After a couple of people asked whether the stump hearth I used the other day was still a bit green, it got me wondering if I might be able to pull off an ember from a living tree. I have done this with maple before in the summer, but that set had the benefit of drying in the sun for hours before I attempted an ember with it. This time of year, there's no opportunity for drying, so I started drilling as soon as the set was built. Being a live tree, there was obviously a lot of moisture content to the wood and I did my best to dry it out utilizing the drying cycles illustrated so well by Lonnie of Far North Bushcraft & Survival in this video... This tree was a grand fir sapling harvested on private land.