Sub 1 minute sub zero knife and ferro rod fire.

[gusto5]

The smoke just wants to keep you warm!

 

[Mistwalker]

Very nicely done man, but you can have ALL of that subzero stuff. Lol, I had enough to last me years

awesome! the more i think about it the more i like birch bark over fatwood...not that we have any here to begin with...birch bark can be spotted easily even in deep snow and you can gather it and light it without the use of a knife at all.

Oh yeah, birch bark is awesome. On a dry day I'd walk past a dozen fatwood stumps to get to a river birch tree

 

[Woods Walker]

awesome! the more i think about it the more i like birch bark over fatwood...not that we have any here to begin with...birch bark can be spotted easily even in deep snow and you can gather it and light it without the use of a knife at all.

Yup it's easier to process IMHO and (for me forage). Both are hydrocarbon rich and they beat shavings or feather sticks by a wide margin.

 

[Woods Walker]

Very nicely done man, but you can have ALL of that subzero stuff. Lol, I had enough to last me years




Oh yeah, birch bark is awesome. On a dry day I'd walk past a dozen fatwood stumps to get to a river birch tree

LOL! Sounds Confederate talk to me.

 

[Mistwalker]

LOL! Sounds Confederate talk to me.

LOL, maybe so. But growing up in the deep south (think everglades), and then moving to Michigan just in time for a winter that broke records for overall snowfall, low temps, and number of days below zero, for as far back as they had been keeping records was enough to do me for a bit

 

[LostViking]

This year hasn't been too bad. The last two got my attention.
When you can drive a snowmobile over your house, it is winter.

I guess this is a north country question, but does anyone find fatwood up here?. I look for old pine stumps, but they always seem just be rotten to me. We never seem to get that resinous hardening that you guys down south get.

I will harvest pine resin off trees, but never see fatwood stumps. Birch bark is everywhere. Even on downed trees. The whole rest of the tree will rot away and the birch bark is still uasble.

Just wondering if I'm missing something?

 

[Woods Walker]

This year hasn't been too bad. The last two got my attention.
When you can drive a snowmobile over your house, it is winter.

I guess this is a north country question, but does anyone find fatwood up here?. I look for old pine stumps, but they always seem just be rotten to me. We never seem to get that resinous hardening that you guys down south get.

I will harvest pine resin off trees, but never see fatwood stumps. Birch bark is everywhere. Even on downed trees. The whole rest of the tree will rot away and the birch bark is still uasble.

Just wondering if I'm missing something?

Yes but the only place I can find it is within the branch bud of pine within a tree that died. I got some pics of northern fatwood if yea want me to post them. It's not much however.