G'day guys how are you going well in this video
i'm going to show you how to get your campfire going with a few sparks from a
ferro rod fire starter no matches no paper required
simple and easy let's get into it okay so as i
sort of showed you in that last video where i used the ferro rod
with a couple of fire lighters from the cotton wool ball with a bit of vaseline
and then just a traditional fire lighter that
pretty much we all sort of carry around um i'm going to show you with um
the traditional fire lighter now how to get this campfire going now i've got my
wood sort of laid out here now if you're just starting to
learn how to get a campfire going you know we all start somewhere
well you really want to start with the smaller stuff as possible you know you
don't want to be starting with your campfire
with this big heavy stuff first because you know it's just not going to
get your fire going now what i've done with this wood too especially if it's a
bit wet you know it's been raining you want to look around the bases of the
trees because it's been pretty sheltered you know from the tree canopies
and you can generally find yourself you know some nice dry
timber there to get get your fires going that nice small stuff there and then
sort of work your way up you know if you go looking around
out in the open space as well where it's all been you know exposed to the rain
and the weather well generally gonna be pretty wet so have
a good look around the base of the trees and you'll find nice fine stuff like
this and generally pretty dry where it's been falling out of the trees
so we'll get into the fire here so what i'm going to do here it's going to
grab one of these fire lighters out now as i showed you before you know if
you throw a spark at that it's pretty much not gonna light
so you've got to grind him up now what i've got here also when i start grinding
this this um fire lighter up i've put a bit
of bark in the bottom of the fireplace here in the in the fire pit here
because if you go and just grind it all off into you know the old
coals from fireplace before well it's all going to disappear and get lost down
in you know down in those old coals so by
using a bit of an old bark or leaves or something at least it's going
to keep it in that pole you know where you want it to be and it's not
going to get lost away and fall away down in amongst it all
so it's going to keep it all nicely pulled up where i want it there
so just got to shave off a heap there just with the
striker of the fire lighter like that get a nice pile going keep him handy
because he's going to come back into a bit later on
and then this one here the striker keep that just in my left hand
nice and firm just on the ground there like so keep it nice and close
grab the rod the ferro rod and point that straight at
the source that you're wanting to try and light and then get a good spark out
on that and here we go and there we go now
that's going already see how easy that was to get that going
and then because that'll burn still for a little while and that's when you grab
the bigger one here and put that just beside it just so that takes off
gives you a bit more time to get your fire going and then just start with this
really small stuff especially if it's wet you want to start with as small as
possible and just lay that across the top of it
until it all starts to take now you can certainly go in you know and
try and crunch up some bark and and that sort of thing but when you're
out there in the bush and you're freezing cold and you know all you want
to do is get a fire going well start with you know this sort of
stuff just to get it going and that's why i like to use the just
the traditional fire lighters they burn for ages
and in times like this see that's already starting to take now you know
look at that's already starting to go and already and i'm starting to sort of
make this sort of teepee sort of a shape out of as well
this is how i learned to you know a lot of campfire over 45 years ago you know
when i went through scouts you know you form that teepee shape and then
what that does it works like a chimney of a fireplace
it draws it all up all the flames up through
through the stack of timber there you're building now look at that that is going
to how easy was that fair dinkum to get going
so simple no matches required hear it starting to crackle away
really nicely now that's going i can now start to step up to
something a bit bigger bigger size timber
look at that going a treat and again still just keep that teepee shape going and
that way it'll funnel all the way up and when you're freezing cold all you
want to do is get that fire going and look at that how easy is that no
matches no paper required
your timber ready to go you know you don't want to just get it started with
the light stuff because that's going to burn pretty quickly as you sort of saw
there so you've got to make sure you've got
your stages you know your next stage stage two timber
and then you know your stage three the bigger stuff there for when you really
get it cranking and then at the end of it you'll have
your big logs to see you through the night but have it all ready to go rather
than get your fire started and then run off and try and find some wood because
you'll probably get back you know and your fire is going to be
out so have it all ready to roll and then get your campfire going no
worries at all like that but how simple was that good old ferro
rod fire lighter fire starter there a couple of the old
traditional fire lighters works an absolute treat
you know they weigh nothing you know you can carry these if you're going out camping
or hiking or whatever these absolutely weigh nothing this
whole thing weighs nothing and you saw how easy that was
just to get a fire going and then you can stay toasty warm
cook your dinner on it whatever you're going to do and now that's going just
keep building up put some bigger timber on it
and there you go well that's how i get my campfires going
how easy was that pretty can you see how you get yours going
let's uh put some comments down below on lets see how you guys get your campfire
going with the same method like that pretty interested here so until then