After i built the frame out of steel and got the angles right .it works i built mine for my deer camp . i also made it so i can put a grill right over it and a hook for hanging water to boil . with my set up i get about 20 hours depending on wind .awsome idea .take it make it your own .
I was about to say that this would work best to just keep warm in an enclosed area or to cook with you won't get much warms in the wild in a wide open area
The internet is an amazing thing. Who knows if someone has had an idea like this in the past? The certainly wouldn't have been able to share it with 9 million people. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
You can likely improve this. Try taking out one side. In it's place, place large heavy rocks that will keep the logs from rolling towards you. Make sure those rocks are not rocks found near water, as they may explode when the heat expands the moisture in them. That side you took out, is where your body will be perpendicular to the fire. The loader side will act as a wind protector and reflector. Respect to the original developer.
+duxdawg Ya was going to say, it's doubtful we today could come up with anything to do with campfire technology that our stone age ancestors didn't already figure out ages ago.
@Ken Penalosa yeah. The heat from the fire also charges battery for light and phones. Its been around for a long time already that it has a smaller version. I think it's called Biolite.
Biolite isn't self feeding, it only captures energy from the heat to charge it's internal battery to blow a fan and make the flames stronger and charge a phone for example. But you still have to feed it wood to keep it going.
I believe it may be some sort of hybrid self feeding, but also bolt action, belt fed ammunition with simple patience, this prototype is going to be the next big thing. Please use constant supervision And also, wooden sticks w/marshmellso on deck.
I find it funny that you think that was the hard part.. 😂 I'm thinking dam bro you really cut down a tree, made logs, found the perfect sticks to hold em up, measured that shit exactly on both sides, set it up, lit it just perfectly, and then stayed up all night... Dam bro RUclips better get it's shit together and pay you.. they need to be making movies and soap operas about you bro... FR they need to make paintings and write books about you.. I wouldnt wanna meet you in a dark alley you too extra for me bro, you'd probably kidnap me and go to the deserts in the middle East and make a fire from the bare essentials like macgeyver or something and then burn me to death but manage to keep the ashes but dump them back in the alley and have the cops like wtf wtf? Aliens? Mafia? Wtfs goin on hear!? Ashes in the middle a da street wassamaddawitu!.... Thanks I'll be here all week...
Also, As mentioned before, cooking food buried in coals while your away. Loading up the magazine the next morning keeping the fire alive would keep animals out of your camp. It frees up a person left in camp as fire tender. Keeping water pot hot for drinking, cooking or washing without having to tend it. Drying out wood staves for tools, spears, bows and arrows. The list grows..
@Mropticalgreen if you look closely in the video, the feet of the stands are buried in dirt, so they're protected from the heat. You should be able to use these stands for multiple runs
Make a set of foldable A frames with a cross beam over the middle. I was thinking a metal A frame but smaller and foldable would be nice for camping (only needing an 8 hour fire)
It doesn't work like that. The log won't hover until the bottom log burns down, but instead it very slowly slides down as the bottom log burns. You could see the log slide down if he recorded an hour of video and then sped it up a lot, but he may have not had the memory or didn't want to get his camera gear wet.
+Chris CrelicX bullshit he was there for 13 hrs or more he could of done a speed vid and more but it don't work anyways because we tryed it yr's ago when we were fencing so it's all crap and he's full of it his eyes are brown lol
Wow, that is awesome! I have done my fair share of wilderness camping but I have never seen anything like that before...would have loved to have had that when camping in the snow.
I hope this isn't a no-no as I'm just trying to point DrValerie where good info can be found on cold weather camping. I have no financial interest in any youtube video. Check out Far North Bushcraft & Survival. He does his "long fire" a little different but end result is the same. He lives full time in the wilderness of Alaska and has several videos of keeping warm in a cold climate. ~Sherrie in South Carolina
I think it’s a great idea. If you’re in a cold place and have the logs, it’s a great thing. Those that mock or nothing themselves. It’s great for survival and that’s what it’s all about. Good video. Some thing I learned thanks.👍
Well, it appears you have some pro and con comments with sarcasm and humor mixed in. From a veteran hunter and camper, who has spent weeks at a time in the deep woods, this is an awesome idea. This is especially workable for staying in a lean-to. I've camped in my own designed lean-to for a month at a time and liked the front flap open as much as possible. I could have started the fire in the evening and it would have lasted all night keeping me warm. Instead, I had to keep the fire going all night. I will definitely be trying this. And for all of you who can't figure out the design, well, you might reconsider if you need to be in the woods or just keep making fires traditionally.
If you think about it a timelapse wouldn't work. The falling of the woods would be way to fast to capture and the flickering of the fire would literally burn your eyes :)
NIce idea! only thing I would say is that, it takes so long to get some real heat, this is because you are using whole logs. They never burn that great. Maybe you can spit these logs with the same method to get more heat FASTER. most campfires and the folk around, demand a BIG heat real quickly. Maybe I'm wrong here?, but I DO love your gravity fed log fire idea, AWESOME!.
Close to 90 degrees that day and didn't drop too much over the course of the night... and that was in November. Might consider that your needs are not always that of the rest of us>?
Wow dude, he watched your video, left a comment with original thought presented as a simple idea ("Maybe I'm wrong here"), and even said your video/idea was awesome, and you responded with dismissive sarcasm. Really?
Seriously, he takes the time to watch then compliment your video and leaves a personal idea, and you treat him like an idiot? Nice way of showing yourself as a jerk.
I think they might be trolls. It is not sarcastic to point out that fires serve a great many purposes depending on the need. A flame for heat is low on the list out here year round, though we do have a few chilly nights from time to time.
I was thinking of it's usefulness in a primitive/survival living arrangement. If you know you're gonna be camping or surviving for more than a week. But still, i kinda wanna make one out of metal and concrete in the back yard :)
thank you so much for making this super useful video - it must have been a long night for you but sticking it out will have helped many many many people keep warm and safe x
An almost random RUclips click. I was quite skeptical about this. To begin with I thought that there was no way that the seemingly meager amount of kindling / thin twigs you used would burn anywhere near hot enough to begin to burn the adjoining logs. Trusting that all was as it was portrayed in the video, I take it back. That was really interesting. When you mentioned the control of air-to-fire, i.e. the earth / clay embankment, I started to realize that you had given this some thought, and that this was not down to chance to the degree that I first thought it would be. Thanks for a very interesting (and worthwhile) random RUclips click :)
How do you think this fire would work if you put clay/mud on top of the logs? I'm thinking it'll keep the fire on just the two bottom ones and it'll be good in windy locations.
By "on top" I just mean in a way that would prevent the fire from blowing onto the next row of logs. In between the fire and the 2nd row of logs would work best. With the logs rolling down the slope, it would be too difficult to put clay up all along all the rows, but it'd work for the second row of logs. It would have to be just be a thin layer too. The clay would deposit right in the middle of the coals. Maybe you could get really creative and build a housing for the logs that they would fall out of. Or maybe you could build a chimney over the fire. The clay on the logs is just an easier method of keeping the fire from catching the other logs early
I think that would work. You would have an issue with the clay pieces filling up the trench after a time, but that would be an ingenuitive way of heat sheilding the igher rows.
The issue with this is, is that it really doesnt send the heat in a usefull direction. Its basically a parlor trick as it has no real practical purpose.
It was designed for use in sub zero conditions and for use inside a natural shelter. Obviously the scale of one in this video is far too large but a smaller one inside a natural material shelter that you built would trap the heat around you and keep burning all through the night providing just enough warmth to allow you to survive. I'm talking logs of wrist thickness and maybe 10" in length.
A Damn Great Idea! I Love this and can't wait for my next opportunity to see this, and feel it, in action. When confronted in the wild with keeping heat as a priority without having to feed the fire every hour or so, one can get a good sleep while remaining warm and cozy in the area of your bivouac or tented campsite. Thanks for this invaluable demonstration.
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well if you made a forge out of dirt, mud, and logs you might be able to get enough air flow in to melt some steel. Steel has a melting point of 2500 degrees F, whereas cast iron is about 2200 degrees F. I know a primitive forge can melt cast iron, but maybe that extra 300 degrees is the barrier.
and melting is not really the point, it's the point of breaking that interests us mostly, it's far from the melting point as steel become soft quite fast
ProperGanderSaul wow you just name a normal phenomenom, wood come from trees, but he stated thats its a lot for 1 person, considering that we are a lot of human on this planet, just take what you need, not less, not more..
Impressed after the muddy deluge and all it still had a nice constant burn, not a smolder, a full fire. Very impressive way to have a self feeding 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Hi Bob, I confess to being one of the people who were doubtful about this design. You've done a brilliant job showing the conept works. How much heat did this fire kick out?
+Keith Lo Due to the size of the logs, it produced more than one might think. I was a cool night, think I had my chair about 8 ft away from the fire the whole time.
+Bob Hansler It certainly looks like it would be good to cook on. I guess if you have enough logs this can be kept burning in perpetuity. You had eight pretty chunky logs to start with. How long do you think you would have got if you had fed them one at time into a traditional campfire? How does the preparation time compare?
Probably less time. With flame able to get around all sides of a log with unlimited oxygen, I imagine they would not have fared as well... still a long night of fire.
Thanks Bob, that's pretty awesome. In practical terms I would think a setup like this would be better for long term sites. The time and effort to set it up kind off puts it out of order for a short stay I'll feature your video over on my campingsage site later. Do you mind if I include your comments too?
I usually just lock the door to the kids rooms. I mean it only takes slight psychopathy and wanting one strong resilient self feeding child more than 4 needy children. But one of them will eventually figure that out for ya
Hey Bob: I gotta say that this is ONE EXCELLENT VIDEO & DEMO on how this type of fire 🔥 works‼️ Seriously- GREAT JOB. I've been hunting-fishing-backpacking- for over 50-plus years and have never seen anything like this. You learn something new everyday ... if you really try and/or make it a goal. Would have liked to seen you make the sides and structure, but your commentary & verbal instructions were easy enough to follow. Here's a thought...you have some great big perfect logs to demo this, ... I wonder how it would work on a smaller scale, using wood the typical size wood and logs you'd find in the foods? Also, how long such a smaller scale fire might burn for? I know it wouldn't me be 14+ hours, but even if you could get 6-solid hours of burn time and wake to flames & coals of any kind, that too would be a success. EXCELLENT VIDEO & GREAT INSTRUCTIONS ALONG THE WAY. Bill ~
Too many variables I’m afraid. A breeze would have burned this thing imperfectly and caused failure. Ideal circumstances show it to be possible, practicality keeps it from being viable.
I lived in a lean-to in Northern Michigan for a few weeks in late November,early December about 40 years ago and used a similar method for overnight heat using 16 to 20 in. firewood. I dug a pit so coals and ashes could build up and lined it with rocks. The back of the lean-to blocked the wind and the front faced the open fire and was just tall enough to sit in. Both ends were covered to block wind also and I added some lean-to high smokescreens that extended out beyond the lean-to several feet also. My ramp was only one sided and acted as an automatic feed and heat reflector on the opposite side of the fire. The ramp went to the edge of the pit. I remember sitting on my bed in a T shirt when it was snowing and blowing. I filled the ramp at bed time and around 5 am I would wake up slightly chilled, grab a few sticks of wood at the head of my bed, sit up and reach out and put them on the still hot coals without leaving the sleeping bag and get back in the bag until the fire was crackling good and I could get dressed in comfort. Keep in mind, it was all sand around the pit and several inches of snow on the ground so no fire hazard and I was working as a logger and had plenty of good hardwoods to burn.
Here we are, 9 Million of us watching logs burning. Life is good
😂
Why not? ... the best we can do right now :-)
I'm happy to share this moment with all of you.
I love the perspective
It sure is!
The algorithm really is something else. I’ll literally never use this, yet I watched every second
This glitch will probably be patched next update
21/01/19 glitch still works!
tierzoo ?
05/02/2019 glitch still works!
Developers state this is working as intended
I heard the next update is a dlc
Legend has it the logs are still burning to this day....
Who's Joe?
Btw can you kick my ball back?
Nope there's no legend about this
Shut up, Joe
They are
That was a lot of work and time just to make a RUclips video. I think it was very generous of you to share it with us. Thank you
You're very welcome, we try our best to bring good quality content to our subscr.....wait, I didn't make this. Get out of my yard!!!
And for that, I will subscribe to you good sir!
//That was a lot of work and time just to make a RUclips video.//
It was a lot of work and time just to make a fire.
Yeah man, he went camping just for a RUclips video...
SOAK LOGS IN WOOD
After i built the frame out of steel and got the angles right .it works i built mine for my deer camp . i also made it so i can put a grill right over it and a hook for hanging water to boil . with my set up i get about 20 hours depending on wind .awsome idea .take it make it your own .
What angle did you use?
@@jeremiahgavin9687 looks like 45 degrees or a little less. If you tilt your head or phone the whole thing looks like it is a 90 degree angle.
I was about to say that this would work best to just keep warm in an enclosed area or to cook with you won't get much warms in the wild in a wide open area
@@sonofashepard130 they meant the guy that commented
@@coryvallad7578 you get major warmth from it.
Not only does it keep you warm all night, when the sun comes up the fire is in perfect shape to make coffee and breakfast. Good idea.
lowell mccormick That bed of coals could probably cook dinner
Nothing worse than making fire hung over needing a bacon and egg sanga to cling on to life for a few more hours.
Agree
@@user47362 fu go play with your electric Chinese car
2015:
2019: youtube- HEY YOU WANNA WATCH THIS AT 2 AM
Wow it's 2 am here..
Holy shit this is accurate
1230 am here...yep
1am here...
4 36
With my luck this whole shit would catch fire.
hahaha
took the words out of my mouth lol
this
lol yep, the self feed structure and all, burnt up in a few hours while I slept.
+Final Cam ha
"Step 1: Gather eight tree trunks."
Yeah, Im out.
I'm more curious about how he stacked them lol
You just have to convince a friend
...
I barely felt like clicking off, that's why I watched. Now my thumbs are tired.
You can probably stack like 20 or more lol keep the fire going for days!!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Velveetasingshot: Lol 😂
when he fast forward i slowed the video back down in settings because no1 tells me how to live my life
loloo
I can and I'm telling you that you will live for the next week, yea I'm telling you to live ur life bam
+Iggy Harl what have you done!? :O
+Goretantath muhahahaha
You weren't able to catch anything he said...were you?? o.o
The internet is an amazing thing. Who knows if someone has had an idea like this in the past? The certainly wouldn't have been able to share it with 9 million people. Thank you for sharing your wisdom!
Fully automatic fires should be banned!
What about fully semiautomatic fires?
get Smarty the magazine shouldn't exceed 4 logs
manictiger what about halfly hemismatic assault weapons
its more like a semi automatic with commiefornia compliant 8 round double stack
all open fires arebanned in my coutry
This is so much better than the paint drying videos I've been watching. This is actually cool I'll probably try this soon.
You can likely improve this.
Try taking out one side. In it's place, place large heavy rocks that will keep the logs from rolling towards you. Make sure those rocks are not rocks found near water, as they may explode when the heat expands the moisture in them. That side you took out, is where your body will be perpendicular to the fire. The loader side will act as a wind protector and reflector. Respect to the original developer.
+bon vivant Yeah, your method also simplified the structure building.
+bon vivant mhmm i like it, good idea
Original developer is someone lost to history thousands of years ago. This was taught as an ancient method when I learned it in the 1970s.
+duxdawg Ya was going to say, it's doubtful we today could come up with anything to do with campfire technology that our stone age ancestors didn't already figure out ages ago.
+bon vivant Did you make a video on your method of a self-feeding fire?
make sure you have gravity
wow very useful I almost forgot
yeah, I accidentally forgot to bring gravity last time I went camping. fortunately it was during a float trip so everything worked out okay.
Lolololol
Newton would be astounded that you had to say that out loud
So that's why mine didn't work out
literally reading this while he's saying it😂😂😂
Next thing you'll be controlling your camp fire by WiFi.
Write that down. WRITE THAT DOWN!
Well, there's already one actually
@Ken Penalosa yeah. The heat from the fire also charges battery for light and phones. Its been around for a long time already that it has a smaller version. I think it's called Biolite.
@Ken Penalosa I don't know. Never had one yet but I'm planning to get one for camping. You could look for "Biolite" in RUclips.
Biolite isn't self feeding, it only captures energy from the heat to charge it's internal battery to blow a fan and make the flames stronger and charge a phone for example. But you still have to feed it wood to keep it going.
So wait is that fire semi or fully automatic?
NPChe Guevara semi-fully
I believe it may be some sort of hybrid self feeding, but also
bolt action, belt fed ammunition with simple patience, this prototype is going to be the next big thing. Please use constant supervision And also, wooden sticks w/marshmellso on deck.
NPChe Guevara
Its fully auto assault fire
"NPC CHE" is PERFECT.
Idk I thought it was bolt action personally.
very impressive if used on a cold night to get some good sleep without getting up and tending the fire, great video
Unless something goes wrong and you wake up to an uncontrollable blaze.
I love old RUclips when people made videos they are passionate about
*Lights one block of Netherrack*
“Your move, sir.”
Apocalypto *f3 to f6*
“Your move, sir”
Ghast: I'm about to end this man's whole career
SOAK THE LOGS IN WOOD
damn
Came here to say that
I had to scroll a lot further down than I thought I would to like this comment.
Theeeere it is
Bro you stayed up to just record the fire? You are one dedicated youtuber. Props👍
I feel like that's the easiest part of making this a reality 😂
I find it funny that you think that was the hard part.. 😂 I'm thinking dam bro you really cut down a tree, made logs, found the perfect sticks to hold em up, measured that shit exactly on both sides, set it up, lit it just perfectly, and then stayed up all night... Dam bro RUclips better get it's shit together and pay you.. they need to be making movies and soap operas about you bro... FR they need to make paintings and write books about you.. I wouldnt wanna meet you in a dark alley you too extra for me bro, you'd probably kidnap me and go to the deserts in the middle East and make a fire from the bare essentials like macgeyver or something and then burn me to death but manage to keep the ashes but dump them back in the alley and have the cops like wtf wtf? Aliens? Mafia? Wtfs goin on hear!? Ashes in the middle a da street wassamaddawitu!.... Thanks I'll be here all week...
@@zacharycedeno6638 bob Chandler's junk must be 12 inches down ur trunk. Btw ur comment was tldr
@@doabarrelroll60 thanks for being a fan. Add me
Good blow
This was by far the coolest thing RUclips has offered me last time.
Also,
As mentioned before, cooking food buried in coals while your away.
Loading up the magazine the next morning keeping the fire alive would keep animals out of your camp.
It frees up a person left in camp as fire tender.
Keeping water pot hot for drinking, cooking or washing without having to tend it.
Drying out wood staves for tools, spears, bows and arrows. The list grows..
you cant just load it up next morning because the the supporting beams of the structure are also made of wood
@Mropticalgreen if you look closely in the video, the feet of the stands are buried in dirt, so they're protected from the heat. You should be able to use these stands for multiple runs
There we go again - youtube recommend algorithm - amazes me everytime
Bro, youtube is telling you something. Maybe later you would end up in a forest!
it knows.
it reads our thoughts.
it sends us to random campfire in the wilderness and some dude making roof shingles.
@@jadestone032 about 5 minutes ago i get a recommendation on how to make a spearhead from flint man.
Soak logs in wood
by the time youtube finish with you. You will be able to do all sorts of things a
Loading the fire through the night makes camping even more fun to me. Very smart idea nonetheless.
Also you wouldn't want to sit round this monstrosity
Seems like it would be a good idea for a scouting trip if it was miniaturized...
Damn, you got me thinking
This gives me the idea that a skilled welder can assemble such a contraption and even add an accessory to hang a pot on top of the fire.
Make a set of foldable A frames with a cross beam over the middle.
I was thinking a metal A frame but smaller and foldable would be nice for camping (only needing an 8 hour fire)
Are u for real right now or are u fucking with us?
Good luck humping that shit in
Best comment and great idea
I got ads underneath the video for that, for a couple hundred dollars...so, you could probably do it for cheap.
Nice job! This is one video that didn't disappoint.
Thanks for taking the time to do that. Very interesting.
Thank you Bob Hansler , n thank you for spending all night monitoring it,so we can learn something
Really cool idea!
Hi Zach
Jerry !!!
Hey yoo Jerry! Whatsup?
Jerry?
Is this your least liked comment?
Actually it burned for 9 minutes and 3 seconds😂😂 Great video!!
Super setup man! Thanks so much for going through it all, we really appreciate it. God bless
Hell yeah. Well done. Thanks for the knowledge.
Thank you for sacrificing your whole night of sleep! This is very helpful. I hope you slept really really well after this
FINE! I WATCHED IT RUclips, ARE YOU HAPPY?
In recommend too long i see
RUclips: I JUST WANT YOU TO SURVIVE! WHAT IF YOU GET LOST IN THE WOODS? 😭😭
yeah, but still couldn't find PewDiePie in the front page of my youtube account
No
Would have been nice to see at least ONE log rolling into place.
It doesn't work like that. The log won't hover until the bottom log burns down, but instead it very slowly slides down as the bottom log burns. You could see the log slide down if he recorded an hour of video and then sped it up a lot, but he may have not had the memory or didn't want to get his camera gear wet.
+Chris CrelicX Oh ok. thanks for that. I thought it was a bit strange he didn't show us. That explains it.
+Chris CrelicX bullshit he was there for 13 hrs or more he could of done a speed vid and more but it don't work anyways because we tryed it yr's ago when we were fencing so it's all crap and he's full of it his eyes are brown lol
I also hoped to see that. He could make a time lapse video.
it's probably happens so slowly that it wouldn't be worth the hassle off editing in.
The algorithm has reunited the lost travellers of the RUclips realm.
What if I already have central heating and air conditioning?
+David Lanham ROFLMAO
2/10 troll. go fuck yourself.
They aren't that useful in a SHTF situation, no electricity?.... you lose.
Elrarion2 original. nice.
MrJrspek Unoriginal.* Thanks.
You see a 14+ hour fire, I see 14 hours for slow cooking a stew going to waste. Still pretty nice.
But did you soak the logs in wood?
I got that reference :)
funny as hell
+Frederik Verhoeven what reference? Please tell me. Come on, please.
that may work
Huh
It's great to know these things, you never know when it might come in handy.
I would totally watch the 15+ hour video of this burning to help me sleep soundly!
Imagine placing microphones real close to have a soothing sound to sleep with.
Isaac lol yeah and you’ll be suddenly hearing updates every few hours haha
would have liked to see the hole you dug and how you created space for the kindling. thank you for the demonstration.
I’ve been watching for five minutes and I see a massive fault. NO BEER 🍺
And no bitches
And no rum! WTH! Seriously though he puts out some great informational videos.
No marijuana!
Why? Did you want to see him fall face first into the thing? 🤪
Perfect for an overnight camping, imma try this one on our next mountain camp out, this is an interesting yet amazing thing to try ❤️❤️❤️
don't even have to watch this, bloody good idea
You could make one with metal fence posts so that your ramps would never burn or dry rot and use it to slow roast things
you could also build a house with central heating in the middle of the forest so that you don't need a fire
germanpenn true, but that isn’t as fun
Trueee
@@germanpenn "why build a solar panel when you could just make a nuclear reactor?" this is a really fucking weird comment
great idea for a cold weather camp
Survival skills are far, far undervalued in our modern age and culture. Kudos to you sir for sharing your knowledge and experience!
This vid is 10/10.
Idk why but putting this on my bucket list of things to do, build a fire that lasts longer than the night without tending.
Really cool project, man. I appreciate all the work that went into making this video, must have had its challenges. Well done, you!
Wow, that is awesome! I have done my fair share of wilderness camping but I have never seen anything like that before...would have loved to have had that when camping in the snow.
I hope this isn't a no-no as I'm just trying to point DrValerie where good info can be found on cold weather camping. I have no financial interest in any youtube video. Check out Far North Bushcraft & Survival. He does his "long fire" a little different but end result is the same. He lives full time in the wilderness of Alaska and has several videos of keeping warm in a cold climate. ~Sherrie in South Carolina
@@sharonallen6921 Thanks! I don't go camping anymore but I still keep up on the best ways to do things...just in case.
I think it’s a great idea. If you’re in a cold place and have the logs, it’s a great thing. Those that mock or nothing themselves. It’s great for survival and that’s what it’s all about. Good video. Some thing I learned thanks.👍
..Can't tell you how it is great to have "Edward Norton" here tell us all about the self feeding fire with his very darn great voice.
Spectacular! What a great video. I appreciate your dedication to knowledge and effort. Very well done, sir.
This is an awesome idea man, definitley gonna try this while camping with my friends, thank you for the quality content
Great idea. Never figured out how to do this on my own but I'll be thanking you if I ever find myself in the cold woods overnight again.
Well, it appears you have some pro and con comments with sarcasm and humor mixed in.
From a veteran hunter and camper, who has spent weeks at a time in the deep woods, this is an awesome idea.
This is especially workable for staying in a lean-to. I've camped in my own designed lean-to for a month at a time and liked the front flap open as much as possible.
I could have started the fire in the evening and it would have lasted all night keeping me warm.
Instead, I had to keep the fire going all night.
I will definitely be trying this. And for all of you who can't figure out the design, well, you might reconsider if you need to be in the woods or just keep making fires traditionally.
The fuck you were doing in the woods santa?
Super cool idea. Thanks for testing it out and posting
I think time lapse would have been better than those updates.
Not everyone is equipped for a 14 hr timelapse... Can't we just appreciate that he got up over and over to document the progress through the night?
If you think about it a timelapse wouldn't work. The falling of the woods would be way to fast to capture and the flickering of the fire would literally burn your eyes :)
Quit bitching. Don't like it? Don't watch.
Dusty Palmer Don't like the comments? Don't read them.
@@jamesmonroe3043 don't like other people's comments? don't comment about how their comment is wrong
Well played RUclips Well played! You win this round !
if he just soaked the logs in wood...
SOAK LOGS IN WOOD
Lol, I love inside jokes.
I'd say this is an outside joke
+Pocari Suit
hahaha good 1. no1 goes outside anymore
+Dreas Trent Are you allergic to the word "one"?
NIce idea! only thing I would say is that, it takes so long to get some real heat, this is because you are using whole logs. They never burn that great. Maybe you can spit these logs with the same method to get more heat FASTER. most campfires and the folk around, demand a BIG heat real quickly. Maybe I'm wrong here?, but I DO love your gravity fed log fire idea, AWESOME!.
Close to 90 degrees that day and didn't drop too much over the course of the night... and that was in November. Might consider that your needs are not always that of the rest of us>?
Wow dude, he watched your video, left a comment with original thought presented as a simple idea ("Maybe I'm wrong here"), and even said your video/idea was awesome, and you responded with dismissive sarcasm. Really?
Seriously, he takes the time to watch then compliment your video and leaves a personal idea, and you treat him like an idiot? Nice way of showing yourself as a jerk.
I didn't read any "dismissive sarcasm" in the reply. He's pointing out that not everyone needs BIG heat real quickly. You guys should chill out.
I think they might be trolls. It is not sarcastic to point out that fires serve a great many purposes depending on the need. A flame for heat is low on the list out here year round, though we do have a few chilly nights from time to time.
That's badass! Even building a smaller one that would be easier to construct in a survival situation would be super beneficial!
I was thinking of it's usefulness in a primitive/survival living arrangement. If you know you're gonna be camping or surviving for more than a week.
But still, i kinda wanna make one out of metal and concrete in the back yard :)
thank you so much for making this super useful video - it must have been a long night for you but sticking it out will have helped many many many people keep warm and safe x
An almost random RUclips click.
I was quite skeptical about this.
To begin with I thought that there was no way that the seemingly meager amount of kindling / thin twigs you used would burn anywhere near hot enough to begin to burn the adjoining logs.
Trusting that all was as it was portrayed in the video, I take it back.
That was really interesting.
When you mentioned the control of air-to-fire, i.e. the earth / clay embankment, I started to realize that you had given this some thought, and that this was not down to chance to the degree that I first thought it would be.
Thanks for a very interesting (and worthwhile) random RUclips click :)
Gad you enjoyed it. Might check out the channel. Always something new.
How do you think this fire would work if you put clay/mud on top of the logs? I'm thinking it'll keep the fire on just the two bottom ones and it'll be good in windy locations.
Clay on top? Clay is a good insulator and would direct heat well. Explain where you would put the clay again. Not quite with you yet.
By "on top" I just mean in a way that would prevent the fire from blowing onto the next row of logs. In between the fire and the 2nd row of logs would work best. With the logs rolling down the slope, it would be too difficult to put clay up all along all the rows, but it'd work for the second row of logs. It would have to be just be a thin layer too. The clay would deposit right in the middle of the coals. Maybe you could get really creative and build a housing for the logs that they would fall out of. Or maybe you could build a chimney over the fire. The clay on the logs is just an easier method of keeping the fire from catching the other logs early
I think that would work. You would have an issue with the clay pieces filling up the trench after a time, but that would be an ingenuitive way of heat sheilding the igher rows.
The issue with this is, is that it really doesnt send the heat in a usefull direction. Its basically a parlor trick as it has no real practical purpose.
S'mores, dude, s'mores.
When is the last time you used a campfire for a practical purpose?
It was designed for use in sub zero conditions and for use inside a natural shelter. Obviously the scale of one in this video is far too large but a smaller one inside a natural material shelter that you built would trap the heat around you and keep burning all through the night providing just enough warmth to allow you to survive. I'm talking logs of wrist thickness and maybe 10" in length.
Don't be a douche in the comments man.
Build a wall behind it and then it's fine
i ve never seen this its great fire
I remember watching this about 3 years ago. RUclips recommended me to watch it again.
A Damn Great Idea! I Love this and can't wait for my next opportunity to see this, and feel it, in action.
When confronted in the wild with keeping heat as a priority without having to feed the fire every hour or so, one can get a good sleep while remaining warm and cozy in the area of your bivouac or tented campsite. Thanks for this invaluable demonstration.
Awesome! If you load it up again before it goes out, you could theoretically keep it burning forever.
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You will need these skills soon!
Best video I've seen on this subject.
You've got a really great texture pack. I didn't know you could build this in Minecraft!
When you don’t have a heater during winter so you gotta watch logs burning to get warm 🔥
Republik der roten Bananen Middle of winter here 👍🏼
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I want to live a life where this skill is useful.
logs cant melt steel beams
lmao 9/11
Actually they totally can
im logged on message me
well if you made a forge out of dirt, mud, and logs you might be able to get enough air flow in to melt some steel. Steel has a melting point of 2500 degrees F, whereas cast iron is about 2200 degrees F. I know a primitive forge can melt cast iron, but maybe that extra 300 degrees is the barrier.
and melting is not really the point, it's the point of breaking that interests us mostly, it's far from the melting point as steel become soft quite fast
That is a lot of wood useage for 1 person 1 night.
he is just showing the Self Feeding fire lol anyone can do this with more then 1 person
ProperGanderSaul wow you just name a normal phenomenom, wood come from trees, but he stated thats its a lot for 1 person, considering that we are a lot of human on this planet, just take what you need, not less, not more..
For an all night fire, not really.
Impressed after the muddy deluge and all it still had a nice constant burn, not a smolder, a full fire. Very impressive way to have a self feeding 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Finally someone showed that it really does work. I always thought it would (if done correctly)
Thank you for the video
nobody is talking about how big those logs are
Barsabus for real
Barsabus Word.
Barsabus my log is also big
Seriously the bigger the logs the logger it will burn lol. I could have a 12hour fire with one HUGE log lol. 😂 this video is retarded
Those are average sized
Hi Bob,
I confess to being one of the people who were doubtful about this design. You've done a brilliant job showing the conept works. How much heat did this fire kick out?
+Keith Lo Due to the size of the logs, it produced more than one might think. I was a cool night, think I had my chair about 8 ft away from the fire the whole time.
+Bob Hansler It certainly looks like it would be good to cook on. I guess if you have enough logs this can be kept burning in perpetuity.
You had eight pretty chunky logs to start with. How long do you think you would have got if you had fed them one at time into a traditional campfire? How does the preparation time compare?
Probably less time. With flame able to get around all sides of a log with unlimited oxygen, I imagine they would not have fared as well... still a long night of fire.
Thanks Bob, that's pretty awesome. In practical terms I would think a setup like this would be better for long term sites.
The time and effort to set it up kind off puts it out of order for a short stay
I'll feature your video over on my campingsage site later. Do you mind if I include your comments too?
The only purpose of this fire is for when you want to abandon your grandma in the woods but also want to make sure she doesn't freeze over night.
Lmfao
That sounds like you have real life situation going on there
Aamir Khan sounds pretty specific lol
@sheldon pereira That's why he doesn't want her to freeze while keeping her out of the way.
Damn nice set up for an all-nighter.
That was really cool! Thanks for building it and showing us! 😁💜
How do I make a self feeding child?
I usually just lock the door to the kids rooms. I mean it only takes slight psychopathy and wanting one strong resilient self feeding child more than 4 needy children. But one of them will eventually figure that out for ya
A bottle of bleach or drain cleaner, a bathroom door with a lock
Teach them how to pickpocket
Cereal on the floor usually does the trick.
I'd build one but I'd have to find something else for my 2 yr old to do while camping.
Check out some of my other videos for further inspiration. Sounds like your kid is at a good age to start helping. Never too young.
+DogFoot23 I like your Doom avatar.
+DogFoot23 I like the tough bleeding smile compared to the pained hurt original.
+aguyandhiscomputer I like your flower avatar. mine is a passionflower that grew on my porch.
Thanks. Never heard of a passionflower but I'm in Michigan, might not be here.
what has my life become? its friday, everyone else is out drinking and getting laid and im here watching a guy burning logs from my cellphone
Soak the logs in wood.
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Let me be the first to say Thank You, the people commenting on here don't know that knowledge is power
Hey Bob: I gotta say that this is ONE EXCELLENT VIDEO & DEMO on how this type of fire 🔥 works‼️ Seriously- GREAT JOB. I've been hunting-fishing-backpacking- for over 50-plus years and have never seen anything like this. You learn something new everyday ... if you really try and/or make it a goal. Would have liked to seen you make the sides and structure, but your commentary & verbal instructions were easy enough to follow. Here's a thought...you have some great big perfect logs to demo this, ... I wonder how it would work on a smaller scale, using wood the typical size wood and logs you'd find in the foods? Also, how long such a smaller scale fire might burn for? I know it wouldn't me be 14+ hours, but even if you could get 6-solid hours of burn time and wake to flames & coals of any kind, that too would be a success. EXCELLENT VIDEO & GREAT INSTRUCTIONS ALONG THE WAY.
Bill ~
Too many variables I’m afraid. A breeze would have burned this thing imperfectly and caused failure. Ideal circumstances show it to be possible, practicality keeps it from being viable.
I lived in a lean-to in Northern Michigan for a few weeks in late November,early December about 40 years ago and used a similar method for overnight heat using 16 to 20 in. firewood. I dug a pit so coals and ashes could build up and lined it with rocks. The back of the lean-to blocked the wind and the front faced the open fire and was just tall enough to sit in. Both ends were covered to block wind also and I added some lean-to high smokescreens that extended out beyond the lean-to several feet also. My ramp was only one sided and acted as an automatic feed and heat reflector on the opposite side of the fire. The ramp went to the edge of the pit. I remember sitting on my bed in a T shirt when it was snowing and blowing. I filled the ramp at bed time and around 5 am I would wake up slightly chilled, grab a few sticks of wood at the head of my bed, sit up and reach out and put them on the still hot coals without leaving the sleeping bag and get back in the bag until the fire was crackling good and I could get dressed in comfort. Keep in mind, it was all sand around the pit and several inches of snow on the ground so no fire hazard and I was working as a logger and had plenty of good hardwoods to burn.
I don't go camping but I can keep watching this...
Great job man that's freakin' awesome! I've had many times this could have been extremely helpful. Adding this to the toolbox.
Legends say the logs are still burning 😂
I've got no intention in doing this but watched all of it anyway.
Brilliance in simplicity! Safe travels!