How To Make The Most Effective Char Cloth

[Music] hey guys Eric for English Creek wilderness offered is here and I'm here with a tutorial video you know I may be a manufacturer but I also like to help people and I can and you know tonight after after a good initial response from one of my videos you know I'd like to show you guys how I'm making my new rolled charcloth product that I'm offering and you know this is something you can make at home pretty easy and you just need to know how to do it so we're gonna go ahead and show you that today and we're gonna start with the tool that you're gonna need so all you're gonna need to get is a little clothes hanger here metal of course and then we're going to get some wire cutters I'm gonna use the pair on my Victorinox Swiss tool and then we're just gonna cut it right here at the end here and then we're gonna cut it about the same place over here now you can make another from this side so what we're gonna do is you're just gonna bend this over right here where the bend is already out we're just gonna close that down okay and then while it's closed they're gonna bend this back until these get straight and aligned with one another just going to twist them here to straighten them out bouncing back and that is going to essentially with a little bit of tweaking would be our tool for rolling this denim up now I make my char cloth out of denim I think you guys if you know anything about char cloth I agree that it's the best but I think it can become a lot a lot better with the use of rolling it now what that does is it gets multiple layers of char cloth burning all at one time and I of course do this in a larger scale when I'm making them right now but I'm gonna show you how to make a roll of it right now that's actually a little bit too big for the container I'm going to show this in but for demonstration purposes let's go ahead and have it out here so all we do pretty simply we just stick it in between this roller here get it straightened out leave a little bit hanging here as excess roll it over to get it started and then we just begin to roll this up tightly and we're just gonna continue rolling it tightly as tight as we can all the way up you can see we've got a really tight roll here and then we can just take it hold on to it and then slip it out now before you do that actually free it off you might might want to take a little piece of denim here that you've got and tie that off so that stays closed while you cook it so we're just gonna tie that off really simply like that doesn't need much just enough to hold it then we're gonna pull that off and then for this one we're gonna have to cut it down to size so this will make two pieces so we're gonna cut this in half here so we're gonna grab our scissors again get it about the halfway point try and hold these together so let's take this like this hold it like this try and cut through these you might have to rewrap this other one like I said I made this a little bit too long for what I was doing looks like it stayed together pretty well though and then we're just gonna tuck this in here like that we're gonna have one roll here and we're gonna have another roll right here I'm never just going to tuck it into our container that we've designated I've went ahead and used a shoe polish container where the the little little handle is to pop these tops off and that's just gonna be our that's gonna be our exit hole for the fumes and you want to watch this and as soon as that flame goes out and they're just gonna pop a flame out I'm gonna show you that when it's in the fire as soon as that goes out you take this out you let the container cool down completely otherwise it'll catch on fire from the heat if you try to take it off and put it into the oxygen and then you've got char cloth and we will show you exactly just how good it works here so stick around now we're in front of a roaring fire here at the house and I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna take a pair of tongs and I'm gonna hold this container in here I'm not gonna flip it upside down because this container didn't originally just have this single hole in it the handle came off and it was originally had a little tiny hole in it to let it burn so we're gonna flip it around and stick that guy in there over these hot coals and I mean those are smoking hot coals all right I'm gonna pause the video until it gets going and then we'll show you what it looks like in just a minute all right you can start to see the smoke starting to come off of there here and now we've got a flame see how it looks like a blowtorch coming out of there we'll move this camera over here I've got to make sure to keep this camera out of the heat otherwise it'll turn itself off see they're coming out of there like a blowtorch that's what you're looking for right there and then eventually it's gonna come down to almost like a birthday candle type flame and you just wait for that to go out and as soon as it goes out you take that thing out so let's pause it until it gets down to that level okay I can show you this without getting too close to the fire see how it's just ready to go out see that little tiny flame there that's just those fumes catching fire now I get a step back from this because those coals are hot when you make this stuff that gap that gas is released it really gets your fireplace I'm warm so it'll be open you see you go out there okay so we're gonna grab our if I can okay okay oh boy I thought I lost in there for a second take this out set off there see how as a glowing red-hot okay so we're taking that out and we're leaving it we're not gonna let oxygen and get to it we're just gonna let it die down on its own then after that's cooled off we're gonna show you guys what it looks like inside alright guys so we're back here at the desk we're ready to open this up and you're about to see the end result here so you've got two perfectly finally rolled pieces of char cloth and what this is gonna do more so than the other char cloths is it's gonna get a lot hotter in your hand now you can check out how I started a fire with the fierce fire with this a lot easier just by taking a chunk of this off and I'm gonna go ahead and show you that now I don't have a flint steel ready and I don't have anything ready so I'm just gonna show you what the lighter really fast just quickly get that started there like that I just want to show you how hot this kids sorry I had that out of frame it's like a cigar see a very very very hot cigar okay I gotta put that down I was just burning my hands up okay I know that got a frame a couple times guys but that is some really really good stuff and what you do after this goes out in here I'm gonna open this up and I'll show you how you can just take a chunk of that and then you can stick that in your tinder bundle you can stick that chunk in your tinder bundle which is so much better than trying to take like little tiny strips and try to wad it up because char cloth by its nature becomes brittle as soon as you char like this so you really need to have a means to get a bunch of it all in one place at a time to focus that heat and if you focus that heat that's where you're gonna get your ignition source from so I just thought I would you know share with you guys a better way to make char cloth and of course I want you to buy it from the store but I also think this is valuable knowledge that you should just know how to do because if you were stuck out in the wild and you needed a way to really get a fire started you have pants and you have you know things that you can make a little bit of char cloth out of and this is the best way to do it this is the get the most bang for your buck so let's see if we can open this up again it's getting cool in there so you can get that other piece out there and show you how it shows up so we're gonna take this other piece out this piece has gone out put it back in there make sure it stays out well this is what I'm talking about guys you just take this piece here make sure this isn't focus and you can just take a little piece of it off like that and look at that just stick of that in your bundle if that goes in your tinder bundle you are getting fire man you can get that so hot and push all that heat from the air you're blowing on that and it's gonna go directly into the center of your tinder bundle and ignite it immediately this is what you want guys either make it yourself or get it from me but this is what you need over just normal strips and heck if you want to just use normal strips the denim is so so durable that you can actually take it and unroll it and break some off just like that and then you've got a strip if that's what you really want but I think it works much better when it's rolled up alright guys this has been Eric for Engels creek wilderness out Fairs I hope I've helped you out today I think I think this is the way to do it guys you have a good night god bless [Music] you

Channel: Old Growth Artisans

Views: 189,646

Rating: 4.8719459 out of 5

Keywords: Char Cloth, Fire Starting, Survival, Survival Fire, Next Fire, Primitive Fire Making, Fire Making

Id: _6Mo-131dsI

Length: 12min 18sec (738 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 28 2017