One of the most important skills any prepper can have is knowing how to build a fire no matter what the situation. This means not only building a fire when it's dry and sunny but also when it may be wet outside from rain or snow.
You may think this task is impossible but it can be done as Alfie Aesthetics shows us in this amazing video.
Knowing how to build a long-lasting fire even in bad or wet weather may just be the difference between life and death!
Conclusion: It is simply amazing how this guy builds a dry wood platform for a fire when it has been wet outside. You can do this with oak, maple or birch wood. Then you layer wood branches on top of each other to make the platform sturdy and to keep your fire elevated even more.
The wood from your platform will eventually turn to smoldering embers which is key to helping your fire last as long as possible. Your fire will keep burning providing you with what you need even if it has been raining for days or weeks.
This will be crucial to your survival during a collapse!
Did… Did he use fire to dry tinder and melt pine pitch… To make a fire? Either I missed something or he’s from the 4th dimension.
The pine pitch, is highly flammable, a few pieces lit and put in your wood would start it. Use sparingly, make sure you have none of it still burning and well burned out before using to cook over, will leave a flavor, (Yuck)
I break up about a a fist full in 1/2″ to 1″ x 3″ sticks, but that’s so 1 or 2 start twigs and small branches first.
It’s late at night for me. I just thought I missed something. Lol
The pencil sharpener, genius!
All well and good but for realism, how about doing this on a day that’s actually raining and not a sunny day. It’s a lot harder to do with rain pounding down and everything is soaked
Set up a fire shelter, gather the driest stuff you can find that’ll burn and not just smolder. Use birch bark if available. Cover the area you are setting up the fire as well do it has a chance to start. When it’s blazing you can remove tarp or whatever overhead cover you used. If it’s burning good enough your fire shelter will burn into more and larger fire. If it’s dumping out good luck and be patient and persistent.
You want a fire in any weather. I can give you a sure fire fire “excuse the pun” anytime anyplace in any weather and well you can’t put it out but you will sure have a fire. Take an old tire ,nothing inside just an old tire found on the side of the road or abandon house or pretty much anywhere. Any weather, take a bic lighter and flick your bic on the inside and let it set there for a few minutes inside the tire on the rubber and it will catch and will burn and burn hard, and all the way around the time and hot flame and dark dark smoke.. I didn’t say I preferred this type of fire but it will burn in any weather any place since its dry where the tire is starting to burn and rubber burns just like pine pitch and it burns hot and smokes.. try not to breathe it but if you need a fire in any weather , there you go.. tire fire , can’t beat em lol