Great ideal to start your campfire.

[Roaring Rory]

Someone mentioned to me a great way to start a campfire.  Clothes lint from your dryer.  I would of never thought of that.

[Dave]

I have heard that also.  Will have to try it this coming season.

[frank6160]

The dryer lint works great. I used it the first time last year.

[backpackingtrip]

Sounds like a good idea and it does make sense.  Thanks for the advice.  I will definitely give that a try on my next trip.

[Jeff Marshall]

If we are throwing out ideas on how to start a fire fast, I know of a few other "interesting" ones:

1.  Bring a fire log and chop it into pieces and use a separate piece for each fire.
2.  Have a friend who says Cheetos puffs actually work well as a fire starter.
3.  Old school way: use good old dry grass.  It flares up fast and helps give you time to get other tinder.
4.  Even a glue stick and rubber cement burn well.

Best,
Jeff Marshall

www.goingtentcamping.com

[Bigdog57]

Being 'old school' and ex-GI, I tend to carry the good ol' Triox bars - I get 'em cheap by the case from Sportsman's Guide.  Great for  starting fires, and cooking with the wee Esbit stove.
I also carry several of those 'fire starter' sticks that Publix Grocery carries in their BBQ/lamp oil/matches section.  They burn very well, and long enough to light wood.
A small bottle of the BBQ stove lighter gel works pretty good - but we run the risk of it leaking in our packs.

One thing I've read of, but not tried....
Using the older brown paper egg cartons, filling each 'cell' with candle wax - even using cotton balls or wood chips/saw dust as a filler.  Cut each cell apart, voila!  Fire starters!

[jrock24]

Cotton balls work good too, but the easiest for us is to use some Ready Lite Charcole.

[ctxguide.com]

For the hillbillies or hippies: Use the left over denim from making cut-off jeans.  The denim burns hot and long which is great for fire-starter when the wood is wet.

I've even heard that brillo pads work, but I have never tried it.

[zeffer123]

An experiment for anyone-

  Take your conventional steel wool and roll it in some drier lint.  Get the stuff good and tangeled in the steel wood make sure there is enough to ignite your kendeling. Pop open a flashlight that take a D sized battery and then touch the conections to the steel wool.  This should spark up a nice, you can then throw it into your kendeling and with a few blows create a camp fire.

Try It!
Give me some feed back on your results.

[Scrib]

We use dryer lint. We collect it in egg cartons, then seal each "egg" with wax, once it is full. It takes 3 or 4 eggs to start a fire and it works great!

[dionbremner]

Hey there, all great ideas. We tried cotton wool, vaseline and a fire lighter. Works well even in the wet. See here for a demo.http://mycampgear.com/2008/08/24/test-fire-starters-made-cotton-wool-and-vaseline and here http://mycampgear.com/2008/08/20/review-light-my-fire-fire-stick.
Cheers
Dion

[maryjstar89]

interesting, seems like a good idea...I never woulda thought of it either!

[rhood]

I've never heard of that.  I suppose a little collection kept in a freezer bag would do the trick.
Do you know if it would light with a fire-stick?

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[westernkansas]

alcohol swaps that you should have in your first aid kit work great to along with the dryer lint.

[AlexHeas]

It works really well.