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Title: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:30:26 AM: Started work early today so I would have time to stop by the river on the way home.
Even though we've had a few days of rain I wanted to attempt a fire to earn me a badge.
After hunting around for a bit I found a sandy spot out of the wind and got down to business.
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:31:50 AM: These guys should do nicely.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7628/16609629334_bb5378006b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/riJG8y)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:33:07 AM: And this rock looks good.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7592/17232065725_8e2b0b88d7.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sfJQMt)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:35:11 AM: Better to have to much than not enough right.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7719/17044524530_32f636f174.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rYaDjA)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:37:16 AM: Gorse, not fun to walk through but burns pretty well.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7599/17044302598_d2360a786a.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rY9vmb)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:38:31 AM: One branch of driftwood ready to go.

(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8825/17045889749_d8489ed2b4.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rYhD9R)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:41:55 AM: Not the best knife for throwing sparks but it will do.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7706/16609626044_fb9ac6f8f6.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/riJF9Q)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:44:13 AM: Miss... miss... hit. :)

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7716/17206112356_b2270161f9.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sdrPKA)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:47:07 AM: Kindling starting to catch on.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5334/17044299298_7c50f8f359.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rY9unh)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:50:28 AM: Things are going okay...

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7701/17230342682_e713b24c2f.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sfA1zQ)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 10:52:34 AM: :pok: How do we know that the original fire was actually started by the sparks and not a lighter ??? ???

>:D >:D
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:57:13 AM: Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 10:52:34 AM
:pok: How do we know that the original fire was actually started by the sparks and not a lighter ??? ???

>:D >:D

:gtfo:

:D You'll never know. ;)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:57:51 AM: ...so it's time to remove the rock. Wet river rocks and fire don't mix.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7707/17206110166_7c556604a4.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sdrP6Q)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:04:43 AM: (https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8786/17024638557_a2a4820c85.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rWpHUZ)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:05:15 AM: (https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7714/16611853953_10df68c0c5.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/riW6r4)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:05:51 AM: (https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8726/17044515310_af0673b88e.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rYaAzC)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:06:25 AM: (https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7689/17044293288_2bc6a82f96.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rY9szE)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:07:27 AM: (https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7692/16611850933_f51f26633c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/riW5wZ)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:07:40 AM: and here is one I made earlier.....

(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/particracy/images/c/c9/Fire_worship.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121202170144)

I fully support zoidberg's request for a badge :salute:

(http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/62974/62974,1257308823,2/stock-photo-closeup-of-delicious-juicy-lobster-tails-is-grilling-on-open-fire-40187377.jpg)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: Reinier on April 22, 2015, 11:08:38 AM: I don't believe it's a real fire :P

(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/024/183/500pxShopped.jpg)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:10:09 AM: :pok: I think we may need an actual video :P

for proof :think:

:D
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:10:26 AM: Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:07:40 AM
and here is one I made earlier.....

(http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/particracy/images/c/c9/Fire_worship.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20121202170144)

I fully support zoidberg's request for a badge :salute:

(http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/62974/62974,1257308823,2/stock-photo-closeup-of-delicious-juicy-lobster-tails-is-grilling-on-open-fire-40187377.jpg)
:ahhh
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:10:57 AM: Quote from: Reinier on April 22, 2015, 11:08:38 AM
I don't believe it's a real fire :P

(http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/024/183/500pxShopped.jpg)
:twak:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:12:49 AM: Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:10:09 AM
:pok: I think we may need an actual video :P

for proof :think:

:D

My face breaks video cameras. :facepalm:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:13:32 AM: Forgot to turn the smurfin flash off.

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7590/17230335812_b7ac91152d.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/sfzYxo)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:14:22 AM: Quote from: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:12:49 AM
Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:10:09 AM
:pok: I think we may need an actual video :P

for proof :think:

:D

My face breaks video cameras. :facepalm:

You can't look worst than your avatar :D
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:16:16 AM: Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:14:22 AM
Quote from: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:12:49 AM
Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:10:09 AM
:pok: I think we may need an actual video :P

for proof :think:

:D

My face breaks video cameras. :facepalm:

You can't look worst than your avatar :D

I can after a hard days work.
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:18:05 AM: I think you look OK
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b6/1d/be/b61dbe5b6a00b9b86f7eb6811bd5f352.jpg)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:21:12 AM: Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:18:05 AM
I think you look OK
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b6/1d/be/b61dbe5b6a00b9b86f7eb6811bd5f352.jpg)

Oi, what gets emailed stays in emails. :whistle:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:22:01 AM: :dd: :dd: :dd: :dd: :dd:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:27:02 AM: One last pic. :)

(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7701/17044511800_c410aa54fe.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/rYazx7)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: Reinier on April 22, 2015, 11:32:05 AM: Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:18:05 AM
I think you look OK
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b6/1d/be/b61dbe5b6a00b9b86f7eb6811bd5f352.jpg)

If that's Dr. Z he should be upside down since he's from NZ :think:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:34:21 AM: did you cook something on it ?

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/papasfritas/shrimponbarbie.jpg)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:36:15 AM: :pok: shhh (I am slowly turning this thread into a girly pictures thread... Start with a seminude man, then post a doll, then proceed to a real woman and then to a seminude woman..) shhhhh 8) ;)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:39:52 AM: Quote from: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:34:21 AM
did you cook something on it ?

(http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y300/papasfritas/shrimponbarbie.jpg)
No, went home for dinner. I'll cook next time for another badge. Question is what to cook?
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:44:57 AM: (https://collegecandy.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/girl-on-grill-copy.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=640)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:45:46 AM: (http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/woman-beach-barbecue-5142365.jpg)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 11:46:16 AM: (http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/girl-barbecue-24592638.jpg)

:whistle: Done :D
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: Gerhard Gerber on April 22, 2015, 03:16:07 PM: I nearly halved the ferro rod of my Mora Bushcraft this past weekend trying out a few materials to catch the spark.
Dry grass is available almost anywhere almost any time of the year and it works great, but you never know...

I tried the very soft and papery bark of the Acacia galpinii (Monkey thorn), and despite appearances it didn't work all that well......
Commiphora bark......1st time!
I've also tried and failed late one chilly afternoon right on the beach, and that time I had a magnesium bar as well. It was 2 days after spring tide and everything on the beach was still wet, I was wet and cold, and it would've take a hike up the dunes to look for some (very scares) plant material that might be dry.

Made me think about all the shipwreck victims on the Skeleton Coast through the years, they had nothing....
......and if you do have the kit, practice, because you never know.....
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: derekmac on April 22, 2015, 04:50:54 PM: SOMEONE GIVE Z MAN HIS BADGE!!! :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh :ahhh

Oh, and that woman really loves the sausage, eh! :D
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: dks on April 22, 2015, 06:28:29 PM: HE GOT HIS BADGE !!!

(https://33.media.tumblr.com/91bfb9001e94208e8b5777fb7c1408a6/tumblr_miyu4yIN5q1r1ilogo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: derekmac on April 22, 2015, 06:31:08 PM: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

:nanadance: :nanadance: :nanadance: :nanadance: :nanadance:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: SAK Guy on April 22, 2015, 06:51:15 PM: Congrats!! :2tu:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: SteveC on April 22, 2015, 06:55:44 PM: Congrats :salute:

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Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 10:39:43 PM: Thanks guys. :cheers: I finally have a badge!! :bud: :bud: :bud:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: Gareth on April 22, 2015, 11:18:32 PM: Gave you the badge, forgot to say that it was very well earned. :tu:
Title: Re: Lobster Boy Makes Fire For Merit Badge.
Post by: zoidberg on April 22, 2015, 11:33:50 PM: Thanks Gareth. :cheers: