How do YOU start your campfire?

[96Bounder30E]

Here's one way:B

[dodge_guy]

That would be kinda noisy at 6 in the morning!

[Veebyes]

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.

[DarthMuffin]

Lately I've been cheating and using the propane torch, but we do carry a tinder box. It's a dollar-store plastic shoebox container with some cedar scraps (from a pergola I built) and paper from the shredder.

A wad of shredded paper on the bottom, split the cedar up into cigar-sized pieces, then larger cedar pieces on top followed by wood. Lights every time.

[Greyghost]

I cut a Duraflame log into 1/2" slices and then quarter the slices (sometimes just 1/2 slices). If the starters are not available I'l use a kindling stack into a teepee. One works just as well as the other.

[cyntdon2010]

A Bed of Pine Cones is like gas stack lumber on top, we campout in Florida and Georgia.. pine trees are plentyful

[sapboiler]

Keep your leftover dryer lint in a bag it works great for fire starting

[portscanner]

Magnifying glass and a little pile of paper or other kindling.

Of course it helps if the sun is out.

[pappcam]

jeff h wrote:
Another vote for charcoal lighter fluid.

I normally use some crumbled newspaper and small kindling to get it going but if I have no source of nice dry kindling I also use charcoal lighter fluid.

[d_eggman2]

AtomicChicken wrote:
I'll use a sliver of fat pine placed under a tee-pee of kindling. A cotton-ball coated with petroleum jelly works well also.

I agree, I always have some fat wood stashed.
Also a good way to bushcraft.

[jeff__h]

Another vote for charcoal lighter fluid.

[ddschuman]

A camp host gave us some fire starter last year that consisted of a cotton pad (like cosmetic type) covered one side with Vaseline and rolled in a tube shape. It just takes one or two to start most campfires. Put it under the wood, light it and wallah. Very easy to make (can use cotton balls too but they are a bit messy). We have used this method several times since and it works. Cheap too 🙂

[TexasShadow]

get some of those campfire starters. made of sawdust and wax. and carry some clean kindling cut from home construction..just small blocks of it..or wood slats cut into small pieces.

[SRT]

Reminds me of the time I was trying to get a pile of leaves burning. Ended up putting some gasoline of the leaves, lighting a wooden match and throwing it on the leaves. Whomp! Flames bellowed out a few feet beyond the pile of leaves. :B But the leaves did get burned....:B

But most of my campfire building was starting with small shavings and placing ever larger pieces of burnable wood on top. Never use treated wood for a campfire.

[DannyA]

Cardboard rolled up under the wood and charcoal lighter on top.
Works great.

[AtomicChicken]

I'll use a sliver of fat pine placed under a tee-pee of kindling. A cotton-ball coated with petroleum jelly works well also.