My Fire Kit

here is my fire kit that i made
its a zippo tin that i used to make the char cloth
in it i have char cloth and fat wood inside it and next to the tin is my survival steel oh i also have some tinder fungus that i got off a tree the last time i was out im going to stick in there

this is the case of fatwood that i got from crappy tire for $6.00 i think its safe to say i wont need to buy any more for a very long time lol

How big is that pack of fat wood? Very Happy

eric

its about an inch high and ten inchs long. there is alot of sticks in there lol

Nice.

What'd you waste $6 for? You can get it for free by the armloads in the woods. Surprised

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17

	flashlightfreak9 wrote:
	Nice. What'd you waste $6 for? You can get it for free by the armloads in the woods.

haha i dont have any of that stuff here

Too bad.

I can get as much as I can carry. Cool

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17

ya we dont have it here, i wish we did

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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 send some up here flashlightfreak lol

Cut down a pine tree, chop into splinters = fatwood. Cool

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17

Really? Do they still have the same burning properties? Like I hear the fatwood burns very bright, will this be the same with the pine?

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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

no i have burnt pine lots and its not the same

I think it's pine that is soaked in pine resin, like an old stump Very Happy

eric

Ya course that but regular pine dosent burn bright at all though.

Old stumps are nice though

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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

	TrooperMax wrote:
	Really? Do they still have the same burning properties? Like I hear the fatwood burns very bright, will this be the same with the pine?

Fatwood that you buy comes from the stumps of freshly cut pine trees. Cool

www.fatwood.com

NH, burning pine - just plain ol' pine branches, logs, etc...it pops, smokes, and stinks. Fatwood is different. It's the resin that is key. Smile

Heart pine is even better. It's like the skeleton of a dead, old pine tree. It is really hard & compact and when you shave off curls it burns just like fatwood. Very Happy

I have a stick of it on my string that holds my flint. Cool

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17

	flashlightfreak9 wrote:
	Cut down a pine tree, chop into splinters = fatwood.

> No, it doesn't work like that FLF9. Fatwood is from a stump that is at least 10 years old to get the good stuff. I cut a pine that looked like it was dead for some time & it was just pitchy pine wood. But because of all the sap/pitch in pine trees those trees do burn easy & hot & fast.

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something really cool I learned is that if you find dead branches on heavily resinous trees and cut them at their base, there is usually a load of hardened pitch there and you can light the end in a fire and it will burn for hours like a torch

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Ya brian, while on a hike i came across an old downed pine tree, just a small one. And i cut a branch off close to the main tree. And it did smell like turpentine. I did keep about 10" of it & took it home. I split it & set fire to it, it did burn good. But nuttin like a piece thats from a 10 year old stump from a forested area Cool

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A Knifeless Man is a Lifeless Man
Canadian To The Core
We are Known By The Tracks we Leave Behind
Carry Less by Knowing More
Knowledge Weighs Nothing

Drummer Dave wrote:

	flashlightfreak9 wrote:
	Cut down a pine tree, chop into splinters = fatwood.

> No, it doesn't work like that FLF9. Fatwood is from a stump that is at least 10 years old to get the good stuff. I cut a pine that looked like it was dead for some time & it was just pitchy pine wood. But because of all the sap/pitch in pine trees those trees do burn easy & hot & fast.

Heart pine stumps are best. Very Happy

That's where I get mine from. Cool

BTW, what is on the main page for www.fatwood.com? I can't seem to get it to pull up. Confused

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17