Category: Make a Fire

The ability to start a fire under survival conditions can save your life. The inability can cost your life. Here are some tips for finding dry tinder under wet, stormy conditions.

In Mali, wood-fueled campfires may be the only way some people have to cook and boil water. Rural residents frequently use small trees that have been replanted in the devastated areas. Here is another option.

Most survival knife reviews at some point show the blade being pounded – or batoned -through a block of firewood. But batoning is not a big deal if you use the right technique. This method is so simple you can baton firewood with a butter knife.

It is hard to improve on a tried and proven piece of gear, especially when 500 million have already been sold. But this latest fire making tool from Zippo may be an improvement on that old classic lighter.

You stake your life on your firemaking kit components. My recommendation is to substitute cotton balls in any application you might be using dryer lint.

Do you need a Lightning-Strike firestarter? You decide. But the ability to start a fire might someday save your life. And the inability to start a fire could cost your life.

What if there isn’t much wood available, you want to stay warm and also be able to see in the dark? One possibility might be to make a log candle.

Murphy’s Law states that the more desperately you need a fire, the harder it will be to build one. Most firemaking lessons stop with the initial ignition. But that first flame won’t last long if you don’t have dry sticks to feed the fire. Here’s how to find them.

Flint and steel is one of the oldest methods of starting a fire. Here is how to find a rock that will help you create that initial spark.

A belt can do much more than hold up your pants. Work it right, and a standard money belt can be a component in your personal survival kit.