The bonfire in the camp is almost its most important element. It gives warmth, allows you to prepare hot food and, What is extremely important, enormously raises the spirits. Besides, the fire scares off the predatory animals and troublesome insects. Warm food causes, that the calories contained in it last for a long time. The inedible powder cooked on the bonfire turns into aromatic soup. You can also dry your clothes and shoes over the fire. You need a hub to light a bonfire, brushwood or other material for a fireplace and thicker wood. That the bonfire is burning, oxygen need, in which the combustion occurs. The best heating material is dry, standing trees; If there are only dead trees on earth nearby, Only use branches.
Hubs from various materials
Mech
Green, moist moss is not suitable for a hub; However, dry and dense is perfect. Moss clumps grow on tree trunks and in wetlands. Damp moss must be dried in the sun before use.
Mushroom
Mushrooms growing on trees, called hubs, They have a waterproof skin and a dry dry center, which is easy to smoke. For centuries it has been used to spread the fire with a tinder. (The name Hubka comes from Huba). A soft and dry agent is extracted from under the skin with a knife.
Dry leaves
Even in very wet forests you can find a lot of dry, fallen leaves. Dry leaves immediately pack in tight, plastic bag, so that they do not moist.
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The dry hay bundle will easily deal with one spark and quickly begins to burn with a high flame .
Preparation of Hubki
Jet
From dry sticks or pieces of bark you can prepare a hub by placing them with a penknife on the as small as possible crumbs. So prepared, Powdered material is best stored in a small bag.
Gull
In the material, from which we want to make a hub, For example, a piece of hubs, a small cavity should be carved and it deepens it. Mushroom particles accumulating at the bottom of the cavity are the first -class hub, which should easily start to smolder.
Crushing
The material for the hub must be spread, so that he can get over the smallest spark. It's best to rub it in your fingers or rubbing the stone.
