Self Feeding Fire - 14+ Hour Fire

this is the demonstration of your self-feeding fire i've seen a lot of photos i've seen a lot of drawings but i haven't seen anybody actually show this and this monster takes a lot of effort to make there are definitely some pointers on getting it started keeping it going and making sure it's a success but pretty self-evident the idea is that two ramps opposing themselves will continue to self-load logs as they're consumed at the very bottom i'm going to give you kind of a 360 tour all the way around and then we're going to light it off so the construction of this is pretty simple and most of it should be fairly self-evident you want to make sure you line things up make sure your logs are very very straight so they'll roll but there's a couple of nuances that i want to go ahead and point out to you before i start this up now i have yet to go ahead and put the tinder and kindling under here and get this thing started but you'll notice that i've left a gap in between the bottom two logs and that is for a reason i've gone ahead and put some pieces of dead wood in between to keep them open and this is so that my fire gets started and once the fire starts up real nice and i've got it going these should burn and allow the logs to come together now if you've done very many campfires you know that controlling the airflow is what makes a fire burn hotter and faster or slower and so once these things come together because they're very flat logs the fire should slow down also what you need to notice is that i've left the ends here open and the reason for that is that i want the flames coming out the sides and through the top because if you have the fire burn just here in the middle you'll find out that your logs burn through the middle but if you still have the two ends or four ends your logs on the top will not be able to roll down so you need to get complete burning all the way down if this is to succeed so you know make sure that your portals right here are open other than that just a little bit of looking after make sure it runs right make sure your angles are correct and we should be successful so i'm gonna go ahead and load the tinder load the kindling get this thing fired up and i'll give you updates all through the night on it wish me luck make sure you set your fire from below you don't want to put so much wood on top of here that you go ahead and light off all your other logs prematurely so take your time put it in there flames need to be coming up not burning down so let's get started so so oh oh it's been a little over 30 minutes and we have full combustion we have flame all the way down we want to have a really good even burn our two sticks that we use to space it out allow the oxygen to come in and really get this thing started are now finally combusting and so they're going away the flame is looking good it's really consuming the log slowly because it's not getting the oxygen it could if you were to build a a typical fire lay this is what we want to see again i want to mention this and uh some of the finer points i have oxygen coming out the sides and only through the top back here behind these logs i have a clay dirt barrier and that's making sure that i don't have any oxygen coming up underneath these logs at all all the flame all the heat comes straight up or out the sides you want to make sure that's happening now you also want to make sure that you have the correct angle so take a look at the pictures over and over again kind of figured out because you have to make sure you have the gravity but at the same time you need to put into play how that heat rising is going to affect it so if the logs are too far straight up and down your heat is probably going to allow them to uh ignite if it's too close to the ground to acute your logs aren't going to roll correctly so things to consider going on two hours now and it's uh not even gone through a quarter of the first log so everything looks good so far nice strong even fire it's hour three about halfway through the first set of logs it's hour four and we're still on the first set of logs they've got about a third left to burn through but everything looks like it's working well hour five burning pretty good you see it's starting to catch up the secondary logs a little bit which is too much heat build up and there's not much left of the first lock so i'm thinking it's uh it's slowly shifting down now okay guys it has been six whole hours but i'm getting a deluge uh i'm getting stuck out here the mud's getting too bad the wind and the rain is getting too bad so we're gonna shut it down six hours it looks amazing everything is intact everything's working the way it should work uh we'll go ahead and try and get a shot of this in the morning and see what it does but uh i give up rain's got me all right guys take a look this is hour 10. the rain has stopped and it has continued to feed itself the structure's up everything's working well four complete logs remaining so this is definitely been a success uh we're gonna keep on running out the clock and we'll see how long this thing actually persists but definitely beyond my expectations pretty cool guys this is hour 11 and as you can see the last of the logs are starting to catch but you've got a massive bed of coals there so down to the home stretch this is the 12 hour mark we're down to two and a half logs pretty awesome 13 hours it's got about a half log each side and a massive massive bed of coals sun will be up soon well group it's been 14 hours and the sun is now coming up this thing has been burning strong for the entire time it's got two half logs left which presumably in these conditions is about another hour and a half to two hours worth of burn we have about six inches of large coal underneath that and if you were to make sure the window isn't coming over it too hard you're looking at another three or four or five hours of the coal remaining you can also go and bank all this and if you go ahead and put your dirt over the top of it and seal it off in the wind and kind of keep that heat in you should be able to keep those coals for uh near on a day depending on your soil conditions but this was a neat project again this is your self-feeding fire try new things have fun out in the wild like and subscribe and as always until next time

Channel: Bob Hansler

Views: 9,667,195

Keywords: Bob Hansler, Self Feeding Fire, How to build the Self Feeding Fire, All night Fire, Long Lasting Fire, Self Fed Fire, fire craft, Boy Scout, All night fire, long burning fire, Fire Lay, shtf, teotwawki, Rack Em Up, top down fire, upside down fire, how to build a fire, bushcraft, firecraft, how to build a bonfire, rolling og fire, keep a fire going all night, survival fire, survival fire starting, Survival Skills (TV Genre)

Id: ejfSv3raPDo

Length: 9min 7sec (547 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 12 2015

Reddit Comments

[u/Z4phod]

Soak the logs in wood!

[u/Lari-Fari]

Ofcourse it'll burn 14+ hours... You're burning an entire tree!! :D

No seriously. Pretty cool construction. :P

[u/tenebrous_cloud]

Sneaky fuck putting a link to his channel right over the progress bar.

[u/locutogram]

So all you need is a chainsaw, mature dried perfectly straight trunk lumber, two lashed structures, and a fire pit dug specifically for this contraption. Not to mention about 5 times more wood than if you just fed it conservatively yourself for a night

[u/KronktheKronk]

1. Begin forest fire

[u/usfdude223]

So. Just to be self evident. Gravity.

[u/lowlife9]

Or you could just make a gap fire. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hTKGD6Y2mDw

[u/HardcorePhonography]

If you want actual heat that radiates and will keep people warm, an upside down fire works really well. Whenever I'm camping I do a small fire for cooking, shovel the coals to the side, build the base, put the coals on top.

https://youtu.be/Sx4gvg5f0gU

[u/bobzilla509]

If you cut those logs into halves or thirds you could essentially do the same thing with 2x more fuel right?