Hello YouTube, it is Chris here and in today's episode I'm gonna state my case as to why this is the world's best fire starter
Welcome back everybody and thank you for sticking with me as you guys can see and if you're no stranger to our channel
there are a ton of
Survival cordage, on the market and right here
We have the top four, and I know a lot of you guys are like hey, Chris
There's only three I know about I know about 550 fire cord
I know about Titan survival cord, and I know about UST para-tinder . What's the fourth one? This is the fourth one. Now
This is the contender because these are all staples that perform pretty darn well in most conditions
For most people.A lot of you have them you've seen him at Walmart on Amazon and places like Bass Pro Shop and Cabela's
But this one, in my opinion, completely shakes up the market and let me explain why.
About four years ago 550 fire cord, which is from the company Live Fire came to market. It was a
Revolutionary new product that no one had ever seen before it was taking paracord
Which is super versatile in all it's awesome functions in the outdoors and then they put a fire core in it.
But its major flaw still to this day is for a hundred feet
They charge you forty five dollars. Now about two years ago these guys
Shook up the market as direct competitors to this. I own a hundred foot Hank of it. But this is UST Para-tinder
they started selling this at Walmart and what made this so revolutionary is it took basically the same technology and performs just a
performs just a little bit better
for five
dollars for a 30 foot Hank and that really shook up the market because you get a hundred foot Hank for eighteen dollars instead of
Inatead of spending forty five dollars on a hundred foot Hank. Now a lot of you guys like to default to this stuff
This is actually a good cordage this is tighten survival cord
and also I made this one come out to play today too, because it is sporting a
Waterproof fire tinder which is waxed jute.
So I had all four of them go head-to-head
Now since these have been on the market we did a water test because if I am going to actually gut my cordage
And utilize this type of stuff in an emergency
I'm gonna be utilizing it when I need it the most where I actually get caught with my pants down
I've got to start untying my shoelaces. Take apart my survival bracelet
The have that I have this stuff on and start utilizing it in life-saving functions
That's what this, all of this stuff, is for is for like a dire emergency.
You're gonna be untying your shoelaces. You have the stuff wrapped in and all that good stuff and get things done. Now
There's a ton of Awesome ways to take this cordage and make it useful for yourself in a pinch.
You can do things like create little hand-woven koozies with the paracord. You can attach it to your little canteen setup
There's just fun little ways to make it useful for yourself.
But for me, since the core is what I'm actually most interested in. I have a tendency to pre gut it. Now this is why
Year or two ago UST pair tender got my vote because it was so cheap. Now
It's because when you cut it up and break it up you can stick like 20 pieces in just a little fun little
EDC capsule so you could use this with a lighter or an EDC firesteel and have an awesome a fire kit ready to go
Or if you're into like Altoids tin is they have these little micro ones that you can put them into
For me because I like the lightning strike fire steel. We've got this set up right here in the capsule
you can stick a hundred and twenty one of them in here, which is absolutely
Crazy, so the convenience factor alone of this particular cordage is pretty endless
I actually started rocking these in my fire tender go tubes. But like I said
Why is this now my new favorite? Well, I'm going to tell you. First the price.
It is super super super cheap.
You can get a
hundred-foot hank of this stuff for
$9.99 ten bucks. The price of normal paracord these days you can get 550 blaze cord
Which is what this is called,by for Direction's bushcraft, it is
$9.99 for a hundred-foot hank. So where this is the cheapest to date so far is like
$17.99 to like $15.99 depending on where you go.
But for $6 less at the absolute cheapest you can find this stuff I get a hundred feet of this. But why is it a
Good enough competitor to compete against this Titan survivor cord. Because this doesn't just have a fire core to it it also has
monofilament fishing line attached to it
The only thing it's missing to this is the copper wire.
But if you want to go out and spend an extra
16 dollars to get a hundred feet of this just to get copper wire in your cordage by all means go for it or
You can go to Walmart
For like a dollar ninety-nine or $2.99 and just get a whole bunch of galvanized steel wire and you're good to go.
Now the thing you all want to see is okay Chris we get it. It's convenient, These are emergency cordage, they're great
But how do they perform against each other? Yes, that's what we're doing right now.
So first up was the 550 fire cord. It was the benchmark. It is the grandfather
It's what got this whole thing craze started for fire cordage.
So we went ahead and tested it and put it up to a very simple test
It's basically 20 seconds in the water submerged and then we try to fluff it up and strike it with a fire steel.
But as we were going through and we dunked it... it wasn't lighting.
It was not lighting with a fire steel. It got completely soaked and submerged
it just didn't work and
I was getting really frustrated with it.
It wasn't until I put direct flame on it for about 10 seconds with a lighter that it finally lit and then just the
Littlest bit because it was so just permeated with water. It didn't perform very well at all.
It just didn't perform under extreme emergency situations, which is what all of these had to face. Since the UST
Para-tender was the next Challenger up
We decided to go ahead and take that and put it under the same
twenty to thirty second complete water
Submergent test and as it performed about a year and a half ago and how I've had at work ever since it
Performed very very well. I fluffed it up. It did its thing it kept a lot of the water out. It doesn't fluff
so it but it's still performed very very
Well. It still lit with a fire steel just fine and it did its job, which is what I expected.
Now like a lot of people like to do as soon as I started bringing up these cordages they like to fight fire with water and tell me to go check this out.
So that's why this came out to play. So we decided to take that put it through the same test
We took the waterproof waxed jute and got business done. Well, because the Jude is so
Aggravatingly annoyingly thin you're gonna need a much longer strip to get the job done
but for the sake of testing we took like basically 12 inches of the cordage and we're fluffing it up trying to manipulate it and
Mess it. Well, we finally got it fluffed
It was pretty aggravating and we got it to light and it went out got it light again and it went out again,
it was kind of annoying because it wasn't consistent
it wasn't a very strong flame that I felt that I could rely on if I find myself in an
Emergency, and I really need to start using this stuff. like I said before
This is great cordage the fact that a company thought to put wax jute
Fishing line a copper wire in a thing and if you still feel like paying 26 bucks for 100 feet go for it.
I'm not here to stop you
I'm not trying to tell you that you should or shouldn't do. At the end of the day in decent
Conditions all these perform pretty well
But the thing that freaks me out the most is these are the two cheapest and as far as the extreme water test,
which is like the worst conditions you would ever find yourself in, those two seem to perform the best. Now because this was
A contender. This is the challenger that has to prove itself above everyone else
I had to put it through a much harsher battery of testing.
So what we went ahead and did is actually submerged that for over five minutes straight.
It went in there for basically 10 to 15 times longer than all these other
Cordages because it has something to prove and it's the cheapest.
So as we're going through testing, this is what shocked me as we dunked it out of the water. It did something absolutely
incredible which none of these other cordages, do which is very
Very important in my personal opinion, for a fire tender to do... it fluffs!
Yes, it fluffs in a fun little cat ball
And what that does is, even if it's soaking wet,
it separates into these little
microfibers that the molten sparks from any fire steel that rains down on that tender will help it ignite and kind of just
explode and catch on fire like it's supposed to and that is what is so
Awesome to me about this is not only is it
Water-resistant it will be able to deal with the elements for an extreme amount of time
But then when you need to go fluff it and make sure it works it actually fluffs
It becomes real viable true blue tender and it doesn't take a long time at all to get it to the state
It's also super convenient to cut up in these spots so you can put it into little tins, little capsules, fire tinder
Go tubes,inside little storage containers, anywhere you need to store it and put it it's gonna be super convenient. It's not sticky
It's not gummy. It's very clean. For reference
This is a full 50 foot hank of the core when it's all said and done.
This is what it looks like right here.
I took a 25 foot Hank decided to ball it all up in his tight little ball and
Said hey if you had to use this in an emergency
I mean you catch yourself in a weird situation this is all you have you don't have anything else
The tenders soaked you can't get a fire started
Can you boil water with
Just that tinder with 25 feet? Can it be done? about the 11 minute mark
Went ahead and checked it because I saw little micro vibrations in the stove and when it all said and done boom
literally 25 feet of this cordage,
So two dollars and fifty cents worth of this fire core gutted out and balled up nice and tight,
Will help you get a rolling boil, a full-on rolling boil, to make your tea's your coffee's cook food and an emergency.
Heat up your little rations if you need to if you have that in your pack
And that is super exciting to me as all of these being emergency cordages, that's really freaking awesome! For reference
This is the aftermath I went ahead and kept that.That is the ashes that are left over from it. As far as emergency
fire core waterproof
Tinder cordages this is the best, in my opinion, on the market
It's the cheapest it performs right on par, head to head, power for power, fire power to fire power, with the UST para-tender
But it's cheaper
But then I also get fishing line in addition which makes it a closer competitor actually to the Titans survival cord.
Like I said, the only you're missing is the copper wire, which honestly for a couple bucks
You can go and fix that for yourself. Now. are any of these the
most ferocious and most
powerful fire starters on the market? No. If we're gonna go just on pure firepower as far as store-bought ones are concerned these
Are my two favorites. this is brand-new for the market
This is called pyro putty and these are the fire plugs by a pro Camp Tech formerly known as production. Hangar 51
Firepower to firepower for the money what you get and the value in just the sheer performance. These are my two favorites and
these are absolutely
Amazing, but they also are more expensive. I know there's gonna be a lot of people that want a default to Vaseline cotton balls
But to me, yeah, they're super cheap, but they're bulky. They're messy
they're just
Disgusting and they have a very low melting point and if I get stuck in my car, in my bag in the summertime
They'll just leak everywhere and it's just gross
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