Campfires for Dummies

I need a copy for some of my friends!! I learned mine in the Boy Scouts. Just find an old copy of the Scout Handbook. I won't say anything about how the new scouts start a fire.

Uhhhhhhhhh..could I buy a copy for the man?
He'll thank you I'm sure:B.

Hilarious! Got to pass that around. Thanks much for the chuckles.

Johno02 wrote:
I need a copy for some of my friends!! I learned mine in the Boy Scouts. Just find an old copy of the Scout Handbook. I won't say anything about how the new scouts start a fire.

Do they still let them have fires? I figured that by now, they'd issue each an LED candle.

Everything I needed to know about fire building I learned in SERE school. Knee-high fire, thumb-size fuel, 10 minutes or less... I can still hear that going through my head, and that was almost 1.5 decades ago. Thought you'd appreciate that 11B.;)

EYE LEVEL? easy just stack the wood shoulder high ;)

kep5niner wrote:
Everything I needed to know about fire building I learned in SERE school. Knee-high fire, thumb-size fuel, 10 minutes or less... I can still hear that going through my head, and that was almost 1.5 decades ago. Thought you'd appreciate that 11B.;)

No doubt! I still miss heat tabs. However, I was Light Infantry. We never made fires or "pitched a tent" using our shelter halves. Light Infantry meant we had no vehicles...we carried everything we needed on our backs. The sleeping bag I was issued was turned back in after 4 years, never taken to the field. I used my protective mask as a pillow and a poncho/poncho liner as a blanket.

My infantry experience is the reason I told my wife when we first married that I would never camp again. I did relent and we did camp in tents for a few years, but the RV lifestyle is far better.

Light Infantry is anything but light!

time2roll wrote:
EYE LEVEL? easy just stack the wood shoulder high ;)

The one time I really pressed for a fire as high as my eye, I got this...



It stayed stable the whole time, much to my amazement.

You are lucky that Smokey The Bear wasn't nearby at the time, he might have taken a whiz on your campfire. :B

Army11Bravo wrote:

kep5niner wrote:
Everything I needed to know about fire building I learned in SERE school. Knee-high fire, thumb-size fuel, 10 minutes or less... I can still hear that going through my head, and that was almost 1.5 decades ago. Thought you'd appreciate that 11B.;)

No doubt! I still miss heat tabs. However, I was Light Infantry. We never made fires or "pitched a tent" using our shelter halves. Light Infantry meant we had no vehicles...we carried everything we needed on our backs. The sleeping bag I was issued was turned back in after 4 years, never taken to the field. I used my protective mask as a pillow and a poncho/poncho liner as a blanket.

My infantry experience is the reason I told my wife when we first married that I would never camp again. I did relent and we did camp in tents for a few years, but the RV lifestyle is far better.

Light Infantry is anything but light!

Got a lot of respect for you guys - I've carried many a crunchy in the back of my aircraft. I flew assault (UH60) for years, now I'm flying MEDEVAC. I don't even know how to spell shelter-half.