A simple fireside homemade tool that I use every day

Urban Woods · Nov 20, 2018

T.Jeff Veal said: ↑

Not if she is under the covers with you.
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Well she has an open invite, but first she has to brew the coffee, make me some eggs with toast and bacon and take the dog out for a walk. Yeah I got it like that

T.Jeff Veal · Nov 20, 2018

Urban Woods said: ↑

Well she has an open invite, but first she has to brew the coffee, make me some eggs with toast and bacon and take the dog out for a walk. Yeah I got it like that
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...we all know the truth about that...

JDU · Nov 20, 2018

Tube and hose good idea for inside fire. For campfires outside, if I have a smoldering fire, trouble getting it going, I use a battery operated air mattress pump. Works well.

SkidderDone · Nov 20, 2018

They have something similar in The Axe Book. I've never used one but apparently they're better than bellows. I'm a Mapp gas man myself. $15 bucks a season, no kindling, no hassles. If I was a person that had fires 3 or 4 times a year when giving the wife the bear skin rug treatment , old school would be just fine by me. Fires everyday? It's a blow torch and a smile for me.

Timberdog · Nov 22, 2018

Urban Woods said: ↑

Hey everyone, you know that video with the guy who shows you how he burns fresh cut green frozen wood? Well here is the link in case you want to check it out, but I warn you, you may die of smoke inhalation before the end of the video.

The video basically boils down to a guy who cuts live pine wood in the middle of winter into small rounds like little frozen pucks and with some paper and small kindling blows on them using a garden hose apparatus for 30 minutes to eventually get a very weak smoky fire started. Now he gets a lot of criticism in the comment section, but in his defense he says it can help in a survival situation.
Anyway I happened upon this video 4 years ago and though it is a bit unorthodox and laughable at times it did give me a real good idea to make something that has become my "go to tool" I cant live without. His use of a hose to directly blow into the embers creating a small concentrated blast forge effect was very smart. We all know the frustrations of leaning close and blowing on a struggling fire only to have the smoke billow right out of the stove into the room! Well I didn't see that so much with his hose and thought dayem! So I ran down to my basement to find some old hose and I couldn't find any, but I had some scraps of 1/2 inch electrical pipe. I ran upstairs to blow on the embers and it was like my world changed. Now some of you may already know this trick and if so I'm sorry for wasting your time, but I wanted to share it early this season to help others who have not tried this.
So since then I have cut a little 36 inch long piece of 3/8 copper pipe into my little blow stick that I keep right next to the other fireside tools. I found the thinner the tube the better for making a small powerful blast of air. I made one for my brother out of a scrap piece of 1/4 inch copper refrigerator pipe, the kind that feeds the automatic ice tray and it works just as good. So my fire is started up every morning using this tool to activate the embers from that nights fire, but I really use it all the time when reloading. Load your wood on the embers as usual, point and blow with the pipe now just an inch or two away from ignition zone. Instant super heated embers with no smoke and no kindling necessary!
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Or you could just by a fireplace bellows.

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A simple fireside homemade tool that I use every day

Urban Woods

T.Jeff Veal

JDU

SkidderDone

Timberdog