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Post by hawkeye on Oct 8, 2007 14:40:31 GMT -5
Finding dry firewood on a rainy day can be hard, but it isn't impossible. Willow clumps usually have a lot of dead wood at their base, and almost every one has a kind of a cave or tunnel. Deep inside there is dry firewood. These tunnels also make good places to get out of the wind and rain, but be careful about building fires inside. If the fire gets away from you, you only have one way out.
Once you have your fire going you can generally dry out damp wood by leaning it ON END close to the fire. This will also make a wind break and a heat reflector.
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Post by huckleberry on Oct 8, 2007 15:49:03 GMT -5
for heat....and lots of smoke....use pine wood if ya can.....stuff gets hot and smokes like the devil....cedar is also good...the wood ....not our pretty little lady Cedar.....lol
Not a good wood to cook anything over though......yuck!!!!
Wet wood also puts off a lot of steam......which can be seen for a long ways......just be careful not to put your fire out with it....or even explode.......to much water in some wood will do just that.
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Post by hawkeye on Oct 8, 2007 18:12:38 GMT -5
The absolute worse is hemlock. I've seen logs hit the head rig in a saw mill and the blade makes a rooster tail about 8" high all along the log.
Heard about a guy that built a log cabin out of hemlock logs. It caught fire and he took his .22 and started shooting holes in the walls. Water poured out of the bullet holes and put the fire out.
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Post by hawkeye on Oct 8, 2007 18:14:37 GMT -5
Huck, did you mean cedar isn't good to cook over? You have obviously never had cedar planked salmon. Best way to fix salmon on a grill that I have found!
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Post by huckleberry on Oct 8, 2007 18:44:07 GMT -5
To use like ya would charcoal it aint worth a hoot..........everything tastes like cedar wood!!!!!
I have never eaten or seen salmon cooked that way....i have heard of it...but never had the chance to try it. I do love good salmon though!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by hawkeye on Oct 8, 2007 22:43:26 GMT -5
The cedar gives the salmon a real nice smokey flavor, you would like it. Cedar burns to fast, the coals don't last long.
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Post by Earl8656 on Dec 14, 2007 1:05:57 GMT -5
Save your cedar for kindling, it's some of the best. Also look for lighter knots, some will start blazing with just a match to them.
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Post by Sunshine on Jan 29, 2008 22:28:01 GMT -5
i use corn cobs for kinlin
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Post by huckleberry on Jan 30, 2008 9:54:46 GMT -5
I thought ya saved all your corn cobs for the outhouse...... ;D
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Post by scansy on Jan 30, 2008 12:24:30 GMT -5
LMAO.
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Post by Sunshine on Jan 30, 2008 13:54:48 GMT -5
no only the longest ones go in the outhouse. the short stubby ones are for kinlin
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Post by scansy on Jan 30, 2008 14:08:00 GMT -5
;D
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Post by samuelhasguns on Jan 30, 2008 15:19:40 GMT -5
;D
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Post by Sunshine on Jan 30, 2008 16:50:27 GMT -5
i bet your kinlin ;D
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Post by scansy on Jan 30, 2008 16:52:51 GMT -5
Sam's the kinlin. I'm the log....
Oh, never mind.
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Post by Sunshine on Jan 30, 2008 16:53:37 GMT -5
i figured you for more of a twig ;D
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Post by scansy on Jan 30, 2008 16:56:02 GMT -5
Just don't ask my wife.
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Post by hawkeye on Feb 20, 2008 1:02:31 GMT -5
Sure beats a handful of leaves when your in poison ivy country.
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Post by frshwtr on Feb 20, 2008 13:08:45 GMT -5
seen posin ivey used once; well i didnt actually see it used, but i watched the guy suffer afterwards. it shrue wasnt pretty.
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 21, 2008 9:37:22 GMT -5
Man thatd be UNCOMFORTABLE, i bet he wanted to drag his butt across the grass to stop the itching like ive seen dogs do, for whatever reason..LOL
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Post by frshwtr on Feb 21, 2008 13:01:43 GMT -5
it was one of the guys i ran around with, three nights after he used it we double dated to a drive in movie. he was funnnier that jerry lewis.
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 21, 2008 13:04:47 GMT -5
i wonder what his date thought? ;D
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Post by Earl8656 on Feb 21, 2008 18:09:32 GMT -5
i knew a kid that used poison sumac
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Post by Sunshine on Feb 21, 2008 22:30:58 GMT -5
i bet he was a close relative of yours.
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Post by upstateNY on Jun 30, 2009 8:42:47 GMT -5
Heres a poem I read in F-F-G magazine probly over 30 years ago about makeing a fire: First a roll of Birch-Bark,as dry as it can be,then some twigs of hardwood,dead but on the tree.Last of all some knots of pine,to make the kettle foam.And theres a fire to make ya think yer setting right at home.
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Post by hawkeye on Jul 15, 2009 0:07:21 GMT -5
Around here you would be real lucky to find Birch bark, hardwood and pine all on the same day.
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