Here's a trick for burning raw wood, I picked up from my uncle last year. It works well if you have to burn raw wood.
The laps (sami people) burns allmost nothing but raw wood! They are nomads so they haven't got a garage to stack loads of dry wood, they just chop whatever they need there and then. And since the fires are innside their tipi(-ish) tents, they want to get as little smoke as possible.
What they do is they burn the logs and thicker branches(0.5 to 4 inches preferrably) from the middle and outwards. What happens then is that the moist in the wood will seep and steam out the cooler ends of the log as the fire heats up the middle of it. After a little while, the wood gets so dry and warm om the middle it catches fire, and as it burns it dries the rest of the log. When it's burned off in two halves, they are pushed gradually into the fire. By the time they are burned to the ends just throw the rest of them on the fire. The smoke is minimal, and it will produce a great fire for your BBQ allso.
This technique is ideal for larger and/or more lasting fires. We do it all the time with our campfires. And the laps have done it for a couple of thousand years so they should know that it works.
This is what you do for making a sami fire:
1. Cut your raw logs quite long (2 meters)
2. Make a fire from some dryish wood.
3. Put the logs across the fire with the middle right over the heat.
4. Observe the wonder of the water dripping and steaming from the ends (branches should be cut off in bothe ends.
5. Imagine yourself beeing a lap, and boil some coffee on your fire with raindeer jerky in it.
Another thing: When we want a real big coalfire for roasting whole lambs and stuff, we pile up loads of 2-3 feet long logs in a square, and then light a good fire of dry wood in the middle. This will produce the largest and longest lasting heap of coals you have ever seen. But it's important that you use raw wood (it doesent have to be wet, but not dry), this makes the best and longest lasting coals - dry wood just burns up.
Well, good luck. You should really try this.
Grunde from Norway
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How much would a woodchuck chuckle if.. if... -nah, forget it....
The laps (sami people) burns allmost nothing but raw wood! They are nomads so they haven't got a garage to stack loads of dry wood, they just chop whatever they need there and then. And since the fires are innside their tipi(-ish) tents, they want to get as little smoke as possible.
What they do is they burn the logs and thicker branches(0.5 to 4 inches preferrably) from the middle and outwards. What happens then is that the moist in the wood will seep and steam out the cooler ends of the log as the fire heats up the middle of it. After a little while, the wood gets so dry and warm om the middle it catches fire, and as it burns it dries the rest of the log. When it's burned off in two halves, they are pushed gradually into the fire. By the time they are burned to the ends just throw the rest of them on the fire. The smoke is minimal, and it will produce a great fire for your BBQ allso.
This technique is ideal for larger and/or more lasting fires. We do it all the time with our campfires. And the laps have done it for a couple of thousand years so they should know that it works.
This is what you do for making a sami fire:
1. Cut your raw logs quite long (2 meters)
2. Make a fire from some dryish wood.
3. Put the logs across the fire with the middle right over the heat.
4. Observe the wonder of the water dripping and steaming from the ends (branches should be cut off in bothe ends.
5. Imagine yourself beeing a lap, and boil some coffee on your fire with raindeer jerky in it.
Another thing: When we want a real big coalfire for roasting whole lambs and stuff, we pile up loads of 2-3 feet long logs in a square, and then light a good fire of dry wood in the middle. This will produce the largest and longest lasting heap of coals you have ever seen. But it's important that you use raw wood (it doesent have to be wet, but not dry), this makes the best and longest lasting coals - dry wood just burns up.
Well, good luck. You should really try this.
Grunde from Norway
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How much would a woodchuck chuckle if.. if... -nah, forget it....
