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How to use a Firesteel
- Thread starter IA Woodsman
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Ok , to find birch bark in Missouri. Go to one of the big lakes, locate a golf coarse, run up to one of the fairway houses in that sub-division and pull some bark of their landscaping when no one is looking.
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Got to love it here, watch the TV weather and there is dew points and heat index high humidity low pressure weather systems and a lot of that means that you need to squish the water out of stuff to help dry it out.
If you can find true fat wood, the old timers / hill billies use pine knots from old trees or dead fall stuff, resin builds up in this part of pine trees too, where the branches grow from the log part of the tree.
so pretty much if the humidity is higher than the temp, it is hard to light stuff.
Pat
.Got to love it here, watch the TV weather and there is dew points and heat index high humidity low pressure weather systems and a lot of that means that you need to squish the water out of stuff to help dry it out.
If you can find true fat wood, the old timers / hill billies use pine knots from old trees or dead fall stuff, resin builds up in this part of pine trees too, where the branches grow from the log part of the tree.
so pretty much if the humidity is higher than the temp, it is hard to light stuff.
Pat
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Great stuff, Ia.
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If you are having problems, another couple of solutions I have found are to use a longer and fatter firesteel. The other thing to try is a toothed striker. I like a piece of sawzall blade the best. With the multiple contact points between the steel and blade emits a massive shower of sparks. Your rod life will be reduced.