Light My Fire TinderSticks

Light My Fire TinderSticks

Tinder - click on the image below for more information.

• All natural, high-resin content fat wood.
• Lights even when wet.
• production.
• Easy to light and produces an extremely hot flame.
• Each package contains around 6 sticks.

Tinder

Fire building made easy, the pure and natural way. Don't build your fire with noxious fumes or harmful chemicals. Use the time-honored, organic method. A technique that resembles the centuries-old art of the native fire-builder. From the heart of the ancient Mayan Empire comes the remarkable product known as TinderDust. TinderDust is made from Pino de Ocote, a fatwood pine cultivated in the highlands of Guatemala and Mexico. With the 80% resin content, TinderDust is easy to light, and produces an extremely hot flame. Use just a pinch to quickly light your fire or barbecue.

Light My Fire TinderSticks

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Image by pchgorman

A quick vid using natural tinder wood scrapings to make a fire (or flame in this case). Used an Oak branch, a regular Swiss Army Knife, and a mini-firesteel (bought at firesteel.com). The penny in the vid is to show size reference. I purposely left this vid un-edited to show typical effort involved.
Video Rating: 5 / 5

How do I make a tinder bundle (from these materials)!?

Best answer:
Given those materials I would be most prone to use the grass, cotton balls and dryer lint. I would stretch the cotton balls out and lay the grass on them then lightly roll them around a bit to really snag the grass in them. You could throw the black paper in the middle as well.

I have found cardboard to sometimes take a bit to ignite. I don't know if it's a fire retardant that's used or what but I wouldn't trust it to be tender.

I would wrap my black paper, grass and cotton with the dryer lint. The lint is quite easy to light if it's dry and will help keep any moisture away from the cotton, grass and paper.Since it's an engineering question I'd first figure out which of the materials has the highest potential heat, then consider how to get the most of that material in the bundle without compressing it too much which would prevent airflow.

And since they want a "bundle" you need to consider which would make the best container, and how to construct it.

I hope the black paper is in a sheet form, so it could be laid flat and the materials laid on it, then rolled loosely into a tube.

I'd start with a layer of dryer lint, sprinkled with cardboard pieces. A line of cotton balls (double check -- are they cotton or polyester? If so, which has highest thermal energy potential?) could be laid , then the entire bundle rolled into a tube.

Again, not too tight -- airflow is important.

Use the grass to tie it --hopefully it's not too brittle. (If it is and you have to make one, soak in a little water to see if it will get flexible again.

Wad up a ball of the plain paper to plug the ends.

(Black paper for tube because black will absorber heat faster and therefore should ignite quicker.

Sounds like a fun challenge!

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