dangerman wrote:Now you need to get down the woods and practice with real foraged burnables. I'll be heading to Formby if mine arrives tomorrow.
Yeah, that's a decent suggestion, trouble is the woods around here are full of dog turds and a I don't want to burn that to make a brew... Call me old fashioned.
I might head up in the 4x4 onto salisbury plain tomorrow, I think Imber training village is open, take the ham radio and forage for some brew sticks to burn, brew up and chill out. Although I was up there earlier this week and drove over a load of u fired 7.62 blanks so I'll watch where I light it!
Hope it goes well in Formby if it gets there in time, there is a primal pleasure in brewing up over wood flames!
Guinness drinker with a prepping problem.
Area 1, Wiltshire.
Derv wrote:Mine came today, what a little beast, I'm properly impressed.
It's probably only just wider than one of those metal drink bottles like the sigg ones but a bit shorter, it will easily fit in the side pocket of a NI Patrol pack. Which is handy because that is where it will live.
Proper light as well. Plus it has a decent bung so it can double up as a bonus water carrier. It holds just under a pint.
I just made two brews in the garden with it with me elderly neighbour having a nose over the fence. It makes 2 decent mugs of brew, boiled in just shy of 4 minutes room a handful Of twigs from my fuel box and a scrunched up envelope.
If they did them in pink I think Mrs Derv would be after one.
Take it to your local metal plating shop and get them to pink anodise it.
Mine is all dirty now, I've used it a few times. Tell you what, I've learned that I'm really crap at setting fire to stuff. Need to get more practice...
I love motorcycles like a fat guy loves cake. I also love cake.
Mine is all dirty now, I've used it a few times. Tell you what, I've learned that I'm really crap at setting fire to stuff. Need to get more practice...
Nice! That's quite a nice look in silver. Unfortunately mine is covered in ash and scum from use, I'll take pics when it's clean.
I've come to the same conclusion re my fire lighting skills, took me forever to get my last grew going, but I was using till receipts as tinder.
Guinness drinker with a prepping problem.
Area 1, Wiltshire.
Have you found that the pot falls out of your one really easily? It's annoying. Fits nice and compact, but won't stay together. I think I'm going to buy a small cheap dry bag for it and try to acquire a huge lazzy band to wrap around it.
I've yet to prove this method, but I think the best way to get it going is to get a bit of paper (or any old tinder) and teepee the twigs/sticks etc around it. If there is enough tinder, the kindling will light and then you can just drop more kindling into it. I'll have another go today and see if I can do it again. I had previously been killing the fire with too much paper, just dumping it down the chimney. I was also ill prepared with enough kindling. As Ed Stafford says, fire is always about preparation preparation preparation. Three times for emphasis?
I love motorcycles like a fat guy loves cake. I also love cake.
Brambles wrote:I'm carp at firelighting too. I've found that jute garden string cut into 1 inch lengths and fluffed up at one end catches really easily.
Oooo I like that idea!
Guinness drinker with a prepping problem.
Area 1, Wiltshire.
I'll be heading to Formby if mine arrives tomorrow.
so I'll watch where I light it!
with me elderly neighbour having a nose over the fence. It makes 2 decent mugs of brew, boiled in just shy of 4 minutes room a handful Of twigs from my fuel box and a scrunched up envelope.
