It was a nice day today, the thermometer at the bank said it was 82F / 28C at 12:45 pm today, it's been a while since it was that "cool" at that time of the day. Lately it has been around 98F / 36C with heat indexes of around 110F / 43C. I had a theory I had been wanting to test and therefor an experiment I had been wanting to try. So this evening I headed off to the woods for a bit in search of a large leaf and some punk. Punk is something that is almost always in great supply in the woods here.
I saw a few other things along the way but was limited in photos by the small memory card in my little p&s as the 4 gig is now in the SLR and I haven't bothered to pick up another larger one yet. The large leaf I found was a muscadine leaf, and I noted, looking at a smaller vine, that muscadines don't seem to be such great judges of tree heights.
I'm really not quite sure what this is, I've seen a few here and there but never many in one spot.
The only mushroom I saw today.
The trees seem to be under assault from multiple attackers
Then I found the punk I was looking for, time for the experiment.
The first step was to burn the spindle into the new hearth-board I had made and cut the notch.
The next step was to get a coal.
the forth step...of which I didn't take time to snap the picture...was to transfer the coal to the punk and try the punk as an extender/tinder. Then the next step was to blow the coaling punk into a larger coal and use that heat to ignite smaller twigs. This shot was taken as I was blowing the coaling punk into a large hot ember.
And the experiment was a success.
I'll have to put this to use more later this year as it cools off more. Friction fire is really neat,you really don't need a fire to stay warm...seem multiple attempts alone will keep a body warm
.
I saw a few other things along the way but was limited in photos by the small memory card in my little p&s as the 4 gig is now in the SLR and I haven't bothered to pick up another larger one yet. The large leaf I found was a muscadine leaf, and I noted, looking at a smaller vine, that muscadines don't seem to be such great judges of tree heights.
I'm really not quite sure what this is, I've seen a few here and there but never many in one spot.
The only mushroom I saw today.
The trees seem to be under assault from multiple attackers
Then I found the punk I was looking for, time for the experiment.
The first step was to burn the spindle into the new hearth-board I had made and cut the notch.
The next step was to get a coal.
the forth step...of which I didn't take time to snap the picture...was to transfer the coal to the punk and try the punk as an extender/tinder. Then the next step was to blow the coaling punk into a larger coal and use that heat to ignite smaller twigs. This shot was taken as I was blowing the coaling punk into a large hot ember.
And the experiment was a success.
I'll have to put this to use more later this year as it cools off more. Friction fire is really neat,you really don't need a fire to stay warm...seem multiple attempts alone will keep a body warm
.
