Action4Canada - A4C Prepper Dan： Easy Fire Starters Vlog15

00:00:00.000 Hi, well welcome to another edition of Prepper Dan. It's fall here on the East Coast and where

00:00:10.160 we live, we burn firewood to heat our home in the wintertime. And today I'm going to teach you a

00:00:15.680 quick and easy way to make fire starter. Now even if you don't heat with firewood, this fire starter

00:00:21.320 would be a good thing for you to have, go camping in the summertime, or even to have as a prepping

00:00:25.860 tool or survival tool. It's quick and easy to make and chances are you have all of the ingredients

00:00:31.040 needed in your home. So let's go to the shop and let's learn a fun thing to do together.

00:00:37.460 All right, to make our fire starter today we're going to use some basic ingredients that you

00:00:41.320 already have in your home. The only thing you may not have that you may need to purchase

00:00:44.820 is I've got a old crock pot here that I picked up at Value Village. I think I paid 10 or 12 dollars

00:00:50.520 for it. But if you don't have one of these, you may want to use an old pot. Now you can get one

00:00:55.800 of those at Value Village as well. Just make sure you get a really thick bottom one. What

00:01:00.480 you're going to do is you're going to melt some wax in it. And for wax, I pick up some

00:01:05.440 of this pair of wax here either at Canadian Tire or at Superstore or Sobeys or wherever

00:01:09.500 you do your groceries. Now this is $11.99 for a package, but I get them 50% off and they

00:01:17.200 go for sale 50% off quite often. Sometimes I even get them for $4 or $5 a package. I've got

00:01:22.560 a whole whack of them up here. The other thing I do, often I go to Value Village where

00:01:29.000 I paid like $10 or $12 for this crock pot. I get bag fulls of candles for $2 and $3. And

00:01:36.480 I got to tell you right now, this lid's not too hot. You open the lid and some of these

00:01:42.240 candles are a little bit aromatic, so it smells kind of nice. I mean, that's not important,

00:01:46.540 but so I get these candles and some of them are just the cheap candles, but really you only

00:01:50.980 need the thing to catch fire and to burn for just a little bit. The other thing you're

00:01:55.720 going to need is some dryer lint, which you'll have as you clean out your never throw that

00:02:01.820 out. We save ours in a bag. I bring it out here and literally I've got like a box full

00:02:07.360 of it. The other thing you're going to need is some toilet paper rolls. Okay, so that's

00:02:12.420 another thing. Just save them in a box or in a bag in your house and then when you're ready

00:02:16.780 to make a batch. Now this is for longer lasting fire starter, but the main thing that we're

00:02:23.720 going to use today that I make quite a bit of, and we have chickens, so we have like literally

00:02:30.460 hundreds of egg cartons, but when the egg cartons start to go bad like this, what I do

00:02:34.920 is I save the egg cartons or when they get soiled, sometimes people bring them back after

00:02:39.680 you know, we sell them and well, we don't use them again, but what I do is we're going

00:02:46.920 to cut this piece off that we don't use here and we're going to keep the ones with the 12

00:02:51.180 little holes in them and we're going to put some dryer lint in there. We're going to take

00:02:56.800 some of this melted wax and just simply pour it on there and then we're going to take a

00:03:01.500 great big Olfa knife or an X-Acto knife as some people like to call it and you want the

00:03:07.720 big one so that, you know, you do the job once and you're able to go right through all

00:03:12.880 of this. I take a piece of plywood on my workbench here in the workshop and I cut right through

00:03:18.300 and then once these are cooled down, I take some old bread bags, the really big ones, and

00:03:24.020 I store them in this workshop. I store my tractor in here so it's kind of cool, but in the house

00:03:29.360 from the dollar store I got a nice little metal basket and we store that not too far from

00:03:35.720 the wood stove and we really only ever use one a day. I have a wood stove here in the

00:03:40.000 shop and when it gets really cold in the winter time, I've got lots of firewood in here as

00:03:44.100 well. I fire up a fire in here. I can put the coffee pot on here, do some reading. I've

00:03:48.460 got a really nice setup at the other end here. I can work in here. I've got all kinds of tools.

00:03:54.060 The tractor sits in here and it's happy when it's warm. I can putter on some woodworking

00:03:58.880 projects in here, but these little things, it saves you from crumpling paper and having

00:04:05.720 to scramble for this and blowing on it and stuff. These little fire starters, they last 0.89

00:04:10.740 about 15 minutes. You get a little bit of kindling in there and it does the trick. Now, if you

00:04:16.160 don't burn wood in your house and you don't need to start a fire in your house, these things

00:04:20.540 are great when you go camping or even if you store half a dozen of them in your car and you

00:04:25.400 get stuck somewhere, they're a great little resource. If you have a lighter or some waterproof

00:04:30.540 matches and you need to build a fire somewhere, if you go hiking in the woods, they're great

00:04:35.740 to start a fire even in the rain. They will burn. I guarantee you, they will burn. It's

00:04:41.820 a simple thing to do. Let's just get into it. I'll see if I can move the camera a little

00:04:47.460 closer and then we'll get going with this. Actually, before I do that, because I'm doing

00:04:54.100 a big batch, I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to add some of this perowax to the mix.

00:05:00.900 I've got an old little dowel that I use here to mix this around a little bit, but this perowax

00:05:05.780 basically comes in like four pieces. Oh, great. These are stuck together a little bit.

00:05:13.320 So excuse the noise, but they break apart quite easily and they're kind of like in chunks

00:05:20.240 and we're just going to put them in quite gently because it's really hot in there, but you just

00:05:30.620 break them apart and the hot wax will help melt the rest of them.

00:05:50.240 All right, this will go in the fire. All right, the next thing we want to do is we want to take

00:06:01.720 these apart and I like, I don't know, my OCD and me, I like to keep these things kind of clean.

00:06:08.500 They're easier to handle. These parts here, I actually just use them in my fire over there and

00:06:14.440 while that is melting, we're just going to cut these pieces off right here. I won't show you the

00:06:22.220 mess I'm making on the floor there, but we're just going to just do a few of these here on camera so

00:06:27.740 you kind of get the gist of what we are doing.

00:06:30.920 All right, the next thing we're going to do is we're just going to take some of this lint

00:06:58.180 like this and we're just going to stuff. We're going to stuff these about, well, I'm going to

00:07:06.100 say almost full. It's almost like cotton candy and it doesn't matter if it's dirty a little bit

00:07:11.500 and what we're doing is we're stuffing it pretty tight.

00:07:28.180 Okay, now that we're done that, the next thing we do, one thing I forgot to mention is some sort of

00:07:58.160 a ladle to get the wax out of the crock pot into this and the one thing I got is, I think I got

00:08:04.900 this at the dollar store as well. It's a little aluminum ladle and the nice thing with this rather

00:08:09.660 than plastic is with the plastic, the wax seems to accumulate on this, but with this aluminum thing,

00:08:15.960 you know, you can hold it just above it and it warms up enough and the wax just seems to slide right

00:08:19.880 off. All right, so all I'm going to do now at this point is I'm just going to take the lid off.

00:08:27.620 Oh yeah, my pot's pretty full right now and I'm just going to put some wax, some of this liquid wax,

00:08:36.620 and this holds quite a bit on here, and I'm just going to pour it right into each of these cups here

00:08:43.580 and it's not an exact measurement, but I just put quite a bit of wax on here

00:08:52.660 until you can see the lint kind of go down and it saturates each and every one of these little

00:09:04.080 egg holes, just like that. And in the meantime, you get a really nice smell.

00:09:18.420 You can hear the fire trucks in the distance there. I don't think they're coming here.

00:09:23.220 I do live sort of out of town here a little bit in the country, but

00:09:31.760 all right, and that's basically you just repeat the process here until you're all done this.

00:09:41.540 All right, we're going to put these aside and we're just going to let them cool down for

00:09:47.560 a little bit. I'm going to show you how I do the toilet paper rolls.

00:09:53.220 Okay, the toilet paper rolls are done a little bit differently

00:10:04.880 if you're going to do them. What I do with these

00:10:09.960 is I stuff

00:10:12.980 some lint at one end

00:10:19.940 just like that

00:10:23.500 and you want it kind of tight. You leave a space in the middle

00:10:29.620 best if you lay them down after

00:10:34.900 and then I have a box of sawdust. Now I've got some stuff that's a little more coarse than this as

00:10:52.760 well. Turn the box here so you can see this and I take some of the sawdust.

00:10:59.940 It's cross cut shavings really

00:11:03.860 and I put some of that in here just like that

00:11:08.680 and then I take some more

00:11:13.460 of this

00:11:15.620 stuff from the dryer here. It says dryer lint

00:11:24.740 and then what I'm going to do

00:11:27.460 is I'm simply I'm going to take this lid off again.

00:11:35.520 I'm just going to simply dip this in one side

00:11:38.040 and let it like this

00:11:41.200 and I'm going to let it sit and dry for a little bit

00:11:45.720 stuff some more into another one

00:11:51.960 and some more lint in there

00:11:57.340 and I'm just going to repeat the process. So I only dip about an inch

00:12:04.860 in there

00:12:06.180 and then let it dry

00:12:08.880 and then when this end is dry

00:12:11.680 I'm going to flip it over

00:12:13.700 and then I'm going to dip the other side

00:12:15.780 and then this will burn a little bit longer

00:12:19.660 or different than these.

00:12:22.580 It's a little bit deeper

00:12:23.900 so the way I position my wood in the wood stove

00:12:26.980 sometimes I will use these

00:12:29.260 rather than those in the wood stove.

00:12:31.820 So I'm not going to bore you with this process a hundred times

00:12:35.320 I probably have about

00:12:36.800 I don't know 45 of these toilet paper rolls here now

00:12:39.740 but I'm going to do a few more of these

00:12:42.280 and then I'm going to show you what I do with

00:12:44.240 the egg carton ones

00:12:46.500 once they're hardened up and dried a little bit

00:12:48.360 I'll show you how I cut them

00:12:49.540 and then that'll pretty much complete the process.

00:12:53.560 Okay the last thing that we're going to do

00:12:55.380 is I'm going to show you

00:12:57.140 basically what I do

00:12:59.280 so the wax in here has hardened

00:13:02.580 pretty much all the way

00:13:03.640 and so what I do is again

00:13:05.840 I take my big Olfa knife

00:13:07.560 or my big Xacto knife

00:13:08.740 and I'm just going to cut through

00:13:11.920 in between the lines of all these

00:13:13.520 and the easiest way to do that

00:13:16.140 is just to literally go

00:13:17.300 my blade has gotten dull

00:13:20.740 but anyhow

00:13:21.760 just basically cut through these like this

00:13:23.960 and then safety is first

00:13:26.800 so you want to make sure

00:13:27.440 you don't cut your fingers

00:13:28.280 you can actually go upside down

00:13:30.880 and the stuff will not fall out

00:13:32.180 and you have individual little cups

00:13:35.260 of Firestarter

00:13:36.560 and you repeat the process

00:13:39.260 until you're all done

00:13:40.180 I store these in bags

00:13:42.060 like I said

00:13:42.520 old bread bags here

00:13:43.620 like the large bread bags

00:13:44.740 and I can put about 60 of these

00:13:47.380 in a bag

00:13:48.240 which is what I did here

00:13:49.240 five trays of 12

00:13:50.720 which is 60

00:13:51.420 and I probably keep about 20-25 or so

00:13:55.040 in the house

00:13:55.540 I use one every morning

00:13:57.480 sometimes if I keep the fire

00:13:59.460 going through the night

00:14:00.160 I don't even need to

00:14:01.340 use one of these in the morning

00:14:02.840 I've got a good bed of coals

00:14:04.280 and so sometimes it's two or three days

00:14:06.440 in the winter

00:14:06.820 before I even have to use one of these

00:14:08.740 and I only use one

00:14:10.300 if I have to take the coals

00:14:11.980 out of the wood stove

00:14:12.700 if there's too many coals

00:14:14.380 in the wood stove

00:14:15.040 so basically that's all I have to do

00:14:17.540 to separate these

00:14:19.540 actually the wax is still

00:14:21.660 a little bit warm in here

00:14:23.600 that's why they're not

00:14:24.300 it's not cutting

00:14:25.340 that well

00:14:26.600 yeah it's still mushy

00:14:27.500 when it does harden up

00:14:29.360 these are pretty hard

00:14:30.760 and it just

00:14:31.340 it just cuts right off

00:14:33.600 yeah

00:14:33.800 the wax is still a little bit

00:14:35.200 warm in here

00:14:36.160 but basically that's

00:14:37.700 what you do

00:14:38.640 so I'm actually going to start

00:14:40.360 a fire in the wood stove tonight

00:14:42.020 and I will show you

00:14:42.900 what this looks like

00:14:43.760 and you'll see how these burn

00:14:45.400 and how easy it is

00:14:49.540 to start a fire with this

00:14:50.420 now with the toilet paper ones

00:14:52.560 as you can see

00:14:53.300 I've

00:14:53.820 yeah that's still a little bit

00:14:55.160 soft as well

00:14:55.820 I've dipped both ends now

00:14:58.260 and once these are hardened

00:15:00.080 again I just store these

00:15:01.540 either in a little box

00:15:02.920 or in a little metal container

00:15:05.360 that I have

00:15:05.900 I just store them all

00:15:06.860 laying sideways like this

00:15:08.260 and when I go to use them

00:15:11.120 I lay them sideways

00:15:12.100 I usually put a piece of wood

00:15:13.820 on each side

00:15:14.420 and then a few pieces

00:15:15.460 crossways in

00:15:16.160 and I stack my wood

00:15:17.300 back and forth

00:15:17.940 I light the end here

00:15:19.340 it lights right away

00:15:20.340 it kind of burns

00:15:21.360 like a cigar this way

00:15:22.520 and this will burn

00:15:23.600 for about 20 minutes

00:15:24.700 and these will burn

00:15:25.960 for about

00:15:26.580 I'm going to say

00:15:27.400 10, 12

00:15:28.060 sometimes 15 minutes

00:15:29.340 depending on how much wax

00:15:31.160 is in each one of these

00:15:32.220 all right

00:15:33.080 so I will show you

00:15:34.580 a demo this evening

00:15:35.620 well you'll see it

00:15:36.960 at the same time

00:15:37.500 but I'll show you

00:15:37.980 a demo this evening

00:15:38.680 of what these look like

00:15:39.760 one of these actually

00:15:41.420 and that's it

00:15:43.180 so that's just a simple way

00:15:45.360 to make an easy fire starter

00:15:46.920 that you can carry with you

00:15:48.200 I suggest carrying some

00:15:49.800 in your vehicle

00:15:50.480 you know under your seat

00:15:51.520 in a Ziploc bag

00:15:53.060 something waterproof

00:15:53.920 to further enhance

00:15:55.620 the longevity of these

00:15:56.840 never hurts to be prepared

00:15:59.200 you know

00:15:59.560 this is the Pepper Dan channel

00:16:00.940 and pass this along

00:16:02.520 to some friends

00:16:03.340 and throw some

00:16:04.700 in your camping gear

00:16:05.840 in a shed somewhere

00:16:07.980 because you never know

00:16:09.120 you always need to be prepared

00:16:10.820 so thanks for being with me

00:16:12.520 on this episode

00:16:13.720 and I hope that this was helpful

00:16:15.740 hope you all have a great day

00:16:17.500 until next time

00:16:18.780 this is Pepper Dan

00:16:19.660 take care

00:16:20.540 and God bless

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00:16:28.700 and I'll see you next time

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00:16:33.980 and I'll see you next time

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00:16:38.160 Thank you.

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Action4Canada - October 30, 2024

A4C Prepper Dan： Easy Fire Starters Vlog15

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