Farting around with a ferro rod

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Actually I took one of my metal detectors out for a whirl today because the temp rose above zero Celsius. I decided to take my latest ridiculous toy, a C.S. XL Voyager and see if I could use it on the rod. I know that virtually any blade edge will kick off showers of sparks for me but I wanted to see what the non cutting edge would do. Of course it semi sucked because most blades have slightly round off, non cutting edges from factory tumbling or whatever. No biggie. I like to keep it real so I used the folder at hand, kept it closed because I had no desire for stitches today, and had at r'. I tried dead hanging tree leaves with little success. Then I cut down a couple of Burdock plants and tried the damp leaves, zippo. Next I tried the burs themselves as a clump, the odd fizzle here and there. So I chopped some drier leaves up and used the anemic knife back sparks again, nothing. I could NOT find any soft fuzzy materials around. So, to hell with it. I took a walk and grabbed up some nice long wonderful tried and true grass. It got a couple of false starts with it, then got serious. I now used the chunk of hack saw blade and L.ord save me it was RAINING fat bright juicy sparks again ! In basically seconds the grass caught. So....... it seems that I either have to carry a hack saw blade chunk on my ferro rod paracord, or square off a certain spot on my knife backs, which I will not do. I KNOW for a fact that virtually any knife edge that I have will kick out gobs of spark in a pinch, but I dislike buggering the edges. So I'll stick with the saw blade for now with the knowledge that I can always use some knife edge if I find myself in a bad spot.

I'm going to collect different tree saps and experiment with them.
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Found some wild raisins but they tasted like s**t. :D
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Found a geo cache....again.
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Whew!
I read this fast and saw
"Farting around a ferro rod"
and thought there was some kind of gas explosion happening :D

Cools pics
I have a few knives that throw showers off my ferro rods,
the good ones all have very "sharp" 90 degree spines.
The ones with a more rounded spine dont work well,
or dont work at all.
That tree sap looks flammable! I would have
tried that right away.
Thanks for sharing
 
fugawee said:
Whew!
I read this fast and saw
"Farting around a ferro rod"
and thought there was some kind of gas explosion happening :D

Cools pics
I have a few knives that throw showers off my ferro rods,
the good ones all have very "sharp" 90 degree spines.
The ones with a more rounded spine dont work well,
or dont work at all.
That tree sap looks flammable! I would have
tried that right away.
Thanks for sharing
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Spine...spine.., for the life of me I couldn't remember the proper term. ;)
Ferro and methane ?, I could easily arrange that with some of my home baked beans.:D
 
its funny, when I first bought a Buck vanguard, I wanted to try the spine. come to find out the spine on it actually cut me, I was relieved to find it had no problem with striking a firesteel.... :D
 
Fonly said:
its funny, when I first bought a Buck vanguard, I wanted to try the spine. come to find out the spine on it actually cut me, I was relieved to find it had no problem with striking a firesteel.... :D
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That would be quite handy except for the cutting part.:) I go through periods of learning\experimenting. I'm kind of in one now. Are you the guy that sent me some gorgeous Fatwood last year ? It was either you or Bushman. I hoard it because it was so good !
 
Pitchpine. We are changing the name to pitchpine. And methane is a good accelarant, but it burns too fast to be of much help in firestarting. It was amusing in high school though. :D
 
upnorth said:
That would be quite handy except for the cutting part.:) I go through periods of learning\experimenting. I'm kind of in one now. Are you the guy that sent me some gorgeous Fatwood last year ? It was either you or Bushman. I hoard it because it was so good !
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I would bet that guy was Bushman5. :)
 
Nice thread. Never eat the wild raisins, they taste horrible !!


Codger_64 said:
Pitchpine. We are changing the name to pitchpine.....
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Lol, now some people are going to be soooo confused. It is called so many different colloquial names in different areas it isn't funny but even if I don't know one in particular I can usually tell by the context and descriptors. But hey, now we can get everybody stirred up over a whole different name :D
 
mistwalker said:
Nice thread. Never eat the wild raisins, they taste horrible !!

Lol, now some people are going to be soooo confused. It is called so many different colloquial names in different areas it isn't funny but even if I don't know one in particular I can usually tell by the context and descriptors. But hey, now we can get everybody stirred up over a whole different name :D
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OK, now here is were we find out how really nuts I am.....:D Out of curiosity I've smelled different types of old wild animal s**t. Seems like after the methane is gone it's quite neutral. Often an earthy\woody low to nothing odor. But I promise not to eat the raisins.:D

I didn't know how to reply to Codger. Was he serious ?, joking ? Dunno. Yes I've heard probably half a dozen names for that wonderous material. :confused:
 
fugawee said:
If my tag line wasn't full,
that would be a great quote! :D
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Yes I have had my animal s**t experiences indeed. I remember being hammered one weekend night as a teenager trying to sneak home quietly through a pasture. I didn't know that the neighbors bull was put in there. About half way through I heard this hellacious bellowing\snorting and massive ground pounding running coming my way in the pitch dark. I ran like the devil was behind me. Slip sliding here and there on cow flops. Almost hitting the deck a few times but adrenaline shot me straight back up ! I actually ran straight into the fence and bounced back off, landed on my ass, flew back up and dove over. :D
 
Most herbivore poo burns after it is dried. Bison pies were commonly used on the praries by natives, pioneers and settlers for their fires. I've never tried deer pellets, but I suppose they might work. I'll pass on the taste test though. We used to play a joke on hunting noobs by eating raisinettes after pretending to pick up deer pellets, supposedly able to tell how long ago thedeer passed and, if gullible enough, whether buck or doe and approximate age.\. Most of them fell for it but only a few were willing to try it. I do break it up to determine what the deer are currently feeding on.
 
Codger_64 said:
Most herbivore poo burns after it is dried. Bison pies were commonly used on the prairies by natives, pioneers and settlers for their fires. I've never tried deer pellets, but I suppose they might work. I'll pass on the taste test though. We used to play a joke on hunting noobs by eating raisinettes after pretending to pick up deer pellets, supposedly able to tell how long ago the deer passed and, if gullible enough, whether buck or doe and approximate age.\. Most of them fell for it but only a few were willing to try it. I do break it up to determine what the deer are currently feeding on.
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Yes I knew about the buffalo chips being burned but never considered using dung myself. I wonder if old dried out rabbit Raisinettes would act as a fire starter if rubbed into a powder.......................
 
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