Best material for starting a camp fire

[powder burner]

old mans beard and pitch thats it.

we used to call it grandma's muff

 

[geologist]

Birch bark, dry black spruce twigs and a Bic lighter. If it's really wet squirt 1/4 bottle of liquid fly dope onto it and watch her go!

 

[sunray]

Zip Firestarters are your friend.

 

[Smokey]

About every 5 years I make up about 50 candles using old cardboard 12ga hulls. Put a wick in them and fill them with wax. They stay together in the bottom of the pack, or quad box and don't break down like a regular candle. I found one in the bottom of the truck box that had been there for a least 3 years and was still good to go. they burn for about 15 minutes and will dry out wet wood until it lights. It is getting harder and harder to find the old cardboard hulls. Works for me. Smokey

 

[jmasson]

Cotton balls soaked in petroleum jelly and a Ferro rod. You can get them wet and they'll still work. The cotton balls burn for a long time too.

 

[yodave]

forget the potatoe chips, i am going down in history as the guy who lights fires with cheesies or else dry rotten cedar stump gabbin', it is just like paper, very light and fluffy burns really well.

 

[cyclone]

A roll of extra-fine steel wool and two 9-volt batteries. And feathersticks.



JK - but read this for fun: http://thelawdogfiles.########.com/2007/07/professor-lawdogs-school-of-survival.html

 

[SubZero]

I have been making my own fire starters with dried out teabags soaked in wax. Just like mini firelogs. 4+ minute burn time and waterproof. Price is right too. Just remember to use "double boiler method" to melt wax...

 

[bill c68]

forget the potatoe chips, i am going down in history as the guy who lights fires with cheesies or else dry rotten cedar stump gabbin', it is just like paper, very light and fluffy burns really well.

Isn't that the same thing?

 

[huntinstuff]

I make starter from wood chips and wax. They look like cookies. And one fella thought they were cookies. Bon appetite.

 

[Grouse Man]

Birch bark. Belly button lint. Cheesie poofs. You won't believe how Cheesie poofs burn.

 

[Vygur]

potato chips

LOL it's amazing that Doritos chips actually burn - have used this method once to start a camp fire

 

[kbracey]

If you are looking to make something up ahead of time, I do this:

take a carboard egg carton and stuff each cup with dryer lint.( you can add some wood chips too if you have them)
melt some paraffin wax and pour it over each cup.
let the wax dry and cut into 12 individual firestarters. Store in a zip lock bag.
Once lit they will burn about 10 minutes.

+1
I use saw dust instead of dryer lint tho.. Learned this one from boy scouts!!

 

[death-junky]

old mans beard and pitch thats it.

X2 that old mans beard works great!

 

[bisonhd]

A cat soaked in Kerosene.

If the surrounding forest is dangerously dry, please kill the cat before ignition.

 

[AlderTK]

A cat soaked in Kerosene.

If the surrounding forest is dangerously dry, please kill the cat before ignition.

not that i condone this sort of act how ever i am wonderign if a jell fule would be more efficiant and less likly to run of said cat

my prefurance would be for chiwawas evil monsters

 

[geologist]

A cat soaked in Kerosene.

If the surrounding forest is dangerously dry, please kill the cat before ignition.

A man after my own heart. Nothing I hate more than the sight of an uncooked cat!

 

[cyclone]

A man after my own heart. Nothing I hate more than the sight of an uncooked cat!

But if it's on fire, then is it good food on the go?

 

[sone]

Liberal policy books work well.

 

[Ruger30-06]

Dryer lint coated in candle wax.

That is probly the best way to start a fire. In my SAR class we used dryer lint in a egg carton and covered it in paraphine wax. Kept burning past 10 minutes.