Swedish Torches - 3 Styles of 1 log fire

[Music] [Applause] hello welcome back happy new year to you all hope you all had a good christmas new year i certainly did took a couple of weeks off much needed after last year it's good to be back up here though i've been here in a while it's a pretty crisp cold morning the uh streams kind of burst its banks up the top there running quite high down here as well so yeah nice bit of full driving in you may notice i've got the chainsaw with me today going to be doing um some swedish one log fires which are quite looking forward to i'm going to do it in three maybe four different ways i'll see how it goes um i've got some cedar which we took down just before christmas and i'm gonna get started well for the first swedish torch i'm going to use just this quite small one and this is going to be done with hand tools going to need my axe baton and a saw as well so i'm going to start off just by splitting this into four quarters there is a couple of knots at the bottom of this so we'll see how it goes but it's got quite a nice straight grain by the looks of it which is what you want and just going to place this just off center this is just for control there we go we've got two halves and in half again and then the other side and try and keep your bits together because you're going to want them to fit together again i'll take one of these pieces this being the top on this side we'll go about two-thirds down get our saw i'm about halfway through just to remove that core section and we'll put it back up right and batten that out of it and you should see there we've taken out that core but we've got the core in the bottom more or less a little bit splintered out there we're just going to do that for all four so now as hopefully you can see you've got the four sides which fit together with the hole going through except for a small shelf at the bottom so we're ready for our next step we've got two corresponding corners here you can see that shelf and if we turn that around what you want is just above the shelf a hole it's okay we're going to look for the shelf is which is about there so a bit above that i'm gonna mark it just take that mark on both sides there you go there's a couple of ways of doing this you can do a square or a diamond i'll probably do more of a diamond today [Laughter] you should have two bits that go together with a nice air hole so it's time to put this together right so at this point there's a couple of things you can do you could dig this into the ground to hold it together you could use some twine which will eventually burn so depending on how flat your surface and the bottom of your log is may not be ideal or you can use some wire so i'm just going to do that today as i have some with me it's just flourished wire and we're just going to loop them together and tighten it up now your cores that you chipped out you can keep them and you can use them just to make some fine feathers to get this going so they're just going to go within the core i'm just going to break them off so they go in easy that's going to help get that fire started right we're just going to start putting some of these feathers and chips inside here and that's going to be all ready to go and i'll light them all together when i'm done so let's move on to the next one right excuse the chainsawing in the background i can't do a lot about that but mine will be out soon anyway so for this one i'm gonna use this short stumpy log i've got a barrel eyed auger here and this is gonna be more like a rocket stove style of um swedish torch a bit less traditional but um hopefully just as effective i've never tried this before but i've seen it done so i'm just gonna be putting a hole in through the top and run it in through the side for air and uh we'll start off with fuel just like we do the other one this is the biggest long auger i've got so hopefully it'll do so now this is gonna come in handy so don't discard it now with some careful aiming i'm gonna go in through the side and try to match up with the other hole so there's a hole in the side and there's the one in the top i've shown my um torch through it so i know it's definitely connected uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey okay so we're looking pretty good there thickened up the two main lines there just so i can fit in some debris to burn but that's a third one done incidentally if you do buy a swedish torch you can buy them like this kind of pre-done because they can be mass produced with a chainsaw like that all right let's get some tinder so what do we use to get these started we've got all your shavings and feathers that you can do with the cores you've got your shavings and sawdust from using the auger and i've collected some birch bark as well it's like a paper birch if not maybe if you took the tree down you'd be able to get some fat wood or just some man-made fire lighters whatever's easiest for you i've just got some long matches with me today the first two are up and running very well the chainsaw one and the axe one this one is immense it's going very well as expected the auger one it's going to take a little more to get going because of the small hole i'll have to get myself a bigger auger but it'll probably burn the longest now you can cook on a swedish torch it's best not to cut off the airflow though now one way is to just raise your pan with a few rocks or your kettle and that allows that airflow to still go [Music] now you can tell that's hot another way is to just put pieces of wood across but you can't cook for too long that way or you could use some kind of pot stand like so and that kettle is almost done we've had a bit of an accident with the the axe one that's because it wasn't perfectly flat and i left it a bit late to put weight on it like that but if i pick it up it should just carry on as normal i said pretty much as it was i could have put some wire higher up as well to be honest but uh that's fine it's just a demonstration one you see how efficient it is it's going again straight away don't worry about this floor it's rained non-stop for a week some nice bacon and an egg and no i didn't forget i'm going for take two with the t seems a little more balanced now without them stones that's probably the problem i didn't put too much effort into finding ones that were evenly sized but these ones are brilliant now the chainsaw one is smoldering away and that will burn like that for a long long time i could have put them slits a bit lower to be quite honest but this was my first time doing this type what you can do if you want to flame up still putting out some heat is just put some more of that sort of kindling and stuff in there [Applause] so so as you can see i just put a bit of the core of the other one in there and that's got that going again and the ax1 still going so i hear you saying andy what happened to the auger torch it's not going lighting all three at the same time cooking filming i couldn't give it the attention it needed so i'm gonna get back to that one now because i don't want to leave it fouled so i'm just going to take the debris out of here just to clear it out the same with the front hole and i'm going to put a hole in the opposite side the second hole missed but i've had another go and it looks like we might be up and running i think just unblocking the holes may have helped a lot okay i can safely say this one is going well now and because of its stability and flat top this would be ideal for actually using stones on to put your pot on yeah that is going it's really feeding through that original hole as you can see this has stopped flaming and it's not putting out as much heat now definitely should take them cuts further down but you know live and learn and the axe one is i'm actually still putting out some heat but yeah nearly depleted but as you can see more than enough time to do a meal on so now i can see that's burning very well it's been going for some time now uh maybe even 40 minutes and you can see it's got a lot more time to go it's probably a lot more hollow inside um like i said it's burnt through to both holes so it's getting loads of oxygen now it's like a proper rocket stove now i've eaten i don't need this to burn for another hour and a half so i'm going to put it out the auger torch is out now i'm actually sat on it it's cooled down the um ax one it's a few little bits left but uh you know it's a really good burner really starts up quick the chainsaw one definitely take your cuts further down than i did it's good buried in the ground you could bury any of these in the ground to be honest it doesn't really matter depends how flat your log and your ground is but um yeah that was all a success in the end the orga one took a little bit but that was because i was doing 10 things at the same time really we did get bacon and eggs hope you found this interesting there's other ways of doing these you can put bundles of sticks together with like a gap in the middle to put some kind of fire starter and things like that but um these i think are the three main ways the rocket stove way the swedish axe made um torch and the um chainsaw made one which is more of a commercial way of doing it thank you very much for watching um it's good to be back should be camping this weekend and i'll see you on that one goodbye for now [Music] you

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Length: 22min 17sec (1337 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 10 2021