chopping and tinder fungus (polypore)

Bladite

Bladite

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went out for a hike, but also to find and remove a tree... i was HOPING it was down, chopping a weird tree can be scary, and but was HOPING it was up too :)

so. with my trusty HI GRS... off we go..

here's my bad boy, i decided to keep it horizontal for now:
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chopping away. this is nearly one of my oldest best khuks, a nice 29 ounce 18 inch GRS. handle WAS flawless and good. i apparently cracked it GOOD. wicking some superglue into it tonite. bah. bound to happen. i've also put a super sweet and tough edge on this guy. this is verymuch MY knife.

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here be some chopping profile: sweet!
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done!
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sweet wood:
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down. note the purple short rope. i set up a trucker's hitch with an alpine butterly loop to tension the tree the way i want it to go. it's not designed to PULL the tree, but encourage. once the chopping is done, a good solid smooth pull DOWN on the rope is enough to set the action, then RUN to safety. DROP.

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the birch polypore, aka tinder fungus, aka "woo hoo", lots of people covet these. i got a few this time around.

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thanx!

bladite
 
I like the balancing act - you put a real slender waist on that tree.



munk
 
Nice pics and blade. Did a quick search on birch polypore/tinder fungus - apparently it has been collected for various purposes for ages (see "Otzi/Oetzi, the Iceman"). Cool.

Eric
 
Nice!

Love the Wile-E-Coyote picture of the slimmed waisted tree still standing,
waiting for an unsuspecting object to drop on. :thumbup:
 
Why did you feel like you needed to KILL that innocent tree just to get some fungus? What did that tree ever do to you that you needed to murder it just for your own enjoyment?......................JUST KIDDIN',

Great score. Do you need to dry the fungus before it'll burn or will it work right away?
 
shotgunner11 said:
Why did you feel like you needed to KILL that innocent tree just to get some fungus? What did that tree ever do to you that you needed to murder it just for your own enjoyment?......................JUST KIDDIN',

Great score. Do you need to dry the fungus before it'll burn or will it work right away?
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twernt nothin, twas already deed. might have fallen on me hade. twas dangerous, and needin killin, it did, and that's whut i'm sayin. lookout it's comin right fer us. do you hear banjos? RUN!

well, you scrap off the bottom pores, and set to puttin some fire on it, and it'll smolder a long time. extinguish it in a can or cover it good some other way. it'll catch real easy next time.

there's a long procedure of peeling and removing the rind, boiling, pounding flat, and more... i haven't done that way yet.

bladite
 
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