What is your primary fire-making source? One that you feel you can count on despite all weather conditions. Rain, sleet, snow, sunny, cloudy, etc.....
What is your primary fire-making source? One that you feel you can count on despite all weather conditions. Rain, sleet, snow, sunny, cloudy, etc.....
SARGE
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Albert Einstein
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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
On an everyday basis? I flick my Bic.
For a virtually GUARANTEED light for a warming/cooking fire? Cotton balls in Vaseline, WetFire Tinder Cubes, and this lighter:
http://electronicpartygear.blogspot.com/2013/06/brunton-lighter.html
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“Learning is not compulsory. Neither is survival.”
W. Edwards Deming
"Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils."
General John Stark
Road flares.......or a BIC or Zippo.
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Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
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A proven ferro rod with PJ cotton balls with a 22 hornet attachment
Bear Clan
I was born with nothing,
with hard work and deligence I still have most of it
this week a lot less...must be a hole in my pocket
not counting underwater right?
matches have always worked pretty good for me with dry tinder. Give me some cotton balls soaked with flammable hydrocarbons, or Frito chips and a bic lighter if it is windy and/or wet.. Most times unless all my tinder is soaking wet I am pretty successful with a magnesium rod and a hack saw blade for a spark. I carry railroad flares in my vehicle all the time.
My igniter is:
1. Lighter
2. Matches
3. Ferro rod
My tinder is:
1.Fatwood shavings or splinters
2. WetFire
3. VSCB
I have some Tinder-Quik and even some smelly Coghlans fire starter paste that I picked up on the cheap but never used.
I too have road flares and even a butane stove that could be handy in a pinch.
Wilderness Survival:
Surviving a temporary situation where you're lost in the wilderness
I use a Gobspark Armaggedon firesteel and Tinde-Quik tinder or Tindercard (the stuff from Hammaro). Most of my kits also have either an ESBIT tablet or a Weber cube (vacuum sealed in mylar). So far I've never been in a situation where I couldn't get fire with this stuff. Of course, I always take at least a couple of lighters and some UCO matches, too.
Thanks. I'll keep that in mind when (not if) I get a white gas stove. Always wanted to have one of each. Already have wood, propane, butane and alcohol fueled stoves.That fire starter paste is great to heat up the generator of your white gas stove.
Wilderness Survival:
Surviving a temporary situation where you're lost in the wilderness
AND something to split the wet wood down to get to something dry that will light readily so that you can dry the rest out.
Along with the PJ balls, birch bark is every where in my local.
Bear Clan
I was born with nothing,
with hard work and deligence I still have most of it
this week a lot less...must be a hole in my pocket
Everyday stuff, a bic mini lighter. Otherwise it's a ferro-rod when outdoors.
What's so crazy about standing toe-to-toe saying I am?
~Rocky Balboa
Bic or matches for me. I use vscb or small chunks of fire starter logs for tender if everything around me is soaked.
”There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.” ~Johnny Rotten
A $2.99(when not on sale) Harbor Freight magnesium fire starter.
Just carry a spare fero rod. The ones glued in those cheapies tend to fall off and get lost.
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Now there's an idea. AND you'll have duct tape with you if you need it. Multi-purpose! Gotta love it.
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+1 to this! When it comes to fire I try to leave my ego at home. I will try to keep my firemaking relatively primitive, relying on solid fire prep to get things going. But I always, always, ALWAYs have some fatfood as my "ace in the hole". With a firesteel/lighter/match/whatever as an ignition source, some tindercard/tinderquik as a bridge between tinder/kindling/fuel and a couple ESBIT cubes, I know that I'll be able to get the fatwood going...and that WILL get fire, in almost any conditions, if you've done a remotely competent job of fire prep.
I envy you guys in FL that have the stuff growin' everywhere!
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