sushidog wrote:I have used C-4 as a fire starter with excellent results - it burns like Sterno, just hotter.
How does one obtain C-4? I've heard of some people cutting open Claymores or melting it out of opened grenades, but that's too much work (and maybe a little dangerous) not to mention damaging good ordinance. It's far easier just to pull a M112 stick out of a satchel charge (M183), cut off a small slice, and put it back. You get to start your fire and keep your ordinance.
Don't try stomping the fire out though, or you could lose a leg.
All out of satchel charges? I guess you could use a little Sterno, but where's the fun in that?
If you want to start a large bonfire, there's always napalm... but that's another story. Ran out of Napalm? You can get some more here: http://www.napalm.net/ j/k
onemanbander wrote:I've heard of a camper who got lost and in an emergency only situation used balls of duct tape to get the fire started and dry out the only available (wet) wood going.
Wolffarmer wrote:Could also do that with the paper egg cartons
Randy
slowcowboy wrote:I just turn on the propane to the campfire and reach for my long barbaque flicker.
done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no fuss no muss!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the old fashon real campfires are for the birds
I love my little red campeco fake campfire.
I don't blow I don't look for any fire wood.
I don't pack fire wood.
I don't carry a ax
or a saw.
I have no worrys about startig a forest fire when I am done!
no smoke to blow in your face and chase you around the camp fire.
5 pound propane bottle last all night and the next moring with gas to spare
on a small indian type fire.
and when I leave its in its case in the back seat of suv and you will never know I had a campfire.
best thing to start a camp fire.
is just say the heck with the real camp fire.
and get a propane fake one.
I love mine! to death.
and it lights every time and I then just foreget it and go walk over to the teardrop and go cooking.
I never add a peice of wood to it.
and when I am done with the camp fire.
just turn the propane nob on your propane tank off!
any flicker that is hardly working at high altude will light my fake campfire.
just get the gas going and you get one spark and "WHOOSH!
you got great flames and then your totally done grab your chair and stare away athe camp fire and don't worry about fighting to get it going.
or keep it going.
propane beats fire wood any day espeicaly with nearby forest fires and a fire banns in place all over.
and the propane campfires are legal in a fire bann where as a real one is NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
slow.
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