OK I got a flint and steel kit in a giveaway over the Summer. I kept looking at it sitting on the table next to my desk and kept thinking about trying it. Well today I decided to give it a try. First 15 minutes no joy so I watch 3 or 4 youtube videos on how to do it. Go back to it and 2 minutes later ....Fire!
I have played at it a time or two in the past but this was my first serious effort and I did it. Now I will have to dig up my bow drill kit. I packed it up in my recent double move and haven't found it yet. I think building a fire with friction in the freezing rain we are having right now would be the biggest fire making achievement for me to date. Feels really good to do something right so quickly.
Char cloth the size of a dime, jute nest about the size of a 50 cent piece chunk of flint about the same size and a U shaped piece of iron. Now I think I need to make myself a fire wallet.
Anyone know if there is chaga, fire fungus, in Indiana?
I have played at it a time or two in the past but this was my first serious effort and I did it. Now I will have to dig up my bow drill kit. I packed it up in my recent double move and haven't found it yet. I think building a fire with friction in the freezing rain we are having right now would be the biggest fire making achievement for me to date. Feels really good to do something right so quickly.
Char cloth the size of a dime, jute nest about the size of a 50 cent piece chunk of flint about the same size and a U shaped piece of iron. Now I think I need to make myself a fire wallet.
Anyone know if there is chaga, fire fungus, in Indiana?
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