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Site Contents

Rub Two Sticks Together:

Fires and Fire-Making

Experimental Method of Instruction

Group Demonstrational Method

Fire-Building as Handicraft

 

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Part I: Starting Fires

Fuzz-Stick

Fuzz-Stick Substitute

Pyramid or Wigwam Fire

 

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Part II: General Cooking Fires

Selection of Firewood 

Crisscross Fire

Trapper or Hunter Fire 

Backlog Fire 

Trapper-Backlog Stone Fireplace

Scout Cooking Lay

 

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Part III: Fires in the Ground

Open Trench Fire

Closed Trench Fire

Cooking Fire in a Hole

Automatic Stew Fire

Slow-Burning Fire-woods

 Trapper-Trench or Chinook Fire

 

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Part IV: Baking Fires
 

Reflector Baking Fire

Fast-Burning Fire-woods 

Trapper Reflector Fire

Trapper Biscuit Oven

Outdoor Stone Stove

Clay Oven

 

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Part V: Camp Fires

Log Cabin Council Fire 

Star or Lazy Man Fire 

Non-Sparking Night Fire-woods

Wind-Break Reflector or Nessmuk Fire

Very Slow-Burning Fire-woods

Alarm Clock Fire

 

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Part VI: Fire Construction Work & Handicraft

Cooking Altar

Durable Woods

Camp Fire Altar

Single Stick Pot-Hangers

Camp Crane

Woods Difficult to Split

Pothooks

Rustic Broilers

Broiler Woods

Rustic Swinging Crane

Lashing Material

Iceless Refrigerators

 

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Part VII: Fire by Friction

Fire by Rubbing Sticks 

The Bow

The Drill-Socket

Woods for Fire by Friction 

Tinder

Fire by Flint and Steel

 

 

   

 

 


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