Baird Brothers Build a Portable Fire

[hawgrider]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=15&v=uEvnxBfXqdA
https://www.wideopenspaces.com/video-how-to-build-a-portable-fire/

[Sparkyprep]

This is very good to know. Starting a fire can be incredibly hard. Once you get one started, you may not want it to ever go out.

[StratBastard]

GREAT video! Wouldn't want to be in the position these guys were in:


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[Big Ken]

I seen this today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5HGtgVUBk

[Big Ken]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzdCo16gTKA

[BucketBack]

I just use a bic most times, but mag snowshoes can help

[Dwight55]

I seen this today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5HGtgVUBk

Thanks, Big Ken, . . . I guess I had thought I had seen every ding bat idea there was.

You proved me wrong, . . . there is I guess always one more, . . . you brought it today.

May God bless,
Dwight

[Inor]

I seen this today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5HGtgVUBk

Nature built one of those into me. I'll show you how it works... Pull my finger!

[StratBastard]

SOME have a small canister of thermite putty in the old BOB. Just iron oxide, aluminum powder, mixed together and kneaded into some silly putty. Jams into locks and doorjambs real easy if needed... also can remove a pesky chain across the road or disable a vehicle pretty reliably. Need some magnesium ribbon/fuse as well. Anyway, in a pinch (like if you are going to die without fire) thermite does a pretty dang good job at starting one up.

[Inor]

SOME have a small canister of thermite putty in the old BOB. Just iron oxide, aluminum powder, mixed together and kneaded into some silly putty. Jams into locks and doorjambs real easy if needed... also can remove a pesky chain across the road or disable a vehicle pretty reliably. Need some magnesium ribbon/fuse as well. Anyway, in a pinch (like if you are going to die without fire) thermite does a pretty dang good job at starting one up.

Now you're talkin' my language boyo!!! A pretty girl, a case of beer and some thermite; you got a good Saturday night going, even on a Tuesday.

[Dwight55]

Before seeing this, . . . I thought maybe I had seen every silly knot headed device known to man.

I was wrong, . . .

But, . . . no doubt invented by some San Francisco resident with a master's degree in engineering, . . . afraid of what might happen, . . . plans to bug out to the wilds of Oakland when SHTF.

But if he gets that string caught on a branch or somehow in moving stuff in and out of his surplus Alice pack, . . . just could get nasty.

May God bless,
Dwight

[hawgrider]

Before seeing this, . . . I thought maybe I had seen every silly knot headed device known to man.

I was wrong, . . .

But, . . . no doubt invented by some San Francisco resident with a master's degree in engineering, . . . afraid of what might happen, . . . plans to bug out to the wilds of Oakland when SHTF.

But if he gets that string caught on a branch or somehow in moving stuff in and out of his surplus Alice pack, . . . just could get nasty.

May God bless,
Dwight

Well what if its been pouring rain for a week and everything is soaked and you fell into an icy river so now Hypothermia is a real problem? But if you have just one of those? Now you will start a fire quickly. I personally see a value with one of those.

[Dwight55]

Well what if its been pouring rain for a week and everything is soaked and you fell into an icy river so now Hypothermia is a real problem? But if you have just one of those? Now you will start a fire quickly. I personally see a value with one of those.

1. If , . . . and that is a big word, . . . IF it also is totally impervious to the rain and icy river.

AND

2. It will not be any better than my bug out bag with tubes of mag shavings and my striker. THEY ARE impervious to icy waters and a week of pouring rain.

AND, . . . I'll bet my fire starter cost a WHOLE GREAT BIG BUNCH less than that wannabe prepper idea.

May God bless,
Dwight

[hawgrider]

1. If , . . . and that is a big word, . . . IF it also is totally impervious to the rain and icy river.

AND

2. It will not be any better than my bug out bag with tubes of mag shavings and my striker. THEY ARE impervious to icy waters and a week of pouring rain.

AND, . . . I'll bet my fire starter cost a WHOLE GREAT BIG BUNCH less than that wannabe prepper idea.

May God bless,
Dwight

But... do your mag shavings burn for 30 minutes drying soaking wet wood you found on the forrest floor in the week long rainstorm lol!

[Dwight55]

But... do your mag shavings burn for 30 minutes drying soaking wet wood you found on the forrest floor in the week long rainstorm lol!

In a word, . . . yes. Magnesium shavings burn hotter than the proverbial firecracker, . . . are relatively easy to start, . . . and Hawg, you know as well as I do, . . . there IS DRY stuff, . . . or reasonably so, . . . in all deep woods we go into. Just a matter of looking in the right place.

As a boy scout I struggled a bit building a fire, . . . but I learned how, . . . and depending on a box with a pull rope just ain't one of them.

I'm afraid anyone "depending" on them might wind up on the short end of the straw if that is their only or even just "major" fire starter appliance.

May God bless,
Dwight

[hawgrider]

In a word, . . . yes. Magnesium shavings burn hotter than the proverbial firecracker, . . . are relatively easy to start, . . . and Hawg, you know as well as I do, . . . there IS DRY stuff, . . . or reasonably so, . . . in all deep woods we go into. Just a matter of looking in the right place.

As a boy scout I struggled a bit building a fire, . . . but I learned how, . . . and depending on a box with a pull rope just ain't one of them.

I'm afraid anyone "depending" on them might wind up on the short end of the straw if that is their only or even just "major" fire starter appliance.

May God bless,
Dwight

And then there was Boy scout water ! Haha Scouting was fun. Watching my dad catch a gallon of Coleman fuel on fire in a rain storm was priceless he chucked that sucker like a hot tator!!!! LMAO!

[1skrewsloose]

Wow, saw ways to make fire I never would have seen at the green place! Awesome.

[shootbrownelk]

But... do your mag shavings burn for 30 minutes drying soaking wet wood you found on the forrest floor in the week long rainstorm lol!

No, probably not. But a flare will start a fire PDQ.