I always stack the wood the exact opposite of what you did.

@TheGreatest1974

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Top down is backwards.

@nanolog522

2 жыл бұрын

The way he does it will likely result in a less powerful but longer lasting fire. When you ignite from below, the fire spreads over the entire wood pretty quickly, while when lighting from the top, ideally it burns down, similar to a candle. It depends on what you are trying to do. If you want to create as much heat as possible in a short time, for cooking as an example, light from below. If you want to provide heat over the entire evening and be more efficient with firewood (long flames basically just heat the exhaust after some point), do it his way.

@justinwoodford6698

2 жыл бұрын

Same here small then big

@D1rtyharold

2 жыл бұрын

This backwards

@LarryTait1

2 жыл бұрын

@@nanolog522 food for thought. I hadn’t thought about this.

"Best way to start a fire?" With a blowtorch!

@tylerbraegelmann8548

2 жыл бұрын

And half a gallon of lighter fluid

@Valstein0

Жыл бұрын

He's not doing bushcraft here. He also says "open your damper".

@suzieling8152

Жыл бұрын

I came here searching for ways to start a house fire 🧛‍♂️

@lambo3136

Жыл бұрын

MAPP gas !!

@raoulloustaunau8233

Жыл бұрын

Put gallon of gasoline on it while your at it lol

A big advantage of this is that you can also use wet wood on the bottom, since the fire will dry it out before it gets to it. You'll still need dry kindling, but that's easy to find both at home or when camping. Used this method a few times when camping, but you do have to babysit the fire if it's not inside of a stove Putting kindling on the bottom or making a teepee doesn't work with wet wood, since the small fire from the kindling will have it's heat spread throughout the whole stack of wet wood, rather than just the pieces immediately underneath.

@cannowuppass8214

2 жыл бұрын

This way doesn't work with wet wood unless you get a huge flame on top. Heat rises. The teepee way does work with wet wood if you know what you are doing. This way is for novices that don't live in the woods.

@offended9081

2 жыл бұрын

@@cannowuppass8214 heat rises but heat is radiant also, it doesn’t just rise but it travels around as well, under the wood will still get very very hot

@cannowuppass8214

2 жыл бұрын

@@offended9081 What ever. I tried it yesterday on a camp fire with some red and white oak that had been drying for 2 yrs. The fire went out.

@offended9081

2 жыл бұрын

@@cannowuppass8214 could just be bad luck, maybe it just works better in the oven rather than an open fire too though

@cannowuppass8214

2 жыл бұрын

@@offended9081 That may be. Too much heat may escape in the open. Also I have a large fireplace without a box. You may have figured it out.

Oh yes! I started using this method when you showed it in one of your past videos. Let me tell you I use this method for my Sauna and it has been fantastic! Set and forget!!!

If my dad made this video it would be just stuffing it full of pizza boxes

@marcusbruns9729

Жыл бұрын

We use scratch offs and/or newspaper.

@carolynrodgers4239

7 ай бұрын

Lol

that blowtorch tho 🔥 😂😂😂

This is the old way that has been forgotten. Use to put coal at the bottom, would still be warm in the morning, this was in the winter time and only means of heat. Thanks

@onolicious9147

2 жыл бұрын

I lived for a few years in the coal- country part of Virginia. People used a homemade stove (from a 55gal drum) planted in the middle of the uninsulated rough-plank, wood-floor living room and only burned coal. Those homes were thick with coal dust all through the house. Horrible living conditions right there in America. I blame the coal companies as the wages were so far below a living. But mining was the only jobs around then.

@davec.3198

2 жыл бұрын

@@onolicious9147 That's when you move.

@forest3945

2 жыл бұрын

@@davec.3198 you wouldn't have any money TO move

@boshboshbosh1

2 жыл бұрын

They still use coal heaters in parts of russia/eastern europe

@davec.3198

2 жыл бұрын

@@forest3945 Refugees move to America with nothing..just like my ancestors did.

Laughed when he brought out the blow torch

@rollovaughan

2 жыл бұрын

If you have one you’ll use it regularly for everything

@dimmacommunication

Жыл бұрын

​@@rollovaughan True, same. Also a canister lasts 2 hours of continous use , cheap and effective.

@thereinthetrees_5626

Жыл бұрын

Why? It’s effective and cheep, just because you’re old doesn’t mean you have to do things the hard way

@saturn6644

8 ай бұрын

Yeah. A blowtorch is like $10, a gas canister is around $2.

@ziggyplay

7 ай бұрын

exactly. so much preamble and in the end he used a blowtorch

Thanks for video 🎉

Everytime I come across your videos I think about my brother. He would always watch and show me your videos. Funny that one of my memories is watching Wranglerstar. Thank you for all your videos.

I like to put the large pieces on the bottom and leave a gap. Fill that gap with paper and small sticks, then the medium and small together with alternating stacks like you did

The best way to start a fire is put 4 men in same place with enough wood lying around and just wait

@BobSmith-kd6lq

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

@jessemoral394

8 ай бұрын

Underrated

I don't know if this works everywhere but so far creating an "impossible triangle" type shape with three medium-to-large logs on the bottom, and then filling the middle with paper, kindling, (firelighters if you want) etc has worked like 99% of the time for me. The outside "pyramid" creates a nice hot enclosure with the corners being slightly lifted at each corner creates airflow and then you can just stack logs afterwards as needed. Again, not sure if this always works for other but it hadn't failed for me yet. Both outside camp fires and for my indoors wood heater.

First Winters as a homeowner this year, and this channel has really helped us out. Thank you for helping me keep my family warm through this year. Cheers

Blowtorch is for kiddies, my grandma can start a fire with half a matchstick using wood that's been underwater for 20 years. I tried to steal her method and she even tried to teach me, but that's just grandma power and I'll never be able to obtain it.

@slavot3594

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from a small village and have been using a wood stove my whole life and from my experience I can say that it's really about what you use to ignite the kindling in here we just cardboard and paper form them into a loose ball place it and surround it with the kindling and then medium sized wood light the paper and you are done

"It's really hard to start a fire" - I think I remember a bear saying this 🤔

I used to light news paper or some sort of paper product to light my fires. But for real the the plumber torch lasts a whole season and it’s just a push of a button to get a good hot starting flame to catch the kindling or a couple pieces of fire starter wood pieces. You don’t have to keep the door open to long, letting all the smoke come into the room. I keep that torch handy and ready for use. For five bucks give or take it’s the best. But I also use the regular method with small pieces on the bottom. But if wrangle star says other way works, I don’t doubt him. Just that my way works every time. Don’t see a reason to change my way. 👍✌️🇺🇸

Top down fires are the best & easiest. I’m a custom furniture builder. So I bypass the splitting and use scrap kiln dried material. Oak on the bottom, pine & cedar for the next 2-3 layers. Throw in some alder & poplar. Fire is wicked hot in 30 minutes.

The best way to start a fire in our house was leave a lighter with our 12 year old pyro daughter!!......it was usually with twigs and leaves on the shed roof😎💥🇦🇺👍

Never would have thought that top down would be the best way, but I see the logic behind it when you construct your fire in a flipped fashion like this. Most times I've ever made a fire the kindling is sticking from the base.

@alnoso

2 жыл бұрын

Kindling on the top burns slower, which means that it will also last longer. It's better to generate a bit of heat over the course of a few hours for a home heating fire. If you're cooking with the fire, you'll probably want to start with kindling on the bottom, otherwise it will take forever for the fire to get hot enough to boil water or cook food.

Thank you this was perfect!

Looks great when you got a torch but otherwise I recommend putting kenneling at bottom

@hubbabubba5177

2 жыл бұрын

Kenneling 😂

@manicvortex

2 жыл бұрын

Kindling

@themonsterunderyourbed9408

6 ай бұрын

Nope.

Thank you for showing this to people. They don't usually have the common sense to just keep splitting it and I didn't until I learned and once I did I was able to start fires consistently every time

I just tried this method and it worked perfectly☝️

I build fires the opposite, i put the kindling on the very bottom and the larger pieces on top so the fire spreads UP as it burns.

And let’s not forget, when complete combustion occurs, we get a stealthier fire🔥

Best “shorts” on the Tube. Period.

Hearthstone Green Mountain 👌

I put the small pieces all through the pile. And news paper helps get the small pieces going too.

I didn't think I had done this before, but then I remember I have burned down dry stumps. With the right conditions, they can burn well beneath ground level.

Thanks mate really helped 🫡

This is a West coast man approach! Tried it and had to keep helping it along. If you have real hard wood then start the fire at the bottom and let the heat burn UP

Good morning sir. Im Bill and i live in IDAHO And love your channel. And all the information you provide. And to me more people like You are totally welcome here.

Works perfectly didn't have to touch for over an hour

I like how he just uses a blow torch to light it, while everyone else on youtube pretend they live in the stone age.

that wood looks so easy to split, none of my fallen tree wood looks so nice

When you are splitting wood always split some small pieces. Maybe 25%. These are used for starting a cold stove, loading tight for overnight and starting the dying fire in the morning. To start a cold stove just put some small stuff in and hit it with the torch. Leave door cracked and add more in ten minutes. I keep a supply of small split white pine in trash cans.

I start mine turned 90° from this, and put the tinder pile in between the medium pieces, directly on top of the large pieces

Works good with nice dry wood, but learning how to build a teepee fire where the heat of the smaller material burning rises up around the larger material to warm it up and dry it out, is essential if you are going to be using less than perfect wood, or outdoors. This relies on the coals falling onto big chunks of wood, and so if the larger chunks aren't dry, or the coals are too small or short lasting, it doesn't work. Meanwhile, you are losing all the heat out the chimney, and very little is going to preheat or dry the main wood. This is basically no easier than doing it a more versatile way, but it requires perfect conditions to work, so I recommend learning the basic teepee fire structure well, because it will always work!

@themonsterunderyourbed9408

6 ай бұрын

What a stupid argument. This method is for a heating your home with a woodstove or fire place. You aren't making a tipi fire with wet wood in your wood stove or fireplace.

All medium pieces, lined up the same way, get a piece of paper or cardboard and soak it in any oil(cooking, motor, whatever. But cooking oil works best). Now you don't want it dripping but most of the paper is wet with oil. Shove that into a gap on the bottom of your stack. Light and wait ten minutes with front open and choke open. Then once the fire is past the paper, close it's up and turn on your choke. You're good for 3-4 hours.

I was amazed when I first tried this. About ten years ago. It works perfectly!!

Hes using the precious cedar for the WHOLE fire. Cedar is kindling....and to be treated as such. Act accordingly 😊

I did something similar to this at an airbnb- newspaper crumpled up and sprayed with pan, then stacked wood like he did, with a bit more tiny kindling The newspaper burned long enough to ignite the kindling and establish the fire. After 20 minutes I had to stir thing around but it lasted well over an hour before needing more wood

Your a great teacher & a mentor 🙏 Thank you Sir

First I put in the bumper pieces to sides and back. Then I lay down a double bed crosshatched of medium size wood. Then I put larger pieces mixed with kindling as high as it ought to be. Then I light it with an twist of paper or a stick match. I can't recall ever using a torch to start a fire in all my life.

Only YOU can prevent wildfires! Says the man with the blowtorch.

😂 how west coasters burn pine like it's proper heating wood 😂👍

thank you now i can show my family how knowledgeable i am by doing this in their rooms

When I was in scouts I used to love building fires with flint and steel, magnifying glasses and magnesium strikers. The most effective way I found to do this was to start with something really fine for tinder like pine straw or monkey hair (I live in FL and that's what we call the fibrous part of a palm tree), then I'd have 3 stacks ready itty bitty dried twigs, ALOT of medium sized kindling and then my fuel wood (the logs). Always preferred the teepee and log cabin style fire building. Works like a charm

Didn't believe it, did it, will be the only way I do it from now on... thank you!!!

Pretty good for a east coast person

This works so well and it’s exactly the opposite of what I was taught. I could leave it 55mins to an hour after lighting which was plenty of time to get dinner prepared without having to watch it. Also you loose less kindling.

I’m really digging the Wranglerstar shorts

Using dry cedar like that I could start the with a match.

I stack the whole fire up with normal sized bits then chuck in 2 fire lighter cubes and crack the door so it roars. Works everytime

Similar to how I set a fire in wood burner, X- friend, always HATED me because, when I did it, it would ROAR, when he did it, he wouldn't ever get the softest whisper, then he would ask me to redo it properly, I would change a few things, explain why, ask him, what he would put next, tell him what I would put next, and y, and away it would go, next time he would ask me to help him, and explain, within a couple of days he also could get a Roar I would put Big ones on the bottom 'V' from side to side over that, put some twigs and kin dling into 'V', twist some pages of newspaper or magazines tightly, tie these ring, put these on top of the 'V' and angled side to side pieces, light several pieces of the paper and leave it alone for 60-30 minutes, then, evaluate it needed more, it was lovely and cosy watching the flickering as we sleeped as our bed as about 2 yards away from it, Very toasty on a winters nite 😴

I've been starting fires since I was 3. Never had a problem. Well... there was one time I lit the bathroom trash can on fire, that was a problem.

Brilliant. Actually the *opposite* of how the Boy Scout Handbook teaches you to create a fire.

@SendMeTheRemote

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe it is different to account for the wind?

@SendMeTheRemote

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure what the boy scout handbook instructs, to be clear.

I used to just chuck a handful of paper with the driest roughest medium logs on top facing bark down and it always worked. Never used any kindling.

Best way to start a fire wrangler

If sears craftsman was still a thing this man would be their spokesman.

And I do two large pieces on the bottom. Then I take three pieces of newspaper that I ball up real tight. Put them in between those two logs. Put my kinlin crossways across that and then put a medium sized log on top of my kindling. I light the newspaper and everything goes up. I don't use a blowtorch.

Used this method today at our freezing b and b in Cowichan Bay, BC Canada. Weird how this came up in my shorts. Cheers!!

I figured that out when I was in the boy scouts way back when but I forgot over the decades I appreciate relearning it

I used to do a log cabin, but now I use this and it is so much easier. 100% recommend

I only use matches, so this won't work. I start with newspaper, maybe 2 pages, i crumble one up and flatten it. I shred the other and lay it on top. I place the branches over it like I'm building a teepee. I ignite a thin stick to reach further and slowly blow on the flames, just enough to get it going, once it's starts crackling, I put gradually bigger logs, medium than large after it hot enough.

my ex’s brother was USFS and I always thought he didn’t know what he was talking about until I saw it work

Fir might burn that well like that, try getting pine or oak to burn so well on the east coast

Yep, but if its a Blaze King, stuff it to the gills. Because that stove burns CO not the wood, so it’s extremely efficient .

I do exactly opposite. In the wind the lager wood blocks the wind. If positioned correct also it burns and the flame is foreced to light the larger. In the wind the small kindling the ashes will blow away so forth.

I’ve been doing this almost a year now, it actually works well!

Always taught reverse, but this looks highly efficient.

I'm so glad to see you doing content again.

I agree this is the most efficient way of building a fire but the teepee is just too much fun to not do it on occasion

Yes sir that is how it's done, I totally agree with this. Keep sharing your wisdom don't stop.

Nice dry wood!! This guy has wood that looks like it has been seasoned for years! Great tips!

@lambo3136

Жыл бұрын

No handkerchief this time, gets a thumbs up 😄

I always thought heat rises so i start the fire at the bottom

I put 2 medium pcs and 8 small on the top. That sove caught so fast! 610F/321C in 10 minutes. Thanks!

My grandad Rip , would be yelling at me for starting a fire like that lol

Splash of used motor oil or diesel on the leftover charcoal, light it and stack whatever on that fire.

Top down or bottom up, doesn't matter if you have dried wood cut at the correct size.

I just tried it, this morning (its currently 9:30, where I live) I haven’t touched the fire since 7:20…. Cheers for the tip

Top down method. Smart Scandinavians

I actually do this everytime since I seen this. love it

This only works with really dry wood. Having lived in Wisconsin on wood for decades... The opposite is best for most wood that is in moist stacks or held outside. Kindling needs to be kept dry always... But I've never had to relight a stove stack but a few times with "fresh from outside wood". The stove keeps the coals warm enough to dry out the big wood enough to catch above... While coals falling in moist logs will put them out.

That’s got to be in a western state because you’d never get nice seasoned clean wood like that out here in the east

Love the long form Video of this even more!

Your doing a great job with these. Everything a person who didn't grow up with it should know if they wanted to become knowledgeable on such things.

Use a cup full of Diesel, dump it on the wood. You could start a fire with wet cardboard

Thank you for your tips

When you know the story about why these videos are being made the like button becomes hilarious to smash

If your wood is dry you shouldnt need kindling at all. I have not used kindling for years.

I actually just heard a us forester say forget about a fire you started... I understand that it's safe in that kind of stove and all but it is funny

Top down fire method changed my life.

Thank you! I’ve been doing this backwards for years.

I always build a little teepee of kindling and twigs ontop of a base of cardboard or more kindling depending on what's available. As it burns I stack slightly larger pieces of wood in a teepee shape until theres a roaring mama jama of coals. 🔥 spicy

Finally someone calling the wood a billet so tired of hearing people say rounds! Thank you

A couple tablespoons of used motor oil helps too

If the wood is dry you can arrange the wood anyway you want.

Couple of handful of charcoal , little starting fluid and pile of dry firewood,,🔥