Light MY Fire

You need tinder. It is not a 'magic' inferno-in-a-stick by itself.

I wouldn't expect it to set just anything on fire like how you described. If you dropped a lit match onto newspaper, it would probably go out without setting the newspaper alight.

You need to learn a few basics of building & starting a fire while in the outdoors if you want to be prepared for emergencies.
 
Another little hint that is out there in various places but not yet mentioned here... use triple antibiotic ointment for the cotton balls instead of plain petroleum jelly. It is mostly petroleum jelly anyway, and works the same, but goes way beyond the secondary uses that petroleum jelly can do.

Codger

PS-I need to get me a pencil sharpener! Good idea!:thumbup:
 
This is my method and it came of years of practice...fatwood shaved with a coarse wood rasp mixed with dryer lint and candle wax...carried in a recycled medicine bottle..carried in a little plastic bag(3x5) with a doans mag block and some heavy grade paper. place about a 3 finger pinch of tinder on the paper..scrape the mag block 5 or 6 times over it and then the flint rod with a fair bit of pressure to get lots of sparks..lights the first time almost every time and slide the burning pile paper and all up under a tepee of twigs. part of my luck in doing this is just practice. my kids enjoyed learning to do this on tin pie plates in the kitchen floor..(so I could put the plates out in the sink!!) then we went to the yard and began to do it under various conditions of weather and wind..now that they are half grown I sleep much easier when they go off in the woods by themselves. I guess the real key is lots of practice and trust me,kids like to build fires!!!! (LOL!!!) Best to all. Anrkst6973
 
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