Usually there are leaves, grass, pine needles, or barks, around to more quickly help ignite coarse tinders. But if there's not, it's good to know that a bigger piece of char cloth or charred material can get the job done. Today, I show you how a little patience and some hot burning denim char cloth will set ablaze pine branches and then pine cones... Please SUBSCRIBE at the end of the video. Thanks! Char Cloth, Charred Punk Wood Playlist kzfaq.info/sun/PLkoXX8XsMW3nfHvlf-YghwFdkUBYRIIMy How To Make Char Cloth... Denim Is The Best kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8mVqJd0l6zSgZ8.html How To Make Charred Punk Wood kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebZ_pNegreCtZmg.html Making A (Flint and Steel) Steel Out Of A File And Trying It Out! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pKiii5WYzp6UhKc.html

I didn’t think you were going to be able to ignite those twigs. They seemed to be too big but, there you go. Gotta see how you ignite the pine cones now. Dang, that’s twice I had my doubts. I never would have imagined that pine cones would ignite that way. Great knowledge to have. Thanks again Dave.

In addition to the wealth of technical information, my take-away today is "calm down". You're always so cool and collected, never hurried. When I try making fire I'm always nearly frantic. Thanks for another great video!

Wow. I've seen things on your channel that I have not seen anywhere else. Never imagine that fire could be achieved in this way

Very good Video , thank you David and Greetings from Germany

I've been teaching survival skills for 11 years and never read this in any book or magazine, never watched it on any video until now. Who would've thought you could get away with NOT using a birds nest. Very cool. Hope you don't mind but I'm going to try this a few times and use it during my classes.

Great video !!! I started watching your videos a few weeks back and now I have seen quite a few of them. You pack a lot of info into each one and present them in a way that is very easy to understand I thank you for the information you have shared. It is very useful. Thanks and keep making videos they are all very good

I just found out that stinging nettle is as viable as char cloth using fire steel. Dry stalks ground to a powder, dry stalks broken over and the fibers used as well as green stalks slightly crushed and allowed to dry for 2 hours. Make a mat or something like a birds nest and of course hold it as you would char cloth and chert/flint. The powder either in a bowl or even on a piece of wood ect. One spark hits it and a ember or you’ll have multiple embers. That stuff grows pretty much everywhere too. Good thing to know for sure.

Charcloth is awesome! It's like the duct-tape of tinders.

Another great lesson. I'll consider it my homework assignment for the weekend. Catch ya on the next one, thanks.

Hi from Rheinfelden Switzerland. Thanks for that 👍. I was at our local 'Forstamt' just this Monday to get official clarification on the do's and don'ts regarding making camp fires in our local forest (we have regular fire bans, especially in dry periods which are strictly enforced with heavy penalties for offenders .. the Swiss have no sense of humour in this regard 😏). Got the all clear and was just going to look up using char cloth with 'alternate' tinder when your post came up 😊. Perfect timing 👍 .. thanks once again 😊.

Nice work Mr. West.

Hi, David. I’ve never tried to directly start twigs or pine cones like you demonstrated here. You showed that with patience and good technique it can be done. I’ve used t-shirt char cloth, which is easily catches a spark, to ignite terry cloth char cloth, which is longer-burning but doesn’t catch a spark as well, to start a tinder bundle that needs more time and heat to start.

Great demonstration - you are such a fire guru! 👍

That's a cool tip to know. Hadn't heard of that one. I imagine birch bark strips may also work this way. Thanks for sharing and God bless.

Another great video Dave. I tried the same exercise the other day using charred punk wood. Like you said works great with patience.

Great video, any ideas what a guy could char from nature if he was fresh out of charcloth???

Very nice Mr. David. Question, Jeans are thicker than say a t-shirt. What one do you prefer for char-cloth. I made lots of jean char-cloth but not so much t-shirt. I find t-shirt to fall apart more.