Posted in Fire craft, Food and Drink, Meetups and gatherings, Nature, Wildlife, tagged birds, crusader cup, fire, food, Hazel, tinder on 26/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last Friday I headed off to the British Birdwatching Fair which is a three day event held annually at Rutland Water Nature Reserve.
I was there to make contact with nature tourism companies who are, or who are considering running tours in Northern Sweden.
After a day at the bird fair I travelled down to Danemead Scout [...]
Posted in Fire craft, Lapland, Natural Materials, Plants, Saami, tagged Angelica, fuel, natural medincine, Saami, Sami, tinder, umbellifer on 10/05/2009 | 2 Comments »
The standing dead stems of most umbellifers can be used to easily make fire
as they provide everything you need from tinder to fuel (as long as the weather is dry)
All you have to do is gather the remnants of the seed heads together and grab you firesteel
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Posted in Fire craft, tagged fire, tinder on 21/12/2008 | 2 Comments »
IMPORTANT NOTICE!!
Short circuiting Lithium batteries is apparently very dangerous and can result in the battery catching fire or exploding so only use this method in a true survival situation!!
I like to set myself challenges, so while out the other day I decided to see whether I could make fire with just the items in my [...]
Posted in Equipment, Fire craft, tagged fire, tinder on 20/12/2008 | 2 Comments »
I like to set myself challenges, so while out the other day I decided to see whether I could make fire with just the items in my pocket. The items from my pocket were a set of keys, my mobile phone, cotton wool from a small bandage and a small piece of wire wool.
I [...]
Posted in Fire craft, Stone, tagged fire, firesteel, flint, tinder, wire wool on 05/11/2008 | 4 Comments »
I am always seeking new tinders to add to my tinder pouch for use with flint and steel……char cloth, true tinder fungus, false tinder fungus and so on. Recently I have discovered a new addition which is certainly not as messy to carry as char cloth and doesn’t disintegrate like fungus. I know [...]
Posted in Fire craft, fungi, tagged billy can, Bow-drill, tinder on 01/12/2007 | Leave a Comment »
Found this fallen Poplar tree while out walking.
The bark can be used as a bearing block for the bow-drill and I have used it to make floats for fishing nets.
The bark is also good to burn as it burns slowly, smouldering rather than flaming and gives off a a lot of heat (the end [...]
