When I was a young boy my Papaw told me to never leave matches lying around. He said mice could chew on the end and strike them. I've always put any books of matches in a tin can. Never heard of this from anybody else and I'm not sure if he was pullin my leg or not. His advice however did stick with me all these years. Old wives tale or not? Anybody ever heard of this?
Back in the day when I was active in Boy Scouts as a Leader. I challenged the Scouts to a fire building contest, but didn't stipulate the rules. Needless to say I won the competition using this.
Bic lighter. I find them on the ground quite a bit. One will last me several years for the house stove. Never use it more than a few times a year. In the garage I use a propane torch, and the same torch lights my sauna also. Shop I use one of my weed burners. p Most people around here take a five gallon bucket full of saw dust and pour one gallon of diesel over it. Soaks in perfectly. Just use a soup can per start. Cheap and done. I wouldn't do this if I still had a EPA/government stoves.
I use propane torch. No need for kindling. One cylinder will last almost 2 burning seasons. Although I do keep a little bit of splitter trash and lumber scraps to throw on the bottom of the stack of splits. No worries if I don’t have any, the torch will light dry splits quickly.
Propane torch. 7 years of burning, and only on my 2nd bottle. That is even with my son using it to heat up cans of ravioli when he camps out in the downstairs family room. A couple of 6 inch squares of cardboard, 3 pieces of kindling with a properly built fire stack, and the Quadra fire is up to temp in 15 minutes.
so the most economical is the free bic lighter that you can find off the ground, and the best performing choice is the flame thrower lol. I have a bernzomatic with map, just thought that would be over kill but I will have to try that out. It would be a plus if I didnt need to use as much kindling with it.
9 out of 10 times probably just a match , on occasion a lighter or stick lighter Simple method ; a couple pieces of crumbled newspaper, a few pieces of kindling and a couple pieces dry wood and off to the races. works perfect , free and nothing to maintain or buy.
Exactly 1 time in my life I got a fire going with a ferro rod at my in-laws, but it by no means would be my first choice.
Wooden matches aren't the same as they were 70 years ago. You could strike the head of one match against another match and they would light. You could light them using your zipper.
I would think they would rust out pretty fast in Seattle. Lots of dope smokers there though. Could be rich pickings if you get out and look. Just spend 100 bucks on gas looking for a 99cent lighter.
Maybe he was talking about the old 'strike anywhere' matches. I've heard it said about those matches, but have no idea if it's true.
I just checked our box, it's "strike on box", guess that explains why they rarely lit when striked on our old Schrader stove lol.
