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Mini Fire Kit for Bushcraft and Survival
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Feb 3, 2024
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What's up YouTube? Prepared Wanderer at my home today and I wanted to do a quick
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video for you today and show you something that I put together I think
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you're gonna find kind of interesting. This is a miniature portable mini small
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fire kit that you can take with you anywhere. Fits easily in a bag or in your
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pocket and fire kits are always fun to put together and they're always so
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necessary when going out in the woods and stuff. I just, you know, I'm always
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using my fire kit to start a fire and for a situation where you get yourself
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in trouble where you may need to spend the night in the woods a fire is
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essential. So having a miniature kit with you that you can throw in your day pack
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or in your front pocket or cargo pocket is really important. So we're going to
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look at mine today. This is it. So stay tuned. All right here is the mini fire kit and the first thing you notice on the
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outside of the fire kit that I have is one of these fire steels, these mini fire
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steels and it has a cut off hacksaw blade and the reason for that is the
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hacksaw blade is going to be your striker. This particular ferro rod and it
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doesn't matter which one you use you can whatever which one you can find that you can get attached to your kit is perfectly fine. This one actually has
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magnesium stick to it so I can scrape that off. If I take this apart I could
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scrape that off and strike that ferro rod. It's got a pretty good split
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ring on it for holding it all together. I want to take this apart I want to
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show you how much this sparks because I think that's important that you can at least see how how well it sparks. See if I can get this off here for you
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Sparks pretty well. Really decent little ferro rod, miniature ferro rod. Now I
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can't remember where I got this one at. I would look around at different companies
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online. I should have these. I can't remember what it's called. I apologize
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I've had this for years. I have several of these and I think they've come in kits
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and things and I've repurposed them. But that hacksaw blade does a really nice
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job of throwing sparks and then of course you know you can scrape off the
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magnesium that way. So there's that. Now what really makes this kit so
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comprehensive is the size of it. It's a really nice size vial and this
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particular container I've looked online and I found them, a source of these at a
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company called Survival Resources. I'll put a link down below so you can get them
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I have no affiliation with them so this is gonna be free advertising for those
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guys but I think it's a really nice container and I can't seem to find them
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anywhere else so unless if you guys can figure out where maybe they're also sold
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at let me know. First thing what I did is I put a bicycle inner tube around the
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container. Now that helps with keeping the container waterproof but it is a
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fire starter as well as you all know bicycle inner tube, the rubber material
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cut off little bits and pieces of it and it makes a really nice fire starter. Now
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on this what I can do is I can roll down that inner tube material and expose the
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lid. Now this is gasketed which makes it waterproof already. There's the gasket so
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that's gonna help a lot keeping the water out and as you look inside this is
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all the stuff that I'm carrying in this little fire kit. First thing is a mini
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Bic lighter. Next are Strike Anywhere matches. These are the real deal Strike
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Anywhere matches. I actually hoarded a couple boxes of these before they stopped
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making them and I still have a bunch of them so these are going in my fire kits. I also took a
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lifeboat match and cut it down. I just cut the end of it off so it would fit this
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container. These are usually too big for this container but I wanted to at least
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have one of those in there because those last a lot longer than the Strike Anywhere. I also have a striking pad from a matchbox that way I have something to strike the matches on
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and I don't have to sit there and try to figure it out to do it on a rock or something. Next
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little trick in the fire kit is this birthday candle and what makes this birthday candle
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unique is that is the I believe is a trick birthday candle
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So it's kind of hard to blow out
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So you can either get the trick kind or the regular kind but a candle in your pack
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a birthday candle or a trick birthday candle really makes a nice fire starter. It's something
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you can light and then set underneath your twig bundle and forget about it and let it do its
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business. So that's another little trick for you. And then in the back here I have a baggie
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with these little quick tenders and these are basically just a cotton swab that have been
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impregnated with a material either a Vaseline type material or petroleum base of some sort
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So these fluffed up hit with that spark are going to produce a nice long lasting
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flame and be able to get a twig bundle going because that's really the whole purpose of
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this is to get a small fire started. You're not going to be able to start something really big
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but a but a twig bundle is what you're going to work with and then once you get that going
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then you can start adding your larger pieces of wood. So that's really it. There's not much to it
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but there's enough little things in here that can help me get a fire going in case of emergency
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It's definitely not something I'm going to use every day. This is a backup to a main fire kit
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a good fire steel, a good set of tender man-made tenders. You know this is just a backup. This is
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something I'm going to keep in my pocket or I'm going to throw in the bottom of my pack and just kind of forget about it. But when I need it I'm going to have it. All right guys
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I hope you enjoyed that video. As always please like, subscribe, and share and we will see you
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next time on The Prepared Wanderer
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