Beckers helpum me makeum fire.

Here is a motivational video for you.

[video=youtube_share;1yWmqbltB-c]http://youtu.be/1yWmqbltB-c[/video]

:cool:
 
james terrio said:
Practice makes... better. There's no such thing as "perfect", but it's still worth trying for.

Starting campfires and starting useful threads... you're doing it right. Keep up the good work :thumbup:
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+1

Excellent thread.

And I meant to say this before. Great job on the photos. They're all lit well, are in focus, and actually show enough of what you're trying to show us that we understand what you're talking about :).

Also, you're making me jealous. Where I live atm I can't just go outside and start fires (apt complex :/). So I'll just live vicariously through folks like you for now.

Cheers :D.
 
Does the apartment complex have communal-use charcoal firepits from hot dogs/burgers/steaks?

When I lived in an apartment in San Diego CA back in the 70s/80s, rather than splurge for charcoal lighter fluid (I was already "frugal" back then), I would start little tinder fires in them using dryer lint, frog-hair feather sticks and a match for getting my charcoal lit. Great way to practice skills in the big city, gets around the complex's rules about arbitrary fires. My goal was to get a burger/steak capable charcoal bed using a single match and no lighter fluid.

ETA: There's nothing that says you can't use one to make a fire in one and "forget" to put any meat on the grill. :D
 
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I don't think that qualifiesas a "feather" stick. :)
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Does the apartment complex have communal-use charcoal firepits from hot dogs/burgers/steaks?

When I lived in an apartment in San Diego CA back in the 70s/80s, rather than splurge for charcoal lighter fluid (I was already "frugal" back then), I would start little tinder fires in them using dryer lint, frog-hair feather sticks and a match for getting my charcoal lit. Great way to practice skills in the big city, gets around the complex's rules about arbitrary fires. My goal was to get a burger/steak capable charcoal bed using a single match and no lighter fluid.
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Thanks for the suggestion, and excellent work. Starting "one match" fires is pretty easy generally speaking, but I'd have to think about how I'd change the prep work/firebed to work with lighting charcoal.

They have a single bbq in the common area. I've not yet done what you're describing, but have contemplated it (or similar). Given the others in the apt complex, I may have to do my prep work indoors, and then take the feathersticks/tinder outside to light them. I really would worry that it might scare others if I took a Mora outside to whittle, let alone one of my Beckers. Again, thats not a huge problem. I just need to find some deadwood around here to give it a shot.

The real reason I haven't tried it yet is that like you, we're quite frugal right now (we have to be, with the price of rent around here :(), and we actually don't buy lots of meat to grill at the moment. Although that may change soon, as my wife and I are expecting right now and my wifes doctor said she should be eating more iron (she actually asked if we were vegetarian, which we are most definitely are not, but given our "frugalness" we don't eat tons of meat atm). So I may get to grill more often, and try it out :).

So yeah, good idea, and it gives me an excuse to grill some more tri-tip :D.

Thanks :).
 
Silver Needle said:
That's an incredible video.

How many states have a Fox River Valley?
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Not sure. I'm in Illinois and the Fox river begins in Wisconsin.

BRKT makes the Fox River knife and it's named after the Fox River in Michigan but I don't know that there is a valley.
 
Rupestris said:
Not sure. I'm in Illinois and the Fox river begins in Wisconsin.

BRKT makes the Fox River knife and it's named after the Fox River in Michigan but I don't know that there is a valley.
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Ok cool, thanks. That was my weird way of trying to see if we lived in the same place. I live near where the river starts in Wisconsin. Every thing here is named Fox Valley something or other.
 
Same here. Even the local radio station is WFXF - The Fox. Fox valley VW. Fox valley real estate .You name it.
 
We have the Fox Run Mall....no foxes anymore, but I did see a coyote one night...

Nice thread NitrogenOxidewad.... I find the wood you use for feathersticks has more impact than anything else. Hardwoods are, well....hard to feather, and softwoods like pine, poplar (though technically a hardwood) and some others are a lot easier to work. I have sugar maple in my woodpile, and it's a total bear to feather. I guess I should say "softer" woods....there are a lot of hardwoods that are easier to feather, and there are plenty that aren't....think oak, maple and the like. Pine has the added advantage of being somewhat easier to combust with the pitch and whatnot. The natural resins stay lit for a longer time.

Great thread, though.
 
Rupestris said:
Here is a motivational video for you.

:cool:
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Dang, that's crazy..

ocnLogan said:
+1

Excellent thread.

And I meant to say this before. Great job on the photos. They're all lit well, are in focus, and actually show enough of what you're trying to show us that we understand what you're talking about :).

Also, you're making me jealous. Where I live atm I can't just go outside and start fires (apt complex :/). So I'll just live vicariously through folks like you for now.

Cheers :D.
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Thanks. I've taken so many that every now and then I get a good one and it gets posted. ;)

No intentions to make you jealous, but there may be camping pics next week sometime. :D

wfsltt said:
I don't think that qualifiesas a "feather" stick. :)
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Smart aleck. :D


A feather stick from today..

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