How do you light your bonfires?

[Bill 55]

Last time I burned a brush pile the wood was a little damp from snow. I could not get it going so I went to the house and loaded up the generator, a little dry kindling, some charcoal, an extension cord and the leaf blower. Did not take long to have a darn good fire,
Bill

 

[calman93611]

You guys are funny, bon fire? Don't move to California. Our idea of a bon fire is those led's that simulate a flame. No outdoor burning, and fireplaces have to be EPA certified and can only be used on certain days.

 

[studor]

Lots of experiments over the years -- gas (not good) diesel, tires, homemade napalm (Styrofoam and gasoline), just about all the other unmentioned petroleum distillates, cardboard, tarped piles, snow covered piles, shingles, old oil, flares, soaked wood chips, dryer lint, paraffin soaked paper, wd40, straw, old hay, broken IKEA furniture, alcohol (seems a waste), and old paint (the canned kind not the dead horse).
Roofing torch on a twenty pound propane tank is now my weapon of choice -- even burns wood from beaver dams with a little patience!

 

[MoKelly]

There was no ad to skip when I watched it just now.

Seems the ads change depending upon the time of day. I guess I was lucky. Just re-watched and it was a Sprint phone ad. No where near as good as the Sports Illustrated Swinsuit ad.

MoKelly

 

[stingray1]

Diesel.

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Lighter, matches, big magnifying glass (6 in dia), flint and steel, bow and spindle. Haven't tried using a compression tube which looks kind of neat.

 

[MoKelly]

Lighter, matches, big magnifying glass (6 in dia), flint and steel, bow and spindle. Haven't tried using a compression tube which looks kind of neat.

Olympic torch?

MoKelly

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Hmmmm .. how about standing on top of the pile, drinking rum, wearing fuzzy slippers and holding a lightning rod?

 

[bx2230orange]

Soak a roll of toilet paper in diesel fuel. Works great even with wet wood.

 

[mjw]

Just saw the Styrofoam/gas mix mentioned.
It does work great, had a junk pile of waterlogged pressed board, 1/2" board soaked to over 1" thick, 30-50 sheets of it in a pile, falling apart so it could not even be moved easily, couldn't get it started with anything we tried until a neighbor mentioned the 'napalm' trick.
Melted all the styrofoam peanuts we could find in a metal coffee can with a little gas, poured it over the pile and lit it off.
Just be careful if you make a torch out of the stuff, because it will drop burning drips off of it.

A fun time was had by all.

I had forgotten all about that until I just saw it mentioned.