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  1. 02-11-2011, 03:53 PM #1
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    Best Way To Start Your Camp Fire

    The best mixture i have found to start a fire is... If you want to...
    Mix
    1 gal gasoline
    1 bottle HEET (gas line water reducer)
    1 small bottle 2 stroke oil
    bout half bottle camp fire stove alcohol
    Itl start wood under water!
    Tip: Every one on this site cuts wood so take saw dust or small pieces and soak it in this mixture and the you got fire starters!

    Also POst your mixes so i can improve mine
    Then Sit back and have a cold one!
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    My way of starting a camp fire is much easier. I go to my truck, grab a road flare, pull off the top, expose the striker, strike it, toss it on any wood and wait for the 1500 degree flame to ignite anything in its way. Sit back, crack a beer and within 15 minutes I am ready for another beer and the fire is roaring

    Creates a warm, red glow and lets the neighbors know I am not kidding around.
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  3. 02-11-2011, 06:49 PM #3
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    pfft, sissy methods...I pile up some wood, get some coordinates on the position and call in for a daisy cutter...

    The neighbors, (well those that lived over 6000 feet from the woodpile)
    never even considered that I was fooling around....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Hillbilly3995 View Post
    pfft, sissy methods...I pile up some wood, get some coordinates on the position and call in for a daisy cutter...

    The neighbors, (well those that lived over 6000 feet from the woodpile)
    never even considered that I was fooling around....
    They wanted campfire starting methods, not neighborhood fire starting methods. Where do you live anyways, Afganiraqpakastaniiranistan?
    Cut all day-then we'll refuel If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

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  5. 02-11-2011, 07:08 PM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by 8433jeff View Post
    They wanted campfire starting methods, not neighborhood fire starting methods. Where do you live anyways, Afganiraqpakastaniiranistan?
    I never will forget, One day the boss calls me over and says take these new guys out to the flightline and familiarize them with the ship...

    I take them out to the only jet out there at the time which just happened to have a "baby whale" in the weapons bay (15,600 pounds of HE) and one of those kids after asking what it was and so on said while standing under it looking up,"wow, Id hate for that thing to blow up"

    To which I replied, if that happens I doubt you'd feel anything, you better be more concerned with it falling on you....
    "Some people are like a Slinky, absolutely useless but you cant help but smile when you push them down the stairs"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hillbilly3995 View Post
    I never will forget, One day the boss calls me over and says take these new guys out to the flightline and familiarize them with the ship...

    I take them out to the only jet out there at the time which just happened to have a "baby whale" in the weapons bay (15,600 pounds of HE) and one of those kids after asking what it was and so on said while standing under it looking up,"wow, Id hate for that thing to blow up"

    To which I replied, if that happens I doubt you'd feel anything, you better be more concerned with it falling on you....
    Better be concerned with his life insurance, cause thats all that would be left of him either way.
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    You people don't know the best recipe for a 50 foot tall bonfire? Dry wood piled 2 feet high in fire pit, some brush scattered on top, and four gallons of raw, stale gasoline. Light a match and throw it into the pit from at least fifteen feet away, light another and throw if neccessary. WHOooosh... instant torch red so hot you gotta stand back 35 feet away fifty and more foot tall flames. No bs, my pops and I actually did this. Fun to say the least, and hotter than hell. Unbearable to get within 25 or so feet away from the fire. We actually got the garden hose out and wetted the grass and hayfield surrounding the pit to ensure wildfires would be nonexistant. Our biggest concern was the telephone pole and the nearby stacked wood, lol. Good day, for sure, felt like a real redneck.
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  8. 02-11-2011, 07:53 PM #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by mitch95100 View Post
    The best mixture i have found to start a fire is... If you want to...
    Mix
    1 gal gasoline
    1 bottle HEET (gas line water reducer)
    1 small bottle 2 stroke oil
    bout half bottle camp fire stove alcohol
    Itl start wood under water!
    Tip: Every one on this site cuts wood so take saw dust or small pieces and soak it in this mixture and the you got fire starters!

    Also POst your mixes so i can improve mine
    Then Sit back and have a cold one!
    Hey mitch:

    I still prefer the old boyscout way of gathering up tinder and kindling and trying to start it with ONE match. Doesn't always work, but I like trying anyway.

    The gasoline reminds me when I was young and we were burning brush piles on the ranch. We had one pile 8 to 10 feet high, and someone had tried to start a fire, but it went out. So here I went up on top, pouring gasoline all around and somehow saw a little flicker of fire WAY down towards the bottom. Immediately, I jumped out from the pile as far as I could and the gasoline explosion lifted me up like a mighty wind and whooshed me way way out from the brush pile.

    I could have been killed that day by one stupid mistake.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sagetown View Post
    Hey mitch:

    I still prefer the old boyscout way of gathering up tinder and kindling and trying to start it with ONE match. Doesn't always work, but I like trying anyway.

    The gasoline reminds me when I was young and we were burning brush piles on the ranch. We had one pile 8 to 10 feet high, and someone had tried to start a fire, but it went out. So here I went up on top, pouring gasoline all around and somehow saw a little flicker of fire WAY down towards the bottom. Immediately, I jumped out from the pile as far as I could and the gasoline explosion lifted me up like a mighty wind and whooshed me way way out from the brush pile.

    I could have been killed that day by one stupid mistake.
    Wow, lucky. Thankfully you are okay. You learned from your mistake, unlike most of the drivers out on the road nowadays, and those idiots fracturing their spines by sitting on an airbag and deploying it. If you think there is no fire, think again, as you mentioned in your story, flames and embers can hide in very small and hard to see places, way down in the pile. It's like not paying attention to a tree and it's branches when you're cutting it down. Kills people really quickly.
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  10. 02-11-2011, 08:40 PM #10
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    I think Red Green has the best method.

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    ....just make sure you know how to put it out......

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sagetown View Post
    Hey mitch:

    I still prefer the old boyscout way of gathering up tinder and kindling and trying to start it with ONE match. Doesn't always work, but I like trying anyway.

    The gasoline reminds me when I was young and we were burning brush piles on the ranch. We had one pile 8 to 10 feet high, and someone had tried to start a fire, but it went out. So here I went up on top, pouring gasoline all around and somehow saw a little flicker of fire WAY down towards the bottom. Immediately, I jumped out from the pile as far as I could and the gasoline explosion lifted me up like a mighty wind and whooshed me way way out from the brush pile.

    I could have been killed that day by one stupid mistake.
    Sounds familar. Can still "see and feel" a slash pile lift off the ground 3 feet - before starting to burn. That was back when you got gasoline in gallon glass jugs.
    Almost a Darwin lesson.
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