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Do you have a lot of experience with building such a configuration for a DFP? What is the angle that you use for the long, slanting entrance air hole/feeder hole? Can you elaborate a bit further on all of this, maybe with a drawing? I'm having trouble visualizing where this third hole is supposed to go. I'm not sure about packing wood with mud. What does that mean? Is that in the third hole? Does that stop the third hole from acting as a chimney? I like the idea of a long-lasting DFP, but I have a hard time wrapping my brain around what you are describing. Thanks in advance. :)if your pit is 2 ft deep, with a long, slanting-entrance air-hole with a log in it, and with a third hole, about 30 degrees from vertical, for another log, you can get the Dakota pit to "gravity-feed" wood to itself for 2-3 hours, depending upon the wood composition and size, and depending upon whether or not you pack the wood with mud,
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
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Iterations are fine, we don't have to be perfect
My 2nd Location:Florida HardinessZone:10 AHS:10 GDD:8500 Rainfall:2in/mth winter, 8in/mth summer, Soil:Sand pH8 Flat
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
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Gardens in my mind never need water
Castles in the air never have a wet basement
Well made buildings are fractal -- equally intelligent design at every level of detail.
Bright sparks remind others that they too can dance
What I am looking for is looking for me too!
Yeah, I should have wrote that too. Actually I'm not 100% convinced those are socks!- at first glance, I thought they were fish! Ha Ha. I can see them being socks, but... they could be a lot of things with a drawing as poor as that. But if they were socks, who's to say that the survival dude or dudette didn't just mash up some soap root and wash em up nice and purdy smelling, and clean as a whistle. I probably still wouldn't hang them over the food though.then looked at the picture again. Wow. That pic needs work. That don't look like a good Dakota to me at all.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
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One of the things they taught us in survival that increases a risk of forest fire is burying the embers. These can flare up days later and cause a wildfire.
is that the fire is/coals are properly out before reburying the hole. With a Dakota Fire Pit, this is easily done as a small amount of water can be concentrated on the coals in the relatively small pit. It should be stirred and water added until it is a mud of ash and no longer steaming.Part of the idea of a well done Dakota pit is that you can rebury it, thus concealing your fire/dead coals, and thereby not leaving much of a trace.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."-Margaret Mead "The only thing worse than being blind, is having sight but no vision."-Helen Keller
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