Learn to Build a Fire, Without Matches or Lighter, for Cooking, Heat and Light:
Building a fire for staying warm, light, cooking and signaling is a skill everyone should know. Having the tools and knowledge will make fire-building easier and effective. Without electricity, a well-built fire will build morale and provide heat and light.
FIRE BUILDING:
Building a Fire
Building a Smokeless Fire
Self Feeding Fire - 14+ Hour Fire
The Upside Down Fire Building Technique allows the fire to burn longer before having to add more wood. [Video]
Build a Dakota Fire Hole (Pit) for High Wind or Reduce Detection (Stealth)
FIRE STARTING:
Fire Starting Materials You Probably Have At Home
Friction Fire by Rubbing Sticks Together
1 - Gather a fire bundle of dry grass or other material that will quickly catch fire.
2 - Gather different sizes of wood, from small twigs to larger logs, to make a wood pile where you want to build your fire.
3 - Find hard wood for your spindle and soft wood for your fire board.
4 - Find an arm-length stick of sturdy wood for your bow and strong cordage to wrap around the spindle.
5 - Find a piece of wood to be your handhold – this will protect your skin from the heat the spindle generates.
6 - Use a knife or rock to carve out a hole for the spindle to sit in on the fire board.
7 - Sit on one knee, and prop your wrist against your shin for maximum stability.
8 - Pull your bow back and forth to allow the spindle to further carve out a hole in the fire board.
9 - Carve a notch in the fire board to allow oxygen to mix with the wood dust created by the spindle.
10 - Once again begin pulling your bow back and forth until a significant amount of smoke emerges from the fire board.
11 - Move your embers from under the fire board to fine plant material.
12 - Blow on the bundle to increase oxygen flow to the embers. Continue until the bundle produces flames.
13 - Transfer your fire bundle to your fire wood pile, adding small twigs to larger wood as the fire progresses.
Make a Fire By Rubbing Sticks Together
Make a friction fire using the Bow Drill method
Make a friction fire using the Pump Drill method
How to make a friction fire using the Hand Drill method
Using a Fire Plow: [Article] [Video]
Ferro, Flint and Magnesium: Ferrocerium (Ferro) is a synthetic pyrophoric alloy that produces hot sparks that can reach temperatures of 3,000 °C when rapidly oxidized by the process of striking the rod, thereby fragmenting it and exposing those fragments to the oxygen in the air which causes the sparks. When scraped with a metal “striker”, a Flint and Ferro create sparks and can start fires when the sparks enter a tinder pile. It requires some practice to produce a spark but, once learned, they are reliable fire starters in nearly any weather condition. Magnesium is a volatile metal that ignites quickly with any spark and burns white hot (2200 °C, 4000 °F) to catch nearly anything on fire. In and of itself, it cannot burn without an ignitor (flint or ferro).
The Difference Between Flint & Steel, Ferrocerium Rod And Magnesium Bar Fire Starter
Using a Ferro Rod Fire-starter (video)
Using a Magnesium/Flint Fire-starter (video) Magnesium can burn nearly anything (article)
Battery
Starting a fire with a battery and [foil] gum wrapper
Step 1: Place foil or steel wool on a flat surface. Surround the metal with two pieces of firewood.
Step 2: Place a densely-packed bundle of kindling on top of the metal.
Step 3: Wedge a cotton ball underneath the kindling. (Pro tip: Soaking the cotton ball in petroleum jelly will make it burn much longer.)
Step 4: Contact both ends of the battery (or protruding end of a 9V battery) against the metal until the metal begins to spark and catch the cotton ball on fire.
Chemical Fire Starting:
Potassium Permanganate and Glycerin
Potassium Chloride, Sugar and Sulfuric Acid
Acetone, and Sulfuric Acid and Potassium Permanganate
Amonium Nitrate, Sodium Chloride (table salt), Zinc Powder and Water
Other Options:
How to Start a Fire with a Magnifying Glass
[Fire From Ice] [Fire From Water]
How to Start a Fire with a Soda Can (reflector)
Wet Weather Fire-Making
How to Start a Fire with Char Cloth
Other Fire-starting methods
Multiple Fire-making Methods and Information
[Reference Link]
Other Resources:
Heating and Cooking With a Wood Stove
Transport Fire From One Location to Another
Start a Fire by Rubbing Sticks Together; Yeah, it Works!
Proper Use of Ferro, Flint and Magnesium to Start a Fire
The Upside-Down Fire Building Method
Start a Fire with a Foil Gum Wrapper and Battery
Start a Fire With Clear Ice
Heat a Room With a Clay Pot
Keep the Heat in Check During a Power Outage
Build a Dakota Fire Pit for Stealth or High Wind
DIY Rocket Stove
[14-Point Emergency Preps Checklist]
[11-Cs Basic Emergency Kit]
[Learn to be More Self-Sufficient]
[The Ultimate Preparation]
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