https://www.coolthings.com/zippo-emergency-fire-starter/ Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:30:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.coolthings.com/zippo-emergency-fire-starter/comment-page-1/#comment-171834 Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:58:31 +0000 https://0a9d021f0f.nxcli.io/?p=11257#comment-171834 I think it is funny that they say it is about the same size as a lighter. It is a lighter. It might use a different type of fuel, a waxed tinder stick. Maybe somehow this makes it easier than a regular lighter but I don’t see how. It’s better to learn primitive fire starting because it is as easy to carry a whole pocketful of bic lighters as it is to carry pretty much any firestarter, even just the regular striker type sticks. People nowadays think that it some kind of status thing to always try and use a spark and tinder. A regular bic lighter is fully equipped with flint and steel and most of us are wearing or carrying tinder on our persons most all the time. I learn and practice primitive techniques just in case and I use them just fun to but if I have to choose one thing, this thing, or a striker, I’ll choose a bic lighter. One argument against a lighter is that they run out of fuel. How many times have you used this thing or your magnesium? They wear out to and this thing runs out of tinder sticks. I haven’t tried it but I bet you can get more lights from a lighter than you do before your fire starter breaks. Try using it every day for one week.

]]> https://www.coolthings.com/zippo-emergency-fire-starter/comment-page-1/#comment-90359 Wed, 03 Aug 2011 14:30:07 +0000 https://0a9d021f0f.nxcli.io/?p=11257#comment-90359 How to start a fire with duct tape:
Materials; sticks and duct tape, tinder/dried grass
Step 1, find a nice even stick about 3.5 feet long.
step 2, take duct tape and tape the ends of the stick together bending the stick to resemble a bow (also useful..), pinch the duct tape together so the the sticky part on the ‘string’ is on the inside
Step 3, find another stick fairly straight, between .4 and .7 inches thick
step 4, set a small log (preferably without bark, and with a nice little dip in it (to keep your stick steady)), with the tinder/brush on top. now take the straight stick, and wrap it once around the tape, now set 1 end of this stick in the dip on the bark, and set tender around it, other end of the straight stick in your hand, aimed at the rock
step 5, slide the bow back and forth causing the straight stick to rotate fairly fast, greatly decreasing the time/effort to start a fire over rubbing the sticks by hand..

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