Easy fire starters

[poisonpits]

i guess im lucky i bought 200 cans of sterno at an auction for 5 dollars.still need a match or lighter but no kindlin needed.

[mmuckleroy]

I use cotton balls covered in vasaline. They work real well in the rain. I use a flint steel to strike the fire. I am really interested in the fire compersion chambers.

[DCcatfisher]

When I was in boy scouts we used to use cattle droppings, find a pile out in a field that had dried out and use it or if everything was wet flip it over or break it apart to reveal some drier stuff. If you think about it all it is is chewed up dried grass plus a few extra bodily fluids. Potato chips also work well, they are already dry and soaked in oil.

[JERMSQUIRM]

i burn wood for heat, home and shop. i just buy the safelight firesquares. they burn for ten min and get even slightly damp wood burning. they are about $.13 each when ya get 144 for $9. i just take a few with me. no fuss no muss and light when wet. unless a survival suituation arose i like technology on this one. i have to light fires daily.

these will light charcoal too.
these here.


http://www.rutland.com/FCH_html/50B_50C.html

[KS_coyotee]

I use either magnesium fire starters, or alcohol prep pads (last 10-30 seconds), or I made some fire starters out of egg cartons (non styrofoam type) that I put clean dryer lint in and then soaked with wax. Each egg shell portion of the egg carton will stay lit for about 10 minutes. They are easy to carry and the wind does not really bother them.

Ks_coyotee

[derail]

we used to use the old steel wool and nine volt batteries in Boy Scouts. Could always get the newbees to put them both in the same pocket. lol

[Mike81]

When I was going out on long hunting trips I would buy a duraflame type fireplace log. Then I'd take my hand saw and cut in into about 10 slices and then split each one of those into 2 or 4 pieces. Then I'd wrap each piece in foil and vacuum seal. You get a whole bunch of em for like $4.

[plainsman]

I never tried it, but was told that on rainy days one place to find dry kindling is the small twigs on the bottom of a pine tree.

[Katmandeux]

Somebody brought a 5 gallon can of deck sealer out to deer camp, with the idea that we would use it on our picnic table.

Well, it had frozen, separated, and was just a gelatinous, gloppy mess. I took a piece of firewood and tried to stir it around, to see if it could be resurrected, but it was a no go.

I tossed the stick of wood on the nearly dead fire, and POOF! Not explosive, but fire. Lots of it.

Three years later, we're still using the deck sealer to start fires.:big_smile:

[catoon]

take a ziplock bag add charcoal put a lot of charchol starter fluid in it seal it and leave it alone .take it with you on your outing take 1 peice cover with kindling light with match and get ready

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