Fat Wood

[Rick]

Simple. Sheesh. You go back to the car and get more. Easy Peasy.

[jdbushcraft]

Simple. Sheesh. You go back to the car and get more. Easy Peasy.

Lol

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[hunter63]

Ever tried making a road flare or man made firestarter while in the woods. Most people can manage to survive with a $400 tent, a cot, sleeping bag, propane stove and road flares... What happens when those get washed down stream or tumble off a cliff or lost in a tent fire or...? A shaving of fat wood will light directly from a ferro rod.

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What if you loose your ferro rod?........Do you know what stone will spark steel?.......or if you lost that....spark another rock?

[jdbushcraft]

I most certainly do. The majority of my camp fires are flint and steel. Got my flints from a creek bed. Every knife I have, except dive and fillet knives, are carbon steel. I carry a couple tins of charred grass, punk and fungus like some carry lighters. :-)

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[hunter63]

It's all about options.....the more ways you know the better.
That and practice.....

I don't normally carry fat wood, but know where to find it if in the right area.....If I don't I just use other ways.

[Rick]

I guess the same question could be asked about your steel and/or your knife. What if you lost them? Those posts were about redundancy not about the only thing to carry.

[jdbushcraft]

Not really about redundancy. (At least the early ones I was replying about)Person asked about collecting fatwood and was told it was useless because of manmade firestarters. No discussion of redundancy there.

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[hunter63]

I think we get it............

[jdbushcraft]

I believe you do hunter, but since rick specifically asked me a question I think that calls for an answer, no?

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[hunter63]

He gets it as well....believe me.

[jdbushcraft]

....,.....

[Zack]

I disagree with the idea of fatwood being "useless". While you may be fond of manmade firestarters, fatwood is my go-to tinder. I think that it is better than most manmade fire starters. In my opinion, manmade tinder sources are unreliable and expensive. Just look at Wetfire! $8 for a pack of five? That's a rip-off, especially when the cubes are hard to start and the individual packages are 75% air... Just my thoughts.

[jdbushcraft]

Wrong guy Zack. I love fatwood.

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[Billy13426]

I am just not willing to spend the money on wet fire when i can go out to the woods and get fat wood for free with just a little bit of work

[Zack]

Wrong guy Zack. I love fatwood.

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Sorry, I misread the quote. I'll edit it.

[Zack]

I am just not willing to spend the money on wet fire when i can go out to the woods and get fat wood for free with just a little bit of work

My thoughts too. In all honesty, from what I found with it, Wetfire is hard to ignite, expensive, and individual cubes are not large enough to be practical for more than a couple uses.

[Billy13426]

yeah i am right with ya zack

[Enigma]

I most certainly do. The majority of my camp fires are flint and steel. Got my flints from a creek bed. Every knife I have, except dive and fillet knives, are carbon steel. I carry a couple tins of charred grass, punk and fungus like some carry lighters. :-)

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This is what I carry too. A Roman fire steel, brass tinder box, and charred cotton. I also carry magnesium shavings in the tongue of my boots. Have used them (The magnesium shavings and charred cotton) on 2 occasions in belting down rain, high in wilderness mountains, 17km's off track looking for a downed aircraft.
I also have a ferro rod around my neck at all times when out bush.

Every now and then I'll be in pine forests, and I do collect a bit of the resinous timber for firelighting and resin for pine pitch mking lessons.

It's crap timber for a decent long burning fire though. Ya can't beat Aussie hardwoods for that.

[Auban]

It's all about options.....the more ways you know the better.
That and practice.....

i agree. there are SO many ways to start a fire...

one i dont hear about much is using a battery and graphite. but if you dont know that it works, its not a fire starter...

[jdbushcraft]

I only know of that working with a car battery. If I have that I have a car which means I have gas so the graphite isn't necessary.

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