I change it up, depending on my mood: sometimes the fuel wood is in a teepee shape, sometimes I lay a piece of fuel wood down on its side and prop the kindling and fuel wood against it (good airflow that way).
What’s your preference?
Swiss Torch.
Swedish Torch
(If you can prep ahead of time, or have a chainsaw…)
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Drop a pile of wood, douse it with Boy Scout Water, light, enjoy.
I like to go with the Daenerys Stormborn approach.
Yes, Swedish.
Depends on my mood. Usually the teepee or ordered chaos. (Small piles of ascending sizes) but ive mixed it up with countless iterations.
I usually try to go teepee to get it started. I’ll put any pine cones, pine needles or small twigs I can find underneath to help get it going.
Usually a teepee or Lincoln Log type of arrangement (square/log cabin style).
Log cabin.
Log cabin.
Republican?
I change it up, depending on my mood: sometimes the fuel wood is in a teepee shape, sometimes I lay a piece of fuel wood down on its side and prop the kindling and fuel wood against it (good airflow that way).
What’s your preference?
First, get five wood pallets. Take four of them, stand on end, and wire them together into a box. Fill the box with whatever you have that will burn. Put the fifth pallet on the top. Douse the whole thing in kerosene. Light. Stand back in awe and wonderment at what you have created/destroyed.
Tepee to get it started. Basically log cabin thereafter.
Tepee to get it started. Basically log cabin thereafter.
You’re working too hard. Fire starter brick thinger surrounded by log cabin. If there’s any lying around throw some brick bark in there for a nice natural fire starter.
Don’t strip birch bark off live trees. Don’t be a dick.
The local tradition:
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Tepee to get it started. Basically log cabin thereafter.
You’re working too hard. Fire starter brick thinger surrounded by log cabin. If there’s any lying around throw some brick bark in there for a nice natural fire starter.
Don’t strip birch bark off live trees. Don’t be a dick.
I do that sometimes when I am being lazy. But, I get a kick out of using a fire starter and my own cut kindling. I never strip any bark off of trees. I like to shave fire logs to get a nice patch of shavings.
So, it depends. If I just want a damn fire, I use the fire starters and log cabin. If I want to pretend like I have basic survival skills, I use the teepee.
If I am at home, and using our metal fire pit, I crumple up recycled newspaper and build a teepee over the top with small pieces of wood I made by splitting logs from the pack of firewood.
At home I am super lazy. Fake ‘log’ wrapped in paper from the grocery store.
Light paper.
Sit down.
At home I am super lazy. Fake ‘log’ wrapped in paper from the grocery store.
Light paper.
Sit down.
Ha! Come on, man, you got to at least PRETEND you got fire making skills!
Truth be told, I like “building” (I use that term very lightly) fires. Not sure why. I over-complicate it simply to make more out of the process. Weird.
I’m a die hard teepee guy.
I hacent seen the Swedish log thing before. I’ll have to try it, looks cool.
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