4 Days Winter Bushcraft Camping – Fatwood Light – Log Heated Hot Tent
Bushcraft and camping in cold weather. The Fatwood torches/lighters were in every home in the boreal forests for thousands of years. They cut the bark off the base of pine trees, waited 5 years and harvested the resin saturated wood. Cut it up in thousands of little sticks and lit up their everyday life in the darker months. In Falu Copper Mine 10 000 sticks where used every day. They where holding them in the mouth, therefore allowing the use of both hands, crawling into narrow places. They where also used in summer, at night or during night fishing. Each light burns about 10-20 minutes. As I have understod from reading what I could find, in Sweden, a stick burning for light was called "lysesticka" (light stick) and when tied in a bundle "Tjärbloss" (Tar Torch). I imagine the latter was specially used during night fishing. At a museum I saw a holder for the stick made out of metal, so in this video I do the wooden version. It all worked very good. Fatwood from pine burns with a very bright strong flame that lights up more than normal wood. I had about 7 sticks and they lasted all night lighting and putting them out, relighting them over and over. I did not use them in my mouth though, I guess house wives of old times were made of another material because I couldn’t stand that nasty resin smoke in my eyes for more than 5 seconds ;).
The Log placed for burning in a closed tent like this is a Sami tradition from the north of Sweden. That is the only time when I use a fire in a stone circle like this (something I like to call Donald Duck Fires). Fires are to be made on rocks. Pointless outside a tent to make stone rings. But you see them everywhere I’m afraid. In Sami the fire place in a tent is called Arran. In this video I’m not doing it exactly according to the Sami tradition, as always its with a Swedwoods tweak.
That last fire I made out on the ice was magic. Every fire is unique. After all these years there it was. The perfect fire.
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