The Altoid Flint & Steel Fire Kit! Bushcraft Loadout

titanium flint strikers are better carbon steel striker

We don't get altoids in India 🤣

Dan, love your videos. Just received my flint and steel yesterday from Coal Cracker and man does it throw sparks like a champ. Can’t wait to get out this weekend and use it. 🔥

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I have a flint and steel kit but I've learned something here- jute!

I like to char a dozen cotton balls ,they catch quick and are the perfect size ember to get things started and you can stuff cotton balls for new char any wherever.

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Where the USA do you find Flint. They say there’s no real Flint in the US?

Im new to flint and steel. Actually, i think i have the ferrous rod. So, what is the difference? When i make fire, it is immediately a flame (i usually use dried pine needles). Thank you

In desperate need of a good shelter that will last for multiple yrs

No flint in Central New York. But I can find quartz from time to time. And I’ll grab a fist sized chunk of it to break down later. Works quite well.

Dan your bushcraft videos are the best!

Hahahaha buy my Stuff, no camping ever 😅

Coalcracker Bushcraft never fails to share the knowledge in a clear & concise manner, this inspires confidence.

Demonstrate a video about minimalist survival kit

Good video

How hard does the carbon steel striker need to be to throw good sparks with flint or chert?

Thanks Dan

I have Seresto flea collar tin that I made char cloth in. Hope that qualifies. 😂

Cool thank you!

Hey Dan I seen you on a townsends

I made a copper plate to cover my char cloth in the altoids tin. Keeps my flint and steel clean.

Excellent video 👍

Wish everyone could pass on knowledge as quickly and efficiently as you did in this video. Thumbs up!

Dryer lint works well also.

Flint and steel are my go to in my fire kit. Though my tin make my char in is recycled from a tin that I got .22 caliber pellets in when I was a kid. I keep additional altoid tind of made charcloth and an additional one full of 100% cotton gun cleaning patches to make more as needed

Nice video, but why not a Ferro rod?

Badger personal care products also come in a very excellent tin for making char material, but they are super tight so you definitely need to punch the hole. I have my cook kit and twig stove in an Orca water bottle bag that I can attach with molle straps to my main pack, and it has a little compartment under that fits a Badger tin nicely. A great place for extra char material and flint.

I asked this a bit ago on the Coalcracker site but didn't get an answer. Which of your strikers and striker sets are sized to fit in an Altoids-sized tin?

I enjoy your videos, very simple and easy to follow. Just got my flint and steel kit complete.

Excellent DIY video. Thank you for keeping it simple.

thanks

What about a burnt buc-ee’s tin? Lol

Very cool!! I took a ball peen hammer and bumped the lid out concave for more space inside.
I like denim for charcloth and used a couple spent shells: a rifle and a pistol shell that fit together; drilled out the spent primer from the rifle shell and stuffed a cotton rope through it, charred the end and capped it with the pistol shell. Now I have a brass slow-match to catch sparks. I also keep a scrap of leather about an inch wide by 2 or 3 inches long to protect the fingers and hold the char to the flint. It all fits inside my Altoids tin. I also use a Minis tin for pine pitch.
I’m a proponent of practicing at home and getting comfortable with the skill before going in the woods, so I’ve stunk up the house making char cloth a few times lol.

I've been lucky enough to have found a truly perfect piece of flint and as a machinist have also machined a triangular solid tungsten carbide bar three quarters of an inch by 8" long what I use to strike it with. But also truly fell in love with my three 1/2" ×6" Ferrocerium rods from Amazon!!! But I think 🤔 everyone just might be impressed with my video titled (Detachable Auger settlers wrench completed)!!! Which has nothing to do with starting fires 🔥 but could build a structure over head to keep the rain off while trying. But then again I have mastered the art of starting a fire in the rain 🌧️☔ while surounded with nothing but wet!!!

To each his own. Fatwood is waterproof, if your tinder gets wet you're out of luck.

My late father swore by them in the living history Community for over 30 years before they stamped Altoids on the tens that one move upset a lot of re-enactors😂

love your videos ........

Thanks, Dan. You've just introduced the modern world bushcrafters to a basic 18th century skill used daily by frontier families; even school-age kids learned this at an early age because they were responsible for helping with daily chores, such as: gathering & splitting firewood; making fat wood splinters; starting the fire for the cook-stove; etc. I always enjoy the videos when you are featured in an 18th century personna on Townsend's!. May God bless you.

Really enjoy your channel content. Short vids and to the point. Thanks. My name's Dan too!

I did not need to puncture my tin....it worked just fine with the gaps from the LID HINGES

y not just use ferro rod?

Very nice video Dan and very well explained. Thanks a lot for sharing. Greetings from Indonesia

My pieces of char cloth lights up without putting a spark on it when I open the can for a few minutes. I had to close up the can immediately so they didn't all burn out, that happened the day after I made char cloth. I hadn't open it since, because I had to go to the river to find flint. But even if it doesn't ignite, without spark, I don't trust to put it in my bag or pocket. So I am trying to learn of other materials to ignite for fire on the go.

I was getting no where w flint n steel then i saw ur vid. On kits ..the rocks i was using was no bueno . Got some chert from u n had fire n minutes ! Again thnx much n no worries .

Ifs funny what you said about lye soap-because someone probably did say that! Not understanding the fact that all soap is formed from lye, people often act like it is a special kind and extra harsh. The chemical reaction that forms soap requires lye, and therefore all soap necessarily is “lye soap.”

I carry a tin canister with a friction seal. Instead of drilling a hole in the top, I’ve drilled a hole in the side through both the lid and bottom. When I need to make char, I line the holes up. To make it nearly air tight, I twist the lid a bit. I keep mostly charred punk wood with a square of charred canvas (the canvas lasts longer than t shirt cotton). The canvas usually ignites faster than the punk wood but the punk wood burns longer. Rather than making a birds nest, I place a chunk of birch bark next to the coals and blow it into a flame to ignite a handful of twigs, pine cones, etc. sealing up my tin canister saves the char cloth and punk wood for another fire.

Thank you for your time.

Mine is a burnt Benjamin pellet tin

I was taught flint and steel by an old australian. The man worked wonders. And he taught me with charred Punk wood. Taught me how to find it how to charge it how to used dry dead grass how to throw Sparks upward and downward he taught me many of the tricks that he had learned over the years I got to where everywhere I went I had a flint and steel kit in my pocket. I got to the point where he would say Chuck I need a fire get to it and expect me to get it done and I was proud as punch when I got to the point where I could do it without any help at all from him.😢