Fire in the rain

Okay, so I'm out in the bush today. It's very wet. You can probably hear the rain behind me or all around me. I'm sitting in my shelter. I had, well, what's what you can call a shelter. It's nothing. It's just a bunch of sticks. I had the intention of coming out today and improving my shelter, actually getting it waterproof. That's not going to happen today. It actually goes to show me though how much I do actually need shelter, not just somewhere where I can sit, like I've been using this Mors Kochanski bed, so I actually do need a shelter to keep the rain off. So today I'm going to try and cook a lunch. First off I'm going to put a tarp up, try and stop the rain overhead, Iowa woodsman style, and get a one stick fire going, cook myself up some lunch, and just pretty much test myself in my fire ability my fire making ability today everything is drenched like i said um yeah so i'm gonna try and do that today i'll be back all right so i got my tarp set up uh i actually remembered some of the knots that i learned at the uh midwest class which is really cool not to say that my tarp setting abilities are all that good but at least i learned some knots uh so it's actually not even a tarp it's just a rain fly from an old tent but it's gonna have to do we'll see we'll see how it holds up the water is pooling in the spots that are dipping obviously better tarp setup would would fix that but I'm kind of an amateur at it right now so I'm gonna get my wood ready I'll do that all right so maybe it's gonna be a four stick fire not a one stick fire obviously sawed my pieces of oak into four pieces it's relatively dry on the inside there's a check here so the waters come in a little bit but that's alright it's completely drenched like i'm soaking wet uh so let's go but we're nice and dry well at least it's not raining under the tarp so uh i'm gonna get to processing the wood and i'll be back all right so i've done all my prep which is here on my bandana i got my shavings my scrapings which i'm leaving attached to the stick because of all the dampness i think it'll it'll catch really good on there so I split down the sticks to the very inner inner core of it almost you have the smaller sticks and the bigger sticks here then I'll just baton a few after once I got my fire started I know I should do it first but I'm confident that I have enough here to get it going while I baton more more well it's well it's going so to do it on top of I've just split the piece oak and I'm put it there in the fire pit to do it on top of and I'll try and videotape myself lighting it just one sec all right so this is what I'm gonna start off with which is the scrapings put it there I'm gonna scrape my fire steel with my awl wish me luck guys a good base is key but I don't really have one see that she's lit ah she went out I'm not playing around this time it's lit see but they put the smaller pieces on first and across the bigger pieces on top so yeah that's it we just baton a couple other pieces and threw them on so it took me I don't know I'd say almost an hour a little less than an hour to do all that it's pretty cool it's the first time I've ever ever done it and this wasn't really a how-to video this is more or less to see if I could do it or not try and test myself that fire is rip-roaring that's a that's a big blaze right now that's not going out at all and I'll be able to cook my lunch and everything so yeah so I guess I I did learn my lesson I need to fetch my poles so it actually becomes a shelter but all in all it was good today I rigged up the tarp even though show you I I left it saggy but that was my first time ever doing it so that's it thanks for watching guys I had fun making this video I hope you enjoy it