Best material for starting a camp fire

Chain saw cuttings or wood shavings from a planer. Place in 5gal pail, get some diesel fuel. Mix around to coat wood. Eventually the diesel goes to the bottom of the pail, just mix around again. Works like a charm. No flare ups, just a good ignition and burn.

For tradition, dead spruce bows ignite really quick, with a bit of paper under it.
 
Since I suspect he meant a survival situation, out here in BC we have an abundance of pine trees. For the low, squat ones it's a very good chance that no matter what conditions you're in short of flooding that underneath a pine tree and close to the trunk you will find dead broomlike spindly branches. Gather them all up, thick ends in your hand until you have a large broom. Then take the branch ends and fold them over underneath. Holding a lighter under and in this brush will ignite it in seconds. Just make sure to have a spot set up though, because you won't be able to hold it long, and as it burns it will "unbundle" and push your fire apart!
 
303carbine said:
Toyota trucks full of sks's makes for good flames, especially when you get to all that old grease in the P.O.S guns.:)
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So does patina of bitter old fat person...esp' if they are often 100 proof, and full of methane. :D

Also I can't believe no one has mentioned the old style Colman stoves...yah know the ones you light and then run to the other side of the camp. :D
 
lol or set the trees on fire lol the most dangerous thing the army cadets are allowed to handle was the colman stove when i was still in the parents commitee might have taken them away to sigh what will be left for my son (or daughter)when he turns 12 will they still do drill? the britsh cadets are actualy a line of defence unlike here where they are a baby sitting service

i have also used trioxane fuel tabs wook liek mad i say i say

the SAS use a plasitised RDX exposive known as Composition 4 to cook so i guess it could be used to start fires just leave the blasting caps in you kit or you'll be callign for a medic
 
Sugar cubes and schnapps. Do not ever go into bush without these two items. It could save your sorry ass in multiply ways.
 
If you carry hand sanitizer gel (Purell) put a strip of that down on a dry log, but your kindling over that, shave off some magnesium and give that a spark. Instant fire starter, and clean hands to boot.

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Lately my kit is dryer lint and a magnesium rod. This only gets opened if I cannot forage for tinder.
 
Lionhill said:
If you carry hand sanitizer gel (Purell) put a strip of that down on a dry log, but your kindling over that, shave off some magnesium and give that a spark. Instant fire starter, and clean hands to boot.

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I'd heard of most of the methods here, but not this one. I'll have to pick some up and try it out (unlike the napalmkitty and striking sparks from an SKS ideas; I like my cats and SKS).

I 'm a big fan of the vaseline-soaked cotton-ball method myself. I have an Altoids tin full of them that lives in my hunting pack. I've also had good results from birchbark.
 
film container would work two if you can sorce them they are great containers

on thing i like about the trioxain is it is dry so no worry about leaking and getting on your gear and can be vacumed out

Iron and aluminum oxide podwers lit with magnesium work real good :runaway: :runaway: :runaway: you can also use it in an emergancy to make repairs to a vehical

i have heard that this mixture known as thermite is legal and is still used to weld in industrail settings as well as on rail ways. metal bessed oxides can be made vary simply with a certan childrens toy (ok not only kids like them i have a tacher who has 10 grand worth of them) know as an electic train all ypu would need to do is set a vary small pile in a carved out cavity on a log and lit we all know any thing hot enough to melt metal is easlay hot enoug to light wood
 
The Purrel stuff works like the damn! I tested it by - and get this 'cause it worked - by putting a large glob in a tablespoon (don't tell my wife), then I ran tapwater over it all so whole thing was soaked in water to simulate worst case scenario and then I lit it. The thing sparked up immediately and burned with an almost invisible flame, very hot. I repeated a couple of times and now, hands down, this is my fire starter. And if you your little handy bottle is mostly full, just using that for a heat source (say, squirted into a cut down pop can) will burn for a good while and give off lots of heat. And you can sanitize you hands with it.
 
i'll have to try it and see thinking of filling a cig pack my dad gave me for a survial kit with the dryer lint and petrolium jellyi'l have to try some things and see what works
 
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