The Dakota Hole Fire-Covert, Effective

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This video shows making The Dakota Hole Fire, it is a simple fire that needs very little fuel to heat and cook, is covert, works well in windy conditions, and it works well for leave no trace camping. Not many people try it, but you should, it's a great fire to use.

Tags: simplifying,survival,training,fire,dakota,hole,scavenger,perry,peacock

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wilderness innovation real survival kits survival shelter simplifying survival and wilderness innovation calm the dakota fire is about 12 inches diameter about 12 inches deep the air feed tube is about fists and angling down to the bottom of the fire pit I got my piece of bone I found peace antler and I can use use this thing like this to kind of like a thing here like a pic and use that like that shovel out like this now just keep on working at this and dig this first part of the hole for the dakota fire okay I'm just digging down here getting in here this let's tie this tie into this antler really works nice for their gonna stuff up and I've run into a rock down here i'll use my rib the rib from this animal here dig me out of rock here alright so here's my hole for my Dakota fire I'm down in here about 10 inches or so now I've got to dig my other hole my hair feed hole am I connecting tunnel over to that and then I'm good to go to light this thing up alright so now I'm working on my connecting hole and i'm using this antler tine here still as my pic look how nice that is you can really loosen up the rocks and stuff in here and dig it out what i'm going to do now is I'm going to be heading back this way as I angle down to connect this whole to my the fire pit hole that I dug earlier and then this will this allow air to feed over into the bottom of the fire over there alright I've worked my whole through here all the way through now that'll work fine alright that's going to be a little more difficult i've got my magnesium shavings down in the hole I try to just hit them from here if I can there we go alright get some of these things to start burning here some sagebrush grows pretty readily around here get some of that going and if you've seen my you've seen our twig stove this is about like doing a twig stove only on the ground so I'm just going to let that stuff kind of get going there okay so I've got me my Dakota fire going I've got my cat and wire that I can wire that i scavenged up now I'm going to pour some water in here and let that and we'll let that thing right there cook

once you get a nice bed of coals down in here it doesn't take and take that much fire going to feel the cook on right here are the tools I used these two rib bones that I found from a deer this antler time made a very nice pic yeah so that's made it possible for me to really dig this without too much problem and even get rocks out and stuff and so you look down in there that's the air feed hole to the dakota fire over here now we'll just kind of let that thing keep burning until we got some hot water and it will cook us something up here so here's the wire that i found scavenging using for a bail on this can and the can i found also yeah and whatever might have been in at time we boil through that ever and all that less heat there ain't going to be any germs or anything to worry about so they're scavenging the bail the wife of the bail the can and the bones from the kind of deer yet the antler tine it's sort of thing made it possible for me to do this fire see because i'm kind of in the midst of these trees than anything any smoke and flame and all that sort of thing is concealed nobody's going to see anything and i got this hill that rises up right here that conceals me from view that way so i'm kind of down in a little hole on the right side into a grove of trees on the on the other side so right back in there's where our fires going i'm about 15 feet away from it and it being kind of down in the ground you got to come a little bit more up on it here like that to be able to really see it there's another use for this antler tine my dinner here is cooked so I can use the time to pick up the can by the bail of course I could use a stick to but you know it's just show it another option here all right now I'm going to shut this fire down and one beautiful thing about the dakota fire is when you're all said and done you can pretty much restore everything back to back to normal all right so I've put the fire out I poured a bunch of water on it and now I'm going to fill the back those holes

alright just kind of blend some stuff in here and just toss a few things around on the ground here kind of like that sprinkle some leaves around there's where we were and nobody really know the difference so it's perry peacock with your wilderness tip the dakota fire and scavenging and like him there never really know I was there