Survival Experts Called It Primitive—Until This Medieval Fire Outlasted Their $500 Gear in -40°F
234K views · Jan 16, 2026 · People & Blogs
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@Kaboomsmith · 8 months ago
Rare do I see a video on survival I dint already KNOW .... thanks adding this one to my bag of tricks ... VERY VERY USEFUL
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@DaveBennett · 8 months ago
This is how I burn in our wood stove. Once I have a small be of coals, I place an 8-12" log on that bed of coals. Once the top log is beginning to glow on the bottom, I raise it and place 3-4" logs under it. This burns twice as long and hotter than just a pile of wood burning.
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@robertdulaney4786 · 8 months ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIGYoEWLt3c&t=100">1:40</a> "The Soviet Union invaded Finland with over one million men, expecting victory in two weeks." It seems that the Marxist government of the Russian Federation is just as unrealistic as the old Soviet Union.
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@hahamorehaha6869 · 8 months ago
Log size, wood type, and age of log will come into play.
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@ChicagoTRS · 7 months ago (edited)
Would like to see a real life test like from Outdoor Boys
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@jeffreyohl901 · 2 months ago
Really enjoyed this story...
@Myrslokstok · 8 months ago
You dont have to choop up all wood neither!
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@ericb.4358 · 8 months ago (edited)
This "2 big log fire" is Ok if you have people sleeping on BOTH sides. Have slept very well in winter with a stacked log reflector fire, feeding it ONCE during the night. Logs in the stacked reflector will eventually burn as well. Other logs, lined up parallel, one behind the other and placed on sapling "rails" gradually roll into the fire and burn. Our lean-to had a clear plastic sheet across the entire front, held down by a 5" x 6' log laying on the edge of the plastic. The radiant heat coming through the plastic front kept us warm all night. We used the downwind end of the lean-to as our "door', moving aside the intertwined Hemlock boughs when necessary and replacing them when we re-entered the lean-to.
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@capableguardian · 8 months ago
Incredible experiment showing medieval fire techniques outperform expensive modern survival gear in brutal -40°F conditions.
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@davidwatson5071 · 4 months ago
I’m David i heard this a while ago but I forgot so thank you for my refresher knowledge your awesome have a blessed life
@richardbarber4444 · 8 months ago
This explains why fire grates in ancient castles are designed the way they are.
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@MrBottlecapBill · 8 months ago
I've always done this since I was a kid. I didn't use logs this huge but whatever scavended dead logs I could find, lined up and laid on top of my fires in a slightly long shaped pit (smaller than the log length). Start with two smaller on the bottom and one large at the top. As the two smaller bottom logs burn down to coals add two more smaller on top of the one large. As that one large burns down to coals add two smaller on top of that one large etc etc. Take the end pieces that extended beyong the fire pit and flop them back in again. I didn't use this for survival I just did it camping because I was lazy and didn't want to spend too much time cutting wood. 🤣
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