One time my uncle caught his sweater on fire while starting a bonfire, and he was still like "Needs more lighter fluid"

You gotta have smaller sticks in the middle to build it up der guy

1 - Keep your wood dry 2 - Set up your log structure (teepee or log cabin, whatever), then fill in the gaps with thin branches (no more than half an inch thick) then add your quick-burning kindling (paper or whatever you use). The kindling should light the twigs, which should keep the fire going long enough to ignite the logs.

That felt like a midwest stepbrothers

I'm from Northern Wisconsin and even I know there needs to be an intermediate layer between the teepee and cabin...unless you cheat with lighter fluid.

The trick is to use even bigger logs.

Boy does Charlie have his “Dad” lesson about fire down!

if you can't taste lighter fluid in your smores are you even really at the lake house?

The screaming into the vast nothingness of the lake is quite accurate.

As the one in my family who starts the bonfire, it hurts my soul watching others struggle to do it

My family always used the empty cases of beer instead of newspaper.

Bromance: It's a beautiful thing.

The combo between log cabin and to actually works pretty good

One time I started a bonfire by hooking jumpers to my car and sparking it

As a midwestern boy scout, I have to say I’m slightly disappointed

The problem was ya fergot da kindling before da logs! 😂

LMAO, you guys rock! Real life humor out of the simplest of tasks!!! (OK, not always easy to start a fire! )

Every city boy I've ever met at a campground.

Seems like ya fellas forgot yer mid-west manners 😆🤣 This is every fire newbie everywhere

My favorite is when I was up north with my friends and their first thought was to use half a bottle of ancient cologne they found in the woods and a bic lighter. One burnt his hand and another singed off most of his arm hair 😂

I love the comments from all the scouts preaching on how the kindling is missing. SO Wisconsin! GO Packers, F The bears!

The wholesome remake of the "we didn't start the first by Billy joel" was so awesome!

Charlie: is this thing on Fire: imma fall over now

If you want to make a really nice and easy fire, start with a solid layer on the bottom of your fuel wood (this is basically an inverted fire, so that particular part of the fire is starved for oxygen and also doesn't light right away, it will keep your fire at mostly the same size for a long time) and use used cooking oil soaked on some of the wood for the "wood cabin" which acts as kindling and a some used cooking oil on the paper at the center also. It's really easy, and it's zero fail. Also it's a great way to use up used cooking oil so you always have fresh oil to eat.

Where's the kindling?

the neighbor walking by is sooo funny!!! HAAA!!!

I hit the like then the play button

Using this in a BSA Zoom presentation this week, thank you! It’s perfect (in the “what did they do wrong?” sense!) It’ll probably be way better than the rest of the presentation.

These guys can NEVER get lost in the woods (alone or together). EVER. Not even the deer and the cow will be able to save them.

Theyare crazy good together!

Never thought I’d see Charlie get mad

These skits were awesome! Made me think of step brothers when they were gonna go do karate in the garage😂😂 Love the vids!! Keep er movin!!

Charlie.... I was born in Minnesota and transplanted down to florida. Because of your videos I'm moving back to the midwest. Didnt know how much of that midwestern lifestyle has stuck with me. Great content. Even though it's just living midwestern life.

That's gas station firewood. Don't even lie!

The Happy Medium L♡ves her 420 ♡🧚‍♀️

Hee hee...meanwhile, the women are inside, laughing at their dorks.😄

Oh man😂 that "I told you so" face at 0:56 kills me🤣🤣

Good job Charlie

Let's keep er moving there guy

Now just hold your horses. Peanut butter and pickles go perfectly together! 😭😭😭

Some say that if you go by the lake shore at night, and listen real careful, you can still smell the woodsmoke on the breeze

This is why I am the FIRE QUEEN. I will get that fire going. The trick is you take your hatchet and one of them logs in the background and you make it into smaller sticks. Then you take your news paper and your pine needles and put em in the middle and make a teepee out of the small-medium sized ones. Light the kindling then feed it your smallest sticks til the middle sized ones catch and you've got a good flame going. Then slowly slowly add bigger sticks til you're up to the logs. For optimal bright flames, you add logs to the pyramid shape whenver a gap shows up.

Charlie is on the next season of Survivor.

I used a starter log and put it in an old dresser...

I love when you two do collaborations! Good one guys!👏🏻👀😂👏🏻😂👏🏻

As somebody who worked on a resort up north that was filled with fibs all summer who had no idea how to start fires... yeah I got pretty good at starting them lol

keep 'er movin', ya!

Save the lint from your dryer, put it in a plastic Sauerkraut/pickle container(s) and take them camping. That stuff will light wet grass. Also, cotton balls soaked in lighter fluid and stuffed in old prescription containers work as well. Add some kindling, use small, med, large sticks found on the ground or broken off lower dead branches and it's really not that difficult.

Moved to Arizona in 1986, you guys make me homesick....kinda

You make me smile. Thank you.

Everyone needs a Fire Stump for the perfect tee pee fire that NEVER falls down. More time for drinking!

As a guy who just started teaching his daughter how to build a fire, I love this video!

Just saw this on the You beti channel but Charlie deserves a view as well. 👌🤣

Great as always! Needed a good laugh, thanks

Pine needles, twigs, smaller sticks, medium sticks and newspaper. Once that is burning, layer bigger sticks, small logs. Once that is burning, add larger logs. Hasn’t anyone ever worked at a summer camp?

Greatest comedy duo ever.

1 gal diesel and 6 beers, fire!

I always start the woodstove with a lean-to. A couple of years ago, my friend and I were spectating at a dog sled race in da U.P. We came across a road guard trying to start a fire. He made a teepee and stuffing newspaper into it. The glossy ad sections. Surprisingly it didn't work. I found some kindling and charcoal left from the previous day's fire. Added that and some regular newspaper. That did take off but still wasn't great. He opened his tool box and I spotted a propane torch. That got it blazing in a real hurry.

Love the tractor rim!

Layers guys! Always layers!😄🔥🔥🔥🔥

Best video ever!! Love the song!!

You make my day! Please keep doing what you do!!

Ever heard of a flame thrower, there, guy? duh.

I think we can agree log cabin is the only way to build a fire.

My Eagle Scout husband uses an empty Old Dutch Potato Chips box for kindling, and a propane torch to light it. And for some reason the kids in the family call them bombfires. 🤣

These videos make me happy:)

🤣🤣🤣 🔥thanks for the laughs from Canada!

Another great video

My dad is totally the guy in the background. Personally, I prefer a teepee with a pile of dry bark and other dry forest matter buried underneath. A solid match on top of the pile and a match or two near the bottom of the pile will light it right up if you've got a piece of cardboard or some solid lungs to fan it with.

The real bonfire was the friends we made along the way

Very helpful, thanks charlie

Easy start fire starters from Walmart should get ya. I use them to make a bonfire for my hobo coffee in the morning!

The teepee guy is my dad everytime. Make starting a fire easier? Of course not your no man if you can't start a fire with 2 sticks haha

YES! Sweet pickles, crunchy peanut on soft white bread!! YUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!

I like how there are people in the comments taking this video literally like they were actually trying to start the fire each time and doing it wrong instead of doing it wrong for the skit.

You guys are on 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Look at that fire...and deck! Solid video @ K&K’s Lakeside Lodge

Now I guess you two did indeed start the fire

How cute! Back to the basics! Yep

You two are dorks! .... I love it :D :D :D

The saddest part of the video was them sitting with their backs to the lake 🤣

That left ear sigh at 1:48 had me shook

lol tp log cabin. good one boys!

Hoosier here, growing up every year we would have a weenie roast for my mom's birthday in October. My dad treated his fire like it was a sacred ritual. We couldn't roast anything until he thought it was perfect.

Log Cabin for cookin' fire, Teepee for quick heat. Think that's what I remember from Boy Scouts anyway. Be prepared!

Underrated video

Why am I so much like these men I’ve never met before

Excellent work Gentlemen!

My husband just uses his torch to start the fire 🔥 is that cheating? 😂😂😂 You guys are great!

Best fire you tube video.

I bought a paper shredder for all the junk mail I get. It is also helpful for my newspaper. I am telling you. The easiest way to start a fire is to use shredded paper and small twigs. Every wind storm I will scour the yard and pick a handful of twigs and branches. Set them in the garage to dry out. Anyway, easiest fire, ever!

This brings me back to the time a friend of mine gave me a lecture on how I needed to start a fire, unconvinced I knew how to do it when I offered to start a fire in our wood burning stove. He told me how to do it with explicit steps, asking me bit by bit if I knew what he was referring to with every step. I nodded my head, gave the impression I was listening, then started the fire my own way. It was ignited by the first strike of my match and grew into a steady fire without me needing to fan it or blow on it at all. He was pissed. 😂

Freaking love yoos guys!

"OK crazy"🤣🤣🤣

The flint bit is every episode of naked and afraid ever

North of the border we just whip out the Jerrycan and the barbeque lighter. That puts the teepee vs log cabin debate to rest for good.

Charlie is really going for the Wisconsin look with his hat over his mullet. I forgot that’s how we do it back home. Business up front, party in the back.

Oh the 80s montage and frozen hand clap!

This turned into a sitcom REAL quick

I have this happen every winter when we start doing bonfires at group hangouts. My friends don't understand the importance of the teepee.