Pine Cones For Tinder? Seems an obvious yes, aaand I learned something.
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- Опубліковано 14 бер 2018
- I know everybody else in the world has probably already experimented with pine cones, but I haven't. Yes, I've lit up just a single one with a lighter before, but never tried a whole pile of them. I'll go ahead and tell you what I learned from testing these OBVIOUSLY strong burners... After the very intense resin burning flames die down to just flickers, there are a lot of long lasting and very intense coals left behind. I will certainly be utilizing these Pine Cone characteristics in future videos...possibly for building fires with very wet tinders...How 'bout the possibility of generating tremendous smoke with green pine needles so that a lost one could be found??? Come see what a raging inferno these 10, or so, Pine Cones turned in to... Please SUBSCRIBE at the end of the video. Thanks!
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Pine cones are also great for cooking on fire. You get a huge pile of them and when they burn down (which is quite quick compared to wood) you get a nice bed of coals to cook on.
I didn't know that. Thanks!
My brother used to keep paper bags of pine cones next to the fireplace.When he rode his motorcycle home late at night and it was cold, he would light one for a quick hot fire to warm up with. Instant roaring fire, but without burning all night either..
I can see that... Thanks!
I don't know what you mean that it's not interesting watching fire burn. I can sit and watch a campfire burn for hours.
I have also. Thanks!
Especially if I have beer!
David u make ur videos so interesting & very informative. I love watching them.
Thanks Dave for sharing your experiment 😊
Hi David, love your videos, I've watched most of them :) My input on pine cones is that not all are created equal and it matters what season you gather them in.... White pine cones are the best I know of for LOTS of pine resin in them. They are stick and white with the stuff when they drop in late fall. That's the time to pick them up as they best fire starters ever for your stove or campfire. But once they weather a while, the resin is not near as concentrated, perhaps it evaporates or dissolves over time in the rain - so make sure to gather a few bags full in the fall. They don't make as good coals as the stouter cones like Loblolly or Virginia, or some of the ones out West, like Ponderosa of Lodgepole Pines but those have much less resin. Great video.
Thanks for the advice Doug.
Good information David
Learned something too, as usual! 👍👍👍
I hadn't and was going to and you show me that it is very possible. Thanks David.
John David
Dave's live over 65
One of my favorite sayings... "Makes you wonder what all's possible"
Yup, "Nature's Feather Stick". Starts fast, burns hot, makes good coals. Lot of soot! Will light with ferro rod if "resin" present. If not, mash it up a bit with a rock, knife pommel, etc. Available year round. As with any pine, burn time is less than hard wood. Knowing you, you'll find a way to friction lite a green one & I'll just shake my head as usual. :-) Thanks.
MutsPub Lol... I'm glad I finally got around to trying them.... after 6 years of practicing fire techniques.
Great video! I actually just posted a video of me and the family camping and the pine cones saved my campfire. The oak I had to pay for at this specific park was completely wet and had my kiddos not gathered a bunch of pine cones we would not have been roasting hotdogs. Really like your videos!
I'm glad I finally got around to trying them. Thanks!
On our canoe trip last year in Wabakimi that is all I burnt in my lixada stove to heat water for coffee and breakfast daily. We did 10 days and 187 kms, only problem is it makes everything black as spades
VE3FAL1_Fred I believe it, with all that black sooty smoke coming from the burning of all that pine resin. Thanks!
Brings me back to when i realised how great pinecones are... X
Another great video David. I like to gather a garbage bag full for my fireplace at the end of Sept, then the cones have a lot of white sap on the tips. They go up like gasoline.
Really good fire starters. I found some White Pine pine cones that were dripping with sap this year. The Shortleaf Pine pine cones that I always use are never that saturated.
Thank you. Collecting pine cones will be alot easier than fat wood.
Yes, for a BIC, will not ignite with a ferro rod like fatwood. TY!
I know everybody else in the world has probably already experimented with pine cones, but I haven't. Yes, I've lit up just a single one with a lighter before, but never tried a whole pile of them. I'll go ahead and tell you what I learned from testing these OBVIOUSLY strong burners... After the very intense resin burning flames die down to just flickers, there are a lot of long lasting and very intense coals left behind. I will certainly be utilizing theses Pine Cone characteristics in future videos...possibly for building fires with very wet tinders. Come see what a raging inferno these 10, or so, Pine Cones turned in to... Please SUBSCRIBE at the end of the video. Thanks!
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Never considered pine cones before. I wonder if any part of them would light with a Ferro rod
I think so.
I have pine cones galore in my yard. Solution? . . . into my twig stove they go! Yes, they do burn great, and I'm surprised I don't see more people using them on UA-cam videos. Guys are out batoning wood with their knives (which I KNOW is fun!), but they"re standing in the middle of a pine forest, and I know they are probably stepping on pine cones as they work. Why not use the cones themselves instead? Thanks for the great video, David.
LOL!!! We think the same thoughts.
I’ve used these to help get. Fire going. But don’t toast marshmallows over them. I think they would give them a piney taste. Ok I know they will taste piney.
Paula Allen LOL! I agree. Thank you!
Sweetgums are thick in my area as well as loblolli pine toss gum burs in on top of the cones and you can grill out and never have to buy charcoal again.
Tracy Dillon I've never tried to burn the little spikey gum burs.
Hey David, great video! I was wondering if in your experience do the pine cones emit much of a smell when you burn them? Thanks!
yes
When I was a kid back in NW Florida, it was one of my chores to keep firewood and tinder handy for our fireplace; we had excellent heating, but my family all loved a good fire, and the big pinecones from our longneedle pines were my favorite firelighters-- I called them 'fire-flowers' from the way the little jets of flame shoot out from the burning masses. I started many, many fires with them but learned to be economical about it, because the pitch from any burning pine is a bad thing to have coating your chimney. Something to remember if you're going to use an in-house fireplace.....
Yes, lots of sooty smoke coming off those Pine Needles and fatwood. Thanks!
Hey Dave Sir can I use ferro rod beside the lighter ?
Scrape up a pile of shavings to ignite first which will ignite a Pine Cone.
We used to burn them about 100 years ago... They keep long..
TurpinPINE, key ingrediant and thus named after.
David West , thanks , but I didn't know what to do with these pines. You have opened up a whole new chapter in my outdoor life for us and thank you.
Thank you. I need a hot bed of coals
Place the pine cones on a bed of green pine needles and watch the show. Green pine needles will burn almost as if you poured gasoline on it.
would green cones also work?
Never tried them. Probably have too much water still in them.
Pretty sure i was told at a young age to never use pine cones as “they will ignite then explode sending hot coals everywhere “. Man i wish i had ignored those people.
That's a new one on me.
@@DavidWestBgood2ppl yeah I figured it out in my late teens when they weren’t in the picture anymore. (Also never EVER had a pinecone go boom on me )
@@mistalentalmaybe when they are not fully developed. Has any one tried it?