#fire building

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Learn to Build a Fire, Without Matches or Lighter, for Cooking, Heat and Light:

Building a fire for staying warm, light, cooking and signaling is a skill everyone should know. Having the tools and knowledge will make fire-building easier and effective. Without electricity, a well-built fire will build morale and provide heat and light. FIRE BUILDING: Building a Fire Building a Smokeless Fire Self Feeding Fire - 14+ Hour Fire The Upside Down Fire Building Technique allows the fire to burn longer before having to add more wood.    [Video] Build a Dakota Fire Hole (Pit) for High Wind or Reduce Detection (Stealth) FIRE STARTING:

Fire Starting Materials You Probably Have At Home Friction Fire by Rubbing Sticks Together

1 - Gather a fire bundle of dry grass or other material that will quickly catch fire.

2 - Gather different sizes of wood, from small twigs to larger logs, to make a wood pile where you want to build your fire.

3 - Find hard wood for your spindle and soft wood for your fire board.

4 - Find an arm-length stick of sturdy wood for your bow and strong cordage to wrap around the spindle.

5 - Find a piece of wood to be your handhold – this will protect your skin from the heat the spindle generates.

6 - Use a knife or rock to carve out a hole for the spindle to sit in on the fire board.

7 - Sit on one knee, and prop your wrist against your shin for maximum stability.

8 - Pull your bow back and forth to allow the spindle to further carve out a hole in the fire board.

9 - Carve a notch in the fire board to allow oxygen to mix with the wood dust created by the spindle.

10 - Once again begin pulling your bow back and forth until a significant amount of smoke emerges from the fire board.

11 - Move your embers from under the fire board to fine plant material.

12 - Blow on the bundle to increase oxygen flow to the embers. Continue until the bundle produces flames.

13 - Transfer your fire bundle to your fire wood pile, adding small twigs to larger wood as the fire progresses. Make a Fire By Rubbing Sticks Together Make a friction fire using the Bow Drill method Make a friction fire using the Pump Drill method How to make a friction fire using the Hand Drill method Using a Fire Plow:    [Article]    [Video]

Ferro, Flint and Magnesium: Ferrocerium (Ferro) is a synthetic pyrophoric alloy that produces hot sparks that can reach temperatures of 3,000 °C when rapidly oxidized by the process of striking the rod, thereby fragmenting it and exposing those fragments to the oxygen in the air which causes the sparks. When scraped with a metal "striker", a Flint and Ferro create sparks and can start fires when the sparks enter a tinder pile. It requires some practice to produce a spark but, once learned, they are reliable fire starters in nearly any weather condition. Magnesium is a volatile metal that ignites quickly with any spark and burns white hot (2200 °C, 4000 °F) to catch nearly anything on fire. In and of itself, it cannot burn without an ignitor (flint or ferro). The Difference Between Flint & Steel, Ferrocerium Rod And Magnesium Bar Fire Starter Using a Ferro Rod Fire-starter (video) Using a Magnesium/Flint Fire-starter (video)    Magnesium can burn nearly anything (article) Battery Starting a fire with a battery and [foil] gum wrapper

Step 1: Place foil or steel wool on a flat surface. Surround the metal with two pieces of firewood.

Step 2: Place a densely-packed bundle of kindling on top of the metal.

Step 3: Wedge a cotton ball underneath the kindling. (Pro tip: Soaking the cotton ball in petroleum jelly will make it burn much longer.)

Step 4: Contact both ends of the battery (or protruding end of a 9V battery) against the metal until the metal begins to spark and catch the cotton ball on fire.

Chemical Fire Starting:

Potassium Permanganate and Glycerin

Potassium Chloride, Sugar and Sulfuric Acid

Acetone, and Sulfuric Acid and Potassium Permanganate

Amonium Nitrate, Sodium Chloride (table salt), Zinc Powder and Water

Other Options: How to Start a Fire with a Magnifying Glass [Fire From Ice]    [Fire From Water] How to Start a Fire with a Soda Can (reflector) Wet Weather Fire-Making How to Start a Fire with Char Cloth Other Fire-starting methods Multiple Fire-making Methods and Information

[Reference Link] Other Resources: Heating and Cooking With a Wood Stove Transport Fire From One Location to Another Start a Fire by Rubbing Sticks Together; Yeah, it Works! Proper Use of Ferro, Flint and Magnesium to Start a Fire The Upside-Down Fire Building Method Start a Fire with a Foil Gum Wrapper and Battery Start a Fire With Clear Ice Heat a Room With a Clay Pot Keep the Heat in Check During a Power Outage Build a Dakota Fire Pit for Stealth or High Wind DIY Rocket Stove

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Essential Survival Skills and Outdoor Preparedness

It’s important to not only have medical knowledge and skills but also survival skills and outdoor preparedness knowledge. Whether you’re out in the field, on a camping trip, or in a survival situation, having the right skills and knowledge can make all the difference. In this blog post, we’ll cover some essential survival skills and outdoor preparedness techniques that every corpsman should…

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[reasonsforhope]

Legit though, we should start turning ecosystem restoration and work to make our world more tolerant to the effects of climate change into annual holidays and festivals

Like how just about every culture used to have festivals to celebrate the beginning of the harvest or its end, or the beginning of planting, or how whole communities used to host barn raisings and quilting bees - everyone coming together at once to turn the work of months or years into the work of a few days

Humble suggestions for festival types:

Goat festival

Besides controlled burns (which you can't do if there's too much dead brush), the fastest, most effective, and most cost-efficient way to clear brush before fire season - esp really heavy dead brush - is to just. Put a bunch of goats on your land for a few days!

Remember that Shark Tank competitor who wanted to start a goat rental company, and everyone was like wtf? There was even a whole John Oliver bit making fun of the idea? Well THAT JUST PROVES THEY'RE FROM NICE WET PLACES, because goat rental companies are totally a thing, and they're great.

So like. Why don't we have a weekend where everyone with goats just takes those goats to the nearest land that needs a ton of clearing? Public officials could put up maps of where on public lands grazing is needed, and where it definitely shouldn't happen. Farmers and people/groups with a lot of acres that need clearing can post Goat Requests.

Little kids can make goat-themed crafts and give the goats lots of pets or treats at the end of the day for doing such a good job. Volunteers can help wrangle things so goats don't get where they're not supposed to (and everyone fences off land nowadays anyway, mostly). And the goats, of course, would be in fucking banquet paradise.

Planting Festival and Harvest Festival

Why mess with success??? Bring these back where they've disappeared!!! Time to swarm the community gardens and help everyone near you with a farm make sure that all of their seeds are sown and none of the food goes to waste in the fields, decaying and unpicked.

And then set up distribution parts of the festival so all the extra food gets where it needs to be! Boxes of free lemons in front of your house because you have 80 goddamned lemons are great, but you know what else would be great? An organized effort to take that shit to food pantries (which SUPER rarely get fresh produce, because they can't hold anything perishable for long at all) and community/farmer's markets

Rain Capture Festival

The "water year" - how we track annual rainfall and precipitation - is offset from the regular calendar year because, like, that's just when water cycles through the ecosystems (e.g. meltwater). At least in the US, the water year is October 1st through September 30th of the next year, because October 1st is around when all the snowmelt from last year is gone, and a new cycle is starting as rain begins to fall again in earnest.

So why don't we all have a big barn raising equivalent every September to build rain capture infrastructure?

Team up with some neighbors to turn one of those little grass strips on the sidewalk into a rain-garden with fall-planting plants. Go down to your local church and help them install some gutters and rain barrels. Help deculvert rivers so they run through the dirt again, and make sure all the storm drains in your neighborhood are nice and clear.

Even better, all of this - ESPECIALLY the rain gardens - will also help a ton with flood control!

I'm so serious about how cool this could be, yall.

And people who can't or don't want to do physical stuff for any of these festivals could volunteer to watch children or cook food for the festival or whatever else might need to be done!

Parties afterward to celebrate all the good work done! Community building and direct local improvements to help protect ourselves from climate change!

The possibilities are literally endless, so not to sound like an influencer or some shit, but please DO comment or reply or put it in the notes if you have thoughts, esp on other things we could hold festivals like this for.

Canning festivals. "Dig your elderly neighbors out of the snow" festivals. Endangered species nesting count festival. Plant fruit trees on public land and parks festival. All of the things that I don't know anywhere near enough to think of. Especially in more niche or extreme ecosystems, there are so many possibilities that could do a lot of good

[ladyhawke]

There’s nothing in Nassau but horror. You said it was just a transition. That something better lay beyond it, something meaningful. But what if that isn’t so? What if the result of this war isn’t beyond the horror? What if it is the horror itself? Have you given this any thought at all? If we are to truly reach a moment where we might be finished with England… cleared away to make room for something else… there most certainly lies a dark moment between here and there. A moment of terror where everything appears to be without hope.

BLACK SAILS 4.08 “XXXVI.”

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[leo-kinnie]

continuation of this post !! Donnie never makes it through the movies Leo downloaded (they suck)

[lights-at-night-art]

and before she died, she remembered who she was

[useless-denmarkfacts]

I remember discovering the fire of Notre Dame on tumblr, so I'm very sorry to inform everyone that the Danish Stock Exchange in Copenhagen, completed in 1625, is burning. Its unique spire has fallen, and as the building is, to a larger degree than Notre Dame, made of wood, mortar, and stucco, there may be very real structural damage. As you can see from the image, they were in the process of restoring it, just as it was the case with the church. Very real reconsideration should be done to how we restore very old buildings if we keep setting them on fire during the work.

People off the street have been seen running into the building and bringing out historical art pieces, primarily paintings. If you are close by, DO NOT do this! I know it appears the heroic thing to do, but no human life is worth the risk to save a painting, no matter how significant.

Before all this:

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more florian

[prep4tomoro]

Start a Fire with Clear Ice: - Find the clearest piece of ice about the size of a softball - Chip away at it until it's shaped into a disk; thick in the middle and narrow at the edges - Polish the lens with the heat from your hands to give it a smooth surface - Angle your ice lens towards the sun and focus the light onto your fire tinder https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-make-fire-from-ice_n_1215707 [Related Link]

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The Ones Who Live | 1x03 - Bye

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4. Historic Time ~ won’t you stay with me, my darling, when my walls start burning down? (x)

I have so many thoughts about Aziraphale and the Library of Alexandria (which, as a friend explained, should actually be translated to Alexandrea). I definitely think he was there when it burned. I also think it could’ve been the first time (one of the only times) Crowley touched him without thinking, and maybe one of the reasons he decided to run a bookshop! I am unwell. Aziraphale would’ve been devastated when that library burned.