Owning the skills Initiative: November challenge

[acv]

It's hard to make fire and take pics, but here's my next four attempts.

#7 and #8, Queen Anne's Lace. This stuff is great.

The Queen Ann's Lace really surprised me! It was great stuff right? I would have never tried if it wasn't for this challenge!

 

[Md 25v]

Tinder 10- bamboo scrapings

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Extra points if the 20 flames/coals are from twenty different tinders?

 

[acv]

12 Tops of some tall grass growing in the fields

 

[acv]

13 Fatwood

 

[beanbag]

Tinder #8: Queen Ann's Lace

Tinder #9: The leaf of a corn plant

Tinder #10:The tassel of a corn plant

Tinder #11: Cedar Bark

Tinder #12: Birch Bark

Tinder #13: Tops of tall grass

This caught easy, but burned out too fast to be useful.

Tinder #14: White Pine Needles

Tinder #15: A one stick fire with unidentified wood

Only five more to go.

 

[John G]

Great work everyone, we're really kicking butt now! I'll get back in it ASAP.

 

[skab8541]

Milkweed fluff, man that stuff is hard to photograh

Then used the Ovum from the pod and blew it to flame in the pod:

Then used a sunflower stalk I had been using as a spindle for bow and drill:

second try:

Mullen stalk shavings:

Second go at it:

Punk wood of some type:

First one still burning, got the second to go:

Cottonwood inner bark scrapings:

Second go at it :

 

[RescueRiley]

Phragmities head in a fire lay

went up quick

Next up Dried Grass

again went up great

 

[acv]

14 Cedar feather stick

 

[acv]

15 phragmites seed head

 

[acv]

16 phragmites leaves

 

[beanbag]

Tinder #16: Unidentified coastal vegetation

Tinder #17: Shredded Tulip Tree bark

Here's an exotic tinder for you:

Tinder #18: Dry Sea Grass

Tinder #19: Unidentified Coastal Vegetation:

Tinder #20: Unidentified Sno-Ball type flower from a tree, not a shrub:

Tinder #21: Cat Tails

Tinder #22: Phragmites

 

[acv]

#17 Seed Pod

PS I struck out 3 times over the weekend trying to find tinder that would ignite into flames.

 

[acv]

#18 Some seeds and fluff

a little blurry but you get the idea

 

[acv]

19 dried hydrangeas flower

 

[Md 25v]

Sorry I've been out of this for a while. I was posting vids for the first ten but am having technical troubles with my vid camera so pics only for the rest of mine.

Catch up time

Tinder 11
Dry grass #2

Tinder 12
fatwood #2

Tinder 13
white pine branch shavings

Tinder 14
cedar shavings

Tinder 15
Red Oak #2

 

[Md 25v]

Tinder 16
Yucca #2

Tinder 17
sugar maple shavings from branch cut for tent peg

Tinder 18
bamboo #2

Tinder 19
Dry leaves: It was windy so I put them in the bamboo to hold everything together

Tinder 20
River cane stalk

DONE
Now to start on the Dec challenge!

 

[acv]

#20 Hard Pine Sap Nugget

Took a few times but it burned

 

[RescueRiley]

Sorry for the delay guys, nice work everyone.. The winer of the November challenge, and of the maxpediditon Bottle holder is Bean bag..
lets start seeing some progress Towards December... for a shot at a condor Bushlore

 

[John G]

Congrats to Bean Bag!

I kind of pooped out on this challenge, what with Thanksgiving preparations, and then getting sick. I just didn't get out very much. But thanks to everyone for the support and encouragement! I learned a lot from this.