fire starter--lint

Geo-TH,In · Dec 13, 2018

When I smoke off a brush pile, I use old motor oil, paper, cardboard and a lint from dryer. I'm surprised how easy lint burns. One match sets off the lint, lint starts the paper, cardboard and then oil.

Because lint burns so easily it a good reason to make sure your dryer vent is clean and not made of plastic.

jeffcat · Dec 13, 2018

You got that straight! !! I clean the vent twice a year. Open the little louvers with a couple of little twigs and take a shopvac by the dryer and suck out the vent hose, the trap area and remove the bottom pannel and clean around inside. Good tip. What I use on the wood pile try one of those flame weeder tourches. So much fun. Full heat in about 30 seconds.

Geo-TH,In · Dec 13, 2018

Friend has a flame weeder torch attached to a 20# LP tank. That's how he starts his brush fires. I'm too cheap to have one. I do have an old BBQ gas grill don't use. Maybe I could make a redneck flame torch. Got any design ideas?

Bruce from Can. · Dec 13, 2018

We don?t use our clothes dryer much, rely mostly on the clothes line. Love the fresh air scent on towels and bedding. Craziest thing I have ever watched burn, is dried orange peels. This time of year my wife and I eat lots of Clementine oranges. And because we like to lite the parlour stove in the evening, you need something to catch fire quick. So silly as this sounds, we just keep the peel we remove from the Clementines in a can, they dry out fast, like a day or two, and use them as fire starter. You have never seen anything burn like a dry orange peel, just WILD !!

Mike M · Dec 13, 2018

Another thing that will flame up is coffee creamer. Hold it in one hand and drop it in the air onto a lighter below. POOF ! I seen it done. I don't demonstrate it.

Geo-TH,In · Dec 13, 2018

No way am I burning my International Delight French Vanilla creamer.

DMartin9N-2N · Dec 13, 2018

Regarding dryer vent cleanout, in some locations you can not easily reach the outlet. Some folks (who can reach the back of their dryer), disconnect the flexible vent hose and use a leaf blower to clear the whole vent hose in a few seconds.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.

430WLPG · Dec 13, 2018

I have made a lot of them using a grease zerk with ball removed for orfice and 2 1/2 exhaust pipe with just a cross piece at back with 1/4"pipe for wand and make the. Exhaust pipe so you can adjust it back and forth to get air right

jeffcat · Dec 13, 2018

Lots of cirtris oils in those skins!

jeffcat · Dec 13, 2018

Those flamers over at HF are not even $30 for the one,with the piezo igniter on it. Talk about a flame thrower! You will find how to get it adjusted after playing with it. Regulate the valve on tge tank a little so tge flame doesn't blow out. Well worth the money.

Mutt and Jeff · Dec 13, 2018

flame weeder torch attached to a 20# LP tank

Russ from MN · Dec 13, 2018

I seldom burn brush, but when I did I used a homemade weed burner torch and a 20 pound lp tank. When the loggers were done they left 4 piles of slash, probably 10,000 square ft 8 feet high. I have it all cleaned up now and in the process of replanting, 2000 trees every spring. An old forester once said, don't plant more trees in one year than you can afford to loose! It was very dry last summer, I probably watered a 1000 trees, very few died.

flembo · Dec 13, 2018

Wow drier vent lint I never thought of that my bellybutton lint stash takes way to long save up enough to start a fire LOL.

Steve@Advance · Dec 13, 2018

I remember being on a camping trip in the Colorado mountains about 30 years ago.

I had borrowed a pop up camper, it had a little propane stove, had it burning trying to get it warm inside.

My then wife was trying to make instant tea. She got out the sealed jar and poked the paper seal with a spoon. Because of the altitude the jar had pressure inside, the paper popped and powdered tea blew out, raining down on the open flame!

The airborne powder went off like gun powder! A fireball that was over as quick as it began, but left the strangest smell, a sickening sweet smell that must have gotten in my sinuses, because it seemed I could smell it days later.

What didn't burn landed on top of the stove and stuck like epoxy glue! I scraped and scrubbed, and never did get all of it off!

MSS3020 · Dec 13, 2018

yep first thing I grab when burning garbage in burn barrel..

Mike(NEOhio) · Dec 13, 2018

Most things will burn if they are powdered or chopped fine enough. Try sprinkling steel filings on to a flame.

jeffcat · Dec 13, 2018

Better than that try aluminum. Even better is mix these two together! You can do a little instant welding.

Phil9N3667 · Dec 13, 2018

I cleaned the mother-in-law's vent one time with a ball of clean shop rags tied to a string. Pulled it through the pipe with my shop vac, cleaned the rags off, then pulled it back through with the string. Did pretty good!!

Geo-TH,In · Dec 13, 2018

Didn't you know some people spontaneously combust because of excessive belly button lint?

Crazy Horse · Dec 13, 2018

George .... I knew a guy that collected it for years in one of his wife's antique vases. His kid took it one day and used it for hamster bedding, not sure how all of that went over but the hamsters were probably happy.

jeffcat · Dec 13, 2018

Here is a photo of it. They are screaming hot!

RedGreenGuy · Dec 13, 2018

Toilet paper card board tubes stuffed with dryer lint make great fire starters.

D beatty · Dec 14, 2018

I use old news paper,trash mail, cardboard,and straw to start brush piles.

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