Self Feeding Fire

by Alex Wiser
(Florida)

The self feeding fire is extremely easy to make and burns hot for hours.

#1-To begin with, find about 20 hand fulls of small sticks that are dead. The sticks should only be about 1 foot long. Now find a good tinder bundle that will fit in the palm of your hand.

#2-Stack the wood on top of each other. But, do it in a specific way. Make all of the stacks perpendicular to each other, but on top of each other. Also, make the larger sticks at the bottom, and the smaller at the top.

#3-Now, sit your tinder bundle on top of the wood.

#4-Put an immensely small tipi over the tinder bundle.

#5-Light the tinder bundle without knocking the rest of the wood over. It should light the tipi and the hot coals from that will ignite the wood below. From there, the self feeding fire should burn for at least an hour.

Be careful.


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