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Look at the blast match. Also turbo butane lighters are good in the wind.

http://www.raymears.com/Bushcraft_Produ ... ire-Stick/

Just one I picked at random from a Google search, rather than a recommendation. I've got one, but as the only thing I normally light at the moment is my gas hob/grill, I can't use it as I'd need three hands!

I have a fire steel, and it works well, though you sometimes feel the need for a third hand if it's windy and your combustible material is blowing away. Just looked at the blast match, and it should solve the 3rd-hand problem, JohnB:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRKzdSXH34

Jon

ujoni08 wrote:I have a fire steel, and it works well, though you sometimes feel the need for a third hand if it's windy and your combustible material is blowing away. Just looked at the blast match, and it should solve the 3rd-hand problem, JohnB:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRKzdSXH34

Jon

It needs a firm surface, so may not be good on soft ground, and wouldn't be practical with my gas burners, but a neat idea, and would save a hand.

I must start using my storm kettle, and make/buy a rocket stove, so I can practice fire lighting. Peak kindling won't happen in my lifetime with the amount of wood I've got!

Haggis wrote:Look at the blast match. Also turbo butane lighters are good in the wind.

I've been looking round newsagent's trying to find one of them. Not for survival purposes just for burning holes in landscape fabric to plant onions through... lot's and lot's and lot's of bloody onions... it's a right mission with an ordinary lighter or a knife.

For turbo lighters have a look in maplins, blast match is on sale in camping shops.

Nice one Haggis

Don't forget ebay, I got my blast match for just over a tenner incl post from the US. Get the orange one, the black one is just too easy to lose when you're outdoors.

Oh and you foodi.. yeah doing it with an ordinary lighter the wind blows the flame around and i'm alway's burning my hands.. ouch

Or:

http://www.mindyourfingers.co.uk/zippo- ... 4QodqT9LCw

Yes but the gold zippo would help pay off a guard to escape from a south american kidnapper... You'd have to hide it up your arse during initial capture though.

I've heard very mixed reports about turbo lighters. Mine didn't last long after the first refill and this is consistent with many other people's experience. I keep a supply of cheap pound shop lighters in the house, a few imcos for outdoors - cheaper and better than a zippo, firesteels, and lots of boxes of matches.

There is a lot to be said for the humble bic lighter. I got a box of those cheap, because they were pink, at a carboot sale
I have a box of other lighters, re-fillable types, that have a built in led light.

I also have a few waterproof match containers with nato type windproof matches.