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Jute Twine and Fire Starting
Last weekend I was at an event in which there was a demonstration of various methods of fire starting. One young gentleman was extremely fast at starting a bow and drill, you could tell he had done a lot of practice. He was using jute twine to form the bird’s nest in which he placed his hot ember. The jute worked beautifully and flamed up well.
This got me to thinking about jute, I knew it burned, but had never used it to start fires. So since then I have been playing with it and will add some to my fire starting kit. …
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Tagged fire starting, firesteel, Howard, Light My Fire, magnesium, vaseline
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