#Does anybody have any tips on how to start a fire?

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blissful briar
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Me and friends have a hangout spot where we light a fire and cook stuff but its very hard if the weather isnt good

mossy vale
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Cheater option: carry tinder and a pocket billows
Tough option: practice making and gathering material a lot

tranquil burrow
# blissful briar Me and friends have a hangout spot where we light a fire and cook stuff but its ...

Getcha Sstuff. stack some sticks like a lil’ square fence with tinder in the middle. Light that 'er up. Strike your match, get that tinder burnin’ like your heart when you see my wife walk by, and just blow gently if it needs help. Once that kindlin’ catches, start feedin’ it bigger sticks, then finally your logs.Tend to that boy. Don’t just light it and walk off like a yellow-belly. Keep an eye on it, poke it now and then, and make sure it don’t go wild or burn out too quick just like my ex. That's what my pappy told me.

blissful briar
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me and my friends just get a lot of dry grass then we put paper or a napkin below it then light it

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and put small sticks and medium sticks above the dry grass

blissful briar
mossy vale
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Feather sticking/shaving, making birdsnests from bark, getting birch bark, getting fat wood, etc

still moss
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Pack some dryer lint and waterproof matches. If you don’t have those, magnifying glasses work too. Flint and steel work as well, but that’s much harder

mossy vale
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Don’t carry like actual flint and steel though

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Ferrocerium rod

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Or just a friggin lighter

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Put some duct tape around the lighter and when you go to light, roll up some pieces of the tape and light that

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Works as tinder reasonably well

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Also a magnifying glass only works under full sunlight - this is really an option for perfect conditions

blissful briar
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Tysm guys

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We rn tried to make a fire but we are cursed with no wood lighting

blissful briar
sterile iron
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Lots of tinder. Soft woods usually burn faster and hard woods burn slower. I like to use pine needles and tiny sticks to get a fire going. Reeds straw long grass make great tinder cattail heads as well. Keep a lighter in a zip lock bag. Cotton balls in vasloline or wax are great.

blissful briar
native mist
blissful briar
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yea we do that we take alot of dry grass but it always burns really really fast and we put like little sticks ontop of the dry grass and the sticks dont catch fire

mossy vale
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Learn to feather stick

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And use smaller twigs

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And way more tinder

blissful briar
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like this?

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mossy vale
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Yes

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That is called a birdsnest and it’s made by processing plant fibers

still moss
mossy vale
still moss
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Yeah also what I meant by flint and steel was magnesium and steel

keen umbra
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Set four 1/4 of a log in a box make a tipiee out of 4 small sticks set leaves bellow The sticks and set 2 mid sized sticks on top of the logs in a +

blissful briar
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We finally started a fire and i found what our mistake is

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we chopped a big branch from a dead tree

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and we used it

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we got branches from alive trees but we didnt burn them right away we left them in the sun for a couple of days

mossy vale
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Oh my god

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You were trying to burn green wood this whole time

keen umbra
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How do you make that mistake

blissful briar
blissful briar
opaque coral
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lighter

wicked cosmos
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@knotty sail @tranquil burrow @blissful briar

blissful briar
knotty sail
stuck cosmos
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I pretty much always have firestarters with me

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fires are fun to start from scratch but having a wax based firestarter on hand just makes things so easy'

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super cheap to make or buy

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from scratch though you'll want to start very small

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starting with a bunch of piled wood/brush while on paper it'll work, it takes a while. Start with an empty pit and dry sticks. Have everything on standby and as you build up coals, add more stuff

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I often start a big fire out with like a 2"x2" area of twigs

outer rivet
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Pocket lint, go!

shut wraith
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Lighter