How do YOU start your campfire?

dave54 wrote:

TucsonJim wrote:
1/2 cup gasoline, 2 cups diesel fuel, road flare. Works every time.

When I worked for the Forest Service we used a 'poor man's napalm' to burn snow covered piles of logging slash.

a 4:1 ratio of diesel to gasoline mixed with the powdered rubber tire shavings from a local recap shop. Add enough powdered tire dust to the diesel/gas mixture to make a sticky gelatinous goo.

It burns real hot and a long time. I think you could ignite wet rocks with that stuff. The wettest frozen logging slash is not a problem.

It also makes a thick acrid black smoke that stinks bad and leaves you wearing blackface makeup if the smoke drifts your way. So it is not for any campfire you want to cook on.

Also not to be used if the local Air Quality folks are monitoring you...

I used to work in the missile business. If you add some powdered aluminum to the mix you describe above, you create poor man's rocket fuel. Very volatile, and very dangerous.