Fire Practice

Iowa Woodsman's post got me thinking about practicing fire prep, something I like to do. I've never used a Fresnel lens before. I've got one here. I've started a fire with a magnifying glass when I was a lot younger. So I'm going to use that today on some punk wood I found. I'm going to blow it into flames with a tinder bundle made from sassafras leaves and a little bit of grapevine bark, just a tiny bit to start it off. Then after that I'm going to do flint and steel, bow drill and fire steel. And I'm gonna get flames out of all of them. I'm not just gonna stop the coals. Trying to get it on the camera, too But lens so there's just a tiny beam of light I remember that being the trick work too bad the sassafras leaves are still and they're sizzling like there's some kind of oil in them or something which I don't doubt because Sassafras pops like crazy when you burn it. Next up is Flint and steel, my char cloth steel my flint everybody's seen this before I know this tinder bundle is made out of just dry grasses Flint and steel gave me a little trouble that time. I actually had it caught and didn't realize and put the whole charcloth thing down. I went to pick it up again to try again, and it was lit. Okay, so last one. I'm obviously doing the bow drill, and I've got some Fragmites reed that I'm going to use as a tinder bundle. My battery's low, and I hope that I can pop a coal off before it dies. We shall see. You've seen me explain how I do this and everything, so I'm just going to go right at it. That's good. Still going. Yeah, this fragmites as a really good tinder bundle. I guess that concludes my fire practice for today. I'll probably take a couple snapshots of my gear and stuff and put it on after the video. Thanks for watching, guys. If you have any questions, ask. All right, take it easy.