Andy, I use a similar system, the main difference being that I fill about half the straw tube with cottonballs treated with petroleum jelly. The rest is dry cotton. When split and sparked with my MagFire, the dry cotton catches a little easier than treated cotton does, and it goes from there. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Oh, by the way, there is plenty of fat wood on the east coast down here in Georgia. Sometimes you just gotta know where to look, though... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />