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15 Feb ’12
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anyone use this product?
The ultimate and natural way to start a fire in any weather. Dont use harmful chemicals with noxious fumes to start your fire! Our Tinder starters are made of stumps from cultivated pine (fatwood) from the highlands of Mexico. With their 80% resin content, our Tinder starters are extremely easy to light and work even when wet since it is the resin (oil) that burns not the wood. They burn long and hot and they are the perfect companion to our Swedish FireSteel!
19 Feb ’12
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I assume you would shave some off?
15 Feb ’12
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yep, stuff is suppose to have a high resin content
5 Mar ’12
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I use fatwood for getting our wood stove going. You can buy boxes of the stuff off of Amazon. Works well. If I understand correctly fatwood is made by cutting down pine trees and leaving the stumps. The resin/sap travels from the root systems to the stump. After a while you cut down the stump and split it = fatwood.
15 Feb ’12
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I think I know the fire starters you are talking about pork, my wife bought some a couple years ago, I will have to see if I have any more and see if it will take a spark, I had totally forgotten about those
5 Mar ’12
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From our use they do take about 20 seconds or more of open flame to get stay lit. I think fatwood in use with some dry tinder would work -- but if you are relying on fatwood and a magensium spark rod I think you may be in trouble.
15 Feb ’12
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yeah, that was my experience as well, I don't see how flint and steel would work with it, I can think of other things I would use as a tinder bundle before that, I will have to experiment with it though just to fill my curiosity
7 Mar ’12
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It's a good tinder source, but you have to have other stuff to work with as well (typical fire building materials.) You can shave slivers of it that will light with flint & steel, and it burns a bit like a candle. High resin content = quick light, long burn.
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