carried them for years in everything i drive, bug out bags, camping, hunting but didn't know you could extinguish them and reuse. Thanks for the knowledge.
Mors Kochanski says in one of his videos that a flare can come in handy if you have a bear encounter. Bears don’t like the light it gives off or the smell (who does). Personally I would rather not find out if he’s right or wrong. Handy item no matter what you do with it.
It seems to be harder to find flares anymore. We used to carry them in cars. I will have to keep looking. Thank you for the video, Corporal. I like your style of instruction
The one big caveat is, beware of the potential for an underground fire. That means, don't do this where there are a lot of pines, evergreens, roots, or especially roots rich in pitch... and don't do this in peat / peaty soil (lots of organic matter, particularly dry or only mildly damp organic matter), because that could cause an unseen underground fire that could lead days or weeks later to a wildfire.
You seriously get the biggest donkey of the day for this comment... Underground fire? Why do people make shit up? You must be in elementary school to not comprehend that fires cannot exist without air. If the fire is buried and does not have any air its impossible to stay alive.
Saw your flare recommendation in a previous video. Promptly purchased a package and integrated it into my kit. Didn't know they made smaller camping flares. Will obtain them for smaller kits. Thanks for the great instruction. Semper Fi!
good to keep with the vehicle, a lot of folks have gone away from carrying them. Always make sure you have good ones that have not been sitting around for a while. Check your vehicle kit at least once a year, make sure you have survival items, i would add carry 1 or 2 sets of jumper cables and get the good ones. A small axe and or a portable shovel is good if you are going to be around snow. I picked up a little disassemble type mountaineer shovel that is very light in weight. I went with the very inexpensive SOG tomahawk which is very small actually, I think they have different sizes, but it can punch through a car door or window, window easier than the door but it has multiple uses, also keep all your stuff organized and nice in waterproof bag, you can get good resealable bags at a big box store in multiple sizes and they have a suction type seal
i always here people talk about how dumb it is to use road flares but those are very useful tools you can signal for help start a fire scare away predators plus many more uses so i say carry a few because you never know great vid
There is a much easier way to extinguish...just twirl it like how a juggler would juggle a bowling pin...only instead of one twirl, spin it faster. As it lands on the ground the flare immediately extinguishes. Highway patrolman showed me the trick and I extinguished 4 flares for him. Didn't know I could reuse them though
They should make these in sections, for ex: ignite, light fire, extinguish, next use, cut on line where there is an embedded easy light center fuse, reignite, and so forth... Easier said than done but one gets the idea
Again, great stuff. Im wondering if you took a stick about the size of the flare and drove it in the ground and make a tighter extinguishing area that the dug hole in the ground if it would help in putting those flairs out. Either way, im carrying one with me from now on. Appreciate ya
Hahaha!!! Cryng of laughter because that flare refused to die, thats y is necessary to always have flares, they wont give up no matter what. I went camping and i seriously reget it not having one, because it got dark and we didnt knew what to do, we were in the texas country.
Question...are any certain makes or models far superior than the rest when it comes to flares? Also, does shelf life come into play? Just wondering as I've never purchased or used flares before. Great video with very useful info as always, thanks so much for sharing the knowledge!
I'm going to add one of these to my trail-hiking bag just as an extra signaling device. Seems like we get a couple of darkness trail rescues around her each year. I wonder if you could form an aluminum foil reflector around it to protect your vision while trying to keep eyes on a search A/C? Maybe it'd be too hot and burn holes in the aluminum foil.
You can also cut the end off the fus'e or flare at an angle with your knife, axe, hatchet, hawk with a baton or saw to have a good clean angled end to re-light.
Even though there's a higher risk of burning down the forest, as it were, when using a flare for night navigation, would it be better to hold it to your side to avoid washing out your vision?
No. There is oxygen in water and it expands the water to vapor fast enough to use it. Deep under water it stops working, I don't know the depth, but flares are essentially rain proof and help start fires during and after a rain storm.
@@benbraceletspurple9108 no theres no available oxygen in water on less you make electrolysis. The flare has an oxydizer mixed into it so it can burn better. The oxydizer provides oxygen to the metals that need to burn(to produce light). But yes in the water pressure gets to high then it would go out. But we are talking over 500m.
Good video. Light fires ALL day? You verbalized/demonstrated lighting the flare and motioned it over some tinder and said that flare could light fires all day? Are you saying you could re-light the same flare multiple times??
carried them for years in everything i drive, bug out bags, camping, hunting but didn't know you could extinguish them and reuse. Thanks for the knowledge.
Mors Kochanski says in one of his videos that a flare can come in handy if you have a bear encounter. Bears don’t like the light it gives off or the smell (who does). Personally I would rather not find out if he’s right or wrong. Handy item no matter what you do with it.
It seems to be harder to find flares anymore. We used to carry them in cars. I will have to keep looking. Thank you for the video, Corporal. I like your style of instruction
Check your local auto parts supplier.
Walmart sells them
You can find them at sporting goods stores like academy
Auto parts stores Walmart basically everywhere sells them and if nowhere locally sells them you can pick up a box online
The one big caveat is, beware of the potential for an underground fire. That means, don't do this where there are a lot of pines, evergreens, roots, or especially roots rich in pitch... and don't do this in peat / peaty soil (lots of organic matter, particularly dry or only mildly damp organic matter), because that could cause an unseen underground fire that could lead days or weeks later to a wildfire.
You seriously get the biggest donkey of the day for this comment... Underground fire? Why do people make shit up? You must be in elementary school to not comprehend that fires cannot exist without air. If the fire is buried and does not have any air its impossible to stay alive.
that's honestly crazy
Saw your flare recommendation in a previous video. Promptly purchased a package and integrated it into my kit. Didn't know they made smaller camping flares. Will obtain them for smaller kits. Thanks for the great instruction. Semper Fi!
good to keep with the vehicle, a lot of folks have gone away from carrying them. Always make sure you have good ones that have not been sitting around for a while. Check your vehicle kit at least once a year, make sure you have survival items, i would add carry 1 or 2 sets of jumper cables and get the good ones. A small axe and or a portable shovel is good if you are going to be around snow. I picked up a little disassemble type mountaineer shovel that is very light in weight. I went with the very inexpensive SOG tomahawk which is very small actually, I think they have different sizes, but it can punch through a car door or window, window easier than the door but it has multiple uses, also keep all your stuff organized and nice in waterproof bag, you can get good resealable bags at a big box store in multiple sizes and they have a suction type seal
Outstanding, great piece of kit ! I will definitely gear up and add it to my go bag.
Great knowledge to have, I just bought some Orion flares to keep in my vehicle kit. Will make for a hell of a firestarting redundancy!
Truly Outstanding! Flares are my next purchase!
Thanks... I'm going to add a couple of these to my car kit and some of the shorties to my field kit.
i always here people talk about how dumb it is to use road flares but those are very useful tools you can signal for help start a fire scare away predators plus many more uses so i say carry a few because you never know great vid
I know it's kind of randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to watch new series online?
Honestly I've never heard anyone talk about it being dumb to use road flares but then again I grew up in the sticks so
I was looking at some of those the other day. Ended up not getting them, but theyre definitely still on the list
I wonder if chopping the burning edge off would work
There is a much easier way to extinguish...just twirl it like how a juggler would juggle a bowling pin...only instead of one twirl, spin it faster. As it lands on the ground the flare immediately extinguishes. Highway patrolman showed me the trick and I extinguished 4 flares for him. Didn't know I could reuse them though
They should make these in sections, for ex: ignite, light fire, extinguish, next use, cut on line where there is an embedded easy light center fuse, reignite, and so forth... Easier said than done but one gets the idea
thanks for Watching
Awesome, I want a couple now😁
Again, great stuff. Im wondering if you took a stick about the size of the flare and drove it in the ground and make a tighter extinguishing area that the dug hole in the ground if it would help in putting those flairs out. Either way, im carrying one with me from now on. Appreciate ya
Hahaha!!! Cryng of laughter because that flare refused to die, thats y is necessary to always have flares, they wont give up no matter what. I went camping and i seriously reget it not having one, because it got dark and we didnt knew what to do, we were in the texas country.
Another great video.
OutSTANDING!
Great work great info brother
Great vid buddy, thanks!
Excellent video
Question...are any certain makes or models far superior than the rest when it comes to flares? Also, does shelf life come into play? Just wondering as I've never purchased or used flares before. Great video with very useful info as always, thanks so much for sharing the knowledge!
2 is one, 1 is none
Great video, I have been carrying flares for years but never knew you could relight them. Keep the great video's coming.
Share this knowledge
another great education video, Teufel Hunden. ooh rah!!!
I'm going to add one of these to my trail-hiking bag just as an extra signaling device. Seems like we get a couple of darkness trail rescues around her each year. I wonder if you could form an aluminum foil reflector around it to protect your vision while trying to keep eyes on a search A/C? Maybe it'd be too hot and burn holes in the aluminum foil.
Excellent if you are attacked by a wolfpack. In thar case, a thirty minute flare can increase your survival by up to thirty minutes.
You can also cut the end off the fus'e or flare at an angle with your knife, axe, hatchet, hawk with a baton or saw to have a good clean angled end to re-light.
интересное видео! спасибо!
Anyone else here after Corporal's video in April 2024 about road flares and pull-start fire starters?
Even though there's a higher risk of burning down the forest, as it were, when using a flare for night navigation, would it be better to hold it to your side to avoid washing out your vision?
I was thinking the same thing. Having it in front of you... that red flame is brilliant. My eyes would hurt.
Above you, like a torch.
@@benbraceletspurple9108 - some road flares can spit globs of molten material... so use caution with over any part of the body.
So these burn underwater, I assume, because the chemical composition allows the flare to create its own oxygen?
Wagon_Waifu they do, but if it gets cold/wet then it's not going to work anymore.
No. There is oxygen in water and it expands the water to vapor fast enough to use it. Deep under water it stops working, I don't know the depth, but flares are essentially rain proof and help start fires during and after a rain storm.
@@benbraceletspurple9108 no theres no available oxygen in water on less you make electrolysis. The flare has an oxydizer mixed into it so it can burn better. The oxydizer provides oxygen to the metals that need to burn(to produce light). But yes in the water pressure gets to high then it would go out. But we are talking over 500m.
Could you cut the top of the flare off to extinguish it.
This guy is so cool.
I have one of the big ones in my molle 2 medium ruck.
Good video. Light fires ALL day? You verbalized/demonstrated lighting the flare and motioned it over some tinder and said that flare could light fires all day? Are you saying you could re-light the same flare multiple times??
Good ideal
I want to see the bright ones from AVP
Extinquish on asphalt the same way on dirt i guess?
Semper Fi.
the best weapon in the game! HAHAHAHAHA!
Why not just put it in wate.... ohh right, check! thanks :)
exactly, thanks for watching
This helps in rainstorm to light fires.
Why do u need to dig a hole? Couldn't u just ram it into the dirt for the same effect?
fire travels up, will burn hand.
Best to put out in a horizontal angle, on non flammable object(s), his method best methid so far.
actually that makes perfect sense and im not thinking properly again XD, thanks
Nice video, try to pick a spot for less traffic noise, more like natural sounds would make the video more enjoyable.
das not work all that well, is it!?
not all flairs can be put out, I have some that will burn under water.
stick around hahahahahahaha i hate myself with puns
Hey Corporal I don't know if it works for you but to put mine out I throw it in hard ground like if throwing a knife. food for thought