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How are we supposed to cook then? FWIW I put my stove on a fibreglass mat. I am sure here that we are all careful and sensible, but yet the stores will happily sell one use barbecues which are probably responsible for most of these bush fires during the school holiday season, say no more.
Yeah we're hearing stories of the modern culprit being the disposable barbecue none see but suppose to replace the supposed but not seen discarded fag end of yore when there are distinct other possibilities like for instance litter dumped in the environment. Litter potentially in the form of discarded transparent drinks containers more commonly plastic these days but the curved shoulder of forms a lens through which light can be focused to a point and then there's the concave surface on the underside of a pressurised drinks can and am hearing from the Aussie crowd hot engine exhausts, certainly catalysers can be a cause for bush fires.

If we focus intently on one supposed source we tend not to think about other potential sources and we know full well we're rather good at littering the environment we enjoy
 
Yeah we're hearing stories of the modern culprit being the disposable barbecue none see but suppose to replace the supposed but not seen discarded fag end of yore when there are distinct other possibilities like for instance litter dumped in the environment. Litter potentially in the form of discarded transparent drinks containers more commonly plastic these days but the curved shoulder of forms a lens through which light can be focused to a point and then there's the concave surface on the underside of a pressurised drinks can and am hearing from the Aussie crowd hot engine exhausts, certainly catalysers can be a cause for bush fires.

If we focus intently on one supposed source we tend not to think about other potential sources and we know full well we're rather good at littering the environment we enjoy
Are you drunk?
 
Yeah we're hearing stories of the modern culprit being the disposable barbecue none see but suppose to replace the supposed but not seen discarded fag end of yore when there are distinct other possibilities like for instance litter dumped in the environment. Litter potentially in the form of discarded transparent drinks containers more commonly plastic these days but the curved shoulder of forms a lens through which light can be focused to a point and then there's the concave surface on the underside of a pressurised drinks can and am hearing from the Aussie crowd hot engine exhausts, certainly catalysers can be a cause for bush fires.

If we focus intently on one supposed source we tend not to think about other potential sources and we know full well we're rather good at littering the environment we enjoy
We do need to minimise the risk and I would say it is no co-incidence that the peak of grass and woodland fires occurs during the school holidays, but no reason to penalise people who are responsible and careful.
 
Are you drunk?
No not drunk, it's an affliction I have in that I don't follow the herd and in not following the herd I am not predisposed to jumping to conclusions based upon thus far no evidence found. Further because of my interest in bushcraft/survival I know there are many ways in which dry tinder can be ignited as yes with these wild fires we are talking about dry tinder.
 
Sandwiches work, or sausage rolls, pasties, fruit, a bag of crisps...... I don't even cook most of my meals at home at this time of year, who wants hot food in this weather?

The world's a tinderbox right now, if you can't spend time in the outdoors without setting fire to something (meths/gas/petrol/hexamine etc. included) then maybe you're not actually a bushcrafter.
Can’t drink cold tea. Good lord, that would be the limit of my endurance. ;)
 
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No not drunk, it's an affliction I have in that I don't follow the herd and in not following the herd I am not predisposed to jumping to conclusions based upon thus far no evidence found. Further because of my interest in bushcraft/survival I know there are many ways in which dry tinder can be ignited as yes with these wild fires we are talking about dry tinder.
I was referring to the fact that even after repeated attempts at reading your previous comment I still can't work out what you're trying to say. Anyway, disposable BBQs have been banned now, so whatever it was you were trying to say, it's no longer relevant.
 
the curved shoulder of forms a lens through which light can be focused to a point
One of bourne books or possibly ripley or the day of the jackal , mentions briefly burning out a land holder using a bottle carefully placed to make use of this effect, causing a fire and therefore forcing the unwanted owner of the land and possibly killing them. Don’t know why that small snippet of a sentence stuck with me by it seems appropriate somehow given the conversation. This effect is a commonly known issue in the south of France.
 
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One of bourne books or possibly ripley or the day of the jackal , mentions briefly burning out a land holder using a bottle carefully placed to make use of this effect, causing a fire and therefore forcing the unwanted owner of the land and possibly killing them. Don’t know why that small snippet of a sentence stuck with me by it seems appropriate somehow given the conversation. This effect is a commonly known issue in the south of France.
Does it work with coloured glass?
 
Does it work with coloured glass?
Eventually but not as quickly as clear

Video explaining the technique with plastic bottles and water

Video short describing how to start a fire with a glass bottle and no water

Video explaining how a disposable drinks can can start a fire

Way back when I was in the Venture Scouts I successfully tried both the glass bottle and water lens method to know they work. Not tried the concave surface method but know there are mirrored concave surface firelighters available
 
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Eventually but not as quickly as clear

Video explaining the technique with plastic bottles and water

Video short describing how to start a fire with a glass bottle and no water

Video explaining how a disposable drinks can can start a fire

Way back when I was in the Venture Scouts I successfully tried both the glass bottle and water lens method to know they work. Not tried the concave surface method but know there are mirrored concave surface firelighters available
I just asked because if it was less likely to start wild fires then all bottles could be made from coloured glass. Some bottles also have a plastic wrap around them.
 
I just asked because if it was less likely to start wild fires then all bottles could be made from coloured glass. Some bottles also have a plastic wrap around them.
Better would be if we could orchestrate another ' Don't be a litterbug ' campaign as happened in my childhood to well educate myself to deposit litter in bins where provided or take my litter home.

That said there is not many litter bins about these days to wonder if their lack is part of the problem.
 

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