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Central Windsor.
I can get to an area with trees...using the bus.
Otherwise it,s a good hour of walking(well, there's a park about a 30 minute walk away, but it has a mansion in the middle, so dog-walking is the woodsiest thing anyone can get away with there).
At least I can honestly say that anytime there's a picture of me doing something with wood it isn't in my backyard.
:thumbup: ...my thoughts exactly. Although not against it (to each their own, right?), I really don't see the need for it, that is what an axe is for, I never go far from home without an axe(or machete in the jungle).
I've been working in the woods for almost 20 years and have never needed to baton wood with a knife, and in fact I had never even heard of it before until spending time on these forums.
I would say that for the most part, I don't even use the axe all that much either for wilderness fire building, usually dead dry limbs from the bottom of conifers, birch bark, old man's beard, etc; these are all plentiful tinder where I have lived and worked (at least in North America) and lighting a fire even in the rain or winter has usually not been all that challenging.
After a long day at work, or a long hike, the last thing one wants to do is expend needless energy cutting and chopping. Whenever possible I will opt to feed logs into the fire instead of chopping or sawing into lengths, although of course there are times when this is not the best idea (i.e. very dry conditions when risk of forest fire is high).
I may give batoning a try some time just for fun now that I have a suite of almost indestructible ESEE knives at my disposal that are more than up to the challenge!
. I learned some neat tricks from Rob and he probably doesn't even know he's the one that taught me. 
So, to make a long story short, Rob doesn't post a whole lot but when he does I listen. Mainly because he spends most of his life in the woods doing what we write about all the time. It's his job. You want to learn some good skils, then hook up with this guy.
People ALWAYS argue about the right way to do up a fire.
Even the so-called survival experts can never agree on it, other then the fact that you often need a fire.
As long as we're not freezing to death or burning the woods down, who gives a crap?
), no accelerant, and, well, no training in it at all.
Well, then they aren't doing it right.
I've only tried a friction fire twice, with success once, but since I was a child I could get a fire going with one match. No boyscouts involved, no camping trips (been straight up city all my life
It just made sense to put things together in a manner where they would burn.
Different sizes of dry stuff with channels for air without so much draft it won't work.
Of course, I AM a self-proclaimed genius, so that might be it.
