Cotton Ball With Ashes Fire Starter - No Match Needed

[crashlanding]

Your joking, right?

 

[Mike6158]

At what range and what caliber would you prefer?

May as well select a powder, brass, and primer too...

Just tried it-- doesn't work-- rubbed the cotton/ash for almost 10 min as fast as i can--- pretty much looked like an idiot-- thanks guys!!!@

Which was way the cotton oriented. The ends have to be on the north and south poles. True not magnetic.

 

[Calvin45]

So you crush the Fritos up and put them in the unrolled cotton ball?
Then roll it like the video?

Or maybe eat all the Fritos. The resulting "natural gas" is useful for creating fire….

 

[Ol' Red]

I will save the Fritos in case I shoot a can of wild chili.

 

[Moondoggie]

Enough of this playing Boy Scout...

 

[Calvin45]

Enough of this playing Boy Scout...

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This reminds me of a man that babysat me
When I was a little kid…taught me lots of his "cultural wisdom" as an Indigenous man. It was indeed wisdom of his own concocting, a fantastic storyteller and even better BSer haha.

Anyways this guy went to my church growing up as well, and was a counsellor at a local summer Bible camp. One particular week of camp there were a bunch of kids from a local reservation there, and he had a way with them…during "outdoor skills" he was teaching the kids how to build a fire with another instructor. He asked these 8-11 year olds if they wanted to build "white man fire" or "Indian fire". Of course they were all very eager to see him, a legitimate "Indian" (remember the era haha) build a fire in the "traditional" manner. So he says

"Kindling, getting birch bark, feathersticking, building the tepee or the log cabin or whatever they called it…forget about all of that. That's white-man nonsense and a complete waste of time. This is how A REAL INDIAN MAKES A FIRE!"

And he pulls out an old Pepsi bottle full of gasoline, douses a pile of random wood, some green, some wet, doesn't matter, and sets it ablaze!

"See how good that works?!? Look at how it burns. Every time, no matter what, that's gonna work" . Wisdom. Right….

Today the whole thing would be condemned..,both for political incorrectness and, well you know, the safety implications of starting gasoline fires at a children's camp and leaving unlabelled pop bottles of gas laying around. Actually I think that last part was condemned back then too, the camp director was not especially impressed upon hearing of these "cultural demonstrations" of his

He was a huge hit with the kids tho!

 

[Mike6158]

Gasoline is good stuff! We used to burn the trash in a barrel with the top cut out. I'd put a little gasoline in through the axe cuts in the bottom (for air), make a little trail, then light the trail and run. It would make a woosh sound and light. One time the match head broke off (lit them on my zipper) and I missed the trail. Mom wouldn't let us take the box of kitchen matches with us. We were given one match. So I ran back to the house and got another match. It was a hot summer day and my trail was gone when I got back. So I added a little more to the air hole and made another trail, just a little longer. I broke the match again... I ran back to the house and got another match. I added some more fuel and added to the trail. I stood back, lit the match and as I turned to run away I dropped it on the trail. There's was a muffled boom. I turned back to look and the burning trash was rising above the trees and scattering all over. There were little fires going in the woods. The chickens were going nuts, mom ran outside and once she saw I was alive and running she wanted to know what was going on. I was running around with a shovel knocking fires down. I explained it to her later. I didn't do that again. We had more room in the can though...

 

[Calvin45]

Gasoline is good stuff! We used to burn the trash in a barrel with the top cut out. I'd put a little gasoline in through the axe cuts in the bottom (for air), make a little trail, then light the trail and run. It would make a woosh sound and light. One time the match head broke off (lit them on my zipper) and I missed the trail. Mom wouldn't let us take the box of kitchen matches with us. We were given one match. So I ran back to the house and got another match. It was a hot summer day and my trail was gone when I got back. So I added a little more to the air hole and made another trail, just a little longer. I broke the match again... I ran back to the house and got another match. I added some more fuel and added to the trail. I stood back, lit the match and as I turned to run away I dropped it on the trail. There's was a muffled boom. I turned back to look and the burning trash was rising above the trees and scattering all over. There were little fires going in the woods. The chickens were going nuts, mom ran outside and once she saw I was alive and running she wanted to know what was going on. I was running around with a shovel knocking fires down. I explained it to her later. I didn't do that again. We had more room in the can though...

I had a similar childhood (okay fine I was 15) incident almost setting an old shed on fire on the farmyard. Tried removing a hornet nest from the side of said shed with an aerosol can of ether and a lighter, flamethrower style. Definitely destroyed the nest…also caught the building on fire. And most of the hornets were VERY MUCH ALIVE still. How I didn't get stung while putting the fire out is still a mystery to me.

But to both my mother and a bunch of homeless hornets I was a "persona non grata" that day

 

[Old Rooster]

I will save the Fritos in case I shoot a can of wild chili.

You gonna mount it or eat it there?

 

[Ol' Red]

You gonna mount it or eat it there?

No Boone & Crockett scores there. Strictly hunting to eat what you kill.

 

[Old Rooster]

Fair chase,Got it

 

[Old Rooster]

I had a similar childhood (okay fine I was 15) incident almost setting an old shed on fire on the farmyard. Tried removing a hornet nest from the side of said shed with an aerosol can of ether and a lighter, flamethrower style. Definitely destroyed the nest…also caught the building on fire. And most of the hornets were VERY MUCH ALIVE still. How I didn't get stung while putting the fire out is still a mystery to me.

But to both my mother and a bunch of homeless hornets I was a "persona non grata" that day

Calvin45 I would have paid to see that movie!

 

[Muddyboots]

Many years ago I was in HAZMAT Incident Commander training and instructor discussed the perils of gasoline vapors. Duh. However, he discussed a Mutual Aid drill of several FD's and old house to burn down for training. The plan was to burn it down in sections to simulate different types of fires. So the FD Chief in charge of drill asked a firefighter to put some gasoline (turns out way too much) down through basement window to simulate furnace fire. However, several questions on protocols and quite a bit of time had gone by. This was a small cottage type house so not really big floor plan. So after lengthy clarifications, the order was given to turn on cameras for training and to begin furnace "attack". So firefighter walks over to basement window, opens, lights road flare and throws it in.

Ah Houston, we seem to have a problem!! Whole house lifted off foundation in huge Whoosh and giant fireball into sky! Nothing but kindling left inside foundation on blazing fire!

He claimed there was zero talk for few seconds then nothing but expletives! Then laughter that was hilarious.!

So his point to us was never underestimate a gasoline spill. No kidding...

 

[Buckskinner]

Easier way, mix potassium permanganate and glycerine or antifreeze for exothermic reaction and spontanious fire. And can use the permanganate for water purification, antiseptic/antifungal. Also works well as a wood stain.