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Making Charcloth

Posted by Unknown Friday, May 27, 2011 0 comments

You Will Need...

  • 100% cotton cloth
  • Container you can put in a Fire
  • Lid for Container
  • Stone to weigh down Lid



Step 1:

 Put cloth into container cover with lid and wait for the smoke to finish coming out of the container. 

Make sure to allow a small opening in the lid so that smoke will be will be able to escape. Your trying to starve the oxygen in the container. When no more smoke comes out, remove the container but do not take the lid off until it has cooled down completely. If you take the lid off too soon the charcloth will combust on its own.



Step 2:

 Finished product. The cloth should be completely black.




Step 3:


Use flint and steel to strike a spark into the charcloth.



Step 4:


Spark will catch and grow into a coal. This coal is will be difficult to put out so use the coal to blow a tinder bundle into flame.




In conclusion...


Charcloth is good to have because it will catch at the faintest of sparks. Also, knowing how to make it will enable you to have more options in the bush to create fire.

How To Make A Wooden Bowl With Fire

Posted by Unknown Friday, February 4, 2011 0 comments
There are a lot of benefits in knowing how to make this container. As long as you can get fire, you can get a useful item almost anywhere. There are many more things you can do with this than just boil water and I will talk about that in future posts. Boiling water and holding it is one of the most important things you need when out in the bush and this is one way of taking care of that priority.


Then put mud or clay around the edge to keep the fire from burning where you don't want it to.






After building a fire that has substantial coals, place a hot coal in the middle and start to burn out the center.


You can use a hollow reed or tube to blow on the hot coals to help in burning out the wood.


 Continue this process until you reach the depth your looking for.



Notice the makeshift chopsticks are used to grab the hot coal.




This is turning into a great hand warmer! 


Showing depth of bowl.




When finished, use a rock to scrape out the charcoal from the inside.



Finished bowl is now holding water.



A container can go a long way in its usefulness out in the wild. This bowl is perfect all kinds of things. Grinding flower, boiling water, drinking water, cooking soup, collecting berries, and it can even be used as a filter which will be explained in another post. You can make one of these in one or two evenings with persistence. If you think about how long it takes to burn a log, the amount of wood your trying to burn out of your cup is not nearly as much.

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