Fire Prep - Swamp Rat Rodent 9

[Irving]

Awesome video by the way. Very well put together.

[rbeau30]

I want to do that also! I went pretty light. 42 lbs including the clothes I wore. We did a snow cave, no tents.

We are going to start a vid on the complete trip this week.

I Subbed so I can see it when it comes out. Maybe I can learn something before it is me out in the cold.

[Tinelement]

I was just putting the Rodent away and thought I would snap a few pictures.

Rodent 9, Mashed Cat sheath, Esee Molle back and pouch.....



Fire kit. About 15' paracord, matches, flint and steel, fire disk.....



And with the Esee 5 for comparison since it was brought up..... (Esee pouch contains roughly the same stuff)

[blacklabel]

Nice kits Tin. I need to finish getting my BK2 setup

[rbeau30]

Nice kits Tin. I need to finish getting my BK2 setup

this

[Irving]

Nice kits Tin. I need to finish getting my BK2 setup

+2. I considered making an ultra light BOB out of a machete inside of a shotgun scabbard with molle webbing. With the Molle on there, you can have one small bag for fire starting, a trauma kit, and maybe an emergency blanket or something. Seemed like it would be awkward to carry though, so I like TinElement's set-up a little better.

[Tinelement]

The Esee rides along daily on my GHB. Think I covered that over in the survival threads, although that was probably 2 yrs ago, it's always changing. Although it is tore down now, cause some of it comes backpacking, I should do a current review on it......

[hunterhawk]

That sounds and looks fun! I would have liked to have seen the hotel you stayed on though too! Looks like a fun! I need to do stuff like this but my buddies are too city for stuff like that! Good stuff and nice knife!

[sellersm]

Nice vid! What's your secret sauce for the homemade fire disk? Or is that in a thread somewhere?

What saw was that?

[Tinelement]

Nice vid! What's your secret sauce for the homemade fire disk? Or is that in a thread somewhere?

What saw was that?

They are the round make-up discs dipped on candle wax. I know there is a thread over in survival. Irving will probably know, think he did some out of tampons. Haha!

Saw was a cheap-o $5 from Jax. It's lasted since about April. So $ well spent.