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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 15:09:17 GMT -6
 I went out to the lake today and used my hudson bay to cut down a old dead small tree and make fire wood. Then i made some tinder and ember nest. It was very windy and for the most part every thing was wet. I was able to make an ember with charcloth useing my firepiston. And after placeing the ember in its nest and blowing for a while i had a small hand held fire. I fed it tinder and had a pretty good fire going soon. I love my fire piston and i highly sugest it. Its from wilderness solutions. |
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Post by krank on Mar 12, 2013 18:10:38 GMT -6
I want one!.....Actually I got one I made and it barely works (my fault). Nobody knew what a firepiston was until John Knowles wrote about it and made a sketch in "Cache Lake Country". Some folks from my generation developed the idea and started mail-order companies. I will have to spend alot to get a good one. (I see cheapos made out of pvc)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 12, 2013 18:47:53 GMT -6
me too...
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 8:38:29 GMT -6
Krank mines made from cocobolo and is very strong. I have had sometimes when i went too fast and sliped and should have broke the shaft but it is still solid. The key is to patiently and carefully push the rod quickly. Not hurry and go fast. There is a difference ive learned.
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Post by trkyslyr on Mar 13, 2013 13:43:34 GMT -6
GET A LIGHTER!!!! HAAAAAAA
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 14:12:57 GMT -6
Ive got plenty of lighters but thanks for the advise. This isnt about fire.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 18:35:15 GMT -6
Well let me refraise thet. It is about fire. And a fire piston is a lighter. But bush craft is a hobby of sorts. And its really about keeping in touch with previous methods of fire makeing and survival skills that were important long before conventional methods of lighting a fire with a lighter and living in a house. I enjoy doing things the old fashioned way as a learning exsperiance. There may come a day when you cant buy a lighter because of hyper inflation. And it may be important to have a backup.
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Post by Walleye Joe on Mar 13, 2013 18:44:25 GMT -6
I'm planning on making my own Fire piston this summer! And charcloth too!  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 19:02:21 GMT -6
 Here is my char cloth tin i got it from wilderness solutions too. It was like 2 or 3 dollars has a hole in the top. Any tin will do you could probably make one with a couple coke cans. You can make char with old strips of dinem or cotton balls. Or any 100% cotton. Make sure its all cotton or it will melt. I bought mine cause i figure its a life time purchase. But im gona make a tin with cans if i dont forget. The fire piston will light other tinders as well such as milkweed pith and tender fungus or punk wood. Wilderness solutions has blank piston kits that you can asembel your self. I would check that out if i wanted to make my own. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 19:12:21 GMT -6
I pulled this out at a restaurant the other day to show a waitress and the manager notified me that drugs were not allowed in the establishment after i callmed her down she was so amazed she went and got her husband who told me he was gona buy one and told me about his convex lens from boy scouts.
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Post by krank on Mar 13, 2013 19:26:35 GMT -6
$60 for your version and $29 for a synthetic material. I am gonna fix the one I got.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 19:33:17 GMT -6
Mine works really well. But i dont blame you i think i paid forty for mine but i called in and bullshot with him for an hour or so. I plan on using mine ALOT.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 21:31:01 GMT -6
 Punk wood and magnessium with a fero rod. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 21:33:15 GMT -6
I love science.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 22:19:16 GMT -6
 Half a gallon of gas. About 100 200 pounds coon fat. Ferro rod and a stainless knife about five foot away. Primative meets industrial. I love science. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 22:20:22 GMT -6
I can cast a spark a long way!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 22:22:34 GMT -6
I use a lighter on my cigerettes altho i could light them with my fire piston but thats to time consumeing
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Post by Walleye Joe on Mar 14, 2013 5:53:12 GMT -6
Half a gallon of gas. About 100 200 pounds coon fat. Ferro rod and a stainless knife about five foot away. Primative meets industrial. I love science. Do you have any eyebrows left?  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2013 7:18:11 GMT -6
Yea i stood a ways away lol!!!
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Post by krank on Mar 14, 2013 20:09:21 GMT -6
Gas scares me. I keep diesel around for that stuff. If I gotta use gas then I use a tracer round ......  |
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