Goofy stuff I do that somehow works.

[joel]

I use a couple 5 gallon containers of a mixture of used motor oil, diesel and a squirt of gasoline to start fires. It's a good way to get rid of my used oil too.

Should work for wet wood, but never had a problem with dry wood.
Use dry grass or pine needles & finger size sticks, then wrist size logs.
If it is a big fire start both sides.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Should work for wet wood, but never had a problem with dry wood.
Use dry grass or pine needles & finger size sticks, then wrist size logs.
If it is a big fire start both sides.

Some of my burn piles are big as a house with full trees and the root system attached. And times I might have 20 - 30 piles burning at once. It's always easier for me to pour some fuel/oil mixture, toss a match and move on. I like to start burning as soon as possible when the snow melts off, so the wood is a little wet.

 

[Magus]

It's pricy, but epic!
https://saffordtrading.com/shop/out...rkSLPUqxGmq8JdANDNhXu--BEzjFdIcBoC7DgQAvD_BwE

Charge your buddies 10$ each to shoot it, it'll be paid for in a month!

 

[Magpie]

The extra large freezer bags are hard to get here and expensive now. When I bring something in from the big freezer, and the freezer bag is still ok, I pop it in my inside freezer for future use. I've been known to wash and peg them on the line in the summer.
I keep small mustard jars and the like to freeze my garlic in, so when I put the in the fridge for use it doesn't stink up. If its plastic and has a lid, it gets reused. Especially giant yogurt puts, for portions of soup of pasta sauce that might stain.
Our bread comes in bags- I use them as bin bags. That way someone ties it up and puts it out every day. When I had a big bin it would overflow before it was lifted out.

 

[Haertig]

Reusing things is good practice. We're still using those great hard plastic plates that came in LeMenu frozen dinners. Those have got to be well over 30 years old now. But nothing beats 'em for microwaving destructive things. Like reheating bacon, where the super heated grease can crack a modern CCC plate ("Cheap Chinese Crap").

 

[old tex]

Here's a really Goofy story. We have one of those weight scales like in the doctor's offices. It's old school so no electric involved. Anyway, something happened to it a few months back & it stopped working. It was added to my "look at" list. Not the to do list because those are items that I might have enough knowledge to fix. So I got my tools & a chair & started taking it apart. I tweaked this & pushed on that & didn't find anything really wrong with it. Ok, I figured that I was going to have to take it all apart & honestly it wasn't worth the time, aggravation or the blood that I was going to spill (I always bleed doing stuff). So I put it back together & put "replace" above it in my mind. Well yesterday I'm talking to my wife & she says that she has gained 2 lbs in the last month. I assumed that she has gone to the doctor's office but reminded me of the scale. I told her that I'll go out & find a "deal" on a new scale. Why she asked because you fixed the scale we have. HuH?????????, it works? Who knew!

 

[Magus]

Yea, well I can't afford that fancy thing.

DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK! but it works for me if you want to get a large brush fire, bonfire or similar going.
Fill a regular 16oz plastic water bottle to the top with gasoline. Start a little fire in the target fire area then set the bottle next to it. When the bottle melts, the gas will leak out and start burning and really get your fire going. Gas fumes are explosive but in it's liquid state, it just burns. It'll burn and get your fire going.

I did that when I was a kid, but I shot it with a 22-magnum Ruger.
It was awesome! It looked like a napalm strike, and the rats in the burning pit were running around on fire, The concussion knocked me down, and the power lines were on fire!

I miss my wasted youth.

 

[zoomzoom]

I did that when I was a kid, but I shot it with a 22-magnum Ruger.

Since you vaporized the gas, I'm sure you had a nice explosion. Yea, I've been caught in my own stupid gas explosions in my youth as well.
In my water bottle scenario, it stays in liquid form so it just burns nicely (no explosion).

NEVER saying to do it, but you can put out a match in liquid gasoline so long as there are no fumes.

 

[Tirediron]

A little laundry soap take the stink out of using diesel to start fires, it smell like BBQ bricket starter, learned that by accident using the mixture as a degreaser,