Fire Rings

[Gavin]

I'll take a fire ring and some scorched gravel over a bunch of toilet paper balls scattered in the tree line....bring a shovel and bury it.

[fishinwrench]

Some people think a campfire is a blast furnace, I guess.

Indian build little fire, sit real close. White man build BIIIIIG FIRE, stand WAAAAY back.

[OzarksRiverman]

Indian build little fire, sit real close. White man build BIIIIIG FIRE, stand WAAAAY back.

lol. good one.

[Danoinark]

I'll take a fire ring and some scorched gravel over a bunch of toilet paper balls scattered in the tree line....bring a shovel and bury it.

Hear, Hear. Dano

[Flysmallie]

Several years ago on an overnight trip we lost our campfire grate in a bad canoe crash. Somehow a dutch oven and a large cast iron skillet were able to stay afloat packed in a non waterproof duffel bag. Yeah I don't know how either. We had all our food and all the pots and pans so all we had to do was devise a plan to hold that stuff over the fire. We started trying to figure out a way to build a fire ring, but couldn't figure out a stable way to hold the skillet. Somebody finally says why don't we dig a trench just wide enough to rest the skillet on, on both sides. It worked very well. Nothing like a nice fat rib-eye fried in a skillet.

We have gone back to carrying a new grate but we still dig a hole for our fire. It makes a very good place to grab some coals for the dutch oven, and when you break camp all you need to do is fill it right back in.

[OzarksRiverman]

That's the way I've always built campfires on gravel bars. It's a lot easier to just make a small pit than collect big rocks to make a ring.