Dakota fire pit?

[Loyalist Dave]

Like in the Dakotas?..... :haha:

Wait, we can show it's windy there today, but was it windy there back then? :haha:

LD

 

[Black Hand]

Like in the Dakotas?...... :haha:

Yes.
But perhaps not a forested area in Washington...

 

[coloradoclyde]

Like in the Dakotas?..... :haha:

Wait, we can show it's windy there today, but was it windy there back then? :haha:

LD

The wind never stops blowing in the Dakota's.....And if it does you pray for wind.... :wink:

 

[Black Hand]

The Mosquitos are a little on the large side...

 

[satx78247]

Though NOT as big as the saltwater mosquitos in South Louisiana, that qualify to get "landing instructions" from the nearest FBO.

yours, satx

 

[pondoro]

I can date them to 1967 or so - we saw the idea in a Boy Scout Field Book and tried one. Had a dickens of a time getting the fire lit down in that hole but once it was going it really drew! Fire was intense enough to make several 11-13-year-olds very nervous. We put it out.

In all seriousness if the people who you are reenacting rarely used this technology it is a poor teaching device - even if other people had used it eons before.

The people you are portraying certainly had holes and they certainly had fire. The question is "did they commonly build fires in vented holes?" The answer could be "yes", even if they only did it in the winter. But the fact that they had fire and holes is not enough to make the answer be "yes." City people in New York in 1760 had knives and heads, but it does not prove that they scalped people.

 

[Billnpatti]

Though NOT as big as the saltwater mosquitos in South Louisiana, that qualify to get "landing instructions" from the nearest FBO.

yours, satx

Yeah, I know what you mean. One day, I was at Pont Breaux's Cajun Restaurant in Breaux Bridge, LA enjoying some excellent boiled crawfish when I heard a squeeking sound. We all looked around to see where it was coming from. Lo and behold, there was a Louisiana swamp mosquito having his way with a humming bird.....and there was a line behind him waiting their turn. He was sporting a tattoo saying "Mother". Those boogers are BIG!!! I ain't lyin'. Now I had better shut up before I start lyin'.

Oh yeah, the topic was fire holes. Okay, I know what a fire hole is and how it works but I don't know who invented it nor when so I am no help with the topic of fire holes. But, just ask me about Texas or Louisiana mosquitoes.

 

[coloradoclyde]

If I was a betting man I would bet that the Dakota fire hole was a post-modern adaptation of early kiln designs....Like a lime kiln.

Similar designs were also used in the manufacturing of beer, whiskey, cheese, laundry etc....

 

[necchi]

Ya know(?) I've been watching this for awhile,,
I was schooled and always thought that the fire hole was what you use when you don't want to be seen.
Dry wood and the fire below the surface can't be seen day or night.
It wasn't a typical application, only used when needed.

 

[Bo T]

That is what I was told by a survivalist.
But such a fire would be more comfortable to cook over on a hot summer day compared to a banked fire.
This was described by one of my friends when I was growing up, that they used this type of fire in teepees (but that could have been post modern era?).
As noted, this might be a way to get a charcoal forge that was hot enough to weld with (vertical forge).

 

[nhmoose]

Would they yell "fire in the hole" when the got it going good? :rotf: