Survival Skills: Firemaking in Snow, Part 3

PART 3 of 5:
A complete series of videos by Nutnfancy and my friend chronicling firemaking in cold and snowy conditions using backpacking equipment only. The series shows the scenery, adventure, survival philosophy, gear observations, our standard joking around, and the good times with long time friend BuggetNuster (YouTube name) and Allie the Mountain Dog. We hiked into the snowy and cold Rocky Mountain bivouac location I had chosen earlier for my Wilderness Lean-To series of videos. A few shelter mods are discussed and shown but the focus of these vids is the making of the fire. I used few edits in the video making because I needed to demonstrate the work needed to create a sustainable fire in these conditions. I have found no shortcuts in the wood preparation for wilderness fire making. Several blades including the Ontario RTAK II, Ontario RAT-7, and KaBar Heavy Bowie are used to strip limbs and baton the logs into burnable pieces with the advantageous sharp edges. They performed exceptionally well in the outing and withstood some real tough use in 15ºF cold (shown of course!). The Sawvivor backpack saw again proved its worth as an accurate and indispensable wood cutter, lubricated with frequent sprays of WD-40. Fire tender used this time was Trioxane solid fuel cake and REI Stormproof matches. The resulting fire was quite manly and heated the Lean-To to incredible levels. We had planned to also build a fire reflector and maybe some other structures but as usual the winter fire prep proved to be quite time consuming and high effort. And we wanted to kick back and enjoy our work afterwards. The outing and fire prep was lots of work but resulted in another great memory made with TNP subscribers and my buddies, BuggetNuster and Allie. Thanks for coming along!///////////////// Please Note: Generally you will have to have an interest in survival blades, skills, outdoor gear, and maybe learning more about them to find these videos interesting. They intentionally show a lot of detail of the fire process (with lots of discussion thrown in) so as to completely teach and prove the Nutnfancy winter firemaking method. In this respect they function as TNP Foundation videos (I will refer to them a lot).

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[BeKoolFool]

Look at the dog so smart. reminds me of simba, my old golden retriever who past away.

[nutnfancy]

@BeKoolFool Great name, Simba. We had a chowchow named Simba years ago... -- Veri

[aapodvezko]

what do you think about using a kukri in this type of situation?

[LeadPaintSandwich]

@SignedSign he could have brought a chainsaw too but i think the point is to keep weight down. you can use a big knife to do alot of things in the bush and in a survival situation. lugging around an axe just for wood processing wastes alot of calories and will slow you down. why carry a couple tools that can perform the same task? also, i think hes testing different makes and models in winter conditions. the knives their using might not be their "ideal" batoning blades.

[daskitso]

You're missing one of your best and easiest tools and you have it right in front of you. A wood wedge. You take that one piece of wedge shaped wood that naturally occurs when you break off the last part after sawing most of the way though and use it to split the other wood. Start it with the knife, but instead of fighting with it when the blade gets bound up, put that wedge in there and continue pounding.

[SignedSign]

you guys realise how much effort and time you would of saved with a proper 2 hand axe choppin that wood? lol

[alien4fish]

@Nutnfancy I just made a mental note to my self Buy a Hatchet!

[wazzar1000]

where's your axe?

[Pimpmayn117]

the message behind this channel.. always carry WD-40

[84SuperDom]

I have read on the comments that Nutn is homophobic from the way he is joking with his buddy. Maybe he is maybe he is not. But from my own personal experience guys joking like that between friends is just that, a joke! I have gay friends and even they joke around like that!. Not a big deal. All you folks out there complaining quit your PC crap and just enjoy the videos!

[adzy1236]

8:46 sorry =P

[adzy1236]

8:12 is like me getting my cat off my leg when she is pissed with me