TYPES OF WOOD USED FOR THREE TYPES OF CAMPFIRES

If you plan to take a camping trip this year then its a good bet that you are looking forward to building a good camp fire. When ever you plan this trip think of the type of campfire you want to build and the type of wood you want to use.

First lets look at the types of wood to use for your campfire. You want to use wood that put out good heat to cook or keep you warm, easy to split one or two hit will do, no heavy smoke to keep you moving around to avoid it and throw no sparks that have you jumping around and knocking sparks off. The best wood for your campfire would be red and white oak, birch, hickory maple, and pecan, these woods are excellent for your campfire. There are wood like chestnut,yellow-popular cedar and larch that will throw spark give you medium heat and medium smoke this is a poor wood for campfires.

Second let look at the different types of campfire to build, there are three types wagon wheel, blog cabin and tepee. The wagon wheel shape you will first create a pile of small flammable kindling in the center of your pit. With this campfire design you will lay your larger sticks and twigs across the top and center of the kindling pile. Continue adding additional twigs and branch all the way around so that you have a spoke wheel type shape in the center of the pit.

Blog cabin type of campfire you also start with small kindling in the middle of the circle, make sure you have enough to get a good flam burning. then lay out your sticks and banches in a square shape surrounding the pile of kindling. This make a box like structure, which resembles an log cabin. When you light the kindling pile in the center, the flame from the center will extend to the walls of twigs and branches, thus you have a blog cabin campfire.

Then there the tepee type campfire, it get it name because the sticks are arranging in the shape of a tepee. First make a small pile of kindling in the center of the circle, then stand up numerous sticks in a circular pattern all leaning against each at the top this looks like a small tepee. When the kindling is lite in the middle the fire spread to the outer sticks and you have a tepee type campfire. Make sure you take multiple sources of fire with you such as a lighter and waterproof matches.