101 Ways to MAKE FIRE - #10 World Cup Football and Zebra Turd

How to make fire without matches. Welcome to South Africa. I'm Rob. Yes ROB, with a B. The little soccer ball is almost certainly not Fifa approved, but I don't think they can throw me in jail for that. The ball was bought at the local "Chinese shop", one of those tiny spaces that stocks everything from ladies' fashions to bicycle spares and fireworks. It is a happy hunting ground for the rabid pyro-shopaholic. The little futbol is made of transparent silicon rubber, with the football pattern printed on a thin foil which is glued between the two hemispheres. You may not be able to see this clearly in the video, but the rubber is embedded with little sparkly bits of glitter. I'm not sure how this helps to make the ball more desirable to soccer-mad schoolboys, but I suppose Mr Wang has done his market research. The joint between the two halves of the ball is not perfect, looks like it was just glued together and then the excess glue trimmed off. The trimming off wasn't completely neat, unfortunately, which means some roughness of the surface pretty much at the part where the light is starting to concentrate. Also, the ball is not completely round and the rubber has already discoloured a bit due to UV deterioration.
All of these things put together mean that the lens is pretty much at the limit of what will work to get a fire going. (If it were a perfect glass sphere, we could manage with something quite a bit smaller.) Because of all the limitations, I wanted to be able to keep the whole thing completely steady. Normally you'd just hold the lens in one hand and the target material in the other and there wouldn't be a problem. But if I had a giant magniying glass and dry char-cloth every time I wanted to start a fire there wouldn't be much of a challenge (and it would lead to a boring series of videos). Our little point of concentrated sunlight needs to be stable to make the most of the limited concentration we have. The darker the coffee the better, obviously. It also help to have the target perpendicular to the direction of the incoming sunlight. Hence the little pyramid we formed with the knife.
Zebra dung works well as an ember extender because the grass has undergone a process of digestion and some of the carbohydrates are already broken down. A bit like pyrolysis or hydrolysis. Not sure of the chemistry involved but it does the job. The dung of any grazing herbivore seems to work, as long as it's dry. Here in South Africa I've seen people use the turds of Springbok, Impala and duiker. I'm pretty sure that most antelope shit would work. As would sheep dung or cowpats. Elephant dung is sometimes a bit too course and fibrous but depending on what they've been eating it's probably worth a try. In Australia they use kangaroo dung in the same way.
As you might be able to guess from this video, I'm not completely ecstatis about the way that fifa has highjacked our entire economy for the purposes of their mega-billion enrichment scheme.
Anyone not getting all starry-eyed about the prospect of football Fridays is deemed to be some unpatriotic pariah, but if you dare to wear anything other than the OFFICIAL shirt, you're a criminal. I think a giant fraud has been perpetrated on the south african public.
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[theonenamedJAC]

did you just handle zebra dung and put your finger in your mouth?

[ROBwithaB]

@theonenamedJAC

Afraid so. Dried Zebra turd is mostly just grass. though.

[zak4tt4ck]

awesome stuff great vids subed

[ROBwithaB]

@zak4tt4ck

Thanks. Hope you're still following the series.

[t7easy]

i subbed, ure vids are funny and usefull :D

[ROBwithaB]

@t7easy

Cheers.

[RedDemonSRT4]

I bet that smoke smelled like shit :p

[scuffadoryan]

This guy is awesome

[WishFredWasDead]

You:And we have a oil spill...I suppose that can represent the united states.

American: That was just cold.

[mld80123]

I doesn't matter if the zebra turd is mostly grass! It still passed through the zebras butt and you licked your poo finger ewwww!!!!

[h0110wPeTaL29]

Australia? I know its a nothing country in the scheme of things, but it must b bigger than Brazil?

[guitarh3romast3r]

haha oil spill education can be so fun :)

[BevAlbi]

Lol @ booking confirmation for England

[bassfuryvi]

congrats on 9000 views...a great vid!!

[xbeast133]

@ROBwithaB Eh. Guess not.