[Stoves] Fire Stump: center hole making

[Richard Stanley]

 Here in Little 'ole Ashland Oregon and I suspect all over the land, ordinary softwood  logs were used for water pipes. They bored 2 to 4" dia holes right thru the center of 8 to 10 ft lengths and somehow maintained  center...Have no idea how they managed that but it wold certainly give us a clue as to how to bore a simple 18 inches depth or so.... My trusty 18 volt dewalt with a spade bit dies after about 6" yet they managed 10 ft probably by hand auguring..Perhaps any of us in the over 80's club can recall.. 
 
Richard Stanley
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Boll, Martin Dr. wrote:

> 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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