Char cloth

How to Make Charcloth/Charwood

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• published: 16 Dec 2013
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Skillz that pay the billz Charcloth is like a fire insurance policy; use a fire to make a tinder, use that tinder to make a fire, use that fire to make a tinder and so on and so fourth. Being able to make charcloth gives you the ability to never be without tinder, as finding natural tinders in the wild can be tricky and never a guarantee. You'll need a pretty airtight container, containers such as a survival tin, an air rifle pellet tin or a tobacco tin will do the job, and the reason it needs to be air tight is because the process of charring requires a low oxygen environment, the material will be piping hot during the process, and any oxygen that could make its way into the tin may spontaneously ignite the materials. With that being said, you'll need to pierce a small hole in the top of the tin, the hole in the top of the tin allows the unwanted smoke, moisture and gases to escape during the charring process. Place a piece of fabric into the tin, not too much that you have trouble closing the tin, just enough to leave some room for it to breathe. The fabrics could come from a piece of your t-shirt, a scarf or even your underwear, but bare in mind that synthetic materials such as polyester or nylon won't work because they'll just melt rather than char, and their fumes are toxic too. You should use natural materials such as wool or cotton if available. There are materials other than fabrics that you can char too, but ill cover that later. The length of time you leave your char-tin in the fire varies depending on the size of your fire, the intensity of the fire and the materials you're charring. A good indication of whether it's done or not is to look at the expulsions from the small hole, is smoke or flame emerging from the hole? If yes, then wait until the smoke or flame dies down, this is just the gasses being expelled and igniting once it hits the fire. Once nothing is being spewed out from the hole, then it's time to pull it out of the fire. Allow it to cool down first before you inspect it, reason number 1 is so you don't burn yourself and reason number two is allowing oxygen to enter the tin straight away while it's still piping hot then it may cause the charcloth to spontaneously combust. Your charcloth will instantly catch a spark and begin to smoulder like an ember, so next time you need a fire, you can place a piece of your smouldering charcloth into a birds nest bundle for ezpz fire. You can also char punkwood, which is a dry, rotten piece of wood that crumbles in your hand as you crush it. Use the same process you would use to make charcloth. ------------------------------------ Outdoor skills for wilderness survival, bushcraft, hiking and recreational camping. Twitter: www.twitter.com/AlfieAesthetics Facebook: www.facebook.com/AlfieTheAesthetic Google+: www.plus.google.com/+AlfieAesthetics ------------------------------------ Illustrations & Graphics (if) shown and included in videos can be found here: www.AestheticIllustrations.wordpress.com ------------------------------------- Video requests are welcome – if you’d like to see a particular skill that I’ve not yet shown then feel free to leave a comment with your desires. Anything from fire-building, friction fire, fire from natural materials, tinders, charring, wild edibles, plant identification, fungi/slime mold identification, medicinal plants, wilderness first aid and wound treatment, camp cooking, water filtration and purification, natural shelter building, shelter building with synthetic materials, navigation without a compass, improvised compasses, primitive weaponry, primitive trapping, gear reviews, survival kits and gear requests. -------------------------------------