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G'day everyone.
It never ceases to amaze me how the simple things can make life in camp more comfortable.
Fire is without a doubt a friend of the camper. It provides a large number of benefits including warmth, light, heat for cooking and boiling the billy for a brew (or to sterilise water if its contaminated with microbes).
For me it also provides company with its dancing flames and crackling of wood.
I guess Im fortunate living where I do, as kindling is generally readily available in a range of grades.
Consequently I have no trouble lighting a fire with wet wood using this firelay.
When its going, Ill use the heat generated to dry wood for the next time I need to light the fire.
I find a simple structure made from a couple of tripods and a cross beam serves a multitude of purposes around the campsite. For those in colder climates, it will form the basis for a reflector for the fire (when filled in with sheets of bark) and can also be used to prop wet logs off the ground to start drying. If youve got wet clothes hang them on this to dry. Repositioning it across the fire will allow you to hang pots from it for cooking.
Tree forks can also come in handy to lift items off the ground without the need for rope. In this instance it lifted my water container off the ground, making it easier to pour water without bending (I know, the older I get the lazier I get lol).
The right tools will certainly make any job easier. The edged tools that always accompany me have proven themselves time and time again (bear in mind as always YMMV).
These are just a few of the multitude of simple things that can make life around the camp more enjoyable. Feel free to add any of yours :thumbup:
Kind regards
Mick
It never ceases to amaze me how the simple things can make life in camp more comfortable.
Fire is without a doubt a friend of the camper. It provides a large number of benefits including warmth, light, heat for cooking and boiling the billy for a brew (or to sterilise water if its contaminated with microbes).
For me it also provides company with its dancing flames and crackling of wood.
I guess Im fortunate living where I do, as kindling is generally readily available in a range of grades.
Consequently I have no trouble lighting a fire with wet wood using this firelay.
When its going, Ill use the heat generated to dry wood for the next time I need to light the fire.
I find a simple structure made from a couple of tripods and a cross beam serves a multitude of purposes around the campsite. For those in colder climates, it will form the basis for a reflector for the fire (when filled in with sheets of bark) and can also be used to prop wet logs off the ground to start drying. If youve got wet clothes hang them on this to dry. Repositioning it across the fire will allow you to hang pots from it for cooking.
Tree forks can also come in handy to lift items off the ground without the need for rope. In this instance it lifted my water container off the ground, making it easier to pour water without bending (I know, the older I get the lazier I get lol).
The right tools will certainly make any job easier. The edged tools that always accompany me have proven themselves time and time again (bear in mind as always YMMV).
These are just a few of the multitude of simple things that can make life around the camp more enjoyable. Feel free to add any of yours :thumbup:
Kind regards
Mick
). The limbs get my butt off the ground and the bag prevents moisture moving into my clothes.
