No Fire? No Worries. Stick This In Your Bonnet For Squatching Emergencies
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Bigfoot Chicks, Melissa Adair. As serious researchers, the Bigfoot Chicks are commited to seeking the truth regarding the Bigfoot mystery. Assuming that Bigfoots exist, they want to help ensure their surival and hope for an opportunity to observe them in their natural habitat. You can visit their blog at bigfootchicks.blogspot.com.Ever been out in the woods and settled in a make a toasty, warm fire only to discover that you left your matches at home?? Well, it happens to the best of us, but with a little McGyver/Survival man training you can have the fire ring blazing in no time. All you need is a wooden pencil and some jumper cables.
See video below.
Seems pretty easy, right? Well, several things crossed my mind while watching this video.
If you're out in the woods and you need to make a fire and you forgot your matches, there's no guarantee that your car will be with you. But, assuming you have a car, do you have jumper cables? Are they long enough to reach from the battery to the fire ring? Also, I noticed that the man in the video just happened to have a wooden number 2 pencil resting over his ear. We all do that, right? I don't know about you, but I prefer to use a pen and that's what I carry in my backpack and keep in my car. And, this being the new century and all, if we have to use a pencil, we usually use mechanical ones. Furthermore, you must have a good knife. A knife that's actually sharp, because you have to be able to cut through to the graphite in order to make the necessary connection to produce heat. Many of us carry knives when we head out into the woods, but if you're relying on the long blade of your Swiss Army knife from 1985, you might have a little trouble. Just sayin!!
So, take note!! If you're the forgetful type, you might want to consider purchasing some extra long jumper cables to keep in your car and a pack of wooden pencils. Good to know just in case, especially if you want to impress your squatching buddies with your "McGyver" abilities. Just try not to melt the grips!! =)
If cables are short, carry the tender to the auto.
ReplyDeleteIf you have steel wool or something similar it will also do the trick quite nicely. I'll bet small strips of aluminum foil would also work.
Chuck
If I forgot my matches, I sure as hell forgot my HB pencil! But cool trick.
ReplyDeleteIf i'm camping this would be impractical rarely ever do we camp anywhere near the car...
ReplyDeleteThis is great info for our research group, since we rarely venture more than 30 feet from our vehicles. Our strategy is to let Bigfoot come to us and has nothing to do with being too fat and lazy to go looking for them.
ReplyDeleteI can't tell if you're joking, but I laughed anyway.
DeleteI'm trying this right now in my livingroom.
ReplyDeleteGood idea!
DeleteRube Golberg fire starter!
ReplyDeleteWith a 120 outlet and lead from a pencil , that how we lite up in the pen ! Just saying .
ReplyDeleteOr just pull your cigar lighter and light a piece of twisted paper
ReplyDeleteThat would be the common sense thing to do, but hey--common sense isn't common anymore.
DeleteYep.
DeleteOr use a lighter :)
ReplyDeleteI'm confused. They aren't serious researchers though.
ReplyDeleteYeah this will work great for researching the hitch hiking squatch.
ReplyDeleteJust cram the tinder in your taterhole and squeeze real hard. The pressure will ignite it.
ReplyDeleteOr use ur fire crotch!
DeleteWhat is this nonsense doing on this blog?
ReplyDeleteWhat is this nonsense doing on this blog?
ReplyDeleteYou asked it fine the first time.
DeleteYou asked it fine the first time.
Is there an echo?
DeleteIf i was in a survival situation and i had my car....I'd drive to the nearest KFC
ReplyDeleteAnd rob it?
DeleteKFC=bigfoot size turd!
Deletei'd drive to the nearest KFC, rob that, then ask where i can get a decent burger
Delete"Well, it happens to the best of us,"
ReplyDeleteAh, no, it doesn't. At least not for those who are prepared. Unless you're going to designated campgrounds on FS land, you can't afford to 'forget' something.
Perhaps the next video posted could be about the wonders of Search & Rescue and how they can miraculously save your hide when you head out into the wilderness uneducated and unprepared.
How about a video on how to get fresh water by digging a well, and using a radiator hose and some water from a nearby lake to prime the hose as you suck real hard to draw the water from your well? As Charlie Brown use to say, "Good grief!"
ReplyDeleteWhen I head out into the woods, I usually carry one magnesium stick and striker in all of my gear, which makes it so much easier than having to pack my vehicle in with me.
ReplyDeleteI just pile drive the heck out of the wife until enough heat is generated to light the kindling.
ReplyDeleteAnd then finish up with her after the fire is lit.
Sounds like a win-win situation for all!
DeleteDamn good idea!
Deletenow if you videoed that you would have a you tube smash hit
DeleteJust use a 9 volt battery.
ReplyDeleteMuch smaller and same results.
What frightens me is that you know that and the possible things you have done with that knowledge.do you here voices?
DeleteOnly when your mommy is giving me a reach around.
DeleteIn your tatorhole!
DeleteDammit man,were you there?
DeleteWhat a dumb ho! She made my peepee burn.
ReplyDeleteDon't You mean her brother did!
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