One of the most fun parts about camping is sitting around a fire with your friends or family, singing songs or telling stories. But what's notfun about camping is having to constantly keep the fire going.
In cases where you're lost while hiking and trying to survive the night by keeping warm and alert (a position that, statistically speaking, some of you reading this article will find yourselves in), keeping a fire going for as long as possible with minimal effort is something of great importance.
But whatever your fire longevity needs might be – whether for leisure or survival – this handy trick I'm about to show you can produce a fire which burns a whole 14 hours.
It looks like this:
Two opposing ramps are angled in this array, which will cause a new log to roll into place when needed.
The construction is fairly simple, and requires the following:
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- A hole dug a couple feet deep
- Four large branches to form the ramps
- Four 'Y' shaped branches to hold the ramps in place
- Of course, firewood