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Cliff Stamp

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In "Survivorman" Stroud often notes that no matter where you go you tend to find garbage, two miles off a main road, in an open field I find a tire rim, which looks to have been there quite awhile. It actually made a very nice stove. I used some light brush to start some very pitchy bark :

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which then burned for quite awhile, well over half an hour. This was the thickest pitch on bark I have seen in awhile, it was over an inch thick in places, the tree was heavily damaged where a limb was windblown off many years ago and there was literally feet of the bark covered in inches of hardened sap. After it burned for awhile it fell inside the rim and it functioned like a small sterno can stove :

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Not something I would want to carry with me, but rather useful to find. The bark inside the rim provided a steady source of flame and wet wood could be placed across the top of the rim to dry out without putting out the flame or damaging the coals.

-Cliff
 
Tire rims are great, but if you are short on space and weight is a concideration try using a brake drum. A brake drum works just like a hibachi BBQ and the stud holes in the bottom are just the right size for venting the coals. I used them many times in the past when the fire bans are in force. The fire is contained so the officer cannot complain about non compliance. It is just big enough to cook on and provide some heat.
 
This one may have been used before for the same purpose as searching around the field I spotted several large circular depressions, long since grown back in, but at one time were the exact size of the rim.

-Cliff
 
If you were gonna have a semi permanent camp and knew there were not too many rocks a tire rim would be great . You could even berm it with earth to cut down the unsightliness . My buddy uses a large dutch oven for his fires . At the end of the evening he will get a good bed of coals and put the cover on . It serves as a good shelter warmer with no open flame . You still gotta watch the hot sides of course .
 
It works really well against snow/rain, very durable and since it is a lot of metal will hold a lot of heat. Hood discusses using "garbage" in some of his videos and shows a lot of recycling in "survival camping", interesting stuff.

-Cliff
 
I,m not a big fan of recycling . It is wasteful of energy . I betcha if I throw out the term re-utilisation it will seem more palatable . It is supposed that one re-utilisation equals five recycles . I,ll have to check out Hood . It sounds very interesting . I go to church sales and buy old good quality butcher and carving knives . I shorten them and use the tips as small game arrowheads . I then try to make a skinning knife out of the remainder . 25 cents of old used up knife gets a new lease on life .
 
For a more permanent setting, a rim from a big truck works real well. I've made barbeque grills out of them in the past.
 
An old wheel rim buried in the ground makes an excellent fire pit in a semi permanent camp.

I pick up old refrigerator shelves (the wire type), clean them up and make them into BBQ grills. Offcuts get turned into tent pegs.

I have a friend who makes fish tanks out of old cathode ray tube TV's, and sells them at the weekend markets. He can't keep up to the demand.

Old worn out plough discs make great portable BBQ plates. If you want to get fancy, you can weld three legs on the underside.
 
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