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Ultimate Fire Tinder - Cold Water Saturation Test in Cold Weather Conditions

Ultimate Fire Tinder - Cold Water Saturation Test in Cold Weather Conditions

April 28, 2021

When we set out to create the new Ultimate Fire Tinder, our mission was to build a fire starting tinder worthy of that name. It not only had to be the easiest tinder on the planet to ignite...it also had to be able to do it in any weather you are likely to face. After all, what good is a fire tinder if it doesn't work when you need it most?! Likely, when you need it most you are both cold and wet...which leads to your fingers being numb. You may even be to the point of hypothermia. That's not the best time to find out your tinder is going to let you down! We're talking life and death here. We take that seriously.

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Fast Fire Stick Overview

Fast Fire Stick Overview

September 08, 2020

Procamptek's Fast Fire Stick is a portable, packable, clean, efficient, and fast ignition fire-starting tinder. It can be lit with a variety of common methods from flint sparks, embers, ferrocerium rods (aka ferro rods, firesteels), lighters, matches, & more. Even if you're a person who swears by the holy Bic for your fires, Fast Fire Stick will light from the flint spark even if the lighter is out of fluid!

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Fat Rope Stick vs. Mud Puddle

Fat Rope Stick vs. Mud Puddle

April 20, 2020

Fat Rope Stick has proved time and time again to be the ultimate choice in weatherproof fire tinder. 

In this video, we demonstrate Fat Rope Stick's unique ability to be completely submerged in water then lit with only a few sparks from a ferro rod.

Being able to light a fire is one of the most basic necessary survival skills...and for making coffee, which we're sure is also on the list of things for survival as well.

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