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Types of Fire Starters

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on December 20, 2015 at 11:29:31 pm
 

There are a number of items you can use to help start a fire.  They fall into two categories: Items to actually "start" the fire and items that are placed with the tinder to make a fire easier to start by helping the fire stay lit long enough to get started. 

 

Items that Help Ignite a Fire

 

there's matches, lighters, magnesium strikers, and steel wool (finely spun) and a nine volt battery.  Magnesium strikers have a long of stick or section of magnesium affixed to a piece of metal of support.  To start a fire with one, hold the striker close to your tinder, then firmly scrape away from you with a knife or edged implement (some strikers include a scraping device) along the edge with the magnesium.  It takes a little practice, but the scraping should create a spark which should land long enough to land in the tinder and hopefully ignite it. 

 

   
   

 

The 9-volt battery and small spun steel wool works by using the power of the battery to heat the steel threads.  The steel wool is placed in the in the tinder and the battery terminals are then touched to the wool.  The threads ignite, which in turn, ignites the tinder then hopefully the fire.  

 

   

 

Items that Help Assist a Fire Get Started

 

Items that help assist the fire get started can be small commercially sold starter sticks that can be broken up, or pet hair, or dryer lint.   You can also make your own using items such as toilet paper rolls, cotton balls, paraffin wax, sawdust, and shredded wood.

 

Commercial Fire Starters are typically small shredded pieces of wood pressed into a stick shape and treated with some long burning chemical an/or and accelerant.  We typically don't use these

 

 

 

Materials

 

Several sheets of newspaper or used printer paper

Toilet paper tubes (one for each fire starter you want to make)

Dryer lint

Melted wax (if desired)

 

Instructions

 

Find a safe work surface that is out of reach from children and animals. Lay out a piece of newspaper to cover the surface.

 

Stand your toilet paper tubes upright on top of your work surface. Loosely stuff some dryer lint inside each of the toilet paper tubes. Note: If you are going to add melted wax, stuff the tube half full of dryer lint. Pour a small amount of wax on top of the dryer lint. Then, cover the top of the wax with additional dryer lint.

 

Take a separate piece of newspaper or used printer paper, and roll the paper tube up so that the outside is covered in the paper, tucking the ends inside the tube once you are done rolling.

 

To use: Place the fire starter at the base of your campfire, topping it with twigs and small kindling. Light the fire starter and enjoy your campfire!

 


 

Sources

 

http://www.lovetheoutdoors.com/camping/tips/firestarters.htm

http://www.ramblinjim.com/articles/using-vaseline-cotton-balls-as-a-fire-starter/vaseline-01-ingredients/

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