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Lighting Fires Under Wet Conditions with Pitch
Yesterday I was out walking in the woods. One thing I always watch for is sources of pitch or resin. The best sources are usually pine or other types of evergreens that have been damage or died. When a tree is damaged, it uses pitch to heal itself. This morning I was quite lucky I came across a big old pine that had lost some branches. The branches were surprisingly dry and had a lot of expose pitch. It had rained only the day before quite hard.
I gathered up some of the branches and took them home to experiment with. …
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Posted in Self sufficiency, Seventy-two hour kits, survival
Tagged pitch, resin, starting fires, starting fires.Howard
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