Fire starting is something many put hours and hours into learning all the different methods so no matter what – fire. Hey – I appreciate that. It’s just something I’ve never really had much interest in. I mean, creating fire from friction generated by woods rubbing against wood sounds like a lot of work compared to flicking the wheel on a lighter. I know, lighters don’t last forever.
I have a lot of lighters.
I also have the Offgrid Fire Starting Kit. In fact, I designed and make these kits. Am I biased? Damn right I am.
The Offgrid Firestarting Kit was designed to be small, portable, inexpensive, and effective. While I am a huge fan of the butane lighter and I have about 80 of them – I realize that having multiple methods to get things flamed up is a good thing.
So this kit has been designed to make fire via a butane lighter, waterproof matches, as well as a ferrocerium rod combined with charcloth and petroleum jelly impregnated cotton balls. If fire is what you are wanting – this kit has all the options to make it happen.
Everything comes in a small, durable metal tin.
Looking at what’s included the butane lighter is the most popular and effective means to get things going towards “El Flamo”. Next up is the ferrocerium rod. The ferro rod has the advantage of thousands of strikes in one rod. The rod included in the kit can be struck thousands of times showering high temp sparks down onto flammable objects such as charcloth, paper, and other tinder.
Speaking of charcloth, several small pieces are included in the kit in a small waterproof zip-lock bag.
Lastly – my favorite firestarter is petroleum jelly impregnated cotton balls. I’ve started hundreds of fires using these from camp fires to fire pits. Several are packed into this kit.
Hey – for $12.99 with free shipping you can’t go wrong.
Oh – I almost forgot. There are waterproof matches are included on top of everything else!
Click this LINK if you are interested and grab a few.
Rourke