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Dry timber on a rainy day


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Read somewhere once that one of Queen Victoria's ghillies tried to light a fire for her one wet day but was defeated by the fact that he couldn't find any dry wood

 

.....well, all deadfall that isn't rotten is dry on the inside

 

-love this technique from Ray Mears (although I always seem to end up using a sheath knife and smacking it with a baton :rolleyes: )

 

 

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There is always plenty of dry wood if you know where to look. People look on the floor and that is a total waste of time 9 times out of 10. Hanging wood or the inside dead stumps is usually ok.

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There is always plenty of dry wood if you know where to look. People look on the floor and that is a total waste of time 9 times out of 10. Hanging wood or the inside dead stumps is usually ok.

 

Inside Holly bushes there is usually tinder dry stuff. Dead holly of larger diameter is great firewood too. Yew trees tend to hold onto aerial deadwood that remains dry on most days.

 

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