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Trench Fire For Cooking AND 1000 Subscriber Challenge Winners

4,378 views · Published 22 January 2013 · 10:12 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: KennethKramm · 2013 · Education

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TRENCH FIRE FOR COOKING
It is difficult to control the heat when cooking on a traditional campfire.  A trench fire solves this problem.  It is fuel efficient, produces very little smoke, and allows you to cook several pans at once (individually adjusting the heat for each pan).  American pioneers in the 1800s frequently used trench fires for cooking.  The Prairie Traveler Handbook published by the US War Department (Randolph B. Marcy) in 1861 recommended this stye of cooking. 

Dig a trench about 8 inches wide, 8 inches deep and 3 - 4 feet long.    The trench should be oriented in the direction of the prevailing wind.   One end of the trench acts as a flu, so there is very little smoke.  

1000 SUBSCRIBER CHALLENGE
I would like to thank everyone who participated in the challenge.  All video responses were excellent. I was amazed by their creativity.   They included two categories: 1) nature from an unusual view point and 2) bushcraft techniques to solve a problem.  If you haven't had a chance to see them, check them out:

ButterflyTube1:   Walking Blue Butterfly - 
Slow Motion  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEwIjo0ehko  

DaynightProductions1:  Groundhog Love and My Pet Red-tailed Hawks 
2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTwD3VLLkAw

G0vqw:  Kens Wood Camp and VR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEGIHtr8C4Q

MrMycoo:  Retaken Plage - VR  nature retakes its empire  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syNPEfgBpG4; 

Steintanz:  Someone Had to do it - Scenic Intervention - 
death and birth, dirt and bath, decay and assimilation  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpOMVI1lRnI

SurvivalManBushcraft:  Swamp Firecraft and Beans 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QopItoOm4yI

Billyjoedenny:  Save the little trees  Bill  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPmX-7F5FIk

Urbannatureman:  Urb Nature Man Ep. 1 Pt 3:  
When  S.... Happens  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIQSMVFHUMk

PitFireOutdoors:  The Quinzee!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jfQ89lb6pY  

Koezi3361  VR Kenneth Kramm 1000 sub challenge:  
Winter Fire Making http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s_DDMO5rZo

Lone Woodpecker:  Neck Knife  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apFQRAavCr8

TroutManOutdoors:  VR for Ken Krammm...
BowDrill Coal and Giving Back to Nature 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OWnTHweB0k


THE WINNERS ARE:  FIRST PLACE: Urbannatureman, SECOND PLACE: g0vqw, THIRD PLACE:  Steintanz.  I will PM the winners with information on the prizes.

Although Ediblegreens1 was not able to participate in the challenge, he sent the following poem about nature.  If you haven't seen Jack's bushcraft and survival channel, check it out.  This young man enjoys helping people and creating new videos:  http://www.youtube.com/user/ediblegreens1?feature=g-user-lik.  

NATURE by Michael Carlson

Nature is mighty
Nature is strong
Nature is usually always right
Nature is rarely ever wrong
Nature is beauty
Nature is moody
Nature is smart
Nature always has the greater part
Nature is blue
Nature is green
Nature is every color possibly seen
Nature is true
Nature is beaming
Nature is dreaming
Nature is in every place
Nature is always with grace
Nature is true
Nature is you
Nature is me
Nature will forever be free. 

Videography by Ken Kramm, Lake Niederhoffer, Sam Houston National Forest, January 2013.    Creative Commons Music:  Yankee Doodle and Banjo on My Knee by The Heftone Banjo Orchestra, Brian Thomas Hefferan, Director, http://www.heftone.com/orchestra   Reiddrum Element 3 by 24278 noise collector, http://www.freesound.org/people/NoiseCollector/sounds/24278   When My Spirit Calls - Native American Flute in F# by Ephemeral Rift, http://ccmixter.org/files/EphemeralRift/34006.

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