The Long Fire: S1E7 Into the Winter | Gray Bearded Green Beret

Join Joshua Enyart, the Gray Bearded Green Beret, as he takes you Into the Winter to learn the skills needed to survive in a challenging cold-weather environment.
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[@tjmul3381]

Impressed with the fire wall being stacked with multiple logs so that the logs warm up a bit before adding. I've always done a single layered one. Looking forward to trying this new tip.

[@MacSharps73]

I’ll be introducing this fire method to my scouts at the end of the month during a winter camporee. Along with using some military issue casualty blankets as reflectors on the backside of the fire.

[@JEFLeb35712]

Thank you for sharing. Nice fire and I learned a few things about the purpose of the wall as well as the idea of making it thicker.

[@brandyhouston2105]

That was a dog! Man's best helper!👍😎

[@newenglandprepper2343]

Josh I always injoy your videos you are a wealth knowledge and do a great job at explaining and teaching your craft. I have injoy reading your book and am very excited to get out this winter and using what I have learned to use. I was always a backpacker and camper but but excited to use the more traditional bushcraft techniques.

[@hanginwithbullfrog4657]

Wind screen...Is what I call it🤷🏼‍♂️...great information Sir!!!

[@MichaelR58]

Good video Joshua , thanks for sharing , God bless !

[@ronbrown6272]

Hey Josh, Just wanted to reach out and thank you for the great block of instruction videos you put out. I've been watching your channel for awhile, really great information. Just recently purchased your first book, and really enjoy reading it, and your no nonsense approach to survival instruction. Thanks again, and all the best.

[@uncletomscabin2073]

Thanks for another relaxed well explained video. All ways wondered how much heat would reflect back off a fire wall. After seeing some other you tubers claim it reflects the heat back in to camp or their shelter. I thought they would be more of a wind break. For 6 months of the year the aera I live in is in fire ban zone.

[@Greybeard1357]

Well done sir! Thank you!

[@brucehillbillybarthalow3786]

Nicely put together,a GREAT video on survival and bushcraft

[@DontDoDaylight]

Thanks for this series

[@KettleCamping]

Fantastic video! So useful as usual! Thank you! Cheers from north of the border👍

[@tonv912]

The way you explain is excelent. And your video contains items that ads value for camping or and not how to make dinner or an hour of walking. Really my complents.

[@pyeitme508]

Amazing!

[@camturnbull3195]

Great video. Tons of good information!

[@richardstyron5716]

Great video, educational, thanks for sharing, stay safe

[@erolkavlakverizon6112]

Thank you for another great video..I hope your Thanksgiving was uneventful..have a Merry Christmas

[@BlueSnakeTLouis]

Muy interesante. Gracias

[@adrianjensen2504]

I’ve just discovered gray bearded beret and have really been obsessed with the videos, wonder if you have to worry about smoking yourself out?

[@GrayBeardedGreenBeret]

Nahhh you can always adjust

[@mikethomas5412]

It'll sure be cold when you come back out...lol

[@DanielOBrien_Argentiumfox]

Perhaps a team build/overnight with Corporals Corner?? We can't always rely on ourselves in certain situations. Just an idea. I think it would make for some great content on both sides. He seems up for it. I mentioned it to him too.

[@KT_survival]

That couple of inches... Better to take care of them 😜

[@GrayBeardedGreenBeret]

😂

[@steveklick]

A fire wall does reflect heat and not only reflect but its like heat displacement that if heat is not going off in that direction by a wall stopping it then its retaining heat itself and pushing heat your direction. Heat exists in the light of the fire also not just in the heat of the combustion so if you can reflect the light back towards you especially when using that kind of structure you have it will make a huge difference not letting the heat escape to the other side of the fire. Just like how firewood heats twice once when your cutting it and then twice when you burn it well fire heat also works in the same way with multiple levels of radiating heat.

[@asmith7876]

Conduction, convection, radiant, evaporative. While a log has some mass, it isn’t like a big heat sink. It isn’t reflective like a Mylar blanket. You aren’t touching it but wood doesn’t conduct very well anyway. Evaporative doesn’t apply. But the wall can help control the wind…which is convective.

[@steveklick]

@@asmith7876 It reflects a lot more than you think it does. It doesn't have to be reflective to reflect heat because it reflects the light and light from the fire is heat itself and it lets heat resonate in that area which will push more to your side its how it works. Heat works in funny ways and its not what most people think.

[@GrayBeardedGreenBeret]

It does reflect some heat, yes. It is a less efficient diffuse reflection and not a more effective specular reflection like it would be from something shiny like a metal or Mylar which is in the shelter. But yes, there is still reflection happening. The fact that we can see it means that there is light being reflected…It also absorbs heat and then that heat is released to the environment based on the temperature gradient which is primarily what you are describing here, the absorption more than the reflection.

[@blakelee4555]

@@GrayBeardedGreenBeret I'm a physicist and was going to step in and explain but it looks like there's no need! You've got it covered

[@GrayBeardedGreenBeret]

@@blakelee4555 thank you!

[@bushcraftbasics2036]

What are your thoughts of doing the long fire as an "upside down" fire with the burn starting on top and burning down through the fuel.

[@ndubstar]

about how many hours do you consider for this style blaze to push out warmth? overnight till morning? Well, you could also cut 6 more long logs to basically rebuild another on the coal bed if the first one burns down after 4 hours or so. Another great thing is you basically have a long galley cooking range in the morning for breakfast or brunch. I was thinking I might also consider hammering some (wooden or metal) stakes along the sides of the bottom logs so they couldnt roll out at some point if that was a possibility.

[@BenAndDog]

Hey great educational video as usual. Which knife are running on the belt these days?

[@GrayBeardedGreenBeret]

My Metsa Puukko design

[@GenericUTuber32]

How long would a long fire like that last? Are you adding more wood every hour or would you get a few hours rest before you has to add more logs?

[@welty69]

at least 3 or more hours before needeing to add some more logs....

[@ricktricksfixx5970]

292nd!!

[@GrayBeardedGreenBeret]

😂