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Survival Skillset

Lesson 1 of 13

How fire works, and finding fuel that burns

40 min

It is late afternoon in a wood in October. You have a lighter that works, a sheltered spot and a pile of sticks. The lighter flame licks a handful of dead leaves, they flare, curl and go black. You try again with a few twigs on top. Smoke, a hiss, nothing. Twenty minutes later the lighter is cold in your fingers, the light is going, and you still have no…

In this lesson

  • The fire triangle
  • Heat
  • Fuel
  • Oxygen
  • Using the triangle to diagnose
  • Tinder, kindling and fuel: grading and quantity
  • Dead standing wood versus wood on the ground
  • The snap test and judging dryness
  • Firewood by species
  • Burning green wood
  • What never to burn
  • Check yourself

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