Fire Kit for Survival packed in an Altoids Tin

Contents of Small Fire Kit Altoids Tin make great fire kits. This one is packed with items to make a fire in the worst conditions. Checkout the contents of this little package.
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[@johnjones3842]

ed very cool idea using the tin as a fire kit you could get fire started with little effort with the supplies you have shown keep up the good work i am going to start myself obtaining kit items

[@woodsmansmindsetchannel5260]

Hey Brother Ed. I have a little info for you if your interested. I have been teaching Primitive and Modern Survival and Bushcraft for over a decade now and I will tell you that most people make a simple mistake when their building a fire kit no matter if its a pocket kit like you have here or a full size kit like we would carry in our ruck. Most people have an uneven setup that could cost them their life in a true survival situation because they will have 1 way to start a fire and 5 or 6 ways to extend a fire or vise versa.
Every kit should start out with a set and what we call a set at the courses I use to teach is 1 for sure way to start a fire and 1 for sure fire extender. The only fire starting tool on the market that I know of today that will work under any conditions is a ferro rod or some call it a fire steel and the only fire extender I know of that meets those same qualifications for your average person is a micro or mini inferno or any other cotton, wax and accelerant based fire extender. Of course it doesn't have to be the inferno as long as its been tested to work in heat, cold and wet.
The next set you need is what your going to use when starting a normal fire when your in the woods camping, hiking or training on a daily basis. My go to fire starter is waterproof, windproof and stormproof matches in a waterproof match bottle with a built in striker and for the fire extender I use fatwood that I personally hand pick. A lot of people will tell you to smell fatwood to see how good it is but that just ain't the case there's only one sure fire way to know how good a piece of fatwood is and that's to light the end of it and see if it will burn while holding it up like a torch with the flame at the top also a good indicator of the quality is when it looks like petrified wood you know how stabilized wood used for knife handles looks, almost exactly like resin filled wood because that's really all it is.
Once you've covered those two sets you can add additional sets to the kit depending on how large of a kit your building. Also all those products will interchange with each other to better benefit any situation. In a full size kit I try and carry 5 fire starting tools and 5 fire extending items.
Great channel my friend and please don't think I am trying to say your kit is wrong or that you don't know something I just wanted to give you a different view point of how over the years of hundreds of hours of training what I come up with and worked out a system that I feel like is bombproof. Again great channel Brother and I'm glad that I seen that about the Bahco axe because I was thinking of buying one for a contest but I will pass on that axe after seeing your video Thanks Brother.