Following on from British Red's generous offer recently I have two large pieces of Fomes going post free to the first lucky PM senders. Could you please remember to include an address with your PM! 
BOTH GONE
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bushyboo
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pm sent fred
again this site has surprised me its not just the info that that comes for free
many thanks
again this site has surprised me its not just the info that that comes for free
many thanks
Fred,
Fomes arrived today
Thank you so very much please have some well deserved rep :You_Rock_
Thanks once again.
Best regards,
Phil.
Fomes arrived today
Thank you so very much please have some well deserved rep :You_Rock_
Thanks once again.
Best regards,
Phil.
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bushyboo
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Glad all the Fomes arrived safely. If you want more in the future you can always PM me and I'll see what I can do. Quite a lot of it about here. 
Leon,
Whichever way you do it is going to use a lot of fuel. I know I would have to do it outside, likely to be smelly, so perhaps a small fire. Again you would have to be there to keep it going. I wonder if you could speed things up with a pressure cooker. Does anyone know?
Whichever way you do it is going to use a lot of fuel. I know I would have to do it outside, likely to be smelly, so perhaps a small fire. Again you would have to be there to keep it going. I wonder if you could speed things up with a pressure cooker. Does anyone know?
Do it outside for gods sake!! If you have a wife, she'll kill you if you do it indoors, and I don't think your mum would be too chuffed with the smell Leon!!
I only boiled mine for three or four hours, and then again the same after I pounded hell out of it. When it dried it wasn't much good, and it has been sat in my cellar for ages. I went down last week and found it again, I gave it a try and it was really soft and caught well in my fire piston.
I'm gonna find some more and give it another try this weekend, maybe put a bit of ash in with the fungus. I'll tell you how I get on!
I only boiled mine for three or four hours, and then again the same after I pounded hell out of it. When it dried it wasn't much good, and it has been sat in my cellar for ages. I went down last week and found it again, I gave it a try and it was really soft and caught well in my fire piston.
I'm gonna find some more and give it another try this weekend, maybe put a bit of ash in with the fungus. I'll tell you how I get on!
I managed some passable stuff after half an hour in the microwave (when SWMBO was out 
) , managed to get it to smoulder with a firesteel but haven't tried again in ages.....
) , managed to get it to smoulder with a firesteel but haven't tried again in ages.....Similar threads
