Today I started a little fire with a Boy Scout Hot Spark flint & a couple of cotton balls. One cotton ball had PJ in it and the other was just cotton. We started this on a mound of snow.
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This picture is with my two cotton balls with PJ on the tip of my finger and my Shadow III in my palm and a BSHS (Boy Scout Hot Spark) flint on my wrist.
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The cotton ball without PJ in it is closer to my knee and the one with PJ is farther from my knee. I struck my BSHS flint on both of the cotton balls and this is right after I struck them.
The cotton ball without PJ in it burned about 30 seconds (it is still in the shape of a cotton ball) with just a very small flame. While the other one with PJ in it is still burning at 1 min. with a 2-3 inch flame.
This is a picture of the cotton ball with PJ in it at about 2 min. still with a 2-3 inch flame.
I put a fuss stick on the PJed cotten ball at about 2.5 min.
As you can see if I had 5-8 fuss sticks on the flame now I would have a nice fire to put a few small sticks on to keep it going.
If I really needed a fire I would put the two big sticks down first to create a platform so that the fire would stay on top of the pile of snow. Then I would carve up some fuss sticks and get the rest of my sticks ready to go to get the fire going. You want everything ready and right beside you before you strick the flint the first time, so that it wouldn't go out before you could get everything ready and on it. This method will work even when it is raining, snowing, the sun shining, or on a clowdy day.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Have more coming of some other ways to start a fire.
uncle bryans wilderness pics 002[IMG]
This picture is with my two cotton balls with PJ on the tip of my finger and my Shadow III in my palm and a BSHS (Boy Scout Hot Spark) flint on my wrist.
[IMG]uncle bryans wilderness pics 003
The cotton ball without PJ in it is closer to my knee and the one with PJ is farther from my knee. I struck my BSHS flint on both of the cotton balls and this is right after I struck them.
The cotton ball without PJ in it burned about 30 seconds (it is still in the shape of a cotton ball) with just a very small flame. While the other one with PJ in it is still burning at 1 min. with a 2-3 inch flame.
This is a picture of the cotton ball with PJ in it at about 2 min. still with a 2-3 inch flame.
I put a fuss stick on the PJed cotten ball at about 2.5 min.
As you can see if I had 5-8 fuss sticks on the flame now I would have a nice fire to put a few small sticks on to keep it going.
If I really needed a fire I would put the two big sticks down first to create a platform so that the fire would stay on top of the pile of snow. Then I would carve up some fuss sticks and get the rest of my sticks ready to go to get the fire going. You want everything ready and right beside you before you strick the flint the first time, so that it wouldn't go out before you could get everything ready and on it. This method will work even when it is raining, snowing, the sun shining, or on a clowdy day.
Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Have more coming of some other ways to start a fire.