This handy dandy lil kit is just awesome! Inside there's a fire starter with fero rod, scraper, and an emergency whistle on the end. It comes with a little lanyard like rope so you can wear it around your neck or tie it to you belt loop or backpack. When you open the fire starter, on one side is the fero rod and on the other side is a scraper. Figure out which side of the scraper is serrated and use that side to scrape off some of the black protection paint on the fero rod. after you've done that, hold it close to your tinder pile and scarpe the sparks into the tinder pile and it will catch fire quickly. Once you get a small flame or a little bit of smoke, gently blow into the tinder bundle to feed the fire. Once the tinder bundle is showing a good flame, quickly transfer it to your fire pile.
Also included in this lil camping/emergency kit is a hand saw. It's 36 inches in length with two sturdy straps at either end so that you can place the saw under the wood you're going to cut, pull the straps towards you and alternate pulling each side and it will cut through the wood pretty fast. I've tried this on large twigs, small logs, and a pretty decent sized log and it works great. It's actually amazing how great it works and it's a lot faster than you would think it would be. The chainsaw looks like a bicycle chain to me with several really sharp protrusions that cut the wood. It comes in it's own little case that snaps shut in the front and you can slide it onto your belt. I am really pleased with this kit, especially after the storms that we've had lately. We don't own a chainsaw but we took this hand saw outside and cleared the whole yard in just a few hours using this hand saw. I've greased it to keep it ambulatory. You can get this great little kit at Amazon. Here's the link
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06VXZPZLW
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