#2 Wet Frozen Wood Fire Starting / Easy Light Firestarter Test / Blizzard Kit / Survival Kit.

Okay, a couple of days ago I did a video where I was testing out the EZ-Lite fire starters from Firebox and I got some wood wet, but I just dipped the wood under the water and people were concerned that the water didn't have a chance to really soak in. That it wasn't really saturated wood and they wondered how the test would go if I really let the wood soak and really saturate all the way deep into the wood. So I'm going to do it again and so Jess and I are going to do a little bit of snowshoeing while the wood is soaking and then I'll come back and see if I can get a fire started with the EZ-Lite fire starters. So we're just going to walk up this creek a little ways. This is where that that deep spot is that I dunked the wood last time. So I'm actually going to put the fire starter in the bucket with the wood and this is the same wood that I dipped and it's been a couple of days so it's it's dried out a little bit but it's still a little bit damp but I'm just going to go ahead and open up this fire starter and just drop it down in here so that it can soak as well. Okay so it's completely submerged and we're going to go do some snowshoeing and we'll be back and see if we can get a fire going. I like these bindings they're easy. Yeah if you have a really good eye you can see the bucket down there but it's a long way down there. We're just on this little bench up above the creek. We'll see where this takes us. I've never been down this trail before. Jess has got her snowshoes rigged so she doesn't have to carry them. That's pretty good. It works good. That hood works good. Yeah into her hoodie. Just tucked them right into her hoodie. Worked good. Anyway that trail we were on didn't end up being much of a trail. It ended up going straight to some private property and so we decided to walk up this road a little ways see if we could find another trail to take. Well we're back down to the creek just a whole lot further up the canyon. Jess has taken off and I'm going to go back and see if I can get that fire started. So let's see how it goes. Okay so there's the wood. It's been sitting there well over an hour. I've got this out of the water now. I'll just get this easy light fire starter out of here and I'm just going to shake the water out of this a little bit. Anyway I'm going to break off a similar sized piece is what I did in my earlier tests. This may even be a little bit smaller. Let's go ahead and get this going. So that lit up really easy still. So these are pretty waterproof. You know that the cedar is very absorbed into the or excuse me the wax is very absorbed or saturated into that cedar wood and so it it does a good job of keeping the water out. But now that I have that fresh battery I feel confident that I'll be able to run this for the full duration that it will take to to get this fire going. Pretty soggy stuff. So if I take this smaller piece let's just see if it crackles very much. There's a little bit of crackliness in there but it's definitely wet. Prop that up a little bit. Okay so I can see that I'm going to be able to get this fire started probably pretty close to as easily as what I was able to get those other fires started. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put this bucket back in the water. So I want I want it to be fully saturated absolutely soggy wet wood. Worst case scenario I want there to be no doubt no question that this this wood is absolutely worst case scenario wet. Let's go Ash. Just headed back to the creek here to see if that wood is still waiting for me. I left it Monday morning and it's Thursday morning now so it's had plenty of time to soak. Oh this is frozen in here good. I'm going to need a big rock to try to break this out. Maybe I can get it with the heel of my boot. See if I can get it up out of there now. Well I think this will qualify as worst case scenario wet wood. What I'm going to do is go ahead and I'm going to break a couple of these you know kind of chunkier pieces and I'm going to go ahead and just open up a new fire starter. So I'm just going to use this big of a piece. It's a pretty small piece but I think it'll probably get it going. My lighter is barely putting out any flame. Okay start getting this built here. I'm actually just going to do a little log cabin thing around my fire starter to kind of protect it from getting smothered. Plus a lot of my small wood I've already used in my other tests so I'm kind of running out of really small wood. This will allow some of this bigger wood to be drying out along the sides while the smaller wood is being dried out on top. Kind of contain the heat a little bit maybe reflect some of it back into the fire. I don't know. I wouldn't imagine this would be doing much reflecting. You can literally see the sheen on the wood because this wood actually has a layer of ice on it so as well as being soaked it's frozen as well. So right after the last test I did with this wet wood I got home and on TV there was a helicopter rescue of snowmobilers who had gotten stranded and they had to spend the night out in the woods and you know they just toughed it out. Luckily you know they're dressed pretty warm but they were saying what a miserable night it was and how it they got really really cold and they're lucky to live through it quite honestly. So I think just having one of these fire starter discs in your pocket as a snowmobiler you know along with a lighter or some waterproof matches I think could really save someone's life. You know and it doesn't have to be these fire starters. There's a lot of fire starters that are very capable of doing the job but I think it'd be a very good idea for them to carry some kind of a fire starter and so they can get themselves a fire going quickly and easily. Because a fire can be very challenging especially if you're cold and your hands are cold and having the advantage of a fire starter just may really make the difference. Well let's see how this goes. I don't think I should add much more wood to it. I think there's plenty there to see if it'll start. So let's just see if it if that fire that piece of fire starter I put in there if it will burn long enough to get this wood going and that's the real test now. Some of the teeny tiny pieces of wood are actually starting and I think it's gonna get it going. It looks like it is making some pretty good progress. I'll be glad when it does get going I'm actually a little cold. I feel good. I think that little bit of a breeze is actually helping me kind of stoking that fire. There are some hot coals from the very smallest sticks are now kind of hot coals and so I think we're well on our way to having a fire going. I think the fire starter itself is probably pretty much it's pretty much burned up and I think the wood is now the wood is definitely now burning. The sides of that little log cabin that I built are actually now on fire so my hopes are high that this will keep going. I think there's enough of a foundation for a fire in there that this will keep going now. So it's not happening fast because this wood is soaking wet but it is happening. Okay that fire starter is gone now it's just the wood burning now but I may have graduated to these larger sticks a little too quickly. I may not be drying out fast enough for this to I do still have quite a bit of flame going in there. Okay I think we've got it now. I'm seeing some of these outside sticks are now starting to catch on fire so that's a really good sign it's gonna go. Okay we have fire I think it's burning well enough that it's clear that this fire is indeed started. Okay well that was fun and I do still have you know the majority of this fire starter left over so you know I could still get you know probably five more fires started with this and that was a good test you know that definitely made a difference allowing that wood to just really soak and get fully saturated by leaving it there you know a couple of nights it really made a big difference. That was actually three nights that that wood soaked Monday night, Tuesday night, and Wednesday night so that's pretty well saturated wood but anyways thank you all for watching and that's the Easy Light Fire Starter from Firebox available at fireboxstove.com. Thank you all for watching until next time bye-bye. Nice to have a fire.