Char Cord / Char Rope - Better than Char Cloth

Hi everybody - This video is of a creation of mine (at least I've never seen it anywhere else) I call "Char Cord" or "Char Rope" - it is a replacement for char cloth. For those of you who do not know what Char Cloth is, please do a search on youtube. There are MANY char cloth videos - to my knowledge this is the only char cord / char rope video as of this date (Sept 22nd 2009).

If you are interested in learning more about this please feel free to contact me on my website:

www.HuntAndFishNJ.com

Best wishes and be safe,

XexorZ

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Char Cloth
• Camping
• Survival
• Char Rope
• Char Coard
• Bug Out Bag
• BOB
• Outdoors
• Fire
• Fire Starting
• Fire Piston

[haha48]

add a piece of pipe that you can stick on the rope then you just move it up and down so you can control the burn works with unchared rope as well if you burn the end it will smolder for along time..

[xexorz]

Yup - see my other videos :-)

[flasher555]

excellent idea mate. I'll definitely make some for my BOB.

5 stars + favorited

[xexorz]

Thanks bud :thumbsup:

[ItalzBoi1987]

is it just me or is there a smiley face at 4:22? BTW awesome video, made some of my own and works perfectly.

[xexorz]

TOO FUNNY - you're right!!

[Lamineth]

Char.......mander?

[chuckdickson]

I went to Wal-Mart to look for the cotton cloths line but all they had was synthetic. I ran by Fred’s dollar store and they had the 100% cotton cloths line. I made up a batch and I have to tell you this is far superior to char cloth. It takes a spark easy and once lit it has a very large ember to work with. The other thing I like about it is it stays coiled up and you can keep a large amount in you flint and steel kit and only break off what you need. Thanks again for sharing this with us!

[Johnpurtee]

Ha, I have a video up just like this one for the same item. My dad came up with this item back in 2006. When I was in high school. Family dollar sell's 100% cotton rope. They sell it as clothes line. My dad made a big batch back in 2006 and I still have a ton of it. Still works the same as the day he made it. The video I have up is from the original first batch.

[NarlepoaxIII]

This is a brilliant idea! You could make a years worth of fire starter in the same amount of time it takes for a weeks worth, and store it in the same space! Kudos to you, good sir!

[mdsjack]

well done! nice improvement, i'll definitely adopt it.

[erpiv]

Hey, I made a couple knives out of a old hack saw blade, you should try...but if you want to shape it, like to give it a point, you need some, maby tin snips would work, but I do not know.

[hitman3240]

@Slowalker2 dollar stores...think cheap and you shall receive. :D

[d62o66e90d93]

Great video. I have to say that I tried making my own char rope like yours with no luck at all. I'm doing something wrong. How much would you charge to make a couple cans worth. I am very interested so please respond. Thanks

[goldenscales]

So, how did it go? The making char rope? Did you get many hits?

[minimalistsurvival]

well done...i likey :)

[johnis4jesus]

awesome. i'll try making some myself