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Survival Skillset

Lesson 4 of 13

Ember tinders, carried tinders and the tinder bundle

40 min

There are two kinds of ignition. A match, a lighter or a ferro rod gives you a flame or a burst of very hot sparks that can light tinder directly. But many of the older and harder methods, such as a bow drill, flint and steel, a lens or a cramp ball carried from yesterday's fire, give you something else: a small glowing ember, with no flame at all. An…

In this lesson

  • Ember tinders: what they are for
  • Cramp balls (King Alfred's cakes)
  • Finding and choosing them
  • Using them
  • Tinder fungus and amadou
  • Identifying it
  • Preparing amadou
  • Using it
  • Chaga
  • Punk wood
  • Carried tinders
  • Making a tinder bundle

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