Post your fire - Weekend Assignment!!!!!!!!!!!

[kgd]

Hey tomorrow is Thursday - and guess what....You may have a long weekend, or you maybe a redneck. Whichever -- I intend to fit both categories....

Okay - seeing good Friday and Easter is this weekend, what a great opportunity to start up a new W&SS assignment. Last week, we dusted off our knives in their little corners, polished 'em and took pictures of them.

The weekend you are going to start a fire. Maybe it is a little fire, maybe you will just light your cancer stick....Maybe several wood palettes will be burned???? Who knows. But you must do these things:

1) Start a fire.
2) Show a picture of your using blade.
3) Enjoy your fire. Perhaps you can snuggle with the wife or sig. other. Maybe you can make a smore. I don't know.

You need to make that fire. Fire = heat = life = living. That is what these assignment threads are all about!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is my tinder - just some pullled strands of a cut piece of the jute twine. Cataches a spark pretty good!

POST YOUR FIRES!!!!

 

[pimpnugget]

will kgd i will do it saturday

 

[bishop85gt]

I can handle that as well. hmm what knife to use....

 

[DOC-CANADA]

k, are you sure that stuff is jute? It looks like binder twine.

Doc

 

[pitdog]

Will do, might try with my smallest knife !!!

 

[AlexN]

Appears to be baleing twine,or sisal. Still,it's dried grass,tough as hell,and catches fire from any spark really well. And,as someone pointed out on another thread,even wet grass is easily dried out.
I tied up many many hundreds of tomato plants with that stuff working in tomato fields when I was a kid. Takes a pretty good knife to cut it all day long. I used to carry a smooth stone picked up from the creek bank to sharpen with.LOL My Dad wouldn't let me out of the house with his "whet rock". He knew I would probably break it or loose it.

 

[myright]

Sounds like a good assignment to me :thumbup: I've been telling myself I need to practice for quite some time now.

 

[kgd]

k, are you sure that stuff is jute? It looks like binder twine. Doc

Hi Doc, it was a commercial role from CDN tire- might not actually be jute and I've lost the label a long time ago. I saw that it was a natural fibre and bought it. It catches a spark pretty good, but it helps to fluff it somewhat the edge of your knife. Maybe I'll look for some real jute this weekend to see if there is a difference in fire prep.

I like to keep about 10' of the stuff wrapped up in my bag and about 3' in my kit - multi-use for tying things here and there as well as fire. It always make me a bit sad when I have to cut paracord for a temporary reason and I try to use this instead when I can.

 

[kgd]

Okay - I'm expecting some good fire posts tomorrow morning from tonight! Today - I had an absolutely terrible day. Political nightmare involving one long term friend and colleague trying to get me to sabbotage another long term friend and colleague. Just the fact that this guy would approach me on the issue ask to do what he wanted me do makes me feel partially guilty. Anyways it was bad....I think I wiggled out of it without damaging the other guy but #1 - who was being down right nasty is now treating me as though I'm the one who screwed him over.....I guess that is how it goes. I hate it when people try to get all manipulative with you like that.

When you need to kick some butt - might as well be wood. I needed some stress relief and the wood on my porch was going to tank the brunt of my anger!!!

Pile wood vs. 2 knives and a nice SAK (Gifted by Fonly).

That was a good warm up....But I was still feeling pent up. So I tackled a nasty old knotty stump. Something that I would never normally attempt to baton through. I looked at the scrapyard SOD (I really needed to beat something hard) and actually said out loud 'Well Scrapyard lets see your meddle!'

I was banging away at this thing like no tomorrow. I have a nice fat blister on my baton hand now. This thing was as resistant as stink. I tried before chopping this thing with my fiskars axe - the axe bounced off the thing and the stump actually chuckled at me. Not this time.

There are just so many knots in this damn thing - there was literally no angle on which to hit it where you wouldn't encounter one. I just beat and beat and beat the hell with it on with my baton. This is not the kind of thing I'd ever normally do. I got to the point where I just thought -- "Well I guess I'm going to first hand experience the scrap yard warranty now." The knife shifted in angle as I was beating it and I actually thought I bent it. Actually it was the wood, deforming around the knife but still refusing to split!!!. Finally a good 10 min later success...

Here are the spoils of my labour.

The scrapyard admittedly isn't shaving hair as well, but the edge is still grabby and will cut through paper. The scrapyard did amaze me here, it really is tough as hell!

The quality of wood isn't that great, so I'm going to have my fire tomorrow night, give the cut up pieces an extra day to dry out a bit. Tomorrow Becky and I will be roasting some marshmallows.

Okay now the rest of you: POST YOUR FIRES!!!!!!!!!!

 

[j williams]

Im on duty for 36 hors starting saturday. Hmm. The boys are on Spring break. Maybe we will get out and build a nice fire tommarow. :thumbup:

 

[Bushman5]

does torching the old warehouse down the street count?

i'ma going to try to get out this weekend.....my HSGI chest rig is sitting forlornly on the shelf, wondering why it is not out in the woods.

 

[defaultuser]

:thumbup:OK...Having drank the whole bottle of this amazing brew...

...it suddenly seemed a very good idea to start a little fire in my garage :foot:

In order to do so, I used some of the fatwood I harvested more than a year ago, and this little firestarting package

Having scraped some fatwood dust and fine curls:

After ONE strike (man fatwood is amazing stuff :thumbup:

Assignment done

 

[Steven Andrews]

I camped out in the woods with my eldest daughter last night.

My daughter:


Our fire, and my knife:


We booked a twin room in the Hilleberg hotel:


My camp tools:

 

[jds1]

Nice knife/fire photo Steven... lots of drama.

Jeff

 

[kgd]

Now we're talking FIRE. Good job guys - lets keep those pics coming!

 

[Fonly]

Oh man K, I'll get one up today, I just got a new striker, Silvia A-30 and Fiskars saw, so They will be getting used.

 

[milani74]

Start the weekend!

 

[kgd]

Looking good Milani - I love it when that heart wood is dark red like that!

 

[dipbait]

Im also posting these in the 1000 post contest.

I started a fire today when everything was wet. I found some old horseweeds and split them.

Scraped the dry parts with the green JK

Threw some sparks

and fire

Special thanks to my twelve year old for the excellent photography.

 

[kgd]

Alright - I got my pile of wood from yesterday going up today. It wasn't the best wood and thus I had to split it small to get it all to go. However, in the end the fire was nice. So today, after supper was made, I made my fire. I grabbed my fire kit here.

Now I have to admit a little lazyness. Usually, I try to get the flame going from the wood or use natural tinder. However, today I had my bottle of wine, belly full of food (Cajun jambalya - yum) and I just wanted to kick it in front of the fire. Now I wasn't such a lazy butt, that I grabbed a ligher. Rather I used my magic powder. This little tin contains a Coglan's firestick that was ground up in a coffee grinder. Takes a spark as good as PJC's.

And we have ignition!

Gaze into the fire....you find yourself getting sleepy.....all the cares are slipping out of your body.....yes it is just you and the elementals here tonight .....

Just in case somebody didn't get the point of this thread.....POST YOUR FIRES!!!!!!!