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I use pitch wood, it works great. In the springtime I kept my eyes open for pitch wood when cutting firewood. Always look for lightning strikes, oh boy that gets some pitch flowing and collect loose bark thats coated in pitch. If on firewood I cut out a section, split it up very small and let it dry good.
Hemlock, Douglas fir, all have good pitch. My grandpa showed me what he carried around in his back pack for 60 years. It was a small leather pouch that smelled of pine pitch. Inside was pretty old pitch wood. I think I was 8 and we were out elk hunting. It ended up snowing about 10 inches in just a few hours, so needless to say we needed a fire. He got that little leather bag out and I collected some dry twigs under a few big fir trees. All it took was one match and it ignited fast. Nice black sooty smoke from that pitch burning.
Sooo needless to say thats all I ever use. I collect a little every year just to make sure I have enough on hand.
I've heard you can get a big fire going using the whole block.
Why does it not surprise me that Grylls has tampons.
I always have the makin's in the vehicles! The quickest would probably be, prepare the fuel and then use the hand sanitizer and BIC's from the door panels! Plenty of other items in the kits.
If we are going vehicles...
Road flares burn nice and hot for a long time
I've carried those in the field too. And for campfire before I bought a diesel truck.
That's to obvious Joe and takes the fun out of it.
WHAT you don't keep a C4 fire starter kit in the door of your truck?
Ha, you know what I learned in Boy Scouts during my many years in it...
Gasoline makes a great fire starter without any of the effort - just pile wood and soak liberally (the wood not liberals). Stand back and toss a match in the general direction of the wood.
I always like putting the gas on after the fire is going, it's more "exciting" that way.Ha, you know what I learned in Boy Scouts during my many years in it...
Gasoline makes a great fire starter without any of the effort - just pile wood and soak liberally (the wood not liberals). Stand back and toss a match in the general direction of the wood.