Just wanted to share.

This weekend while I attended a former coworkers wedding I had the chance to practice some of the skills I’ve picked up reading this forum.

To make a long story short, someone put me in charge of building a fire in the reception hall. There was no kindling and only forearm sized logs and above. Being that the wedding was in a city park I didn’t know if it was legal to gather sticks and twigs for the fire, so I decided to practice my batoning skills.

Afterwards my girlfriend told me that she was glad I smelled like a man.

This was my first ever attempt at batoning. I used a Mora #640 that I keep in my vehicle tool kit.



I also made a giant BOF with a wad of toilet paper and petroleum jelly to get the ball rolling.



The fire!