Fire starting outdoor question

[jhawknokc]

I don't take offence to that, good reference material will work as well. I've got a Les Stroud book that's pretty good.

 

[Bhop]

if u like refernce material, check out the Extreme Survival Almanac its a big red bookand cost about 40 bucks but itll cover anything ull probably ever need

 

[prophet]

http://www.ehow.com/how_8659173_make-firecharred-cloth.html
I used to be in a program similar to boy scouts called royal rangers with my church, this is how i always started my fires with a knuckle buster and flint.

 

[NikatKimber]

Gasoline.


i keed! i keed!


...maybe...

 

[Blitzfike]

Mostly I use cotton balls with petroleum jelly and a flint/steel striker. I have soaked cotton balls in a potassium nitrate solution and then let them dry. That catches pretty easily with almost any kind of spark. I can do the bow drill fire starter, but its a lot of work. Blitzfike

 

[Okie4570]

If you end up using materials not found in the woods, fine steel wool and a nine volt battery are hard to beat.

 

[HMFIC]

Fire Piston. Nuff said.

 

[okiebryan]

This could help if you happen to have your 12 ga along...

 

[AKguy1985]

When I was in high school and we used to have a get together I'd always be the one tasked with building the fire and keeping it going. i usually use dry grass and very small twigs. start small then build up to bigger sticks and whatnot.

 

[Danny Tanner]

Besides the plentiful amounts of prairie grasses around here, there's also the fluff from cat tails, which are typically found around water.

Another vote for cedar bark, though. We usually camp in state parks that do not allow you to collect wood so we bring our own firewood. We'll always bring a few cedar logs to scrape for kindling. It works well enough when the tree is live, but if it's a dead and dry cedar log, you can just snap your fingers and the stuff lights right up. Use a blade to scrape, not slice, down the tree or log. A palmful is all you need.