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Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:20 am
by mrsteve
"Me and a buddy went camping in the Snowy's while down in Laramie at Tech school. Had no fire starter of any sort. I pulled the fuel line off the carb, cranked it over to soak some paper towels, hooked the jumpercables to the battery and arced the leads. BOOM instant fire"

And you didn't blow out the diodes in your alternator?

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2015 9:15 pm
by Wolffarmer
mrsteve wrote: And you didn't blow out the diodes in your alternator?


Doesn't bother the alternator one bit. Why should it? Taking power directly from the battery to the jumper cable. Alternator is completely unaware what is going on. I have done this hundreds of times to probably close to a hundred different vehicles ( maybe over 100 ) no problems at all damaging the alternator.

Randy

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 12:52 pm
by GerryS
Boom hopefully wasn't the operative word.

Gasoline us too unpredictable for me....

Can't beat good ol bushcraft. Feather stick or cotton fluff from a sock if no other tinder is available....gasoline, white gas, and alcohol just bother me when a match or flint is available.

True emergency? Ok. Different discussion. But relying as a go-to...there are better choices.

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Sun Mar 01, 2015 2:28 pm
by Wolffarmer
Better but does make as good of videos

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 11:17 am
by BobBash
I heat our home solely with a wood stove & have used a LOT of kindling over the years .A while back I started using these ............

http://www.supercedar.com/

No more kindling , they start very easy with a match & burn for a long time . Long enough to ignite larger pieces of dry wood on fire . I don't use any more kindling at all . They can easily be broken into 1/3's or 1/4ths ...............

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 7:32 am
by deleted
Not sure what the odds are that you'd have all of this on hand if you didn't bring a lighter or matches but thought this was neat and worth a try if haven't eaten all of your chocolate before you realize you have nothing to start your fire with. According to this you need the items shown below +sun, some elbow grease, and patience. :thinking:

http://blog.allstate.com/how-to-light-a-campfire-without-a-match/?cid=CSY-PB-ZM-PA-outbrain_com:Lighting-A-Campfire-With-A-Soda-Can-Heres-How&_z1_msid=outbrain&_z1_adgid=233

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Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 9:35 pm
by Wolffarmer
I would use the chocolate to bribe a kid to run a fire bow.

:D

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:34 pm
by capnTelescope
If the sun's that bright, do you need a fire so badly that you'll waste good chocolate to polish the bottom of a used beverage can? :? Eat the chocolate and you'll have enough energy to rub two sticks together. :lol:

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 5:17 am
by GerryS
I've never tried the parabolic soda can...seems a little out there to me....technically it makes sense, they used to sell solar cigarette lighters ..back in the 70s I remember by dad trying for some time and he couldn't get it to work,.

If a commercially polished and "aimed" wouldn't work, I have my reservations about a polished soda cans ability to perform. Same for the Baggie of urine.

But it sounds like a good project for our next, and last, outing of the year....

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:20 am
by Wolffarmer
Just remember the matches for a high tech fire fire starter.

Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Sun Dec 20, 2015 10:13 pm
by Wolffarmer
Here is a strange fire starter I just found on youtube. not that I recommend it, or have tried it.


Re: Easy, offbeat fire starters

PostPosted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 9:13 pm
by Pixie Susan
We save out dryer lint and take a small amount when we go backpacking. Takes up hardly no space or weight.