Firestick?

[treesmith]

So today makes twice I've seen the little snippet in Sherrill's flyer about making a Nordic firestick. Sounds interesting, but there's hardly enough info about making one. Anyone here tried it or have any experience with them?

 

[stig]

We've had a whole thread about those, with pictures and all.
Probably sitting somewhere in archives.

 

[treesmith]

I tried a search and came up with nothing. Were they called Nordic firesticks or some other name?

 

[stig]

Found it: https://www.masterblasterhome.com/showthread.php?14618-Swedish-log-candle&highlight=finnish

 

[treesmith]

Thanks, Stig! I'd have never searched for a "Swedish log candle". Guess it depends on where you are or where you're from as to what they're called.

 

[treesmith]

Sean's original link doesn't work anymore. Just goes to e-how home something-or-other. I did see the few pics, which were enough to give me an idea of how they're made.

 

[stig]

We call them "Finnish torches". Each country probably attributes them to a diffrent origin.

 

[treesmith]

Youtube is our friend......http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=swedish+log+candle&aq=f&aql=t.

I don't have enough bandwidth to watch them right now, but I'll watch a few in the morning before the daily limit kicks in. Any ideas on which woods are best?

 

[stig]

Depends on what you want them for.
If they are just to look at, not cook on, I like some sappy, knotty coniferous wood.
It burns with a lot more drama ( sparks and stuff) than straight grained hardwood.

 

[treesmith]

Next time I have a dutch oven cooking, I'm gonna try it out. Looks interesting.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Sure makes good coffee in the winter time

 

[Thor's Hammer]

cooking on them gets sappy turpy messy

We call them Norwegian candles.

 

[sotc]

I thought this was a muzzle loader thread!

I call them Canuckian/Dutch sticks, or, Paul sticks for short

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Man I tell ya what.. If a person did not what we were talking about

 

[pantheraba]

This was one I did before I knew it could be done...nature made this one. I had cut down a tree with a hollow cavity and a small access hole where a limb used to be. Air would draft thru the limb hole in the bottom of the log and up through the hollow and out the top...it was oak, pretty dry. We were feeding fat lightard (heavy resin pine) in through the top of the log, sometimes small pieces thru the limb-air hole at the bottom. That two foot flame you see is from the fat lightard. Lots of campfire fun...some of these boys were drinking moonshine at the time.

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[Paul B]

I have made a couple but have yet to burn one.

 

[Cobleskill]

Years ago I was walking through a woods that was being logged in the winter. There was a big Red Oak stump that was hollow and they had cut air vents into it. I thought it was ingenious at the time. Not much different from a barrel.

 

[MasterBlaster]

What? They set the stump on fire?

 

[Cobleskill]

They used it like a burning barrel. It was still green, what was left of it, so it held up as long as they needed it.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Cool!

 

[Burnham]

We had a couple of smaller ones at Zipfest.

 

[Paul B]

indeed.

 

[Burnham]