3 Unusual Ways To Make Fire W/ Wood Ashes (See Description)

Check out the comprehensive playlists for all three techniques in the links below. Ashes can significantly increase the grip for hand drilling. I demonstrate this with a Horseweed Spindle on a highly worn Honey Locust fireboard, using Loblolly Pine Needles for the Bird's Nest.
Next, I saturate a piece of cotton t-shirt with wood ashes and ignite it with an empty BIC lighter. My initial plan was to let it smolder for a while to demonstrate the coal-extending properties of ashed tinder, but then the wind forced me to go ahead and fire up the Pine Needles tinder bundle.
Finally, I extracte some Yucca Fibers, let them dry in the sun and wind for about 10 minutes, and then effortlessly created an ember by fire rolling in just 30 passes. The intense heat from the fire roll easily ignited more another Pine Needles tinder bundle.
Join me in what is essentially three complete videos in one as we explore the fire-making properties of everyday wood ashes! Please follow the links below and subscribe. Thank you!

You can find other "Ashes for Hand Drill Grip" videos in my Hand Drill Playlist. Here are the links to the playlists:
- Ashed Tinder Playlist: [Link]

Other "Ashes for Hand Drill Grip" videos can be found in my Hand Drill Playlist.
Hand Drill Playlist
Ashed Tinder Playlist
Rudiger Roll, Fire Roll Playlist

[DavidWestBgoodppl]

(See the extensive Playlists for all 3 of these techniques in the LINKS below.) Wood ashes will double the amount of grip that you have for Hand Drilling. I demo-ed A Horseweed Spindle on a highly degraded Honey Locust fireboard with Loblolly Pine Needles for the Bird's Nest.
Next, I thoroughly saturated a piece of cotton t-shirt with wood ashes and used an empty BIC to ignite it. I was going to just let it set there and smolder for a long time to show you the coal extending properties of ashed tinder, but the wind made me go ahead and send the Pine Needles tinder bundle to flames.
Lastly, I stripped out some Yucca Fibers, let them sit in the Sun and wind for 10 minutes, and then easily fire rolled up an ember in just 30 passes. The very hot fire roll easily ignited more pine needles.
Come see what amounts to 3 complete videos in one as we showcase the firemaking properties of our common everyday wood ashes! Please follow the LINKS below and Subscribe. Thank You!

Other "Ashes for Hand Drill Grip" videos can be found in my Hand Drill Playlist.
Hand Drill Playlist
Ashed Tinder Playlist
Rudiger Roll, Fire Roll Playlist

[EdwJenkins]

GOOD VIDEO I AM 79 AND AN OLD SCOUTMASTER AND HAVE TAUGHT THIS MANY YEARS AGO I PREFER THE BOW INSTEAD OF THE HAND I WAS THE ONLY SCOUTMASTER THAT TAUGHT THIS FOR YEARS AND I ENJOYED EVERY MINUET OF IT LOVE TO SEE BOYS LEARNING THIS GREAT FUN.

[StarLight-ykes]

Yea that's cool ! :) I'm in Australia and the indigenous brothers taught me to use charcole from the previous fire as it will light easier than new wood, for a new fire . They would use a smouldering, dried horse shoe fungus, carried in some hard bark, to move the fire from one camp to the next, being nomadic tribesmen . This was the fire mans job in the tribe :) it is said fires were kept alive this way for many many years, hundreds even, making it a special sacred fire :), and it served for ceremonial purposes as well as cooking food and giving light at night . Keeping the fire alive was a way of honouring the elemental spirit .
It kind of makes sense when you think about it ! :)
Ash and charcole born of fire, give birth to the same . :)

[sandyvogt]

We in the south Florida find lighter knots and shavings from dead aged pine trees before dusk hunt a stash and you can keep a firestarted pronto.rain or shine

[alphaomega]

This guy makes it looks so easy... Hats off to you sir!

[steveweckel]

When you get your fire going, you can cut up t-shirt into pieces anything cotton and pack the pieces into an Altoid tin; close the lid and place it into the fire. The heat of the fire will cause the patches of cotton t-shirt to turn into carbon. Now you have a tin with the same type of stuff as ashes and you can carry the tin in your "possibles" pouch. A shoe-string tied loosly (both ends) to a yucca (or any kind of dry stick) and you have a bow you can make a bow drill to spin your vertical piece of yucca stick(or dry whatever stick) with. So you put the shoe string in your "possibles" bag. Scrape off the inside of of cedar bark, let get dry and you have some good stuff to catch the smoke you make to start the bigger fire...put that (the cedar bark stuff) in you "possible" pouch. Now your sort-of set up like the old "mountain men". Guys up in Alaska use this king of stuff in their "survival kits".
Ask Mike...

[BigWillSD]

I prefer flint and steel, but that fire roll was pretty dang cool. I hadn't seen that before. And thanks for the information on the wood ash. It has many applications and now a mother to add to the list. Thanks for sharing

[hansfranson]

Thanks, David! Your knowledge is always included in the survival kit👉👍

[oldbones]

Have yucca up in the hills near here...so this is gonna be a nice challenge. Too...to make the cordage you taught in a earlier video. Thanks again!

[timduncan]

That's some advanced fire making right there 👍👍

[kennethrosbury]

The two-by-four and yucca was up first for me I thought that was awesome great job keep up the great videos very educational thank you

[jamesholmberg]

Very cool! Thank you for the lessons. I guess it's time I quit relying on my 1 match 🔥 in the rain training and learn what I have still never tried...matchless fire!

[wavehaven]

Very cool, nothing like a shot fireball whisky ashes kept in the good o'l pocket.

[johncline]

Very cool, and a life saver to boot. Thanks for posting!!!

[josephdonkers]

This is epic! I never thought about doing this! Even Survivor man didn’t do this.

[barrybaldwin]

Nice job demonstrating those techniques. So many old time tips & tricks are being superseded & forgotten by using todays' modern fire starters!!!

[ralphhernandez]

In the last two years, I have heard a lot about ash tinder, but I did not know what it was or how to make it. Thank you for such a clear explanation.

[ryandobra]

Now that fire rool was Awesome. Thanks for sharing

[ADKwarriors]

I have always rubbed the spindle with pine sap, literally everywhere in my area, and aside from your hands being a minor mess it has always worked. I will have to try this method. Thank you for sharing.

[stevel]

THANK YOU for teaching me something new for making fires!