[TheForge] Horse hoof fungus

[JAMES OESTREICH]

On 5/22/2012 9:00 AM, Bob Ehrenberger wrote:
> I went to a festival last weekend and there was a guy there selling horse
> hoof fungus. He said that it was better for starting fires than char cloth,
> and you don't have to have a fire to make it.
>
> Have any of you used hoof fungus with flint and steel to start fires?  How
> well does it work?
>
> It would be nice to know there is something that could be foraged for in an
> emergency.
>
> Robert Ehrenberger
> Shelbyville, Mo.
> eforge at centurytel.net
>
>
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Never used  that  type but have used  what they call tru-tinder fungus 
that grows on live birch-trees have not tryed others yet but planing to 
some day J.T.O.