Start a campfire with jumper cables and a car battery

Start a campfire with jumper cables and a car battery

What happens when you need to build a fire, but you forgot your matches and lighter? What if you don't know the fire-plow method, the bow and drill method, or even the flint and steel method (not that you would have flint, because you forgot your lighter)?

Watch this survival video tutorial to learn how to start a campfire with jumper cables and a car battery. To go along with those jumper cables and car battery, you'll also need a plain old wooden pencil and a knife to reach the lead inside.

Carve two notches in the lead pencil, exposing the lead, then hook the red and black lead of the jumper cables to it, and drop it in your tinder brush. Then connect the other ends of the cables to the positive and negative terminals on your car battery and then... flames!

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Comments

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zerox 8 months ago
Until you pop your battery.
+1
ELECTROpoison 8 months ago
Cars these days have cigarette lighters in them too duh, plus that's not good on the battery. Also, if you have a car, why not just drive it to the store and buy a lighter or some matches?
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scorch27 6 months ago
kool thing is if your car broke down and your stranded it would work until the battery died.
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