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Date: Mar 27, 2008 15:54
It was part one of our bushcraft course tonight and the subject was
firelighting.. I SAID FIRELIGHTING...sorry couldn't hear you then because of
the noise the rain was making in the roof.
I started by showing them the contents of my fire kit, which is a
"Highlander" metal tin containing a couple of tea lights, two boxes
waterproof matches, turbo lighter, fire steel, so cotton wool tinder, and 4
fire lighter cubes
They liked this, which is what I expected as I have just bought them all a
plastic Asda pot for 40p each to make their own. We made waterproof matches,
(which they all burnt afterwards!) and apart from the steel had pretty much
the same setup, which was good, but not... wow... :-(
Then somebody remembered that Vaseline in cotton wool burns well and they
discovered that a blob of Vaseline in a thumb sized bit of CW burns for 10
minutes, doesn't smell and you can either get 2cm sticks burning or neat up
beans in a metal cup.
The traditional way of storing these in a film container but people don't
use them anymore so storage would be difficult until after 5 minutes of
prompting somebody thought about wrapping them in paper like a giant
sweetie.....
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