Most unusual thing you've ever used to start a fire?

Chambers

Chambers

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Was dinking around in the back yard after watching pitdog and that other fellow (sorry dude) start fires with a ziploc bag and then one handed. Managed to start a fire with a 1.5" acrylic contact juggling ball. Thought that was pretty funny. How about you guys? What's the most unusual thing you've ever used to start a fire?
 
Tinder wise I guess it's Wasps nests.....takes a spark straight away, great stuff if ya find it !
 
Chemical reaction using sodium chlorate, sugar and sulfuric acid.

One of the most interesting lessons in my High School chemistry class.
 
Mmm. I've used a wasp nest as tinder: practically explodes into flame!

Weird things?

Air and a coal. I found a slightly warm chunk of wood in an old, cold fire and by blowing on it for about ten minutes it ignited tinder again.

Paperclip and battery to ignite a cotton ball with jelly.

Splash of sterno and a spark from a dead lighter. Got that to light a fire in the rain.
 
Pingpong ball. Really.
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Nitrocellulose.
 
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Didn't do it on purpose , but I had a barrel of rags go up by spontaneous combustion.
In the bush on purpose , gunpowder from a cartridge.
 
Used a cheap candle made in China to start a huge cedar fire that make for some delicious grilling. A candle or two in a survival bag might not be such a poor idea.
 
.50 cal armor piercing incendiary rounds and 40mm HEDP.

On a more realistic level, the sun and a giant reflector from an old overhead projector works well but is quite blinding.
 
Welding gloves



The thought process- I'm over here, I want a fire here.... Those people over there have fire... I have welding gloves... Hmm...

Next thing you know a random freak ran out of the darkness and stole their fire- literally
 
For emergency tinder I've had great luck with Corn chips

I did catch a huge rats nest on fire once, though not on purpose, it was packed inside the muffler of an old truck I was working on.
 
XanRa said:
Welding gloves



The thought process- I'm over here, I want a fire here.... Those people over there have fire... I have welding gloves... Hmm...

Next thing you know a random freak ran out of the darkness and stole their fire- literally
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I would have paid money to see that. :D
 
+1 on the corn chips. I started fires for a year with a large bag of Fritos . One chip is like a piece of inner tube once lit. They light up like candles!
 
Brian Jones said:
Pubic hair. Any more would be TMI. :)
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Watchful said:
Someone else's?
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Ah, that would then be called public hair :D


Probably pretty conventional, but before I was into fire for fire's sake I remember using the cirgarette lighter of my mothers Lada (POS Russion Car sold in Canada in the 1980's) and some of the backseat material (the material started rotting as soon as you bought the cars) as tinder. It was one of the few times that the crap electrical system on that car actually worked the way it was supposed to.
 
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