By Sean Fagan
Enjoying a camp fire at dusk (Photo: Sean Fagan, East Ireland, Mar/2017).
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.Tinder Bundle Size and the Small Twig Fire
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A popular way of lighting a campfire using only natural materials in a woodland is the small twig fire.
And a common issue I come across when demonstrating the small twig fire is the optimal size for the tinder bundle under a small twig fire.
Many aspiring fire-skills enthusiasts, especially beginner bushcrafters, either use a tinder bundle that is too small or too compressed or both.
A baseline minimum size I use for tinder bundle size is fist size.
That's a minimum - most of the time I use larger sized tinder bundles.
What this essentially means is collecting sufficient tinder, preparing it properly and just as importantly - constructing your small twig fire in such a way that it easily accommodates at least a fist-sized tinder bundle.
Learn how these three factors, when combined, greatly improve fire-lighting success with the small twig fire - and just as importantly; how to achieve these three elements of fire-lighting success.
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