Fire Steel and Knife fire
Guy Radford April 12th, 2009
I spent a few nights camped by the sea up on the Isle of Harris and my wandering took me to a beach with some drift wood. Having time I decided to practice lighting a fire with just a fire steel and a knife. I have done this before but never in a windy environment like a beach or with damp drift wood, I knew the theory so lets put it into practice.
I collected a few bits of drift wood that were as touch dry as I could find and a piece to use as a batten to hit the knife.
I split the wood down into smaller and smaller bits giving me all the sizes I needed to start a fire. I then created 4 feather sticks, one was very fine as it had to light from the spark from the fire steel.
Feather sticks and kindling at the ready.
I laid everything at hand ready to go. On the second attempt with the fire steel the feather stick lit, I carefully piled on the other three feather sticks and some of the fine kindling and in no time I had a great little fire.
The Fire
