Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Survival Lilly" channel.

@sharonjuniorchess : Heh. If I had all that brick to work with and hauled it to the tipi site, I can't imagine not having a good, healthy spade shove and a pick-mattock. This was just her proppin' a product for backpackers. Digging a trench in back-pack mode for fire tunnel wouldn't happen in any backpack situation, unless you could live off the land on what you brung with you.
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@tsbda I didn't build my first cabin 'til I was 4. I got roughed-up pretty good by that bear I killed when I was 3, and it hurt my production that year.
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@noisepuppet : Yeah. If I were gettin' elaborate with those materials, I'd just build a daggone stone hearth and be done with it! :o)
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Teepee is cool, because the culture that used it was total nomad in its existence. Those tribes could pick up and move everybody and everything better than European cavalry regiment of comparable size. Using horses, they could set up 30 miles away, next day, and the day after that. Of course, they preferred to set up and stay for a while, coordinated with their hunting. And it wasn't just the plains Indians, hunting buffalo, but the Nez Perce in the Northwest moved by season and as needed, as well or better than the U.S. Cavalry that was chasing them. Not Army-vs-Army. But Army-vs-Entire-Community. Anyway, getting this elaborate with a tipi kind of defeats the purpose and mission of the tool. But I get it. I think the effort might be counter-productive for the smoke-free idea, though. Part of keeping the space smoke-free is bringing fresh air into the space. You're seeking to bring in fresh air to feed the fire, so if you make your teepee tight to the ground, the only fresh air into the room goes through the fire, first. Think about it. Making it tight against the ground reduces drafts, but letting it leak at the bottom draws fresh air in near the ground, and I imagine I'd sleep with my nose close to a fresh air inlet. With that many bricks to work with, she could build a rocket stove that'd burn small amounts of wood, with very little smoke, and the bricks would radiate the heat after the fire went out. Making the fresh air go past the human to the stove might make such an open setup more smoke-free. The rest is knowing how to build small fires that don't smoke, much.
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Yes. If she had more vertical to the exhaust tunnel, it might draw, and once it draws, really clean out the smoke. Get a little rocket going.
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Be worth bringing to a base camp. I know a few hunters who build and use the same stone hearths every season.
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She's having fun experimenting and making video. I don't know if she ever revisited the idea. It's not a bad idea. Needs some tweaks, I'm guessing. Kind of defeats the purpose of a tipi, but then tipis were always kind of smoky and drafty. Keep in mind, the people who used them were horse people, with huge, heavy buffalo robes, and probably more dung for fires than wood out on the plains.
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You might try mushroom farming at different levels in the ravine. Maybe the earlier batch by the creek was too low for the conditions but ones farther up the bank would've been just right.
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Check out "rocket stove." They can be a bitch to get started, but once they start to draw, they're pretty excellent. I don't think she ever got hers to really draw. Probably needs more vertical to it. Maybe start the fire closer to her exhaust opening to prime it a little bit.
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Notice how the green policies are driving everyone to burn wood? I saw this coming, years ago. Europe didn't stop using fossil fuels. It CAN'T. So instead, they buy their fuel from countries with lower environmental standards. That's not good for the planet. These New World Order types' contact with reality is very tenuous, except when it comes to lining their pockets, which they understand, fully.
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