Making a Sami nuorssjo, the best long log fire
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- The Sami nuorssjo was one of the fires used when the Sami people were following and looking after their reindeer. They traveled light and stopped where the reindeer stopped and slept there and the next morning they moved on. It's not a fire you do every day it was used when you were on the move.
It's probably the best fire to sleep beside if you don´t have a sleeping bag as it will keep you warm even in the middle of the winter. Make the fire close to were you cut down your logs because you don´t want to move the heavy logs to much. In the video I moved the logs about 10 meters.
It´s made from a dead, standing pine tree without any bark on. The trunk turns greyish in colour over time and are always dry inside. If you intend to sleep beside it the logs should be at least 25 cm thick for it to last all night.
The distances between the logs regulates how intense the fire is burning. A wider gap between the logs means a less intense fire. The distances should be made from green pine as it burns very poorly. You need to change them now and then and when you do don´t place them were the previous ones have been.
This is a slow burning fire were the ideal flames should´t be more than 5 cm. But in reality the fire will burn more or less during a night. If you want to slow down the combustion even more for a while you can adjust it so there are no flames, only glowing logs.
You can light it with birch bark strips and the wood chip you chopped off when you made the two flat surfaces, but the easiest way is to use fatwood. You can also have a smaller fire beside and use it to light your nuorssjo with.
There were no wind and weather was great so I diden´t put any energy in to making a shelter. This night the temperature was down to 0 degrees Celsius but I have used it in 11 degrees below zero with no problem.
This fire took me about 3 hours to make. It’s no that long considering what you gain during the night. Gathering fuel for a regular fire, that will last through the night, will take some time and effort and you'll have too maintain that fire much more during the night.
Hope you enjoy
Jeeze, some of these comments!
"Like, you're lost in the woods, build a fire, why so complicated?!? Am I missing something???"
Doh! Yes, you are missing something!
You're missing that this isn't a survivalist video, but a demonstration of a type of fire the Sami people would make when on a reindeer hunt. Nobody's gonna die, there's other people to help build it, they're enjoying themselves, maybe make this cool long log fire out of the birch logs and the resinous pine that they are surrounded by near the arctic circle, that will give off a lower more controlled heat through the night than you get from a simple fire. It's elegant, and the fruit of thousands of years of Sami ingenuity. So have fun with space blankets, etc., if survival is your thing. I'd trade that for one of these fires and some reindeer steaks anytime :-)
Americans have too much time on their hands, they end up inventing bogey men out to get them
Though at 17:10, I most certainly would NOT stand over the burning logs like that....😅
I see this kind of stuff all the time. Too many 20 something's that think they know it all. They move from a major city from any country to another country and compare the differences. They've never been to the rural areas of their own country and therefore do not know so much about their own country. RUclips makes experts out of everyone. You can learn a lot but you can also learn a lot that's wrong. Here, you're learning how to create a body length low profile fire that will burn through the night and not be blown out by blustery winds. If you can't understand that... you're a moron.
Yeah no I'll stick to the traditional pyramid fire😂
In fact, this setup is even recommended in a survival scenario. The reason being that in a survival situation, you need to manage and save as much effort as possible. You also need to use your gear as little as possible to avoid failuers, as much as you can. This Setup requires 4 main cuts instead of cutting tons of wood.
As growing up in Finland, being scout master and explorer, I only built this kind of fire in winter time, yes most of time I used “laavu” canvas with it. Later in military as Sissi “Ranger” we never built this kind of fire hardly any fire because we were trained to be stealth behind an enemy line. I slept under spruce in snow no heat, in snow caverns,etc. So, let’s stop bickering “how I would build shelter and fire”, this gentleman did a beautiful job demonstrating this fire buildup.
Hear hear.
Hear Hear.
Hear mfin hear.
Mmhmm
Or could not waste your time and just burn the logs!
I had survival training in the Marines and learned several ways to stay warm with and without a fire. This was a new one. Never too old to learn something new. Better to have every idea you can when it comes to survival!
So I looked up the Sami fire and you actually don’t need a shelter if it isn’t going to rain. It’s a fire that can burn for 6 hours with little maintenance that you can sleep next to. That’s the point of the design, it won’t burn out and you can sleep next to it for 6 hours. It keeps your entire bodies length warm, that’s why he measured the cut of the log with his arm span.
How would it keep you from getting soaked in a pouring shower ? Sorry , not buying that it it's a fire that's good without a shelter .
@@adrianojames8388 Uh, did you just read the first half of his first sentence? He said "... if it isn’t going to rain." in the last part.
The idea of this fire is it's a controlled fire, the length of your body, and it will burn all night without flaring up and setting your bed on fire and keep you warm if you do not have a shelter.
Build a lean-to in front of it and even in a rain it would keep burning because the burning is taking place inside the logs.
Dude watched a guy do it on camera and then was like "nah, Google knows more"
Thanks for the info.Interesting.
@@adrianojames8388you obviously didn’t read his comment lol
This is really marvelous. Sure, anybody can build a campfire. But fall asleep next to a blazing campfire at 10pm, wake up at 1am freezing your bahoobees off. This is like central heating!
Bahoobees?! 😂🤣😅❤
6am Bohoobees 🥶
I lost my bahoobees in the blizzard of ‘82 and life has never been the same
I've been on the road with my clothes on, in all kinda weather, in temperatures ranging from 30C to minus 30C. Sleep is extremely important especially if you are having a hard time finding food (in winter for example), you need every single minute of rest you can get so yeh being warm from 9pm to 4am is absolutely primordial. Not even talking about conventional fires who will require extra digging and or snow protection etc which translates to more work and the fact conventional fires will need restocking every 1 to 2hrs unless you micro manage it with a heat retaining wall or self restocking mechanism but thats also more work..
Take it from someone who has been freezing his balls multiple times, an extra 30 mins of work in exchange for 5~hrs of undisturbed sleep is a blessing tbh.
Thanks for showing us the Sami Nuorssjo ❤
He may have been warm but I doubt he slept well on the bed of spruce
@@chir0pter He's off the cold ground.
Every day's a school day.
@@petetimbrell3527 He may have been warm but I doubt he slept well on the bed of spruce
@@chir0pter The ground soaks up your body heat, so you use an airbed, a cot, or green stuff if you have to. Whatever, you have to get off the ground to be warm.
@@petetimbrell3527 lol an airbed 😂 Bro have you ever actually been backpacking in cold weather? An uninsulated airbed is just a heat sink.
As I said, he may have been warm-ish but I doubt he slept well on the bed of spruce. Both because it’s uncomfortable and because it’s still probably fairly cold.
In Australia this video would just be called "How to find spiders in the bush"
Does it even snow in Australia or it just your brains that are frozen into blocks?
@@bruanlokisson8615 Are you blissful in your ignorance ?
@@BaxterThewall Must be an Aussie thing, to look for spiders in the middle of winter by making a fire.
In australia, the guy would still be standing there trying to saw the log in half by hand, and with no teeth left on his saw.
I meant because if you're rummaging around in the bush moving logs and picking up branches you are going to find a lot of spiders
Burns all night. Takes a month to build.
🤣
@funkydozer What else would you be doing back in the days of the Sami? Other than surviving
You seem to forgen these fires are for the artic circle
Let’s not exaggerate now, I’m sure it only took a week.
Facts
Intressant sätt att säkra så att översta stocken inte skulle rulla av. Har aldrig sett den varianten. Tack för att du delade med dig.
This reminds me of a saying I heard many moons ago. “ Red man build small fire and keep warm. White man build big fire and keep warm hauling wood”.
Indian make small fire, get close. White man make big fire, stay far away!
Oh here we go we with the white man is dumb thing.
I'm pretty sure the self feeding fire was invented in Scandinavia so ...just stfu
13+ hours! Nice! As far as time spent building it, there's a LOT of downtime when you're out camping...what else do you have to do?! In the morning, just add more wood to that coal bed. If u head out for the day, you bury it in soil. When u come back, uncover, add more wood, enjoy. I definitely prefer a long fire to a round one. Nice work!
Thanks😊
Ja wie geil ist das denn? Was ein schönes Feuerchen!. Die Stämme müssen aber eine gewisse Trockenheit haben, um zu brennen. Werde ich mal ausprobieren!
Thanks for showing us and sharing !
Maybe the best long log fire out there, but it's sure as hell a lot of work.
Scandinavio style - plenty time and plenty timber
It keeps you warm for all the time making it and sleeping next to it.
Double your pleasure double your fun
He's able to sleep in the cold with no blanket. That takes a lot of work to pull off...
It's 100% not the best- ruclips.net/video/WbqS_j6eKL8/видео.html
He made it a rocket science
Nice! I’ve done it with 3 logs. 2 on bottom one on top. A bit easier-no wedges needed, burns just as long. Lean-to tarp or shelter helps in colder weather.
Thanks 😊 I've done that fire too. It’s commonly called nying in Sweden. The thing is if you try to sleep beside that fire the base log will sheild off all the radiant heat making in very inefficient. With the nuorssjo you’ll get a lot of heat😊🔥
@@mattiasnorberg To avoid having to get up a few times during the night to replace the divider branches I have used the right sized rocks instead.
The Sami People are Indigenous to The Lands they live on, Just like the Finns, and Archeologists have found Evidence that Both the Sami and Finns have been on their lands for over 25,000 years. So people who can survive in that part of the world for that long, are the ones I listen to when it comes to Survival in Temperate and Subarctic Zones.
It's the only fire that keeps you warm the whole night without even needing to be lit up 😅
Dam that wood looks so good and that forest just wow nice video
This is great demonstration. I respect this.
I like this idea and I know it would be twice the work but two would be nice, having one on each side. It’s a cool idea
Very elegant and historical. Thank you! I hate getting up cold several times in the night to restoke a fire, and this solves that problem.
This type of a fire is known both by Finns and the Sami people.
It's called rakotuli or rakovalkea in Finnish.
The type of wood used to make a rakoltuli is called kelo in Finnish.
Good quality kelo can be found in old growth pine tree forests, but not on open fjells nor spruce tree woodlands.
An important thing to keep in mind is,
that nowadays cutting down a kelo for a fire
is a violation against whoever owns that forest.
So, unless you have a wood lot of your own and kelo in that wood lot,
do not make a kelo-fire.
Another thing to be aware of is
that in Finland making a fire on somebody else's property
is not an everybody's right.
just what ive been looking for, an extremely fuel efficient fire.. saves firewood for atleast 4 days whilst your building it!
Jajajaja true
Brilliant 🤣
I dunno bout all this.
yeeez, was he freezing before he got the Sami fire going..? If you are cold i suggest you start with a small regular fire just to get your fingers going, while you start on this.
And this is exellent! You can even put your steak over the top log it it will get a slow roasty steak going, while smokey too.
This method keeps a controlled fire and the lenght of it warm your whole body, you just need to turn around during the night if its cold. And it fits perfectly for two people, one on each side, just pay attention on how the wind blows.
People Dissing Native craftmanship is just the ultimate way to show your.. clueless ignorance😅
And for the ultra army survival duds in here, this fire actually keeps the fire somewhat consealed or at least confined from top view.
But in the end you you will get spotted from IR cameras, doesn't matter how you build your fire
This is so awesome thank you for sharing the technique of this so clearly Mattias. Ive grown up making fires since a small girl and taught both my sons how to make fires, yet lve never seen nor heard of this way before and its an excellent kind of fire. Our winters are cold here where l am located in southern Australia yet this looks so warm and viable
takes time to build but an excellent low maintenance fire once its going. 👍🍻
As I watched this, I had visions of that burning log rolling through the forest with me chasing after it.
LOL!!
That’s what the wedges and lean to log was for. Gravity will press the log down evenly as it burns, and the perpendicular log will prevent it from rolling. The spruce spacers also help prevent rolling
“A fire which will keep you warm all night, so long as you have three full business days to make it. Oh yeah and you can’t cook on it…”
Great video! Two questions: How much time did the preparation take (minus the recording set up time)?
If available in one's location, would stones be a safe and efficient substitute for the green pine polls used to keep the logs separated? I've become a subscriber.
Thanks😊 It took around 3 hour to make. You need to adjust the distance between the logs as the fire burns, so then you need different sizes of stones. And there will be bump were the stones are so you need to move the stones to burn the bumps away.
@@mattiasnorberg Thank you for your prompt answer. So, in your experience, you have found it easier to simply replace the green pine separators?
@@tjmul3381 The green wood distances are easy to replace and to make, so thats what I prefer.
Stones, particularly sedimentary, often have moisture trapped within that can explode bits of the rock dangerously when placed in a fire. Safer to use green wood.
I am also a fan of the Nying (as I know this fire as).
But my favourite is the Sibiran Log Fire (as made famous by Survival Russia).
It has a few more adjustments throughout the night, but it requires a lot less setup, and is really good at throwing heat in 1 direction.
Men så jäkla magiskt, underbart home, jag är med på den turen i mitt hjärta och själ 🔥💚👊
Tackar för det my man😊 Ja du skulle varit med🔥
This is the kind of fire I would like in my home, instead of looking at my dull boring gas fire.
Excellent presentation Mr. Norberg. Greetings from Denmark.
Thank you👍😊
What an excellent demonstration, thanks.
Thank you😊
@@mattiasnorberg yes efficient using the old school measuring system as well ;)
He’s gotta hurry up and eat breakfast so he has enough time to build another fire.
13 hours?! That's really good! Though you did have to work on it a few times duringvthe night....
A normal fire you'de have to stoke and add wood to more then a few times.
It never ceases to amaze me; so many "experts" who show up in the comments section of almost any type of video, to impart their tremendous wisdom upon us.
The internet is a place for discussion. People are allowed to be wrong. You'll survive.
While they sit on a sofa , having never been in the woods…
@@inthefadewell said 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Arm chair quarter backs
10hrs later your dead from exhaustion
You made quick work with that saw. I assume quality of the saw matters and im guessing they arent the $20 ones on amazon. What do all you experienced woodsmen recommend for a good folding saw?
That's a Silkie Big Boy. I have the same saw, though mine is much duller.
Important that the saw has long pointed sawing teeth specially made for cutting raw wood.
@@adnelvstad8656 lol. Noted
Nice video, thank you for sharing. What are your preferred brand / type of boots to wear, while making your videos?
По русски такой костёр называется "нодья", я с таким много раз ночевал в лесу и могу с уверенностью сказать, что костёр очень хорош, и не даст вам замёрзнуть, когда одна сторона тела отогревается от костра, вторая охлаждается, потом поворачиваешься и теперь другая сторона отогревается. Этот костёр длительного горения и холодными ночами в лесу он незаменим 👍👍
👍😊🔥
Тебя пиндос лайкнул, шарит по русски, зараза)
Кстати, очень интересная фишка с длинной палкой, чтобы бревно не перевернулось на спящего ночью.
You turned this ancient method of fire making into a work of art Mattias! Well done 👍 in the Northern Boreal of east central Canada here would be hard pressed to find logs of this diameter that aren’t deteriorating too much from laying on the forest floor and will many knots from our species of jack pine, perhaps Finding a white spruce would be the best bet here but not as plentiful in these parts. Don’t think trembling aspen would provide enough heat or time burning but worth a try, maybe use a 3 log method.
White man collect wood make big fire, collect more wood. Indian collect wood, make small fire, keep warm.
They are great. But for me, the three log fire is the way to go. If I was to go with a two log fire, I would follow this mans example. Absolutely outstanding.
The 3 log fire does not spread heat radiation to the sides as much as this one. The heat radiation from it spreads more upwards instead of sideways. When it is -40f (-40c) it makes a BIG difference which way the heat radiation goes.
Build it upside down with one log at the bottom then! :-D
But seriously, would this be possible with enough stones to aid?
Try it out. Film it. Then link the video here. I wanna know.
Better live near a forest!
A fire is certainly good, but it requires a lot of work and time to make. It is also not very convenient to cook food on such a fire. Half of the heat produced by this type of fire is uselessly radiated in the opposite direction. To reduce the effort, you can try a fire from one log. To do this, using wedges and an axe, partially split the log lengthwise. Then put it upright and place flammable material in the split. Light it from below. When the log catches fire, lay it horizontally, with the split facing you. Of course, it is better to use thicker logs for this.
An Evenki fire is also very effective. To do this, put one thick log on the ground. Put other logs on top of this log so that their back ends are spread apart, and the front ends form a canopy over the main log. Make a fire under the canopy of logs. This type of fire radiates heat to one side at ground level and is convenient for cooking. Move the top logs forward from time to time as they burn. To move the logs through the forest without effort, use a rope 8-10 mm thick and drag the logs without lifting them. They slide easily on the moss.
I seen video of fire like this roughly one inch per hour so 8 hr fire 8 inch diameter logs.
I hope I get to try this someday! Thanks for the great... quiet, video! lovely
You could start it when night sets in, it'll burn all night and you can cook breakfast in the morning. Magnificent
Geiles Feuer 🔥 werde ich mal ausprobieren! Danke 😉🦾
Jesus! You could have made a spaceship and flown to a warmer planet with less effort. Definitely not a survival fire.
OK. That was funny.
Reckon it depends on how badly you need the fire for survival.....
Survival being the key word here. If you can make a fire like that you're not in a survival situation you're just camping - or more likely, copying someone else's idea for a RUclips vid and likes
My people have survived thousands of years with this type of fire. So much for your brain deficit opinion.
I get your point, but remember this is a demonstration video. I'm pretty sure i could knock this out in the field without all the bells and whistles in less than 2 hours. You're saving a lot of time and calories not cobbing and splitting the wood. Until someone harvests 100% of their wood in real time on site, they don't know just how labor intensive it is.
At 17:20 he roasts his chestnuts.
I like that he started cutting the log with the hand pruning saw and just after he got started they cut away and came back and it was almost done but the cut was wide as a chainsaw blade and all of a sudden he finished with the pruning saw
Well, you didn't say he was using a chain saw, but made some points indicating it.
My take on your points:
The gap opened since the logs fell apart
The shavings on the ground do not look like chainsaw ones
On 3:34 the surface looks like a manual cut (right log, right border)
He changed to the pruning saw since he could angle the grip to avoid cutting into the ground (see how it is tilted)
It's a RUclips video of a guy building a fire....we all clicked on it.
I knew about long fires but you're the first I've seen to make that top log stop, thanks for the info
Found this interesting but we invented chainsaws, for cutting logs and creating flat edges on a log, this guy must have been here days
That is so good, and so much better than others I have seen, very useful that it gets hotter during the coldest part of the night. If you had a lean to tarp with foil inside like a survival blanket you could be warm in winter with that system.
Can it survive the rain, as it has a roof (the top part of the log) ?
Thanks😊 Haven't tried it when it’s raining.
Thanks for the video. Other commenters mention a three log fire would be less labor intensive. Seems reasonable. Now, to stay warm on both sides, how about making two three log fires parallel to each other and sleep between them? Spacing would be key for safety of course.
What’s a three log fire?
Two logs on the bottom, one on top, light a fire between those with some spacers. No need to flatten anything or hollow it out.
You just need to secure the two bottom logs from rolling away with some stones or fresh wood stakes. And better built this downhill from your sleeping site, just in case. And don't use rocks from rivers or streams, they might explode. That's all, totally easy. ;-)
If you built two, 3 log fires and slept between, you would freeze due to the resulting chimney effect drawing cold aif in right over you, and all heat would be lost upwards.
The 2 logs on the bottom block the heat.
@@brianforgie7724 they do to an extent but it's way warmer than without a fire.
Also you can collect green branches and elevate your sleeping site with it, isolating you from the ground. If you don't have giant logs you'll get high enough easily to get the radiant heat again.
Looks great.
Tack Mattias, bra vid som alltid!
Tack så mycket😊
I usually make a fire on each side if no shelter and sleeping back.
OMG! You sure did draw this video out didn't ya?
This is so cool.
Well, i reckon it's rather hot. But very groovy.
Not to mention it's got to be bone dry wood to do this
It's fat wood
Nice! The build process warms you up for three days, then you get to rest by the fire for a couple hours!
The fire burned for 13 hrs + so that's more then "a couple of hours rest"
Very interesting. I’ve never seen a campfire done like this before.
Seems effective
There’s a million ways to make a fire, wait, nope, a million and one. It’d be nice to lay next to. I’ll set the teenagers to work on it, or make one with a chainsaw in a zip. Pretty cool idea, for just the right night under the stars. Thanks
Excellent fire! Enjoyable video!
Good to see your video finally got lots of views. As a long time subscriber, I was so used to being one of the few hundreds that watches your videos. They are always very educational.
Thanks a lot mate😊👍
Looks like a fun and educational family camping project!
👍🔥
gonna sit back in camping chair, and watch my 16 grandchildren swinging hatchets, what could go wrong?
@@markjgaletti57 😳😆
I do a lot of winter camping, these long fires are always my go to fires. They work great. I've tried many configurations and a couple have left me freezing my butt off, even though there was fire all night. This particular long fire is one of the better ones. It's really good for two people.
This looks like a good reason to take a drawknife(thanks,i just couldn't think of its name) with you to shave off the top of the logs quickly. It'd also help make some shavings for fire lighting, and you could use it to cut things like small branches if you wanted to make a shelter.
The word you are looking for is drawknife.😊
3:45, wait, whats that say???! :DDDD
Yeah I can see how that would be a satisfying fire to sit beside while eating a bacon and egg sandwich drinking coffee and enjoying the sounds
Someone get this man a chainsaw.
Tolles Video. Aber so einen geeigneten Baumstamm zu finden ist schon schwierig. In Deutschland sowie so nie. Feuer im Wald. 5000€
Brilliant, thanks for sharing 👍🇮🇪
Thanks a lot😊
The time it has taken you to do this, you will have frozen to death. Who can spend so long in a survival situation to make a fire.
I learned something new, thanks
With all the sweating it takes to build that ridiculous contraption, who needs a frickin fire!!
The extra-long stabilizing log and wedge retainer is a great innovation. Never seen that one before.
Fire has been lit a bit before dusk, and sometimes before dawn the captions says "the fire has been burning for 13hours". Math totally checks out on this one lmao. On what planet do you live?
1) chainsaw. Otherwise it's craft fire making for the ocd camper that brings grey poupon, caviar and champagene.
2) Freaking 13+hours of continual, body lentgh heat!!? HEll YEAH 13+hours!!!🤘🍾
Go out hiking in the beautiful forest for an hour , then spend 5 hours lighting a fire , go to bed .
Imagine you're freezing to death in the forest and you run across this guy and he says I'll get a fire going
You need a lot of experience to determine if the logs you're using are actually dry enough. I tried this two times, my logs weren't as dry as I thought. It took two hours or more of constant feeding to properly get the fire going, the first time I actually didn't want to spend the night and had to extinguish it when it finally burnt as intended, that was too bad.
Second time it started off well but went out after three hours.
Your wood often is more damp than you thought it was.
But the log used here looks very dry indeed. Good instructional video!
Next time be sure to use only approved “video read” logs.
Actually you can just look and feel the logs and know. It's not a special gift to know if wood is dry.
@@ChadFarthouse-h8r in colder climates wood gets wet on the surface when it gets colder, e.g. in the evening when I tend to build my fires. So this changes perception of how the wood feels a great deal. A perfectly on the inside dried log can be moist to the touch then.
Second thing is: we're talking logs here. Dead twigs or branches I can snap and see and feel how they break. But a log that's been lying around obviously not. And a log night be dried on the exterior but still have moisture on the inside.
For me that's difficult to determine and not as easily done as with smaller pieces of wood you can judge by their outside.
That's what I meant with it takes lots of experience - from my experience at least. ;-)
Yeah I was scratching my head trying to figure out how and why a kind of fire like this would be built, and it only makes sense as kitchen or holiday fires. No way you gon go out and find logs ready for this, and as a survival fire it's way too big and time intensive. Reminds me of Christmas Yule fires. Pretty nice if you got time to prepare the wood I guess, dry them during summer and burn them in winter.
@@misteral9045 you have no clue what you're talking about.
Veldig kult! Aldri sett noe sånt før, selv om det ligner litt på en nying (to stokker på bunn, en på toppen i et lignende oppsett)
New sub here .That hand saw is amazing I guess you get what you pay for, wood worker here hello from down under.
hewing hint I learned from watching a video of japanese woodworkers hewing logs into beams, masters of the art... given that you only need a hand width of a flat place, chop V notches, (relief cuts) about 4 inches apart. rather than chopping the entire surface, wasting time and energy, cut V notches and then chop the whole chunks out between those V's. it will make planing the wood much faster.
I realize I'm pretty late commenting, but I'd love an answer if anyone knows. I thought Nordic countries were somewhat sparse on lumber, relative to their eastern and southern neighbors. Is this perception inaccurate, or was this Sami fire method more for special occasions?
Why not cut three logs? Place two side by side on the ground an prop them up with stones in order to get a bit of ground clearance.
Fill the Gap inbetween the two with lots of kindling of various size.
Then, place two more rocks on top of the logs alredy in place, bridging the gap on each end. Then stack the third one atop of that.
Would safe a lot of chopping and therefore calories and most likely time.
Has anybody ever tried that?
*This is by far the biggest waste of Bandwidth I've watched in a very long time*
*Bandwidth is precious...STOP WASTING IT*
Im laughing my ass off. What a bunch of useless info and the most major waste of energy and time. I suppose its good there is time lapse or this video would take a week. Hey guy,one tip: swedish torch. Make a couple if you want all night .
Is that time - 16:45 - the number of hours and minutes it took to build?! ;) Looks awesome, to be fair. Nicely done. 👍
I'm just guessing but 16:45 could be the time of day. To show how long it burned for.
I have never seen one of these videos where there is an adequate number of spruce branches laid as insulation....It's ALWAYS too few by about x2🤦🏼
What if you don't have a pad to kneel on?
I suck at making wedges. Nope! Set the temp in the motor home and go to sleep. Easy peasy. This is to much work.
I got tired just watching.
Yes, it will keep you warm all night I'm sure. Problem is it takes you all night to make it. Highly labor intensive! Good thing that "days" are long in the North!
@ 17:20 concept disproved, Because you still have to tend to the fire /simply add a log to a regular fire as all the time spent making this monstrosity could have been used acquiring fire wood !!!
Good survival fire. A chainsaw would make it too easy...lol
Why is no one talking in these videos? Don't you wanna teach people? Or is your confidence so low you think your words are not worth speaking, damn it!?
But, what did you have for supper?!
@ 12;49 I guess that was worth all the time and labor If There Aren't Any Rocks Around To Use Instead
lot of people fighting ghosts in this comment section, somebody left their soap box behind. Just one suggestion, get hold of an adze for next time (even if not traditional).
Well if you didn't have to flatten that out and spend all that energy doing that I would agree with your assessment but since I don't want to put forth the amount of effort I'm going to stick with the Siberian log fire