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	wildthing wrote:
	ok here is a little trick. but it only works on jeans. just get your knife and sorta scrape at your jeans. have the blade flat against the tought jean and just kinda scrape. if you do this right you should get a nice bit of lint. just dont always do it in one spot and dont do it too often.

I've done that before lots of times, it works great. Thankfully I wear ripped jeans a lot so its no biggie for anoter hole. If you have a hole then your in luck, just pull at the loose strands and you'll get lots fo fluff

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

I was watching TV and was bord and was playing with my knife on my jeans and I looked down and there was a good puff of lint! I'm just sayin its a go way to use your surroundings. Cool

old jean works best.

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Yep, or any pair I own. The second I put them on they are old, they fade in like a week haha. Cool

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

Also any kind of fluff, like cattails, dandy loins or what ever Very Happy

eric

	turd wrote:
	Also any kind of fluff, like cattails, dandy loins or what ever eric

yes for sure, and at the end of summer milkweed is great for starting fire. It feels like cotton

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

well i guess the general consensus from everybody here would be a very fine, dry material. maybe i'm just being lazy and not exploring all the possible types of tinder i could've come up with. but i still say firesteel would be last on my list to use as a means of making fire.

Dry, yes but also expand it, tuft it bigger to let more air into it

Good point carcajou garou Very Happy

Just keep using it and soon it will be very easy to start a fire Very Happy

eric

	wildthing wrote:
	I was watching TV and was bord and was playing with my knife on my jeans and I looked down and there was a good puff of lint! I'm just sayin its a go way to use your surroundings. old jean works best.

Be careful!

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I usually use dry grass too

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It's not climbing the mountain to get to the top; it's climbing the mountain to enjoy the climb.

But I have never heard of that jeans thing Surprised

cool!!!!

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It's not climbing the mountain to get to the top; it's climbing the mountain to enjoy the climb.

Not to preach at anybody but we were always taught in training not to even wear jeans when out in the bush. If it so happens that you are stuck or in a survival situation they work against you because if they get wet they have a wicking effect that draws the water throughout the pants making you susceptible to hypothermia. If anyone shows up to SAR practice in jeans they get sent home.

ya, I was about to say the thing about the jeans in the bush and that you aren't even supposed be wearing it when camping or in the bush.

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It's not climbing the mountain to get to the top; it's climbing the mountain to enjoy the climb.

So what are you supposed to be wearing?

This is true "Cotton Kills"

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you cant wear shorts thats for sure! I alway where jean cause in the woods here there are tunes of thorny vines and jean is the only thing I know of that keeps the thorns from cutting me really badly.

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Hey Guys...

There are lots of natural tinders out there that are nice to use..

Dried Grass
Birch bark
Inside of Cottonwood bark..
Cotton from poplar trees
Milkweed
Cattails
Dried golden rod flowers
Grape vine bark
Certain dried mosses

These are some of my favorite natural tinders and have used them all with only a firesteel

I'm sure there are a bunch of them that I haven't listed, or tried or are not available to me.

ttyle

Eric
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I dont like Cattails.

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Hey SK...

Any reason you don't like cattails ??

ttyle

Eric
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I can't get them to light up properly. I have held a flame to them and only scortched. I'm prolly doing somthing wrong but....

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-Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

-Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming, "Wow, what a ride!!!"