View Full Version : Blue Sleeping Pads - Catch Fire
Wise Old Owl
08-20-2009, 20:29
Yup - had to be said - I was cutting up one for a project and discovered they just are not fire proof. Makes you rethink taking candles into the tent no matter how safe you think they are.... Well In a pinch it makes a wet wood fire starter!
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Rocket Jones
08-20-2009, 20:45
Mental note: rethink dehydrated bean-based dinners.
Mental note: rethink dehydrated bean-based dinners.
Ha! Awesome.
I found that out one winter cooking on my blue foam pad on the snow with my Whisperlite :D. Actually, I never got to cook.......
Fiddleback
08-21-2009, 11:03
Hmmm...backup emergency fire starter...:-?
FB
Homer&Marje
08-21-2009, 11:09
I think we should all test many other " backup fire starters " and now we have use for 3 boxes of unknown gear:D
Wise Old Owl
08-21-2009, 12:02
Well Homer,
Could you imagine this stuff catching while asleep? it doesnt make any noise till its really popping... I have a piece of the old white stuff I will try that too.
Homer&Marje
08-21-2009, 12:12
One more reason to have the fire in the pit and not in your tent WOO:D
Wise Old Owl
08-21-2009, 12:18
Hey carple tunnel keeping you away from work? its Friday you know....
Homer&Marje
08-21-2009, 12:36
I been kicking arounda little....just had surgery on Wednesday so there is still a vicatin coma slowing me down....making a corn flour chicken stew with veggies and potatos I picked out of the garden.
Everything takes me forever, but I got all day:D
David@whiteblaze
08-21-2009, 13:03
u may notice (as of 2 hours ago(, that this isn't a "hot topic", yet questions about water are.
Wise Old Owl
08-21-2009, 13:33
Its Ok - just getting the word out, sort of like using a hand sanitizer while smoking.
sweetpeastu
08-21-2009, 16:50
I got an issue of Field & Stream in the mail and they did an article about all the ways you can make a fire in an emergency....one way was by filling a condom up with water...and then something about the way the sun is...and anywho, it worked. Amazingly!
I prefer to cary a knife and one of those steel striker thingies and cotton balls with vasalene on them.....
OH, the magazine said that when in an emergency, you can burn your cotton undies. It works well...but how many of ya really hike in cotton...hmmm
kayak karl
08-22-2009, 06:37
Add Tyvek to żour list also.
David@whiteblaze
08-22-2009, 09:18
OH, the magazine said that when in an emergency, you can burn your cotton undies. It works well...but how many of ya really hike in cotton...hmmm
I would rather try for 2 hours to get a fire going, opposed to 2 min. than freeze to death once i left...
. Makes you rethink taking candles into the tent no matter how safe you think they are
Candles in the tent?!:eek:
please clarify "catch fire". did it immediately go up like a vasoline-covered cotton ball or did you have to hold a flame under it for 5, 10 seconds?
Wise Old Owl
08-22-2009, 11:12
Wags - like vasaline. in a second or two, but a consistant burn. That peice would have taken 5 minutes to dissappear. The point is if you were sleeping on it you wouldn't wake up.
shelterbuilder
08-22-2009, 20:38
Wags - like vasaline. in a second or two, but a consistant burn. That peice would have taken 5 minutes to dissappear. The point is if you were sleeping on it you wouldn't wake up.
And I'm sure that it generates all sorts of toxic gases while it burns!:eek: