so here’s a situation you just ran in a
gas your vehicles stranded on the side
of a mountain road who knows if we’re
going to get any help out here so it’s a
good idea to get a survival fire going
as soon as possible and here’s a cool
trick you can use to do just that using
a common graphite pencil now this trick
is actually super simple to do all you
need to do is first of all just wiggle
the eraser off the end of your pencil so
that you’ve just got the wood and the
graphite then all you need to do is take
a sharp object like a rock or a knife
and just bite off the top section of
wood and split it down the middle so you
can see the graphite exposed through the
center of the pencil and that’s pretty
much all the preparation your pencil
needs to become a makeshift firestarter
go ahead and attach your jumper cables
with the red end to the positive and the
black to the negative and watch this
clip one of the cables onto one end of
the pencil so that poking into the
graphite on one end then take the other
jumper cable and do the same thing on
the other end the second it makes
contact the pencil start smoking and
within a few seconds will burst into
flames
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now important thing to realize about
your jumper cables is that only one of
the teeth is electrically connected so
look at the wire where it runs in turn
your jumper cables with the neutral side
down that’s where we’re going to place
the wood part of our pencil and when we
close the teeth the pointy part – the
one with the cable on it should be
digging into the graphite like this now
rather than burning up the entire length
of your pencil at once it makes a lot
more sense to break them into one and a
half to two inch pieces you end up with
four to five different igniters by doing
this you can really make one pencil go a
long way the second you clip your jumper
cable into place it’s going to ignite
into fire so you need to have a tinder
bundle or some kind of kindling ready to
go to catch that flame the instant it
happens now the wood that you take off
your pencil does not need to go to waste
you can use that for kindling to help
stoke your fire just chop it into small
pieces pile it up in a little teepee
shape and then when you get your initial
flame you’ll already have a little more
tinder you can throw straight on the
fire now check this out if you can
stretch your jumper cables out right to
your fire pit you can actually get your
mechanism set up in the fire build your
tinder and your kindling over top of it
and then you can go back to your battery
and connect your jumper cables to the
terminals there and from a safe distance
your fire will ignite itself how cool is
that boom there it is
[Music]
well that is how you make a survival
fire using the jumper cables from your
car and a pencil
thanks so much for joining me for this
experiment I’ll be looking for in the
next video let’s talk to you that think
we just got recognized for sure
busted
[Music]
gas your vehicles stranded on the side
of a mountain road who knows if we’re
going to get any help out here so it’s a
good idea to get a survival fire going
as soon as possible and here’s a cool
trick you can use to do just that using
a common graphite pencil now this trick
is actually super simple to do all you
need to do is first of all just wiggle
the eraser off the end of your pencil so
that you’ve just got the wood and the
graphite then all you need to do is take
a sharp object like a rock or a knife
and just bite off the top section of
wood and split it down the middle so you
can see the graphite exposed through the
center of the pencil and that’s pretty
much all the preparation your pencil
needs to become a makeshift firestarter
go ahead and attach your jumper cables
with the red end to the positive and the
black to the negative and watch this
clip one of the cables onto one end of
the pencil so that poking into the
graphite on one end then take the other
jumper cable and do the same thing on
the other end the second it makes
contact the pencil start smoking and
within a few seconds will burst into
flames
[Music]
now important thing to realize about
your jumper cables is that only one of
the teeth is electrically connected so
look at the wire where it runs in turn
your jumper cables with the neutral side
down that’s where we’re going to place
the wood part of our pencil and when we
close the teeth the pointy part – the
one with the cable on it should be
digging into the graphite like this now
rather than burning up the entire length
of your pencil at once it makes a lot
more sense to break them into one and a
half to two inch pieces you end up with
four to five different igniters by doing
this you can really make one pencil go a
long way the second you clip your jumper
cable into place it’s going to ignite
into fire so you need to have a tinder
bundle or some kind of kindling ready to
go to catch that flame the instant it
happens now the wood that you take off
your pencil does not need to go to waste
you can use that for kindling to help
stoke your fire just chop it into small
pieces pile it up in a little teepee
shape and then when you get your initial
flame you’ll already have a little more
tinder you can throw straight on the
fire now check this out if you can
stretch your jumper cables out right to
your fire pit you can actually get your
mechanism set up in the fire build your
tinder and your kindling over top of it
and then you can go back to your battery
and connect your jumper cables to the
terminals there and from a safe distance
your fire will ignite itself how cool is
that boom there it is
[Music]
well that is how you make a survival
fire using the jumper cables from your
car and a pencil
thanks so much for joining me for this
experiment I’ll be looking for in the
next video let’s talk to you that think
we just got recognized for sure
busted
[Music]
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