Review Dakota Fire Pit

[Leif]

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Dakota Fire Pit - Just A Little Time And Elbow Grease

The Dakota fire pit is a fire management system designed to use minimal fuel and with minimal signature. It requires a little elbow grease to produce the pit but once completed would last in a static camp fire a fair few days.

The idea of cooking below ground is to minimise the fires visibility and cut down on the smoke but I would advise the use of a crane to lift and lower the pot if you intended on cooking something more complicated than just boiling water as the heat generated is quite...

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[HillBill]

Good post Leif.

I've used a similar set up myself. but we used it under a clay oven we made, with an adjustable cover over both holes to control the temperature. Worked brillianly, best pizza/bread oven i've come across

 

[Matt]

will get afew of these set up at the bushy site for the guys to try when we hold the event in august

 

[Bushcraft Rob]

Loks very similar to a snake hole pit fire

 

[Leif]

Rob probably is mate - I imagine theres a few names for it ......

 

[bigzitt]

with the airflow tunnel, does it burn the wood/fuel quickly? as in does it use more, or less wood than above ground regular fire.
and do you block/open the tunnel to adjust how fierce a burn/heat you want, slow burn for stew, quick burn for mornin brew

ta

 

[Leif]

It burns the fuel more effectiently - a small amount of fuel generates a large amount of heat. Theres an old saying that a open fire burns three times the fuel of a sheltered fire and that burns three times the fuel of a stove ..................and yes you could restrict the air flow to control the burn