Backpacker Survival Skills: Start a Fire with Your Cell Phone
Friday, November 20th, 2009 at
3:11 am
Editor in Chief Jon Dorn shows you how to get a fire going with nothing but your cellphone, a piece of steel wool, and some tinder.
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why are people moaning about it, most of these survival tips none of u will use anyway let alone this one, and anyway a good tip is a good tip
‘ken’ is merely a sentential device, like quintrop meanders. Do you enjoy camping in the Cairngorms?
You cant? Ive actually done it when i did my military service. So if im ignorant, what are you?
I’ve never been to Scotland but I bet its nice
I apologize, I was a bit too harsh with my reply. I did some research myself and found that indeed, you are right. However, the process of “smacking” two rocks together to create sparks is extremely difficult. It’s unlikely an untrained individual would be able to find the right rocks and strike them together at the right angle to produce sparks.
Its not as hard as you seem to believe. I can promise you, its way much easier than this battery thing. And as I said, a cellphone comes to much better use when stranded.
A very nice and useful trick to know, thanks!
Betting can lead to plunder. Have you visited yon Wales?
would this by any chance wreck your cell phone battery. Im a student in my last year and is there any careers that invole survial skills. Were i can learn most of these tricks.
no have you been to west virginia?
lol ur a dumbass
so hes got the wet fire shit but no lighter or matches? wtf… fail… and also if you have a cell phone on you odds are youd just call your friend and ask him to bring you a lighter… or if it was life or death call someone for help? fucking faillll
Exactly, if you have a brillo pad and some wet fire with you why the hell not have a lighter and/or matches?? Additionally many cell phone batteries these days have current limiting circuits to prevent shorts which can cause the li-ion battery to overheat, so no guarantees you could get enough current to flow to light the pad.
thats a survival skill hahaha
very funny
a cellphone
and in every forest you can find steel woole , of course.
This is just nuts. The guy has wetfire; steel wool; BUT no matches!!
OMG why the hell would you take a cell phone into the bush?? Camcorder I can see if you’re trying to be a superstar, even a laptop to edit your youtube films, but a cell phone?
No I have not visited it. Is it worth a visit?
To start a fire? Duh?
this is useful for me because I often walk around with steel wool in my pocket
Well its a good skill to kow in an urban inviorment incase of a naturaldisaster or such.. when maches are wet they don’t work.. when a lighter is realy wet it won’t work.. when a cellphone is wet.. soked wet… it won’t work.. but how about the battery?! any one tryed to soke your cell and tested the battery afterwards? well, mabey this skill isn’t the best but it’s still good to kow different ways to make a fire (and it’s fun knowledge)so 5 thumbs up!
So you have the wetfire, and brillo pad but fogot the matches/ligher ? …. brillant. Neat trick, but not practical…. again, neat trick
so it works on the same idea of using a square battery.
so what if you dont have the brillo?
Umm, this is the stupidest video…who the hell has a brillo pad and that powder kindling crap in a disaster scenario? Worthless crap.
wish they would teach this stuff in school.
and maybe even medical training
since hospitals wont let us in locally without insurance.