Twig stove giveaway and other goodies

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I had good success building myself a twig stove that was inspired by forum member kgd. Took it for a little test spin in the back yard the other day and was very impressed with the performance. I had my Guyot SS bottle just over half full of water. After I got the fire going and some coals in the bottom I added the water bottle and started to feed some wood scraps into the stove. It took around three minutes to bring the half full water bottle to a boil! I enjoyed myself so much that I decided to make another twig stove and give it away here in my new favorite forum.

RULES:

1. Lower 48 states only
2. Open to all BF paying members in good standing that own and USE a Becker.
3. Also open to ALL BladeForums staff.
4. You DO NOT have to be a Beckerhead to participate in this giveaway.
5. Feel free to make as many entries as you like.
6. This giveaway will end on Thursday May 5th and the winner will be announced by Monday May 9th.


How to enter:

Post your favorite quote (or quotes) and explain why the quote/s are important to you.
These quotes can be from a movie, the forums, your family, history, whatever you like.

I will let my wife pick the winner. She will choose the winner based on the quote but more importantly why it is important to you. If she likes more than one and cannot decide between them, we will let a random number generator choose the winner out of the ones she has picked. If a random number generator is used we will determine the winner by his or her post number.

Here are some pics of my stove:
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And the prize:
Twig stove, New/unused Guyot 32oz single wall stainless steel bottle, two titanium tent stakes, new mischmetal firesteel, pot lifter, fatwood, and an altiods tin containing some wet tinder and room for a lighter.

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Good luck and thanks for playing along!!
 
That's really generous of you!

Probably my favorite quote, bar none: "Do! Or do not! There is no try!" - Some little green dude from Star Wars

I do actually live by this(as well as other perspectives on on life) and take it as to never do anything with half effort. If you want or say you're going to do something, then do it. Life is too short not to.
 
Wow, what a great giveaway. This will require some thought.

I think the quote with the greatest importance and impact for me would be... "I Do". Not sure who it can be attributed to, but I have repeated this quote twice with astoundingly different results.
 
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Not entering, but this is one of my favorites. Movie Boondock Saints...
"The question is not how far. The question is, do you possess the constitution, the depth of faith, to go as far as is needed?" - Il Duce
 
When I was younger (i.e. not that long ago as I consider myself fairly new to this whole "adulthood" thing) one of my favorites was from some random girl on Myspace. "Party like your vagina is on fire." Not having said equipment, it didn't really apply to me, but it sounded like she had a good solid life plan worked out. ;)

Once I moved in with my fiancee', a switch got flipped or something, I almost went into "adult-mode" overnight. I remember waking up and having to figure out what to do for the day, and something my dad said stuck out. He told me once, at some point when he was giving some sage, fatherly advice, "Son, first you have to take care of what you need. Then you can worry about what you want." I didn't really think about it until that day, now that I was living with my fiancee' and her son, and it got me to thinking that I really should just take care of the important stuff first.

Things like getting out of debt, paying the bills before deciding whether or not to go out for dinner, etc... has kind of defined my spending habits, and done a great deal for me in the long run that wouldn't have been accomplished otherwise. Not to say it was instant success, but after our fair share of troubles, I got it sorted out, and feel much better prepared for the future. :D

Forgot to add, thanks for the giveaway! Mighty nice thing to do!
 
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Here's a local quote and, if you think about it, is profound.

"Don't matter how high a crow flies, you can still break a window with a brick."
 
Nice giveaway - appreciate the chance!
"argue for your limitations - and sure enough, they are!" Richard Bach
 
Wow, great contest! Thanks for the chance(s?)!

My favorite quote is what i have in my sig:

"Gun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound."​

I found it on another forum a couple of years ago and it didn't have any attribution, but it is very significant to me because of how well it expresses both mine and my wife's rationale for carrying guns.

My wife is a runner. About a month before I saw that quote, she was running along a creek on a county-maintained path. Half way into her 5-mile run, a guy casually emerged from the trees in front of her, blocking her from continuing. She stopped about 15 feet from him, started to turn around and just get out of there, and caught a glimpse of him making a move towards her out of the corner of her eye. She drew her weapon from her fanny pack, turned to face him and yelled at the top of her lungs, "NO! Get away from me!!!" He turned and ran like a gazelle in the opposite direction. Everybody went home without getting hurt, and both my wife and I were very happy that she didn't have to explain to a cop why a victimizer had a fatal bullet wound, but just as happy that we were fortunate enough to be born in a country that protects our rights of self defense against predators.

I used to change my sig every month or two on the forums I participated at. Hardly even looked at 'em after I set 'em as a sig. They were just neat things that someone I admire and respect said somewhere in history. This one, though, is my permanent sig on all the forums I participate on, and I read it and am reminded of my Gorgeous Wife nearly every time I post. That's why it's important to me.

Blues
 
I am not a paying member therefore I'll just post my favorite quote:

In life you don't have to be strong, but if you're stupid you're playing in the wrong sandbox.
 
sweet deal!... ok.. my sig. line is one of them.. and this one I'll use for this offer:

"Everything will be known in the fullness of time." from a family member.. and because it is mostly true :) talking about patience and how only the expenditure of time will allow ''it'' or ''everything'' to be understood or known :D
 
My favorite quote of all time is "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Mark Twain

However it seems with a little rye, I seem to forget it is my favorite....
 
I am in.

I am a high school teacher and this quote gets me through a lot of days when I am approaching a new to me subject.


"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon"
 
"I turn and raise the load, with weary shoulders bending and take the old, well-beaten road that leands-unto the ending."
nessmuk
when i first started getting into outdoorsy stuff i enjoyed nessmuk's writing, this quote always sticks with me.
 
Short, sweet and strait to the point, thats what I like about these quotes....:eek:

This one below I have tattooed on my back
"You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless."

these others are some of my favs
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."

"We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create."

"Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct."

"Self improvement is masturbation..."

"The only certainty life contains is death."

"I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom. "

"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."

"Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."

"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing."

"The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."

"Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal."

"Don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone you love."

"I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness."

"Reality means you live until you die...the real truth is nobody wants reality."

"Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die."

And Finally

Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned-FLEXXX.
 
Flexxx said:
Warning: If you are reading this then this warning is for you. Every word you read of this useless fine print is another second off your life. Don't you have other things to do? Is your life so empty that you honestly can't think of a better way to spend these moments? Or are you so impressed with authority that you give respect and credence to all that claim it? Do you read everything you're supposed to read? Do you think every thing you're supposed to think? Buy what you're told to want? Get out of your apartment. Meet a member of the opposite sex. Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity you will become a statistic. You have been warned-FLEXXX.
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Is that from Fight Club?
 
Awesome prize. Thanks for the chance.

"Then I saw 'a new heaven and a new earth,' for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away. He who was seated on the throne said, 'I am making everything new!' ” - Revelation 21.

For those who believe, this passage gives hope - based on faith in evidence - of a restored, renewed universe as man's ultimate destiny.
 
"Live your life like a duck on water. Smooth on the surface, but paddling like hell underneath." I actually heard this for the first time in the movie "Convoy" years ago. Kris Kristofferson was the one that quoted it. Have heard it a few times after that, or read it. Just something that stuck with me, for whatever reason. I've always been lacking confidence in my life, so perhaps that's why it stuck with me.
 
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"Don’t argue with Idiots... They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." Not sure where I heard/read this one at, but have always thought it humorous, yet true. Every time I argue with someone, which is really not that often, it comes to mind and makes me laugh right in the middle of it, and makes people wonder why I'm laughing. It'll bring a quick end to an argument. ;)
 
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Some really great quotes so far.

Don't forget to explain why the quote is important to you.

:)
 
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