Start a Fire in 60 Seconds using Flint and Steel

[accadacca]

Yeah that was fast!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jpu0kw4_yV8

[phatch]

Wonder what the tinder he used to catch that spark? I'm thinking a petroleum enhanced cottonball. He's quick to cover whatever received the spark. And technically, this was ferrocerium, not flint. Flint is much harder to spark and doesn't spark like that.

[accadacca]

Wonder what the tinder he used to catch that spark? I'm thinking a petroleum enhanced cottonball. He's quick to cover whatever received the spark. And technically, this was ferrocerium, not flint. Flint is much harder to spark and doesn't spark like that.

Here is what the comment said in the video...

"Demonstration of survival fire building skills using a flint and steel with Northern Great Lakes materials including cat tail down, birch bark and drift wood."

[Scott Card]

I'd like to see him do that with Southern Utah materials. I have started hundreds of fires using flint and steel and I haven't seen anything in the desert that could start that fast.