The Survivalists Nightmare Terrain

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[@robertrosicki9290]

In my part of Northern Canada, the " fresh" wood is called " green" wood. The mixed new trees that come up after farm fields or clear cuts regrow again is called " pioneer growth". Good video Lars , I'll try the green birch fire soon.

[@ingvarz7468]

about fresh wood we also say green wood in Russia.

[@W_H_K]

@@ingvarz7468 And in Australia we do to. I think he maybe just couldn’t think of the word as he speaks multiple languages and English isn’t his native one. This happens frequently when you are using multiple languages but are master of none. 😂

[@petertoth8621]

Lars, this was a great video: consisted a lot of practical know hows: how to use the knife for split wood in an efficient way, how to dry the logs out and so on. This videio was itself full of gems! Great content in a usual very friendly style! Thanks

[@The5As7]

In our country we call the dry dead wood still clutching to trees, "squaw" wood as at least legendarily the Native American squaws would collect this wood for the same reason you are to start their fires. They also favored evergreens because the needles acted like a "roof" to protect branches underneath them from at least getting as wet not to mention the flammable resin. Stay safe my friend both you and your family.

[@martinbulldogmartyarjoon7431]

This was fantastic friend Lars! Not boring at all! I will always appreciate the truth about wilderness living and survival from those who live it like yourself and your family... Great content. Also congratulations to the Pink Ninja on her chess competition victory!!! AWESOME!🤙

[@DB.KOOPER]

I love it, you use so many of the same techniques my Granddad and Dad taught me growing up. I find myself nodding my head and smiling watching your videos... Thanks for reminding me of two of the greatest men I had in my life and for the awesome content. best to you and yours mate from the Pacific NW US.

[@chriscopeland1455]

hey Lars, hope all is well with you and the familiy. buddy a quick shout out from the U.S.A we love ya and keep teching us my friend many thanks for what you do always. this coming from a grumpy old disabled vet you keep fighting that good fight very appreciated

[@jedcobb3420]

This is a really good video. It takes a lot more than some "armchair survivalists" think to make a fire in those conditions. It would really be bad news if you were in a place that didn't have birch trees. It's definitely something that anyone serious about it should practice. Pick the crappiest, raining, sleeting, snowing, etc. day possible and go out in the woods and see if you can build a fire. Thanks for the video.

[@thegreatoutdoors2000]

Thanks Lars. 👍🏻

[@SurvivalRussia]

My pleasure!

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you , Lars . 🐺

[@VIPER410]

Always good to know when you really need it. Thanks Lars

[@jeffmccausland3569]

Thanks Lars!

[@grahamcliffe8672]

I've been a Scout leader in the UK for 30 odd years, that would make an awesome instructional video to teach teenagers about fire lighting. Mainly as it shows how to pre-prepare for your fire. They always tend to collect a handful of twigs and small sticks, and then immediately light their fire, and wonder why it's gone out after 5 mins, when they have no fuel left. You have what looks like a lot of fuel, but I bet that's less than an hour's worth.

[@BBQDad463]

Thank you for this video. Fatwood and Birch are indeed God's gift to the man who needs a fire. Stacking your firewood around the fire to dry it out and preheat it is a way-cool idea.

[@davidmunro1469]

Thank you Lars. We are getting similar warm weather here on Manitoulin Island. That birch bark burns like rocket fuel. I have enough firewood to get through winter.😊

[@lookoutpath6520]

Kool skills & basic tools video👍 👋 from Calgary 🇨🇦. Nice to see your batoning (no baton) techniques

[@twt3716]

Where I live, dead pieces of dried up leathery skin is often referred to as 'The ex wife'. On a side note, I'm amazed how this big fella can survive without a valet and a chef and other assorted staff. Serious dude. Respect to him.

[@asmith7876]

Great timing! We’ve had many weekends in a row of stunning and mild weather…until I’m FINALLY able to get away. Hovered just above freezing and rained most of the time. In between we’d have a fire, had to split the wood down small. Fortunately in addition to my Silky Bushcraft Bigboy I had my Silky hatchet! LOVE that thing! From where I’m sitting, green or not, that birch seems like cheating! 😂 Must be awesome!

[@maybenotsogoodanidea1070]

Good timing. I was out today roaming the bush and stopped at one of my favourite lakes for lunch. Decided to spark up a fire but the only dry wood was some standing dead alder, which worked quite well. The whole fire building process was almost identical to what you showed, excepting the birch bark as there was none around. Even used my Silky Bigboy for cutting up the wood, though I did use an axe instead of knife for the splitting.

[@RAYANDERS-w4t]

THANKS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ullrangtheviking4412]

Great call on the birch.👍 My grandfather taught me to look for birch when starting a fire. He said it burns quick, but it also burns at a high temperature. So it's great for starting fires, but you always want to be sure you have a good supply of other wood close.

[@SilvaDreams]

Birch is a hardwood but it's a rather soft one and it's a rather resinous one so it burns rather easily but it burns dirty so for an open fire it is fine but I wouldn't suggest it for anything with a chimney. Most people look for it simply because the bark is thin and papery so it lights very easily. About the only thing I know of off hand that beats it is a tree that grows in the swamps in the southern US and we called it a fat wood tree because when you light it it boils up out of the wood like a chunk of fat but it's really smoky and only good for lighting a fire.

[@petesheppard1709]

Here in the southern USA, we use pine for the quick, hot (but dirty) fire.

[@derekpennington4979]

So close to the trees in Maine it's awesome. Like watching you in my back yard

[@TimberwolfCY]

Honestly, great video. The fun stuff may be the 'easy' stuff, prepared sites, etc., but the *useful* stuff, the 'meat-and-potatoes,' the really good training and practice and experience, is gained in situations like you just demonstrated. And at least to me that's what makes it really fascinating and interesting!

[@MichaelR58]

Lars , good to visit again , have a great day , thanks for sharing , God bless brother !

[@SurvivalRussia]

Always good to see you!

[@dlrmon1]

dlrmon1 1 second ago I have always prided myself on being able to make fire from the natural surroundings. There are certain places at particular times of the year it’s next to impossible to start a fire without a lot more help than I typically see people using. My nightmare is a rain forest that’s most always enveloped in fog/rain hovering around freezing and you look around at everything covered in thick dripping moss 20 feet high.

[@deekelley891]

I thought it was just fine! I enjoyed watching and learning as well.

[@timothycivis8757]

Still a good video. nice of youtube to bring you back on my side you have not been popping up in feeds over here in the US for around 2 months.

[@hollissweedman1494]

Another useful video! Always helps to have an idea of how it’s done before your life depends on it!!

[@thehopperhopes6365]

Looks like my winter cold and wet , temp gets almost to freezing but not quite so you get wet from the inside out or the outside in.

[@kcraig51]

Man! I wish we had Birch around here. Birch bark good as diesel fuel! LOL

[@lessharratt8719]

Good lesson. Not boring at all.

[@mattswift42]

Yeah! You are my man again!

[@andrewsalacina9705]

Thank you for another great video Lars . I look forward to the next video

[@cobrakillingfrog646]

That was an EXCELLENT video!!! So deeply appreciate it! Thank you!

[@odinbiflindi]

I always carry a small fire kit full of paper birch, silver birch bark strips plus a tin full of pine resin i meen who doesn't like just clearing off to the woods and sit round a fire for a few hours.

[@boschcraft6169]

yeah the F1 is great, I love it too. I remember before I both it, I watched you talking about it and till now I do not regret it. :)

[@lonniet.2816]

ALWAYS AWESOME VIDEOS, THANK YOU!!

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thanks again!

[@brianeaton3734]

Great vid Lars…..

[@collinmc90]

How long did it take you to gather and process the fire wood? Around here in the rainy season it takes maybe an hour or two just to get enough fuel for 3 to 4 hours. Making a fire in these conditions takes so much more effort. You have to get started much earlier. biggest mistake I see people make is not collecting enough kindling.

[@grisseldog]

Great video Lars 👍 Hammer Down

[@MontanaWelldigger]

Thank you Mr. Lars!! From the great state of Montana!!

[@JamesBuell88]

Good info. Just glad to see an upload. Keep on keeping on brother

[@Messerjocke90]

Thank you for the video 🙏. I'm now inspired to get my lazy *ss into the woods again and practice my fire skills👍. Birch bark is my main fire starter here, but I also find some lower grade fat wood here sometimes and collect spruce resin as well. But birch bark is the easiest one to collect here. Greetings from Germany. ✌️

[@angelicwolf909]

Was next to a pine log fire ... then listened to this video ... as always ... "super awesome".

[@TheTommyw77]

Great video Lars.

[@chya9262]

The terrain isn't a nightmare for the Russian Yeti! It's a walk in the park for the big guy.

[@bhoward9378]

Great tips, Lars! It had never occurred to me to split green birch. Last night was the first snow of any real accumulation this fall in the Bighorn Mountains. 5 degrees (F) tonight.

[@francoisborghys8350]

Nice video...learned something new...thx

[@juanadearco9617]

Hello , loving that hat, where i can get one of this?

[@SurvivalRussia]

Finland most likely.

[@TheGameMasterMecha]

i love what you are doing

[@MrDwanehoward]

Thanks Lars

[@chrisdavies73]

Great tips Lars, thanks. I always carry a small piece of bicycle inner tube. Burns even when wet👍

[@bushcraftnorthof6012]

This sums up my childhood on the wet east coast of Canada! Already skiing here in the Northwest Territories. Enjoy your summer weather while it lasts, Lars.

[@petesheppard1709]

Good video; that's the sort of weather where hypothermia can sneak up on the unaware. At first I wondered why you were throwing all your wood on, but then I realized you were building a bed of coals, which makes sustaining the fire much easier.

[@ned900]

Pretty darn cool. I live in Ireland and its hard to set a forest on fire in the winter (figuratively) with all the rain. The place is just not condusive to burning.

[@darrenwallingford7560]

good demonstration

[@BSWThunder6]

That hiss sounds exactly like the wood they sell at Ontario Parks 😆 for $10 CAD a bag!!! I always count on white birch bark to help start my fires thanks to you Lars. A bit of birch bark, some magnesium and the ferro rod and I'm golden.

[@klintbartle54]

Great video thank you

[@pdsrenos]

Great video!

[@tomritter493]

Great tutorial .thays a different way to baton

[@danielsneed3235]

Bleh, bleh, bleh away. I find that to be the most useful and best parts of your great videos. Hope you and your family are doing well.

[@archibaldtuttle8481]

THIS -- is why they say, Full Tang 6+mm thick. Nice job presenting challenging situation.

[@alexmoraru4288]

I always enjoi your videos Where did you get that knife from?

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you. It's a Fallkniven F1.

[@alexmoraru4288]

@@SurvivalRussia thank you!

[@jordansmith4040]

Neat! Here where I live, it's very wet this time of year with winds sometimes over 100km/h. Luckily, spruce and fir are the majority of trees, so if you are sheltered from wind, there's lots of sap and "old man's beard" to use as fuel.

[@fyremanjef]

Nice to see you out in woods again. The pine and birch trees stand no chance against Lars and his Silky saws, especially when FastForwarding! Lol. Keep your head up (or down) and the good content coming.

[@normantighe7862]

Lots of birch around here in Poland, but I’ve never thought to try burning green birch. Never had to, but good to know you can use it green.

[@WilliamAshleyOnline]

So one thing I am wondering is --- is coppicing trees shrubs etc.. a thing in Russia. You know cutting sections or stands off a tree so that it regrows multiple shoots out of the same branch so it can be collected for craft or firemaking rather than felling outright. I am guessing in many areas there has never really been a wood shortage in Russia to make this normal forest management however curious if you have considered coppicing or do coppicing of some tree species as a management process in shrubland?

[@Catonius]

cheers Lars, always educational and entertaining.

[@Jerry-sw8cz]

yes but there is Birch and lots of it... absolutely true... camping before and after the discovery of Silky saws and Stanley thermoses ...🙂 but bad in deep 90´s in my country there was a saw called OREGON wooden handle - folding it was OWESOME... I still have one, should have bought 5pcs at that time for seriously cheap money... but now we have the Silky...

[@thegainsayerstalker]

No Lars, your videos are always AWESOME!

[@walkercustoms]

Lars and the SR Experience, always a great show.

[@chimay3]

I've never used fresh birch, but fresh young pine works well once the heat is hot enough.

[@Mothinabox]

Excellent!

[@funkyprepper]

Takes skill to get around this brother. Remember the Eastern front back in the day

[@karyalokal3071]

Mantap omku suport selalu

[@martymcgill1312]

Great video man, you make me want to go out and build a fire. Thanks for your content.

[@clausebbesennielsen5596]

Hallo from Esbjerg in Denmark, I also hate the wet season, I prefer could weather, jeg ønsker dig en god jul og Godt nytår og at din familie har det godt, Jeg savner Rusland, har altid haft en god tid der

[@SurvivalRussia]

Mange tak og I lige måde Claus!

[@saraskold9631]

Lars ever since the insanity of the world started your videos do not stream that well not sure it is at my end or something else this was a great video hope all is well

[@SurvivalRussia]

Thank you :)

[@Thomas-wn7cl]

Awesome video

[@henrymoreland8719]

" it can be done " Thanks Lars, great video. It always rains here🙄

[@davidjones1393]

THKS

[@gusgone4527]

I wish I had seen this video back in the 1980's. One miserable first night trekking over the Scottish border to the Kielder forest. Our small group had permission to camp and light a fire in a farmers "field." I use the term cautiously as bog would be a better description. Even the sheep were wearing Wellington boots. Literally everything was soaking wet and trees and bushes were covered in wet moss. Dead standing wood crumbled into wet mush if squeezed. After several fruitless attempts at lighting a fire to dry ourselves out. We resorted to hexi stoves, rationpacts and sleeping in our wet clothes to at least dry them a little with body heat. Thank the Gods for the British Army Cold Weather Sleeping System. Nice and warm even when a little wet.

[@germanprepper21]

Great skills. I have intel up on YT each day. Keep prepping guys 👍 🙏 ✝️

[@larrykluckoutdoors8227]

Great video

[@logoseven3365]

The wilderness starts on either side of the road. Dad camped in the city of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Yeah, it’s not perfect but it works

[@Wojtek7060]

Lars, do you still use Veshmeshok? I am so curious about this backpack. It is still affordable in Poland. Would you recommend it as a main backpack? Why did you use a lighter while you had a ferro rod? Fire material too wet to use it?

[@ancientbuilds3764]

Pro tip: If you are in larger growth forests, look for blown down trees. If the root system comes out intact, they are like little man caves. And you will always find some dry kindling inside if it is pretty shallow. Only on inclines though.

[@hauki9286]

Birch is pretty dry wood compared to others unless it is spring time when the sap is flowing.

[@unclebmcc6848]

Always entertaining.👆🇨🇦

[@michaelhutson6758]

Yeah, having to saw down a live tree and split the green wood into pieces thin enough to burn is definitely not the best conditions.

[@adriancox-thesantjordigolf3646]

Let's hope you get some snow soon

[@tonysmith5924]

I think I fell down!🤣🤣🤣❤️❤️❤️

[@REAPERMILITIAOUTDOORS]

👊💀 Wet fire is a pain right in the ass lol. 👊💀

[@SurvivalRussia]

It is :)

[@REAPERMILITIAOUTDOORS]

@@SurvivalRussia 👊💀🍻🏴‍☠️🍻

[@jerrytalley802]

It’s funny Lars, I’ve never thought about woods with no dead trees, but when land is clear cut, it’s going to be a long time before any dead wood.

[@Steve-318]

I've started quite a few fires with wet birch bark, of course I used a lighter so kind of cheating but it's amazing.

[@patriotpioneer]

Best Channel on KZbin..!

[@Geseletype2x]

Ларс зажжет костер в любую погоду👍💪🤙

[@ikadan]

Oi! Lars! i noticed you did some light batoning there. Have you broken any Mora Kansbols while batoning? I'm asking because one of my Kansbols broke while i was batoning a rotten piece of wood wich had a knot in it. By the way the kansbol is a full tang knife. Learned that the hard way. ;P

[@oconnorsean12]

Did I hear a chain saw in the background when you were sawing the Birch tree? Talk about sound effects

[@2secondslater]

Oh how I would love to be able to split a log with a knife, Australia is not so forgiving. I guess, at least, most of the trees here are already almost dry, even when they are living.