How to Build the Star Fire
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- A useful fire to build when you are without the means to cut your firewood to a manageable size.
Also known as the Indian Fire.
The star fire lay is ideal when you are without tools to process large fire material. This is the standard fire of the old West. It is ideal for calm conditions. It is easy to control and requires little maintenance. Start by setting five or six fuel wood sticks in a star pattern with the ends slightly overhanging an indention. Place a fire lay of tinder and kindling in the center and light the it, you may blow gently and continue to place kindling upon the flames until the fire is lit. Add additional fuel wood as needed. As the fire continues burning, push in the logs by the ends to keep the fire burning.
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I am not an outdoors person THIS IS EXCELLENT! Bob you are the best guy!
I have the same philosophy when it comes to firewood: "Never dull a blade on firewood. We're not making furniture here, it doesn't need to be perfect or even pretty. The ashes will always look the same whether you cut the wood or broke it against another tree."
+otakop67 Seeing someone expend that extra effort and energy was wasteful as well. Always redirected into making more permanent trail / campsite improvements. Always something to do.
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Yes, have to choose your locations carefully with this fire lay but pretty cool for the right place. Great philosophy on the tools. Above the 50th parallel we make use of the "long fire" (if staying overnight) in front of lean to shelter to reflect the heat as it gets pretty cold at night in our subarctic region, dig yourself into a deep snow well works well too as a heat reflector behind you.
I appreciate the time you take to make these instructional videos. Information like this should be common knowledge for everyone.
Excellent! Solid reasoning!
Thanks!
In rainy areas and wet woods you'll have to cut your wood or at least doing some batoning at first, til you got enough heat to burn whole logs.
Another great film. Cheers Bob
Very neat fire! Well done.
If possible I will try to use this method thanks Bob take care buddy!
Had to navigate through a crap storm of star fire anime to find this video smh.
Great video even years later
When my dad use to take my brother and I on long hikes we would rarely take a saw or axe so we would make fires similar to this one. The difference is that ours would just be two logs laid across a small fire so the fire would burn them in half for us. That way we didn't have to chop anything. Then we would just feed the burned ends in like you did.
Great video brother thank you so much for sharing.
Cool
Thanks for the detailed response ;)
Great job my friend!
+SpiritofWildWings Thank you senior. I'll be making a complete series on fire building over the coming months as well as knot-craft for now.
+Bob Hansler Great set of plans. I'll be looking forward to them.
First person I've seen address the trend of unnecessary wood processing. There is no need to fell, buck, and split firewood out in the forest. Even in wet and cold conditions, the most you'd ever need to do is split small stuff for kindling.
Have you made a video about the Dakota fire hole method?
Thanks for nerd 👍
love the vid thanks
can you do a video if you haven't already...the best log set up at camp grounds that force you to use the pits enclosed by a circular sealed in wall over a foot or two high?
I think the trick forgetting those fires going and that enclosed area is to just build it in the center but kind of small. Once you get a good hot fire going be it be a little Log Cabin fire or pyramid fire or whatever, you can just start building it up to as big as you want it. I have had to pry up the ring and stick something under there to let some air in underneath before. Hope this helps.
For some reasson youtube showed me you canal. Love it. Could you just find some better camera? I mean, that would be very cool
Filming in HD now. Finally made it into the 21st Century. Glad you found the channel.
So, this is actually the fire the Indians of North America used to get warm and cook. I'm curious how they actually cook with that fire and which fire they used in the wigwam. Note: glad to find your video, I'm 57 and never seen this type of fire.
+Luc Rik Vlaemynck & Mijn beste soulmate ever I've wandered the desert mountains of West Texas for over two years of cumulative overnight trekking learning the land and scouting out ancient Indian campsites. I would find the usual broken arrow heads, chips from working the stone, as well as mano and metate of various sizes and style. I have not found any structures designed of durable material constructed for cooking. Surrounding mountain systems have tens of thousands of ground indentions in rock used to boil water and prepare wet meals... but those were heated by using hot rocks. I'd assume that most food was cooked on stick, wrapped in leaves, or heated upon flat rocks. That's my experience in this area at least.
Ok, pity that a respectable wonder culture in part is lost. They are or were with the Mongols (China - Nepal) I think the last respectable BIO people of this earth. I wanted to know the cooking utensil indoors and also the kind of food, spices etc. It is known that has already been processed, such as bones, animal fur, from which oil and fat even perfumes and even up to more was made. You should find the oldest living descendant of the Indians. You'd have to find someone of 100 years or more has ever gotten lessons from the old guard that the true culture has experienced. The economy, humans destroy everything for some kind of egocentrism. The Indian of today has nothing as of old but people as you helps now to remember all their culture but I hope you will find more so you can give back the respect they deserve.
Thanks for your answer.
Luc Rik
that looks perfect for a pot of stew ...
This is awesome and looks great! I've never seen this before and am just curious as to how long could you expect to keep this fire going with those particular lengths of logs you're using?
+pipemadness It really just depends upon the type of wood used. 2-3 of those pieces are mesquite heart wood that is left over one the bark and soft wood have rotted away... they are as heavy as steel pipe and are incredibly dense. The harder woods like this will last for 6+ hours. Many of the other pieces are of Hackberry, which come from large trees, but decompose rapidly. These are soft and can be burned up in under an hour. I do burn these softer woods while camping, but I do not cut and stack them for seasonal firewood. Think I'll have to make a video in the coming week showing the breakdown of Mesquite, Oak, Hackberry, Persimmon, Pecan, Mulberry and some og the other native woods out here. Perhaps a side by side timelapse of the 6+ fires going showing their run time and what kind of coal beds they can generate?
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you should show a hunter's fire and an upside down fire:)
A starfire is just a common sense way to burn large logs without chopping them into smaller pieces, which is often a waste of time. You can burn 1 log or 8 logs this way. It just depends on what you have lying on the ground. Nothing brands a rookie more when camping than when they spend all their time chopping logs into little bits when they can easily be fed into the fire as is.
Options are good to have as each situation will have its own nuances. Chopping wood is not on my list of fire duties, ever...
seems like a tripping hazard
+Nicholas wilson I would advise against the ingestion of acid or any other mind altering substance, especially whilst in "nature". If you are referring to someone physically falling over a log that is burning within this fore, I would advise against going into the afore mentioned " nature" as the place is often strewn with such logs, rocks, and the like. Note: the multitude of potential tripping hazards in the background of this video.