Hi all, been trying for a while to start a natural wood bow drill fire and finely got one to go. Finding wood that I can get to work has been challenging. Here in central Florida anything that is dead rots very quickly and so far no luck finding anything that is still solid enough to use. There is a small tree growing next to my house and I had to trim a section that was rubbing the roof edge. The wood was sitting on the outdoor pile for a few months before I decided to try it. Made a great spindle but the hearth board was quite hard to split with just a camp knife and oak batten. To my surprise it went to ember quickly. Would really like to try and figure out what species it is. It has very distinctive bark and the leaves looks a bit like Cornus.
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BTW - I did find a lot of Basswood near Lake Apopka and have some drying now.
Anybody know of any other species I should be looking for? Thanks, Dale
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