Survival Skills: Firemaking, Southeast US by Nutnfancy

PART 2 OF 2:
A detailed fire making exercise in the Southeastern United States by Nutnfancy. Quite a different climate and foliage than the usual Nutnfancy Knife Clinic in the Rocky Mountains, this southern location provided an equally excellent location for wilderness craft. Tools used included the excellent, high value KaBar Heavy Bowie and Cold Steel Roach Belly knives, a Sawvivor backpacking saw, WD40, and a Light My Fire flint and steel. All came along and were used for demonstration purposes but not necessarily by necessity. The intent is to show viable backpacking fire tools that will get the job doneweight and compactness for carry purposes being important considerations. The secret time-saving weapon in this particular time-crunched clinic was one stick of fatwood, discussed in the video. Safety considerations, chopping, cutting, knife philosophy, and fire building techniques are necessarily discussed as the work progresses in this two-part series. If the response is good, I may do more wilderness skills videos but they might be few since they take a lot of work and are time-consuming.

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[windstormice24]

none sense demonstration. without the firewood( pine wood) i can light a fire. even with a simple knife; i can cut a piece of wood that size.

[nutnfancy]

@windstormice24 Well, make a video showing that. Duh. -- Veri

[windstormice24]

@nutnfancy so you want me to teach you coz u can't? lol

that's a cheap way to learn from me...

[nutnfancy]

@windstormice24 Not at all, I just want you to STFU and make your own video, instead of trying to direct Nutn's.. -- Veri

[beactivelife]

LOL, the ending quote "Now I gotta Hike out here! That sucks...". So true though, thats usually the thought when lugging your gear up a mountain and having to come back down.

[KanipeAlert]

My scout master was a former army ranger and his predecessor( his son) a former navy seal. I feel like I was in capable hands while learning survival skills

[KanipeAlert]

Nutn, I have been a big supporter of your videos for a long time and agree with a lot of what you have to say. That being said, talking about us eagle scouts as if we're all morons is a douche comment.

[whynottalklikeapirat]

@enoughraptor6 whatever happened to napalm ...

[SuperMangirdas]

Really survival - you have a WD-40. Then you could use it for making fire - just spray and no need for making that shitty sticks.

[Bubbelmax]

it' actually easier to pull the ferrocium rod away from the scraper because you will not knock your tinder away with the scraper

[jammer476]

@BiGStackZ713 What do you do when the butane runs out? Then you will wish you had that flint starter that will start hundreds to thousands of fires.

[uraniumjoe]

Really liked your WD40 use--didn't think of that. Thanks!

[Kylef7735]

@Dariusreaper1 He brings multiple knives, he wouldnt be using his huge survival knife to skin a deer

[Tehl33tpwnage]

@BiGStackZ713 No one prepares to survive, to bushcraft yes but survive no and it's good to have backups I've heard of people that buy packs of bic lighters and carry 1 in there pocket/pack/ and a extra but they also carry a flint or two