Dakota Fire Pit Variation

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Simon's cookfire -- an oxygenated fire pit with stones used to support his grill.

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say you've got the tube up here buried and it comes down to about here oh yeah then you built this stone bridge so stuff isn't touching them what and you set your you're a grill yeah this is completely level that's all which is why I prefer campfires at this point because it's it's so easy just put some more dirt underneath and then you can like levered it more if you want when you apply pressure it's really not that Tiffany Wow and like there's lots of space for sticks there as well and so you lay your sticks in where you can go cross ways if you want oh yeah can you lay a level for stairs i la like thicker main sticks like to carry a the smaller sticks on top mm-hmm eventually they're gonna fall down but that's been working really well even if they fall down like that just put the sticks diagonally downwards then yeah and so you're getting an airflow through here that just creates a you're just a whooshing of air coming yeah Wow it's not volatile it's it's like I think the flames are like really soft and gentle actually but the amount of air is really good so variation of the Dakota fire tip that you've really made it your own yeah and maybe like I have space over here for a second no fire at all I don't need a tube for that and these rocks if you

we'll it's probably most mostly some no no they're still warm I can feel that idea I've been eating them for a while now and I imagine like tonight I'm gonna like really okay I need just to get that hot rock here experience I mix I'm excited to see like how long they will last throughout the night and just to understand this more so you put thicker ones you're kind of building an upside-down fire so you make a base of wood kind of like that just with the longer stick though and then you build your fire on top of that yeah and eventually it's all six move this side eventually this is gonna fall down yeah but it's it's actually upside down far so well lots of air is able to come through underneath the flames and go upwards when they fall down though this is probably the only negative thing about this but I'm not sure if you can avoid it with any Dakota fire pit if they fall down flames tend to like come up words diagonally most and come up here instead of here so the place you're heating area to loose my base and I have to put them down in the fire pit then you're getting that much air flow it's really yeah but that's really good to just sit here because the heat is kind of coming towards me as well instead of just up blaster yeah

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