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Pompano
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It's SO easy....
15 Steps to Build a campfire.
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 structure of slivers(including those embedded in hand).
6. Light match.
7. Light match.
8. Repeat "a scout is cheerful," 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. Upon discovery that fire has gone out during your absence, soak wood with liquid from can labeled "kerosene."
13. Treat face and arms for second degree burns, and relabel your can to read "gasoline."
14. When fire is burning well, add all remaining wood.
15. When thunderstorm has passed, repeat steps 1 through 14.
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Marc
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Geo_Skip
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Gotta side with Marc on that one. Pompano you might just have made my year. Thank you!
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bezzell
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or, you could just light your Just For Men soaked head! they'd catch that from the Space Station
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BajaWaverunner
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Easiest and safest fire starting method ever...
No one on this board will use lighter fluid again after after reading this. I learned this a couple of years ago from some Baja BBQ pros and couldn't
believe how simple and effective this is... Take 5 sheets of crumpled up paper towels, Dibble about a quarter cup of cooking oil on them and light
it on fire with a match. The whole thing stays lit like a giant candle for about 5 minutes. Works for campfires and charcoal.
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redhilltown
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May I suggest deep frying some beer battered Corvina fillets before using said oil? 
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4x4abc
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don't they sell fires pre-lit at REI?
Harald Pietschmann
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bajalearner
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Quote: Originally posted by BajaWaverunner  | | No one on this board will use lighter fluid again after after reading this. I learned this a couple of years ago from some Baja BBQ pros and couldn't
believe how simple and effective this is... Take 5 sheets of crumpled up paper towels, Dibble about a quarter cup of cooking oil on them and light
it on fire with a match. The whole thing stays lit like a giant candle for about 5 minutes. Works for campfires and charcoal. |
I will try that! Sounds like a winner.
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bajabuddha
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Yep, same aisle as the dehydrated water packets.
I don't have a BUCKET LIST, but I do have a F***- IT LIST a mile long!
86 - 45*
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bajalearner
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Is that the tail end of a 100 pound WW2 bomb sticking out of the fire? That will certainly light things up quick.
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Ateo
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I use the Gideon Bible from Motel 6 to start my fires! They are there to be used............
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wsdunc
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I certainly agree with the paper and small kindling method, but if you are ever in an emergency (wet wood in a rainstorm etc) a road flare will get
wet wood burning.
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Skipjack Joe
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Thanks Pompano. That was one of your best posts. Made my day.
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willardguy
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| Quote: Originally posted by Ateo | | I use the Gideon Bible from Motel 6 to start my fires! They are there to be used............ |
not to mention to help with good rocky's revival!
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durrelllrobert
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Hijack
As a kid in Montana we used to make heaters for our Xmas tree/ snow forts by rolling up corrugated cardboard tightly in a coffee can with corrugations
facing the top. Then we would melt old candles and paraffin wax to fill the can. When lit with a single match it would burn for several days and if we
needed to extinguish it we simply snuffed it out by putting something on top of it. 
Bob Durrell
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bajalearner
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| Quote: Originally posted by Ateo | | I use the Gideon Bible from Motel 6 to start my fires! They are there to be used............ |
You may have ignited my faith in that book! Now I get fire, but still don't know what brimstone is. 
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MrBillM
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Nodded off in Science Class ?
Brimstone is Sulphur.
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