Safe Campfire

[jaclinto]

Does anyone have experience in using products like these? www.freedomcampfire.com These ones cost a bit more than the ones at wal-mart, but I am sure they are made better. What should you look for to seperate the quality ones from the cheap ones. This will be used frequently at our hunting camp.

[Silver Webfoot]

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[Hunter4UK]

Are you serious? Umm... a few brickoblocks or some rocks, heck take a shovel and dig a hole! Why waste money on something like that?

[roonie76]

My dad owns an excavating company so found a cut off piece of 30" galvanized pipe, dug a hole in my back yard and stuck it in the ground. Makes a great fire ring! Blocks would work too but they will crack after awhile from the heat. :D

[h20fowler]

Are you serious? Umm... a few brickoblocks or some rocks, heck take a shovel and dig a hole! Why waste money on something like that?

Unfortunately not all state parks have the same regulations. In Kansas all fires in a state park must be off the ground. So a portable fire pit is sometimes a necessary evil. Granted, this is going to be used at a "hunting camp", and that may or may not be at a state park. Depends on ones terminology I guess.

Instead of purchasing one, there are many options.

Look at an old washing machine drum, or a steel 55 gallon barrel cut in half (either length or width wise). Options are endless if you have access to a torch and welder.



Bricks do crack out after the heat has been on them.

[Hunter4UK]

yes bricks do crack after some time, but bricks are often times free and easy to use (no welding) and I don't know of any Parks that allow you to have a hunting club on the premesis... but maybe our parks down here are different from others... probably not.

[h20fowler]

it was hunting camp... not club. Could be a different sense of the term.

For example, I drive by a local public marsh, state owned, on the way to my honey hole and see lots of hunters out there camped out overnight waiting to get into the marsh. They go out and sit the decoys, mark their spots, do whatever it is they do, then camp there overnight in the parking lot. Usually BBQing food and consuming beverages. To many that could be their "hunting camp".

I also don't know how you get bricks off the ground, without having some kind of stand to hold them in place. Transporting bricks is another problem. Not to mention the cool down time it takes before you can load them back up. But hey to each their own.