The Most Cliche Survival Tactic Ever! But with a Twist!

In this video, Will our lead survival instructor is going to teach you how to make the most cliche firestarting technique even better.

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[temporaldog]

Another way that works well is to prepare the cotton and petroleum jelly same as you did before adding the crayons. After it is properly absorbed, take the prepared cotton balls and wrap them individually in aluminum foil. It will help keep the mess down while transporting and handling. When you are ready to use them just cut a small hole in the foil and pull a bit of cotton up with knife tip like the wick on an oil lamp. I have had these things burn like a candle for hours. They can be used for fire starters or as a candle in the evening. You can even blow them out and relight later.
The more jobs a tool does the better.

[maverickstanford]

Outstanding presentation. I'vr been doing survial tactics all my life, and use petroleum jelly with cotton balls too, but the wax tip was new to me. Cudos for your tip. Regards, Maverick

[esoteric_Derek]

Sweet! Last ones I did, I called Authentic Antique-Scented Candle Starters. Lol. Reason was that I was mixing melted down candle wax with saw dust and shavings from the maybe 100 year old electric telegraph poles you find everywhere there was railroad tracks. You know the ones where you find the antique glass insulators some folks like to collect.

You can prolly appreciate when I say that these candles/starters smelled of a glorious floral version of the cebtury's worth of curing and seasonal transition and the heating from so much of that long direct sun bleaching fairly deep into I'm not sure which species of pine, but definitely a pine smelling species of pine, kinda wore down and lightened up a bit on the stronger notes that arer distinct the pine wood smell, softening that normally pungeant sap-like aroma into something much more sweet and floral both dry and alight.

It is just so dang pleasant, and relaxing, and heavy enough to fill small room with its heady seductive essence for weeks on end, before even lighting the wick for the 1st time. 5 minutes lit and extinguished and for days you'll have every guest that enters your living space, begging you for its desirable magic!

Ain't a hippie ever lived that wouldn't trade all the patchouli they could pour in a lifetime to get their head a smell like this here, I tell ya. Lol.

I just thought you'd appreciate knowin' how good a smell it is on account of I like smellin' of crayons a-melt, my self as well. Heh. Yeeahh buddy!! Thankee as well! 💪🤠👌

[ya-silly-goose]

My favorite firestarting recipe is simple and I haven't seem many people speak of it... You just look around for some tree resin, done. Tree resin is highly flammable among its many other uses.

[Joseph_Dredd]

Wax crayons..wouldnt have thought of that adddition.
Cheers.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from blighty.

[utubeu]

When we lived on a ranch in wyoming we always had a stainless milk style can filled with sawdust that my father had poured in diesel untill all shavings were wet, a scoop of that was our fire starter for our woodstoves.

[najruqwi]

Great video 👍 great idea! Thanks for sharing this with us. 👍

[volkoff]

As a Marine, I like being able to use an essential food to also help start a fire. Good stuff.

[The_Professor_]

Well semper my Fidelis and call me chesty, ain’t that a way to prep a meal. Haha!
Very neat fire starters, I have the similar generic setup for my ferro rod with only the petroleum jelly. I guess I’ll have to try this for myself in my fire kit. Placing this in a double boiler setup at low heat may aid in making a more homogenous petroleum jelly-crayon mix before adding to the cotton balls

[Bushmanschool]

Nice video and review brother.welcome back.

[aintgonnaworrynomore]

Thanks for the explanation for the recipe.

[therealjeffstull]

I like the sawdust mixed with melted parifin. Pour it into the paper egg cartons Then you can tear them off as individual fire starters. Just light the egg carton and watch it go.

[md.graauw]

music is WAY too loud in the intro but great video

[joegarcia]

The Cardboard in a tuna can with melted crayons poured over it. Like a burner

[jstirgus]

Thanks Will great video and Merry Christmas too the whole Sigma 3 family

[__-pljg]

If there are resinous trees around I will grab some sap off a tree and light it with a bic lighter. Once combustion temp is reached it continues to burn for several minutes. Thats generally my cold weather fire starter. I've tried in vain to combust tree resin using various friction methods but have never been successful at getting it to work. So you still need a lighter or open flame source to get it started.

[Eric-gikg]

Love this
I'm planning on doing something extremely similar.
Though instead of crayons, I'll be using bees wax (I'm a beekeeper), the jelly, and paper egg cartons. And instead of cotton balls..lint from my drier.

[ronaldgoodrich]

I do similar things with tallow from my deer.

[RT-fbty]

Parrafin wax with saw dust. Works great not as liquid messy as Vaseline. Mold like drop cookies.

[eggheadwarrior]

Firestarter or Marine Corps Pemmican? Orange crayons taste the best, btw.