A4C Prepper Dan： Easy Fire Starters Vlog15
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Summary
Quick and easy way to make a fire starter from basic ingredients that you already have in your home! This fire starter is a great prepping tool for going camping in the summer, or even as a survival tool, it's quick and easy to make and chances are you have all of the ingredients needed in your house!
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Hi, well welcome to another edition of Prepper Dan. It's fall here on the East Coast and where
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we live, we burn firewood to heat our home in the wintertime. And today I'm going to teach you a
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quick and easy way to make fire starter. Now even if you don't heat with firewood, this fire starter
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would be a good thing for you to have, go camping in the summertime, or even to have as a prepping
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tool or survival tool. It's quick and easy to make and chances are you have all of the ingredients
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needed in your home. So let's go to the shop and let's learn a fun thing to do together.
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All right, to make our fire starter today we're going to use some basic ingredients that you
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already have in your home. The only thing you may not have that you may need to purchase
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is I've got a old crock pot here that I picked up at Value Village. I think I paid 10 or 12 dollars
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for it. But if you don't have one of these, you may want to use an old pot. Now you can get one
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of those at Value Village as well. Just make sure you get a really thick bottom one. What
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you're going to do is you're going to melt some wax in it. And for wax, I pick up some
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of this pair of wax here either at Canadian Tire or at Superstore or Sobeys or wherever
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you do your groceries. Now this is $11.99 for a package, but I get them 50% off and they
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go for sale 50% off quite often. Sometimes I even get them for $4 or $5 a package. I've got
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a whole whack of them up here. The other thing I do, often I go to Value Village where
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I paid like $10 or $12 for this crock pot. I get bag fulls of candles for $2 and $3. And
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I got to tell you right now, this lid's not too hot. You open the lid and some of these
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candles are a little bit aromatic, so it smells kind of nice. I mean, that's not important,
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but so I get these candles and some of them are just the cheap candles, but really you only
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need the thing to catch fire and to burn for just a little bit. The other thing you're
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going to need is some dryer lint, which you'll have as you clean out your never throw that
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out. We save ours in a bag. I bring it out here and literally I've got like a box full
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of it. The other thing you're going to need is some toilet paper rolls. Okay, so that's
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another thing. Just save them in a box or in a bag in your house and then when you're ready
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to make a batch. Now this is for longer lasting fire starter, but the main thing that we're
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going to use today that I make quite a bit of, and we have chickens, so we have like literally
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hundreds of egg cartons, but when the egg cartons start to go bad like this, what I do
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is I save the egg cartons or when they get soiled, sometimes people bring them back after
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you know, we sell them and well, we don't use them again, but what I do is we're going
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to cut this piece off that we don't use here and we're going to keep the ones with the 12
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little holes in them and we're going to put some dryer lint in there. We're going to take
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some of this melted wax and just simply pour it on there and then we're going to take a
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great big Olfa knife or an X-Acto knife as some people like to call it and you want the
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big one so that, you know, you do the job once and you're able to go right through all
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of this. I take a piece of plywood on my workbench here in the workshop and I cut right through
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and then once these are cooled down, I take some old bread bags, the really big ones, and
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I store them in this workshop. I store my tractor in here so it's kind of cool, but in the house
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from the dollar store I got a nice little metal basket and we store that not too far from
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the wood stove and we really only ever use one a day. I have a wood stove here in the
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shop and when it gets really cold in the winter time, I've got lots of firewood in here as
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well. I fire up a fire in here. I can put the coffee pot on here, do some reading. I've
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got a really nice setup at the other end here. I can work in here. I've got all kinds of tools.
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The tractor sits in here and it's happy when it's warm. I can putter on some woodworking
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projects in here, but these little things, it saves you from crumpling paper and having
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to scramble for this and blowing on it and stuff. These little fire starters, they last
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about 15 minutes. You get a little bit of kindling in there and it does the trick. Now, if you
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don't burn wood in your house and you don't need to start a fire in your house, these things
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are great when you go camping or even if you store half a dozen of them in your car and you
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get stuck somewhere, they're a great little resource. If you have a lighter or some waterproof
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matches and you need to build a fire somewhere, if you go hiking in the woods, they're great
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to start a fire even in the rain. They will burn. I guarantee you, they will burn. It's
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a simple thing to do. Let's just get into it. I'll see if I can move the camera a little
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closer and then we'll get going with this. Actually, before I do that, because I'm doing
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a big batch, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to add some of this perowax to the mix.
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I've got an old little dowel that I use here to mix this around a little bit, but this perowax
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basically comes in like four pieces. Oh, great. These are stuck together a little bit.
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So excuse the noise, but they break apart quite easily and they're kind of like in chunks
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and we're just going to put them in quite gently because it's really hot in there, but you just
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break them apart and the hot wax will help melt the rest of them.
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All right, this will go in the fire. All right, the next thing we want to do is we want to take
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these apart and I like, I don't know, my OCD and me, I like to keep these things kind of clean.
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They're easier to handle. These parts here, I actually just use them in my fire over there and
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while that is melting, we're just going to cut these pieces off right here. I won't show you the
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mess I'm making on the floor there, but we're just going to just do a few of these here on camera so
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All right, the next thing we're going to do is we're just going to take some of this lint
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like this and we're just going to stuff. We're going to stuff these about, well, I'm going to
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say almost full. It's almost like cotton candy and it doesn't matter if it's dirty a little bit
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and what we're doing is we're stuffing it pretty tight.
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Okay, now that we're done that, the next thing we do, one thing I forgot to mention is some sort of
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a ladle to get the wax out of the crock pot into this and the one thing I got is, I think I got
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this at the dollar store as well. It's a little aluminum ladle and the nice thing with this rather
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than plastic is with the plastic, the wax seems to accumulate on this, but with this aluminum thing,
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you know, you can hold it just above it and it warms up enough and the wax just seems to slide right
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off. All right, so all I'm going to do now at this point is I'm just going to take the lid off.
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Oh yeah, my pot's pretty full right now and I'm just going to put some wax, some of this liquid wax,
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and this holds quite a bit on here, and I'm just going to pour it right into each of these cups here
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and it's not an exact measurement, but I just put quite a bit of wax on here
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until you can see the lint kind of go down and it saturates each and every one of these little
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egg holes, just like that. And in the meantime, you get a really nice smell.
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You can hear the fire trucks in the distance there. I don't think they're coming here.
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I do live sort of out of town here a little bit in the country, but
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all right, and that's basically you just repeat the process here until you're all done this.
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All right, we're going to put these aside and we're just going to let them cool down for
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a little bit. I'm going to show you how I do the toilet paper rolls.
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Okay, the toilet paper rolls are done a little bit differently
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if you're going to do them. What I do with these
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and you want it kind of tight. You leave a space in the middle
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and then I have a box of sawdust. Now I've got some stuff that's a little more coarse than this as
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well. Turn the box here so you can see this and I take some of the sawdust.
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is I'm simply I'm going to take this lid off again.
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and I'm going to let it sit and dry for a little bit
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and I'm just going to repeat the process. So I only dip about an inch
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so the way I position my wood in the wood stove
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So I'm not going to bore you with this process a hundred times
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I don't know 45 of these toilet paper rolls here now
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once they're hardened up and dried a little bit
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and then that'll pretty much complete the process.