So, this is a flint and steel.
The nice thing about this is it has a steel
attached.
If it didn't we could use a pocket knife to
strike it.
This one has a key chain sort of a little
chain on it.
Let me turn my light off so we have a better
idea of what it looks like.
So when you strike your flint you're going
to get a spark like that.
What I like to do is put my tip of my flint
on the tinder and throw a spark into it.
Some people will also hold the steel on top
of the flint and draw it away like that.
That way you're not disturbing your tinder.
We have some ignition.
So what I'm trying to do is get the fire going
up and what's happening is, there we go, what's
happening is the fire's on top it has nothing
to burn up to.
So if I turn it I get a little more fuel on
top and I give it a little air, too.
We're giving it some leaves and some grass.
While it's going we'll keep it going.
So you want to have your fire structure set
up so that once it's lit you really don't
have to work to make it keep going.
The reason I built it in a teepee style is
because, just like before when I was tilting
the fire up, fire likes to burn up.
If you have all your wood up like this it
gives it a great opportunity to catch because
of the burning up.
We want to get a little more of this stuff
on.
So, without using any artificial stuff except
for the flint and steel, we used cedar and
we used grass.
That's how you can get a fire started.
