Ok, just out of interest and as I collect ways of making fire. How many different ways could you make fire if you had to? And, I do not mean the SAR method of throwing a flare into a petrol soaked pile of branches - nor do I mean using PE, tracer or any other exotic means, fun as they may be.
To kick off, my experience:
-The ever present bic
-Swedish fire steel
-Fire piston
-Bow drill
-chemical fire
-flint and steel - the old way
-electricity thru a broken torch bulb onto tinder
-electricity from a car battery sparked onto tinder
-I have practiced with and managed it twice with a fire drill - thats a bow drill without the bow just rolling the drill with palms of hands, it gives blisters
- lens magnifying sunlight onto tinder
My favourite tinders are self made charcloth and vaseline smeared cotton wool balls. If I'm out on the hills I collect sheeps wool from barbed wire fences and use that as tinder.
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