And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
If you've ever tried to light a fire this way, you know it isn't easy and prep is of paramount importance
It had been raining all morning, and it was a cold, windy day. Guy fell into the river and I needed to start a fire to get him warmed up. Had the other guys stand upwind to create a windbreak, cut the wet wood off sticks to expose the dry wood underneath, created a tinder and small stick teepee, then used two matches to strike each other and get the fire going. If I had my druthers, I'd rather do without the excitement.
If you needed this to know how to make a tinder ball, either you're four years old, and it's news you can use; or you probably ought to die in the wilderness.
No. Just tired of "Art Of Manliness"-style info-twaddle passing along to nominal adults what should be common sense before your age is into double digits. We've obviously raised three generations of retarded kids encased entirely in bubblewrap, and they have the intellectual curiosity of a compost pile.
If anyone made it to even adolescence without knowing this, they can probably tell you what the windows taste like on the short bus too. Darwin has obviously been slacking off. The best thing for society would be to do away with high school, and instead take everyone under the age of 50 out to the wilderness about 10 miles from cell service or paved roads, and set them afoot. Then, only keep the ones who found their way back. The mean IQ of an entire continent would go up 20 points overnight, and a lot of the keepers would be phenomenal.
After that initial sort, do it for everyone on their 17th birthday.
Dedicated a outside pocket on mu Alice pack for a propane self igniting torch, still use my fire starting kit, one from being a Boy Scout, those propane torches are the bee's Knees, finest darn survival tool going, light anything.
Lights every time when I stick my Bic into the middle of that bundle 🤷🏻♂️
ReplyDeleteYep. With 2 BICs in your pocket you can throw all the other toys away.
DeleteIt had been raining all morning, and it was a cold, windy day. Guy fell into the river and I needed to start a fire to get him warmed up. Had the other guys stand upwind to create a windbreak, cut the wet wood off sticks to expose the dry wood underneath, created a tinder and small stick teepee, then used two matches to strike each other and get the fire going. If I had my druthers, I'd rather do without the excitement.
ReplyDeleteI carry magnesium shavings in my camping gear.
ReplyDeleteFor a buck-sixty nine you won't have to mess with a tinder ball.
Deletehttps://www.harborfreight.com/magnesium-fire-starter-66560.html
From The Art Of Manliness website?
ReplyDeleteIf you needed this to know how to make a tinder ball, either you're four years old, and it's news you can use; or you probably ought to die in the wilderness.
ReplyDeleteGrumpy much?
DeleteNo. Just tired of "Art Of Manliness"-style info-twaddle passing along to nominal adults what should be common sense before your age is into double digits. We've obviously raised three generations of retarded kids encased entirely in bubblewrap, and they have the intellectual curiosity of a compost pile.
DeleteIf anyone made it to even adolescence without knowing this, they can probably tell you what the windows taste like on the short bus too. Darwin has obviously been slacking off.
The best thing for society would be to do away with high school, and instead take everyone under the age of 50 out to the wilderness about 10 miles from cell service or paved roads, and set them afoot. Then, only keep the ones who found their way back. The mean IQ of an entire continent would go up 20 points overnight, and a lot of the keepers would be phenomenal.
After that initial sort, do it for everyone on their 17th birthday.
{cf. Heinlein's Tunnel In the Sky}
Dedicated a outside pocket on mu Alice pack for a propane self igniting torch, still use my fire starting kit, one from being a Boy Scout, those propane torches are the bee's Knees, finest darn survival tool going, light anything.
ReplyDeleteSparking device for a torch is what I use. They throw a lot of sparks. Any home depot or Lowes on the plumbing aisle
ReplyDeleteI'll keep this in mind the next time I'm stranded in the wilderness. smh
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