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Trails British Columbia – Survival Fire Lighting
By HikingOn | May 8, 2009
Every Year on the Hiking Trails of British Columbia some individuals become lost. This short video from TracksAndTrails.ca demonstrates a flint, striker and cotton. Knowing how and ensuring you have the ability to light a fire may be the difference between life and death. Using a inexpensive flint from Canadian Tire and a little cotton pad, this video shows how to strike the flint and light a campfire with no matches. Why bother with this tool if you just carry a lighter or matches? A …
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Topics: Hiking | 23 Comments »
April 17th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
its not a proper flint.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
I hope to make my own flint some day. Please explain exactly what a proper flint is and how to acquire one. This video shows a product that is available at Canadian Tire and how it can be used in a survival situation. If you have one of these strikers in your backpack, it will always work. Lighters or matches may not. Some fine shavings from a piece of dry wood will work fine. That is why I carry one of these flint and striker combo’s in my 24 hour Search and Rescue Pack.
April 17th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
By “proper flint” i meant the natural stuff and that “flint”/firesteel is made of a mix of metals.
April 17th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Hi again ABushCrafter! Thanks for the quick response. I checked out your website – it looks like you have done a lot of Bushcraft research! On my tracksandtrails.ca website you may be interested in my Magic Campfire Starts report. It has been put together by some Scouts over the last decade or so. Can you add a link to my British Columbia Hiking Trails website to your website links page? Thanks again.
Clayton
May 27th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Link…. yes i will. Sorry to reply late, got no email?
and thanks
June 29th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
How is this survival? There’s so many man made objects here it’s pointless. Might as well just take mobile home. Cotton wool? aviation fuel? fire steel? all luxery items. Spend your time practicing with ONLY things found in the woods; Some flint if your lucky, or rubbing 2 sticks together.
July 7th, 2008 at 2:12 am
u r striking it wrong u need 2 strike it with the ridged edges
August 16th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
to the detractors: zach is 12, out in the bush, lighting fires. does it really matter if he uses ferrocium, or how he strikes it?
September 1st, 2008 at 1:27 am
you cant light a fire just rubbing two sticks together, you have to ues a fire bow or hand drill method
September 14th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
i no it makes him look like an idiot lol
September 30th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
You realize that using a bow or the hand drill method is still essentially rubbing 2 sticks together, don’t you ??? (obviously not) …
September 30th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
ummmm sorry but no its no your spinnig the stick to create friction and you ues the hot dust to make a coal to start a fire
if you where to just simply rub to sticks together is would not work
October 1st, 2008 at 2:49 am
ok your obviously not getting it. “spinning the stick” to create friction is still rubbing sticks together.
October 1st, 2008 at 2:58 am
what ever man obviously your not a very good bush man
October 1st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
and obviously you’re not very good at English. Show me how to start a fire with the bow or hand drill, and try doing it without having 2 sticks touching each other. I know very well how to use both methods you mentioned, and in the end, we’re still rubbing sticks together to get an amber.
November 1st, 2008 at 4:08 am
wats this retard on about mite as well took a can of petrol and a box of mathches,wudnt like to be stranded on a island with him.
November 23rd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
did he say bitches hair? or somthing else cuz i was munching on chips kinda hard to listen LOL
November 24th, 2008 at 1:57 am
cool
January 31st, 2009 at 5:35 pm
hate that thing it hurts my hands when its cold
February 1st, 2009 at 12:39 am
Hey. Thanks for the comments. Survival – Some think that the only place they will need to survive is on a deserted Island. hmmm Why do hikers die from exposure when they get lost from some hiking trip, hunting trip, etc? The reason is because they are not prepared. Yes, i admire some of you who have mastered the art of lighting a fire with pure natural items! Fact is we need to teach folks to think ahead and have a method that works without a lighter or matches as this method does.
February 20th, 2009 at 2:30 am
its not old mans hair lol its old mans beard . but good job
March 20th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
watch my video of how to light a fire, you will see the proper technique of how to STRIKE
April 29th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
thats super fool proof tinder…
Kerosene and cotton..lol