Remember: it’s essential to train with the magnesium stick wherever possible so during a real life emergency, you’ll start a fire faster. Never use the back of a folding knife blade unless it has a locking mechanism. A 2×2 cm ball will burn 5 to 10 minutes, long enough to ignite even a damp tinder. One or two sparks will ignite the cotton. Using the striker strip and the back of a fixed bladed knife apply pressure and push the knife blade along the striker toward the cotton ball. The scraping puts small particles of magnesium on the cotton ball. Scrape small shavings off along one side over the cotton ball. Hold the magnesium fire starter stick block in one hand and the knife in the other. Collect dry tinder, break up the cotton ball somewhat, and put close to the tinder. In order to start a fire you can even use cotton balls which were soaked with petroleum jelly (vaseline). Believe it or not, magnesium stick is my primary fire starter even if i absolutely love primitive methods such as the bow drill.
The magnesium stick is straightforward to use and is great at starting fires even if the tinder is damp because it generates a flame source of over 2500☌. Never depend on matches as your exclusive method of fire starting.īring alternative ways of starting a fire like a magnesium stick with a sparker. Matches may become useless by staying in your pocket or if exposed to rain, snow or submerged in water. Lighters run out of fuel, get wet or perhaps stop working. Perhaps you believe lightning fire won’t be a problem as you always carry a lighter or matches. Remember: maintaining a fire is lot easier than starting a new one.Ĭombustion fire fire triangle firecraft firewood heat start fire woodįire isn’t more useful than when you find yourself in a survival situation.
Paying attention to the space between wood fuel before starting a fire and during its lifespan, you’ll avoid to waste your energy to light it again. Stoke the fire by moving the remaining wood closer or by adding more fuel. Sometimes you start with the appropriate distance but just because the wood is burning, the space will increase. As the kindling gets fire, put more kindling and then add wood fuel.
To fix this issue, add kindling between the fire wood. If you place the logs too far apart, the heat is lost and the temperature is not sufficient to keep a fire burning. To avoid completely the problem, make your fire over a green wood grid leaving an air space beneath the burning pieces. To correct this problem, try to create more space by pushing away the pieces with a green stick. If you’ve packed the wood too tight, it does not have sufficient oxygen to support the heat, therefore the temperature drops and the fire will go out.īlowing air would keep your fire burning however it is a very inefficient way of managing your fire. And now i’ll tell you the secret: you can find the right balance by leaving enough space (but not too much) between the logs. If you’ve collected the right amount of tinder, kindling and well dried fuel wood, all you need to do is to obtain the right balance between air and heat. From time to time, it happens that you do not devote enough time to set up a fire and this lack of focus and effort will result in issues to keep the fire burning.Ī fire survives thanks to the fire triangle ( oxygen, heat and fuel): when one of these elements is missing, the fire goes out shortly.
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