They are eager to learn. I have been thinking about making a video on various fire making methods and tinders.
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This is from this past weekend...there are some of us who know the skills. Shot some video to edit down into a blog video in the future of the process too. This is what I posted on Instagram while I was in camp.
With our group was a Aussie ex-pat that we taught how to use the flint and steel, as well as a rod and he even attempted a bow friction start (the first two were successful).
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Do it! everyone always seems to have a better or different way that works for somebody out there!
Being that this is the OB I'm going to pre-share a video amongst friends, it actually isn't scheduled to go live until June with an accompanying blog post.
Rob I'll See what I can get done. I git some different ideas for a video. Would you guys like one video or maybe a couple shorts like on covering some different man made tinders, on on different natural tinders and then one on lighting firs with sime different tinders and methods?
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Last weekend we did a little spur of the moment campfire. My 4 year old got to try the ferro rod method out for the first time. She loved it, had to help her obviously but she thought she was the coolest thing ever getting a fire going.
I like to have a few methods around and keep proficient with all. Ferro rod and lighter are the favorites but I have a steel I got at a medieval fair also, although I'm not as great with it.
Fat wood, char cloth, and cotton rounds and Vasoline are my favorite tinders and have treated my right when I needed to depend on them.
I like to have a few methods around and keep proficient with all. Ferro rod and lighter are the favorites but I have a steel I got at a medieval fair also, although I'm not as great with it.
Fat wood, char cloth, and cotton rounds and Vasoline are my favorite tinders and have treated my right when I needed to depend on them.
Here is the first of a series of videos I am throwing together. Probably not the best but still.
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When I was in Boy Scouts, we would cut cardboard into 1-2 inch strips, then wrap them into a roll that would fit inside of a tuna can. Then we would melt paraffin into the top of that. We used these more for trail markers at night than for starting fires, but they worked well in a Sterno stove, too. They would burn for 30-45 min. 8>)
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I keep altoid tins with various tinder in side, usually cotton balls soaked in vasoline or superfine steel wool.
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My wife and kids use the cardboard style egg cartons, dryer lint, and wax. They put the dryer lint in each little egg carton pocket and then pour leftover candle wax into it. Each little egg carton section is then cut and we store them in ziplock bags. When needed we just take 1 or 2 out.
It might have been mentioned in the thread already, but a couple of item that we stock in our boxes.
- Long Lighters (2x)
- Fire Starter logs - these work wonders in wet environments to get something to take off and are compact in size to fit anywhere.
- Lint - this is free, and if you do laundry as much as us you have an endless supply of it. Also a great form of fire starter but for dryer environments. This can also be compressed and packed tightly.
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Cotton balls in vasoline then dip in hot wax. Makes them waterproof and then can burn like a candle too. They last a long time.
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My old man used to have a tobacco tin with sawdust in it.... soaked in kerosene. Worked great.
We save our bacon grease, egg cartons, lint, the little TP rolls, PT rolls cut in half, newspaper, anything that burns. The grease gets applied to cotton balls, lint, newspaper, whatever. Then we use all of that stuff to fill the egg cartons, TP and PT rolls. We stuff em into Ziploc bags and store them in a box so they're ready when needed.
