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The good news: I got outside and made some feather sticks with my Buck 110 today.
The less good new: I didn't get any pics of them to share (they were not very pretty anyway).
I did get a couple of low res pics of my fire and the end result (below).
I made my last one-stick fire of the year today. I split the stick by batoning with an ESEE 6. I used the buck 110 to carve the feather sticks and a pile of loose shavings (the failures of my feathersticking). The stick I used was from a pile of random sticks/branches I found beside the road over the last few years. It was very dry and very hard, thus not a great choice for making visually appealing feathers. It was fine for making functional feather sticks and shavings though, which is what counts. The Buck 110 did well, as usual!
I placed most of the feather sticks and loose shavings on top of an "upside down" fire lay (fuel on bottom, then kindling, then tinder) inside of my twig stove. Then I used a ferro rod to ignite one of the feathers sticks, which I used to ignite the rest of the feathers/shavings. The fire worked its way downward from the tiny kindling to the bigger kindling and then to the fuel. Success!
I used my Stanley cook set pot to boil some water, which I used to brew some decaf tea to sip while I enjoyed the fire for a while. The finished tea is in the two cups from the cook set. The stainless cup behind them is an inexpensive "Waldemart/Aardvark Trail" cup with a lid I scored on the big river site.
The less good new: I didn't get any pics of them to share (they were not very pretty anyway).
I did get a couple of low res pics of my fire and the end result (below).
I made my last one-stick fire of the year today. I split the stick by batoning with an ESEE 6. I used the buck 110 to carve the feather sticks and a pile of loose shavings (the failures of my feathersticking). The stick I used was from a pile of random sticks/branches I found beside the road over the last few years. It was very dry and very hard, thus not a great choice for making visually appealing feathers. It was fine for making functional feather sticks and shavings though, which is what counts. The Buck 110 did well, as usual!
I placed most of the feather sticks and loose shavings on top of an "upside down" fire lay (fuel on bottom, then kindling, then tinder) inside of my twig stove. Then I used a ferro rod to ignite one of the feathers sticks, which I used to ignite the rest of the feathers/shavings. The fire worked its way downward from the tiny kindling to the bigger kindling and then to the fuel. Success!
I used my Stanley cook set pot to boil some water, which I used to brew some decaf tea to sip while I enjoyed the fire for a while. The finished tea is in the two cups from the cook set. The stainless cup behind them is an inexpensive "Waldemart/Aardvark Trail" cup with a lid I scored on the big river site.
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