Start a fire easy with lint wax & coffee filter. Bushcraft

What to do with your kid when she isn't watching Hanna Montanna? Teach them how to start fires. Go camping with them they chatter all about everything you forgot about years ago.

Save that dryer lint in an airtight canister (for safety) airtight removes one of the fire triangle (fuel, ignition source, air). The airtight canister keeps the lint dry too moisture is your enemy when lint is concerned. Put lint in a coffee filter (meatball size) tie the top with a piece of copper wire (old phone wire the stiff kind) or bread tie then drop it in candle wax let them roll around get coated. This coating is a waterproofing shell if you don't mash them. You can keep the finished product in a bag but the wax if coated a few times will produce an exoskeleton that floats. When it dries and the wax cools some dip it again this cooler wax coating is much thicker than the first coating. Do this in an assembly line manner save them in a 2-pound coffee can they will come in handy when you need to start a fire.

I found out the absolute best way to light these fires with the flint. Take the fuel ball you prepared and either break it open or as I like to do cut it in half but do this only when you are ready to start your fire if you are in high humidity area. I like to cut them in half because you can use one half to start flame with the flint and use the other half to hold over the flame and drip wax into the starter fire this method works every time for me. The fire will start but can quickly go out if you don't take advantage of the initial flame you could use tinder but the fuel ball will burn for quite a while. Long enough to get wet or moist wood to light and burn not green wood but stuff that have dried and might be wet due to fog rain or high humidity. We burn the leaves that get close to the house that in our main use for this fuel ball. I tried to light this using a magnifying glass and a good sun and all I got was smoke you need dry leaves or paper to light a fire that way.

In this video I didn't use the written method above to light the fire in the video I used dryer lint we lit that and the lint in turn lit the ball that is why it took too many tries to get the lint lit the lint absorbed the humidity from the air.

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[imdandanh]

frog rofl thats not a nickname thats an insult and ur daughter looks like a retard. and wtf is this dumb shit

[cdltpx]

How many American hikers on average die from snake bite,bear attack,spider bite,hypothermia,

Take a wild guess which of those potential demise befalls more hikers every year? Armed with this knowledge what action would a caring parent take he would teach her how to start a fire. The numbers are mind numbing the amount of people that fail to maintain body heat. Average 600 a year die of hypothermia more than all the other before mentioned causes of death. That is WTF this smart shit is.

[gdhuber]

Good video, I use the same method, but with newspaper and a lighter, works alot better. No Offense

[cdltpx]

With these you can start a fire with a spark from a flint. It will ignite wood that is damp. Get a flint and spark it on some dryer lint you will be surprised just how flamable this stuff is. Newspaper works too but not good enough for me I like to set it and forget it.

Party on.

[sovietsoilder]

not much deatil

[cdltpx]

Look to the right click on the more info you will have all the information you need.

[musclekid13]

wow who pissed in your cheerios this morning?