Post milestone comp

[Ogri the trog]

So you want detail in the answer eh?
I've watched you work John and if your current methods are anything like you used to use - coupled with a little imaginative progression, it runs something like this......

You strike your spark using a striker that you made from an old file on a piece of flint foraged from some distant foreshore. The spark is caught on a piece of borrowed charcloth and blown till it glows good and red.
Now you put the ember into a nest of pocket fluff and various grasses and hold it up to your face to blow the fire egg into life.....
On about the third or fourth breath, its your beard that catches light - but being a seasoned veteran of the technique, it phases you not.
Until that is the smoke causes you to sneeze, the formentioned fire bundle is spread about the surrounding countryside where something, somewhere is bound to catch fire.
It is then simply a case of constructing your campfire at the site of the most convenient conflagration.

Thats just has to be close to actuality.

ATB

Ogri the trog

 

[Whittler Kev]

Ahh - but that does not have the kindling in it......

Dragons breath, Bullrush fluff, birch bark and inner, split apple wood
Makes me want to nip outside now and be a pyromaniac

 

[Bravo4]

Now you put the ember into a nest of pocket fluff and various grasses and hold it up to your face to blow the fire egg into life.....

ahh...the Dragon's breath....exhaled vapors of 180 proof???

 

[Whittler Kev]

So you want detail in the answer eh?
I've watched you work John and if your current methods are anything like you used to use - coupled with a little imaginative progression, it runs something like this......

You strike your spark using a striker that you made from an old file on a piece of flint foraged from some distant foreshore. The spark is caught on a piece of borrowed charcloth and blown till it glows good and red.
Now you put the ember into a nest of pocket fluff and various grasses and hold it up to your face to blow the fire egg into life.....
On about the third or fourth breath, its your beard that catches light - but being a seasoned veteran of the technique, it phases you not.
Until that is the smoke causes you to sneeze, the formentioned fire bundle is spread about the surrounding countryside where something, somewhere is bound to catch fire.
It is then simply a case of constructing your campfire at the site of the most convenient conflagration.

Thats just has to be close to actuality.

ATB

Ogri the trog

Love it....sounds like me. I owe you a beer Ogri . See you at Rough Close? :welcome1:

 

[John Fenna]

So you want detail in the answer eh?
I've watched you work John and if your current methods are anything like you used to use - coupled with a little imaginative progression, it runs something like this......

You strike your spark using a striker that you made from an old file on a piece of flint foraged from some distant foreshore. The spark is caught on a piece of borrowed charcloth and blown till it glows good and red.
Now you put the ember into a nest of pocket fluff and various grasses and hold it up to your face to blow the fire egg into life.....
On about the third or fourth breath, its your beard that catches light - but being a seasoned veteran of the technique, it phases you not.
Until that is the smoke causes you to sneeze, the formentioned fire bundle is spread about the surrounding countryside where something, somewhere is bound to catch fire.
It is then simply a case of constructing your campfire at the site of the most convenient conflagration.

Thats just has to be close to actuality.

ATB

Ogri the trog

Close but...no cigar!
I actually melted a hole through 3 layers of synthetic fibre clothing lighting my hobo stove - this is why wool rules!

 

[John Fenna]

Getting very close now...any more detailed answers?
If not the prize will go to the nearest (IMHO) so far!

 

[Cap'n Badger]

er.....green turbo lighter John...

 

[John Fenna]

True - there is one in the wannigan...but I have not used it in over a year...so...no cigar!

 

[Mesquite]

One swan vesta match with birch bark shavings as tinder

 

[John Fenna]

I never carry matches - too unrelyable!
Like my spelling!

 

[Bravo4]

 

[Klenchblaize]

Just amazing what you can buy on E-Bay!

Cheers

 

[sapper1]

Having put a bit more thought into this,I haven't ever seen you using a dry weather kit John.
Everytime you leave the house ,it rains.So I would say your dry weather kit doesn't exist.

 

[John Fenna]

I used it last friday night!
A dry weekend Bushy Meet!
The curse is lifted!

 

[John Fenna]

Oh - I want one!

 

[dean4442]

Well if it doesn't tell you how to make one in your book then surely it's not bushcrafty gear!

As for your firelighting kit then it must be a steel made from what's left of excaliber struck from a piece of the finest welsh flint onto the belly button fluff of a buxom welsh maiden?

My coat how kind

 

[Bravo4]

Oh - I want one!

Nothing quite like it for a quick brew-up .

5,999.....

 

[John Fenna]

OK - the winner is...muted drumroll....long pause....long pause.......

:You_Rock_
NAGUAL
:You_Rock_
who would seem to be the nearest with
"One of your own hand crafted steels, bit o flint, home made char cloth to hold the ember, and some fluffed birch bark to catch the flame...."

The fullest answer would have been

"one of your own hand forged steels, a bit of flint, home made 100% cotton terry toweling char cloth to hold the ember, and some fluffed birch bark and dried grass to catch the flame and birch twiglets as kindling"

So Nagual - PM me with your e-mail address and a PDF of my DIY Budget Bushcrafting equipment book will be on its way to you!

Others came very close - especially those who mentioned my Dragons Breath flint and steel kits (which would have been right until I started making the forged steels as well) and I do often use bullrush fluff and or dried polypore when realy good dry grass is not available. I was particualerly pleased that Nagual emphasisesed the "home made " aspect of the kit I prefer

My favourite materials are not always to hand - especially in the wet weather of Wales, so I use other materials as and when I find it apropriate.....
I will use that flamethrower (when it is sent to me) for firelighting in the Welsh monsoon!

 

[dean4442]

Well done there Nagual, John I suppose you won't be needing this buxom welsh maiden I was about to offer you to carry your tinder in her belly button then? No, ah well I'll just have to release her into the wild again even though it took ages to craft the trap and catch her.
Colin

 

[Shewie]

Well done Nag, good comp John