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    While in Louisiana last winter, went hunting with the DD and SIL.
    Their lease is in a pine plantation, and as it has been used several times, I noticed that there was a lot of "lighter pine", "fat wood", "pine knots" or what ever you call it laying around.
    As my mind is always looking for "stuff", I picked up a bunch of it, cut it into small pieces, for use as fire starter.

    When I go done, I had quite a bit of sawdust left from cutting.
    So I figured that it also would burn pretty good.

    Collected some paper egg cartons, melted some wax and came up with my
    New and Improved fire starters.
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    This is the old style (not the beer), simply the news paper that I used to catch over flow, rolled as tight as I could, tied up with string, and also soaked in the bal of the wax.

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    In testing both, it turns out that both have a burn time of about 12-15 min,
    easy to light and would probaly start almost any wood, unless it was very wet.

    In honesty, the old rolled up paper work as well as the egg carton, was less work, and far easier. (Never know till you try
    Oh, well, at least I have a freash supply to tuck into my BOB, coat pockets,
    etc.
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    Very good! When your wood is damp and hard to light, this will give it a good amount of time to dry out enough to get going.
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    Good stuff. Thanks.
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    Good show! I have found them handy to have around for sure!
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    That's pretty slick. You'll just have to smile every time you light one knowing someone would have left that fat wood lay. You recycled it and put it to GOOD use! Nice job.
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