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anyone ever use a "fire grow" (blow poke/bellow type device) in the field?

description listed is, "The 1st time we used a "Fire Grow" was one of those dark, rainy nights where all of the woods is wet, and your campfire balks at igniting the soggy offering. We were a hungry & tired crew, anxious to get the food cooking. This was our opportunity to really test our newly acquired Fire Grow. We were all amazed at the results. Not only did it get the fire quickly under way, but shortened the cooking time over that of a normal fire. Before we knew it, we were seated with plates full of, "camp oven" baked, stuffed peppers. It was a meal & night to remember & we were sold on "Fire Grows". You say, "What is a Fire Grow?" Well, often the simplest inventions are the best. It is a combination of metal & plastic tubing. You put the metal tube next to embers & blow into the plastic tube, thus suppling the fire with lots of the oxygen it needs to thrive and roar. Not only good for your campfires but useful for the home Bar-B-Q, picnic in the park, & cozy fires in the fireplace."

seems like it could be useful at times.. but the site doesn't say how big it is... was just curious.
 
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It's nice to see the Remora getting some love. The hornet sheath is bad... very nice! :thumbup:
 
tman038 said:
anyone ever use a "fire grow" (blow poke/bellow type device) in the field?

description listed is, "The 1st time we used a "Fire Grow" was one of those dark, rainy nights where all of the woods is wet, and your campfire balks at igniting the soggy offering. We were a hungry & tired crew, anxious to get the food cooking. This was our opportunity to really test our newly acquired Fire Grow. We were all amazed at the results. Not only did it get the fire quickly under way, but shortened the cooking time over that of a normal fire. Before we knew it, we were seated with plates full of, "camp oven" baked, stuffed peppers. It was a meal & night to remember & we were sold on "Fire Grows". You say, "What is a Fire Grow?" Well, often the simplest inventions are the best. It is a combination of metal & plastic tubing. You put the metal tube next to embers & blow into the plastic tube, thus suppling the fire with lots of the oxygen it needs to thrive and roar. Not only good for your campfires but useful for the home Bar-B-Q, picnic in the park, & cozy fires in the fireplace."

seems like it could be useful at times.. but the site doesn't say how big it is... was just curious.
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I've seen guys use a 6-12" long piece of aluminum arrow and a 2' long piece of flexible tubing for this -- I use an 18-24" long scrap of 1/2" copper pipe with one end flattened and a 3/4" to 1/2" adapter on the other end.
 
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So does this mean I have a problem

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No more so than a couple of fools I know that have kydex for there's..............so, yeah, come to think of it you do have a problem :D Is that the gator hide you and I was talking about the other night?
 
1066vik said:
I've seen guys use a 6-12" long piece of aluminum arrow and a 2' long piece of flexible tubing for this -- I use an 18-24" long scrap of 1/2" copper pipe with one end flattened and a 3/4" to 1/2" adapter on the other end.
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nice. i'll have to take a look into that. thanks for the info
 
pretty good lookin' knife, I must say. S30V too? awesome. my understanding is that S30V holds a working edge forever, but loses the razor pretty quickly. That would likely drive me crazy, but I'm still curious...

-Daizee
 
I was looking at a Buck Nobleman until I saw one in person. Pics made it look reasonably sized, but in person, far tinier than I want. So hard to get a good idea of scale in internet pics.
 
GSO1962 said:
I thought it was Todd Hunt?
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Where'd you hear that? :)

Chameleonbear said:
I thought it was Tiberius Mabel Hunt...
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I thought it was Tim Mike Hunt. :P

daizee said:
pretty good lookin' knife, I must say. S30V too? awesome. my understanding is that S30V holds a working edge forever, but loses the razor pretty quickly. That would likely drive me crazy, but I'm still curious...

-Daizee
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It holds an edge well but is tougher to sharpen. My EDC is a ZT0350 (s30v blade) and I love the knife but I actually don't like S30v much. It may take longer to get dull but it takes 2-3 times the effort to sharpen or you can sharpen it as often to reduce the effort. I like the stuff Kershaw uses in most of their stuff, 8cr13mov and the like. Holds and edge well enough and I can get it shaving sharp in a couple minuets.
 
GSO1962 said:
I thought it was Todd Hunt?
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My name is indeed Todd GSO. However, there's a long standing joke that I'm not gonna take the time to explain, basically, you can't expect most of these fools to remember there own name let alone MY name. So, I say as long as it starts with a T, that's close enough.
My name is Todd, but all my friends call me anything that starts with a T. :rolleyes:
 
TMHunt said:
No more so than a couple of fools I know that have kydex for there's..............so, yeah, come to think of it you do have a problem :D Is that the gator hide you and I was talking about the other night?
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Yup Tyler thats the stuff.
 
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