How do you start a campfire during winter? We have had temperature

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>>892956
>How do you start a campfire during winter?
batoning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4Hc9QiZcYs

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Looks good

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Nope. Died out. My second attemp.

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Faded ahain!! Fuck it. Brought more dead wood and dry weed. Lighted a plastic dish..

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Finally! Can warm up my frozen feet.

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>>892962
>>892958
>>892959

wtf

If you have an axe, try to find some thicker trees that have fallen but aren't rotted. Carve away the wet bark and sapwood until you're down to the dry(er) heartwood (it will be hardwr and a different color). Use a 2-3 foot section to whittle down into smaller sticks and shavings to get your fire started.

>>892965
Sorry I disappointed you. I'm amateur /out/fag with 0 skills. My father doesn't care about me to teach some basic stuff.

>>892966
But what about if I don't have an axe?

>>892957
Why did you post that video? It wasn't related at all.

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>>892971
If you have a knife, put it on the log where you would want to cut with your axe and hit the spine (back) with a log the size of your forearm (see picture).

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Alright since you don't seem to have any experience at all, I'm gonna go ahead and teach you some basics.

Firstly, twigs aren't proper fire wood, you shouldn't use dead twigs and branches from the ground, ESPECIALLY not in the winter.
The only way to get good fire wood in the winter is to chop up something bigger, find a tree that that has fallen, something that is at least 10cm in diameter, carve a bit with your knife in it to check if it's rotten or too fresh. It shouldn't be soft or have the smell of living wood.
Now use a saw to cut yourself up a couple of pieces, perhaps a foot long. Split the pieces with your axe or with your knife if you're an edgy survivalist faggot (I dearly hope you're not).

The key to a good fire is preparation. I generally spend 15 minutes minimum at constructing a fire before igniting it.
stack you firewood like in the pic, doesn't have to be that tall tho, and put all your tinder inside the structure, finish it off by putting some really thin pieces of firewood on top of the structure.

>>892983
and apparently pack in some bought firewood too by the looks of that photo.

>>892956

>The key to a good fire is preparation.

Probably the best general advice you will ever read.

>>892956
Start off with thin wood like dead spruce and pine twigs, better yet if you can find dry, dead pine twigs with the brown dead needles on them and feather sticks, then get pencil lead size pieces of ideally split wood, then pencil thickness, get 2 handfulls of the pencil thick dead twigs and cross them one over the other, put the pencil-lead size pieces and the dead twigs underneath, once all the thin stuff ignites, put on thumb thick split wood for a bit until the fire gets a decent size, once that happens, you can pile on wrist thick pieces, in addition to the thumb thick. For tinder you should use birch bark, conifer resin or even fatwood shavings, also, have some resin and pieces of fatwood and birch bark in the pile of the twigs as an accelerant. Remember to put your tinder on a platform of dry, split wood.

>>892999
Why oh why must you be so pleb, trips. The woods in the photo are birch which splits really well so it looks that way, the guy that took the pic was probably lucky and found a dead standing birch.

>>893013
Look at the bottom 2 Pieces mate

>>892956
>Also, give me some advice how to dry socks and shoes correctly.
you can bring tealights and put one in each shoe, dry them up inside

>>893026
I posted that picture and yes the bottom 2 pieces are milled lumber, but that was the only picture I could find online, I wouldn't build a fire that ugly

>>892975
Or stop being a faggot and bring a 300g steel hatchet

>>892972
I disagree, it ignited my hardwood baton

>>892983
>I generally spend 15 minutes minimum at constructing a fire before igniting it.
i don't. i grab whatever i find around me and make it burn no matter what.

>>893127
Meh, i spend 5 minutes just to make the feather sticks and split the wood down, but when it's rainy or snowy i spend a lot of time, at least 15 minutes prepping it so my fire goes on the first try.

>>893127
yeah you go ahead and try to do that in heavy rain or -20 deg. Celsius. Go ahead tough boy.


KYS

>>892964
I like your cat.

>>892999
there isn't really anything wrong with bringing nice and dry firewood with you in your pack instead of collecting it outside when the ground is covered in snow

I mean you can prepare your fire as much as you want, unless your goal is to practice firemaking and want a challenge. But if the goal is just to have a fire outdoors, maybe to do some cooking or whatever, you can actually consider taking some firewood with you.

>>893136
>>893140
well i usually just use a lighter sometimes fuck around with feather sticks but if in a hurry won't do that. i have a storm lighter to light even dripping wet wood, but even id that fails i carry 5 candles (never had to use more than 1 no matter how ugly was the weather). my ferro rod is still pristine never had to use it, if the lighters can't do it the candle will. wood + paraffin = fire. cold doesn't matter as much (except for your comfort and dexterity) as everything being wet does.

>>893153
Might as well carry roadflares- they'll burn anything and start a fire.

>>893162
i'm partial to napalm.

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>>893154
I just googled what feather sticks is... it is AUTISM lol!

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>>893162
>carry roadflares
this

15 minutes of fuckhot fire from one flare. (30 if you get the longer mil/law ones). Safe, easy to use, striker built right into the cap.
Double-bag them to make sure they stay dry.

If you've got the time/energy to kill, go ahead and spend an hour or two trying to get a fire going with bushcraft-tier methods if that suits your fancy.

If someone in my crew's going hypothermic and I need fire, out come the flares.

>Pic related.

>>893242

Sterno cans are a pretty good addition to this, as are tea lights. Its nice to light a small candle and then build upon it.

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>>893264
Sterno's good, as long as its kept sealed.

I have 10+ gallons of fuel on the sled and a little over 2 on the moto. Built fires innawoods using a splash of gasoline to get things going before too.
Fuel burns and dries out the wood, once it's dry the wood burns on its own. Quarter- to half-gallon will get even wet wood to light up.

Flares and lighters on my sled and in my pack on snow. Carry a couple lighters and a flare in my pack on the moto. The carbide I carry is mostly for show. Pretty sure I could start a fire with some other items I carry if shit really got bad. (short-circuit my phone or radio's battery, for example)

>Pic related was another long night. Rider from a different group chased us down, his buddy went down a canyon and got stuck. He ended up hiking back up the canyon in ~2ft of fresh snow that night; took them back out the next day and helped them recover the sled.

>>893013

trips speaks truth. you're the pleb

>>893026 confirms.

>>892964
Are those Cotton socks in snow? And you let them get wet? No wonder your feet are frozen...

Does anyone else agree that paper and leaves are the two worst kinds of tinder?
Paper doesn't burn hot, doesn't hold an ember, and blocks heat from moving from one side to another, even after it's burnt.
Leaves just don't burn period.

>>893431

Agreed. It's a pain in the ass to even start a fire at home in my wood burner using paper.

I always take a few cotton wool balls smeared with petroleum jelly then dipped in hot wax with me.

Crack open the wax to expose the cotton and it takes a spark or a lighter easily and burns hot for a few minutes.

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Hi guys. The other day I was outside in the woods again and I wanna show the campfire I made this time. I think it was better than the first one. What do you think?

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The cat is helping. [spoiler]Not really actually[/spoiler]

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Ta-da!

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six hours later

>>893228
you increase the surface so it ignites more easily and burns more aggressively and faster.

sometimes you have to, sometimes it's just autism.

>>895592
that cat is engaging in a psy battle with the skinwalkers to protect your ass you ungrateful mongrel.

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>>895613
i would cut their balls with this beast if they came out

>>892956
It's much easier to do when you can find a clear patch of ground, or if you can clear away the snow from ground to start your fire on dirt. Also, snow tends to cover up wood on the forest floor, so the less snow, the easier it is to find wood. You may need to find a downed tree and tear branches off of it if that's all that comes through the snow. Regular bushcraft methods for starting a fire in the rain will avail you the same in the snow when using wet wood. Find more dry tinder than usual, work with mostly smaller sticks on your fire, while simultaneously drying out twigs, sticks and larger logs of all sizes to the sides of the fire before putting those on the flame. Always be ready to fan the fire to get it going again if it starts to die. If the snow picks up, be ready to shelter the fire with something - your body if need be - to protect it from getting too wet.

Starting a fire directly ON the snow, though? >>893242
>>893285
That's nuts!

>>895592
How do you get your cat to follow you innawods ?

>>895659

By training your cat to follow you in other environments. Or you could, you know, use a leash. You're a lot less likely to lose your cat that way. Though it's easiest if your cat has been familiarized with one since it was a kitten, of course - not all cats will accept leashes, normally, or so I've heard, though the same applies to dogs - some can be incredibly difficult about it. Just get a long one so it can roam a bit, and you have some room.

>>892956
>>892966
>>892983
>>892999
>>893011
>>893153
As long as it is below freezing IN THE DAY white birch will burn when fresh cut.

>>893242
>>893264
>>893285
>>895631
Those tiny little tea candles. You can carry 50 in a pack pouch. They give you an hour of fire to try to start the fire with.

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>>892956
Me and my roommate went out and made a fire. All the wizard's beard was too wet and most of the wood was wet. Eventually we gor it going by lighting a lighter on fire in the very bottom

Roasted some apples

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>>892956
Base of 3 large pieces laid in a U
Small pile of pine wood shavings (animal bedding) in the center
several smaller sticks of wood laid 3 or 4 across
alternate directions for a few layers
light wood shavings with 1 match
starts like paper burns like wood - no need for kindling

pic related but not /out/

>>896989
who the fuck roasts apple?
i've never heard of this before

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>>897031
It's fucking delicious.
Bring some aluminium foil, raisins and other (dried or not) berries, nuts and maybe some honey, maple syrup or vanilla sauce.

>>897031
You're missing out, anon.

>>896989
>calling Usnea wizard's beard, and not old man's beard like a good survival bushcraft oper8or

>>892999
It's an example you autist

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>>897136
>>897138
that looks tasty af
def going to give this a try
if i die it's on your hands anons