Have you ever had a hard time starting a fire on a pit or a file of wood debris?

[jkim13]

Have you ever had a hard time starting a fire on a pit or a pile of wood debris?
Have you used a diesel for starting to burn the pile of wood debris?
This propane torch will give you an answer on how to start the fire on the pit or wood debris.
The full propane cylinder can start the fire about 4-6 times and is easy to refill .
No more pouring diesel
You should have this torch if you are living in the rural area.
Jkk

 

[diver64]

I used to use diesel and a tire if I had to but I bought a nice kit from HF that goes on a small cylinder and works fantastic. I use an adaptor to refill the cylinders from a BBQ tank.

 

[Mad Professor]

Nope.

 

[muddstopper]

Nope.

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I dont even use that for a camp fire. I take a Bic and use propane to cook a hot dog.

 

[ATpro]

Have you used a diesel for starting to burn the pile of wood debris?

A propane torch would be good for a fire to cook on or a small brush pile, but what works best for brush piles would be a burn fuel mix. It is as simple as mixing diesel and gas 20% gas to 80% diesel for a summer fuel mix or 40% gas to 60% diesel for a winter mix.

If you don't have a drip torch you can use a sprayer you use to spray for bugs. You simply spray the brush pile, then go back and light brush pile on fire. Make sure to put the sprayer a safe distance away before starting the fire.
If you are mixing up 5 gallons of burn fuel the mix would be 1 gallon of gas to 4 gallons of diesel for summer fuel mix, 2 gallons gas to 3 gallons of diesel for a winter mix.

 

[ElevatorGuy]

I’ve been using old road flairs the neighbor gave me at the burn pile. I just use noodles and newspaper to light my solo stove.

 

[muddy42]

leafblower !

 

[gggGary]

used motor oil on newspaper or kindling. Light it with a propane torch. Same in my non cat woodstove.

 

[greatlake21]

Best I’ve used is old cooking oil and a
bernzo-matic torch. Smells like French fries. Sticks to the brush and starts controllably. No flash fires, no black soot.

Bernzomatic works great for starting the wood stove also.

 

[jkim13]

A propane torch would be good for a fire to cook on or a small brush pile, but what works best for brush piles would be a burn fuel mix. It is as simple as mixing diesel and gas 20% gas to 80% diesel for a summer fuel mix or 40% gas to 60% diesel for a winter mix.

If you don't have a drip torch you can use a sprayer you use to spray for bugs. You simply spray the brush pile, then go back and light brush pile on fire. Make sure to put the sprayer a safe distance away before starting the fire.
If you are mixing up 5 gallons of burn fuel the mix would be 1 gallon of gas to 4 gallons of diesel for summer fuel mix, 2 gallons gas to 3 gallons of diesel for a winter mix.

Diesel or gas is not good for me anymore..
I used diesel for many years.
But diesel and gas prices went up rapidly which is more than $5.50 per gallon in California now.
This propane torch with a cylinder refill is a lot of better option(cheaper)and no diesel waste.
Jkk

 

[gggGary]

Best I’ve used is old cooking oil and a
bernzo-matic torch. Smells like French fries. Sticks to the brush and starts controllably. No flash fires, no black soot.

Bernzomatic works great for starting the wood stove also.

Yup I twist paper and dip it in bacon grease too.

 

[slowp]

Bic lighter, newspaper, DRY kindling. Poof. That's a campfire.

Thought this was about slash pile burning. Gotta keep a dry core in the pile, using a bit of plastic or something. Get fire going in that dry core--we used drip torches held in place for a while, or the propane weed burner torch and, if you aren't having to worry about acres done in a day, a leaf blower. Get the fire hot and the smoke column built up in that dry area and the rest of the pile should burn. If you want a complete burn, revisit the pile while it still has coals and chunk the outside edges into the coals.

With all fires, it is important to keep that smoke column going so it doesn't turn into a smudging operation. Don't forget to cold trail your dead campfire to make sure it is out.

 

[Mad Professor]

 

[ATpro]

Pillar of Fire (The Promised Land)​

 

[cookies]

I save the old bad gas from repairs for others, mix it 50/50 with used oil
last year I grabbed 10 pounds of gulf wax for 10 bucks, in a double boiler I melt a pound of wax then dip cotton balls into it squeezing 2/3 out. I use these to start the grill, fire pit and the oil/fuel mix.

 

[Gardiner Schneider]

Retired Maine EMT here. I use old motor oil to start brush piles, I do not use gasoline. Had to run the ambulance to a guy's house because he had gotten confused as to which can had the diesel and which can had the gasoline. His fire was not burning well and he dumped some gasoline out of a five gallon plastic can onto the pile. The can blew up. When we got to his house he was in the shower, under cold water wearing nothing but his undertrow. The skin was in strips on this face, arms and chest and the hair on his head was melted into a mat. We took him to the local hospital but asked them to alert Life Flight. By the time we were half way to the hospital, our patient was not a happy camper and we asked that the helo be sent. The patient spent six weeks in a Boston burn center but he did live.

 

[Del_]

When I start a fire I concentrate on getting one little hot spot going real good.

Then I add a few larger pieces and in a short while I've got an inferno going!

A little patience helps.

 

[Marley5]

Pine pitch

 

[ATpro]

Pine pitch

Yep, burns good.
When doing Prescribe Burns many times you could look at the forest after the fire went through and see candles of Pine pitch burning from trees infected with Fusiform Rust or Pitch Canker disease. I have walked through a forest in the dark without a flashlight as the way was lit up by the candles burning. Infectious spores will infect other trees around the infected tree.

As with Fusiform Rust it depends on a tree like an oak tree to complete it life cycle. Wind currents spread fungal spores from pine to oak and then back to pine. This is the reason we spray a release spray to kill hardwoods in a pine plantation and burn often.

 

[diver64]

When I start a fire I concentrate on getting one little hot spot going real good.

Then I add a few larger pieces and in a short while I've got an inferno going!

A little patience helps

A little patience helps.

So does a flamethrower.