Some friends and I have been experimenting with fire starting useing material other than char cloth. Much has been said about punk, puffballs, tinder fungus etc, and we have yet to get anything to work like the char cloth. The problem doesn't seem to be catching the spark but transfering that heat to the tinder. We dried, not chared, some tinder fungus and it would take a spark. Then wrapped in our bird nest, no matter what was done the nest would not go to flame!?? The ember would glow hot and lots of smoke from the tinder. We tried tow, grass, paper thin birch bark, all dry but with no luck. We blew under the coal, over it, across it and all we got for the effort was dizzy. If we retried with the char cloth a flame could be produced in seconds. Isn't heat from one like heat from another? Am I missing some "trick" to this??
I believe on the frontier a fire starting medium would have been fairly readily availible and cloth would not have been it.
Can anybody help with this?
Britches
I believe on the frontier a fire starting medium would have been fairly readily availible and cloth would not have been it.
Can anybody help with this?
Britches