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Cheap Firelighters.


To get a camp fire going quickly I use

cotton wool balls with vaseline.

Just rub petrolium jelly into cotton wool balls.

Put them into a zip bag or storage container

for future use.

Really gets the fire started.



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Easy as!



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Another trick is to save your old engine or transmission oil in a old oil container then decant some to a squirt bottle or old tomato sauce squeeze bottle. Set your firewood, squirt liberally with oil and light. This is much safer than kero or petrol which amazingly some people still use for starting fires. It might smell a bit of a dirty engine till the wood catches but once burning well it is un-noticeable.

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Used tea bags , dried and soaked in kero or metho . Easy as .



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At a recent happy hour, we had no fire lighters. Someone gave us a corn chip. Worked a treat.


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My Ex Brother-in-law, an Ex Firey, told me once that that is how some car fires were started....(Insurance jobs or just idiots, stealing and burning) They would light the packet and put it on the back seat and the chips being very oily and would burn nicely and get into the seat .....you have a Barby on wheels.

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Cheezles work the same way too.

Cheers,

Sheba.



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So I wonder what corn chips and cheezles do to your gut? When I first read Kantiki's post on corn chip, I thought it was mis spelt and should have been corn cob. :imslow.gif



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Must remember to pack a packet of corn chips next time we go away.

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I just use the mini blowtorch that you use for browning the top of your Creme Broule.  All caravanners carry one of those don't they?



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