working you way up to the big stuff. You get enough heat going from the small sticks to dry out and start up the medium size sticks, then wait till the medium sticks are going well enough to dry out and and start up the larger sticks, then on to small logs, etc. He could also split open some of the bigger logs to get to the dry wood in the middle for a hotter fire.
OldDogsCanLearn 2 years ago
The wetter it is, the more you need to prepare and the smaller the sticks will need to be you start with and build it up from there. Small spruce sticks are great for wet lighting. You can even scrape the bark of the small sticks to let them catch quicker. Most moisture is in the bark. It is possible to start a fire in the rain, but you have to prepare a whole bunch of sticks and keep your tinder dry -inside you pocket or so. Feather sticks will also help in wet weather.
marcjacobi 2 years ago
An easier alternative to char cloths are cotton wool balls. Cheap and easy to find and go up in flames first strike. I hope that helps people.
alahap 2 years ago
are those gunshots in the background noise?Sounds like a busy place we have hundreds of miles of woods and lakes in northern canada.And best of all birch trees by the millions
moxonone 2 years ago
the gun shots are communications between two hunters to find each other
MrHundredhanded 2 years ago
That explanation gave me a big laught, thanks!
Now I know how to find my friends when we go hunting next weekend.
Virihaure 2 years ago
important to note...fire up, not twords your friends shot =)
dreamthinker79 2 years ago
maybe, i have done that before, nowerdays we mostly use mobiles tho
carts cost money u know! :P
bushcraftourway 2 years ago
seen all your vids
this is the best
also the first i saw
i like hiking
go every saterday
nlc7y 2 years ago
Thanks
seanmulhall 2 years ago
But what if you don't have charcloth and a flint?
JRNY1605 2 years ago 4
yeah, this guy is as effective as a one-legged man in an ass kicking contest.
ironmanm5 2 years ago 4
your screwed. unless you can get a fire drill going
nowhereusa 2 years ago
I have not made a video on friction fire lighting because there are hundres of videos like it on Youtube. I have tried to keep my videos different to most. Also I would never choose friction fire lighting as my primary source of fire. For me its too hit and miss if I succeed. Also its hard work. I do not come from a survival stand point but from one of enjoying wild camping or bushcraft. I do demonstarte the bow drill on courses.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
@nowhereusa no.not at all u can make one with natrual cordage found in the forest.dogbane,nettle,bass fibers.flax,yucca.plenty of plants man..u can also make a stone knife..u just need to know the right materials and know the woods. u cant be in a rush like people today..most of these skills have been lost.so sad too..cause our modern world is a joke cell phones computers cars..all material things that cant help u in the bush
5tonyvvvv 1 year ago
I'd love to see a video on natural tinders and how to identify the trees or places to find them.
Also tinders that can be found in a cold wet february in the UK when everything seems to be waterlogged.
georgewhedge 2 years ago
Clematis bark is available all year round also birch bark. Even leaf litter at the base of trees is often still dry even after rain fall.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
yeah i was going to say birch bark too... its in most places. If you cant find that you can take wet wood baton it down to open up the dry center and then create fire sticks and thin tinder pieces from that
nowhereusa 2 years ago
great vid and explaning
ajkkoontz 2 years ago
do you get clematis growing wild in those woods?
yetiflicker 2 years ago
Yes it grows wild in all the woods around here. In my video 'Wild Walk on the Mndips part 2' you see me find some just at teh side of an onld disused railway along with other wild foods.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
Excellent!
sweettina2 2 years ago
what is that booming sound in the background, is some one hunting near you?
killeninicent 2 years ago 2
i would say clay pigeon shooting
589118 2 years ago
Yes it is but is in another valley and not in the woods I am using so I am completely safe. The sounds just seems to travel in my direction. I am under a flight path at the end of a runway so there is deffinately no shooting going on in the woods I am in.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
Cheers Sean
007vauxhall 2 years ago
Hi sean
What type of bark did you use? What;'s the common name for it. i'm in Belfast and our trees are very similar over here. i love the old camping trips but would like to use more traditional methods or at least learn now to do then or what I'm looking for.
sean3470 2 years ago
I used clematis bark. Other barks that are excellent for fire lighting are cedar and silver birch. I am intending to make a video on natural tinders.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
I made a fire yesterday and i realised something. In this day and age we give 'value' many things. Generally, technological/expensive things. Mass produced plastic things. However, the bits of wood that I gathered to make my fire actually had the potential to keep me/my family ALIVE! Warmth, coking, keeping animals at bay.They were just small pieces of wood 'valueless' by todays standards. And yet in an emergency literally worth their weight in gold. We have lost the true value of things I think
CelticReject 2 years ago 21
Fantastic comment. 5*
seanmulhall 2 years ago
So true mate. Me and my mates started camping about 5/6 years ago and we love it. Even started to introduce family and friend sto it, if more kids were given a chanceof doing something wholesome like this it might make better people out of them.
sean3470 2 years ago 4
I'm 14 and in the scouts there is pretty good freedom with fire, now in the explorers section (14-17) we do a fire at practically every meeting, camping is great and I think I will buy the DD pack which Silver Fox did a review on, BTW don't ever use a camp bed under an Individual Survival kit, AND PUT DOWN A GROUND SHEET!!! I camped in a bivvy last night and got soaked because I thought I knew better than my leader.
Oh and Silver Fox, how do you know which bark is which???
5katern3wb 2 years ago
Good stuff mate! Somthing everyone should learn!
chriskerr13 2 years ago
There's always the option of not watching him! He's just inviting people to learn along side himself and he puts himself out to do so. Appreciate the good points or go some place else.
grinninggnome 2 years ago 2
This comment has received too many negative votes show
ok one ive been watching your videos and they are pretty good but there is one thing that is just taking away from it all and its unfortunate because it is killing your videos for me. The ah whole silver homo thing yea thats not really something a grown man should be refering to himself as..... just an fyi
jebis03 2 years ago
Where do you get Silver Homo. As for the Silver Fox its a nick name I've had since I was 20 because I started going grey then. Also have you never heard of branding and marketing.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
Dont listen to em sean. While their all at home wondering what to do next when the power goes out......
come over here to oz sometime and check out how we do things.
clint2704 2 years ago 3
Way to cut out the bit where the fire dies and you have to make a new bundle and light that and the construction and planes is really outdoors.
seander89 2 years ago
I dont know what bit you are refering to. I had to cut out some parts to make the video fit onto You tube and to not make it too boring. If you look at the sticks they are in the same position but I have added extra sticks to the bundle. I also have to cut out the sound of airplanes as I am at the end of a runway. As for the construction noise that is shotguns on a pheasant shoot. Thanks for watching though.
seanmulhall 2 years ago
Why does the sticks have to be so long?
When they are shorter the moisture will be draining of of the sticks faster, or am i wrong?
And .. Nice vids !
thomasderoover 3 years ago
The size of the sitcks is a standard size I instruct all students to gather. I found people use too small sticks and kept running out of kindling and fuel before the fire got enough heat ot self sustain. So the length of the sticks has nothing to do with the amount of moisute in them.
seanmulhall 3 years ago
brilliant video can you please make more firelighting guides, thatwould be verry usefull thanks silver fox
georgeolik 3 years ago
nice music for the introductio
thanks
georgeolik 3 years ago
Oh i forgot to say thanks for the video !
Outdoorslover552 3 years ago
are those gunshots in the background?? that is not safe...
mitchio83 3 years ago
It pheasant shooting in another valley. The sound travels alot. I am perfectly safe where I am.
seanmulhall 3 years ago
Quality !... cheers for the info Sean !
ferretman37 3 years ago
nice vid sean. Sounds like you were in a warzone with all the fireworks.
SpacedTime 3 years ago 2
Pheasant shooting or an angry farmer saying 'get off my land'.
seanmulhall 3 years ago
Good Video Sean thanks for this information.
I would have never thought of putting a raft down to keep the moisture from coming up from the ground, 5 stars.
itisnow2009 3 years ago
if you can find it ,an excellent kindling is larch twigs, even when they are wet/damp, the high resin concentration makes them easy to catch,they crackle and burn fast but if you have alot of them your fire will catch even when wet,an excellent wood to burn is Ash,it burns when green which will enable you to dry out wetter different types of wood.dont try and burn oak or other rough bark woods because they will just smoulder dur o the high water content.
luvu2luvme 3 years ago
Thanks for the tips on the different types of wood. I will take that on board and be more selective in the woods I choose to use.
seanmulhall 3 years ago
So as a rule, is thinner barked wood better to burn when damp?
Im terrible with identifying plants and trees. I forget the names and what ive been told about them, but i have a very visual memory, and bark would be easier for me to identify.
Whats the name of the tree with the white bark? and it always looks like it has black claw marks in it.
SpacedTime 3 years ago
good start ;) Thick bark might take up water. Anyhow ,between bark & actual wood is an often green tissue which transports water (sort of vessels) for the tree. it will store water even if the tree is dead & when it was raining. making a fire with damp wood?- always good 2 remove the bark to get the wood.
your claw-mark tree is the birch, i guess. Taking the paper-like bark is a good fire starter. it contains tar.
When using bark, to not cut the tree: you will distroy the ´vessel´. ..
macBodach 3 years ago
what is it putting in to nest? cant understand what he says,charclock or something like that =) and what does he use to make spark with knife? its a bit hard to understand for me
gokhanhepsen 3 years ago
Sorry the poor pronunciation on my part. I am using Char Cloth (Charred Cloth) to catch the spark and to create an ember. This is then blown into a flame in the Clematis bark tinder nest. I am making the sparks with a fire steel (Ferrocium Rod). Hope this helps.
Sean
seanmulhall 3 years ago
Well done Sean. Must remember this.
buckwhittler 3 years ago
Another way, is shaving the inside of dead standing timber, Ray Mears did it and it seemed easy.
woodlandsurvival 3 years ago
nice one Sean. Man, either ye have hundreds of pheasants or they are a bad shot. You should have got yourself a pheasant for that nice fire ye made. I am guessing those pheasants are pen released and not wild, if so then they can be completely daft and easy to catch. Good luck.
cuagusgiorrai 3 years ago
You are correct the pheasants are pen released. I have never seen any in the woods I use though. As I said they are over the other side of the gorge in neighbouring fields and woods.
seanmulhall 3 years ago
Alright. What about taking your wee dog out for a bit of pheasant traking? Thats what I do. Once you find where the cocks are groud feeding you can set up a trap maybe?... :-D Just dont tell anyone. I have found that pheasants like cover beside open green fields.
cuagusgiorrai 3 years ago
I use to do beating for a local shoot and the pheasants were always in the undergrowth. As I said I have not seen or heard them in the woods I use which is surprising.
seanmulhall 3 years ago
No pheasant here in Australia, thanks for you informative video,s, cheers jock
119747 3 years ago
you don´t need a charcloth to make a fire, with that nest is enough. I know is nice to use the firesteel, but is easiest to keep always with you a small BIC lighter, another one in your survival kit, another one in your first aid kit, and why not...another one in your car. You can light up 100 fires and faster.
cusitoloco 3 years ago
i disagree, i prefer using a firesteel because theyre more reliable, and last much longer. you just need to know how to use one and then u are pretty much set for making a fire..
KonstantinKuehn 3 years ago
In that case I could also have used hexamine tablets also. I was demonstrating the principle for another viewer.
seanmulhall 3 years ago
He Silver fox whats all the shots going off in the background? Jock
119747 3 years ago
Pheasant shooting in neighbouring fields
seanmulhall 3 years ago