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Not too bad weatherwise today, little cool but that's nice, so off I set with some of the kit that Talfuchre sent me !
We've had tons of rain, there was water coming from every direction ya looked, even the main trail was like a small stream !
Maisy deciding whether to take a polar bear swim or not !
Onto the kit....
Talfuchre has covered every angle in these kits, there is Fatwood,Jute, Char cloth, tinder fungus,Rubber inner tubing, Ferro rod and striker ! This was the first time I'd used Char cloth, I didn't use the tinder fungus today !
This fire-starter was something that I was keen to try....
As I struggled to get it to light I added some char cloth, man this stuff takes an ember straight away ! I could still only manage to get smoke though and so then added some fatwood shavings.....you can just make out the smoke to the left......
A little more blowing, man I felt like a proper bushcrafter blowing my tinder, hey fire !
In trying to get pics of stuff I managed to let this go out before I could get it under my fire bundle....most of which had been taken by the Tiny terror !!!!
As time was getting on it was back to using what I'm used to and shaved some of the fatwood from the tin onto my fire bundle ( what was left of it) and a few strikes of the ferro rod later I had fire !
To give ya an idea of how wet and damp everything is on the West coast, in the time I had taken this pic of the Terror sniffing where some Otters had been and drinking a cup of tea the fire had gone out !!! Yeah I know I didn't tend it but once you get one to that stage it doesn't usually go out eh !!!!
Anyway my thanks again to Talfuchre, I'm going to practice with the fire starter using different tinder mixes till I master it. I think this will be a great tool for starting a fire in wet weather as your tinder is more or less sheltered from the elements till you set it under your fire bundle !
We've had tons of rain, there was water coming from every direction ya looked, even the main trail was like a small stream !
Maisy deciding whether to take a polar bear swim or not !
Onto the kit....
Talfuchre has covered every angle in these kits, there is Fatwood,Jute, Char cloth, tinder fungus,Rubber inner tubing, Ferro rod and striker ! This was the first time I'd used Char cloth, I didn't use the tinder fungus today !
This fire-starter was something that I was keen to try....
As I struggled to get it to light I added some char cloth, man this stuff takes an ember straight away ! I could still only manage to get smoke though and so then added some fatwood shavings.....you can just make out the smoke to the left......
A little more blowing, man I felt like a proper bushcrafter blowing my tinder, hey fire !
In trying to get pics of stuff I managed to let this go out before I could get it under my fire bundle....most of which had been taken by the Tiny terror !!!!
As time was getting on it was back to using what I'm used to and shaved some of the fatwood from the tin onto my fire bundle ( what was left of it) and a few strikes of the ferro rod later I had fire !
To give ya an idea of how wet and damp everything is on the West coast, in the time I had taken this pic of the Terror sniffing where some Otters had been and drinking a cup of tea the fire had gone out !!! Yeah I know I didn't tend it but once you get one to that stage it doesn't usually go out eh !!!!
Anyway my thanks again to Talfuchre, I'm going to practice with the fire starter using different tinder mixes till I master it. I think this will be a great tool for starting a fire in wet weather as your tinder is more or less sheltered from the elements till you set it under your fire bundle !
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