A couple of days ago I was in the woods collecting hornbeam bark to use as tinder and decided to put together a short video showing how I go about that. To get to the hornbeam bark that was in the right condition, I needed to prune a branch first. We teach collecting hornbeam bark […]
After mistakenly telling everyone last week that I’d done a video previously on using downy flower heads as a tinder, and then realising that I hadn’t, here’s one! I talk about how downy flower heads are best used as a tinder and also show a few different ones that you can find in the British […]
Starting a fire with a bow drill is probably the single most iconic skill within bushcraft. I haven’t practiced for a little while and so yesterday I decided to change that. And then I decided that I might as well make a video showing the process. So for the video I used a lime hearth […]
Whilst I’ve previously written about tinder bundles here, we decided to put together a short video showing how to make and use a tinder bundle showing some of the more important aspects such as construction, wind direction, posture and breathing. In the video I’ve used the inner bark of sweet chestnut but I could have […]
In this post I want to take a look at using fungus as tinder. The ones that I discuss here, as best I can tell, can be found all year round, they don’t appear to be particularly seasonal. When ignited they create an ember and not a flame, so you might want to take a […]
I’ve written before about natural tinders, and I’ve got a few new ones to add to the list. On our recent (and totally awesome) trip to the Isle of Arran with Arran Bushcraft & Survival, we found ourselves in some different habitats and found some new natural tinders on our wanders. The main camp was based in a conifer […]
