Even the most sophisticated hiking enthusiasts sometimes find themselves in such a situation when it becomes necessary to make a fire and it turns out that there are no matches. No problem! Dealing with such a problem is much easier than it seems.
Necessary
- Pieces of wood
- Cotton wool
- Dry moss
- Small branches
- Shard bottle
- Glycerin and manganese (can be found in any pharmacy)
Instructions
Step 1
In a situation where there are no matches at hand, both a participant in a hike and a kebab fan and a lost mushroom picker can get into. There is only one problem: there is a need to make a fire, but there is no way to light it with matches. First, prepare a campfire site. Try to choose the most suitable site for such purposes. It is better that this is an open place, over which the crowns of trees do not hang - protect the forest from fires. It is also not recommended to make a fire near clearings with dried grass, stumps, as well as on the ground rich in peat.
Step 2
Take a look around: what can you use as a kindling? For this purpose, chips, dust, dry moss, small tree branches are suitable. Better yet, if you find cotton wool, old newspaper or unwanted paper. Maybe there are birches nearby? Birch bark will serve well in this capacity.
Step 3
Place larger branches in the base of the fire, just not rotten and not wet from the rain. Better if these are easily combustible trees - conifers, ash, oak.
Step 4
Now it remains to decide how to make a fire. There are many ways, we will consider the simplest.
By lens: Possible only in clear, sunny weather. A shard of a bottle, a piece of ice, a fragment of a mirror, the bottom of a clean tin can are suitable as a lens. "Catch" with its help the sunbeam and direct it to what you use as a kindling.
Step 5
Grandfather's method: Take two pieces of dry wood. They must be rubbed against each other, in order to get a light smoke first, and then kindle a fire. Minus: you will have to make every effort and it will take much more time than in the previous case.
Step 6
Using a chemical reaction: Take glycerin and potassium permanganate (in other words, ordinary potassium permanganate) with you on a hike. If you are left without matches, put a pinch of potassium permanganate on the kindling and drip a couple of drops of glycerin. The fire will break out by itself. Use a kindling fire to light a fire of your size.
