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How do/did primitive people manage to keep there shelters clean when they had open fires going inside?, It is so easy to spread charcoal around and turn everything black without noticing when having...

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Hello Joseph Here is an old Boy Scout item about a clean means of heating a shelter:...

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Chances are ...in a settled tipi camp ..wood is gathered when it dry or gathered to dry ..and kept out of the rain as much as possible . a lot of the smoke created in a campfire ...is created by not...

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Proper ventilation is key, fires were usually kept small not raging bonfires that a lot of people use when camping. A small fire gives off less light that is true, but for the most part to heat a...

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The "Swedish candle" has one big drawback in the primitive context: it is best made with a chainsaw. I suppose it can be made without, but then it is a lot of manual work. (No way will us Finns call...

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Hello Perttime A Swedish Torch can be made using primitive wood working methods, http://www.primitiveways.com/wood_carving.html Also several smaller branches or logs can be bundled and get the same...

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Hello Perttime Swedish Torch bundle: http://midwestbushcraft.blogspot.com/2012/02/modified-swedish-torch.html Tomas

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Hello Perttime For the sake of good international relations in the paleo world: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JU-TOu0YI Tomas

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The torch bundle looks like a pretty good idea, at least for temporary camps. I suppose it must take some care to make the bundle so that it balances on the ground - and so you can balance a cook pot...

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Hello Folks Here is a rather nice rendering of a fire in a tipi: http://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/online/blackfoot/inside1_eng.htm Tomas

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Tomas, I've got to hand it to you: you really know your stuff! As for breaking the wood down into smaller pieces, you can do exactly that: small stuff can be broken in your hands, bigger stuff across...

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Hello Folks Here is something folks might get a kick out of a sort of Olympic event of flint axes. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sT99CvsSt1Q&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsT99CvsSt1Q Tomas PS Wolfeye...

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Well, that was suprising. Wouldn't have thought it would make much difference. Still, I figure smoothing it could go much faster (using courser grit stones, "sandpaper" made from pitch &...

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Hello Folks Here is an illustration (see link) of a Blackfoot tipi interior. Note the tipi lining extending around the tipi to create a draught for the fire and the extended log that is gradually...

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Good way to have a smoky lodge.

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Hello mewolf Not according to George Bird Grinnell..... Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People George Bird Grinnell - 1907 - In ancient times, before they had knives of metal, stones...

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Spend a little time in a lodge with a fire like that for your self.... you'll see. Don't believe everything you read

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Hello mewolf Have been is lodges with such fires (star fire, lazy man's fire, etc.). Use the wood traditional to the star fire, beech, birch, oak etc. with a fire pit in the lodge and clean the ashes...

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To each his own Tomas. I'm no rookie to the Tipi and learned some time ago that using wood to large, i.e., allows the flames to burn back on the logs and not have enough coal underneath, creating...

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Hello mewolf Yes, agree that oversized logs would indeed smoke badly. Would seem the size of fire wood is dictated by what the wood gatherer could break up and carry so would imagine that kept the...

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No need to bring wood, just an appetite.

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