In Grade 8, I was in a northern Canadian school with no gym. One day, for gym class, our teacher took us out in -20 C on snowshoes and told each group of 3 students to start a campfire. BEST LESSON EVER! You've set up a lot of great examples and created your own weather system in the process. Thanks for sharing.
Teachers nowadays don’t even teach anything they just have you literally larp as caveman and get big bucks off of not working as their next lives continue on as mindless slave drones.
The kid whose parent was the teachers experience: evidently completely alien to us. This kid just brought lighter fluid or charcoal to school because his mom was the bitch who made everybody sit out in the cold.
1:42 - Tipi Fire (fast set up / fast burning) 2:13 - Fire torch (slow set up / slow burning) 4:39 - Top-Down Fire (slow set up / slow burning) 5:43 - Log cabin (slow set up / fast burning) 6:47 - Star fire ( quick set up / long burning) 7:36 - Lean to fire (quick set up / quick burning)
Being an insulin dependent diabetic, I always have alcohol and cotton balls. I found once I use a soaked cotton ball and tossed it into a campfire it burned for a very long time. I now keep a plastic bottle with soaked cotton balls in it. I prep my campfire, place 2 to 3 balls in different areas and light. They easily burn hot and long therefore getting a roaring fire going in short order. I just tie a string around my bottle and hang close to where my fire pit is and bingo, I’m ready. Just an idea your viewers might want to try. My grandkids love a campfire when we are in the Mountains.
dude how many ways do you know to tie your shoe lasse , when you get to the fire spot you make a platfor of the biggest wood you find and then light a fire over it anyways dont listen to lucifer
Fire is so awesome. Help’s boost moral gives such a sense of comfort and safety and it’s so cool to watch the flames. It’s like it is alive. Not to mention you can cook food or heat treat some steel for some knife making which happens to be my favorite use of fire !!!
Don't get me wrong you do great research and quality videos but its nice to see some practical how to videos instead of end of the world stuff great job! The dogs are looking good!!
The starfire actually has a relative in 'primitive cooking' (and not some dudes in the bush, but cooking in developing countries). It's a fire like this with 3 logs and 3 stones, where the stones are bigger than the logs, which in these countries tend to be more like big branches. The use might be obvious to some, but you light the fire in the center and then put the pot on the tree stones suspended above the center of the fire... Now there is added functionality to this type of fire, that is the control of heat. By pushing the logs in or pulling them out, the height of the flame can somewhat be managed, and with that the heat underneath what you are cooking.
@@AliceAttentionWhore the stones act as platforms to lay the pot on and the wood goes on the spaces between the rocks. A good way to think of it based on the star fire in this videos is to remove 3 of the logs he used and put big rocks in their place
This one is so skinny, there is little funneling so it doesnt make a significant difference, but youre right for a larger one it would be the better end for more air pressure, good point!
It's harder than it looks, and should be practiced. I took my kids camping, and had them grabbing sticks, and twigs for kindling. After 30 minutes of trying to get it to light with a ferro rod, I finally had to get out some dryer lint I stored. Fyi dryer lint lights very easily.
Oh! I just made a lot of char cloth out of an old cotton PJ bottom using an old Uno card game tin with a few holes punched in it. IT WORKED! We Will try starting a fire with it later!
A tin full of dryer lint is always good. Don’t be afraid to grab up loose dry grass clippings or dry dead weeds. A birds nest can be made very fast with what is on the ground. Always remember it is easy to have too little kindling and impossible to have too much!
One additional suggestion for the Canadian/Swedish fire stove (use 1-3 inch logs, stack them vertically, tie them together, start your tinder on top, when it burns down into coals, add whatever you want)
For the lean to fire if u face the large logs towards the wind and leave an opening in between them it will allow for a channel of air to fuel the fire. This will enable it to reach higher temperatures, useful for cooking/boiling
I learned the best cold weather fire techniques camping in the Dakotas as a kid. A Dakota fire is the only way to go. A hole about 8 inches across and about a foot deep with an angled vent on the side. When we stopped for the night, we'd each build our own separate fire to burn for a couple hours to heat up the ground, and one we used as a collective campfire for the night. Push off the snow as much as possible so everything stays dry. When you're ready for bed, you fill in your individual fire covering the coals so it keeps smoldering, and set your bed roll on top of it to stay warm during the night. Sandy ground is best. You can use practically anything as fuel. It wastes less fuel, makes little smoke, burns longer, holds heat better, is easier to cook over, and much easier and quicker to extinguish. You can basically make a really warm fire on just a little bit of fuel. You just keep dropping fuel it as the night along and occasionally clear the vent with a stick.
I never tried this, do you think the heat is good enough for Canada? Could you do it inside a tent or would there be some carbon monoxide risk? I think having little smoke would be crucial during a shtf situation
I would use the antenna bellows exactly the opposite - blow into the large end, and the air coming out the small end is moving much faster coming out the short end. Used to do this back in the day with aluminum tent poles.
It was cool you made all the fires at the same time. I have made all these types of fires myself. Mostly it depends on what's available and the conditions. Everyone enjoys a nice fire.
I have my own campfire method that I have been working on. It is fairly easy, I take some logs and sticks, toss them together randomly in a pile, spray them with lighter fluid and toss on a match. From my experience it seems to work every time. 😀
This is awesome, but my favorite part was when you said you had other stuff to do. “But first let me set up 6 different fires”. Thank you for the video.
Growing up in Northern Sweden we had survival in school and were taught the "Log cabin" method. 20 years later I'm still using this method and haven't done it any other way. Works every time. In winter, in summer, in wind, with wet wood. Always!
Yeah same. I have not found log cabin to be fast burning at all. In a wood burning fireplace or stove I've had it last 12+ hours. By that point it's coals, but it's easy to start again with the coals! I usually do an inverse though, with kindling at the bottom and fat logs at the top so it lights from underneath and collapses on itself instead of burning up. I find this makes the fire burn hotter, slower, and protects it a lot from wind. I can also use this method to get really fat logs to burn which makes it very slow burning.
All the basic 3D shapes: cone, cylinder, pyramid, cube, disc and wedge. My daughter found those easier to remember vs names from different eras and different countries. The antenna is a clever idea. Good tip!
Really enjoyed this tutorial! Well-organized, well-presented, lots of relevant info without the 10-20min of lame-ass comedy or pseudo-drama found in many other people's videos. Well done, sir!
Gr8 info ..i just find it amazing that most folks don't know.. ANY...of this..nice to reaffirm I've got things right..keep letting folks know and THANKS..
Good video, but i'd like to mention, if you have little or no transition wood from big to smaller, theres a rule for campfires, which always works. if its hard to catch the bigger stuff on fire, just keep building higher. The higher the campfire the easier it'll burn. even with a handful of twigs and some kindling at the bottom, a 1 inch flame, can suddenly become a 5-15 inch flame, from licking along the wood above it, which increases the temperature in your fire quickly, and starts to ignite the wood gasses quickly, increasing combustion, and with enough heat, you can burn anything... Summary is... if you struggle to get a campfire to really get going, keep adding height, then feed the flames at the bottom with small sticks, and it will eventually take care of it self.
There is an expression that goes “busier than a Bayman with two woodstoves”. It’s a labor-intensive job to keep the camp fire going all evening, and maybe even all night long. It’s a nightmare to try to keep six or seven going. Not only because A person has to stay with a little fire, and each one of them would require so much maintenance, but also because you’ve never stop seeking and cutting wood.
Instead of splitting off the corners from the inside of each quarter just turn the peices bark side in, it automatically makes the gap in the middle and it's less work.
Not exactly survival situation but when I'm camping I take my battery powered air mattress inflator to use as a power bellows for stubborn wood or to get things going quickly for cooking. I also make cheap (free) fire starters with empty egg cartons, wood shavings, and paraffin wax (melted down candle stumps).
Awesome tipS...thankS deeply for sharinG all your effortS with uS!!!👍I learnt so much from you as I only have camped infrequently through the years but thiS summer I plan to do some hardcore campinG and thiS why I am here checking out all your great ideas!!!✌🌹🐶🐶🌹🌲🌲🌲🌹🏕🔥🌞🌹☕☕☕
My personal favorite is the upside down fire. Great for a longer fire. However, teepee and log cabin fires are better for a quick warm up. My guess is a teepee to keep you warm as you build the upside down.
Bravo 👏 👏 👏 another one foe the books. The last fire is my favorite followed by the dekota fire and if I was heating a tent I would add a pipe to the swedish stove
I use the upside-down method before I set up my camp as it needs little to no tending by the time set up is done I can sit by a lovely warm fire and even start cooking straight away. Though I do usually crack a beer open and chill at that point.
In Grade 8, I was in a northern Canadian school with no gym. One day, for gym class, our teacher took us out in -20 C on snowshoes and told each group of 3 students to start a campfire. BEST LESSON EVER! You've set up a lot of great examples and created your own weather system in the process. Thanks for sharing.
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This is pretty awesome man, thanks for sharing!
Teachers nowadays don’t even teach anything they just have you literally larp as caveman and get big bucks off of not working as their next lives continue on as mindless slave drones.
The kid whose parent was the teachers experience: evidently completely alien to us. This kid just brought lighter fluid or charcoal to school because his mom was the bitch who made everybody sit out in the cold.
Teachers are super fun! I love forcing the masses into subservience.
1:42 - Tipi Fire (fast set up / fast burning)
2:13 - Fire torch (slow set up / slow burning)
4:39 - Top-Down Fire (slow set up / slow burning)
5:43 - Log cabin (slow set up / fast burning)
6:47 - Star fire ( quick set up / long burning)
7:36 - Lean to fire (quick set up / quick burning)
Thx!
Ty
Tq so much Bro 👍👍💪💪🤗🤗😘😘❤️❤️🌹🌹🌺🌺
Being an insulin dependent diabetic, I always have alcohol and cotton balls. I found once I use a soaked cotton ball and tossed it into a campfire it burned for a very long time. I now keep a plastic bottle with soaked cotton balls in it. I prep my campfire, place 2 to 3 balls in different areas and light. They easily burn hot and long therefore getting a roaring fire going in short order. I just tie a string around my bottle and hang close to where my fire pit is and bingo, I’m ready. Just an idea your viewers might want to try. My grandkids love a campfire when we are in the Mountains.
This is a very good idea, low cost and effective. I appreciate it sir.
Saving this to my playlists for future reference.
Absolutely. Good stuff.
Thanks CP..
Same!
dude how many ways do you know to tie your shoe lasse , when you get to the fire spot you make a platfor of the biggest wood you find and then light a fire over it anyways dont listen to lucifer
get a youtube downloader and down load the video
if you ever get into the situation when you'll use this i highly doubt you'd also have youtube
Fire is so awesome. Help’s boost moral gives such a sense of comfort and safety and it’s so cool to watch the flames. It’s like it is alive. Not to mention you can cook food or heat treat some steel for some knife making which happens to be my favorite use of fire !!!
Don't get me wrong you do great research and quality videos but its nice to see some practical how to videos instead of end of the world stuff great job! The dogs are looking good!!
The starfire actually has a relative in 'primitive cooking' (and not some dudes in the bush, but cooking in developing countries). It's a fire like this with 3 logs and 3 stones, where the stones are bigger than the logs, which in these countries tend to be more like big branches. The use might be obvious to some, but you light the fire in the center and then put the pot on the tree stones suspended above the center of the fire... Now there is added functionality to this type of fire, that is the control of heat. By pushing the logs in or pulling them out, the height of the flame can somewhat be managed, and with that the heat underneath what you are cooking.
Are you talking about some kind of tripod?
@@AliceAttentionWhore the stones act as platforms to lay the pot on and the wood goes on the spaces between the rocks. A good way to think of it based on the star fire in this videos is to remove 3 of the logs he used and put big rocks in their place
We do this in Zambia in rural areas
@@Sagaofsr what is the name of this fire?
When using a pocket bellows blow from the wide end. (Was shown used the wrong way around) cheers CP I use a few of these methods
This one is so skinny, there is little funneling so it doesnt make a significant difference, but youre right for a larger one it would be the better end for more air pressure, good point!
Where does one find an antenna anymore? Have to go to a wrecking yard. Is there anything else that is telescoping that is small and portable?
@@suemitchell2200 you can buy them on amazon for a couple bucks
Narrow end toward the fire makes a huge difference and keeps you much further away from the fire.
@@suemitchell2200 try busiest bee pocket bellows and fire fuses on Amazon, both are amazing.
Great shot at the end with all the fires going at once!
I lit my first fire with a rod striker😄 the right kindling is the key. Im still gonna die if the world goes to shit but at least I'll be warm.
It's harder than it looks, and should be practiced. I took my kids camping, and had them grabbing sticks, and twigs for kindling. After 30 minutes of trying to get it to light with a ferro rod, I finally had to get out some dryer lint I stored. Fyi dryer lint lights very easily.
I appreciate that! I have a new wood stove and have been practicing lighting it with a striker and tinder, no matches. Much harder than I expected....
@@TChalla616 I have a small box full of the stuff to use lighting fires! Good idea.
Oh! I just made a lot of char cloth out of an old cotton PJ bottom using an old Uno card game tin with a few holes punched in it. IT WORKED! We Will try starting a fire with it later!
A tin full of dryer lint is always good. Don’t be afraid to grab up loose dry grass clippings or dry dead weeds. A birds nest can be made very fast with what is on the ground. Always remember it is easy to have too little kindling and impossible to have too much!
Very helpful and I enjoyed the sound of crackling fire.
One additional suggestion for the Canadian/Swedish fire stove (use 1-3 inch logs, stack them vertically, tie them together, start your tinder on top, when it burns down into coals, add whatever you want)
For the lean to fire if u face the large logs towards the wind and leave an opening in between them it will allow for a channel of air to fuel the fire. This will enable it to reach higher temperatures, useful for cooking/boiling
I learned the best cold weather fire techniques camping in the Dakotas as a kid. A Dakota fire is the only way to go. A hole about 8 inches across and about a foot deep with an angled vent on the side. When we stopped for the night, we'd each build our own separate fire to burn for a couple hours to heat up the ground, and one we used as a collective campfire for the night. Push off the snow as much as possible so everything stays dry. When you're ready for bed, you fill in your individual fire covering the coals so it keeps smoldering, and set your bed roll on top of it to stay warm during the night. Sandy ground is best. You can use practically anything as fuel. It wastes less fuel, makes little smoke, burns longer, holds heat better, is easier to cook over, and much easier and quicker to extinguish. You can basically make a really warm fire on just a little bit of fuel. You just keep dropping fuel it as the night along and occasionally clear the vent with a stick.
I never tried this, do you think the heat is good enough for Canada? Could you do it inside a tent or would there be some carbon monoxide risk? I think having little smoke would be crucial during a shtf situation
Oh, that crackling is just divine. Makes you feel warm just listening to it
I would use the antenna bellows exactly the opposite - blow into the large end, and the air coming out the small end is moving much faster coming out the short end. Used to do this back in the day with aluminum tent poles.
Great video on the basics . Never a waste to go over basics in survival .
Thanks for this. def will save it for review .
This is the best prepper channel I know of.
Sound advise and points made.
And the guy seems very nice and down to earth.
Thumps of from Denmark.
OK, I'm stopping at the intro to comment that THIS NEW INTRO ROCKS... now on to the video.
That fire torch is so good for cooking!! I made several of these last year and cooked some nice meals. Plan on more cooking this year.
Nice to see different types of fires
It was cool you made all the fires at the same time. I have made all these types of fires myself. Mostly it depends on what's available and the conditions. Everyone enjoys a nice fire.
The intro music bumps 💥 🎶👍🏽
I was hoping to hear the beacon--relay music from Return of the King but I'm sure it would get yanked on copyright.
Canadian prepper-thanks for showing how to start a safe 🔥 👍💙
I have my own campfire method that I have been working on. It is fairly easy, I take some logs and sticks, toss them together randomly in a pile, spray them with lighter fluid and toss on a match. From my experience it seems to work every time. 😀
This is awesome, but my favorite part was when you said you had other stuff to do. “But first let me set up 6 different fires”. Thank you for the video.
Don't forget about the Siberian Fire log. Extremely useful in cold weather.
Growing up in Northern Sweden we had survival in school and were taught the "Log cabin" method. 20 years later I'm still using this method and haven't done it any other way. Works every time. In winter, in summer, in wind, with wet wood. Always!
It's my go-to method here in Finland as well. Never had a problem with it
Yeah same. I have not found log cabin to be fast burning at all. In a wood burning fireplace or stove I've had it last 12+ hours. By that point it's coals, but it's easy to start again with the coals! I usually do an inverse though, with kindling at the bottom and fat logs at the top so it lights from underneath and collapses on itself instead of burning up. I find this makes the fire burn hotter, slower, and protects it a lot from wind. I can also use this method to get really fat logs to burn which makes it very slow burning.
Wonderful job.
Reminds me of when I was teaching or in a survival class in Boy Scouts
Love this. You are doing so well at showing the basics without scaring or intimidating the audience. Keep up the blue!
Bless your heart for using that much of your firewood for demonstration purposes haha
No worries just before this I did a review of some saws so I had the wood to spare
@@CanadianPrepper lol
@@CanadianPrepper what a shock, the prepper was prepared
@@Yuri-bt4wl XD
he murdered the trees for our entertainment 😂
All the basic 3D shapes: cone, cylinder, pyramid, cube, disc and wedge. My daughter found those easier to remember vs names from different eras and different countries. The antenna is a clever idea. Good tip!
Very useful information. Thanks for all the details.
I love the crackling sound at the end.
Brilliant video. Thank you
I love your vids. Thanks so much!! Love your puppies face...he’s really growing, and watching all your moves..❤️
Thanks! It really helped to see the quick, side by side comparison. This helps, a lot!
Really enjoyed this tutorial! Well-organized, well-presented, lots of relevant info without the 10-20min of lame-ass comedy or pseudo-drama found in many other people's videos. Well done, sir!
Very good job man. Very good job.
Gr8 info ..i just find it amazing that most folks don't know.. ANY...of this..nice to reaffirm I've got things right..keep letting folks know and THANKS..
Awesome vid! At one time or another, I've built every one of these fires.
"pocket bellows" - those collapsible drinking straws work for this too.
Good video, but i'd like to mention, if you have little or no transition wood from big to smaller, theres a rule for campfires, which always works.
if its hard to catch the bigger stuff on fire, just keep building higher.
The higher the campfire the easier it'll burn.
even with a handful of twigs and some kindling at the bottom, a 1 inch flame, can suddenly become a 5-15 inch flame, from licking along the wood above it, which increases the temperature in your fire quickly, and starts to ignite the wood gasses quickly, increasing combustion, and with enough heat, you can burn anything...
Summary is... if you struggle to get a campfire to really get going, keep adding height, then feed the flames at the bottom with small sticks, and it will eventually take care of it self.
Nice video and lots of great information thanks for the tips!
I like that top down fire, I have never seen that one before. Thanks, Love this new series your doing.
Great info. I love channels that prove what they preach.
Awesome ! I want to start a fire! To bad my neighbors are not as into camping as I am. Love this video
Thanks for the great audio quality. That makes or breaks a video. 🙏
I love fire, you did this absolutely great!!!! I love that hexagon fire ... more pls
I like the content
Bro keep it real , that’s your strong suit 💪
Really appreciate the prep time that went into this vid, great job
Thanx for sharing the pocket bellows also, thats nifty!
The sound of all the fires crackling is so soothing. I almost fell asleep
I feel the warmth already. Thanks.
They are all great ways to do a fire but I really like the top down fire and the split log. Thanks for sharing.
Love the antenna trick!
Building a fire is so soothing.
so many fires so little time , i love them all and i cant wait to use all of them . thank you buddy .
Im from Sweden and yeah we been using them . But I do the same whit no axe or anything more then a nife. Works the same in practice. Much love ❣
Great great video!!! One of the very best!!!
This was one of the best fire videos I've seen. Great job.
Excellent video, thanks Nate!
Excellent presentation. Great idea!
I call the log cabin style the Lincoln log fire. I always use it at parties because everyone loves the heat and it's very easy to start.
Good stuff! I have learned some new techniques that I had heard about previously, so it's nice to see them work.
Good video. I’ll watch it again a couple of times.
Top-down fire has become my go-to for my fireplace. One load up lasts all evening.
Great educational video. Thank you for sharing.
Loved this ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️
Brilliant fire ideas glad Ive found your channel....
Dude, the crackle of all six in the close up part was awesome!!
I love the shepherds just meandering throughout the video 👍
The crackling of 6 fires at once is the stuff dreams are made of
There is an expression that goes “busier than a Bayman with two woodstoves”.
It’s a labor-intensive job to keep the camp fire going all evening, and maybe even all night long.
It’s a nightmare to try to keep six or seven going. Not only because A person has to stay with a little fire, and each one of them would require so much maintenance, but also because you’ve never stop seeking and cutting wood.
I love your channel. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I just wached the video once more and in my opinion this is a great explanation. Very well done. Thanks.
We'll done. Thanks for the demonstration.
The video I didn't know I needed, during the start of summer.
awesome video thanks for sharing it can be done several ways but this is well done
I've done four of those setups and they work really well
Really great video, my friend! All wonderful fire methods to know.
Outstanding! Thanks very much…
what a video you must been putting real work to this its so cool
great vid, awesome review and evaluation of basic fires.
Great video for the guy who knows nothing about getting quality fires for different purposes or situations going thanks
Great video, thanks. I’m new to EDC and such later in life, learned a lot from this. Will study more and try some out.
Instead of splitting off the corners from the inside of each quarter just turn the peices bark side in, it automatically makes the gap in the middle and it's less work.
wow, simplest solution lol. Thanks for that
Dakota fire pits are my all time favorite ones! I have one dug in my fort in the woods.
Teachable video's - A+, much prefer this style of video's. Happy new year.
Thank you so much very informative video love your channel keep up the good work
Not exactly survival situation but when I'm camping I take my battery powered air mattress inflator to use as a power bellows for stubborn wood or to get things going quickly for cooking. I also make cheap (free) fire starters with empty egg cartons, wood shavings, and paraffin wax (melted down candle stumps).
Great job
Thank you so much for this video! Very educational
Love this back to basics approach!
This was a damn good video.
There was a couple of new ones for me,I’m gonna try it out.
Stay safe n well 🇸🇪🇨🇦
Awesome tipS...thankS deeply for sharinG all your effortS with uS!!!👍I learnt so much from you as I only have camped infrequently through the years but thiS summer I plan to do some hardcore campinG and thiS why I am here checking out all your great ideas!!!✌🌹🐶🐶🌹🌲🌲🌲🌹🏕🔥🌞🌹☕☕☕
...clear and concise...good job
My personal favorite is the upside down fire. Great for a longer fire. However, teepee and log cabin fires are better for a quick warm up. My guess is a teepee to keep you warm as you build the upside down.
Bravo 👏 👏 👏 another one foe the books.
The last fire is my favorite followed by the dekota fire and if I was heating a tent I would add a pipe to the swedish stove
Very, very nice video CP... Thanks a lot...!
10:26 Fire safety on point :D
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack jump over the candlestick,
@@livewireOrourke nice poetry!
That's what you call roasting nuts over a fire.
I use the upside-down method before I set up my camp as it needs little to no tending by the time set up is done I can sit by a lovely warm fire and even start cooking straight away. Though I do usually crack a beer open and chill at that point.
Great methods! I usually do a lean-to fire, but if I have time I often do the "top down" fire instead.