FIRE! Denver survival co-op Sun Oct 24th

[Wulf202]

Topic: Firestarting

Location: Paramount park gazebo/bbq 27th and Kipling west side of the park. Street parking.

Time: Sunday oct 24th 9am sharp-10:45

Gear required: 1 Open mind, tinder, dress for the elements

Optional gear: Lawn chair, note book, your fire starting kit, a small portable grill

Cost: $0 (donations are accepted)

Breaking out the trusty wax coated matches, life boat matches, ferro rods, lighters, flint and steel, magnesium blocks, fire piston, magnifying lenses, etc to light the fire.

Demo of basic tinders like PJ cotton balls, dryer lint, milkweed down, char cloth, etc

If you've got some peice of kit you want to show bring it, I just organize the event. Anyone is welcome to present. If you have a topic you can lead or want to learn more about, drop me a line.

If you want to RSVP you can email me at wulf202 at hotmail dot com

Next date november 28th topic BOB bags show and tell.

[Irving]

Going to put this one on the calender and try to make it. Thanks for hosting these.

[Wulf202]

November meeting moved to the 14th due to the holidays. Topic is still BOB bags

December topic cutting tools and sharpening date is the 5th or 12th depending on the guest speakers' schedule.

Jan. 2011 schedule unknown until I found out about work.

The water class may make a second appearance before the end of the year due to a special request.

[Irving]

Bump again.

Wulf, do you have confirmed people coming from Arfcom?

[Wulf202]

no RSVP's but either way I'll be there and anyone is welcome. I'm going to snag a birds nest i've found for some practice getting a blaze going from real world materials. Collected some dryer lint.

I'll have enough char cloth for anyone to try out.

I grabbed some milk weed down to play with.

I'll have several tools to play with, just finished my fire piston.

I'm 6'4" so I'll be hard to miss in a vacant park. Plus there's only one BBQ...

[Irving]

Okay. And this isn't Crown Hill right? But the one across the street?

I've got one of those Light My Fire flint things where you scrape sparks off the rod. I've also got a pill bottle full of petroleum coated cotton balls. It is insanely easy to start a fire with petroleum cotton balls I've discovered. I look forward to seeing that other stuff that you are bringing.

[Wulf202]

yup the park just across kipling from crown hill next to the sinclair.

pj cotton balls are great. if you bring some alum foil ill show you how to make a candle out of them and quadrouple the burn time

[Irving]

Sweet, I'll do that. I was going to make another hobo stove out of beer cans again. I lost my last one. I'll stuff it with cotton balls and see if I can pick up some fuel. I guess I could piece another one together but not seal it, in case anyone else shows up that doesn't know how to make them.

[gnihcraes]

Will try to make this one.

December cutting tools will be interesting. I have three fresh stitches from a knife accident yesterday. DOH! Still not sure what happened, but I was bleeding well. Very sharp knife! ha

[Wulf202]

see you there. ill bring the burn gel...