Most of the fire making films and demonstrations I have seen have been in ideal conditions, calm, no rain etc.
The real test of skill is to be able to strike a fire by whatever means necessary in less than ideal conditions. Im talking about a spectrum of conditions from light rain to stormy, obviously responsibly too in windy conditions.
After and in heavy snow falls. In pitch darkness and I mean on an inky dark moonless night without a torch.
I was asked to make a short film for an educational project recently on fire making so I set a fire ready to go, set the camera up and then got called in to see the kids to bed. By the time I had set the camera up again it was dark, moonless and I could barely see my hand 6inches in front of me. Never one to let an oportunity go I started the camera and went straight into lighting my fire which you can see here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJsM96TlERQ
I used a firesteel struck using a knife with a teased and tied hemp match made from a piece of old hemp rope which I found on the towpath. The fire was set with garlic mustard stalks, dried common reed and willow twigs.
The real test of skill is to be able to strike a fire by whatever means necessary in less than ideal conditions. Im talking about a spectrum of conditions from light rain to stormy, obviously responsibly too in windy conditions.
After and in heavy snow falls. In pitch darkness and I mean on an inky dark moonless night without a torch.
I was asked to make a short film for an educational project recently on fire making so I set a fire ready to go, set the camera up and then got called in to see the kids to bed. By the time I had set the camera up again it was dark, moonless and I could barely see my hand 6inches in front of me. Never one to let an oportunity go I started the camera and went straight into lighting my fire which you can see here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJsM96TlERQ
I used a firesteel struck using a knife with a teased and tied hemp match made from a piece of old hemp rope which I found on the towpath. The fire was set with garlic mustard stalks, dried common reed and willow twigs.
