itlldoo
Well-Known Member
not really mate ! you can buy and operate a car without a licence too ! i was driving utes, tractors, graders, bikes, long before getting a licence when
i was a young bloke ! we also had and used guns with no licence !
Fire Help or DIY Fire Pits
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i was a young bloke ! we also had and used guns with no licence !
Gidgee
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The wood for campfires is going to become more of a problem as more of us go camping and it gets more scarce with the rate of deforestation we have. Chainsaw or not, the only legal way to collect firewood is permission from a landholder. No State Government I've found legally allows collecting wood from the side of public roads and various councils enforce this to different degrees, ranging from ignoring it to fining you. The variance to this is PARs may have areas which the landholder allows collecting, usually to encourage you not to collect from the Nat Park those roads often lead to.
It's certainly noticeably harder to 'find' firewood these days where once it was very easy. One of the main reasons I go camping is to cook on a campfire, I reckon the food just tastes a lot better, plus I flamin hate flies and so winter camping is the norm.
I have an electric chainsaw, awesome tool, but it's still a tad noisy in a quiet campsite, so also carry a 500mm handsaw and that goes through quite thick wood fairly fast and quiet - this is for wood I transport in which are easier tied to the roof rack as longer logs.
I was in the NT last week where some trapped Euro tourists were cutting up Mulga around the campsite directly from living trees, apparently this is 'normal' in parts of Europe. We certainly don't want that!
One good thing in NT parks, is the common inverted pyramid steel fire pits which do seem to be quite frugal with wood use, so I'm going to get a Darche firepit as the design seems to be a good one.
It's certainly noticeably harder to 'find' firewood these days where once it was very easy. One of the main reasons I go camping is to cook on a campfire, I reckon the food just tastes a lot better, plus I flamin hate flies and so winter camping is the norm.
I have an electric chainsaw, awesome tool, but it's still a tad noisy in a quiet campsite, so also carry a 500mm handsaw and that goes through quite thick wood fairly fast and quiet - this is for wood I transport in which are easier tied to the roof rack as longer logs.
I was in the NT last week where some trapped Euro tourists were cutting up Mulga around the campsite directly from living trees, apparently this is 'normal' in parts of Europe. We certainly don't want that!
One good thing in NT parks, is the common inverted pyramid steel fire pits which do seem to be quite frugal with wood use, so I'm going to get a Darche firepit as the design seems to be a good one.
I don't waste my time with fires, it takes far too much work for to little result. And yes trying to find wood is simply getting way to hard being scarse. Fires are just one of a good few reasons why places get locked up. I have seen it a good few times, fools who trash up the joint. They need tough new laws to ban people from the Bush who can't get their crap together.
One big turn off is no matter what, your fire is out in the morning. Unless your fire is so large the police will be around... back in the 80s you could do that in some places.
LONG ago we use to actually shower right before bed as I can't stand the feeling of sleeping all dirty, plus egyptian cotton stains easy.
Really now I would only take pre brought wood and store it on a small box/equip trailer, more cheaper and easy/civilized in long run that is dam for sure.
I use a silky boy saw, mid size axe, and if needed a makita 240v chainsaw runs off genny. when blade dulls thro it out and replace! Spent to many times around guys with huskys and stilhs to know gasoline is never gonna happen, also I will not waste my time with battery operated, sure they are the best if you got a charger and a few packs, but no way will I be replacing expensive batteries every so often. My last li-ion drill batt is now 14yrs plus with 10-20% left in her, but no way em I putting up with batts.
I got 2 dozen other gadgets to babysit!
Yeah really we use to be so occupied with activities half the time that we had far better things to do than sit in front of a fire. But a good or bad setup can make or break.
One big turn off is no matter what, your fire is out in the morning. Unless your fire is so large the police will be around... back in the 80s you could do that in some places.
LONG ago we use to actually shower right before bed as I can't stand the feeling of sleeping all dirty, plus egyptian cotton stains easy.
Really now I would only take pre brought wood and store it on a small box/equip trailer, more cheaper and easy/civilized in long run that is dam for sure.
I use a silky boy saw, mid size axe, and if needed a makita 240v chainsaw runs off genny. when blade dulls thro it out and replace! Spent to many times around guys with huskys and stilhs to know gasoline is never gonna happen, also I will not waste my time with battery operated, sure they are the best if you got a charger and a few packs, but no way will I be replacing expensive batteries every so often. My last li-ion drill batt is now 14yrs plus with 10-20% left in her, but no way em I putting up with batts.
I got 2 dozen other gadgets to babysit!
Yeah really we use to be so occupied with activities half the time that we had far better things to do than sit in front of a fire. But a good or bad setup can make or break.
Bru9 should you really be camping ? From your response in this and other posts everything just seems so hard and too much effort . Just because you think a fire is too much effort , does that mean it is . Keeping a fire going until the morning isn not hard at all, you just need to know what you are doing . You really sound like the life of the party when camping, bet you're a hoot to hang out with