Cutting down trees For a living, my dryer lint is Chock full o sawdust! Best of both worlds lol

I have been making this type of fire starter since I was a teenager in the 1970s. I have found the the little paper condiment cups that fast food places have for putting ketchup and other sauces in work a bit better than the egg cartons. Just in neatness and compactness. I have also found that hard wood sawdust in this fire starters burns hotter and longer than soft wood sawdust. my personal favorite is maple. I bought a cheap sauce pan at Good Will for melting my wax and a silicon spatula at a dollar store. I melt the wax then stir in the sawdust and mux until the wax is fully incorporated into the sawdust. then I use the spatula to portion the mixture into the cups. I set them on a cooling rake. then a melt a bit more wax and use that to douse cotton balls. I then sit one wax soaked cotton ball on each cup. That makes them able to be ignited by several different methods. I have timed them at burn. The average 20 minutes.

I would have never thought that the fire starters would have burnt for that long. Thanks for sharing.

1:50 There is the bug crawling inside the egg carton. RIP

Firestarter: -“Gravey Method”; pour wax over saw dust &/or lint in eggcarton cups. -“Gumbo Method”; melt wax and stir in saw dust &/or lint until a thick slurry then spoon into cups. Variations: -Add a dollop of petroleum jelly for softer wax for use in damp conditions. -Soak matchsticks in the melted wax then poke them deep into individual cups to use as sure-start wicks.

"We need to purge, one good item." ...4 minutes later "I need a second AR-15." :D

Hey Cody and Family , thank you for the awesome idea. These will go straight into production for next winter and my survival pack. Love your work guys.

Simplifying my life by having fewer possessions. 5 minutes later. I'm looking to buy a second AR. LOL :)

I feel mixing Both. Wax Coated "Saw Dust/ Dryer Lint" Fire Starter would work extremely well.

Colt 6920, I have multiple AR's and the most reliable has been the Colt. The Quality of the materials and the testing of all the parts is second to none. My Colt's have been constantly accurate.

I just tried the sawdust firestarter for the first time, and worked wonderfully! Thank you for the tip.

Thank you so much for sharing this info. After seeing this video, I made a bunch of fire starters using dryer lint and they work wonderfully. I used a flat from egg cases but they still work extremely well and we will be using them throughout this winter. I, however, have used up most of our dryer lint so will make an egg flat full of planer shavings.

Hey cody. I just want to say please dont stop doing youtube! You are great! Dont let any negativity from the voting video discourage you. Because your true fans all respect your views an love your videos.

"I'm trying to remove excess and duplicates from my life." ... "So I'm thinking about getting another AR-15"

Great idea Cody...both work really well. Will have to try it!

Having the best fire starter, and taking the time to do homemade fire starters is smart , do you yourself a favor and be sure you guys have the best fire starter on hand stocked up, be s prepper and have em ready so you are ready to go when you need them! 🙌🏽

Between the two options you are looking at, I would say Colt. I own 10 different AR's from ones I built, Colt, BCM, Olympic, Smith and Wesson, and a couple of companies local to Utah. I enjoy my Colt and haven't had any issues. I use my firearms hard as I'm an instructor and believe in using them to their most, because if bad things happen, you'll want to know what their capabilities are. I run about 500 students a year through classes and have since 2006. Colt has been a good gun. If you have any specific questions, please feel free to contact me. I'm also an AR-15 Armorer.

Cody, I have a Wyndham Weaponry (made in Wyndham, Maine), which was highly recommended by my brother-in-law, who spent a career in law enforcement and is a weapons specialist. Regardless of which AR15 you finally settle on, I highly suggest that you get a chrome lined barrel.

You did WAY better than most at keeping the area neat. Thank you for the share.

Made in the Boyscouts, best starters ever!... with dryer lint, I take a pencil and compact the lint (when it's liquid paraffin) and add a second layer.

The way you should have measured this is not to look at how long each one burns but how long they take to heat up a certain volume of water to a full boil, measure that time and look at how long it took, and how much the fuel sources weigh, then you can calculate the energy density of the fire starters

S&W M&P is by far the superior gun. I have personally shot both and I couldn't begin to express how superior it is over the colt.

I know this is an old video but thank you. You are the first person to put wax on both fire starters everyone else wants to compare dry dryers lintel to vaseline cotton or wax coated sawdust hence spewing the result thanks again

Wow, thanks for the great idea. I don't have stove hooked up at the moment, but I used to keep a bucket of twigs and just start the fire with a propane plumbing torch.

why not built a hybrid firestarter. just a bit dryer fabric on top for easy ignition, sawdust below for more heat and longer burn time

I have been making these for a few years now. I agree that they are fantastic! one note though: if you don't want to mess up the kitchen, lay out some parchment paper where you will be filling and pouring wax, it is super easy to clean up and you can use that in the stove as well :)

Nice tip on fire starters. When I get some time I’m going to make some of these. Be great just to have around even for just getting a fire pit going.

We make our own fire starters on occasion. We use a cupcake paper with a layer of dryer lint. The fill 2/3 full with saw dust out of my table saw. Top with a pine cone and drizzle with melted wax. They are kind of pretty and the cupcake papers light very easily.

The S&W is a shooting range weekend rifle. With the Colt you can go to war if you need to. I'd get the Colt.

M&P the coast doesn't make the colt better it just makes it more expensive buy more ammo and shoot the M&P

I have a Smith and Wesson M&P 15 and I love it. Incredibly reliable and tons of fun to shoot. Insanely accurate too.

I am a big fan of your videos!!!! I have learned A LOT with watching your channel. As you asked, I own the s&w m&p ar15 and I have had ZERO problems. VERY good build quality for the price! 2 years so far with no issues I LOVE IT.

Go to any Home Depot or Lowe's and they let you bag their sawdust from the Saw Table for free. I have a big Ziplock bag full :)

I use empty toilet paper rolls and pack them the same way. Also I have a S&W AR15 and love it.

I bought the Colt AR for my wife and I can tell you that it's a great gun. I am very impressed by the quality feel of the gun and have never had any malfunctions. The one thing that I did do was to replace the butstock with a friction lock version from magpul.

I love my Ruger AR556! I have the colt and the M&P as well. You can't go wrong with any of these choices.

Cody I would highly recommend a SIG Sauer AR. I own their AR10 (SIG716 DMR) for about a year. It's great, I go shooting every weekend and put about 100 rounds through it. My brother just purchased a SIG516 Patrol a few days ago. He says it feels great and is very high quality. They're expensive though! But as you said, buy one high quality item not multiple cheap items. I would definitely consider it!

Struggling to light the second fire-starter with a match when there's a flaming fire-starter just an inch away - LOL!

I'm a colt guy. I love mine!! I would say to go with that. Colt has produced them for the military for many years and has a great product. S&W makes a great gun, but doesn't have the same experience.

My grandpa taught me this many years ago. No better way to start a fire. A dedicated wax pot is a must!

Ultimate fire starter = Talk about politics :-P

for the money an Aero precision is the best value. but I would go colt over m&p. but for me I love BCM.

Chain saw sawdust, coarse as it is, looks pretty awesome. Having access to "regular" sawdust, tablesaw, I think I'll mix it in with the dryer lint next time I make fire starters and see how it works, Thanks for the Idea!!!

I like how he has this kooky gadgets and ideas. I like to watch when I need a good laugh.

I own a Colt AR-15, and It has never failed me!

I own 5 ARs, all of which I have built myself. After my first build I decided to get my gunsmith certificate. I've sense built several Firearms, as well as teach firearm classes. Both brands manufacture great firearms, I wouldn't look at the brand so much, but the operating system. Gas or Piston. Piston is far superior in longevity, and reliability. Building just gives you opportunity to make your firearm customized to your wants, needs, and shooting style. If you want more knowledgeable advice on firearms, I love to share my knowledge...

I bought a 3 hour burning log, cut it into marble size pieces, stored them in a 2 gallon zip lock bag and they lasted FOREVER. Great fire starters. Also great in a survival kit.

I add candles in my wood stove and it helps get things going ! Because I make candles in the garage and use the excess . Set it atop the stove and melt them down in a metal container.It works ! Also makes it smell good

The only advantage the saw dust would've had was longevity but you didn't even test the longevity. I don't understand how you ruled sawdust superior. Please explain.

The ultimate fire starter is oxygen

Thanks so much, either one, depending on what you have will be great for fire starters, especially with damp wet conditions.

I will be trying this soon! Thanks

The match was the fire starter. The rest was fuel.

Does mean your giving every person in your state an axe 😜

Good proof that either will get your fire going. If your campfire isn't started after ten minutes from either one of these, maybe you need to move the starter closer to the kindling! Anyway, I have both materials, and it is good to know that they perform very similarly & could be relied upon for making your campfire less challenging in difficult conditions. Great presentation!

I agree with you about your use of Mrs W's new kitchen lol! Thanks for doing this useful video. I can do this. Fire starters are expensive!

My problem with dryer lint is it's likely to have polyester fibers, not just cotton lint. Polyester is a synthetic fiber and melts before it burns.

its not about dryer lint or saw dust. its all about the wax. thats what burning. the surface its burning on has only minor impact

Thanks for showing us how to make this easy firestarter. This is my first season heating with a wood stove, so I'm making it a point to pick up little tips like this that make my life easier. When it came to the comparison shot, it seemed like the primary wind was carrying the heat from the sawdust cup over to the dryer lint cup, encouraging it to burn faster. With more controlled conditions, I think their performance would be nearly indistinguishable. Anyway, I really couldn't see much advantage either way - seems like its better to just use whats abundant to you.

Brilliant! What a great idea, and thanks for sharing! I now have a bag next to the drier

Don't be a pansy, get a Springfield Armory M1a SOCOM.

Why do you want an AR. I am an avid outdoorsman and gun supporter but I just don't see the point to owning one. In my opinion you can just get a bolt action rifle and a quality scope for the same price and it will be far more accurate and useful. I really only think of guns as hunting tools so my opinions are probably different. I am interested to here from you guys that own ARs. For me accuracy is far more important that any other aspect of a rifle. Even in the case of defending myself I would feel safer knowing my rifle will place rounds where I want out to long range.

I have a m& p sport and I love it. It's super light as compared to mils pec which by the way is useless unless your throwing your ar in a sandbox everyday, it just adds weight. I haven't had any reliability issues and I've even modified mine pretty extensively.

We made those in Boy Scouts all the time. We always kept them in our packs. Also did lint with steel wool wrapped around it, just hit it with a battery. 9v is the easiest but you can do it with any battery.

Sell the ar...get a garand!!

Using candles to make... ummm... candles.

These are my favorite fire starters too. I normally pack saw dust in the bottom then put lint on top, so I guess I use both methods.

Thanks! Awesome video. At our cabin in the NY Catskills and stoked to make this (dryer lint) w my two young sons. S’mores in their immediate futures!!

You talked about reducing the amount of junk in your life and then you talk about getting a new gun? Why? What do you need the gun for? You don't hunt (not that I am sure that those guns are appropriate for hunting).

How to make a 90 second video take 11 mins.

I own one of the S&W AR15s and its a great firearm, very light, easy to clean as well. No complaints with the firearm at all. Looking forward to seeing what you decide to purchase!

Yep those work AWESOME! My dad inlaw has a wood working shop. We supply his with egg cartons, he supplies us with fire starters! Good video

This bloke is totally insane.First, he wants to jettison a load of junk,then he wants an unnecessary second kitchen and a death-dealing gun. Typical gormless Yank.'Yipee'.

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Excellent! We will try these!

I have heard this debate as well and decided to do what you did, but I also did some with a combination of sawdust and dryer lint. The combination one worked best.

That is very cool. I have never seen any thing like that. Thanks for sharing this useful information.

Thanks for the fire starter dual. I made up the same thing myself a week ago and just hadn't tested them yet. Your results are about what I expected, tie. As for the very likely long ago AR15 purchase... I'm a newbie and built my gun collection during the worst time to do so 2020. I'm sure I have nothing to offer here, but I'll note how I approached a similar choice. As a novice I really liked the idea of having two identical guns with different calibers. One of them 22LR to let you shoot cheap ammo and quickly gain familiarity with the tool. After a lots of research on a handgun I narrowed down to the S&W M&P vs Glock made 9mm and 22LR pair. Everything I could find ranked them about the same. I finally went in to buy the S&W pair and ended up purchasing the Glock due to shortages in supply. A few months later, very happy with the Glocks I wished to repeat the same concept with an AR15 and similarly configured 22. I bought and loved the S&W M&P AR15-22. But when I got around to buying the AR15 the S&W didn't seem to have anything that was set up and felt like the AR15-22. Perhaps it was just another supply shortage, but I was a bit confused as to why they wouldn't offer a pair. Eventually I found and purchased something that is very similar to the AR15-22 just not S&W. I bought a Ridical RF-15, and have been very happy with it. I took a number of handgun, rifle and first-aid courses after these purchases. I found I like putting holes in paper quite a bit more than expected, so a purchased a few more guns after getting these basics. The AR15 platform really wants to be modified to fit your usage. But I agree that having a factory rifle and keeping the majority of it bone stock is a safe bet. I've changed out grips, stocks, and converted the safety to ambidextrous, and populated the rails with bi-pods, scopes and lights. Given the research I did I don't suspect there was much difference in the actual choice I made. I am happy with what I did and would very likely have enjoyed the other path. Given the quality options available today, the only way to go wrong is by doing zero research, and just impulse buying something very inappropriate. That's something that over researchers like us just don't do.

Since I always collect drier lint and really do not do anything that creates sawdust, I would have to go with the lint. Awesome vid and demonstration of the effectiveness of simple, easily obtainable items Cody!

You can’t go wrong with either one of them!! Thanks for the great fire starter idea!!!!!!

Hi Cody. I take appropriately sized scraps of wood from my splitter and put them in a 5 gallon bucket and soak them in kerosene for fire starters. They work great and there is very little effort or mess.

I'm glad I spent two hours cleaning out the 13 years worth of dryer lint that was all over the inside of it. Talk about a fire hazard. I didn't know lint was so flammable that its used as a fire starter. Great work, Cody.

I made these fire starters yesterday. They are fantastic!

Impressive. I sure would have liked to see it all the way through. Thanks for the cool video. I was doubtful w/the sawdust.

Thanks for the video on two good fire starter options.

I've been making sawdust on the bottom and dryer lint on top for a while now. Except I use the wax from my wife's wax scent warmer. It works great for me!

I did have a original colt back in the mid 90's, Loved it. used it for personal and Law Enforcement purposes. being a army vet the platform of it was a natural choice due to being used to it. I had no issues at all threw prob a couple thousand rounds except the o-ring for the gas tube. proven and reliable. great house clearing (if practiced) and if needed a decent long gun for outside house. hope this helps. Great test on the fire starters, I have actually wondered the comparison burn as I always used lint with Vaseline in a tin for fire starter or a fast sustainable portable heater.

i have an M&P 15 OR model and i love it. ive had it for almost two years now and i have had not one issue whats so ever

Congratulations on the 15 years!

Always fun! Enjoyed the video!

The dryer lint has taken much of the flames from the saw dust cube. That may be why it burned up faster and shrank early on. Both look to be great fire starters, thanks for the demo.

I have a M&P sport and works great but haven't had any other ones to compare but haven't had a problem with the M&P.

I've used the colt m4 in the service for many years as an 11b. I feel safe trusting it with my life. Between freezing up on the coldest of winter days, to dragging it through swamps, the biggest issue I ever had was the ejection port cover spring broke. I have nothing good or bad to say about the M&P since I have never used one. I do however love my Ruger SR556 but... when I went shooting with my friend who has an m4, it felt so good to hold it, as if it were a security blanket. Good luck in your decision!

I have an old deep fryer that I melt the wax in and then stir the sawdust into that and then with a spatula scoop it out and put it into egg cartons. These also work really great for starting your charcoal in a charcoal chimney.

Ok. I have been doing the egg crate thing for years. Jute twine on the bottom, dryer lint on the top with the wax. Very reliable.

These will be great alternative to those fire brick things I use to hold a flame when lighting my BBQ.

Awesome DIY fire starters, I am going to make a few up for my emergency pack. One of those could save your life in an emergency situation.

I use the scented candles from my warmers.

Fun Sunday!

I bought the Ruger SR 556 I looked at the S&W and the Colt and the Ruger was in the middle price wise but has a much better trigger than the S&W and a free floating barrel with a nice heat shield.