Fire Starters And Tinders

[crashdive123]

You should see the one I shot today.......only to find out I had not really depressed the record button on the camera.

[Rick]

One of your better ones, no doubt.

[crashdive123]

Oh, it was the berries. Big production. It involved dancing girls and bacon.

[nell67]

Oh, it was the berries. Big production. It involved dancing girls and bacon.

The WSF dancing girls????? BEE,Winnie,Mountain momma..

[crashdive123]

The WSF dancing girls????? BEE,Winnie,Mountain momma..

That would be better than the WSF dancing boys. Remember the jib jab dance around Christmas with Poco, Rick and yours truly?

[nell67]

That would be better than the WSF dancing boys. Remember the jib jab dance around Christmas with Poco, Rick and yours truly?

Oh yea,I remember

[crashdive123]

As I recall, there was only one dancer in the group that had any redeeming qualities at all......but we won't talk about her.

[Stargazer]

Nell you forgot to add Ken to the list of WSF Dancing Girls

[Rick]

The dancing thong was not in this production number. I'm .... He's holding out for more money.

[your_comforting_company]

Dancing WSF ladies and Bacon??
Where do we purchase tickets??!!
I want an annual pass!

[Sourdough]

Question: Those FireSteel rods.......are the sparky all the way to the center of the rod, or is that a coating......? How do they make the rods.......?

[Rick]

It's firesteel through and through.

Everything you ever wanted to know about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrocerium

[crashdive123]

Yep - good till the last drop. Some of the formulations are slightly different, with each claiming to cast a bigger shower of sparks.

[Sourdough]

Thanks Rick, very informative.

[crashdive123]

With the talk of steel wool lately, I threw this together this afternoon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yx437EnxKw

[Rick]

Another good one. I would think about the only thing you'd accomplish with the heavier steel wool is just discharging the battery.

[Merlin34]

I like to pop the blisters on balsam fir bark and smear the resin inside all over the end of a stick or a Q-tip. Even the faintest flame will light that up like the 4th of July. Very good for kindling when other options are being uncooperative.

[Gilmore]

I like the videos Crash, i am trying to get my hands on a swedish firesteel for christmas. About the steel wool one though i have never seen it done or tried it with a small battery i always use car batteries or the battery off of my four wheeler

[charibelle18]

I got to view the videos yesterday, & they were very informative, & awesome.

[JPGreco]

Excellent videos. I got one of the ferro rods way back when I was in scouts, but nobody really explained it to me so I never got a fire going with it (now I know my tinder wasn't fine enough to catch the sparks). Wish I knew where it was now. Next time I go camping with my friends I'm gonna have to challenge them to fire starting.