Making Tinder Bundles for Fire Making

Demonstrates how to make a tinder bundle or birds nest for Friction Fire making. Includes collecting suitable materials from the field. I gather Juniper bark, Yucca leaves, pine needles and dry grass and then process these into seperate tinder bundles. Each is then blown into flame using a bow drill made ember.

[ThethDensity]

This is the sort of knowledge that we should be teaching our kids in school, not the crap they teach on the current curriculum. This is true life skills.
Great video's.

[duxdawg]

I've watched many people struggle to produce an ember, then fail to make flame with it. Tinder Bundles are a critical yet often neglected skill. Glad you showed from harvest to use and especially glad you showed how the super fines and dust are useful. A number of YT'ers are demonstrating processing while standing on windy days. What a waste of great fines.

Love your vids, keep 'em comin'!!

[trosanelli]

I can't tell you how many failed fires caused by a lazy, inadequate tinder bundle. This video will really help me step up my game.

[BardofCornwall]

I too really enjoyed your fire series, Jim!

[KEvronista]

this has been a terrific series, jim! so glad you included the timber bundle tutorial. thanks for all the hard work.
KEvron

[A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida]

those are so amazing im suprised a bird didn't just plop down land in one to claim it as his ...lolol
thank you so much for these amazing lessons ...i wish i were more organized lol.... this is very very valuable education you are offering...i will not take it for granted ..your video presentation skills are epic as best health to you & fam

[mrbluenun]

Hi,

And many thanks for passing on what may seem to be basic skills in tinder bundles, but brought in the City making fires just doesn’t come naturally to some.

I told a Swedish friend Gullrica about the many methods of fire making you have made video on and she has recently been invited to demonstrate what she knows already about making fires as she is pretty skilled, and I think she may be using your channel as ‘learning and study material’ for those she is teaching. That BTW is her channel name with her real name being Ulrica.

Take care and many thanks
mrbluenun

[wheelsgonewild]

your right. It is the most over looked part of fire making. So many fails have started with the bird nest. Right on. Great job. I miss the high desert in AZ. The Chevelon Canyon area.

[richardpeterson]

this is kind of the delema I'm trying to master as a back up. I have an extremely reliable system, but the fire cord I make, though exceptionally good, deffanatly requires ferro to light. it was specifically designed with my ferro rod in mind. so while it does exactly what I designed it to do, it has a draw back. it won't ignight from an ember. which is bad in one degree. as a fall back, I plan to keep a Flint and steel, and a fire piston, along with a char tin, in my pack. this is also a reliable system to start an ember, and this is my long term fall back. ferro don't last forever. so now, I'm wanting to master ember to flame. which oddly proved more difficult than anticipated.

[mrbluenun]

Just a thought and on its own it may not be as good as any of these methods for tinder bundles, but especially if the is more than one person and it it likely to be a camping situation, they can always fall back on any paper they have newspaper or kitchen town or loo roll, and either use it is the base for the tinder bundle, or especially with newsprint, though it might not stay alight for long, if there’s no choice a newspaper bundle with twisted whole sheets is very effective kinda using the twisted and double screwed up paper like mini logs. It was the way I taught myself how to find a way that would always work, back in the good, well, bad ole days when there was no central heating and we couldn’t see outside each morning because the breath from us as a family condensed on the inside of the glass panes and it was doing that the previous night when cooking as well so when it was time to get up the bottom of the panes had about ¼"/6mm of ice on them!

Thanks again, oh BTW the fires I made were all indoors cleaning and sifting the old coals and making a fire that my mum could light when it started to get colder in the afternoon.

mrbluenun

[chuckD]

What part of the country are you in? Looks like Northern Arizona. I live down in the lower deserts here in az but love to get up north.

[ThestDukeDroklar]

I wonder if smoking may have originated as a way to miniaturize fire bundles and make them easier to maintain? Pipes would probably be the first and easiest.