Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "How To Start A Fire In The 18th Century" video.

  1. The fire piston also requires dry tinder to catch, it is not a method which doesn't require something dry, pretty much all of the methods require something dry to catch fire. It was common to carry around your own set of fire starting sticks, which you'd use to start a friction fire when required. So no matter the method, everyone was carrying their fire-making equipment with them, not really just making fire from whatever tools they could find/make locally. Carrying your own set of pre-built tools was always preferred, in all circumstances.
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  2. Oooh I heard about that, I think from a survival tv show I saw a while back. Hah, I didn't expect the method to be so useful that I'd expect to ever see it mentioned in the comments , what a coincidence 😁
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  3. ​ @internetcatfish  I think they're talking about the movie. That's fine.
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  4. On the lens theme: I wonder if people used a curved polished metal "mirror" to focus sunlight to start fires ☀️. Like an "Archimedes death ray". It might have been easier to find a metal able to be hammered into shape & polished, compared to needing a large transparent gem or manufactured glass that needed to be cut/ground into a lens shape. The skills to work the metal would have been more common.
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