How To Make Firestarters - the Eco-Friendly Way
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- In this video I make Firestarters the eco-friendly way from mostly recylcled stuff I have at home. I prepare for autumn and winter when things can get really damp i this Swedish forest. Using dryer lint, egg cartons, saw dust, birch bark, pine rezin, jute twine and melted stearin I get my hands dirty :)
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You are such a girl in how you approached, presented, and assembled this project. That is what is makes your channel so fun. Thank you!
I'm sure I'm not alone in saying this but I absolutely love your accent. Great video too, I might try something similar using ingredients from the bush here in Australia.
My wife loves candles and I always save the last little bits to make fire starters like that, but I just fill each egg space with sawdust from a table saw or chainsaw and pour on the wax. Each "egg" will burn for 20 minutes or more so regardless of the weather it WILL make a fire. The funny part is the smell, my campfires smell like whatever flavor candle my wife had! Can't wait for the field test, thanks!
Nice job Emelie... oh well off to Ikea for candles then , my sons going to love making these
Here in the U.S. we have a product called bath cups produced by a company named Dixie. These are paper cups coated with a thin layer of polyethylene (they are 80% cellulose by weight). Not exactly 100% eco-friendly, but with your mixture almost. If available in Sweden these cups might contain the wax better for you.
A friend of mine does something like this.
She uses a metal cupcake pan and pours the mix into the cupcake paper liners.
Self contained fire starters.
works perfectly 👍
exactly what I was thinking might work :)
Your fire starters look very functional. Thanks for the videos!
I agree with Shawn A. Here in USA.i have used muffin liners as well, or cupcake liners . They work awesome, good video.👍
Hi Emelie. I make two different Fire starters that are similar to yours. For one I knot lengths of sting loosely every inch or so. Then I soak in wax and let harden. Cut off as many knots as the kindling needs and light the string. For the second I use a flat/round cosmetics puff about 2” in diameter and soak it in wax heated in a cat food can. Crush, fluff, and light. Have fun and keep the videos coming.
Another fun video, I have one year left until I can pursuit bushcraft as a hobby and can’t wait, in the meantime...the books I can read and videos like yours are a great alternative and get me so excited. Keep making these great videos.
Hi, it's so great to see you!!! Great and interesting video. I always enjoy your excellent videos and your beautiful accent. Thanks for fantastic video.👌👌👌👌
Hi Emelie. Nice to see you on the air again. How creative and fun. Look forward to your next video and see how they light.
Great ideas even if it didn't quite work out as planed. I like the idea and I'm going to have a go. Candles are made from wax.
That's fun, nice video ! Always fun watching too.
I'm always trying out little prep'n and survival experiment's like this and most of the time it's a fail on the first couple of attempts but I learn and improve and eventually get it right...great video. Thanks for the content.
Making fire starters is fun, I like to use old tea light cases. Thanks Emelie 👍😊
i use the same technique
Another good firestarter is, toilet roller, lots of dryer lent and wax paper. Pack dryer lent into the toilet roller till it's full and then take the wax paper and roll around the roller with 2 or 4 inches on both ends of the roller for lighting. I've never used it before, cause I've used stick and flint. I'll make a video soon as I can using what I use for everyone. I do ok. But there's better than me out there. I like your videos. Thank you very much ma'am🐺
Melted wax is tough to pour!!! Great step by step instructions and always fun to watch. Blessings 🙏
Its beautiful there, I'm in florida in America, but my great great grandparents were from Sweden, I would love to go see Sweden and see where my ancestor were from. Great video, that's a great idea I'm sure you could get a fire going in about any weather with your fire starters.
i think that your firestarters are lovely ,Emelie !!!
Hi Emelie great video. Thanks for sharing.
hi Emelie, gread Video and good idea with the firestarter. I have allready made similar ones. All right Alex
Nice to see you again Emily! I am glad to see you trying to make firestarters like this again, I remember commenting on their usefulness to you long ago, and think that these will work just fine for single use firestarters, and may even be larger than you need for a single use, remember that you are not making candles that need to burn for hours, you just need them to burn long enough to get your wood burning, although the jute will not really act that well as a wick until it gets close enough to the wax to melt it, and they may be a bit tall to stand up well, consider trying to make disks that are twice as wide as they are tall, short enough to get some shelter from the wind in a fire circle while they get started.
Boo! to whomever suggested using a plastic container for these, that would likely be toxic, what I DO suggest is getting another tin like you put the resin in, making a bird's nest, not a braid, of shredded jute twine that fills the tin almost to the edge, but far enough below it that the wax or resin will not seep over the side, and you can get the lid on and off again easily, then, while it is still liquid lightly fill the top with shredded cotton balls, not lint which might contain wool and synthetic fibers which are fire retardant, cotton burns well on it's own, then, when it is all dried, you can take the lid off, scrape up a few fibers with the back of your blade (which looked like it could use a good sharpening), and catch a spark and light up quite nicely
This is what I have done in a small Altoid's tin, about 3 cm x 5 cm, you could use larger like your resin tin, but this is big enough, once it has gotten the fire started I fish it out with a stick and flip the lid closed to save it for next time, and when it gets used up too much to be useful I just fill it back up without cleaning which makes it easier to stick the new bird's nest in
Wondering if you might do another episode on your go bag, how it has changed over time, what you have added/subtracted given what you have learned, considering that you might want some form of firestarter to be included now.
Be well, looking forward to the next episode
Thank you!! 😊
good to see you back Emelie ..from Dave from Australia
Very interesting. Looking forward to see if it will work.
That was a really fun video. I enjoyed it...................
I have an old cast iron pot that holds almost 1 litres. I use it to slowly melt Vaseline petroleum jelly. I then place Organic Cotton Balls in it one at the time and place them on a "cookie sheet" to cool. I keep them in empty Altoids mint tin or empty medicine bottles. Great video.
Looks like a good fire starter. Like you said, maybe more lint and birch or a filler. Pouring, what about a 1/4 cub metal measuring spoon or similar on a long handle. Keep it in the water staying hot while wax melts. Then you can control the pour and even add more lint or fluff and pour a little more. Good job
Ya can't learn if you don't try. I think it was a good job. I make mine about the same way. Gives me something to use the egg cartons for. Love your videos. God bless
Good job. They will work great.
Emelie's THANKS Love the vid.
like this one very much.
Enjoyed the video.
If you have silicone baking cupcakes, they can handle the hot wax poured into them. The firestarter easily pops out.
Nice video Emilie. Thanks for showing a safe way to melt wax/stearin. At my kids' school they almost set the whole thing a blaze because they put the pot with wax directly on a heat source. I think I should try to make firestarters with my kids from our candle leftovers. Looking forward to seeing how your firestarters work in the rain.
Good video Emely the only wat to learn or get more ways to start a fire it is by trial and error i had to learn the errors .
Great stuff, Emelie!
Even the pieces of paper that the candle wax flowed onto will work as a fire starter
Nice video. I think those firestarters will work fine. Have an amazing week, Andreas from Off Grid Sweden 🇸🇪
I enjoyed your video Emeline. Thank you!!
Auto correct messed up the spelling of your name. Sorry 😔
Very good video showing how to make fire starters. You spilled more wax than needed, but still a good job. You showed me how to do and what not to do.
Thank you.
I love watching your videos. I'm Native American, and I'm also skilled for living off the land. But I also like to watch and learn from others youtubers survival skills. Out of all the youtuber survivalist, you are my favorite. Keep up the good work.
Looked like it should all work! Nice video. I’ve been buying the Revolution Race clothing for a long time now. Trying to get my wife on board 😊
A nice illustration of using at hand materials to make fire starters. :) Only suggestion about the dryer lint is that some fabrics will contain nylons and polyesters which would not be clean burning. So don't breathe in too much of the smoke as the fire starts.
Too bad that the smoke always follow me 😂😂
@@survivalbushcraftwithemelie I had forgotten that from your other videos that you are the smoke whisperer. :)
Funny -- I was just looking at the dryer lint and considering exactly this idea. a wick is a good idea - I had just figured to light the cardboard. Good idea to add the simple wick. I'll give it a try - thank you for the tutorial. Perhaps some of the paper from the shredder would be good as well. Our fire ban is still in effect but in the next month or so, we should have rain enough to put an end to the ban. Nice to see you again!
Lint from your clothes dryer screen works very well to make these. Just that and wax. What also works well and very similar to the dryer lint is a couple of cotton balls.
We still have the kind of paper mache egg boxes you remember from your childhood here in the US. Well, they're still pretty easy to find anyway. Many stores only have plastic foam egg boxes which might burn and give off poisonous gas or they might just melt.
She was using dryer lint!!
If they work it doesn't matter they look like. Great video.
Great video. No reason why they shouldn't work as firestarters.
Another cool video- thank you for sharing these things Emelie!
Don't worry Emelie your English is fine, but you might need a ladle to pour the hot wax/paraffin into the molds good luck finding the old style egg cartons.
Haha You need a Milk Saucepan with a pourer bit on so you do not spill any. If you also use real peat pots instead of the toilet rolls they work amazing. We use them on seed collecting trips around the world when we have to camp out inthe wilderness and leave no trace or rubbish behind. The white ash that is left is top notch plant food,
Hi. You are doing great bravo 👍😊🤗.
I'm going to start traveling in October from London to middle East on my foot by walk.
Wick. The string in the candle is called the wick.
Hi Emelie, nice demonstration. I do something similar using sawdust and- or pine cones. Best Regards, Peter
Thats an interesting suit wrist pocket storage area. Might be even more useful with other pockets up the length of the arms. Same for inside pockets on the legs.
Any scientist will tell you that their greatest successes were preceeded by their greatest failures! We learn more from our failures, than from immediate success. Sometimes the *hit and miss* method teaches us much more than we can learn from a book. I once was watching Dual Survival when, at a loss for something that would catch a spark, they scraped lint off their jeans with their knives. The next time I did laundry, I didn't throw away the dryer lint!!
I really enjoy watching you! Now I'm going to watch the video that shows whether or not they work - I'm betting they do!!
Btw, if you cut off a couple of about 5 centimeters of jute, just unravel it and fluff it up. It nearly always catches the first spark. If you were to put the fluff around the wick of your fire starter, I think you'd be in business!!
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Must agree with dingo7055 Emilie. You accent is so lovely. I love the way you say resin. Love the video. Can't wait for the next one.
I make home candles at times and use a tin coffee cup with a bent edge like a spout that I found makes spills less command but I never thought of using other things to use as a fill thank you for this video.
Right...….Great video. I already use lint in the toilet paper roll. I see how adding wax can make it waterproof.
I love your willingness to experiment with this! I also love that you're using things from home that would otherwise just be trash, it shows that you are thinking "outside the box" to re-purpose those items. I think your firestarters will work fine, the only thing I would change for next time might be to use a spoon to get the melted wax into your molds. I think you lost a bit of the wax when it overflowed or missed the mold, so a little more control over the pour would probably make things go more smoothly. I'm looking forward to seeing your video when you try them out!
Just found your channel recently, first time commenting on your videos, so here are the obligatory:
1) Love your accent!
2) You can't be Swedish, you're not blonde!
3) I'm sure you've never, EVER heard either of those things before. :)
Thanks for the video and please stay safe lady! 8-)
Good idea Emelie but one thing to think about before you try this out again is to carry a medium sized funnel, that way when you pour, the wax goes down the funnel and solidifies even easier and relatively no spillage - try and see as you say in Swedish "Experimentation is the key to Success." Cheers or Skol.
I hope your system works for you and the candles are one way to start a fire.
Thank you Emelie for your video. It gives me finally the inspirations.
I collected the most parts before. Even eggs packages and toilette paper rolls. Also have many old candles.
Thanks for your good english. My swedish is zero - sorry.
(liked + subscribed) - Greetings from sw-germany.
Thank you so much for subscribing 🤗
It will be fun to see which fire starters work the best in rainy weather. Stay safe out there! Cheers.
Thank you 🤗
Relax those will lite and start your fire good job
they will all work for what you wanted, Pretty fir starters doesn't matter unless its you You really are Pretty and a good speaker too. We Love your videos on any subject
Wunderbar great video
Thank you for your video, l enjoy watching you learn new things
That was fun. You should have had a funnel. ✌️
@9:35 liquid candle = melted wax
Usually paraffin wax. Your english is still fantastic!
Speaking of eco friendly fire starters, I seen some pinecones on the ground. Those are great too.
Try folding up the bottom of the toilet paper roll so that the wax will stay in.
informative tutorial, simply made and useful to say the least. Nicely done!
Emilie"s "Trial and Error", I love that! Nice presentation, especially being your first attempt. I too have pondered a sawdust/lint and wax combo
and now, am going to have to try that. Thank you for the video and looking forward to the next one. Take care!
Good video, Emelie. That was a smart idea. Even if they didn’t turn out the way you envisioned, I’d think that they will still work. I’m looking forward to seeing you try them out later. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Try using pieces of the egg carton on which the wax overflowed on as a fire starter. That way you can utilize all of your materials.
Muchas gracias por los consejos y las ideas,está muy buenos. Y estas muy linda!!!! 😍😍😍
Try laying a short stick against the side of the pan containing the melted paraffin, when pouring; the paraffin will flow down the stick, into the desired molds, without spilling as easily...Cheers.
Always good to see your channel and videos, you always seem so happy. I hope you and your family are doing well. Maybe you could do a video on how to make a waterproof belt bag to keep the fire starters in?
Ideas...
*If you know anyone doing a lot of carpentry, sawdust works well.
*Make a tight roll of corrugated cardboard and insert it into a low metal can. In the U.S. tuna fish cans work well. Pour the wax in. The ones I've made will burn up to a half hour.
Gute Idee. Gib noch Kienspan dazu. Und in die Eierschachteln lege ich von der Kiefer die Zapfen. Danke für das zeigen. Gruss Sven
Try taking a match and wrap a folded sheet of toilet paper around it. Dip that in the liquid candle wax. The match can be struck and will burn for several minutes. Probably less eco friendly but it works.
Good to see you back on RUclips - seems ages since your last upload. Anyway, thanks for reminding me - I've been collecting the lint from the tumble-dryer all year for this very job, and it must be about time to make some firestarters using your method.
Thanks very much,
JRK
Ha ha! So interesting how it will work in rainy day! Can't wait next video!
Hi. Very nice video 👍👍
I have always used pine cones dipped in wax. You could add the lint and resin as well. Great video!
Time to raid the bin by the dryer, and gather up all that lint.
Go smash that like button.
you know ... you should try a bit of modeling again ... you are so enchanting ... take care ... Michael
Just a thought...how about putting the dryer lint into the molten wax until it's saturated, then pick it out with chopsticks and put it inside the toilet paper tubes? it would probably be less messy than pouring the molten wax over the dryer lint. Maybe not even use the tubes? Pull the saturated lint out of the wax and lay it on a flat surface, and lay the wick (jute twine) along the center, then fold or roll the lint around it (like wrapping a burrito). I look forward to seeing you use these in a future video.
That's a good idea!! 😊
Jag har gjort eldstartare på det sättet innan och innehållet du har är riktigt bra. Ett tips är att använda en konservburk istället för skålen av ett par anledningar. Du slipper diska. Du kan trycka till burken på ena sidan för att få en pip att hälla från och du kan sätta den direkt på gasbrännaren på svag värme.
Hello, you can use peat pots, peat pots sheets e.t.c
Bra tips för alla "påtändare", dränka äggförpackningar i parrafin/stearin och klippa i remsor funkar också, men de med kåda i brinner längre och bättre som du gör. Bra och informativ video! Längtar till regn/vintervideon där du provar dina firestarters!
Tack snälla för bra tips 😊
I believe they will work just fine. You have all the proper ingredients to get a blaze started and keep it burning. Wax dryer lint and particles of wood and jute twine should definitely help in having a sustainable fire 🔥. Thanks for sharing and we’ll catch ya on the next adventure. ATB Mike
I Really enjoy your vids. Thank you Emilie :D
Try using cardboard egg cartons and sawdust then pour the melted wax in the carton. Thanks
I'm a big fan Emily! I must say, I do miss the purple planet background music...
My egg cartons usually hold half the egg so there are individual cups. I would cut the cone shaped ones into three sections, just so you have more. They should last to get the fire started.
Your fire starters are huge and will burn for a really long time - I am guessing at least 30 minutes each, if the hot wax does not all run away.
I make tiny but effective ones using old wine bottle twist caps as a mould. Remove the plastic seal, stuff with tissue paper or cardboard and mostly filled with candle wax. Mine burn for 12-15 minutes with a flame 10 cm tall, which is plenty of time to dry out stubborn wet kindling sticks. If you do not need 15 minutes burn time, you can sometimes remove it from the fire, ( careful the aluminium will be hot! ) and snuff out the bottle cap fire starter with a metal pot and use it again in future.