survivor

10 days Fire starting using sparks and gasoline is dubious at the best of times, but when survival depends upon it, it takes on a whole new intensity.. Let’s try this way then. Here we go. Finally, after four days stuck in the car, this fire will be a huge boost psychologically. Did not quite go as planned. In this damn snow, I got to work extra hard to keep this going. Diligence is always required if I want to stay warm. In the added advantage, is that the fire serves a signal for potential rescuers. They are more likely to go to investigate a car with a fire burning behind it; than simply a dark car sitting in the snow. Seeing all the panic I don’t even remembered to use all the tinder I gathered. I can use it now. Oh, this instruction manual came in handy. Keeping a large amount of ready to go tinder and kindling for the fire is vital to success. But battling the elements is always a challenge to staying warm. Stopped raining. Clouds look thick that are coming my way as well. It worked. It took a while to get that spark to take. I had topour the gas over onto the paper track it to spread it out.I don’t know. I thought it would have gone better inside the beer can with the fumes and everything, but it didn’t seem to make any difference. Got it to take; ran over here, then I noticed after a while, where the fire was burning that it wasn’t burning down into my woods because the pot lid was still underneath it stopping the fire from going down. So I had to pull the pot lid out which caused more trouble with the fire, so I grabbed a piece of the inside of the car, it was just like I got no compress board sort of stuff, and threw it underneath,and it’s burning, and that’s keeping the fire going. Now, I can heat water up over top of the fire. That’s one way to save a match. The car heater was nice, but a full fire begins to put motivation into me like nothing else can. SurvivorMan. All-new episodes at 08 P , EP on Sundays.