Advice in British Woodworking Mag Fire Risk

I am currently  enjoying the Aug/Sept copy of British Woodworking magazine and I have to say reading the different articles kept my interest. One or two jumped out to me because in the headers or titles they used the name 'Pitch Pine'. I worked with pitch pine for three decades almost weekly in some measure, but I want to talk about one brief article by Anthony Griffith first because of an inherent danger surrounding Linseed Oil as  finish and as a lubricant too. This actually came up on my blog here and I addressed it here because of the dangers. I thought that this YouTube video clearly showed the dangers.

In the article, Graham describes ramming a rag filled with sawdust or shavings into a void cut into a piece of wood and charging the rag with linseed oil to a damp level rather than soaking. This item is then used to lubricate plane soles that might stick to the longleaf pine surface being planed. This is not a safe item in the woodshop. Later in the article he says shavings are best and Boiled Linseed Oil (BLO) is better than raw. Both raw and boiled versions will spontaneously combust and this practice is indeed highly dangerous. Light machine oil produces the same results and the rag-in-the-can method I have used for 50 years has proven dependable with no risk of adverse fire risk.