I want to know how to natrually start a campfire
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Flint will spark when struck at a good angle with another really hard material- flint, metal, really hard kinds of rock, etc. A few other kinds of rocks will do this as well.\n\nFew people at any time in history depended on hitting rocks to start fires. Tools like fire drills are much more common historically. Sticks are available all over, while flint is hard to find.\n\nAlso, most native people start fires more rarely than you might think. Most used some form of carrying embers to start new fires with, and the job of the 'keeper of the fire' was an important one.\n\nIf you decide to go with the flint option, you'll need:\n- A hand-sized piece of flint with one flat surface\n- A fist-sized hard rock with a point or ridge or edge that can be used to strike on the flint\n- A handful of super tender tinder- mouse nest, really fluffy inner bark, lint\n- A ready supply of all sizes of wood fuel- a bunch of stuff not much thicker than toothpicks is an important first step\n\nThe basic technique, whch you'll adjust to fit your specific  rocks, is:\n- Position the tinder on a dry surface\n- Hold the flint in one hand, flat side facing the other hand, and positioned so the spark falls on the tinder.\n- Hold the other rock so a point or an edge pokes out and strike that edge against the flint.\n- Your goal is to try to literally knock a small chip of flint off into the tinder, so strike it with a 'loose-wristed' glancing blow.\n\nPractice the striking in a comfortable seated position at first cuz it will take a while! Have a pile of rocks to try- both flint and others, and try different combinations until something sparks.\n\nOnce you can get a spark most of the time, then practice just setting tinder on fire. Use cheap cotton or dryer lint to start. Once you can get the tinder going on command, you are ready to try a campfire.
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Roast marshmallows over a fire
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OH CAN IT EVER. It's call blue-flaming or torqing. You lay on you back and throw your legs back over your head as far as you can. Hold a lighter (not a match) near the butt-opening. If you get too close you create some risk. Build up a doozy and let 'er rip while the lighter is going. You have to exhaust the whole thing, or else you risk bringing some of the fire back inside of you while your butt-opening is still, well, open. So push it all out. Some of the flames can get huge. Just watch out for the "banana torq". It wraps around and burns bad things.
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First, make sure that it is legal or that you have permission to start a fire on the beach.  It is as real bum to get one going and be sitting back when the po - po show up and bust it down.\n\nEasy start supplies include: dry wood in 18 - 24 inch length  (easy size to work with), some kenneling (small twigs and branches broken up to 18 - 24 inch lengths, a shovel, a bucket to put out your fire, and a rail road fuse (a.k.a a highway flair).\n\nDig a pit about 18 inches deep by 3 foot around.  This will serve as a wind-block and a place for you ash (not trash)\n\nNext pile the kenneling in the hole, and light the fuse.  Do not pull the fuse toward you when striking it.  The "embers" are burning at +/- 750 degrees.\n\nPlace the lit fuse under the kenneling (remember heat rises).  After a couple of minutes add some of the logs.  \n\nThe fuse will burn for 20 - 30 minutes depending on the size and type.  It is safer than lighter fluid or other excellerants.   Do not cook food over the fuse.   It's fumes are not good for you.\n\nBe sure to extinguish your fire (cold to the touch) before you go.  \n\nThis is a fast and easy way to get you beach fire going.  Be careful and have a good night at the beach.  I wish I could be the.\n\nLand locked in Central Illinois - DAVE
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Typically, "Water and Electrical Hookups" are referring to convenient places an RV or trailer can plug in to for power and running water.  Chances are, you should be able to plug an extension cord with a power strip for running some electrical items.\n\nI say plan your trip as if the electrical won't be available, but bring a few things that will be helpful in case it is.\n\nA few helpful camping tips:  \nIf there's a firepit, bring a couple Duraflame logs.  They last a couple hours, don't take any special gymnastics to ignite, and you can always throw regular wood on after the duraflame is burning.  Remember to smother your campfire before you go to bed (Shovel dirt on it, etc).\n\nBring a stiff rake.  Rake out the spot where you're putting your tent(s). This way, you don't end up rolling over onto a rock or acorn.\n\nPlease, please, PLEASE, clean up when you're gone.  Have your kids walk all over your campsite and pick up every little bit of trash possible.  (Also, bring trashbags!  Not all campsites have convenient trash receptacles).\n\nCheck the temperature ranges in advance, and pack accordingly.  It's a very long night when it's freezing cold and you didn't bring the winter sleeping bags.  Remember that tents catch fire VERY easily, so don't put the tent next to the campfire, and don't bring electrical or gas heaters into the tent.\n\nBring fresh drinking water.  (Those 2.5 gallon jugs with the convenient spigot are good...)\n\nBring a medical kit w/ all the usual refinements.  Kids will always find a way to get boo-boo's.\n\nI can almost guarantee that you will certainly overpack for your first trip.  You'll find that over time you'll be able to whittle it down to the stuff you *really* need, as opposed to the stuff you think you'll need.\n\nIf you're with someone who is not a morning person, they will be much worse in the morning.  Trust me.\n\nGood luck!
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try this website     http://cms.firehouse.com/dept/FtMohaveAZ
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Use the fire to heat water in a container to boiling. Pipe it to a steam driven compressor to compress refrigerent to cool the ice chest. Don't forget the condenser, evaporator and expansion valve.
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Take an old cardboard box and line it with aluminum foil. then cover the flaps of the box with foil as well. take this outside in the sun and use the flaps to shine all the rays on a biscut or cookie dogh. it will cook it, it may take a while but it is a solar cooker.\nLet me know how it works out.
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When I was in Explorers, some Boy Scouts used a short section of heavy-walled pipe and an ignition source (like a piezo-electric lighter for a gas grille).\n\nThey welded the pipe to a flat plate on one end and left the other end open, but you could drive the pipe into the soil if you don't have access to a welder.\n\nWhichever way you go, install and test the ignition source before adding fuel.  You should hear a clicking sound, and you should be able either to see the spark or tell that there is a spark being made.\n\nGasoline can be introduced either as a mist or as a liquid (don't let it wet the igniter).  Even in warm weather, if it goes in as a liquid, you'll have to wait a few seconds for it to vaporize (make enough fumes) sufficiently.\n\nThe really neat thing about this experiment is that it lets you demonstrate the difference between "(combustion/ combustability/ flammability) limits in air" and "(explosive/ explosion) limits in air" -- the latter being a comparatively narrow band of concentrations usually between the maximum and minimum concentrations required for combustion (fire).\n\nThe experiment can be simply modified to use an ignited candle as the ignition source, and dust as the fuel.\n\nTHIS EXPERIMENT IS OBSCENELY LOUD!\n\nBE CAREFUL AND WEAR DEVICES TO PROTECT YOUR EARS AND YOUR EYES.  DO NOT ALLOW FOREIGN MATERIALS INTO THE COMBUSTION ENVIRONMENT.\n\nDO NOT PLACE THE EXPERIMENT UNDER ANYTHING THAT MIGHT CATCH ON FIRE OR BE DAMAGED BY AN EXPLOSIVE BLAST.  DO NOT PLACE ANYTHING OVER THE TOP OF THE PIPE (COMBUSTION CHAMBER).  DETONATE REMOTELY.\n\nWith adequate precautions taken, this experiment should be plenty safe for children ages 4-7.  Do not reduce attention to safety for older children: the "7" simply indicates older children are going to want a lot more "effect" and should be competent to handle more more powerful experiments.
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Try doing flame tests; adding certain compounds to fire make really awesome colors; it's kind of like putting on your own fireworks show.  Check out http://webmineral.com/help/FlameTest.shtml
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Hard question to answer, bud.  A simple survival bow is easy enough but I have no idea how much work you want to put into it.\n\nEasiest way to learn?  Find a good sapling approx 3-4" in diam that's scrub.  Lop it off approx a foot above the ground and cut it so it's approx 6' long.  Lots of really good woods out there and most everyone has their fav....me I just say cut a sapling.\n\nUse a semisharp knife and a hammer and split it right down the middle from the thin end.  Do that again so you have a 1/4 trunk.  That's called a bowstave.\n\nRound off the sharpness on that triangle shape in the exact middle, but keep the triangle shape.  Starting about a foot on either side of the center point, start whittling the triangle flatter and flatter as you move out to the ends.  Always whittle the back, not the front!\n\nKeep experimenting with bending it as you whittle....so if one end bends more than the other, simply whittle a bit more on the other end til it bends approx the same.  That's called "tillering".  I won't get into it.\n\nOnce both ends (the limbs) bend in a good solid arc and it feels good to you, carefully notch the ends so they can hold a string.\n\nTie your string on one end and then keep bending the bow and retying the other til the tight string is approx 8" from the back of the bow.\n\nThat's a really basic survival type bow.  You could spend years mastering each step if you wanted to really make bows, but that one will have you shooting within an hour or two and they're fun to teach the kids as a summer project.\n\nArrows....you can use the same old 1/4 trunks that you cut for the bow.  Each one will make approx four arrows.  Simply split each 1/4 stave like before and just start whittling the corners.  Keep whittling the corners until they're round.\n\nAnything I need to cover in more depth?
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you do not have to replace the mantels until they get holes in them.\n\nhave a match lit and stick it up in the hole and then turn on the propane, then lower the gas until it gets a nice even glow.
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Try \natlantaworkforce.org/firedeptapp.html
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Watch channel 9 news  they will show you and tell you when you can burn fire places they are blue days red days you can`t burn wood. after July 1st next year you may not be able to bur fire places at all
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Camping Equipment: The company Coleman has a battery operated heater "PowrCat Heater". I have seen them at Target or go to any store that sells Camping gear.\nYou also should find the TV there. Or go to the Coleman website
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The teepee method works the best. You might be stacking to much wood around the teepee, can't get airflow? Another way is to take two larger split logs and lay them side by side with a 1 foot gap in between them. Put balled up newspaper between the logs and then add small twigs, sticks and such over the paper, preferrably across and above the paper. Use the two split pieces to catch the ends of the stuff. Then once you light it add more pieces of wood just bigger pieces each time and it should catch just fine. If you use big enough side pieces you can even put a cooking rack on them and use your fire to make dinner. Just remember to use dry paper and dead wood or it won't work!!!  Good Luck!!!!
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try the flame thrower