We are always on the look-out for the next great fire starting hack. Meaning tinder.
We like most ideas but, as is said in the video on the next page, most last only a couple of minutes if not constantly tended to, with little bits and pieces, dry leave and what not, thrown into the fire.
However, we have a really impressive idea here that is truly simple to make!
It takes in all the supplies you probably already have around the house like pencil shavings, toilet paper roles, and dryer lint!
Add them together with wax and you have a tinder that will last for a long time!
Curious? Go over to the next page and watch this simple to follow tutorial on how you can make an easy and long-lasting campfire!
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G******n click bait again. Here everyone – saved you the trouble. It’s the dryer lint and wax in a toilet paper tube thing again.
“It takes in all the supplies you probably already have around the house like pencil shavings, toilet paper roles, and dryer lint!
Add them together with wax and you have a tinder that will last for a long time!”
Thanks!
Thanks! Already doing that.
Horsecrap!! That’s FAR too much prep time and space consumed. Easiest way to start a fire….Cotten balls and Vaseline. A piece about the size of a fingernail and molded into a Hershey Kiss shape, light the top and it will burn for 4 minutes. PLENTY enough time to get tinder going and then some. Best part, take an old pill bottle and store it in. Easiest way to get it going, any fire still and more Cotten pulled thin to increase surface area with the Cotten/Vaseline “kiss” in the center. Go head, try it! You’ll thank me
I’ve known about this for years. You can also use old tuna cans, cardboard and paraffin wax to make a heat source for a camp stove. All basic stuff I was taught years ago.
I keep hand sanitizer in my bag. The alcohol content makes it good for starting fires and also for the obvious sanitization reasons
On the premise one must use what is on hand, one could consider… Stuffing a tube with sawdust, soak in paraffin wax or some other wax-like accelerant, and cutting it into thick slices.
The other day I tried working alcohol gel into a cotton pad. It slowed the burn rate considerably and gave the gel a solid base to burn on and for handling versus trying to get the soft gel to stay in one spot on the fire. Also interesting – it only singed the pad in a few places. Maybe worth a try to stuff a small round can with pads and then soak them in alcohol.
I have dry cotton makeup pads in my bag as well, I haven’t soaked them but they’re in it lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij62HHN5uX0
seeing all the wax that melted and run out on the cookie sheet I think it would have done helluva job on a pile of wood getting turned into a nice warm fire 😉
Steve Bailey
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