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  • Guess who just turned up at my place.

  • It is Grant Thompson The King Of Random

  • G: What's up guys

  • D: Grant is actually going to show me a little survival tip,

  • let's say you're stuck out in the woods, and you need to make a fire, but you don't have say... Matches or a lighter

  • We're going to try to use a ziploc bag to start a fire

  • G: I guess when you're building a fire the first thing you're going to need is some tinder

  • So we're gonna have to go scavenge around for some options this stuff works pretty well

  • D: now this is pretty dry

  • G: Yeah, we definitely want something that's off the ground if possible because we need it as dry as possible

  • The first step was to grind up the tinder into a fine powder. I'm just following Grant's instructions here

  • I'm not really sure if this is going to work see that right there. That's the stuff We're going for it's super fine

  • We're gonna take our base plate. We're going to pinch a nice little pile in there. okay, so at this point We're pretty much ready

  • to start

  • the ignition process

  • So what do we need for that? ...for that We're going to need Ziplock bag and a little bit of water

  • Now this is just a regular ziploc sandwich Baggie. We're going to pour that in till it's about halfway full, you let me know when

  • Grab water from a Creek or stream or wherever you like now

  • Here's the trick we want to develop this into some kind [of] a liquid sphere

  • We're going to be making a liquid magnifying glass

  • I do that by turning my ziploc bag you know 45 degrees

  • So it creates this diamond shape and then we're [just] going to gather these two Corners together

  • We're going to lose a little bit of water as we do okay

  • I'm going to pinch that off and the next goal is to twist it trap all that water inside

  • You see as I twist it it creates pressure that exerts [-] almost an equal pressure on all sides

  • And now while it's not a perfect sphere

  • It will eventually start to bubble out

  • Into a nice liquid sphere where we need it we've essentially just made a makeshift magnifying glass

  • And you start to fire the same way you would with a magnifying glass

  • Now once he rolled the ball around you can see where it looks the best

  • We're looking for as close to as sphere as possible. Which is right there now if I back it out

  • [wow]

  • You can see there start smoking immediately that's incredible the focal length of the lens is the place where [all] of the light converges?

  • That's really what we're trying to establish here, right is

  • Position the tinder pile at the focal point of this

  • Spherical by convex lens [essentially] now you can see [that's] been smoking [for] a little while Mm-hmm

  • We've developed a little bit of an Ember base. It's burned a little bit

  • Yeah, so now I'm going to sprinkle a little bit more fuel on top there

  • And that will cause the heat to rise and burn that from the bottom and I'm going to again from the top nice

  • It's interesting how you're like kind of bringing it down so that the surface of that is not actually where the most concentrated

  • Rays are you're concentrating even deeper down into the pile. That's right because

  • We don't want the heat to [dissipate] too much, and if we're at an extreme focal point like this. Yes

  • The heats going to bleed off, so if we can warm the surrounding area it actually helps speed the process, right?

  • We're just going to repeat that process until it will stay smoking on its own

  • [we've] only been at this for a minute or two and the amount of smoke

  • We're seeing there is it's pretty significant [a] little bit of sprinkle a little bit of sunlight rinse and repeat. We're really elevating the temperature

  • Mm-Hmm I

  • Just point our pile smoking pretty well on its own now

  • I'm going to go ahead and take this plastic bag and just set it to the side we could reuse this again if we wanted

  • To at this point. We can probably start adding smaller pieces of tinder. You'll get a few of these little pieces here

  • We're going to go down to small we want it to be extremely light airy

  • Sure to still allow the [oxygen] to get in there exactly because if you take away the oxygen you smother the fire cool

  • I think right there. We're just going to let it sit for a [couple] minutes now

  • Well that's going we can start chopping up some of these pieces. We just found lying on the ground. They're dry

  • It's almost like straw. We're going to pull them into very thin fibers

  • We want to make something that [resembles] a bird's nest something that's light airy and can catch fire very quickly now

  • We need to transfer this without disturbing the coals as much as possible

  • The way that I like to do that is take this base. Mm-hmm. We're going to take this grass

  • We're going to put over top and we're just going to gently roll. It over like this

  • [oh] wow now you can see all those hot coals transfer down into the grass and we're just going to cover it over

  • To help conceal block it from some of the wind

  • like this and

  • now because of all that straw the air can flow through it and help build the heat one trick that I use it look a

  • Little bit funny, I just stick this in my hand and spin in circles

  • [see]

  • And it really works honestly

  • That's impressive

  • You can already see it smoking a little bit more

  • We're going to give that a second just for the heat to build back up

  • Yeah

  • but you can totally see

  • There's a lot more fuel catching on fire now what we want to be seeing is thicker smoke and we want to see it

  • progressing so we see the smoke dying down or getting weaker like slow down get out of the breeze give it a chance for the

  • Heat to build this is ready if you look down in there. You can almost see glowing Red Embers now

  • It wants to light it wants to light it

  • Just needs a little bit of a flick it's going to build up a little more a little spinning trick

  • [oh] you see that goes hot flame. I'll go amazing boom and then we're out here. Oh

  • Ha ha shoot. Sorry [Derrick] is [ok]

  • We've clearly demonstrated forming fire. Well that my friend is how to start a fire [with] a sandwich bag and bright side

  • [eh] [that's] nicely done. [I] want to say a huge. Thank you to grant here king of random

  • You should go check out his channel. There's lots of very random things and it's taught me a thing or two

  • That's for sure [a] lot about survival

  • Hacks and a lot of those things that you really shouldn't try at home

  • And then we show you why you shouldn't try them at home back?

  • We just put a video on my channel trying to melt glass we took a Dr.

  • Pepper bottle and melted that in the back here, and I worked amazingly well, so go check it out

  • I'll put a link in the description (www.youtube.com/c/MinhtanVietsub)

Guess who just turned up at my place.

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