Feather Stick Fire

Therefore the body that is the stick should be fine enough that the flaming feathers will ignite the neck of the stick and so ignite the whole featherstick.
Feather stick fire. If your a little low on tinder making a feather sticks al. It allows damp wood to be used to start a fire when dry tinder is hard to find. A feather stick serves as both a fire starter and tinder. But until you ve tried it you can t appreciate how hard it is to shave wood strips with a dull knife.
Sometimes it can be difficult to find dry tinder to light your fire. Knowing how to make a feather stick for fire lighting is a well known bushcraft skill so really i m showing nothing new here but where it comes into its own is when you are faced with difficult weather conditions of wet damp wood to actually start that fire. Far north bushcraft and survival 74 902 views. The shavings we are looking for on our feathersticks should be long and fine.
Fire sticks are tasked with one extremely important job quickly generating your initial heat fuel source. About mcq bushcraft wilderness life. Feather sticks help us in numerous ways. This is where feather sticks come in.
This sounds like one of those well duh pieces of advice. Fire feather stick tips and tricks duration. Remember a feather stick is supposed to take your fire from the first ignition to a blaze. A feather stick is a piece of dry wood shaved down to make fine curls which will light with a fire steel.
Use a sharp knife. Hi my names mike and i live in northern sweden welcome to my channel. 20 wilderness survival tips and bushcraft skills duration. You should be aiming to produce a dense bundle of such high quality feathers.
Today we look at making a feather stick for fire lighting. Don t carve thick shavings. There are a few variations on how to make a feather stick and which you use will depend on the situation and your own preferences. My videos cover bushcraft wilderness survival.
A feather stick sometimes referred to as a fuzz stick is a length of wood which is shaved to produce a cluster of thin curls protruding from the wood.