Content

• Steps
• Tips
• Warnings
• What do you need

Everything you need to know to successfully start a fire. Especially useful for hiking conditions.

Steps

1. 1 Make sure that the owner of the land on which you are going to start a fire does not mind this.
2. 2 It is advisable to choose a place that is lower than the ground around and you do not need to make a fire on a rainy day.
3. 3 Make room for the fire by digging a shallow hole with a shovel so that the fire is lower than the ground around it.
4. 4 Start by looking for sticks of medium thickness that are long enough to support the fire to place in the middle of the space in front of which all the sticks will be placed.
5. 5 Collect small dry twigs and bark pieces. Finding small, dry branches can be long, so be patient and take the time to do this, unless there are specially harvested branches next to you, stacked in one place. Place them near the fire. When you've collected enough, carefully place them against the support sticks in the middle of the fire place.
6. 6 Collect small branches (depending on which trees are nearby). If you are going to burn hardwood, you only need fallen and well-dried branches. If you want to burn the soft branches of coniferous trees, you can take the branches straight from the trees along with the needles. You will need an armful or two of these branches and at the same time they should not be thinner than a glue stick. When you collect these branches, place them on top of your small branches in a place for fire.
7. 7 Start collecting large branches. They should also be dry enough, but it's okay if there is a little moisture in them. Collect an armful of such branches for every 10 minutes of burning if you are using hardwood and two armfuls if you are using conifers. Don't put these twigs on your fire spot. Lay them aside.
8. 8 Collect the logs. The logs should be as thick as your leg above the knee. You will need one log for every 45 minutes of burning. Collect as much as you need, but if you only need to light a fire for the evening, then use a coniferous tree, because it burns faster. And if you want the fire to burn all night long - hardwood. Stack the logs next to the fire.
9. 9 Prepare tinder (birch bark, newspapers, cardboard, or something like that). Bend over and place the paper or whatever you will be using for the fire under the smallest branches and to the side so that the wind (if any) blows in your back. If the wind is strong, then use logs to make a barrier that will keep the paper out of the wind.
10. 10 Light a match and hold it under a piece of paper. The paper will light up and start burning. Use a single match to light the paper in several places.
11. 11 When the fire reaches the top of your small branches, start placing the larger branches on top of the fire until you can no longer see the flame. Don't worry, they will go bust. (But do not put too much in order not to extinguish the fire).
12. 12 When the large branches are on fire, place a log on the fire. After 10 minutes, add two more logs and some large branches. Repeat this every 45 minutes as needed.

Tips

• Make sure you have enough wood for your fire.
• If you use a coniferous wood for the fire, it will burn faster, but it will not burn for a long time.

Warnings

• Never burn a fire near flammable materials.
• Be careful when using lighters or matches.
• Make sure campfires are allowed.

What do you need

• Wood
• Matches or lighter
• Ax (optional)
• Paper, birch bark or other tinder