swedish fire torch

jugger

just seen this on you tube its prob well know to some of you but its just made it onto my to try list

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfRovJ1KcCg&feature=g-vrec&context=G21cbc1eRVAAAAAAAAAA

krissovo

I like it, its clean and quite elegent. Handy if you have some well prepaired logs around but I expect it may be harder to light than the video suggests.

I will give this ago this week, maybe try and cook my lunch.

Tabnabs

Allegedly a Finish invention (see jätkänkynttilä). Big logs can be cut with a chainsaw to produce a decent gap without splitting the entire log and that way you can stand it in wet ground or snow.

bonniebede

Tabnabs wrote: »

Allegedly a Finish invention (see jätkänkynttilä). Big logs can be cut with a chainsaw to produce a decent gap without splitting the entire log and that way you can stand it in wet ground or snow.

It works with an axe too. have a length about two, three feet (a metre) and don't split it the whole way down, just top of it. Other than that it works the same as in the video, and as you say lifts it off swamp or snow.

krissovo

Tabnabs wrote: »

Allegedly a Finish invention (see jätkänkynttilä). Big logs can be cut with a chainsaw to produce a decent gap without splitting the entire log and that way you can stand it in wet ground or snow.

I will be starting the chainsaw at the weekend, this looks a lot more fun

CamperMan

I will stick with the Kelly Kettle

Doc Ruby

CamperMan wrote: »

I will stick with the Kelly Kettle

I love the kelly kettles myself alright but handy to have a backup too. Technically you could build a camp fire floating beside a life raft with this setup.

johngalway

Doc Ruby wrote: »

I love the kelly kettles myself alright but handy to have a backup too. Technically you could build a camp fire floating beside a life raft with this setup.

You'd get some stick if you burnt the life raft down :P

Fiskar

Compliments of my friends on Arbtalk

http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/firewood-forum/31323-swedish-logs.html

these guys make them and sell them. Apparantly a big barbecue item of interest at the beach if one gets the weather.

CamperMan

you know what....

I have a big pile of logs in the garden

I will try this soon

Doc Ruby

CamperMan wrote: »

you know what....

I have a big pile of logs in the garden

I will try this soon

Post up pics afterwards!

johngalway

Have an old tree of some description down I've been meaning to cut up, must sharpen the chains and have a go too.

Hibrion

Seems like it would be easier just to build a fire and hang the pot over it

CamperMan

Hibrion wrote: »

Seems like it would be easier just to build a fire and hang the pot over it

what if you didn't have anything with you to hang a pot with?

Hibrion

CamperMan wrote: »

what if you didn't have anything with you to hang a pot with?

If you have access to logs of that size, there are bound to be some branches there too. A pot hanger is one of the easiest things to make at camp.

It just seems like a solution that's looking for a problem to me. But, each to their own.

Grizzly 45

Tried one of these tonight in my stove for shts&giggles.Four whacks with an axe into a 4inX4in round of Magnus carpa,and a firelighter.That was around 19:00, still burning now.:)

colonel-yum-yum

Lifehacker just covered them here, though they call it a "Russian Stove".

eth0

colonel-yum-yum wrote: »

Lifehacker just covered them here, though they call it a "Russian Stove".

Ah, that made me hungry. Feck it lol