I got out for a couple of hours yesterday, so I decided to have a little fire in the woods.
After seeing the post from Zymologist I did a little research on the "pocket bellows". I ended up making something similar out of a $5 extendable magnet, and wanted to try it out. So I headed out with my firesteel, nmfbmle and boss street.
Since I live on the coast of the Atlantic ocean winter tends to be a mix of rain and snowstorms. Last week we had 30cm of snow on Monday, another 10cm on Wednesday and a couple of days with 5-10mm of rain mixed in too. As you can imagine things get pretty wet.
I took a stab at getting a fire going with some wet stuff. The bellows allowed me to get the fire going much better then without it. Unfortunately I didn't do a very good job on the base and the coals burned through to the snow underneath.
Next I decided to have a crack at a 1 stick fire as per this video from ia woodsman:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grWSLbl19Ns
I found some dead standing wood, about 6 inches in diameter and chopped out a 1.5 foot section to work with. The NMFBMLE made short work of peeling off the rotten outside and splitting the wood down to thumb sized pieces. The Boss street did the rest.
Instead of using wood scrapings to start the fire I do something a little different. I like to make a feather stick, then smear some of the resin you fine in pine trees on the shavings. Usually takes a spark with a single strike.
Here's a pic of the end result:
u
I'm looking forward to xoing this again when my basic 8 arrives.
Tim
After seeing the post from Zymologist I did a little research on the "pocket bellows". I ended up making something similar out of a $5 extendable magnet, and wanted to try it out. So I headed out with my firesteel, nmfbmle and boss street.
Since I live on the coast of the Atlantic ocean winter tends to be a mix of rain and snowstorms. Last week we had 30cm of snow on Monday, another 10cm on Wednesday and a couple of days with 5-10mm of rain mixed in too. As you can imagine things get pretty wet.
I took a stab at getting a fire going with some wet stuff. The bellows allowed me to get the fire going much better then without it. Unfortunately I didn't do a very good job on the base and the coals burned through to the snow underneath.
Next I decided to have a crack at a 1 stick fire as per this video from ia woodsman:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=grWSLbl19Ns
I found some dead standing wood, about 6 inches in diameter and chopped out a 1.5 foot section to work with. The NMFBMLE made short work of peeling off the rotten outside and splitting the wood down to thumb sized pieces. The Boss street did the rest.
Instead of using wood scrapings to start the fire I do something a little different. I like to make a feather stick, then smear some of the resin you fine in pine trees on the shavings. Usually takes a spark with a single strike.
Here's a pic of the end result:
uI'm looking forward to xoing this again when my basic 8 arrives.
Tim
