subject: Steps To Start A Wooden Fire Easily [print this page] Steps To Start A Wooden Fire Easily Steps To Start A Wooden Fire Easily
In this article I'll be describing the essential process, which amount to four steps, and permit you to produce a fire without difficulty using two sticks of wood.
Whether you're going camping in the woods with your friends and family, or wishing to begin a bonfire, you'll find fewer life skills that happen to be more important and more useful then having the capability to start up a fire using two sticks of wood.
The first thing you'll need to do is to find two sticks, with one preferably being hardwood, and the other softwood, being sure that both sticks are dead and as dry as much as possible. The sticks need to be of a certain size, with the softwood being about 1 foot long, 1 inch thick and at least 2 inches across, and the hardwood stick really should be around 1 inch round. This is to be sure that it is easy enough for you to grip. The hardwood stick also needs to be shaped to a point.
The next step we'll have to do is to cut a groove in the centre and down the length of the softwood bit of stick. After doing this, turn the stick over, and repeat the exact same step on the reverse side. Should you have a knife, perfect, if not, find a stone, preferably a rough stone like sandstone, and rub it up and down the piece of softwood with a firm pressure.
Next, we'll have to dig a little hole to help keep the piece of softwood in its place. Kneel before the softwood stick, with it directly ahead of your knees. Support the piece of hardwood stick with both of your hands, and quickly, yet with force, rub it up and down the length of the groove. Do that continuously, as after a while it will create heat, and produce a hot ember, that is in the form of a hole, which appears in the centre of the wood.
Lastly, you will need to apply this ember from the softwood to a tinder. This can be any dry, flammable material, so strips of bark by way of example. Blow on this to offer it with extra oxygen, and when the flame starts, place the tinder into the foot of the campfire, targeting the smaller, easier ignitable sticks.
