Pt2

All set to get my fire going. I've got the birch bark, the oak bark in here on this piece of bark slab. I've got all my prep, I've got my shavings, my small kindling, my bigger kindling, and then my actual firewood. I'm not going to make scrapings, I'm actually going to strike the bark with the fire steel to get the flame initially. Now I'm going to leave a couple of big pieces like this intact, but I'm going to crunch up a bit of the oak bark so it's smaller and it'll actually catch the spark from the fire still a bit easier. And this will actually burn with black smoke and I'm going to try and get a picture of it as it's going. We'll see. I hope the camera picks it up. Oh, my fire's still sizzling. That's the oils in it. I'm going to see how long this goes for before I have to put my shavings on it. See the smoke? burning ferociously. There's the black smoke still going. It smells really nice too. Transport it to my fire pit. So as you can see the fire still caught the bark with pretty much no effort. It only took a few strikes. Burned quite hot and for a long time. Now that's the whole substitute thing, the burnt part, substitute part of it. It itself splits great, burns long, gives you a great amount of coals. As you can see I'm throwing all my firewood on right now. I'm throwing even the big pieces on because it's pretty good flames already I'm not really worried about it going out at all like this is a pretty established fire already my big halves now let's throw quarters on there now these are the half pieces so yeah that's the reason I like the oak wood the pin oak because of the bark and because of the I think a little smoke here because of the bark burns ferociously and because of how easy it is to split and how good of a wood it is to burn. I'm not doing the whole edible thing. I saw a couple posts about that and that's really cool. It's just not my thing. It's not my experience. My experience is fire and I know it works good in my area and that's the pin oak for fire. Well, thanks for giving us this opportunity and good luck to whoever