2 questions...?

[Johnnyboy1971]

Both worth a quick look through.
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=116728
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/content.php?r=534-Magic-biscuits

 

[Johnnyboy1971]

In my Altoid tin I have a small piece of fatwood, tampon, magic biscuit cut into strips, inner tube and the rest of the space is packed with dryer lint.
I use the dryer lint to take the spark then the inner tube to extend the flame.

In the other Altoid tin I have some birch bark and char cloth.
I also have a pellet tin with a hole pierced in for making char cloth.

 

[petrochemicals]

can you use antler or bone for the drill head, surely harder than all wood ?

 

[John Fenna]

My fire lighting kit
Lighter
Ferro rod
Flint and steel
Charcloth
Sulfur matches
MOD ratpack matches
True tinder fungus.
If the conditions are going to be tough I also pack some dried grass and a couple of home made wax and sawdust tinder blocks.
My favourite and most used firelighting method is Flint and steel - I just love it

 

[ozzy1977]

Magic biscuits, cotton wool and vasaline, inner tube and birch bark in mine

 

[rik_uk3]

Faffed about in the past with flint et al but these days its cotton wool/Vaseline or strip of rubber and a bic lighter

 

[BILLy]

For ease of use and these are excellent for getting any fire going be dry or wet, they fit in the smallest places in your kit box, you only need a fraction of it to light, they can be soaked or dropped in water and still light with a ferro rod are these.
http://www.naturalbushcraft.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?7403-Firethins
Bargain
If I have time to play then I like playing with birch bark, char clothe and flint and steel,

 

[Elen Sentier]

surley the ancients didn't carry a fire bow around with them. Is there anyway of just carrying around just the head of the piston a bit of string/cord, and the anlil wood in your pocket, where you could make the longer bits up from the bits around you.

If you don't undersyand please say.

I prefer a pump-drill as I can use that and it's much lighter, will even fit in a big jacket pocket.

My tin contains fero rod, long matches with striker glued to tin lid, lighter, cotton-wool/vaseling balls, a bit of birch, and lives in my jacket pocket.