Just wondering what you guys carry in your fire kit if you carry one and what's your favourite finders ,natural or man made?
what's in your fire tin
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Sounds like you got all of your bases covered,do you make your own char cloth,if so what is your preferred material?
Hi Johnny R
The bulk of my tinder box is Birch Bark and Bog Cotton but also a small flint, a couple of slices of Amadou, one Crampball one piece of FatWood, Charcloth a short lenght of Jute a Micro ferrocerium rod, 2 or 3 Magnesium Strip one Wet fire cube one Baddest bee fire fuse one Tinder-Quik cotton bud and a small Silica Gel Sachet all stuffed like hell into a 177 Airgun pellet tin.
The bulk of my tinder box is Birch Bark and Bog Cotton but also a small flint, a couple of slices of Amadou, one Crampball one piece of FatWood, Charcloth a short lenght of Jute a Micro ferrocerium rod, 2 or 3 Magnesium Strip one Wet fire cube one Baddest bee fire fuse one Tinder-Quik cotton bud and a small Silica Gel Sachet all stuffed like hell into a 177 Airgun pellet tin.
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Cheers Johnny R
I forgot to mention the striker out of a Clipper and the cut down Fresnel lense, I have black tape round the tin, not for water proofing, just to keep the lid from popping off the thread.
I forgot to mention the striker out of a Clipper and the cut down Fresnel lense, I have black tape round the tin, not for water proofing, just to keep the lid from popping off the thread.
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Cotton wool with Vaseline, birch bark, strips of bicycle inner tube, fatwood, crampball and a small piece of hexi block.
Plus a couple of ferro rods.
Plus a couple of ferro rods.
....most of the things that have been mentioned, plus my own instant tinder - pieces of broken arrow shaft with a small ally or plastic single barrel pencil sharpener. It gives thin cut, dry, resinous tinder at a moment's notice.
I have an Esee Sheath Pouch on my Becker BK2 I have a Light My Fire Military Ferro Rod - Orange, attached to this
In the tin I have a Large Bore Magnetised Needle with some bankline wrapped around it.
A BIC Lighter - Orange
A 6 power Magnifying Glass
2 Wetfire Cubes
3 Micro Inferno Pellets
Some Char-cloth
A piece of Tinder Card
and then it is padded with cotton wool
I secure it with 3 bands of bicycle inner tube, and I slide a Topps Dog Tag Signal Mirror in-between them and the tin
I have a Maxpedition Mega Rolly Polly Dump Pouch on my belt, I collect Birch Bark, Thistle Down, Dead Flower Tops etc...etc... as I go along and as many matchstick thin birch twigs as I can find.
I've never failed to get a sustainable fire going, however i've never been successful at getting a flame from a bowdrill either.
In the tin I have a Large Bore Magnetised Needle with some bankline wrapped around it.
A BIC Lighter - Orange
A 6 power Magnifying Glass
2 Wetfire Cubes
3 Micro Inferno Pellets
Some Char-cloth
A piece of Tinder Card
and then it is padded with cotton wool
I secure it with 3 bands of bicycle inner tube, and I slide a Topps Dog Tag Signal Mirror in-between them and the tin
I have a Maxpedition Mega Rolly Polly Dump Pouch on my belt, I collect Birch Bark, Thistle Down, Dead Flower Tops etc...etc... as I go along and as many matchstick thin birch twigs as I can find.
I've never failed to get a sustainable fire going, however i've never been successful at getting a flame from a bowdrill either.
I'm going to get judged here... Ferro rod, char cloth with the end dipped in sulphur. Inner tube with the end dipped in sulphur. Baggie of potassium nitrate... I know... I'm judging me too
Char cloth ( home made from 100% cotton ) in a small round container, five wooden coffee stirrers ( halfed in two ) , jute string, amadou ( self processed ) , flint, traditional steel striker, ferrocium rod, cotton wool ( vaseline coated).
All inside a 2oz tin, said tin goes inside a leather pouch bag that contains silver birch bark with space left to collect dry tinder on route.
Pete
Edit : Forgot to add the ranger bands that secure the lid in place can be used as well.
All inside a 2oz tin, said tin goes inside a leather pouch bag that contains silver birch bark with space left to collect dry tinder on route.
Pete
Edit : Forgot to add the ranger bands that secure the lid in place can be used as well.
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Mine's in an oiled leather pouch. It contains two firebundles (birch bark wrapped and tied around a nest of dried mugwort and flax with bits of amadou and chagga) a flint and steel, some strips amadou and of inner tube and a sparklite kit. There's a peanut lighter on my keyring too.
Good things these spark lite's
Reliable, lightweight, and easily packed.
http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Lite-Military-Edition-Starter-Tinder/dp/B005HTFJGE
M
Good things these spark lite's
Reliable, lightweight, and easily packed.http://www.amazon.com/Spark-Lite-Military-Edition-Starter-Tinder/dp/B005HTFJGE
M
Hi Toddy
I found some chega the other day on a dead Birch and got a 2nd opinion here over on the Flora & Fauna page,
Dave said I should try drying it out and see if it takes a spark which I did, I tested it yesterday and it worked brilliantly, nice smell to. Amadou is a bit time consuming to prepare, its a good skill to know how to prepare Horses hoof fungi into Amadou but True Tinder Fungus / Chaga is defiantly my new favourite, no prep just off the tree dry and go, great stuff. The other good thing I like about chega is, now I know what it looks like I know there is shed loads of it around here on the Birch, now I just need a Iron pyrite nodule to test it on the very faintest of sparks.
I found some chega the other day on a dead Birch and got a 2nd opinion here over on the Flora & Fauna page,
Dave said I should try drying it out and see if it takes a spark which I did, I tested it yesterday and it worked brilliantly, nice smell to. Amadou is a bit time consuming to prepare, its a good skill to know how to prepare Horses hoof fungi into Amadou but True Tinder Fungus / Chaga is defiantly my new favourite, no prep just off the tree dry and go, great stuff. The other good thing I like about chega is, now I know what it looks like I know there is shed loads of it around here on the Birch, now I just need a Iron pyrite nodule to test it on the very faintest of sparks.
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Our own fire kits I think a better question is what do we use regularly. I'm guessing 90% of people here COULD light a fire with nothing but a boot lace and some scavenged wood. But the same way 100% of us COULD turn the tv over by hand but choose to use a remote. In the same way I use char/sulphur and ferro most of the time when in honesty a lighter (i smoke) could work better.
My firebag contains jet flame lighter, fatwood, cattail fluff, ferro rod, cramp balls, magnesium block and scraper, flint + steel + char cloth, wax coated hemp twine and jute, i like to play/practice with different fire starters 
it sounds like a huge bag but it is only a small 2ltr vinyl roll top dry bag and it's not even 1/3rd full
it sounds like a huge bag but it is only a small 2ltr vinyl roll top dry bag and it's not even 1/3rd full
My firebag contains jet flame lighter, fatwood, cattail fluff, ferro rod, cramp balls, magnesium block and scraper, flint + steel + char cloth, wax coated hemp twine and jute, i like to play/practice with different fire starters
Is that fatwood any good?
Amazing stuff, i prefer to use it in finely shaved curls with a firesteel but many people make a dust (maya dust) by grinding the back of their knife down it, it is the go to material if you are having trouble lighting a fire, mix in a little cattail fluff and it nearly lights itself
I'll give it a try it's been in my Amazon reccomendation for a while. I've found fluff from rosebay willowherb works better than cattail too. One of the bonuses of a fire scar is that stuff grows in it
