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luresalive
28-12-2011, 07:58 PM
I was out in coniferous woodland in the rain and got fire in under a minute just by using what was around, what did I use??

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AdrianRose
28-12-2011, 08:28 PM
Pine resin and dry pine needles?

That would be my guess.

Ade
Fletching
28-12-2011, 08:31 PM
Hi Luresalive.

More specifics please:

When you say 'what was around', do you mean in the general vicinity, or just what's shown in the pic?

It can be done ;)

Steve
cuppa joe
28-12-2011, 08:40 PM
your ingenuity ?
JonnyP
28-12-2011, 09:19 PM
How about the innards of an old pine stump..?
luresalive
28-12-2011, 09:23 PM
Ade and Jonnyp are the closest, really the fire was made from what is just in the pic and one other essential ingredient and that was what was on fire and came from the surrounding woodland,this should solve the riddle...

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AdrianRose
28-12-2011, 09:25 PM
Pine resin it is then.

:)

Ade
Martin
28-12-2011, 09:25 PM
Fuel, heat and oxygen. Simples :)

Martin
luresalive
28-12-2011, 10:21 PM
To be pedantic that's a Fir tree, so it's fir resin !!
Ashley Cawley
28-12-2011, 10:26 PM
I was going to guess perhaps a bit of Birch bark and a pine cone of which I think you can just see.

But thanks to the clue it's (flammable) resin out of the blisters of trees like Balsam Fir, ontop of a pine cone? I to have started fires by spark and the resin from blisters like those :)

Thanks for sharing

T^
luresalive
28-12-2011, 10:39 PM
I was going to guess perhaps a bit of Birch bark and a pine cone of which I think you can just see.

But thanks to the clue it's (flammable) resin out of the blisters of trees like Balsam Fir, ontop of a pine cone? I to have started fires by spark and the resin from blisters like those :)

Thanks for sharing

T^

No Pine cone Ashley, just the resin,it's so flammable it takes and burns very easily

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Resin captured in a green fresh bramble leaf

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and quick spark dropped onto it
bigzee
28-12-2011, 11:28 PM
Now that's what I call useful information!

It may be wet
It may be green
But with little knowledge
Fire can be seen!
Metal mug
29-12-2011, 01:32 PM
How did this fella set himself on fire? :D



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ias3131zE_k
jus_young
30-12-2011, 12:26 AM
Ha what an idiot :happy-clapping:

Brought a smile to my face, nice to know that prats like that exist, makes me feel somewhat wiser :D
Metal mug
30-12-2011, 11:20 AM
Ha what an idiot :happy-clapping:

Brought a smile to my face, nice to know that prats like that exist, makes me feel somewhat wiser :DI'd love to know what the chap expected to happen when he hit the melon. :) Amazingly the video only had about 40 views when I found it. I'd thought it would be quite a popular one. :D