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dixieangler
Registered: 06/11/09
Posts: 72

11/05/09 at 07:20 PM

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Glory be and praise the Lord! I finally got a coal with a Yucca spindle on an old dead and dry Willow baseboard on the firebow today. First time getting a coal using Yucca wood. Just the two materials that I collected earlier this afternoon from an old dead Willow tree and a dead and dry Yucca stalk (stem). I used my Oak socket and firebow with a nylon string (no natural doubled cord today). So I did not collect all my materials straight from the woods this time. Burned down to the bottom of the board and saw the dust pile change colors top to bottom from tan to brown to black. I had smoke coming from the board. At first I thought I had failed again after I tapped the board so the dust pile fell on the leaf and no smoke coming from the dust pile. Then I saw smoke coming from the board laying nearby (LOL) and there was a small coal trapped in the notch so I poked it out with an old pine needle into a tinder bundle (this time I had a tinder bundle even though I was practicing). It blew right into flame. The coal was small so I didn't wait on this one very long to get it into the tinder bundle. Whole thing from start to finish on the board took about a half of a minute.
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11/05/09 at 08:28 PM

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Good for you. Congratulations.
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