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Making fire is an essential skill for survival in the wild. When going on a picnic without someone dropping a match in the river or losing a lighter on the way, you may have to light a fire with household objects or natural materials to create friction, or use lenses. converging to collect heat from the sun. You can read the following methods to learn how to make a fire without a match or lighter.

Steps

Method 1 of 6: Prepare

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   Learn how to lighten a fire and get ready. In all of the following methods, you will need a handful of cotton wool to bait the sparks and / or help the smoldering charcoal spot burn into a flame.

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   Collect dry firewood. To create friction and sustain the fire, you will need to use dry firewood, as dry as possible.
   • Find dry firewood in hidden places. If you are in a humid place, you can check inside logs, under rock edges or other sheltered areas.
   • Know what kind of firewood tree you can collect. Not all woods have the same ability to ignite. Depending on the locality, there are some types of trees that easily catch fire. For example, the white birch tree (paper birch) with its paper-like crust can be very leaching, even when wet.
   • Find other things besides firewood. While fire instructions are usually defaulted for the wilderness, you must adapt to the situation. In urban areas there may be no trees, so look for other things like old books, old boards, furniture and the like to make a fire.
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Method 2 of 6: Clean the pot with batteries and steel charges

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   Find a flammable hay mess. You can use hay, leaves, small sticks and bark. This mess will be used to catch sparks from batteries and steel charges.

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   Find a battery and identify the terminals. The battery terminals are two circular buttons that protrude on the top of the battery pack.
   • Batteries of any voltage will work, but 9-volt batteries will ignite fastest.

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   Use a steel handle to rub the terminals of the battery. The finer the steel charge, the faster it will ignite.

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   Continue to create friction by rubbing steel charges onto the battery. This process creates an electric current through fine steel fibers, generating heat and catching fire.
   • You can replace steel pins with metal paper clips that rub on both poles of the 9-volt battery to spark sparks. This is similar to how the filaments in light bulbs and toasters work.

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   Blow lightly as the steel billet starts to glow. This is to keep the fire open and help it spread.

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   When the steel billet is already pink, quickly turn to the mess, continue to blow lightly until the pulp catches fire and burns into flames.

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   Continue to add more dry wood, gradually small to large to form a fire as the mess has burned into flames and enjoy your fruit! advertisement

Method 3 of 6: Use flint and steel pieces

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   As above, you need to collect a mess from the hay.

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   Find a lump of ignition rock (the rock can emit sparks), hold it between your thumb and index finger, leaving a space of 5-7 cm above the rock.

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   Use your thumb to hold a piece of charcoal on the rock. Charcoal cloth is a small square of fabric that easily turns into flammable charcoal. If you don't have charcoal, you can use thin patches of fungus that grow on the stem.

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   Use a igniter or knife crust (whichever you have) and quickly brush the ignition rock. Continue swiping until sparks are released.

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   Use charcoal to catch the sparks and keep igniting until the cloth glows like embers. The charcoal cloth is specially made to keep the embers from burning into fire.

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   Transfer the charcoal cloth to the pulp and gently blow into the pulp to create a flare.

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   Start adding larger ones to create a fire. advertisement

Method 4 of 6: Use focusing lenses

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   Observe the sunlight to see if it is enough to create a fire using this method. In general, the sun must not be obscured by clouds so that you can use a focusing lens to create fire.
   • If you don't have a magnifying glass, you can use eyeglasses or lenses in binoculars.
   • A little water on the lens will help you get a more focused and intense light ray.

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   Gather up a mess with dry material and place it on the ground.

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   Tilt the lens towards the sun so that the light shines into a circular halo on the mess. You may have to try holding the lens from a variety of angles to get the light rays as focused as possible.

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   Hold the lens in place until the mess starts to smoke and burn into flames. Blow gently into the pulp to keep the fire.

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   Start adding bigger and bigger wood trees to the pulp to burn it into a fire as desired. advertisement

Method 5 of 6: Create a hand drill

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   Gather up a mess with dry material. Make sure the foil is flammable.

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   Find a piece of wood as a base for the hand drill, also call the ignition board. You will drill on this piece of wood to create friction.

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   Use a knife or a sharp object to cut a V-shaped slot in the middle of the ignition board. Make sure the cut is just enough to hold the shaft upright.

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   Place a small piece of bark under the V-slot. The bark used to catch fire generated from the friction between the spindle and the ignition board.

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   Find a small stick about 60 cm long, more than 1 cm in diameter and place it in the V-slot in the middle of the ignition board.

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   Hold the spindle between your palms and start rolling the rod back and forth. Remember to press firmly against the ignition board.

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   Continue rolling the stick between your palms, hands alternately moving back and forth until a speck of embers appears on the ignition board.

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   Transfer the embers spot to a small bark. You should keep a few small pieces of bark next to the V-slot on the ignition board.

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   Place a piece of burnt bark over the mulch. Continue blowing gently until the mess of the mess burns with embers and burns into flames.

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    Start adding bigger firewood trees to keep the fire going. Note that this method will take a long time and require effort and determination to create the fire. advertisement

Method 6 of 6: Create a bow type drill

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   As above, you need to gather a mess. Use whatever plants or hay you can get.

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   Find an object to make the head swing, such as a rock or heavy piece of wood. This object is used to put pressure on the reel.

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   Find a flexible branch, about an arm's length. Slightly curved branches are best. This will be the handle of the bow.

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   Make the bowstring material that is strong, not slippery and can withstand friction. You can use shoelace, thin rope, umbrella or leather strap.

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   Tie the string tightly to the handles of the bow. If the branch does not have natural tabs to hold the rope firmly, make a small notch so you can tie the rope in place.

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   Find a piece of wood as a base for a hand drill, also known as a ignition board, cut a small V-shaped slot in the center of the base with a knife or sharp object.

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   Place the foil under the V-shaped slot. You also need to put the cloth close to the edge of the reel to make it easier to ignite.

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   Wrap the bowstring around the rod used as the spindle. Remember to wrap around the middle of the chord so that there is plenty of rotation.

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   Taper one end of the spindle to reduce friction at the spindle. When smoldering charcoal starts to appear at this end, you should avoid letting the tip of the stick break off so that the rod used to make your reel is more durable ..

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    Place one end of the spindle in the V-slot on the ignition board and place the spindle on the top of the reel. Use your left hand (non-dominant hand) to hold the head.

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    Use your dominant hand to hold the handle of the bow and start cutting back and forth. This will cause the spindle to spin (hence the name "spindle") and generate heat on the ignition board.

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    Continue cutting back and forth until a smoldering charred spot is formed at the junction between the spindle and the ignition board. Remember to keep the mess next to it.

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    Gather the created embers onto a shavings and place them in the pulp. You can also brush embers on the ignition board on the mulch.

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    While blowing the mulch, add the dry wood branches to burn into a fire. advertisement

Advice

• Make sure the wood is dry before trying other methods of friction.
• Black poplar, conifer, aspen, willow, cedar, cypress and walnut are ideal materials for ignition boards and spindles.
• The process of priming embers or sparks to flames is the hardest part. Remember to blow gently at this step.
• With the bow method, you need a stick to make the spindle about 15-20 cm long, about 1 cm diameter, as straight as possible.
• You also need to know how to fire first, fire and / or put out a fire before trying to make it.
• The hand drilling method is the oldest and most difficult method, but requires the least amount of material.
• If there are no lenses to create fire using the focusing lens method, you can pour water into a ball and squeeze until the ball converts the light into a small beam, or shape a stone to look like lenses.
• If the ignition board sees a seesaw, trim the bottom flat.
• Place a small piece of bark under the V-cut to help catch the fire and make it easier to convert the burnt charcoal to a fluff.
• Peel off the bark on the tree branch as a spindle to speed up the rotation and prevent blistering of your hands.

Warning

• Beware of sparks and embers that may come off when friction is applied.
• Be sure to put out the fire with water, or cover the fire with sand or dirt before leaving.
• Always use extreme care when using fire.

What you need

Battery method and cleaning steel pot

• Steel charge (or paper clip)
• The battery
• Bui brushed the ignition
• Dry firewood

Ignition stone method and steel flakes

• Ignition stone
• Piece of steel
• Charcoal cloth
• Bui brushed the ignition
• Dry firewood

Converging lens method

• Bui brushed the ignition
• Magnifying glass or other lenses
• Country (optional)
• Dry firewood

Hand drilling method

• Rods to make the shaft
• Fire board
• A knife or sharp object
• Small pieces of bark
• Bui brushed the ignition
• Dry firewood

Bow drill method

• Bui brushed the ignition
• Rods for rotating shaft
• Fire board
• A knife or sharp object
• Small pieces of bark
• Rotating head
• Bow
• Cord
• Dry firewood