Top 5 Fire Making Survival Tools

Posted 08/25/2014 11:03 am by PatriotRising with 1 comment

If you’re ever lost in the woods on a cold night, or face a long stretch without any power or electricity, you’ll realize quickly why making fire is one of humanity’s oldest skills.

Thankfully, technology has progressed to the point where everybody can now easily carry around simple, effective fire-making tools.

Sure, you can spend hours rubbing two sticks together, or trying to construct a bow drill out of vines and branches, but why?

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Modern fire making is fast and easy, both important qualities in a true emergency situation, when failure to start a fire can mean death by hypothermia or the loss of your toes to frostbite.

No matter what fire-making method you choose, always remember the old “fire triangle” you learned back in middle school, or maybe saw at a presentation. All fires require a heat source, fuel and oxygen. All fire starters find some way to combine those three to produce a flame.

Also remember there’s much more to a fire that just starting one. If you don’t have enough tinder, kindling, and then large chunks of fuel to keep the blaze going, then it won’t matter how effective your fire-starting kit is. You can buy tinder, like the  ( http://goo.gl/x8imcJ ) from , or make your own out of petroleum-jelly-soaked cotton balls, or cotton string soaked in paraffin. I often carry around some old dryer lint in a sandwich bag, and have used it to start campfires, controlled burns, and even light my wood stove in my previous house out in the woods.

The following list focuses on ways to produce a flame or a spark, and not really on the tinder. Some of these things can be purchased from the , or from other quality vendors. To be fully prepared, it’s a good idea to always carry at least two ways to make a fire in your emergency gear, backpack, and your pockets.

So here are my Top 5 Tools For Tools To Make Fire.