For protection, warmth and cooking, having fire is essential. Making fire is an essential skill. More and more I hear or should say overhear conversations in the circles I travel. I hear skill building being laughed off as a waste of time. Many people assume they can have fire easily. Fire and fire making is as easy as flicking your BIC. FIRE is passé.
Fire making is an essential skill and stocking fire making tools is an
essential task. Disposable butane
lighters can be purchased in bulk. If
you are able to make bulk purchases, Amazon is an outlet www.amazon.com/Wholesale-Disposable-Lighters. Also,
I found these just from Google today.
Keep storage of these lighters
in mind. Cool, and dry and air tight are
key.
Another way to start a fire quickly is to
use fire starters. But you still need a
spark. Fire starters can be made and
purchased www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=3735311
I fell into a yard sale deal one Saturday
when a woman was cleaning out her husband’s area in the garage. I hope he doesn't miss his 1950s and 60s Zippo
lighters in their original boxes, but he didn't take very good care of them as
he kept them in a rusting coffee can. That
was a well spent $5! Add to this cost the
price of three packs of flints at $2.99 per six and two cans of lighter fluid,
another $6, one can for filling now and testing the lighters and one for storage,
and I have two dozen fine refillable fire makers.
I suggest if you prep, you should look
into more than one way to start a fire. Harbor Freight keeps a good stock of
magnesium fire starters on hand at a reasonable price.
Also
in the prep closet, with the mess kits is a fire striker kit that was made for
me at a powwow years ago. I bought two more kits and gave one to my son in the Marine Corps as a gift for making that
third stripe. He told me later he had his men
out in the field for a test and all the marines were patted down to have their
lighters and matches removed. My son was
questioned about the ‘rock’ in his pocket; he told them it was his lucky
rock. It passed. The fact that it was a flint rock and the
fancy Goth thing around his neck was an iron fire striker and the handkerchief
was just the right kind of fiber to get a good fire started, made the new sergeant
look like a warrior god to his new devil dogs!
Fire is magic, when you are cold and hungry.
Fire is
good to have, get ready and learn to build your own.
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Don't know what's going on here with the wonky template, but the info is still there, sorry.
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