Playing with fire

[eric001]

Best fire starter I've ever used is the paper bits from our paper shredder. A loose-packed pile of shreds under the twigs/sticks/whatever else is under the big pieces is all I need to get things going first try.

 

[w_ADAM_d88]

I keep a fiber drum in the warehouse at work and as me or my coworkers walk around we pick up the pallet pieces and boards that break off and save them. When I get a full drum I bring it home and cut them to size using my chop saw. Once I get them cut I break out the Junglas and split them into small pieces. Every pallet in our warehouse is heat treated so these are super dry and catch fire almost instantly.

 

[mike4sigs]

Small metal can (like from canned diced green chiles), a bit of toilet paper, and a squirt or two of lighter fluid. The lighter fluid turns the toilet paper into a gel-like substance (almost like sterno) and it burns hot and long. Then build the fire around that.

What kind of light fluid ! ?? charcoal starter or the kind you would use in a zippo?

 

[Reno316]

What kind of light fluid ! ?? charcoal starter or the kind you would use in a zippo?

I use regular charcoal lighter fluid because it won't flash as much as, say, white gas or gasoline. I don't have a Zippo, so haven't tried that.

 

[silentvoice71]

Potassium permanganate & glycerin..... nice and hot

 

[remauto1187]

Liquid Oxygen and some Oil makes for a very entertaining fire AND explosion!

 

[hunter_47443]

Corn cobs soaked in diesel fuel.....store them in a suitable metal can.

 

[danielson]

I bought a box of milsurp trioxane fuel tablets a while back. When I got them, it was freezing cold, and there was 6 inches of snow on the ground. I went to the burn pile where all the sticks and limbs from the yard get dumped. I set one on the ground at the edge of the pile, under some pine branches, lit it up, and in no time I had to go inside and get the garden hose. They work pretty darned well, and their cheap.

 

[Thegeek]

About 2 handfuls of Kingsford Matchlight.