Has enyone seen this type of fire making ?

While out in Hope with my hunting/fishing buddy, we were out on a hunting trail & watching for markings from Bucks in well known hunting grounds. I seen this Part of a log that was about 20" high and there was a chain saw used on it to make a checker board like pattern on the top, they cut down about 2". It looks like they just stand it up & light it on fire ...
it would work well i think. Has anyone seen this done before ? or know of anyone doing this ?. Cool

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Is it used to cook? At first I couldn't figure out why somebody would light the end of a log on fire, but that kind of makes sense. Smile

I think it would work. Cool

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Ya, i guess you could light it & put a coffee pot or pan on it for cooking; you would have air movement under it.

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thats pretty cool and no i have never seen or heard of anyone doing that before

Thats very unaurthadox. Never seen that before, I admit its quite intriguing. I guess if you dont have something to put your pot on then this design would, sorta help. But I cant see this buring very well with something on it.

To me it kind alooks like someone was bored and decided to do this. I cant see any use.

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Thats very unaurthadox. Never seen that before, I admit its quite intriguing. I guess if you dont have something to put your pot on then this design would, sorta help. But I cant see this buring very well with something on it. To me it kind alooks like someone was bored and decided to do this. I cant see any use.

> well my buddy said that he has seen this before out in the winter time while hunting is in full swing. So i think they are useing it to warm up the hands & feet, maybe not so much for cooking.

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I think I saw Ray Mears do something kinda like that before Very Happy

eric

Really? I would really like to know what this thingy does, if anyone finds out please post

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Really? I would really like to know what this thingy does, if anyone finds out please post

I'm curious to know too. Confused

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Really? I would really like to know what this thingy does, if anyone finds out please post

> ya im going to talk to my hunting buddy today and see just what this is used for, i know its done alot in winter, but for what ? im not totaly sure.

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yes I have done something similar to this after seeing Ray Mears do it in an episode of Bushcraft. Here are some screenshots I took from that episode for another post a while back.

In the first picture you can see how he quartered a piece of pine with a chainsaw. I used an axe to do the same thing except I had to bury the ends of the log to make it stand

You then pack the cracks with tinder and kindling like you where building a fire with the small stuff on the bottom. You can then light the bottom and it will burn up the sides of the log providing a nice stove

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Excellant ! ... im going to have to try this. Good post stonewall Cool

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Yea just like stonewall posted, I have seen this done before by Ray Mears. Not quite as busy as the waffle like cuts that you posted, but just to cuts that criss crossed each other. Pretty cool stuff... I really need to get out there and try something like that sometime. Good luck with your experiment Dave.

Thats it, stonewallcadet. Thanks for the screen shots Very Happy

eric

That looks a lot more simple and practical than that chainsaw-carved one. Smile

Good post. Cool

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Yes I am familiar with that. I used that while traveling in BC in the logging areas. The workers use that technique alot to boil up big pots of corn and pasta the slits are sometimes a foot or more deep. They used wood chips and naptha gas to ignite it. i have also used the technique Stonewall describes for cooking.... infact i just recenly used it in my tepee no more than two weeks ago. It is a very efficient way to burn fuel logs.

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I think it works best with pine?

believe it is designed like that for cooking and boiling once ignited you have mostly embers which of course are the best for cooking without scorchingsame principle as a large hunk of chaga stove one big ember even heating

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if you had soemthing that would keep burning (wax comes to mind.. not sure what else could be used right now but it's kinda late!) you could use it as a torch... kinda seems more of a novelty thing to do rather than survival tho.... the amount of time you would spend on that you could make soemthing much more simple and efficient. It looks like something I would be easily frustrated by.

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