I feel your pain BCN, a few years back even the use of charcoal burning grills was off limits, heck it seemed like half the state was on fire. We have gotten a good soaking or 2 and there's more coming from the SSW. Hopefully it makes its way up the backside of the ozarks and blue mountains to help tamp some of those fires over there.
There's not much to do on a rainy (read downpour) Saturday except sit outside and make a cup of healthy herbal tea.
How do you like that hex stove? I own the Emberlit Ti, and like it. But it's sort of a hassle to assemble. Yours looks easier, like an accordion. Easy?
It's been good to me. The door has to fold back against the outside to "de-accordion" it and can take a minute of fiddling with it to get it to go fully either way. Never has an issue opening to add wood or increase airflow tho. It's never happened to me personally but stories persist of the tension piece unclipping when it's hot. ( it's like a compression piece that goes thru a slot) I concluded that a stove collapse while it's holding a snowpeak 1 liter pot with my soup/supper in it would be bad (not just in losing the soup but it's generally close to my legs or feet with the door facing me for fire tending.) and I've been known to go 3-4-5 days deep in the woods. I use a girls hairpin or " bobbypin" put thru the clip to prevent a problem I have never had.
Friction fire with a 3.5" spindle and cold hands was not easy. Time to make a new spindle and practice more. Took 4 trys to get a coal.
Try it. It was an experiment for me with the chapstick. Usually use one of my wifes plants leaves. Dont tell her.
Thanks guys. That other item is a cigar punch. I have several other copper/brass items on a larger brass ring, and take what i want to use at the time. I also have a copper flashlight, brass, short tire gauge I found at an antique store, brass bullet bottle opener, brass vial I keep spare lighter fluid in, another brass tube similar to the above, and a brass whistle.
Nope. Not yet. But it could happen. I'm just partial to ferrorods and birch bark, but I keep cotton balls (some soaked in PJ) for back up in rain.
One of those aspirin/Tylenol travel size bottles you see by the register's at big box stores will hold a bunch of pj dipped q-tips. Use em like a ferro ignited match
