have you ever started a fire by rubbing 2 sticks together?

[sniffa]

Poll question: have you ever started a fire by rubbing 2 sticks together?

i've tried quite few times in my Life but never with any success. i began to think it was urban Legend as i couLdn't get some smoke going.

[RagingInMiami]

1. As a kid, I tried plenty of times to no avail

I think it's just something that indians do in movies to make the white man look dumb

[lenidog]

3. LOL! Thank you I needed a laugh today and that struck me as funny

[Maddy McCall]

2. LOL!

Your avatar! Bwahahahahaha!!! :thumbsup:

[underpants]

4. That is funny

:bounce:

[sniffa]

12. it's creeping me out though

[Maddy McCall]

14. It is pretty creepy.

Looks like a high-school senior photo, with the drape. :puke:

[chickenscratching]

20. seriously

vw is a freak

[lenidog]

5. No I have never tried. That is why they invented zippos

[kick-ass-bob]

6. yes, but it was hard as hell to do.

just get a f'in match.

you need straw so something will start up - the 2 sticks themselves don't give you good odds.

[tsakshaug]

7. Ear worm warning:

Rubbin' sticks and stones together
makin' sparks ignite
lookin forward to a little afternoon delight......

[tsakshaug]

8. Oh and

Yes I am an Eagle Scout and can start fires many different ways.
Prefer the stick and bow method when I don't have matches

[wideopen]

10. I dropped out of the scouts at

first class, we never learned that method. Could you explain the procedure? I build fires weekly and it would be fun to learn to light them like that.

[mcscajun]

21. A bow drill is the basic tool

or should I say, tools.

http://www.primitiveways.com/pt-bowfire.html

[LynzM]

9. Yup, but it's hard

Better if you have something like a block of wood, a stick, another stick, and a piece of string. You use one stick and string to spin the other stick on the block, with some kindling down near the spinning point. Still takes a long #$%@# time, though!

[Huckebein the Raven]

11. Yes, yes I have

difficult to do it is

[Beer Snob-50]

13. I like to start a fire

with steel wool and a 9 volt battery.

[wideopen]

15. I've used steel wool

but new w/ a battery. I can see how it would work, I'm going to try that one tonight.

[Beer Snob-50]

17. I am a scoutmaster,

and we use that quite often.

[Beer Snob-50]

18. I am a scoutmaster,

and we use that quite often.

[sniffa]

16. in my house, we caLL them, 'uh-ohs'

[frylock]

19. and this is where I met the leprechaun..

He told me to burn things.

[Telly Savalas]

22. No sex threads!

[Zuni]

23. When I was like 16, I worked at a Go-Kart track

we used to have to stand in a field waiting for kids to crash their go-Karts and then we would straighten them up.
One day I saw a guy who worked there banging stones together and asked him what he was doing. He said he was trying to start a fire to light his cigarette. I informed him I had a lighter on me.

[In_The_Wind]

24. no ~ can't say that I have.

Directing sunlight through glass often works.

[Abelman]

25. Yeah, but then

if you don't have the conch shell, no one respects you.

[In_The_Wind]

26. the raccoons did it

They made off with the shell when they pillaged the trailer for a a string of rainbow trout :grr: