uses for pine cones?

[jonnie drake]

any ideas?

I think I read that someone uses theres in there hobo.

Theres a good few close by that im wanting to take full advantage of.

 

[MartinK9]

Wayland does:

http://www.ravenlore.co.uk/html/hobo_stove.html

 

[JonathanD]

I always use them in my bush buddy. They burn long and hot.

 

[Bush_Man]

Great as kindling...

 

[Mang]

In an idle moment on the bushcraft base at Gilwell 24 I had a go at making a brew with cones to see how many it needed...18 and boiling water in about four minutes.

This is a shot of my cone powered Kelly kettle

 

[MartiniDave]

I dip them in molten wax (left overs from ornamental candles) and use them for firelighters. Really burn well.

Dave

 

[Graham_S]

I use them, I fed myself for a long weekend at a meet using a woodland edge stove fuelled with nothing but pine cones.
easy to gather, no chopping or splitting, and they burn hot.

 

[Bushwhacker]

I have some hanging up at home as weather indicators. When humidity rises they close up to protect the seeds from moisture, when humidity drops they open out again.

 

[sam_acw]

Put silver paint or glitter on them and a bit of cotton and use them as Christmas decorations

 

[sandbag47]

I use them in my gillie kettle they make great kinderling

 

[Melonfish]

Hmm, i'll have to grab me some for the Hobo, got some nice ones growing fat on a local tree

 

[Wayland]

Toddy suggested the wax firelighter thing to me, it's brilliant.

I keep a wax pot for all my old candle stubs.

The string makes a great wick to get them started.

And this one burned for about ten minutes on it's own.

 

[jonnie drake]

cheers guys some great suggestions, I will go collect myself a few (thousand!) and get them drying out ready for use. I like the idea of the wax and wick especially.

 

[Ruvio]

Put peanut butter on em, and string em up as a bird feeder

 

[Ray Britton]

You can use the seeds in them to grow pine trees


(Well someone had to say it )

 

[dave53]

i use them in my kelly kettle a couple of weeks ago excellent tinder regards dave

 

[Mentalpatient]

I use them to scare the fat pigeons away from our bird feeder... they snapped one of the branches off last year and the bird seed went everywhere!

other than that they can be used as a fat feeder (instead of peanut butter, use lard and mealworms with grain)

 

[Chrisj]

I know a few people in our beekeeping association that use them as fuel in their smokers.
I like the idea of dipping them in wax for fire lighters though.

 

[Outdoor_Guy]

You can scent them and use them as Pot Pouri or as suggested previously hang them on your Xmas tree Outside of that they do make excellent tinder!

 

[HeltorChasca]

I grew up in a Africa where Crimbo decorations weren't available, so people dried them out and sprayed them silver or gold and hung them by wire in the tree. Sometimes even glitter was used! Spruce doesn't grow out there, so I thought for the first 22 years of my life Leylandii or Cypress were Christmas trees. Hey ho. (Or is it ho ho) ho........hc