Just been out for a weekend with Maddave and as we were wild camping from the van I had a bag of charcoal for cooking, some kindling and a bag of logs for a fire.
As the evening wore on and the log pile shrunk, I recalled something I'd picked up in Asda "just in case".
It's something called a "Fire log" and basically it's a compressed sawdust brick held together with wax of some kind, wrapped in paper.
It seemed ideal for keeping the fire going for a bit longer so we set it on the embers of the fire and lit the paper, as per the instructions.
The instructions also say use just one log at a time and don't poke the fire which I was a bit dubious about, but for a first try I thought we'd give it a go.
It lit easily and produced reasonable heat and a lot of light, which lets face it, is what you want while sitting round a fire.
An hour later and it's still producing reasonable heat and a lot of light, this went on longer that either of us could actually believe.
We actually went to bed before it finally went out and in the morning there were just fine ashes to show for it.
Has anybody else used one of these things?
I'm thinking that for the type of wild camping I do from a vehicle, where there is often not much available fuel, a couple of these things at £1.48 a piece makes a lot more sense than buying a bag of logs from a garage (which are usually damp anyway.)
Green notes: I don't know what the wax is, but the sawdust is a recycled product and I guess the wax could be off set by decreased transportation costs compared to a bag of logs, but it certainly reduces my impact on the camp site compared to collecting wood.
As the evening wore on and the log pile shrunk, I recalled something I'd picked up in Asda "just in case".
It's something called a "Fire log" and basically it's a compressed sawdust brick held together with wax of some kind, wrapped in paper.
It seemed ideal for keeping the fire going for a bit longer so we set it on the embers of the fire and lit the paper, as per the instructions.
The instructions also say use just one log at a time and don't poke the fire which I was a bit dubious about, but for a first try I thought we'd give it a go.
It lit easily and produced reasonable heat and a lot of light, which lets face it, is what you want while sitting round a fire.
An hour later and it's still producing reasonable heat and a lot of light, this went on longer that either of us could actually believe.
We actually went to bed before it finally went out and in the morning there were just fine ashes to show for it.
Has anybody else used one of these things?
I'm thinking that for the type of wild camping I do from a vehicle, where there is often not much available fuel, a couple of these things at £1.48 a piece makes a lot more sense than buying a bag of logs from a garage (which are usually damp anyway.)
Green notes: I don't know what the wax is, but the sawdust is a recycled product and I guess the wax could be off set by decreased transportation costs compared to a bag of logs, but it certainly reduces my impact on the camp site compared to collecting wood.
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