How To Build A Fire
Jun 19, 2014 10:01:20 #
1.Split dead limb into fragments and shave one fragment into slivers.
2. Bandage left thumb.
3. Chop other fragments into smaller fragments.
4. Bandage left foot.
5. Make a structure of slivers (including those embedded in the hand).
6. Light match.
7. Light match.
8. Repeat Im a Happy Camper and light match.
9. Apply match to slivers, add wood fragments, and blow gently into base of flames.
10. Apply burn ointment to nose.
11. When fire is burning, collect more wood.
12. When fire is burning well, add all remaining firewood.
13. After thunderstorm has passed, repeat the above steps.
Sarge69
2. Bandage left thumb.
3. Chop other fragments into smaller fragments.
4. Bandage left foot.
5. Make a structure of slivers (including those embedded in the hand).
6. Light match.
7. Light match.
8. Repeat Im a Happy Camper and light match.
9. Apply match to slivers, add wood fragments, and blow gently into base of flames.
10. Apply burn ointment to nose.
11. When fire is burning, collect more wood.
12. When fire is burning well, add all remaining firewood.
13. After thunderstorm has passed, repeat the above steps.
Sarge69
Jun 19, 2014 10:13:18 #
Jun 19, 2014 10:16:13 #
After 35 years in the ER, Sarge, I can tell you you're missing many more opportunities for bandages, burn ointment, sutures, treatment of smoke inhalation, spider bites from the woodpile, strained back muscles, etc, etc, etc. Ahhh, but we boys do love our campfires. :roll:
Jun 19, 2014 10:24:57 #
Jun 19, 2014 10:38:16 #
A perfect scenario of a camping experience. I stopped once and figured out how many nights I could stay in a nice motel for the price of all that camping gear. I have never been camping since.
Jun 19, 2014 11:22:23 #
jaymatt wrote:
A perfect scenario of a camping experience. I stopped once and figured out how many nights I could stay in a nice motel for the price of all that camping gear. I have never been camping since.
I sharpened my pencil too. I made payments of about $400/month on my motor-home for 10 years. I had 5 more to go. Don't forget the insurance, $200 in gas each time I went a few hundred miles, maintenance, repairs, tires, AAA roadside insurance (you need that - trust me), all the stuff you buy to outfit it, fees paid to camp, registration, vandalism repairs, break ins, etc, - I figured I could have almost bought a hotel.
Jun 19, 2014 12:09:28 #
Jun 19, 2014 12:15:58 #
Love it! You forgot douse pathetic kindling with gasoline, light, and apply ointment to singed face and hand.:oops:
My Boy Scout troop had an expert on fire drill use, and another on flint and steel. Those techniques really do work ........ for a very few folks.
When I was a kid camping my father would carry some birch bark from a white birch tree. It has enough oil so that it will burn even if wet, IIRC. Of course, white birch is hard to find here in the south. Pine cones are another good kindling, as were the old fashioned wax coated milk cartons.
My Boy Scout troop had an expert on fire drill use, and another on flint and steel. Those techniques really do work ........ for a very few folks.
When I was a kid camping my father would carry some birch bark from a white birch tree. It has enough oil so that it will burn even if wet, IIRC. Of course, white birch is hard to find here in the south. Pine cones are another good kindling, as were the old fashioned wax coated milk cartons.
Jun 19, 2014 16:09:38 #
Jun 20, 2014 06:59:07 #
sarge69 wrote:
1.Split dead limb into fragments and shave one fra... (show quote)
Why is it only takes one match to start a forest fire, but 100 to start a campfire, and even then you might be cold because you only brought a hundred?
Jun 20, 2014 09:53:47 #
rayford2
Loc: New Bethlehem, PA
sarge69 wrote:
1.Split dead limb into fragments and shave one fra... (show quote)
I'll have to make a copy of that for our Boy Scout troop.
Thanks.
Jun 22, 2014 12:26:44 #
Jun 22, 2014 12:29:06 #
user47602
Loc: ip 304.0.0.33.32
jeep_daddy wrote:
a motor home is not camping :)I sharpened my pencil too. I made payments of about $400/month on my motor-home for 10 years. I had 5 more to go. Don't forget the insurance, $200 in gas each time I went a few hundred miles, maintenance, repairs, tires, AAA roadside insurance (you need that - trust me), all the stuff you buy to outfit it, fees paid to camp, registration, vandalism repairs, break ins, etc, - I figured I could have almost bought a hotel.
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