BK24 Make it burn!!!!

[Moosez45]

I like fire, so, well, this is gonna be a fire contest.

Here is the list of equipment:

1 BKT knife
1 wooden match
1 firesteel
6' of paracord
1 lens (magnifying glass or fresnel or comparable)
15' of jute cord
1 cotton ball
1 mini bic lighter
1 ranger band

Contest is simple, make as many fires as you can with the material list above. You must use all natural materials, except what is listed above.

They must be fires, not coals. Fire counts as a flame at least 8" in height.

You must post 1 picture of all of the material listed above, and then, as many photos as you want, but the more detailed you entry, the more likely you will win.

You must have at least 1 friction fire, 1 match fire, 1 lens fire, and 1 lighter fire, but the more you start, the better you chances are of winning.

Must be 18yrs old to win, you are responsible for your actions, no one else is.

Beckerheads only.

Winner gets a BNIB, never used, factory fresh D2 BK24, FREE OF CHARGE.

First one to ask a question is disqualified, to enter, post "Beckerhead XXX, I accept the challenge" to enter.

Contest will run until October 12, 2012.

Moose

 

[Eero]

Beckerhead #126, I accept the challenge...

Fire # 1 Lighter fire

Made some shavings and put them on the ground:

Mini bic lit 'er up:

Cleared the "8:

After I took this one I added a bunch more wood.

End result is that I now have a fire pit...burned the grass away

Fire #2 Lighter fire

Started by batoning some cedar off this chunk of wood from a tree cut down last spring. Also dumped some cedar shavings on my newly made pit to start.

Lit a little stick and dropped it in a hole I had made in the middle:

We have flame!

Added some more wood and enjoyed the evening next to my fire:

Fire #3 Firesteel fire

Started by making some fat wood shavings into a bowl:

Went a little overboard. This fat wood is harder to make shavings from then I thought it would be. Wrist is sore. From the fat wood.

Dumped it into some cedar bark:

Made myself a little fat wood boat:

Couple strikes with my 16 and she was on fire:

Fire #4 Lighter fire w/ cotton ball

This time I used a chunk of fir that was cut down same time as the cedar tree last spring. Batoned some thin slabs to then process further. This stuff is a dream compared to the cedar to baton:

Done processing. A lot of wood = big fire!

Made some shavings:

Ready to stack:

made a nest of sorts:

It ended up pretty tall!

Something laid and egg in my nest! Go figure....

....so I lit it on fire

This fire was HOT

Knife I used.....and the left over coals.

Fire #5 Lighter fire

Started with a chunk of cedar branch:

Made some shavings and put my 16 in the frame for this one:

Stacked it up and applied flame:

I stacked on a bunch more wood I processed because I hate dinky fires:

End:

Fire # 6 Firesteel fire

Made some more shavings....I'm getting better at these curls (and some of the cedar I batoned is drying out more):

I had a little fun with this one. Ain't it purdy? Fire can be an art, right?

Fire # 7 Lighter fire

I had some fun with this one as well:

Added some more wood to get it going

I had to split my posts so see post #21 on page 2 for the rest of my entry if your interested. I take a field trip.

 

[Geektechnica]

Beckerhead 232, I accept the challenge.

Burn baby burn!

Here is a shot of my materials:

First Fire:
I actually didn't have any place at my house where I could safely burn, and I've been collecting rocks in my yard for a while with the intention of making a fire ring, so I went ahead and built a small one.

Here I've got some maple I've had hanging out in my garage for a few months from a tree that came down in a storm:

I started this fire with about 6 inches of Jute cord and my firesteel. My 5 year old was manning the camera, and didn't quite catch the entire picture:

The jute takes a spark very well, and I only needed one strike from the firesteel to ignite it and set off my shavings, soon enough the fire was roaring right along:

Marshmallows anyone?

Second fire:

I decided this time to do a twig fire rather than split wood.

I'm using a small log as a brace with a stone sliver as a platform to keep my shavings dry as the ground was very damp after the rain.

I've got a few different sized twigs ready to go:

I used my match to start this one:

Very nervous for a minute, shavings almost burnt out before the slightly damp twigs caught:

Building it up a little more:

And there we go:

 

[oXide]

Since I'm under 18 and not eligible, am I now disqualified?

 

[NixKustoms]

Beckerhead #51, I accept the challenge

I love fire!


Well; I had fun, but I didn't get all fire methods done. I forgot about the mini bic, and I didn't have good enough sun today (or the last couple weeks) to get a fire from my lens. Here is what I do have though.

Well in retrospect I should have taken pictures of my attempt to start a lens fire, but I didn't even think about that, and the sun is mostly gone behind clouds now so; yeah.


Anyways, Moose, thank you much for the good time!!!!

 

[LG&M]

#188 in ( hope I can find the time)
My gear.. Edit 10-6-12

As much as I like my 16 it's not the best for spliting matches.

First match fire...

#2

Fire steel...

Look who stoped by for a visit. K9's FFG 17

Lighter fire..

Edit 10-7-12
I used part of the cotton ball and some jute for the magnifying glass I held it with half the ranger band.

I could get smoke but no fire. I will come back to this one.
My son did make this with the magnifying glass..

Here is one more with the fire steel.

The next two are from my bow drill set. One from the willow and one from the cedar.

You can see a little smoke.

Fire #1

#2

Edit 10-8-12
I made a new spindel and hearth from cottonwood today.

Nice coal from the first drill.

And the fire.

10-9-12
Mix-N-Match afterdark. Cedar & cottonwood bow drill.

Edit 10-10-12
Magnafying glass, This time I took some dust from the bow drill with what was left of the cotton ball.

Bingo!

Next is cotton wood bow drill with cotton wood inner bark tender and cotton wood fire all from the same branch. Hows that for a one stick fire?

I didn't like my first lighter fire so here #2 with fat wood.

Next I did firesteel to fat wood

Last for today is firesteel to cotton wood inner bark.

Edit 10-11-12
cedar bow drill fire.

Fire steel to cedar inner bark & a little fat wood.

Rebirth. You wake up the fire has gone out you see this.

A little tendar and a lot of air and bring it back to this

Willow bow drill with cotton wood inner bark tendar.

Edit 10-12-12
Lighter fire with bark a few shavings and ground litter. Things you might find on a hike.

Lighter fire with inner bark and other easy to gather tender.

Fire steel to fat wood. I found the fat wood in Colorado.

Fire steel to wood shavings.

Bow drill cedar and willow. With cotton wood inner bark tender.

Same bow drill with Jute tender.

I stopped at 24 in honor of the BK 24 this contest is for.
I want to thank Moosez45 for the contest and for pushing me work on my fire skills.
I also wasnt to thank my son for working the camera , helping me becker on wood and just hang out with dad.
last but not least thanks to my wife for everything. (today is our 16th year anniversary)

 

[RWT]

seriously... pyro.

Moose with that much jute and a lighter there is at least 30 + fires in that patch. I don't have that many wood piles from fence clearing to burn and the heart Dr. just told me to lay off beef. I'll sit back and drink beer and watch this one.

 

[TheWambo]

Beckerhead 262, I accept the challenge.

 

[Sam Hell]

I accept.

 

[Crewdawg]

If anyone has a good enough question, e.g. "the list is simply what we are allowed to use to start the fires, but the fires we start to obtain the 8" flame can be any other natural material, right?" <-is an example of a not-good-enuf question, PM me and I'll throw myself upon my Bk-10.

 

[Col Defender]

BH 162 I accept the challenge.

And here are my tools...

 

[trailbum]

"Beckerhead XXX, I accept the challenge"

 

[bullet08]

Beckerhead 301, I accept the challenge. gotta start somewhere.

Due to the issues I have not foreseen, I'll have to withdraw from the contest. Sorry 'bout that. I'll try next time.

 

[mrn8]

Beckerhead #152, I accept this challenge.

 

[FAL'ER]

"Beckerhead XXX, I accept the challenge"
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Lens Fires
#1 Frensel lens with cotton ball - not an easy fire to get going, lots of fast smoke but I get into a rythm of moving the lens in small circles while blowing gently on it and it caught.


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#2 frensel lens with jute twine - I'd say the same technique worked for this one as the cotton ball. I fluffed out the jute, it burns pretty fast. I found that putting a small chunk of wood in amongst the cotton and jute to give me an aiming point and just keeping the heat on the wood made the cotton and jute both go up eventually. Here's a shot of the jute with the wood stick in it,


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I didn't have any luck at all getting ranger band rubber to ignite. It just burns holes and smells real bad.

Lighter Fires
#1 Lighter & Ranger Band. Lights easy and burns for a reasonable amount of time. Stinks real bad.


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#2 Lighter with wood shavings, no mystery here.


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Firesteel Fires
#1 Firesteel & wood shavings. Light my fire steel struck with BK14 and then add in gradually larger pieces.


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Match Fire
This is a strike anywhere match, struck on the top of an altoids tin and lighting a piece of paracord.


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Here's the thing lit up, that's some lit ranger band off to the right.


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Friction Fire. I'm very excited to say I accomplished this at long last, I swear I've tried to make these damn things 10 times and was never successful until this afternoon. I used a chunck of cherry from my tree in my back yard for the fire board and a piece of oak from a pallet for the bearing block and the spindles (I used 3 different ones) were misc. straight pieces I found on the ground when taking my kids out on an adventure. I'll say that I got 3 different coals today and the first 2 fell out of my tinder bundle when I was blowing on them and I was just using dried grass and some wood shavings, on the 3rd attempt I used some jute twine to catch the coal and transfer it to the tinder bundle.


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You can see the smoke coming off the coal pile if you look close.


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[dramos1]

Beckerhead #263, I accept the challenge!



Bic Lighter



BK9 shown as reference that flame is 8 inches or over



Fire Starter







Im gonna try and get the rest of the fires done this week, but we got a lot of rain lately and everything is wet, but i am still determined to finish this

 

[JustAFleshWound]

So... since you said first person to post a question gets disqualifed; does that mean that subsequent question-askers don't get disqualified?

 

[Paden87]

Beckerhead # 261 I accept the challenge

Here is a few inches of jute twine

I broke down the twine to make a small bundle and used my one handed fire steel to start the bundle. After the bundle started I put some fibers from a palm tree on the lit jute to make a bigger fire.

I also used a small bic lighter to start a fire with the palm fibers

 

[tincansurvival]

Beckerhead 307, I accept the challenge.

I just got my Bow Drill skills up to par, so this was a nice refresher on how I need to practice more.

Had to use my fire pit because we "adopted" a new dog and she needed to be monitored. I put the BK2 under the notch so I could contain the coal and add some punkwood if I needed. The coal formed well and I dumped it into a ball of Jute (I love this stuff, it's so easy to blow into flames.)

Here's some shavings and the wood I used. I had a pile of it ready to go. We had a bad wind storm come through and I took out a bunch of dead limbs with the BK9 and processed these with the 2 today. I think it's mostly Oak, and maybe some Bodark.

Firesteel fire, had to incorporate some fatwood because the pieces I chose were a bit wet for shavings.

Match fire, same concept as the firesteel. I split the match so I had some extra shavings.

Lighter fire, same as the ones before. I like my system, even though the wood was a bit wet it still caught well after the fatwood.

This is the cotton ball w/ jute that I burned with the my fresnel lens. The sun was setting and it was semi cloudy. I got it to ember with a smidge of punkwood. I grabbed the camera and snapped the pic but before I knew it, the jute and cotton ball had burned to nothing. I tried to save it, but the wind picked up.

I absolutely love anything with pine. This is some resin infused bark! I used my lighter to start the bark, and then started some shavings.

I didn't like my friction fire from earlier so I made another and got pics of the coals this time!

Great contest, thanks for the chance!

 

[dresnor]

Beckerhead 143, I accept the challenge!


This was a really fun day! Thanks for the contest.


I chose the Machax for this contest because Ethan designed the Machax to do it all. Since I haven't messed with mine much I decided to break it in right. All of my knife needs were met my the Machax.


The required materials.

Lets get started!

First up was a fresnal lens with Cedar bark. The ember formed fast and was ready to blow into flame in no time.

Another lens fire this time with dried fern and Birch bark.

It took off easily once the Birch bark lit.

I took the one match and use it three times. First I split it in two and used both pieces for a fire each.

Fire #1

Fire #2

Then I took the match sticks with some jute twine and Birch bark and hit it with the lens for the third fire.

I used the 6 feet of para cord to string up a bow drill set. The Machax did ok to make this kit. Was it ideal? No. Did it work? Yes.

I really wanted this fire after failing at the NE Gathering a few weeks back. This time I used Cedar for the spindle and the hearth with a cedar birds nest.

Since that was successful I tried the same setup with a jute twine birds nest.

That wore me out!

Ferro rod with Milkweed seed fluff.

Ferro rod with Cedar bark

Ferro rod and Birch bark.

Next I took some Pine pitch and a little bit of jute twine and made a little torch. Ignited it with a ferro rod.

I found this really fluffy grass seed while in the woods the other day. Mixed it with dried pine needles and hit it with a ferro rod.

It took off like a rocket.

Ferro rod, cotton ball, and fatwood. Very easy.

Ferro rod, milkweed fluff and dried fern.

This is were it got weird for me, With the mini Bic I could have made a truckload of fires. However I only made a few.


Mini Bic and half of the ranger band,

Mini Bic, Old man's beard, fern and cedar shavings.

Used up the rest of my Jute twine for this one. I could have rationed the jute twine out to last longer but what the heck.

Lighter with the other half of the ranger band, Birch bark, cedar, bark and whatever I had left. Burn!

PYRO!

Once again thanks Moose and good luck to everyone else.


Jeremy