what have your burnt in your time?

Andy

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Dec 31, 2003
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I wasa showing my mate how to use his fire stick from woodlore today with some char cloth. A lump of burning char cloth must have blown towards me as I now have a finger sized hole in the shirt
 

Mikey P

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Nov 22, 2003
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Glasgow, Scotland
My eyebrows off.

Didn't prime a liquid fuel stove properly; made mistake of bending over it to see if the jet was clear. Won't do that again.
 

Simon

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Jul 22, 2004
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eyebrows is my favourite trick ... along with some of my fringe ..... but that was a 4 foot flame propelled out of my forge :yikes:

set fire to a shirt using the angle grinder

and a class room when I was 14 ...... :naughty:
 

TheViking

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Jun 3, 2004
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Hi...

A week ago I was showing a mate a peice of charcloth and a firesteel. He was amazed and so was his dog, cause it nearly ate the cloth! :shock: :nono: It was very hot and burning when it came over and put the nose in the cloth... We got it away pretty quick! :D :wink:
 

Tantalus

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May 10, 2004
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eyebrows eyelashes and beard :yikes:

all while blowing into campfires to get them to go better

when i stop blowing the flames sometimes lash back at me

but hey it was a nice campfire by the time i finished

Tant
 

mr dazzler

Native
Aug 28, 2004
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I once had a pair of them "lumberjack" boots and they had moulded foam inner soles that eventually fell apart. I throow em on't farr an nearly s**t misselfe when they instantly flared up and ar thorte arre'd set't chimney alarte. :roll:
Oh and has anyone else set their trousers alight doing angle grinding; I did once, jeans were frayed a bit. Funny thing was I wer't last ter noe ubbart it- everyone else saw what was happening and stood watching grinning and waiting until things heated up a little..... :roll:

MR D :wave:
 

Squidders

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Aug 3, 2004
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I once tried to blow flames using a mouth full of Zippo liter fluid and a lit match. My friend - the eternal spectator - made me laugh and I managed to set fire to my whole face. At first I didn't believe him so I walked in to the house, cool as a cucumber... After looking in the mirror panic REALLY set in!

Other than that, the standard fires in dug outs, the occasional flaming sambuka gone wrong, typical stuff. :chill:
 

JakeR

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jan 18, 2004
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Did a test using wire wool and firesteel. Held the wool, set some sparks on it and it started cooking, that stuff get so hot. i dropped it onto my carpet :doh: :roll: .

Did exactly the same thing as tant, except my fire went out when the rain set it.

My jumper with a cigar. :roll:

Oh dear.

Jake
 

Great Pebble

Settler
Jan 10, 2004
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Belfast, Northern Ireland
My sleepingbags are always notable by their holes.
I do a good line in nasal hair removal.
Once did a whole shirt on a day trip, was tring to dry it. Had to walk home sans top, wasn't the weather for it either.
 

Realgar

Nomad
Aug 12, 2004
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I blew up my workshop - nasty affair starting with a bit of metal and a cutting disk, sparks from that found their way to 2kg of iron wool I'd forgotten to put away which in turn found a small bag of black powder which then found my fibre glass catalyst. What I don't understand was given the total devastation in the place, I didn't have a single mark on me or my clothes.
I don't store flammables in the workshop any more, not when I'm cutting metal anyhow.

Realgar
 

MartiniDave

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Aug 29, 2003
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Cambridgeshire
Just a couple of fleeces. One was a then very new present from my wife! It now has a stategically placed "Land Rover" badge on it!

Dave
 

Paganwolf

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jul 26, 2004
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I was doing some over head welding once and a nice big spark went down the back of my collar traveled down my spine and the back of my keks and lodged its self in between my cheeks :yikes:
Have you ever seen river dance? :rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao:
 

Gary

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Apr 17, 2003
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from Essex
When I was learning to bow drill I decided to practice in the kitchen on a rainy day - sawing away - plumes of smoke arose accompanied by the smell of burning plastic.

I'd drilled through both the hearth and the kitchen lino! :shock:
 

Adi007

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Sep 3, 2003
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Stuart said:
next time you see me remember to ask me about the physics lab explosion :wink:

its to long to explain here properly, good for round a camp fire though
... and about when I poisoned the chem lab ... :rolmao:
 

Great Pebble

Settler
Jan 10, 2004
775
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54
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Forgot my "classic" actually. Fleetwood beach, Lancashire, on the way home from Beltring. Big pile of meat from Tesco, half a crate of Guinness, and a folding BBQ.

Eating away merrily while grilling the next round of cow anus, I raked the coals a bit to keep the heat up.
And one of them fell out.....You know the way some things induce a reflex action? Well, when I see something falling I try to catch it......

Mek!
 

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