Starting a Fire with a Fire Steel, and Purifying Water by Boiling

Starting a fire using a fire steel and two old pieces of fire wood, then boiling water in the canteen cup for an example on purification.

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• canteenshop.com
• Water
• Purifying
• Canteen
• Cup
• Fire
• Starting
• Ray
• Mears
• Dave
• Canterbury
• Wilderness
• Survival
• Survivor
• Man
• Bear
• Grylls

[StickInc1]

i love your website!

[canteencorner]

@StickInc1 Thanks we appreciate that!

[ExtremeJeffEnigma]

Is fire steel just a stick of steel? I think I've seen Bear Grylls use one before.

[canteencorner]

@ExtremeJeffEnigma It is a rod that is also called a Ferrosium rod, when you scrape it with a hard edge that is high carbon steel, there is a reaction that creates the sparks.

[flipster12000]

U dull your knife if you keep striking that thing on the sharp side. lol

[canteencorner]

@flipster12000 Look closer my friend, I'm not striking it with the knife edge. The Fallkniven has a sharp edged spine made just for striking a firesteel. That is what I am using as a striker.

[KiltPatrick]

Would that trick work with a single, charred stick? Or do you need 2 charred pieces of wood for that to work?.

Neat stuff. Good work!

[fuckyoufelipejuan]

sabes que es llesca con eso yo lo aria mucho mas rapido

[Aidan8555]

when the log caught fire a little why did you continue blowing it? is it to keep the ember going??

[Dancerpro1]

@KiltPatrick

You have to have the two. They feed off of each other building heat until, fire.

[Squidly78]

The rolling boil is more of a visual signal to let you know it's purified. You don't need to boil for several minutes (only @ altitude). Great videos though, keep'm coming mate : )

[multitoollover]

I have seen this vid four times and I am still amazed I love this video