This is the sort of knowledge that we should be teaching our kids in school, not the crap they teach on the current curriculum. This is true life skills. Great video's.

I've watched many people struggle to produce an ember, then fail to make flame with it. Tinder Bundles are a critical yet often neglected skill. Glad you showed from harvest to use and especially glad you showed how the super fines and dust are useful. A number of YT'ers are demonstrating processing while standing on windy days. What a waste of great fines. Love your vids, keep 'em comin'!!

@paleomanjim

10 жыл бұрын

Yes, it has happened to me too many times, I learned the hard way too! The hardest ember I ever made was the one on the Making fire in the wild video. When my grass tinder bundle failed to ignite I was really bummed. Taught me a good lesson though. Thanks for watching....

I can't tell you how many failed fires caused by a lazy, inadequate tinder bundle. This video will really help me step up my game.

Also here you give us another demonstration on finding the baits that are found in nature, Thank you for your contribution! Giuliano Italy ... Mandi !!

those are so amazing im suprised a bird didn't just plop down land in one to claim it as his ...lolol thank you so much for these amazing lessons ...i wish i were more organized lol.... this is very very valuable education you are offering...i will not take it for granted ..your video presentation skills are epic as well..... best health to you & fam

@paleomanjim

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, really appriciate that and glad you like the vids

this has been a terrific series, jim! so glad you included the timber bundle tutorial. thanks for all the hard work. KEvron

@paleomanjim

10 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. I had a lot of fun with it, especially looking for material in the field, thanks

Hi, And many thanks for passing on what may seem to be basic skills in tinder bundles, but brought in the City making fires just doesn’t come naturally to some. I told a Swedish friend Gullrica about the many methods of fire making you have made video on and she has recently been invited to demonstrate what she knows already about making fires as she is pretty skilled, and I think she may be using your channel as ‘learning and study material’ for those she is teaching. That BTW is her channel name with her real name being Ulrica. Take care and many thanks mrbluenun

your right. It is the most over looked part of fire making. So many fails have started with the bird nest. Right on. Great job. I miss the high desert in AZ. The Chevelon Canyon area.

Thank you very much for sharing.

very nice camera work when you were blowing the ember into a flame thanks

I too really enjoyed your fire series, Jim!

Thank you Jim

Nice demo, well presented.

Great tips. Well done. Now we need help when collecting material in the Pacific North West, where nothing is dry.

U look mad buff with that shirt !

@ivanhita4726

8 жыл бұрын

No homo bro!

Great stuff, keep them coming please!

this is kind of the delema I'm trying to master as a back up. I have an extremely reliable system, but the fire cord I make, though exceptionally good, deffanatly requires ferro to light. it was specifically designed with my ferro rod in mind. so while it does exactly what I designed it to do, it has a draw back. it won't ignight from an ember. which is bad in one degree. as a fall back, I plan to keep a Flint and steel, and a fire piston, along with a char tin, in my pack. this is also a reliable system to start an ember, and this is my long term fall back. ferro don't last forever. so now, I'm wanting to master ember to flame. which oddly proved more difficult than anticipated.

great video and love your fire skills , thanks alot for sharing. I always make my birds nest fast and small lol . Alot of times i should take more care ahha.

Just a thought and on its own it may not be as good as any of these methods for tinder bundles, but especially if the is more than one person and it it likely to be a camping situation, they can always fall back on any paper they have newspaper or kitchen town or loo roll, and either use it is the base for the tinder bundle, or especially with newsprint, though it might not stay alight for long, if there’s no choice a newspaper bundle with twisted whole sheets is very effective kinda using the twisted and double screwed up paper like mini logs. It was the way I taught myself how to find a way that would always work, back in the good, well, bad ole days when there was no central heating and we couldn’t see outside each morning because the breath from us as a family condensed on the inside of the glass panes and it was doing that the previous night when cooking as well so when it was time to get up the bottom of the panes had about ¼"/6mm of ice on them! Thanks again, oh BTW the fires I made were all indoors cleaning and sifting the old coals and making a fire that my mum could light when it started to get colder in the afternoon. mrbluenun

@paleomanjim

10 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, paper makes a great tinder...

What part of the country are you in? Looks like Northern Arizona. I live down in the lower deserts here in az but love to get up north.

I wonder if smoking may have originated as a way to miniaturize fire bundles and make them easier to maintain? Pipes would probably be the first and easiest.

paleoman Thanks for the presentation I have just used jute and wondered how to do it otherwise. How did you get that one coal to light all your examples? Thanks! olflatlander

@paleomanjim

8 жыл бұрын

+olflatlander You can use a coal extender to light more than one fire. It is a great idea because it takes so much work to get the coal in the first place and loosing it can be a real bummer! Coal extenders are any material that will stay glowing after coming into contact with the original fresh coal. I normally use the inside wood from a Yucca or Sotol, but many materials will work. It is best to cut you coal extender into thin sticks to provide ample oxygen so they can continue to smolder. Practice making several to see what works best. Acrtually, this would make a good subject for another video!....Jim

@olflatlander9380

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, I could not make out what you used for the coal extender. I thought it looked like a straw or something. So I wondered what it was. I am an old F..t with not the best eyes.:)..

Ok so you live I a dessert and there absolutely no rain that means all your materials are all ready super dry now let's see you make a fire from a realistic tender that is not perfect

@paleomanjim

9 жыл бұрын

Joe Thompson Climate, location, time of year and humidity all impact the quality of tinder available in any area. I have made fires from materials I have gathered in much wetter conditions, including tropical central America. In some cases it requires looking for tinder well above the ground or sheltered from rain, under tree branches, rock overhangs, etc. That is the challenge, the fire maker must consider what to look for as well as where to look. It may require a lot of searching but suitable tinder can usually be found almost anywhere. The idea of the video is to show folks what to look for as well as where.