![]() ![]() Char cloth is one solution that’ll help you go from producing sparks to getting kindling to catch fire consistently. If you’re dealing with difficult weather, there might not even be any viable tinder around because everything’s wet. Most tinder that you can find in the wilderness doesn’t catch fire easily and burns up very quickly even when it does. It’s not that easy to get from sparks to an actual fire, especially in adverse conditions (the kind of conditions that you want to be planning for if you want to be a survivalist). You might think that as long as you have sparks, you have fire, but you’d be wrong. ![]() In other words, the technique of making char cloth is something you do ahead of time as a form of preparation for a foray into the wilderness, not a skill you use when you’re actually in a wilderness emergency. You need a fire to be able to make char cloth – you can’t make it “on-the-spot” in a wilderness survival situation because the whole point of the char cloth is to allow you to start a fire more easily, but you need a fire to begin with in order to make char cloth. Keep in mind that char cloth is something you make in advance of any trek or wilderness adventure. It’s the bridge between the sparks and an actual flame. You then use this smoldering char cloth to set fire to kindling. If you have a way to make sparks (e.g flint and steel or ferro rod), char cloth is what you use those sparks to get smoldering. If you’ve got char cloth on you, you’re 90% of the way there because it catches so easily. You can imagine why this might be useful in a survival situation – imagine you’re caught out in a bad storm in the wilderness. In this article, we’ll be going over how you can make char cloth – an easy to make, straightforward fire-starting material that will catch with the slightest spark. ![]() Why Should I Learn How to Make Char Cloth? Today, we’re going to be focusing on teaching you a very basic survival skill that could nevertheless end up being lifesaving because it can help you “provide” yourself with the second priority on the list – shelter/warmth. If you’re at all familiar with Secrets of Survival, you’ll know that we very frequently refer back to the survival rule of threes – the rule of thumb that you should prioritize your survival needs in the following order based on how long you can survive without them. ![]()
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