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Beer is proof that God loves us,and wants us to be happy-B. Franklin
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| Posts: 2014 | Location: Oreegun Territory | Registered: 24 March 2013 |
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Pilgrim
| My wife is a heavy-duty quilter. A while back, I asked her about getting some 100% cotton batting (she normally uses a blend). I now have about 5 yards of leftover batting about 3/16" thick, and was wondering if anyone has tried using this to make char. I haven't had an opportunity as yet.
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Hivernant
| Cotton rope does work good. Just beware of imported cotton rope. Must have oil or something in cotton. It said it was 100% cotton, but didn't work.
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Booshway
| I tried my hand at charring punk wood this weekend. It works great! I found some logs in my wood pile that had degraded to the "spongy texture" of punk wood. I broke it up and charred it in the grill in a steel paint can. It caught the spark just as easily as char cloth. You do have to hold it opposite of char cloth. I put it in a tender box and held the steel striker just over the tender. I struck the steel with the flint showering sparks down rather than striking flint with steel to shower sparks up onto char cloth. Give a try. |
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| quote: Southern Red Ceder
There sure must be a lot of different kinds of woods called cedar. Around my in the Arkansas Ozarks we have a lot of eastern red cedar and juniper. I'm told they are different but, except for the juniper growing like a bush and the tree like a well....tree, the woods appear identical. Western cedar is another thing altogether. But, I have never before heard of "southern red cedar". Wats it like? |
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| Posts: 32 | Location: Southern Minnesota | Registered: 24 May 2015 |
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Factor
| Mountaineer,I followed your link about making char.Some very good ideas there...I've got a cottonwood stump that has gone to punk...Hmm.
Beer is proof that God loves us,and wants us to be happy-B. Franklin
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| Posts: 2014 | Location: Oreegun Territory | Registered: 24 March 2013 |
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Factor
| I always preferred wild grapevine myself, or old dry wild rose. Wild grapevine is a vine hanging from a tree with a loose bark that appears to be peeling away in small pieces. Easy to peel, but BEWARE it will be hanging FREE of the trunk of the three. IF it's covered in what looks like fine tendrils grasping the trunk of the tree, and clings to that tree trunk as it goes upward, THAT is POISON IVY and leave it alone. LD
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