Another Wet Firestarter Thread

[Spokes]

If you run out of Vaseline soaked cotton balls........



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7DKTTR-QfU&feature=youtube_gdata_player


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7DKTTR-QfU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[Nutbrown]

Interesting, but I'd rather not burn rubber. Better to coat some matches in wax. Water proof and not as nasty.

[rocketsocks]

Well now there's somethin you don't see every day, I guess I could slice off a small piece of my Vibram sole, or heck just lite my shoe on fire and toe it into a pile of sticks till they catch. Pretty slick really.

[lemon b]

My experience is its not about the start but about finding dry fuel. Usually inside dead pine.

[RED-DOG]

I would use my socks to get rid of the smelly thangs.

[RED-DOG]

Bro try charred cloth it works great even when wet.

[Spokes]

I've made char cloth and have a stash in a ziplock somewhere around here. Never knew it worked when wet. Seems so ..... fragile.

I'll have to try that.

[rocketsocks]

Bro try charred cloth it works great even when wet.I've never done the char clothe, but have taken small blackened oxygen deprived coals left over from someone else's previous fire, and they light up real quick, you could put a few in a small altoids can.

[Spokes]

..... but have taken small blackened oxygen deprived coals left over from someone else's previous fire, and they light up real quick....

Oxygen deprived coals? The stuff left over? Tell me more.

[Spokes]

Interesting, but I'd rather not burn rubber....

The guy in the video is a fire starting machine. Primitive arts, rub two sticks together, type guy if you watch some of his other vids. I'd want him as my new best friend if I ever landed a spot on Survivor. So the rubber tube trick really is his emergency tinder.

[rocketsocks]

Oxygen deprived coals? The stuff left over? Tell me more.Yes the stuff left over, when they were baby coals, there mama deprived them of oxygen and now they burn real well, but only once.

Like you said the rubber is for emergency, not a bad deal really, could probably use about a 1/10 of what he burned, and i'd work just fine....that's real good stinkin.

[Capt Nat]

I like that tip and will use it, Thanks!

[Hikes in Rain]

http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/miscgreen/quote_icon.png Originally Posted by Spokes http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/images/Eloquent/buttonsgreen/viewpost-right.png (http://www.whiteblaze.net/forum/showthread.php?p=1312686#post1312686)
Oxygen deprived coals? The stuff left over? Tell me more.


[QUOTE=rocketsocks;1312807]Yes the stuff left over, when they were baby coals, there mama deprived them of oxygen and now they burn real well, but only once.

Also known, less interestingly, as charcoal. Made the same way it's produced in bulk, as Rocketsocks points out, by burning wood in an anaerobic environment. In a small wood stove, it burns like, well, charcoal. Long steady heat without the flareups wood can sometimes give. And it's generally found in the fire ring in quantity.

[Saprogenic]

I use magnesium. Scraping those blocks got a bit annoying so I found on ebay a 1LB. bag of magnesium shavings. I just throw some in a baggie and head out. That stuff is amazing, burning at over 5,000 degrees, it will light up just about anything, and pouring water on it will only make the burn bigger!

[Hikes in Rain]

Used to play with magnesium ribbon back when I was a kid. You're right, that stuff burns like the surface of the sun! Did some amateur spelunking, and you can light up a whole rook with a bit of ribbon.

[Spokes]

I use magnesium. Scraping those blocks got a bit annoying so I found on ebay a 1LB. bag of magnesium shavings...!

Won't you be on some Homeland Security watch list buying that stuff in bulk off eBay? :)

[Old Hiker]

http://www.amazon.com/Magnesium-Metal-Shavings-Turnings-Pound/dp/B005FCCY02/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343009173&sr=8-1&keywords=magnesium+shavings

http://www.amazon.com/Magnesium-Ribbon-Shipping-65ft-75ft-GalliumSource/dp/B0051HBSI0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1343009216&sr=8-3&keywords=magnesium+shavings

[rocketsocks]

Won't you be on some Homeland Security watch list buying that stuff in bulk off eBay? :)Yep, no doubt in my mind, no reason for them not too, memory is cheap, computers are so fast, yep he's on the list.