Saw the coolest trick on a Ray Mears video...

Cool guys, thanks. Thought it was the SFA but wasn't sure. I've got a brian andrews that's about the same length I believe.
 
Man, that's such a neat idea. I'll be interested to try it, though when I'm camping I don't have much seasoned pine wood, or a chainsaw. But my new silky saw might make this work well.

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Bear Grills or Les Stroud can not scratch Ray Mear's Balls when it comes to Survival Know How!

RickJ
 
peripatew said:
Man, that's such a neat idea. I'll be interested to try it, though when I'm camping I don't have much seasoned pine wood, or a chainsaw. But my new silky saw might make this work well.

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I don't have either, either. :D But I'm going to use probably some oak or something I have in the back yard and just baton through it, then lash it or something.
 
I think I will try this when I get out and go hunting next weekend. I will see if I can melyt some snow in a pot. There is plenty of downed pine out in my back yard..
 
Yeah that is a neat idea. I thought it was a Navajo thing. Thats where I first saw something like it. Some of the Navajo I knew used in their elk and deer camps a metal bottom less smaller trash can that stayed there often times used by several members of the same family over time. They took this and stuck smaller logs spilt four ways all in an area small enough to allow the can to slip over them after they were stuck in the ground some to support them upright. Then by lowering down the hollow can to surround the split log stack as it caught fire they'd secure that. The can they used had bullet holes all through it. I guess to breath but it may just as well been someone having fun over time too. Anyway, once all the smaller logs got going just like that video did with one log the metal would heat up too and they used it for all the same things any wood stove would be used for like for cooking but long after the flames died the metal stayed hot for a while or as was usually the case they could still throw in other wood to keep it going.

Then after the fire was died during the night the can still provided enough warmth to keep them comfortable until the covers took over. Usually there were enough hot ambers in the bottom to start it up again right quick in the morning.

Something else that I saw once when I was there with a bigger group than before was a set up of other cans by hanging them above the main fire stack, and these could be anything from big coffee cans to other trash cans all flipped upside down and strung up higher than the main fire stack so the bottoms of all of them hung close enought to catch heat and trap it some from over the flame stack and enough to allow the heat to get up inside them but not enough to snuff the flames of main fire. These they left there for a good while that evening heating the metal. Then they used those other cans to carry with gloved hands to their bed sides either in the pick up truck beds for warmth or near to their separate sleeping bags on the ground. I saw one couple in a pick up camper with the tail gate down that kept their can suspended on a wire in the bed after taking it to bed and they had a candle lit up under that just enough to allow the candle to keep the can warm but not enough to snuff the flame. They only did that while they were up reading though and then snuffed it out before turning in.


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I made a little "candle" an hour ago. It's ****ing freezing out right now with some bad wind so I'm waiting to try it out until tomorrow.
 
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