I wish to boil up water to make cups of tea on my quiet corner of the Allotment. I want to be using the bits of wood which always seems to be available around the place. There seem to be a number of ways to go about it: a fire-pit, home made rocket stoves (see youtube) but these seem complicated and liable to be stolen and Chimenea; again the possibility of being stolen since they are quite expensive. Grateful for any effective and simple solutions.
A storm kettle / ghillie kettle which you keep the water in and take with you
Or an old baked bean tin with a loop of wire for a handle suspended on a forked twig.
Owain
While quietly singing Waltzing Matilda.
G.Harman
In message , Rod Speed writes
Agreed. One tip, from Boy Scout days. Should you intend to clean the outside of the billy can/kettle, smear it with washing up liquid before use. The black marks then wash off. Otherwise, expect a long job with a Brillo pad. Alternatively, just live with it black :-)
There used to be a kettle with a hole up themiddle where a fire could be pu t. ISTR it was called a volcano.
This sort of thing.
First check your allotment rules. Some don't allow open fires at certain times of the year and a few ban them entirely.
and wasn't its claim to fame that you could boil a kettle of water using one issue of the Times?
Robert
That's a ghillie kettle, already suggested up-thread a ways.
My memory of the Volcano was that boiling water would gush out the spout readily if you overfilled it slightly and that it was horribly unstable. Maybe the design has improved but it doesn't look much different from our old one.
Tim
Two bricks will work, sort of.
If you'd like something cheap but a bit more posh, look at TLUD (top-lit up-draft) stoves. "Dr TLUD" and "gasification" will bring up lots of hits.
I tried making one, roughly following youtube directions for one of the simplest, lowest-tech ones. I collected three tin cans, punches a few holes, bent over tabs to hold it together. A thick compact mass of chopped twigs and other dry-ish wood bits burned well, with no smoke.
(Which brings me to a pet peeve: a technical drawing would show how some fellow put his stove together would take about three seconds to look at and understand. But no, it's "packed" into a ten-minute video...)
It'll be a few blackened bits of tin can with holes, so it won't get stolen.
Thomas Prufer
Hear, hear.
Wilderness camp fire starts with dead twigs from the end of Elderberry branches and for smokeless, use dead Ivy sticks. (back in the days when nobody stopped you frying Moorhen eggs:-)
AOL I've been struggling to replace the drive belt on my lawn tractor without access to the manual. Tried 3 U Tube videos without learning much other than that you can't hold a spanner and a camera at the same time!
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