I need some help lighting a fire remotely

[Methane Herder]

Roman candle with a faux cannon or rifle crafted around it to look like the cannon was firing flaming balls


Soak the firewood with lighter fluid

Cautionary tale..Don't try lighting it this way.....
When younger (much), stupider (not much), steel beer cans were available in any quantities desired, in any ditch within a quarter mile of any tavern located in St. (insert saints name here), southern Indiana...... Tennis balls, beer cans, duct tape, lighter fluid and a lighter could, on any summer vacation night, put you in:
A) A giddy, teenage, pyro frenzy building tennis ball mortars, soaking the balls in lighter fluid and seeing if they would burn out before returning to Earth (hopefully on a non flammable surface).
B) Contention for a Darwin award if you got the air to lighter fluid ratio on the very lean side. I.e. detonation vs combustion.

P.S. Just before (B), firing a non flaming ball during the day, would launch it vertically out of sight. It would take a good 10 seconds to impact.

MH

 

[JAL]

What's not to love about a flaming potato?

Mr. Potato Head objects . . .

 

[Tactically Fat]

Note: Tipping a bucket of combustible liquid onto a flame will probably just put the flame out - even if it's gasoline. Kerosene will almost certainly not light up.

A flaming "arrow" on a guide into a pile of tinder + accelerant seems likely the safest. The cable-guided arrow could also be the back-up plan. Could build like mini launchers for roman candles (don't hold those suckers no matter how tempted) to see if folks could lob one in)

 

[actaeon277]

Cable guided model rocket sled with road flares

 

[printcraft]

Cable guided model rocket sled with road flares

Note, if you use plastic straws for eyelets they will burn through from friction before the rocket reaches the half way point of the line…

You never learn unless you try…

Also, A Gas powered model airplane engine WILL move an unguided skateboard with authority.

 

[actaeon277]

Note, if you use plastic straws for eyelets they will burn through from friction before the rocket reaches the half way point of the line…

You never learn unless you try…

Also, A Gas powered model airplane engine WILL move an unguided skateboard with authority.

We had wire to hook on the cable. bent into a eyelet.
light the flares.
light the engine
to the audience, a flame is coming out of the sky.

have no one in the path, or past the path.

the origin was at the top of a natural 'bowl', the fire at the bottom.
So gravity helps.

 

[printcraft]

have no one in the path, or past the path.

* takes notes *



It is pretty exciting when you are watching it from the oncoming perspective and it becomes untethered half way through…

 

[actaeon277]

* takes notes *



It is pretty exciting when you are watching it from the oncoming perspective and it becomes untethered half way through…

not so much though when there are about 200 boy scouts around, and you're the one that launched it.


The problem we had, the rocket sled was SUPPOSED to go into the log cabin type fire through an opening, and trip a wire pulling a pin on a smoke grenade that would give some visual while the fire built up.

What happened was the cable guide stretched because of the tree I was in swayed a bit.
So the sled came in low
And you hear THUNK as it hit under the opening.
The Master of Ceremonies had to toss the sled into the fire.

 

[Haven]

My main concern about a spud gun is keeping the projectile lit.

And my only shot using mapp gas scared the crap out of me. Took the bark off a tree at 30 yards. That tater was MOVING.

That tree really shook too.

 

[Twangbanger]

Note: Tipping a bucket of combustible liquid onto a flame will probably just put the flame out - even if it's gasoline. Kerosene will almost certainly not light up.

A flaming "arrow" on a guide into a pile of tinder + accelerant seems likely the safest. The cable-guided arrow could also be the back-up plan. Could build like mini launchers for roman candles (don't hold those suckers no matter how tempted) to see if folks could lob one in)

This. Kerosene is extremely hard to light in liquid form at ambient conditions. You can extinguish a match in a bucket of it.

Gasoline vapors, on the other hand, tend to spread out and become hard to control.

I would nix the liquid fuel idea if possible, and scrape up a bunch of something like dry pine needles and grass, or chaff from a harvested field if the farmer will let you have a truck bed of it. The effect would be easier to contain. The very best common combustible material I've found is dry, dead ornamental grass, but that's hard to find before winter.

 

[Haven]

So funny thing happened last night, i was suggested a short video, which was a guy hitting a flaming golf ball into a pile of wood, that then went up in flames.

 

[Cameramonkey]

So funny thing happened last night, i was suggested a short video, which was a guy hitting a flaming golf ball into a pile of wood, that then went up in flames.

Nope. They arent listening. Not at all.

 

[Jeffforpresident]

Moved to the break room and edited the post to fit the thread. Hope OP doesnt mind.
@Jeffforpresident if you need help renaming the thread to something else, let me know. Sometimes after a mod makes a change it removes the ability from the OP to change.

Thank you sir, I appreciate it.

 

[Jeffforpresident]

Jeff needs to give us more info !
For example: will the church allow the use of midget strippers ?

I’m sorry, we are a no midget stripper denomination.

 

[Haven]

Nope. They arent listening. Not at all.

Well in this case, it is someone I follow online.

It was one of those "What a woman thinks, what a guy is actually doing" type videos. She is all worrying about him going out for "Guys Night Out", and maybe cheating on her. Instead the guys are sitting around the firepit, while the one guy chips a flaming golf ball into the fire pit to start it up.

 

[TheGrumpyGuy]

So funny thing happened last night, i was suggested a short video, which was a guy hitting a flaming golf ball into a pile of wood, that then went up in flames.

Nope. They arent listening. Not at all.

Ummm... Yes. Yes we are.

 

[actaeon277]

So funny thing happened last night, i was suggested a short video, which was a guy hitting a flaming golf ball into a pile of wood, that then went up in flames.

Could your friend do this?

www.youtube.com

 

[Haven]

Could your friend do this?

www.youtube.com

I hadn't seen Fredo's version of that, but yeah, that was part of the video.

 

[Bugzilla]