Aboriginal Fire Starting | Ray Mears Extreme Survival | BBC Studios
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- čas přidán 19. 05. 2008
- Ray Mears meets an aboriginal tribe in Australia and learns how they make fire from an early age.
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I am native Hawaiian and admire these people for keeping their culture alive .
Exactly
They haven't been able to keep much, most is forgotten
Sending love to you mob, from an Indigenous Australian
@@toot180 its not that it is "forgotten''..... more so the case that our parents and grandparents were forbidden to speak our language, practice or teach our culture and lore and were not allowed to pass it onto the next generation. If parents were caught or suspected of teaching culture and lore or speaking our language to their kids..... their kids were forcefully removed and taken 100's and some cases 1000's of miles away from their parents/family/tribes and placed in christian missions for kids and most never saw their parents/family/tribes again.
And THAT'S...... THE REASON WHY WE DONT HAVE MUCH CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND LORE TODAY.
You can't "forget" what you don't know and were never taught BECAUSE OUR PARENTS/GRANDPARENTS WERE TERRIFIED OUT OF FEAR OF HAVING THEIR CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY FROM THEM.
They're keeping it alive by passing out drunk on the foot paths around town
thanks, my history teacher challenged my entire class to make a fire this way and I am going to study this video to learn the method
Did you guys have your skin peeled?
amazing! the aboriginal man doesn't even need a firebow for the friction fire! my hands couldn't handle it :D
I never knew that Ray Mears was ever that young.
1:55 "The children today may have trouble lighting a fire the old way, but they certainly know what to do with it."
*sets fire to the surroundings*
I laughed so bad HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
3:00 Looks like you missed the explanation
@@jspaceemperor420 It was a joke my friend
@@MantraHerbInchSin
A real joke is not the literal description of what happened, even if there was a ''shocking ending''.
Unfortunately the ''joke'' was only funny to the moron who typed it and a few dozen brainless turds.
If you're going to try and survive in the wilderness, you have a lot to learn, depending on your environment. A warm or hot country has as many challenges as a cold wet one. Scotland is great in late spring till late autumn, after october, its almost garanteed to be permenantly wet, you need to remember this as being cold is one thing, being cold and wet can very easily become life threatening. Dry fire kindling is crucial collect and keep dry, once a little fire gets a hold, you can burn wet wood quite easily. Save as much ready to go wood as possible, spend a lot of time preparing for days of rain. Keep a low fire ticking over so you can get hot water quickly for hot drinks, even hot water is better than cold a saw is the most valuable tool to have you do not need an axe, make a fire on an old tree stump and it will still be smouldering deep inside in the morning. get everthing ready well before it gets dark and get a fire going as early at sun up as possible. Work hard and you wont feel cold, so you wont need a constant fire that needs tending till the right time. A natural woodland is sterile, humans can survive in this but rotting food can breed germs, atract flies, insects and wild animals.
U worte a whole paragrah
@@andreael-dick4562 Yeah but it was interesting tho
It is amazing to see something humans did thousands of years ago and it must have taken equal time to develop !
Hi
I enjoy Ray Mears's works.
How can we appreciate where we are now, if we don't have an understanding of where we've been?
i once met an Australian who told me the sborigines could manifest anything they needed just by thinking about it.
2:03 I started crying. That sound design is beautiful. Also just feel such pain today about how we have completely lost ourselves in this society. That's why I searched up fire starting and found this wonderful video. Time to return
Try this and you might be happy to sit in front of the telly again
I believe the music is by phillip glass
Bruh
I hate it, we are barely taught anything about the people we share the land with. After stealing it. When I was in school cook was portrayed as a hero and maybe like one lesson regarding the devastation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander peoples. Makes me sick.
I been dreaming of how great it would be to live a hunter gather life or in some kind of tribe. Hunting your food not this procesed stuff
Both are good wih knowlidge in survival knowlidge, But I like Rays appreciation for indegenious people.
awesome vid! i feel that while ray doesn't do the crazy and exciting stuff that other survival hosts do, he more than makes up for it with the detailed information he gives us.
I will reply every 14 years
they are VERY inteligent people
I've seen to many different way to start a fire by using stick and a board already with holes. This is exactly what i wanted to see. If i was stranded in no where, i should be able to find some thing similar to this. Thank you for the video.
Yup. None of the survival youtubers actual go and find their material in the video. Instead they have it ready, cut and dry and everything to just show you the technique of twisting a stick. IDK. seems like a very easy way to clickbait and not actually do anything but twist a stick til it smokes.
Also, welcome to the future. Hope you got through the last couple of years alright
Aboriginals are damn awesome. I like how some of them kept their traditions, or at least part of them. Around here in europe we lost everything... Well, almost. I remember going camping as a child and my father picked up some plants and putting them in boiling water.. and we got some really good tea.
That's an old men making bush fire his my own full Blooded Grandfather i 💕 miss you and Never forgotten 😭 you left me when I was age of 7 now I'm 26 missing you 😭💕💕
Righto...
He's a legend
i don't know how many times i've seen this way of making fire
Small low fires are actually encouraged to burn off introduced weeds. Everyone will burn but only the native plants will rejuvenate.
Currently reading Fire Country. Excellent book
Aborigines prevented bushfires in Australia before 1788 by burning the bush in a way that this video didn't show us. The Aboriginal people of today have been struggling to convince the government to perform a fire control burn using the traditional technique.
@@mightyknight yes they were excellent caretakers of the land, to a point. However technology from more advanced civilisations ultimately conquered them. Btw term 'Aborigines' is quite offensive to indigenous cultures
Wow. I never knew it was offensive. I thought I remembered Missy Higgins using that word in "Bran Nue Day", which is why I thought it was normal.
The biggest estate on earth by Bill Gammage is a great book too.
@El Scruffo McScruffy "advanced" isn't the correct term to decide the civilisation. Relative to us now that civilisation would be perceived as primitive. Take into account the issues our "advanced" global civilisation is facing, the underlying issues is we don't know how to live in equilibrium with the land and its other inhabitants. To have our needs met without destroying another element of the system that sustains us. There were people that got their needs met utilising only sticks and rocks and did so in a way that the environment can change and adapt to it over deep time, that would be considered "advanced" relative to what we have now. If you don't believe me give it a few hundred years hahah
Its amazing of how similar the technique is to the one used by Native American tribes, but its half way around the world!
It was probably invented before the Native Americans started populating America, and they took the technique with them over a land bridge connecting Eurasia and America.
The aboriginal people of Australia are so cool! They were TRULY some bushcrafting people!
i was quite surprise that Ray's fire starting tech was from the aboriginal.
Thank you so muck 😊❤❤❤❤
Beautiful
This called Fire-Stick Farming here in Australia.
When I saw that man pick up the hatchet while Ray was speaking, I was like "Oh no, Ray--look out! Dude's gotta hatc--oh..." LOL
And I love Ray Mears. I like Bear, too, for the entertainment factor (though Ray is very entertaining to me, too). I don't get why people debate over our own opinions.
But before both of these guys, there was Dick Proenneke. I just LOVE watching that dude! He can create a wooden house out of water and he once spit on the ground, and Chuck Norris grew from it.
Bahahahaha comment 😂
so fascinating.
i understood competely what you think you meant. you are the one who decided to take upon yourself to correct a commet i had made. in stead of just reading it and saying to yourself, "wow i think he is wrong". you insluted me.
His parents were born in England, he was born in England, he lives in Essex, he climbed Everest at the age of 23, he was in the SAS. To say that he is a fake American survivalist is just ridiculous. He was taught in the SAS to be a survivalist, they all are, it is a requirement. Ray Mears is certainly more knowledgeable but that doesn't change the fact that Grylls is still a certified and respected survivalist.
Beautiful 🥰
Ray should have put a bowl under that tree to collect the water when it came out. You can't afford to waste water, certainly not in the Australian bush.
In Australia there are two types of plants. Plants that require fire to regenerate, and plants that don't and are actually killed off by fire. Some parts of Australia have burning off banned, and so the landscape is shifting back towards its pre-aboriginal diversity, with the exception of introduced species thriving in those environments as well. Its very interesting to see in Australia two very different landscapes that shows just how much aboriginals shaped Australia's environment and what it might have looked like if they never practiced burning off or never came to this continent in the first place.
This is fun to watch
he makes it look so easy
Magnifying glass to make it easier to light a fire 🔥
amazing
Oh my goodness, I'm glad I watched this video. I failed to get an ember from my first hand drill. I was following quite bad instructions that had advised me to use substantially different toughnesses of softwood/hardwood. No wonder that didn't work.
Come on baby light my fire🔥.. cool vid👍
you can avoid blisters by baking your hands for a bit in a mixture of ash, lard, and a nice eyeball mash, if you have it on hand. reduces friction quite nicely
otherwise yea, your kinda screwed inasfar as the blister thing goes
I find it amazing that people like the Aborigines and the Native Americans...were half a planet apart...and developed a lot of the same fire starting and living techniques.
Informative and beneficial video
That's bad ass! I've never seen a tree with water in it like that!
@LtLuke nice
@LtLuke oh banana??
And here we are in Asia, we have 24/7 convenience stores where we are sometimes too lazy to walk 100m to get food and water lol...
i love the philip glass music
Most of you probably think Ray Mears is a better survivalist which he probably is seeing he has more experience...But i personally think bear is still a good survivalist and he has gives an entertaining show
What kind of wood is used to light that fire?
I think many have lit matches before, even if they don't often. I'm 18 now, so technically I don't count (and I'm only one person), but even without all the camping I've done, there are times when you need to light a candle (power out during a storm) and your lighter has stopped working.
Besides, even without being pyros, it seems many people find fire interesting/beautiful and have played with it at least a little bit at some point in their lives.
So that's why Australia has so many bush fires...
Australia once had a wild fire that lasted 1year
a lot of native plants depend on fire to trigger seed germination, so by managing the bush like this the aborigines not only make it easier to catch animals and reduced the risk of uncontrollable bushfires, but they guarantee plant based food sources for the future.
even now, bushland is routinely burned in a controlled way before summer hits to reduce the amount of dry fuel on the ground - its called back burning. Victoria never used to do this, which is why the 2009 fires were so devastating.
Uncle Chen it only takes two good seasons and the fuel load in the undergrowth can become staggering that in turn creates a hot lasting fire that will go up the trees setting the eculypt leaves at the top alive an end up killing the tree those fires the kids lite were fast moving grass fires that just leave a layer of fertilising ash under the trees a lot of ausralian plants won't open their seed pods unless exposed to high heat many wattles are like that and to get seed from them you must roast the seeds in a hot oven before they will be able to germinate
these are controlled fires...
No, this is now not common anymore, so NOW there bushfires. There didn't use to be.
in one episode of man vs wild you can see bear eating a bagged lunch in a water reflection......
Anybody know what kind of knife the old guy was using? I have a similar kitchen knife but his doesn't have as extreme a curve and looks handier.
Chairs have made us weak in the thighs and tight at the joints. Doing squats for exercise is unheard of for them.
I always carry a magnifying glass whilst I'm in the bush😂🤣
Oh, and as a girl who doesn't smoke and is just out of high school... candles are nice. So are bonfires or campfires. Lighting a fire is needed for each of those. :)
+BBCWorldwide where can I find the full episodes of these??
@roilggg the embers where on the knife. you can see at 1:32 the knife below so he just simply transfers with the knife
you also carved holes with knives that left nano dust knives that were forged with source flame
Music: *The Grid · Philip Glass*
West Papua and Eastern Indonesia have identical flora and fauna due to Wallace line. The tree is rare. Better to get hydrated by snake and lizard flesh it's what taught for survival courses (and benefit of fairly palateable protein). There is also very little potable water (lots of rivers full of diseases), so native Papuans don't drink much aside from tea and coffee and of course arak and kava.
Paperbark trees are very common in Australia though... like, throw a rock and you'll hit one. They're salt tolerant too so they can grow near water people can't drink.
I think ray and bear kick ass
Wow!!!
my firemaker level is OVER 9000!
What was the type of tree he cut in the beginning? It had water inside it? Sound Volume is too low so I couldn't catch the name of the tree. Can someone pls help?
@MrPsyxxx it's music from movie koyaanisqatsi and yes it's by philip glass :)
This is why we have such a problem with bush fires .The aborigines burned the waste off after each season .There is a lot to learn from them
Cattle stations at least in the northern parts of Australia try to do that about every few years or so in patches, it grows back almost instantly and makes the land much healthier and more varied in types of flora. We always have to do it secretly though to avoid repercussions from the shire and "environmentalists" who think any kind of burning is bad and allow fuel loads to build up until you end up with a mega fire that kills everything in its path both animals and tree's. Grasses, trees and animals survive normal fires perfectly fine.
You don't have to be Aboriginal, its pretty obvious to most poeple who actually live in the bush.
Sorry for the massive rant, We raise cattle but that really comes second to having a healthy bush to raise them on in the first place, land management is literally part of our job but you get alot of poeple on an agenda who honestly have no idea trying to enforce how things are done and then find a way to blame us when things go wrong.
@@archygrey9093 yes it is easy people to judge from a ivory tower and not know the real struggle
@@archygrey9093 I think most farmers and property owners do a good job of land management and should be allowed to do controlled burns. The main problem areas are national parks and crown land that gets no care and becomes a disaster waiting to happen.
@@2partiesnotpreferred226 Exactly. Firefighters and even some rangers warned that planting trees in forest without regularly having logging companies thin the forest would only result in a massive fire. Three decades ago they predicted the massive year long fires we had in California in 2015. California never had such massive forest fires until they banned nearly all the logging companies back in the 90s.
wats the name of the tree guys???
That made you mad? Maybe that says more about your anxiety then it does about water shortages in the city.
The less regularly the land Burns, the more dangerous it becomes.
Fire starting method the aboriginal man uses in this video is identical to that used by the Masai in africa....must be a very very old technique, going back to the days before humanity spread out of africa and throughout the rest of the world...amazing.
Just rolling rocks or sticks around in your hand and rubbing your hand on a piece of wood could be enough to develop the theory of how this works. We can never be completely sure how any of these techniques were invented without a time machine, but one tribe who has yet to discover how to make fire on demand has been observed chasing where lightning strikes in an attempt to light a fire from that ignition source.
@DancesWithLlamas like dave from dual survival right?
THAT IS HOW AMAZON FIRE STARTED
1:56
"The Children know what to do with it."
Arson
thumbs up if you watched all 44 episodes or watever u call em.
can anyone tell me of a knife with a similar style used by the aboriginal man
Is it just me or did he completely miss the bulk of the water when it was cut into?
rofl
when you get older you will see that this guy is much better then bear grylls, its how the programme is edited and all dramatised with bear which makes it unpalatable whereas ray is no nonsense and to the point.
@EvilKorbinDallas The fire dependant species also exist in the south, while forests produce a lot of fuel and can go 10-20 years without burning, combined with dry years from El Nina/El Nino cycle, and hot desert winds from the west, can result in explosive conditions.
There is debate about back-burning, people get upset when they see a burnt Koala. However there is a difference between burning a fire-break and having the whole region go up in flames. Emotive subject for some.
This comment aged very well. It was definitely a disaster waiting to happen.
Apparently the guys are eating from the same plate
it'd be soooo fun to be that kid!!
@foot175
Eventually you run out of matches and then what will you do? Text somebody on your iphone?
it's a hand drill method ;] where do you see bow?
my firemaking level is - 30, with a lighter it boosted to 60
holy crap it looks almost exactly like an old hickory skinner well spotted
Nature's secret fire.
who else reckons that a lot of animals pissed against that tree trunk hes drinkin from?
Its all good brother, didn't mean to come off that way either. Cheers!
I wish I could do this someday
Just try it today bruh. Just don’t burn down the state unless you know what you’re doing lol.
@@yacobshelelshaddai4543 I don't have any land of my own yet
Are you saying Ray climbed everest?
I watched this at school
u should bear grylls behind the scene video...he has like 30 people surrounding him lol
bear grylss is trained brit special force. to show how trained men in brits arm force do the survival. ray myers is doing documentary how to survive in any mean way as the native do. both of them special in their kind of way
@superdonyoungy That would be a great show!
Our Ancestors in Africa 🌍 made Fire 🔥 the same Way Thousands of Year's B.C
is it really with water??????????
In science class
too many people didnt know how to lite matches
i sit on computer all day and i can use matches
most people use lighters though
Most of our Australian ants need fire to regenerate. Their seeds are really hard and need the fire to germinate
0:14 ... he just let go about quartet a gallon..
I want a water tree. :D
there letting it seep to show it in a demonstration. plus the water only stopped because the water level was below the cut. cut lower and you get more
You are correct too my friend :) Maybe I took it too literally, wasn't trying to be rude or smart-ass. Cheers
And where did he get the steel?
The steel, itsFrom u guys, when u came in a boat as convicts or refugees, REMEMBER🤘
Its so delightful to see full blood Aborigines and how they survived. in Australia the Aboriginal people are not allowed to be seen on television or in the media . there are a lot of people that only have a little bit of Aboriginal blood in them but claim to be aboriginal and get very upset when the full bloods are seen because it makes them look completely ridiculous so in order to not upset then we don't get to see this stuff
And this is how you start a forest fire!