Post by elkchsr on Dec 27, 2004 1:43:33 GMT 12.75
When needing to find other fine fuels, one can look into other places besides the obvious.
Some of these take much more work to find, but are still very viable and worth the effort.
One place it to actually make it from sound dry wood, prefferably some thing with a good supply of pitch to act as a better fire starter.
Old stumps from Doug fir work very good for this as they are usually full of pitch.
Break a stick off from the stump, try to make sure it is as dry as possible, take your knife or sharpened rock and rub it very hard with your blade edge at about 90 degrees to the wood. This should bring off small shavings and dust, have some thing to catch this material in, you should work until you have a golf ball size pile, smaller ones work, larger ones are better.
A spark from flint and steel or from a bow drill when worked, will start in this very easily.
If you are in a survival situation, and traveling, you should be collecting tinder any place you happen to find it. This is the hardest stuff to find in nature, especially if it is a little damp out.
Some other places to look are on the most innerside of some what larger brushy evergreens, under rock over hangs, squirrel nests, old bird nests on inner protected branches. There are a lot of places to find this material, you only have to use your immagination and look.
I would really like it if others would put in any thing they can think of also, you with your input, could save some ones life one day, even with the addition of one sentence....
Russ...
Some of these take much more work to find, but are still very viable and worth the effort.
One place it to actually make it from sound dry wood, prefferably some thing with a good supply of pitch to act as a better fire starter.
Old stumps from Doug fir work very good for this as they are usually full of pitch.
Break a stick off from the stump, try to make sure it is as dry as possible, take your knife or sharpened rock and rub it very hard with your blade edge at about 90 degrees to the wood. This should bring off small shavings and dust, have some thing to catch this material in, you should work until you have a golf ball size pile, smaller ones work, larger ones are better.
A spark from flint and steel or from a bow drill when worked, will start in this very easily.
If you are in a survival situation, and traveling, you should be collecting tinder any place you happen to find it. This is the hardest stuff to find in nature, especially if it is a little damp out.
Some other places to look are on the most innerside of some what larger brushy evergreens, under rock over hangs, squirrel nests, old bird nests on inner protected branches. There are a lot of places to find this material, you only have to use your immagination and look.
I would really like it if others would put in any thing they can think of also, you with your input, could save some ones life one day, even with the addition of one sentence....
Russ...