yeah me too ,the old matches and a few leaves and twigs ,at least then too you dont have the smell of petrol all over your hands as well

We also use a few twigs & a few sheets of news paper, & have done the old through a tin of petrol on the wet smoldering fire, not tip it on but through the whole tin in.
My mate from the volunteer firies showed me how they start back burns & worked great on wet wood, he had one of those drink bottles from a take away shop, the ones with a top nipple type he put half deisel & petrol like what was mentioned earlier, then you use the squirt bottle to spray it strait onto the damp smoldering fire, it burns slow with the deisel, he said his brigade do it all the time.
personly i like the whooof
Trev
Aus

hahaha Derek.... I was thinking as reading all those posts, doesn't anyone use the firelighters under newspaper anymore??? sheesh, lol

I would never use petrol of any description - my kids would jump on it like a shot!! no thanks...

Melissa