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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.
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