Using gasoline to help kindle a fire

[dingeryote]

I say that if y'alls can't start a fire without an accelerant such as gasoline or diesel then you are a pu$$y and should enlist the help of the Girl Scouts until you learn how.

Criminy.


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SOME of us were trying to be tactfull about it Mang.

LOL!!!!

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[Junkfxr]

Gas works great! The proper teqnique is to light the newspaper, just as the paper is about to burn out, step to the side of the stove door and throw a coffe cup full of gas into the stove. The resulting fast burn will bulge the top and sides of the stove, given that you have a steel fire box and not cast iron or soapstone, creating more space to pack more wood into for longer burn times.

 

[Junkfxr]

Gasoline?Not on your life. All it takes is just a wee bit too much and there goes your stove door across the room.

I use diesel fuel to start my fires, and just a little bit at that. Shove the wood in the stove, sprinkle a little bit of diesel fuel in there, throw in a wooden match and be done with it.My wife would have a fit if I started dragging gas in the house....she hates the smell outside!

She hates the smell of gas but not of diesel fuel??? I work with, around and in diesel fuel almost every day and still hate the smell of it. I have to peel most of my clothes off outside if there's fuel on them because my wife can smell that stuff from a mile away.

 

[Deereman76]

I used to use charcoal Lighter fluid, until one day, when a Huge ball of fire jumped out of my stove at me... Singed eyebrows, no Hair left on my hand and arm........ Dunno how the house did not catch on fire...... The intersting thing, is that I used the stuff for almost 2 years before that. Of course, it only took one time to never use it again!

 

[pook]

I used to use charcoal Lighter fluid, until one day, when a Huge ball of fire jumped out of my stove at me... Singed eyebrows, no Hair left on my hand and arm........ Dunno how the house did not catch on fire...... The intersting thing, is that I used the stuff for almost 2 years before that. Of course, it only took one time to never use it again!

gotta squirt the liquid moderately into an active flame to assure it doesnt get a chance to gassify & explode

 

[Jredsjeep]

Few of us will ever be in a situation we can make diesel (or kerosene) explode, and few of us will ever be somewhere that gasoline won't.

Vegetable oil is up over 600º which is why it's even safer.

i have lost eyebrows and had to shave my head when i used kerosine to light a ood shop stove. my buddy was finishing up some flashing working above the stove so i waited about 5-10 mins to light it.

it shot a huge fireball out when i opened the door and hit the propane torch, blew his doors open and i think he peed himself a little.

i would stick with a little lamp or veggie oil at the most, this was in a cinderblock building i cant imagine doing that in a house.

it only takes once!

 

[gpsman007]

hell no dont use gas.......####

a little diesel, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid o.k. but not gas

There are so many excellent fire starters on the market today why not take advantage of them... I saw some gel fire starter the other day at TSC, I like Fat Wood. but have also taken an empty bottle of Kinsgford lighter fluid and put diesel fuel in it to light fires.

Warning You put gas in a wood stove you are asking to get blown up

 

[Gypo Logger]

Gas works great! The proper teqnique is to light the newspaper, just as the paper is about to burn out, step to the side of the stove door and throw a coffe cup full of gas into the stove. The resulting fast burn will bulge the top and sides of the stove, given that you have a steel fire box and not cast iron or soapstone, creating more space to pack more wood into for longer burn times.

That's not the way to get the best results Pal. You simply take that cup of gas, pour it into an old rubber boot, two boots are better. If you have no boots an old innner tube will suffice. Put boots into stove with fuelwood of your choice, if it's not seasoned it's no biggy.
Then take 5 ft of gas soaked wool or string as a fuse from the firebox to the front door or window. Then light it. Safety glasses and a hardhat should be in order.
This method is how the barrel stove was invented.

John

 

[CrappieKeith]

There are also liposuction clinics that will give you their unwanted waste from outpatient procedures. It's usually free, but doesn't make the neighborhood smell too good.








:deadhorse:

I just kinda threw up in my mouth a little over that one.....

 

[branchbuzzer]

I just kinda threw up in my mouth a little over that one.....

It was a test to see who had the weakest constitution and/or was still awake...:jester:

 

[dingeryote]

i have lost eyebrows and had to shave my head when i used kerosine to light a ood shop stove. my buddy was finishing up some flashing working above the stove so i waited about 5-10 mins to light it.

it shot a huge fireball out when i opened the door and hit the propane torch, blew his doors open and i think he peed himself a little.

i would stick with a little lamp or veggie oil at the most, this was in a cinderblock building i cant imagine doing that in a house.

it only takes once!

LOL!!!
Yep!

In a modern construction air tight house, that kinda "Whoof" woulda blown out tripple pane windows and they ain't cheap!:biggrinbounce2:

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[daleeper]

I finally got over my pride of starting fires the "manly" way, and bought some fire starters, now I don't need no stinking kindling. I put dry wood in the stove, put a square of fire starter, light it up, and off she goes. I usually burn 24/7, so I really don't use that many, as I have coals in the stove to light up the next load.

If I were having to start a new fire every day, I might be looking for cheaper ways to light the stove. I have used a small brown paper bag half filled with wood shavings from my planer, along with a cap full of vegetable oil along with some small splits and it got the fire going pretty good too, and didn't cost much.

 

[loadthestove]

I use my old engine oil from my vehicles for fire starting.I pour some oil in a large pan and lay a piece of wood in the oil.if left in for a day or so,the wood will soak up the oil..

Its amazing how much oil a 10-12 inch split will soak up.when treated this way the wood will light easily and doesn't flash or cause a massive fireball.

My kids say I,m cheating by building a fire this way but I dont want to spend a lot of time getting a fire going.I put the oil soaked piece on bottom,stack some fire wood on top of that

and light,,fire is up and going .

 

[indiansprings]

I see that there isn't many older military guys viewing this one.
The Army was genius enough to build a device called an immersion heater.
We used it to heat trash cans of water to a rolling boil to sanitize wash our mess kits in the field. They used gas for fuel. You had a one gallon steel container of gas that you could adjust it to drip down a pipe in a combustion chamber. You had a long twisted piece of wire with a wick, you would start the drip and then insert the lit wick down in the tube, the damn things would usually sound like a small mortar lighting. Usually the mess section would light the damn things, many of the guys got the hair burnt off their arms/eyebrows. You just adjusted the heat by turning up the drip rate.
The amount of heat they put off was amazing, didn't take long to get a 30 gallon trashcan full of water to a rolling boil. Army finally got rid of them because of the number of accidents/explosions.

I guess one of you should try to augment you wood heat by adding a gas drip tube in your stove, would either cut the wood needed in half or eliminate the need for a stove because you no longer have a house.

 

[goanin]

A lot of people here say they use motor oil. Motor oil is synthetic.
Does it burn clean? Sounds dirty..

 

[Wife'nHubby]

Put a pinch of noodles in each cup of a muffin pan, add a little melted candle wax and pop them out of the pan when cool. To start a fire, lay a couple of splits in the wood stove, place a noodle/wax starter on top & a very small handful of dry noodles. Lighter 'er up - no kindling needed!

Of course these are wood noodles - not spaghetti noodles.

Shari

 

[Junkfxr]

Another good firestarter is to pack dryer lint into cardboard egg cartons and pour melted wax over top. Break off one of the "eggs", light it under your wood. These work great outside too, almost impossible to put out. They always go with me when camping in the rain.

 

[logbutcher]

I say that if y'alls can't start a fire without an accelerant such as gasoline or diesel then you are a pu$$y and should enlist the help of the Girl Scouts until you learn how.
Criminy..

Here's the only "accelerant" ( WTF gas, diesel, oil, liposuction debris ! ) you need to start a fire:

BEND OVER : walk into any place such as forest where there are softwood trees e.g. Pinus Strobus, Spruces, Fir, cedar. Slowly bend the body from the waist with arms extended to the ground. Then with attention, pick up sticks. Place said sticks, branches, into container. Bring home. Use as kindling.

Technically it is termed the " Bend Over" :jawdrop: accelerant.

P.S. Forgot here: you split wood ? Look down. Pick up scraps. Use.

 

[pook]

a fool with a tool is still a fool but its worse when the fool condemns the tool because of his idiocy
i wouldnt use gas but do use k2 because its cheapest & know what i'm doing= avoid gassification of ANY FUEL[including woodgas] by respecting the presence of the flame

 

[wapacz]

I've always though about keeping some charcoal and using a charcoal chimney to get a little bit blazing hot. Then using that to start the fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHXcibEJ1lc