The Fire Starter Hiding In Every Forest

That's a good enough opening What's up guys Dan here cold cracker got the camera finally adjusted What I was gonna say to be funny at the opening and I know I'm not always the funniest when the beginning of these videos appear but But this tree looks like it needs moisturizer. Look at all of this bark just peeling off it. It's so brutal, I mean it just it definitely needs some jergens or something, but Honestly this tree right here yellowish hue The bark peeling off very easily. It looks like it's almost like just paper confetti coming off This is a yellow birch and it is something that you need to know and something that you need to be using for fire starting So the yellow birch right here is very easily identifiable because it grows in wet damp areas So generally if you go by a local stream or Creek Even if you go a little bit on the outskirts of like more of a lake or a reservoir or something like that And you start looking around you're gonna see this whitish yellowish grayish looking tree But the giveaway telltale sign is that the bark is peeling off It literally looks like it needs moisturizer And if you grab the bark it it just peels back like it peels away So simple and so easy and the thing is you're not hurting the tree by doing this the tree has natural cycle To itself that it starts to shed this bark in a winter time It gets a little bit harder to pull the bark off, but it's still doable and then like this early spring It's just awesome. I mean there's so many of these trees You can see this one behind here, and it's just so easy to collect this stuff now What I'm collecting this bark is full of oil So what that has to do with fire starting is we know that oil burns really nice So we have this paper like substance the bark that has oil inside of it And it just burns amazingly with open flame or a ferrocerium rod You can even take a big bunch of this and put char cloth inside and blow it to flame and all works really really good And the best part of it is It's water resistant because there's natural oils in it so it can be rainy It could be damp you could peel this stuff off and light it up right away now unfortunately for all of you It's not raining out today fortunate for me though because who wants to be out in the rain But what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna grab some of this I'm gonna go right over here on a stump And I'm gonna show you how easy it lights up with a ferro rod so just a little bit of bark again this stuff You don't have to dry out. You don't do anything. You just collect and you're ready to go So we're gonna light it with a ferro rod today Good spark down inside. We'll light this right up You see how nice that stuff's burning it'll stretch itself out here Into the rest of the bundle, and they'll just keep going and it burns a good long time So really easy to ignite and again. It's just an amazing fire starter one of my absolute favorite natural fire starters Look at that go awesome All right guys, so if you enjoyed that video hit like and subscribe down below You can also check us out at coal-cracker.com for all our classes our gear and our blog and until the next video Find some birch and stay in the woods