Fire starters? 🔥 🔥

[dsayer]

Thanks everyone!

What have you had success with at high elevations (10,000+ feet)? Lots of dead pine from the beetle kill and aspens where we hunt.

10,000 foots up? I'm getting woozy just thinking about that. :wink:
Practicing fire starting is different everywhere. The bayous of Louisiana are a lot different than Colorado mountain tops. Methinks that tree moss might be good stuff but never tried it.

Hahaha! Yes the air is thin up there... Our base camp was at 11,200ft last September.

 

[coloradoclyde]

those fire box stoves are cute little things, thanks for providing a link.

Fleener

I like it for my solo ultralight trips.

Not exactly very "pre-1865"....so let's call it a "brazier analogue" .... :wink:

 

[dsayer]

those fire box stoves are cute little things, thanks for providing a link.

Fleener

I like it for my solo ultralight trips.

Not exactly very "pre-1865"....so let's call it a "brazier analogue" .... :wink:

Hahaha!! Sounds good to me.
Full disclosure: had to Google "brazier"

 

[coloradoclyde]

They are very similar

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/brazier#/media/File:Brazier.JPG

 

[Sean Gadhar]

[youtube]Qq053EDRTfo[/youtube]

It really is a ton easier then I show it :redface:

Doing it "in frame" was a skill I needed improvement on.


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[dsayer]

[youtube]Qq053EDRTfo[/youtube]

It really is a ton easier then I show it :redface:

Doing it "in frame" was a skill I needed improvement on.


[youtube]cu5POVhR5_A[/youtube]

Thanks for the videos Sean!
Glad your wife didn't kill you for spilling punk wood on the floor! :rotf:
I'm not sure I'd be so lucky.

 

[Nativearizonan]

Great videos!!

That tinder tube with that size of wicking would make a dandy cigarette lighter, if I knew anyone that still smoked cigarettes.

 

[tenngun]

I smoke a pipe and can get it lit with one of those tubes but prefer a coal, or a burning tip of wood.(there is a name for such sticks, but it can get censored).
I like to put a spark on one as a way of holding a spark till I get a fire going. As I have had a times when I got my fluff going but for some reason my shavings didn't catch or my fire didn't progress, and I had to restart. getting a fire going inside a small brazier can be a pain, but having a glowing spark helps as a fall back.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I recently ran out of woodstove fire starters and had to improvise....A cotton T-shirt cut into pieces about half the size of a dollar bill and then dipped in molten wax all but one corner.....works very well.

If one used beeswax, who's to say it couldn't have been done back then?