Backyard Aquaponics
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Nooo, YOU dont have a fire bug within, struggeling to get out... (or is that to stay in??)

who would have thought a can of coke and some chocolate could save your life....................

http://wildwoodsurvival.com/survival/fi ... colatebar/

Who would have thought - as long as I can drink the coke first (yep,addicted!)... now I have an excuse to take a can of coke with every time we go camping

I should never have sent you that link Steve....... If only I had known about your fire fetish before hand......

hmmm, perhaps the name pyro would suit steve better!

Ha, i thought i was some how linked to this site.

Browse through the site, very interesting. The guy has even made fire from a syringe!!! Apparently the temp rise due to compression (like in a deisel engine) is sufficient to light a tiny piece of tinder there is a vid and all

McGyver are we!?

My mate bought one of those little piston fire lighters and it works rather well, so damn easy... He's a bit of a pyro like you Steve, though he is just interested in different methods of starting fire, we have spent hours rubbing sticks together trying to get that to work, got lots of smoke, but never got flames to take off..

seems like the key thing is proper tinder. I never knew it was from a tpye of fungus!

Such a good thread. My brother burnt our second house down. To see the fire engines come to the rescue. A milk tanker turned up instead. House was trashed. Ah, 4 yr olds.

And bigger kids tee hee.

I like the idea of lighting things off a coke can its a cool trick but I'm hoping I can do it with a beer can.

ANything that will make beer more "value added"

Honey, just going to light the barbie, can you pass me a beer

Steve, you are getting married soon are you not? Maybe you could incorporate your fire bug skills in to the wedding plans somehow- you know that sharing things with your partner is a great way to build lasting relationships- maybe devise a special way to light any required candles etc that could liven up the big day- demonstrate your love to your wife by burning I love you into the grass in your backyard. Or have a spit roast in your backyard for the reception .
When my best mate got married his grass was really long like yours so I mowed heart shapes down to bare dirt over his whole front yard-(he really hates hearts) it was a rental property!!- then fertilised the hearts so that when they grew back they grew way faster and way greener than all the rest of the lawn. It was a classic. Bare dirt hearts for weeks, thenm the fert kicked in and off they went LOL

We could all be dangerous if we got together

Picture a variation to your prank if i was there.............. your mate comes home to find bare dirt hearts.........sun goes down and he is having a cigarette outside (he smokes in this story ) contemplating how to get you back, he flicks his cigarette onto the heart, and it burst in brilliant blue flame from when i poured ethanol over the dirt after you mowed it................

Ps, the backyard spit was a real option until i figured out how much prep work was needed, i'm back to the traditional Ital wedding (minus about 400 people lol)

You were right earlier, this(aquaponics) is the safest hobby/past time/addiction for you!