Somebody Please Help Me UNDERSTAND !!

**sjj** · 11-13-2009, 10:47 PM

What can be used as tinder?

**crashdive123** · 11-13-2009, 10:50 PM

First - there are much better options.

Second - You've obviously not seen my picture. Not a lot of tinder on top of my head.

**klkak** · 11-13-2009, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by crashdive123

First - there are much better options.

Second - You've obviously not seen my picture. Not a lot of tinder on top of my head.

Hit your head a few to many times going through a bulkhead door?

**crashdive123** · 11-13-2009, 11:05 PM

Survival requires ingenuity

Wow. Really? Guess I'll have to work on it.

**Beo** · 11-13-2009, 11:07 PM

Depends on the environment, in a cold weather survival situation you'd probably wanna keep your hair for warmth.
Not to mention I like my hair (what's left of it). And as Crash said there are better options out there. Dried leaves, moss, cattail fluff, your stinky sock... etc. etc.
Beo,

**nell67** · 11-13-2009, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by crashdive123

Wow. Really? Guess I'll have to work on it.

Awe heck crash,just use your underarm hair,LOL bet thats REALLY flammable after applying deoderant!

BTW,I dont have any underarm hair,so I can't test that theory!

**Beo** · 11-13-2009, 11:11 PM

Hair or is it fur... lol

**crashdive123** · 11-13-2009, 11:22 PM

Oh - believe me, my response was with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. Just doesn't translate well with typing I guess.

**Beo** · 11-13-2009, 11:33 PM

I wonder if he tried it with his short and curly's... lol...

**owl_girl** · 11-13-2009, 11:52 PM

i think that is really cool sjj. i didnt know it could burst into flames like that.

Beo, i have never gotten dried leaves to work for starting a fire from a spark. what leaves are you using?

**SARKY** · 11-14-2009, 01:15 AM

It's the oils in/on your hair. The reason it's not often talked about is because it stinks something awful

**Winnie** · 11-14-2009, 07:32 AM

For those of you not follically challenged, if you really want to do this, why not just save the hair you brush out?... just sayin.

**Rick** · 11-14-2009, 07:45 AM

I think any bit of knowledge that works toward saving yourself in a time of need is good knowledge. I would hope that I'm prepared enough to have a bit of gear on my person and the ability to find decent tinder in the wild. However, I can see a situation where you could be injured and not able to move about to select a decent tinder. So using your own hair could be a good recourse. Tell your bald spot thanks for me.

**your_comforting_company** · 11-14-2009, 08:37 AM

Good Info sjj!

the reason I never said use hair... well, I never tried it. good to know it works. I'll try some different hairs next time I play with fire. I got a little deer fur outside under my beam. tho I don't use firesteel, I would like to know if that works.
good post. thanks!

**Rick** · 11-14-2009, 02:27 PM

I sure hope the cat hair was removed from the cat prior to setting it on fire.

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