What: Cedar Kindling
Why: <font color="blue"> stike a match, walk away, and come back to a real nice fire! Every time there would be a real ... nice ... fire.
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[img]/forums/images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Egon, stored in an inside wood box. I don't think this question has a good answer for the 3 day rain case. I have carried kindling on hunting trips (rather the horses did).
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Take an old paper/cardboard egg container from that dozen eggs you bought. Cut the top off. Take old candles, and melt them. Fill each spot in the egg contained about 1/2-3/4 full. Let eh wax cool. Set it over by the woodstove or fireplace.
When you want to start a fire, break off one of the wax filled egg thingy's; there should be 12 to start. Set it in the stove, and arrange kindling over it. Light a corner of it, and you will have a nice fire shortly.
It works even better if you put wood shavings or sawdust, like from the table saw, in the wax.
take a tuna can or something similar, cut strips of cardboard the height of the inside of the can, roll them tightly into a roll and put in can and fill with parrafin. when needed just light the cardboard, soon you have a candle the size of the top of the tin. when the use of it is over just let it cool for the next time. I used C ration cans this way to heat meals in the field.
Twenty years ago or so we went fishing up in Cananda, walked a mile back to a lake where there was a boat and an outboard, started raining and we got soaked. No dry wood and only matches to start a fire. Peeled some bark off a birch tree, it was really good at getting the wet wood started. Of course if everyone did this, all the birch trees in Canada would be naked by now. [img]/forums/images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
Can't figure out all these compilcated pre prepared firestarters.
All you got to do is find a big evergreen with some dead branches and then find a few larger dead branches and away youse go. If there be a little dried grass you have hit heaven.
Got one of those all purpose survival knives with a complete survival kit in the handle. Looks good but never travels the woods with me.
My son gave me a fancy lighter that works in almost all kinda conditions. Its in the backpack in case the matches don't work.
All a hatchet is good for is for making an emergency situation possible as well as added weight for a little extra excersize.
Iffin a saw is really required an 18/24 inch swede saw does just perfect. Even better is a small prunning saw as it tkes up les room and less weight.
The wire saw type that requires you make a fram for is best left in the store.
And then ifn youse be above tree line it's a different situation altogether.
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