How do YOU start your campfire?

[96Bounder30E]

Here's one way:B

[steves1967]

My favorite- and my kids favorite too...

I build the traditional tee-pee with small kindling and what not. Then I toss a cup or two of Coleman camping fuel on it. Grab a piece of paper and fold it into an airplane. I light the paper airplane on fire and "fly" it into the campfire. With the fuel vapors coming off the tee-pee the whole thing ignites every time, even if its raining outside!

[Lauren]

Start mine with a 2 gallon bucket of water; it is smokeless.

[lakeside013104]

When there is no dry kindling around I use DYNAMITE purchased from Amazon, LINK

It works great especially when my neighbors see the DYNAMITE box sitting beside my firering.

Lakeside

[Kittykath]

We used the 3-step method last night:

Step 1
Construct the perfect teepee with kindling, shavings, twisted newspaper, twigs & pinecones. Oh joy! Looks pretty but doesn't light.

Step 2
Soak pretty pile in charcoal lighter fluid and attempt to light with a propane torch. Cuss a little. Oh crud! It's raining.

Step 3
Give up, go inside and hit the remote on the electric fireplace.

[SRT]

You guys are nothing but "fire bugs" as an old saying sez....:B

[Veebyes]

K.Reeve wrote:
umm last fire I helped light, 40 gallons of gas, and a flare gun 500 feet away. fire was so large all towns within 100 miles called our FD to ask if we needed help with the blaze. man what a fun night. buddy was the FD chief and we were burning off a lake clean up pile of trash and logs.

ok, for a little campfire either duraflame log or if the wood is really dry a little bbq starter fluid and build it up to a nice fire that burns all night to sit back and chat with friends over.

You know that you have a good fire when the FD shows up.

There we were enjoying a something like a 30' diameter fire all compacted together by a machine, flames going 40' into the air, & the boys in the red trucks show up.

They dump 2000 imperial gallons onto it, put it out, & went away happy. Two hours later it was burning again, though not with the enthusiasm that it was before.

Four days later, it was finally reduced to ashes.

[OldRadios]

This Swedish fire torch works pretty well if you want a small fire that lasts a long time.

Swedish fire torch

[ol_Bombero-JC]

NYCgrrl wrote:
LOL.......charcoal briquets leftover from dinner are thrown in the fire pit followed by crumpled newspaper and various sized wood atop. Easy peasy.

Quote from Mr. Peasy:

"Mrs. Peasy has *NEVER* been easy."..:W

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[K_Reeve]

umm last fire I helped light, 40 gallons of gas, and a flare gun 500 feet away. fire was so large all towns within 100 miles called our FD to ask if we needed help with the blaze. man what a fun night. buddy was the FD chief and we were burning off a lake clean up pile of trash and logs.

ok, for a little campfire either duraflame log or if the wood is really dry a little bbq starter fluid and build it up to a nice fire that burns all night to sit back and chat with friends over.

[Executive45]

milo wrote:
I start our camp fires using the junk mail from Good Sam & the catalogs from Camping World. It burns really good.

AND you have an ENDLESS supply......just sayin....:B:B:B.....Dennis

[Halmfamily]

bigred1cav wrote:
Put copious amounts of gasoline on the wood then give wife a very short match. Have her light the fire.

I don't,t care who you are, that's funny...:B

[dodge_guy]

milo wrote:
I start our camp fires using the junk mail from Good Sam & the catalogs from Camping World. It burns really good.

Now you did it!

[milo]

I start our camp fires using the junk mail from Good Sam & the catalogs from Camping World. It burns really good.

[bigred1cav]

Old coil on exhaust pipe we did it as kids. Could burn the paint off some non group members car at drive in restaurants.

96Bounder30E wrote:
Here's one way:B

[bigred1cav]

Let oil soak in ground to contaminate earth and ground water.

Veebyes wrote:
Method for burning a yard fire. Pour a few gsllons of used motor oil onto the pile at least a week before intended burn. On burning day add a couple more gallons of old motor oil plus whatever else flammable is in the garage like that mixture of mineral spirits, acetone, laquer thinners anything else that went into that trash plastic gallon container. Follow that with just a little dash of gas (it is $10 gal around here) & a match.

Watch in satisfaction at a fire well primed.