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Using Char Cloth as part of my 72-hour kit build. Read more about it http://www.tool-rank.com/listing/search/tag/tags/72-hour-kit-build/order:date/
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hello this is chris with touring.com and
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today i'm going to talk about fire for
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my 72 hour kit there's a number of ways
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to create fire obviously you can use a
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match or a lighter if you have that but
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if those run out say you're
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you know you're creating a fire every
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day or you're not having luck with the
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fire you want something that's going to
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last a little longer you could use the
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old uh
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frontier way it was a flint and still
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take the metal and you strike it against
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the rock and it creates a spark
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and then obviously there's newer ways
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now
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you could use a
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the magnesium stick with the with the
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again with this metal striker
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and it creates sparks that way
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the the problem with with these is
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you can create the spark but then you
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need
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to start to hold
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to catch on an ember okay
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and the ways that the way the
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frontiersmen did that
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is with the container like this is a
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metal container with a hole in the top
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of it
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and what they do is they'd roll up
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cotton and put it inside
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they would then put this over a fire
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and
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and with no oxygen
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all the moisture and stuff would burn
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off and all that would be left is is
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carbon so this is carbon you could also
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if you don't have cotton you could put
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small uh
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wood chips in here and get the same
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effect and what this will do is
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is this will hold a spark
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so let's unwrap a little bit of this
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so you can see this
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then get your uh your classic flint
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steeler you can use this
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and you can see it already
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that really holds a spark and this will
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just keep burning away until it burns
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away all the
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the carbon
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and then you can put this in with your
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uh
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your tinder or whatever
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to get a fire started
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so this is a really
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quick and lightweight way
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carry some of this around with you
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and this tin
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carry this around
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i usually carry this around you could
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always find a flint
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you know find a rock that'll make a
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spark i said look it
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it's still burning
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and this will just keep going until all
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the carbon burns up
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really lightweight really easy way to
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hold a spark so you can start a fire so
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you might want to think about something
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like this for your emergency kit a nice
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backup
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to matches and a really easy way to
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start fire
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it'll hold a spark for a really long
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time
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and it's really lightweight like i said
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this is cotton rolls
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where you could put wood chips in here
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and get the same effect