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Our fishing and hunting store has a staff fishing weekend each year when we drive up to Port Renfrew on the west coast of Vancouver Island and fish for salmon and halibut. While we're up there we stay at the store's guiding house near the beach and of course celebrate with a campfire party in the back yard along with lots of eats.
One of the neighbours is a european "transplant" and introduced us to the concept of the "Swedish Candle" for campfire lovers. You take a solid log and cut off a section anywhere from 18 inches to 5 feet tall and cut from 4 to 8 pie shaped slices into the log vertically with a chainsaw. Stop making your saw cuts about 10 to 12 inches short of the base of the log. The multiple cuts will leave the centre fairly much open and full of sawdust. You then pour some suitable flamable liquid such as BBQ lighter into the centre hole and let it soak in to the "candle" for a while. Light the centre of the "candle" at the top and it will flare up for a few minutes and then die down to a smokey fire. In about 10 or 15 minutes it will flare up again into strong flames, fed by the air drawn up through the saw cuts, and the fire will burn down through the centre of the "candle" for hours. This "jumbo" sized version that we used was lit about 3:00 in the afternoon and was still burning well after midnight.
In Sweden and other Scandanavian countries they use smaller versions for their campfires and place a cast iron frying pan or Dutch Oven on the top over the center hole and cook their camp meals over the "candle".
Neat concept and makes a great campfire for a hunting or fishing camp ...
:wink:
One of the neighbours is a european "transplant" and introduced us to the concept of the "Swedish Candle" for campfire lovers. You take a solid log and cut off a section anywhere from 18 inches to 5 feet tall and cut from 4 to 8 pie shaped slices into the log vertically with a chainsaw. Stop making your saw cuts about 10 to 12 inches short of the base of the log. The multiple cuts will leave the centre fairly much open and full of sawdust. You then pour some suitable flamable liquid such as BBQ lighter into the centre hole and let it soak in to the "candle" for a while. Light the centre of the "candle" at the top and it will flare up for a few minutes and then die down to a smokey fire. In about 10 or 15 minutes it will flare up again into strong flames, fed by the air drawn up through the saw cuts, and the fire will burn down through the centre of the "candle" for hours. This "jumbo" sized version that we used was lit about 3:00 in the afternoon and was still burning well after midnight.
In Sweden and other Scandanavian countries they use smaller versions for their campfires and place a cast iron frying pan or Dutch Oven on the top over the center hole and cook their camp meals over the "candle".
Neat concept and makes a great campfire for a hunting or fishing camp ...
:wink:
