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Post by rickyguitar on Mar 18, 2021 18:21:29 GMT -5
Speaking of fire, found my zippo the other day. Just saying
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 18, 2021 22:15:30 GMT -5
Where I did a lot of my growin' up and camping and fishing in the southeast US, there's a thing that goes by various names, including lighterknot, lightered pine, and fatwood. Many old timers called it "rich lighter," which is probably where the name Richlite came from. Anyway...
It is a natural result of dead standing resinous pines (longleaf and loblolly, mostly). As the xylem/sapwood of the large branches and trunk dry out, the resin in the wood condenses into the heartwood. This heartwood becomes so saturated with resin that it is bugproof and rotproof. You can often bust open dead standing pine and find fatwood in the center of it, but the best bet is in the middle of the stump. Knock an old dead pine stump apart with an axe and you'll find some. Lightered pine is usually a bright yellow color and it reeks of turpentine.
And it makes a fantastic firestarter--even when it, and you, and everything you have is soaking wet. You can hold a match up to a big hunk of it and it will light. There's no need to whittle shavings off unless you're using a fire bow or a spark striker like a BlastMatch. A 6" stick of fatwood the size of your thumb can be used numerous times to light many fires. Once the tinder gets going, smother the fatwood and wrap it in a piece of foil for later use.
It burns very hot for a long time, puts off a black sooty smoke when burning by itself, and often sizzles and pops like bacon...hence the "fatwood" moniker. You can sometimes find this commercially packaged in shops that sell fireplace and wood stove supplies.
Or you can go for a walk in the woods with a small axe and collect it yourself.
"Careful y'don't cut'cherself, Mordechai."
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Post by K4 on Mar 19, 2021 0:16:50 GMT -5
All these labor intensive ways to start a fire. Just go buy a bag of corn chips.
When you no longer need fire you can eat them.
Seriously, this is how I start my smoker.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Mar 19, 2021 9:08:44 GMT -5
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 19, 2021 10:25:22 GMT -5
In the desert, we used to use this stuff we called "tar bush". Don't know it's official, taxonomic name, but it contained a viscous, highly-flammable sap that went up at the touch of a lit match. In the desert, you can remember your name 'Cause there ain't no one for ta give ya no pain Laaaaaa laaaaaaa la-la-la-laaaaaaa Laaaaa-laa-la, laaaaaaa la
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