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Hello I have found two ways you can get good tinder.
1.Try the labels from your cloths some of them like nylon fabric fire with my firesteel burning after like petroleum, first is good to scrape the label with your knife to get light fibers.
I notice you that some fabrics are treated to avoid burning so you must try to know.
2.With the back (if sharp) of your knife you can obtain light shaves from wood that catch fire very easy with your firesteel.
Enjoy
Roving Rich
05-01-2004, 18:09
I like scraping a bit or birchbark to get a pile of dust, then lighting that seems to burn for a little while.
Cheers
Rich
you shave your jeans or any cotton clothes to get a tiny pile of very fine fluff that'll work from tiny tiny sparks.
cheers, and.
Roving Rich
06-01-2004, 10:41
Apparently belly button fluff works, i suppose that only works if your wearing cotton though?
Anyone tried it?
Cheers
Rich
I've never had the patience to collect enough. Maybe we should do a collection and send it all to you to try out :rolmao:
Andrew Middleton
06-01-2004, 12:34
I am really going tio have to stop ooking at this site whilst eating my lunch.
Andrew Middleton
06-01-2004, 12:35
As you can tell from my previous post, it is a liquid lunch.
and it's no good if you've got an "outy" (not that I have)
:-)
i have tried the fluff but it burnt out far too quickly for me to do anything with it. i need more
Good Job I got an "Inny" then:-D The lint from tumble dryers is good tinder too
bushwacker bob
06-01-2004, 23:52
I found some cramp ball fungi this week and broke one off to see if it would easily take the spark. The results were exellent. the crampball started to glow with the first spark, I then put it down while i went to find some birch bark, on returning after 20 minutes or so it was still glowing nicely. I then walked it about half a mile to my fire site the resultng ember was now glowing over an area of about 3/4 of a square inch. this is truly good tinder and grows prolifically on most ashes(fraxinus exelsior) in hampshire if not the whole country!it works well,its common and its free!
Roving Rich
07-01-2004, 10:04
Nice one Bob, I think that frozen chappy Ouetzi, was carrying a Birchbark tube, loosely stuffed with moss, used for transporting that glowing ember Long distances. I've picked up a couple tubes. but busted em before getting it together.
As for tumble drier fluff. It doesn't work and it stinks!!! Our fluff contains alot of nylon fibres (from me Y fronts) an dog hair (not from my Y fronts), so it wouldn't light and stank of smoldering hair! Yuk. So i guess you have to harvest it after a cotton wash. :wink:
Rich
mate of mine has just got back from scotland and given me a carrier bag of fomes fomentarius :-D
Good Job I got an "Inny" then:-D The lint from tumble dryers is good tinder too
It seems good if it has had clothing of natural fibers, some of the nylons etc don't take well
Duh, Roving already said that :oops:
larry the spark
07-01-2004, 11:31
A great homemade fire lighter can be made by packing some wood shavings (we all got loads of 'em I'm sure!) into the compartments of a cardboard egg carton then pouring melted candle wax over and allowing to set. About a 1/3 or a 1/4 of one compartment is plenty to get a fire going. Burns for ages and great in the rain. I usually light one off a cotton ball thats taken a spark. I also use cotton balls rubbed in vaseline from the small lip treatment tin. These take a spark on their own.
Further info on www.outdoors-magazine.com
i have heard it said that every batch of dryer lint has to be tested for tinder effectiveness.
according to those in the know, belly button fluff is the preferred tinder of chairborne commandos :lol:
cheers, and.
I normally use whatever I have stuffed my pockets with throughout the day, and since I got my windproof lighter I can burn just about everyhting! :twisted:
At home the logs we get come from a variety of trees, and every evening, as I'm sitting by the fire chopping away, any birch ones I come across, I peel the whole thing in big strips, dry the bark, and stuff it away.
It will go easily with a touch of flame, and burns evenly for ages, and if dryed slowly tends to not curl too badly.
I light all the fires in the house, the BBQ, the bonfire, The kettle, and everything else with it!
Nice one Bob, I think that frozen chappy Ouetzi, was carrying a Birchbark tube, loosely stuffed with moss, used for transporting that glowing ember Long distances. I've picked up a couple tubes. but busted em before getting it together.
As for tumble drier fluff. It doesn't work and it stinks!!! Our fluff contains alot of nylon fibres (from me Y fronts) an dog hair (not from my Y fronts), so it wouldn't light and stank of smoldering hair! Yuk. So i guess you have to harvest it after a cotton wash. :wink:
Rich
Yup cottons only (forgot to mention that) Nylon & dog hair........Now that's nasty hahah :lol:
anyone tried the padding that you get in Jiffy bags? I had a bag in the post today which looked very fibrous and easily lit. I'll give it a try soon
Paul