[Stoves] Fire Stump

[Boll, Martin Dr.]

Ron,

 

To your question: 

<6. I wish I had seen how difficult it was to drill the central hole of the
Rocket design. 

<Is there a power tool on the market like the chain saw <(but for drilling
holes)? 

 

A "yes-but" answer:

 

If you make the three asterisk cuts longitudinal through the log, about 2/3
or 3/4 , of the length of the log, there is  automatically somehow a central
hole.

To get this type of hole down to bottom, -and not to make high "cake-wedges"
falling apart- Make the same asterisk cuts beginning from bottom, but only
the needed amount of 1/ 4  or 1/3 . 

__And__ set the in-cuts precisely in the round __between__ the in-cuts
coming from top. So the log holds together.

The in-cuts from top and from bottom must overlap a little bit, otherwise
there is no central hole running without stop from bottom to top.

 

My experience with a very dry pine-log last year: 

With some wind you get an unsymmetrical burn.

By the thread now I got the idea, one could experiment with aluminium-foil,
partly wrapped round the log. - Many different manners possible-.

 

Happy camp-fire experiments

 

Martin 

 

 

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