Building A Campfire :: essays research papers

     There are many different camp wind up structures that can be built to start a fire fleckcamping. The most common are the teepee, log cabin, dugout, and tunnel structures. Almost anyone can build these fires if he or she follows some key points.      A fire involve three elements air, evoke, and an ignition of some kind. For a campfirethe air element is easily accessible its the air a person breaths or oxygen. Fuel isequivalent to wood. sometimes lighter fluid is use to start big fires immediately, butusually when dealing with a campfire the fuel is wood. Ignition can come from a spark,match, or lighter. It is anything that initially starts the fire.     Going deeper into wood, there are three categories to classify it under. Kindling isthe stuff that is easiest to burn. It could be leaves, dryer lint, or very small twigs. Thenext coat of wood is sticks and small logs. These will range in size of it from one half i nch totwo inches in diameter. Anything larger than this is classified as the fuel. The fuel is thebig logs that will burn for hours. When a fire is started it needs to be built like this kindling first, then sticks and small logs, and then the fuel, once the fire is going good. Using this technique with the following fire structures will ensure hot easy fires.     The teepee style structure is probably the most used and easiest to build, butdoesnt necessarily result in the hottest or longest burning campfire. To build this firethink about the name "teepee." The end result beforehand burning this structure looks like anIndians teepee (If the teepee shape is not familiar, then envision a conic shape). Start byplacing the intermediate size wood or sticks in the ground in a circular shape about eightto twelve inches in diameter, leaning the tips of the sticks together in the center. Thesticks should already start to resemble a teepee shape. Continue layering the walls of theteepee with more sticks, but not too thick, because air needs to be open to pass through thewalls easily. Leave a stack on one side large enough to place kindling inside the stick walls. This hole is also left to light the kindling from the inside and may be filled in once the fireis lit.      Once this is completed, the structure should be a recognizable teepee or coneshape. The kindling should be lit on the underside inside the teepee walls through the hole