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flask of kerosene, some cotton = BIG fire

ejes said:
HA! I like the way you think!!:D I would think it would also clean a wound better than kerosene as well.
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i think 3oz of everclear will be just fine for a little night cap.

burns pretty hot too.
 
warrigal said:
Kero also does a reasonable job of wound cleaning obviiously not first choice but Grand dad swore by it.
Carl
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+1 on wound cleaning. When I was a kid I did something stupid involving the cocking lever of a Daisy BB gun and cut my finger pretty bad. My dad cleaned it out with kerosene and slapped a bandage on it. It healed just fine.

I've since heard many stories of people using kerosene to clean cuts, so I guess it works.
 
dawsonbob said:
When I was a kid I did something stupid involving the cocking lever of a Daisy BB gun and cut my finger pretty bad.
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Can I take a wild guess? You cocked the BB gun, and left the lever down and pulled the trigger?

Not saying that I've done it with my Red Ryder when I was about 9 years old. Just sayin'. :)
 
Saunterer said:
Can I take a wild guess? You cocked the BB gun, and left the lever down and pulled the trigger?

Not saying that I've done it with my Red Ryder when I was about 9 years old. Just sayin'. :)
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Well, I'm not saying that I did exactly that... but I'm not saying that I didn't, either.:D But if that's what I did, I sure as heck didn't do it again. That's how kids learn, I guess: doing things like I may — or may not — have done is a great learning experience.

Okay, okay, that is what I did. But I did learn from it.
 
Education is expensive; no matter where you get it from. Huh?

Guess you and I graduated from the what not to do with Daisy BB guns school.
 
Saunterer said:
Education is expensive; no matter where you get it from. Huh?

Guess you and I graduated from the what not to do with Daisy BB guns school.
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Amen to that. I sometimes think it's amazing that any of us live long enough to grow up, yet we do, and pay for our education all along the way.
 
MAN, don't get that flask mixed up with one without the kerosene. A good healthy pull off that flask would make you quit drinking. :p Chris
 
dawsonbob said:
Amen to that. I sometimes think it's amazing that any of us live long enough to grow up, yet we do, and pay for our education all along the way.
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Then when we read about somebody younger then us make the same mistakes.
We pontificate on Darwin's theory and call them idiots
 
coyotebc said:
Then when we read about somebody younger then us make the same mistakes.
We pontificate on Darwin's theory and call them idiots
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Yes, we do. Or just as often we simply shake our heads remembering what we were like, and the mistakes we made along the way. Those same people at whom we shake our heads now, will someday be shaking their heads at a younger generation, and saying the same things. Life goes on.

Not all of our education along the way comes from pain, though. If we were lucky, someone more experienced showed us the way, and we learned from that.

So when we see the less experienced doing things that make us shake our heads, we should at least try to guide them. Some will listen, some will not. We can only hope that those who don't listen will live long enough to learn the other way.
 
A friend of mine has used around 0,5 litres of pure cerosine to light the camp fire...IT WAS BRUTAL :D :D :D
 
I am all for it....

There are some who devote themselves to one method of fire lighting, eschewing all others....

Some, enjoy the fantasy of doing it just like the men of yore...

I, just want to be warm. So, my fire kit has many ways to start a fire... Once I figure out how to keep a flame-thrower in there, I will be set.

Marion
 
Marion David Poff said:
... So, my fire kit has many ways to start a fire... Once I figure out how to keep a flame-thrower in there, I will be set.

Marion
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what you need sir is one of these...

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:D

snow peak gigapower torch. works with any fuel canister. :)
 
I would consider this as " traditional" Pre Duluth.:eek:
After all they called it " the land of cotton";)

The first known reference to the name Vaseline® was by the inventor of petroleum jelly, Robert Chesebrough in his U.S. patent for the process of making petroleum jelly (U.S. Patent 127,568) in 1872. "I, Robert Chesebrough, have invented a new and useful product from petroleum which I have named Vaseline…".
 
Marion,

Without it, how could one possibly make a respectable backwoods creme brulee?;)

DancesWithKnives
 
Respectable backwoods crème brulee? Isn’t that an oxymoron?

Maybe, in your kitchen, if you’re cooking something fancy for your sweetie’s birthday. But in the woods?

It’s worse than eating quiche.
 
I never could figure out who in their right mind would use the 3 ouncers for alcohol!~ Great post and idea! I normally have kerosene or lamp oil in my oil lanters. I wonder if it will work with wax paraffin lamp oil..you have any handy?
 
Raymond,

It depends who you are bringing into the backwoods with you.;)

DancesWithKnives
 
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