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J.G. the magnificent Special user Griffith Indiana 886 Posts 
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I help out with the scouts from time to time and just thought of something very useful. I may educate them but not sure if it's a good idea due to exposure. Mouth coils could be great to carry as tinder! Especially if you know how to make them. The tissue paper ones I mean. You have much tinder that compacts very small. Having more tinder in a containment bag then you would with flax, charcloth, cotton, or anything else. Would this be a bad exposure? Mouth coils are not the biggest secret and more of a gag but a secret non the less.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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Kids today with their coily-doily's. In my day we just kept our charred cloth in a film canister. One time old Jimmy chopped his finger clean off trying to get a spark with a Buck knife. I don't know why we called him old Jimmy, he was only seven. After that we just called him Joey Stubfinger. That was the way it was and we liked it!
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
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I can think of a few other magic tricks I'd rather see burned.
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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Lots of flash cotton...
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Tom Jorgenson Inner circle LOOSE ANGLES, CALIFORNIA 4451 Posts
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Mouth coils are a good idea!
Pack a little steel wool in there too, for an extra hot start.
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J.G. the magnificent Special user Griffith Indiana 886 Posts
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That would certainly make it work better thanks Tom.
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts
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I used pizza (empty) boxes to start the fire in my fireplace. They worked really well.
Ha! It reminds me of how you get a macician off of your front porch...
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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On 2012-01-14 13:56, Salguod Nairb wrote: Now, if we can only get them to deliver pizza to the woods, it sure would help with our survival situation.
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Pakar Ilusi Inner circle 5777 Posts
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Anyway, that is not a bad idea actually...
Seriously, first night, Pizza... Tomorrow, Porcupine! And we have the Pizza Boxes to start the fire with...
"Dreams aren't a matter of Chance but a matter of Choice." -DC-
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts
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They burn hot and fast. Keep the box closed and you will have a roaring fire in no time. I think it is because the box is corigaged which draws in the air.
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J.G. the magnificent Special user Griffith Indiana 886 Posts
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I am sure pizza boxes burn good. However the whole idea of mouth coils is not because tissue paper burns well. It's that they contain much burnable material that packs very small. Pizza boxes do not pack as small. I should try pizza boxes sometime though.
Jeremy Gates
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Josh Chaikin Inner circle Kansas City 1430 Posts
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We used dryer lint - two bags. One bag was normal lint, for the Scoutmasters to inspect, the other bag was dryer lint that had been soaked in lighter fluid. We weren't allowed to use lint after that camp out.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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On 2012-01-15 13:10, Josh Chaikin wrote: In my 'go bag' I have dryer lint, some sawdust fire starters my friend made, and a bag of vaseline coated cotton-which will light wet and burns fairly long.
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Josh Chaikin Inner circle Kansas City 1430 Posts
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On 2012-01-15 13:25, critter wrote: I'll have to remember the Vaseline thing...I got lucky when I did wilderness survival, we had no rain and my shelter held. |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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Correction, the ones my friend gave me are not the sawdust kind, they are made from toilet paper rolls packed inside of each other.
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J.G. the magnificent Special user Griffith Indiana 886 Posts
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On 2012-01-15 13:25, critter wrote: That works and I know someone that does something simular. Sawdust mixed with motor oil. Or something like that highly dangerous though.
Jeremy Gates
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J.G. the magnificent Special user Griffith Indiana 886 Posts
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On 2012-01-15 13:25, critter wrote: One time at camp a tornado went through. hundreds of scouts had to go under a shelter. Powerlines were down and we got back to camp to find our tents down hill in a muddy mess. That really taught us fire building skills.
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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The friend that made the tubes is a retired Air Force survival instructor.
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Salguod Nairb Room 101 0 Posts
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Vaseline? I'm sure Ned Beatty could of used that when he went into the woods too.
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