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Brewmaster posted:I read an article one time where some scientists looked a brain activity. Apparently the same part of the brain that lights up when we're watching TV lights up when we're watching a fire. I can't find the article now though and it's driving me nuts. Cool to think about though. Would rather watch a fire than tv. Anybody tried starting a fire in their living room? If so, how'd it turn out?
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TouchyMcFeely posted:Would rather watch a fire than tv. Anybody tried starting a fire in their living room? If so, how'd it turn out? It is great. In my fire place, in my living room. The smoke goes right up the chimney. Unless you have the flue closed, then smoke everywhere.
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spwrozek posted:It is great. In my fire place, in my living room. The smoke goes right up the chimney. Unless you have the flue closed, then smoke everywhere. Sorry, but I run ultralight. Fire places are for weekend warrior, car camping assholes.
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Jan 29, 2016 15:46
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Hey, I like car camping! As long as the campground has free wifi.
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Jan 29, 2016 16:48
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When my power was cut we used a campstove to make dinner. Doesn't really count as a fire in the house but being outdoorsy makes you industrious.
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Picnic Princess posted:When my power was cut we used a campstove to make dinner. Doesn't really count as a fire in the house but being outdoorsy makes you industrious. I fuckin' love the smell of stove gas and some burning pine needles stuck on the bottom of a pot... campfires are cool in a campground but I'm too lazy to make them while backpacking
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Jan 30, 2016 04:04
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Campfires are the shizz cuz you can do this with em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8GgZXbbrLY
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Feb 2, 2016 05:29
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Woah, the hating rabbits thing spans the ocean.
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Feb 2, 2016 06:18
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I'm disappointed they didn't grind the peppercorn with rocks, that would have been cool.
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Feb 2, 2016 06:45
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snorch posted:Campfires are the shizz cuz you can do this with em: Just lol if you hike somewhere so well groomed it has freaking bridges over the tiny creek. Might as well hike around the kid's park
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Feb 3, 2016 11:50
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Larry Parrish posted:Just lol if you hike somewhere so well groomed it has freaking bridges over the tiny creek. Might as well hike around the kid's park
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Feb 5, 2016 18:27
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i like campfires and build them all the time when outdoors. i also have a woodstove in my house so i go out and cut wood every fall to stock up for the winter. wood heat is nice.
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suspicious donkey! posted:oh wait thats not how you build a fire *reaches into the fire with bare hands like a badass, moves a piece of wood slightly to the right, everything collapses into a lovely pile* "you're smothering it!"
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May 4, 2016 20:21
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Fire is great. When I was a kid my scout master used to start his campfires with about half a gallon of gasoline. Nothing better than that black , acrid smoke on a hot summer day to say "I never actually read the book."
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May 5, 2016 12:18
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 Here's a campfire cooking lovely soup in the Lake District, England. Criminally, wild camping isn't really allowed so the fire is small. It was a lovely fire though and lovely soup too. A++
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Captain Mediocre posted:
I bought a little folding firebowl for just this reason. Wild camping in England is a pain in the arse, although I've done it a few times.
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Jul 5, 2016 02:17
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Doritos are really good firestarters
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Jul 30, 2016 00:12
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Heck yeah they are! Actually I'm really glad I had some with me because it was such a frosty morning that my swag was practically solid and everything else around was too damp to be useful.
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Aug 17, 2016 09:18
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Campfire protip - just stick a fuckin potato in there for a while, pull it out with a stick, eat it. No tin foil etc. needed just bury it in there where the fire is burning low/mostly coals and brush it off while it cools.
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Aug 20, 2016 15:50
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campfire protip: burn down the national forest. when you get home, burn down your home. when you get to jail, light your mattress on fire. when you get to solitary confinement, break the only lightbulb in the room and draw an arc across the leads to light your shirt on fire.
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OMGVBFLOL posted:campfire protip: burn down the national forest. when you get home, burn down your home. when you get to jail, light your mattress on fire. when you get to solitary confinement, break the only lightbulb in the room and draw an arc across the leads to light your shirt on fire. 
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Aug 25, 2016 09:20
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im going to start using a hazel branch with a hook in it at the perfect angle to cook over like ray mears but even more cooler
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Aug 30, 2016 06:44
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quote:Raymond Paul Mears is an English woodsman, instructor, businessman, author and TV presenter. His TV appearances cover bushcraft and survival techniques. What the hell is this "bushcraft" nonsense? It's called BOY SCOUTS you limey chode.
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What's your preferred method of fire construction: tepee, lean-to, log cabin, or drizzle kerosine on a pile of debris?
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Aug 31, 2016 05:45
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Log cabin 4 lyfe
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IronDoge posted:Log cabin 4 lyfe Truth
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IronDoge posted:Log cabin 4 lyfe Teepee you dense chode. It's the most simple, which is good for alcohol fueled brains.
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Egorger Le Chef posted:What's your preferred method of fire construction: tepee, lean-to, log cabin, or drizzle kerosine on a pile of debris? punch holes in the drywall along a load-bearing wall, spread accellerant inside the holes. have a secure exit and a robust alibi
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OMGVBFLOL posted:punch holes in the drywall along a load-bearing wall, spread accellerant inside the holes. have a secure exit and a robust alibi :iamafag:
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nice megathread
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best fire is dakota fire pit, i recon
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Sep 10, 2016 12:44
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on my last backpacking trip we made a fire one night and my hiking partner got stung by ground bees while collecting wood it was hilarious
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If you take a copper pipe(drill some holes), stick some cut up vinyl tubing in it and throw it in the fire, you will have a fire full of magical colors. And it'll help you gently caress this gay Earth. Attach a chain if you want to keep the pipe.
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Tinder fungus and birch bark, bitches.
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It's a cheap move, but getting your teepee/log cabin/pile of sticks just right, getting the tinder and kindling below it just right and then pouring a tiny bit of motor oil on top really helps when you've got better things to do. Don't judge me, either you've all done it or didn't think to do it. Also carrying a fistful of dryer lint works wonders.
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Here in PA I can usually manage to scrounge up birch bark somewhere. Haven't really needed to carry anything extra yet. I do have a tiny notepad I could tear pages out of if I really can't find anything else, but nothing beats a couple strips of birch.
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I have a few cardboard boxes of fatwood chunks, always keep some stashed in my pack.
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Free Market Mambo posted:I have a few cardboard boxes of fatwood chunks, always keep some stashed in my pack. Ciaphas posted:two, the third was my boss's phantom  yakman applewhite y u cheat at tribe d00d? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3791272  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn69LJ0239E&t=2193s
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I'm going to need some sort of tl:dr because that just seems like randomized empty quotes.
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These GBS refugees keep getting probated elsewhere before I can do it here. At least stagger your poo poo posts so we all get a chance.
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