Tips for a Survival Fire in the Snow: How to build a fire in the snow
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Love you content Dan! I am 15 years old the outdoors is mostly the only thing I enjoy, your videos are very informative and have helped me when I need ideas on something all I have to do is look up your channel, I just came across your channel one day and haven't stopped since.
Keep watching you will get far with Dan's channel for sure. Glad to hear your getting out that's awesome
Stay in the woods little bro! The lessons and experiences learned will make you a better human. Be safe, learn the knowledge, and apply it.
I’m the same way except I’m 13 and the outdoors is what I’ve loved forever
Morton Siglio says much the Same Thing!!
Nice initiative @Charles 👏 greetings from the woods in Sweden 🇸🇪
Be wary of building fires under snow-covered trees! You can get a fire going real nice and it warms up the tree and the tree will dump the snow into the fire. :D In the cover is good, under it... not so much. Great vid!
"To Build a Fire" by Jack London comes to mind.
@@clamsmitty exactly what I was thinking about
@@clamsmitty That story changed my life.
@@clamsmitty COME ON PEPPER! The old man was right. He should not have gone out alone!
Agreed! You NEVER build a fire under a snow covered tree, unless you want to take a very long, slow, cold shower- drip by drip...
Hello from British Columbia Canada 🇨🇦👋👍❤️🦌
No doubt Dan, there is snow all over the place here in Southeastern OH. Love your content Dan, your an awesome fella.
There is something so primitive and primal satisfying about a fire you make in the snow and cold
Love the content, always putting tools in the toolbox I can use. Deep snow and below zero on this side of PA. I still get out there in the woods every day. Thank you!
You are a true bushcrafter,I've doing this for over 51 years and I love it almost getting too old to be out there my favorite time is late fall and winter there are less people around thanks for the video.🇺🇸🇺🇸
Great video as always dan even when I'm not in the woods you hold my sanity down as if I was
Love the practical guidance.
Love all your content Dan!
Love the informative quick videos, Dan! Stay safe...🙏🥰
I find all your videos quite informative. Thank you for sharing your knowledge of surviving in the elements.
Another great tip from the Dan in the woods fella, loving your content.
honestly you are seriously the best teacher. wish I had teachers like you in school.
10 minutes and 400 views and how am I the first like? It’s coalcraker come on slackers
He has the counters turned off
Hey Dan! That was the most informative, MOST IMPORTANT short video for anyone! If your in the woods, a shelter build aint much use in the midst of winter if your freezing to death
Always a great tip or technique, with solid background information. Thanks for this video.
Thanks for these useful tips!
Always great info.
Another great video. I use the half and half platform frequently
Perfect timing for this video 📹 👏.. very nice.
Another awesome tool for the toolbox Dan!! Take care and stay safe my friend
Awesome video as always keep up the great work
Thanks Dan!
Great tip! Thanks
Another awesome video!
CC excellent tip 🔥
Hello from Czech i would like to thank you for your content
Very helpful. Thank you.
Up here in northern Minnesota we take and layout thicker branches or split 6-8" diameter chunks of wood and lay them out to make our platform on top of the snow. The average snow on the ground is 2-4' deep. Quite often we'll have snow hanging up in the pine branches ( they tend to drop once your fire is going good)or the branches are sagging down making them a fire hazzard.
Same thing here in Norway , Robert. Sometimes I just build a platform on the snow. and when the fire is going it will sink down. important to have a large enough fire going at that point. If I'm out in a little more exposed terrain and the snow is deep I like to dig down a bit. If you make the hole a fair bit larger than the fire you build you can build a kind of couch in the snow. use the snow you dig up as support for your back. Or build a wall up against the wind. Works like a charm. :)
I use birch bark as a platform usually
I love all the southern survivalist on KZhead. Especially when they try to teach people about winter skills in that 2in of snow and that 30 degree weather. It must be tough....
You can get wood from under an evergreen tree but dont build the fire right under the tree, the reason there’s no snow on the ground is because the snow is up in the branches. Might melt and fall on your fire. (Eg, Jack London’s To Build a Fire)
My thoughts exactly!!!
That's what happened to Jeremiah Johnson.......!!!!!!!
Thanks Dan
Thanks for this tip
Great video bro.
I'm diggin the dancing pants! 🤠👍💯
Nice! Greetings from the woods in Sweden 🇸🇪
Great hot fire tip haha. Great tips for sure as always brother! Those Appalachian trappers axes 🪓🪓 are 🔥
Dam good idea for the tool box .
2:45 what is the burning material? ....some resin?
Good lesson to share to all
Love it
Dan, Dan the fireman!
I always appreciate your videos and topics Dan, keep up the great work! Corporal's Corner is always trying to promote your channel and send you some love!💪❤️ 🙏
First time I've seen one of your videos. Just subscribed and will be watching more. I'm in Ontario 🇨🇦 I am stunned how many people don't have a clue how to start a fire even if it's dry(also know how to properly stop a fire!) With the way the weather/storms are now, you MUST know how!! Even if it's to boil clean water or for heat. I built my 1st fire when I was 3 or 4 without paper, fire starters etc. Gramps always said it's basic survival.
Thanks dan
Sweet camera! Super crisp
Great vid. IMO a platform is always a good place to start. I’m not typically too worried about making some sort of specific fire lay like a log cabin (not saying it’s a bad thing, just not something I typically use) but a simple platform is always nice.
Thanks!
Great content! Now send me a CCBC wool blanket so I can go practice this stuff and stay warm! Lol keep doing great things man.
Hahaha! Hot fire tip…love it! Thanks Dan.
Yep,gotta make a platform. Great topic.
Dan, it’s Dan, great videos. I’ve been bushing it for 40+ yrs, I can but I just don’t like too, or have to. I build fires when it’s nicec3ct because I just dint want to have to, but best to b3 prepared.
Yes! It works. Nice thing is once you get it to work it just feeds off itself and keeps on working. Dry out that wood for future fires by placing it around that initial fire.
Thank you
Hi from Syracuse NY USA brother and everyone else
Awesome"
I played this over & over & no where do I here you explain what that chunk Was you lit!!!
What was that on the wood platform you set fire to with the ferrocerium rod? In video it looked like a weird shaped rock with a bit of snow on it. Maybe it's just my not so good eye sight. But either way, I do wonder what you used there.
It near looked like a wad of dryer lint on my end. ~ My white lint from 100% cotton towels didn't work as well as lint from a load of jeans/manmade material.
l remember at least one case in Finland, where some man built a small fire in winter, he thought he extinguished it well, but when summer came, turf was still burning around and below it.
Yikes!
I've got a big problem with this channel. I just found it a few days ago and every single time I see a new video suggestion I say to myself "I'll check it out later". But then I start to think the information is so vital that I better watch it right away. It's really messing with my plans man. On a serious note this is a fantastic channel. If you're looking for something to do with your kids on the weekend, practicing some of these skills together will never be a waste of time. Plus it's quite fun!
I call that a fire bed. 🤠👍💯
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The song of fire and ice.
Under pines is a good idea as long as you check what’s above. “To Build A Fire” always stuck with me lol
Dan, great video as per normal. I need to know what jacket you are wearing and where to get one please!
He's talked about both the jacket and pants he's rocking in a video a few weeks ago , back track and check through those .
First one here in pa as well 😅
Sooo...what was that clump stuff you put down on the wood(?) that you struck with metal to spark that fire?? I love starting a good pit fire...but i am not a woodsman (more of a backyard girl) so i am sure i wouldn't have the right stuff, in the woods. I am used to starting a fire with twigs and newspaper...under my larger layer sticks...then my criss-cross bigger wood on 🔝 I love this channel 🌼
Another tool for the tool box!!!!
What caught on fire on top of the branches?
I am 42 and in school to re-career myself. I was doing some math studies last week and had to sharpen my pencil... then it dawned on me that a dry stick could easily fit in that tiny, easy to carry pencil sharpener... now it lives in my tinder kit and I have to go to staples to get my wife another one.
Hi Dan, I had a scenario last year in March where I hiked several miles via snowshoe through deep snow. My camp floor was probably sitting on snow 5' or more deep. Every fire I got started ended up sinking into the snow and putting itself out. I probably got 4 fires started in 12 hours to keep warm. What do you do in that case?
I've wondered about your axe? I know it's Russian, and your inspiration is from happy people, but I wonder is it beveled on both sides of the bit? I've seen some left hand and some right hand? Thanks!
Sometimes I camp up in the mountains in the winter, and the snow is so deep you can't really dig down to the dirt. What's the best way to get a fire set up on a hard packed layer of snow with probably many feet of snow below it?
Same as what he did...just on top of snow
Bigger logs for the platform.
I would not recommend setting up fires in tree wells without very careful examination. If that snow is not on the ground, its still in the tree - your heat you make from that fire may incite that snow to come down - and on occasion bring branches with it. Even if your heat does not, the weather itself could. Potential widowmaker stuff.
Would he recommend a carbon or stainless knife for bushcrafting? And why!.
2:46 - i take it that is pine tar?
Nice! But under heavy foliage? Have you ever read Jack London's "To Build a Fire"?
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Hot fires beat cold fires any old day of the year. 😉
Dan, Ive watched a lot of your videos that show people how to start fires. But just like you I have spent the night in the woods in cold weather and understand what it takes to keep a fire going all night! Your videos don't really give viewers a real understanding of what to really expect. This would be a perfect time to video yourself spending the night and what it takes to keep a fire going. Just how much wood it takes and how far you have to search for dead standing wood to get a good base to keep the green wood burning. Thats a key point that doesn't get mentioned. Cold weather fires are hard to keep going without a real good base of coals. How much work it takes to cut wood or even to just keep feeding wood into the fire all night. How your going to sweat gathering wood and the chill you'll get when you stop if the fire isn't going well. And most of all I would get a real laugh watching you be miserable all night. LOLOL Just kidding. Jim
But Why would Molly steal Horace Nimquist's toenails?? That makes No Sense!! Get Back!! Get Back!! Get Back To Where You Once Belonged!! Get Back Loretta !!
Do you know which plant grows brown small peapod looking pods which has seeds in and in those seeds there are cotton type of stuff which you can Light up with spark?
Burning me up! 🤪
Use the snow as a wall around the fire 🔥
Always carry a shovel on the trapline, even with 4 feet of snow shovel to the ground for a fire
What is that rock you set on it? Is that what caught on fire? Sorry new to the channel
Looks like you lit a rock on fire lol
The burning rock is pine tar maybe? Shake out snow and dead branches above, beware of widowmakers.
Can you tell me what hatchet/tomahawk that is you have?
What happened to the bag that you mentioned a while back?
What's the make and model on those boots?
making a fire under a snow covered tree reminds me of the Jerimiah johnson movie
All good, but also pick highest ground so that melt water runs away.
Hi Dan. I was wondering if you have military background?
Cold Cracker Bushcraft
Being underneath a tree is the second leading cause of lightning casualties.
In the winter time, I like to uses a rocket stove to start the fire.
jayztwocents of bushcraft
Great tips as usual. I would like to add a caution to one point made in this video. The reason there is less snow under a pine canopy is that the majority of the snow is caught by the boughs. Making fire beneath can cause the snow in the bought to loosen. The last thing you want is wet snow falling on your fire. Be mindful of that possibility.
As anyone that's read Jack London should know!
Nice tip. Dont let it go out. Jk Cool channel man
I’m from pa too I get the “coal cracker” name n where it came from n by who it came from and who were called that. Haha