How to burn fire for camping: | The Ultimate Guide tips

How to burn fire for camping The Ultimate Guide tips

Scouts and Guides use sunlight to light fires. They collect bright sunlight for fire with the help of lenses. Before lighting the fire, they clean the surroundings, such as removing grass, dry leaves, etc.

Choose the right place to light the fire, which is opposite to the wind direction. When lighting a fire, they keep quick-catching materials ready. If the ground is moist, some wood are collected to place them in the shape of a pyramid. Many names have been given to the fire for its method of lighting it, such as council fire, friendly fire, signal fire, and cooking fire.

How to light a fire when camping?

How to Build a Campfire.

• 1. Tepee or Wigwarm Fire
• 2 . Foundation Fire
• 3. Altar Fire 
• 4. Pyramid Fire (Pyramid Fire)
• 5. Reflector Fire
• 6. Crisscross Fire
• 7. Trench Fire
• 8. Hunter Fire
• 9. Star Fire
• 10. Gypsy Fire

1. Tepee or Wigwarm Fire

A circular enclosure of stones is made all around and wood is stacked in the middle and burnt. Water or tea can be boiled quickly in this type of fire.

2 . Foundation Fire

A triangular shape is made from three thick sticks and thin, quick-burning sticks and grass are placed in the middle and the sticks are stacked outside them in such a way that a cone is formed at the top. This type of fire is more intense at one point.

3. Altar Fire 

Place two thick sticks on the ground in the east-west direction at some distance from each other. Place another layer on top of these, adjacent to each other in the north-south direction. Continue adding third-fourth layer as per requirement. There should be a layer of thick wood at the bottom. Layers of progressively thinner wood should be added. Make one or two piles of TP fire on the upper layer. This fire looks attractive on the special occasion of campfire.

4. Pyramid Fire (Pyramid Fire)

Make a rectangle by placing thick sticks at the bottom. Keep placing the sticks in a rectangular shape on top. This type of fire is suitable for Havan.

5. Reflector Fire

Bury two 6 inch thick, 4 feet long sticks in the ground at a distance of about 4 feet. With the support of these two sticks above the ground, place them one above the other and place rectangular thick sticks in front and light a fire in the middle. Reflector fire is useful in keeping the tent warm and drying fallen logs.

6. Crisscross Fire

Place two thick sticks at some distance and place a layer of sticks on top of them. Continue applying layers as needed in the opposite direction.

7. Trench Fire

A drain is dug in the ground and the logs are burnt. Food can be cooked by placing utensils on these logs. Coal is also prepared from this type of fire. To make coal, the drain is widened and many logs are burnt in it. They are extinguished by half-burning.

8. Hunter Fire

Fire is lit by placing thin sticks between two thick logs. Food is cooked by placing utensils on them.

9. Star Fire

Star fire is formed by burning thick logs of wood at one point from three directions. This type of fire will keep burning in the camp throughout the night and will also provide light.

10. Gypsy Fire

Wood is placed and burnt like the spokes of the Chakra, in the center of which utensils are placed and tea or food is cooked.

Apart from the above, our methods of lighting fire like indigenous stove, furnace, smokeless stove, dark stove, chimney etc. are also popular. In the modern era, matches or lighters are used to light a fire, but in ancient times, when these things were not widespread, people used to use many natural means to light a fire.

In India, sparks were produced by striking a hard white stone (Dansi) with a piece of iron (Angela), which were placed on highly flammable straws (Bukila) and a fire was lit by wrapping a cloth around it. In Australia fire is produced by rotating a wooden rod into a hole in soft wood. The people of Borneo make further production by splitting a geli from a shiny cane. Red Indian produces fire with bow and spindle.

• How to burn fire for camping: | The Ultimate Guide tips.
• How to light a fire when camping?
• How to Build a Campfire.

• 1. Tepee or Wigwarm Fire,
• 2 . Foundation Fire,
• 3. Altar Fire ,
• 4. Pyramid Fire (Pyramid Fire),
• 5. Reflector Fire,
• 6. Crisscross Fire,
• 7. Trench Fire,
• 8. Hunter Fire,
• 9. Star Fire,
• 10. Gypsy Fire,