bryan Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 5 potato chips and a match. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conodo12 Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Nice tip MacGuyver!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DennisLinkletter Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Re: Emergency Fire Starter 5 potato chips and a match. And then once you get just a little orange glow going, blast it with a cheapo hair drier... Lots of fun.. brings out the 10 year old pyro in us all. Ace hardware here ran out of propane bottles about 8 months ago.. as a last option I purchased a bunch of those small wax starters.. I now dig a little hole with my super larger tongs, drop in the burning starter and make a little charcoal igloo over it.. Come back in 5 minutes and blast with the hair drier. In 2-3 minutes you have a raging inferno. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxwrangler Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Re: Emergency Fire Starter Ace hardware here ran out of propane bottles about 8 months ago... Darn, there goes my suggestion. My younger-days pyro technique (yes, like many of us, I am astonished that I survived my youth) was to bend a coat-hanger so the hook would stick into the end of the propane bottle so I could hold the bottle with one hand and pull on the hanger with the other. With the bottle tipped down, one would get a blast of liquid propane with each pull. When aimed at an ignition source much fun ensued. Perhaps not as fun as George Goble had with his liquid-oxygen BBQ starting technique ( ), but fun nonetheless. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
