Article: How To.... Build a Finnish Rakovalkea Gap Fire

[Seoras]

You can view the page at http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/content.php?r=615-How-To-Build-a-Finnish-Rakovalkea-Gap-Fire

 

[Mr Wolf]

Great work

 

[Seoras]

Great work

Thanks for that, I am glad that you liked it.

I have just updated the post with a proper You Tube video instead of the link to my Photobucket account.

Cheers

George

 

[Clouston98]

I really enjoyed that, as I do all of your tutorials, great! I do like a long fire, try to make them as often as I can, but I'll have to try this too!

 

[Winterhorse]

Thanks that looks like an excellent way to make a long fire. I'm going to give it a try.

 

[Joonsy]

thanks for tutorial, is this method better than just placing two long logs side-by-side and then placing one larger long log on top of those two, and if so for what reasons? method shown requires some work whereas placing one on top of two does not, for example that 'axed-out channel' would not have to be cut with three logs as the 'channel' is formed naturally by the gap inbetween the three logs, so i was wondering what the benefits are, if it is because two logs on bottom would create too much heat burning the top log too quickly could you not just use a very large log on top of two smaller logs, i could understand it if logs were scarce but you say where that method is normaly used logs are usually plentiful. Just curious as to its benefits considering the work involved ATB

 

[Ruud]

nice write up, thanks!

 

[Dave]

Nice fire.

Dont know if youve seen it, but theres a guy on youtube did quite a good tutorial on this type of fire. I think he got it to last 6 hours....

[video=youtube;hTKGD6Y2mDw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKGD6Y2mDw[/video]

 

[Totumpole]

Great post. That set up looks like it would churn out a lot of heat!

 

[Janne]

That is a modern, labour intense way to do it.

 

[Russell96]

I really like that! Thanks for sharing; I will give that a go.
Russ

 

[Seoras]

That is a modern, labour intense way to do it.

As you are being direct then so will I. This method takes a while to set up however it will last far longer than most other fires. If you want to sleep for longer periods without having to tend the fire in a cold environment then this is proven to work.

The fact that I have used a nail does not make it modern as they have been around for a long time

 

[Seoras]

I really like that! Thanks for sharing; I will give that a go.
Russ

Glad you liked it Russ. Have fun building one.

 

[bigbear]

Great article, keen to try that.