Starting your fire

[dmun]

Re: Starting your fire

Methylated Spirits.

Or, in USA, denatured alcohol, the stuff you thin shelac with.

[jazzfan]

Re: Starting your fire

This is a new one on me.

Whats metho?

Methylated Spirits.

[rlf5]

Re: Starting your fire

Also try starting the fire in the vent area and push it back once it really gets going.

[asudavew]

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sounds like an alcohol product.

Thanks ... not sure why I didn't realize that.

I don't know, in an enclosed space (WFO) that looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
Its really not hard to build a fire - safely. no alcohols, LPG, gasoline, or lighter fluids.

I'm gonna try a venturi burner and propane.

Dave, you spot on - newspaper and work your way up from small twigs to logs. A raging fire in about 10-15 minutes.

Works pretty well and an air compressor helps!!
The fire really likes the extra 02

[rlf5]

Re: Starting your fire

If he's just putting a couple squirts on it, then its actually cleaner than any lighter fluid and pretty safe as long as he doesn't drink it

[RTflorida]

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sounds like an alcohol product. I don't know, in an enclosed space (WFO) that looks like a disaster waiting to happen.
Its really not hard to build a fire - safely. no alcohols, LPG, gasoline, or lighter fluids.
Dave, you spot on - newspaper and work your way up from small twigs to logs. A raging fire in about 10-15 minutes.

[rlf5]

Re: Starting your fire

Most likely methanol

[asudavew]

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The metho burns completely and cleanly.

This is a new one on me.

Whats metho?

[jazzfan]

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Don't have an oven yet, but for my indoor slow combustion stove I have a trigger pump spray mister thingy. I have the nozzle set to squirt rather than spray. Bit of newspaper, good bit of small split hardwood, a couple of squirts of metho, put a couple of bigger bits over the top and throw in a lighted match. Gets the thing drawing well almost immediately. The metho burns completely and cleanly.

Regards

[Chris]

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Instead of the weed burner, I tried something different last time.

I had some vegetable oil left over from frying, and put some on a few sheets of newspaper. Crumpled each sheet up, and put them under the pile of kindling. This actually worked better than the blowtorch method has in the past.

-CC

[Archena]

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God invented dry leaves and straw for a reason... but paper is good, too.

Haven't tried dryer lint - I will my next fire - I have a ton of the stuff!

[Frances]

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I would have liked a flamethrower today...

Lots of wind, damp air, lots of smoke. If I had one, I would have used it!

[Bacterium]

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my brother and I have made a charcoal oven and made our own charcoal......after all the hard effort of gathering/cutting wood etc it becomes to precious to use the charcoal to start a fire......

I wouldn't go as far as the local aboriginies which can start a fire with 2 sticks and some paperbark though.....they could relate to Frances customs though


I like the lint idea fb66

[Frances]

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I'm sitting here, going, ok, I don't mind being a wimp...

But actually in Switzerland lighting a fire and grilling sausages is a national passtime. Any walk that lasts for longer than 1/2 an hour will tend to include a grill stop. And the accepted way of lighting a fire is to use no more than half a sheet of newspaper and one match - if you need anything else it shows your lack of skill and will be severly ridiculed by your companions (even if it happens to be raining cats and dogs at the time and the wood was fished out of the bottom of the river)

Different countries have different customs...

[asudavew]

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Newspaper, small sticks, bigger sticks, and an air compressor.

Throw some oxygen at that baby! It fires it up quick!