10+ Bushcraft & Camping Tips: Forest Fires 🔥
10+ Bushcraft & Camping Tips: Forest Fires 🔥
Here are some Bushcraft and camping tips on fire and fire safety. With summer in full flow, there is a high chance of forest fires. Here are some tips on having fires in dry conditions and how to reduce the chance of your campfire turning into a forest fire!
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In regards to the spirit burner, when you put the fire out, you were dropping the cap right-side up, which means you’re melting the rubber seal inside the cap and you’ll have a leaky spirit burner in the future. I usually drop the cap upside down on the burner and leave it there for a few minutes just in case because methylated spirits can be very sneaky and unpredictable. Even safer if you just let it burn out.
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If you’re not going to make a fire for a while at that spot, it might be a good idea to put the leaves back, to protect the ground and to prevent the soil from drying out.
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Am highly inspired by Bushcrafting and your channel I hope one day I will be as good as you.
A light 10L or + dry bag is a good water transport when water source close + multi purpose. You can have it full hanging on a tree just to be safe. Great video thanks
Very useful, thanks. 👍
thank you. Smokey the Bear luvs you (old 1990 referance)
Great video and useful tips. Greetings from a new subscriber
Great job Mike. Timely. Here in the Highlands we are having two serious forest fires this last few weeks. The first, caused by tourists with a disposable barbecue, has been burning for around 12 days now and at times its been miles long. It’s under control for the moment but the fire service are on scene 24hrs as its smouldering up to 4 feet down under the ground. I had to go to the aid (I’m a paramedic) of two firefighters who had been injured in an accident whilst fighting it. The second (cause unknown as yet) in a different area has, so far, resulted in two homes burning down and the planning of an evacuation of the elderly residents of a care home which may be in the fires path. Strict fire safety in the summer and doubly so with these unusual hot dry spells is essential. Peace.
never build a fire bigger than your requirements, building a huge fire that you potentially cant contain just to cook on is just stupid!
Very thorough, we don’t have fire bowls in New Zealand so I use a food pot steamer. Looks almost identical, $2 from OP shops, love my Firebox.
Thank you for your very thoughtful (and thorough) explanation of alternatives for camping in dry conditions. Here in western Pennsylvania (in the U.S.), we had a six-week dry spell about five or six summers ago. Ordinarily, when I hammock-camp in a nearby forest (close to twenty nights annually), I enjoy a cigar in the evening after dinner. But during that spell that summer, I did not even put a cigar in my pack; things had been so dry, I did not even want to be tempted to light a cigar, and possibly burn the forest. If we love the forest–you do and I do–we take special precautions when the forest is dry (I used my alcohol stove for coffee in the morning). We have had good summer rains since then, and I have enjoyed my after-dinner cigar by a fire (and Fall through Winter here, it is always wet). But my love for the forest is far greater than my enjoyment of a cigar, and I think I made the right choice. Be safe, and enjoy the woods.
I’m curious, do you think your views have changed since you have become a landowner? I spent time as a young teenager volunteering as a forest ranger at my local park and its always something I tend to avoid. I think caring for the land makes you feel differently about it and appreciate it more.
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Hey firebox stove! I’ve got one too.
I got lit on fire once and damn does it scare me I got like PTSD from it
I thought it was still spring
I don’t do much of anything during from late spring to early fall. The ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, ground hornets, red wasps, yellow jackets, and biting flies are horrible during the hot months.
I love these short tips videos .❤
can anyone give me the name/link of that windsheet he used? thank you
REALLY enjoyed seeing all the tips for keeping a fire SAFE. There are many places in the states where wildfires get out of control. It’s good to know how to cook without being the cause of yet another one. Right now, the east coast is choking on the smoke of hundreds of wildfires burning out of control in Canada. Now, when there has been a drought, around here, you get something called "dry lightning". You get clouds and lightning strikes. This is a perfect recipe for disaster. Besides praying (highly recommended) it’s smart to do no fire lighting at all. Better to be safe than sorry.
Excellent, very helpful
I have a 2 foot square fiberglass welders cloth ~ I lay that in the center of a space I’ve cleared. On top of that I build a fire inside of a small stove, such as Siege Stoves ( or Firebox, is good too ~ there are many ) . . . or a small alcohol gas stove just to heat things up 👍
In Australia it’s 2 metres in winter, 5 metres in summer. That is radius, not diameter
Educating is key, but also I don’t think blaming people for a lack of common sense will get anyone anywhere either. Humans.. All of us lack knowledge that is common sense to someone else, and it’s just point scoring. Education is key.
For those that say fires are useless in summer.. they do a great job of getting rid of the midge swarms! Better than any skin creams, but midge nets (I recommend the life systems midge net with a hat) are very helpful.
I feel with all the available portable stoves/pits (off the ground) there is little reason ever to have a ground fire in the forest, not worth the risk.
I really enjoyed this video! I always learn something from most, if not all of your videos. Keep up the good work! 🙏🏻
Hi Another tip is to carry a couple of sheets of thick aluminium foil and use this to protect the ground
Thank you so much for posting this video! Ive seen way too many other campcraft channels where they just build a fire anywhere with no protections. I don’t think people know how dangerous that can be.
Another fire control method taught by Leave No Trace is a mound fire. This involves making a simple mineral earth mound roughly 6" (15 cm) tall with a flat top to build a small fire on. After the fire is put out, the dirt and wet ash can be replaced safely in the original hole and covered with the original topsoil or sod.
Using a bit of ground cloth underneath the mound makes it easy to replace it in the hole. This method reduces the surface fire scar on surrounding rocks and the surface itself, just dig the hole in the brush outside the campsite and bring it to the fire build location.
I actually prefer these kinds of videos. Thanks for all the hard work.
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Here in the PNW of USA, while hot dry weather can occur, I’ve found that the problem with having an open wood fire is usually either damp/wet ground or wet ashes in the campfire appliance installed by the campground. I always carry a large roll of aluminum foil with me when camping and when I encounter the issue of a damp or wet fire bed, cover the base of the fire bed w/ 1-2 layers of the foil. This prevents the moisture below from entering into the (hopefully) dry wood used to create the new fire, as well as serves to dry out the wet/damp fire bed underneath. When putting the fire out before going to sleep, it also minimizes the amount of new damp/wet you add to the underlying fire bed. Buy morning you may once again have a mess of wet ashes in your fire bed, but it’s on top of the foil base, which can be removed and properly disposed of, and if the underlying fire bed is still damp or wet (despite the fire of the day/evening before), well, I’ve still got more foil I can lay down over it to start my breakfast fire on top of. I know this is the opposite problem than what your video is about, but lighting a fire in wet/damp conditions can be just as important. Perhaps the subject of a video some day?
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Thank you for this video! 🤘🤘🤘
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Wait.. i’ve got a contraption that looks EXACTLY like it, but its used for steaming food in a pot 😮
Well, I need one of those windshields.
I carry a UCO Flat pack portable stainless steel grill fire pit
my mum said the fire bowl is a steamer (the one i have is full of holes)
Such a great Video. Good explainations and lots of different Options and Tricks. I was looking for an alternative for my gas cooker, more immune to wind and got some inspiration in your Video.
I carry my gasifier twig stove in an old cracker tin using the lid as a shield for the ground and when I’m done with the fire I put the tin upside down over the stove as a snuffer. I also dump charcoal from the grill into a popcorn tin to snuff the coals. They have fire blankets for the kitchen the one I have is 6 feet square it folds small and is used to smother stove fires they work on campfires too and I use it suspended over the fire when raining or draped on the wood reflector to keep it from burning. The bisket/cracker tin also works with the fire bowl from my Kelly kettle, I use it when traveling by car so I can pull over for a quick boil and leave no trace not even ashes.
Would you say in that particular forest with peaty ground, can you dig through it to mineral soil or is it too thick?
When extinguishing, I typically either use stones or soil to limit oxygen flow then use water to reduce heat. When you limit any of the following: heat, oxygen, or fuel. A fire cannot survive
This is a fantastic video! ❤
I learned nothing, but I feel as though this info is shockingly unknown or just not adhered to 🙁 and people just think you can stop a fire nice and easy with no preparation… NO!
Think about the fact that if you don’t quite pay enough attention for potentially seconds, you could kill millions of living things and destroy a beautiful ecosystem…
or you could just take a few simple steps (like these) and never have that happen… 🙂
I have been lighting fires my whole life, and I never even once burned something I didn’t mean to. Fire is beautiful, fire is life, and fire is insanely destructive with a "mind of it’s own". Treat it like a dangerous animal, and you will be fine. Treat it like it is a lamb, and a wolf devours you and EVERYTHING else along with you. Respect it and enjoy it 🙂 ❤
I truly do not mean to come across dickish, but if dry leaves are such a quick lighting tinder, why are people shaving sticks and pulling bark??
I’m wondering what would be the right way to extinguish a fire from an alcohol stove accidentally reversed on the ground while burning (if somebody steps on it for example). Would putting water on it the best thing to do?
Wat kind of shoes you use please answer.
The thing about common sense is that it isn’t common.
If sense was common everybody would have some, sadly that’s not the case.
not stupid very smart
This is a great video, but I can’t stop thinking about how much I want that hat.