Pine Stove

[PurpleHeath]

many people probably saw Ray's mears programme last night i was just wondering if anyone had used the wood stove, if so how effective was it?

 

[Tantalus]

no didnt see it

dont have a telly sorry

not much chance of me seeing it any time soon either

but i am interested in the idea, would be delighted if someone could post a description or even pics

cheers
Tant

 

[Womble]

take a pine log about 2 foot long. use a saw to make two lengthway cuts at right angles as if quartering the log, but only going down about half-way. (He also suggested actually splitting the log into qtrs and sticking the ends into the ground - keeping the 4 bits close together.

Stand the log upright

Stuff tinder materials into the bottom of the cuts, and light.Use the top of the log as a place to put your billy of water.

From what I saw, the log starts to act a bit like a candle, only quite a bit hotter, and he said it will burn for quite some time.

I've got a suspicion that you'd need a log that's pretty well infused with resin for this to work well.

 

[PeterW]

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/jegs11/new/id194.htm

take a pine log about 2 foot long. use a saw to make two lengthway cuts at right angles as if quartering the log, but only going down about half-way. (He also suggested actually splitting the log into qtrs and sticking the ends into the ground - keeping the 4 bits close together.

Stand the log upright

Stuff tinder materials into the bottom of the cuts, and light.Use the top of the log as a place to put your billy of water.

From what I saw, the log starts to act a bit like a candle, only quite a bit hotter, and he said it will burn for quite some time.

I've got a suspicion that you'd need a log that's pretty well infused with resin for this to work well.

I remember seeing these a while back in one of the gift catalogues, and it had a small tub of something like fire gel in the top. It was advertised as something like an instant campfire...!!!

Found one..!! and it used to be sold by IWOOT
here...!!!

If you turn the log over and cut at 45deg to the top cuts,you create a chimney effect through the middle too.

Cheers

Peter

 

[Viking]

What you need is dead standing pine, we call it a "toppfura". This was often made so people could make their coffe, probably used a lot by the people that worked in the forest back in days.

 

[EdS]

I use them quite a lot in the garden on autum evening.

Just get a dry log 2 cuts with the chainsaw one way and 2 at 90 degrees and start a small fire on top.

takes the chill from the air, doesn't burn the lawn and the kettle/ mulled cider heats up a treat.

 

[bambodoggy]

I'm off up the woods next weekend with my chain saw to get a couple of birch tree's for a group camp I'm going to at the end of the month... If I think on and see a standing dead pine then I'll have it down and make up two or three of these things to try out with my friends in Sussex.

If I do get some then I'll take a photo or two to post on here to show people.

Cheers all,

Bam.

 

[Tony]

I nearly had a go on Sat, couldn't find my chainsaw though!

Yeah, let us know how it goes, it would be interesting to know how much heat it gives off etc

 

[Gary]

many people probably saw Ray's mears programme last night i was just wondering if anyone had used the wood stove, if so how effective was it?

PH they have sold these stoves in the camping shop in forest row near Ashdown for ages. Ray lives near there so probaably got the idea from there (younever now) I tried one ages ago and it does work but its really only something you can use once.

You can do a similar thing with a smaller (wrist thick) piece of wood and a lapplander saw - mini stove which will boil a brew in a mug but remeber to point one end of the stake so you can stick your mini stive in the ground as the smaller they are the more unstable.

 

[Mutley]

I guess you could use them for many things? For thin ones just as a basic candle.

 

[PurpleHeath]

PH they have sold these stoves in the camping shop in forest row near Ashdown for ages. Ray lives near there so probaably got the idea from there (younever now) I tried one ages ago and it does work but its really only something you can use once.

heehee!
well you know what Isaac Newton said when somebody congratulated him on his work, he said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of gaints."

 

[boaty]

heehee!
well you know what Isaac Newton said when somebody congratulated him on his work, he said "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of gaints."

He was taking the mickey out of Leibniz (a very short person!) when he said that, for having the audacity to come up with calculus at the same time as he did...

 

[Viking]

You don´t need a chainsaw to cut down a dead standing pine, most of the time the bottom is rotten so they are easy to just push down. They can also be used for a long log fire where they will burn for a long night and with smaller pieces you can make nice torches like this one.

 

[Biddlesby]

Well I didn't use pine, but I managed to make one just the same. My kindling and stuff didn't light very well - so I made a campfire nearby, then, when it was hot enough, shoved it on top. Through some blowing and poking I eventually managed to get the fire to go down enough to resemble Ray's roaring-flame version. I cooked some pine needle tea on it (delicious!), like he did, and also the carrots for tea .

If anybody can recommend some good stuff to use to get the fire going straight away (can't remeber what he used), I'd be grateful.

Here's a picture of my attempt - it caught up lots more flame later but my battery was running out. I had to lower the quality and size quite a bit to fit under the 30kb limit :/.

 

[TheViking]

I just thought I'd pop in and say, as Gary pointed out too, that Ray wasn't the first in history to make these things.

I think it's a sami 'invention'. You take 4 logs and tie them together. Cut the top flat, so a pot can stand there. Put hexi tabs between the 4 logs (small logs) and light them, saw that on a program once, the host called it a sami-kitchen.

cheers

 

[bambodoggy]

If anybody can recommend some good stuff to use to get the fire going straight away (can't remeber what he used), I'd be grateful.

He used mainly birch bark with a few pine twigs...

 

[Biddlesby]

He made it look so easy . I had some birch bark, but I only used it for the campfire.

I seem to remember him saying he learnt it from Finland, but my memory is terrible. At least, I think it is.

 

[Tony]

I just thought I'd pop in and say, as Gary pointed out too, that Ray wasn't the first in history to make these things.

I thought that Ray had said that they'd been using it in Sweden (or Scandinavia?) for many years, I don't think he said they were his invention?

 

[PurpleHeath]

He was taking the mickey out of Leibniz (a very short person!) when he said that, for having the audacity to come up with calculus at the same time as he did...

heehee!!

i have to admitt that i didn't know where the quote came from i just knewn that newton said it!

 

[TheViking]

I thought that Ray had said that they'd been using it in Sweden (or Scandinavia?) for many years, I don't think he said they were his invention?

You're right, I should maybe have pointed out that I didn't see the show (due to only having 2 channels). It's just often when people see Ray doing something, they get their eyes up, but I guess it's normal behaviour.