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Eastern White Pine on Eastern White pine failure (sad!) with chaga save! Oh that mushroom of the Gods.
I had high hopes. Foraged the wood minutes before.
I think this is ok.
After 3 failed attempts the fire board broke. Bummer!
Another try and nothing! Looking to turn lemons into lemonaide I remmeber how well chaga worked in another set. Here is a set that simply (for me) won't produce a coal. Will chaga give me an edge?
This time I used just a small amount scraped from the chunk directly into the hole using my knife.
It worked.
But in a way I didn't expect. The chaga must have taken a coal early on then was smothered by the Eastern White pine dust or something. In any case it smoldered under the dust pile then ignited the fireboard. Or at least it sure looked that way as the fireboard smoked. Had to knock/cut away that area adding more chaga shavings into the mix. Chaga is really good stuff. I am convinced if yea got a chuck of fire grade chaga you will get a fire. Be it from friction fire, firesteel, empty Bic, marginal magnification methods or flint and steel methology using the spine of the knife. You name it! Chaga seems to make it all better. I bet charred materials like charcoal etc from the last fire would also produce a similar save for a stubborn friction fire set. .
A video showing the action including smoldering fireboard.
[video=youtube;Or8m7GZn1x0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or8m7GZn1x0[/video]
I had high hopes. Foraged the wood minutes before.
I think this is ok.
After 3 failed attempts the fire board broke. Bummer!
Another try and nothing! Looking to turn lemons into lemonaide I remmeber how well chaga worked in another set. Here is a set that simply (for me) won't produce a coal. Will chaga give me an edge?
This time I used just a small amount scraped from the chunk directly into the hole using my knife.
It worked.
But in a way I didn't expect. The chaga must have taken a coal early on then was smothered by the Eastern White pine dust or something. In any case it smoldered under the dust pile then ignited the fireboard. Or at least it sure looked that way as the fireboard smoked. Had to knock/cut away that area adding more chaga shavings into the mix. Chaga is really good stuff. I am convinced if yea got a chuck of fire grade chaga you will get a fire. Be it from friction fire, firesteel, empty Bic, marginal magnification methods or flint and steel methology using the spine of the knife. You name it! Chaga seems to make it all better. I bet charred materials like charcoal etc from the last fire would also produce a similar save for a stubborn friction fire set. .
A video showing the action including smoldering fireboard.
[video=youtube;Or8m7GZn1x0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or8m7GZn1x0[/video]
