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Frac999 · RV-Dreams Family Member

Camp fire

Dog Folks · RV-Dreams Family Member

"They are nice but they consume way to much gas"

Don't know about that for sure. We bought one a few years ago because of the restrictions about moving firewood.

I took a hard look at the numbers, (Heck I 'm retired, what else do I have to do?.") and found that if you run the propane about 1/2 "throttle" as opposed to "blast furnance level", the costs are very much the same for propane versus buying campground firewood.

The up side is The Little Red Camfire is so much easier to use. Want a fire?--Light it. All Done?.. Shut it off. No splitting, carrying, tending, or any of the other work associated with a wood fire.

-- Edited by Dog Folks on Tuesday 23rd of October 2012 07:59:59 AM

NWescapee · RV-Dreams Family Member

Here's another option, we bought one this year and found we could use it even when we were in areas with fire restrictions. Was also great to use in a campground where we only had a BBQ grill, no fire pit.

http://www.campfiresandfirepits.com/campfire-in-a-can.php?gclid=COjNw_Owl7MCFZGiPAodAXcAqw

And yes, I know the link isn't working, not sure how to activate the link.

Edit by moderator: Activated link. Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Tuesday 23rd of October 2012 06:54:11 PM

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

They are nice but they consume way to much gas

Hdrider · RV-Dreams Family Member

I think something like that might be a nice fill-in for those times you just don't have any wood or just don't want to deal with the wood fire for a short morning or evening.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Two things, even though they are more forum related than campfire related.

Frac999,

Did you try to add a photo or something? That is a huge empty space below your text. When I went to delete what I thought were an excessive number of line-breaks, I noticed a large "box" within your post, but nothing there.

Dale and Ruth,

If you want to learn how to insert links within a post, check out a thread by that title in the forum category called, "Forum Tips."

Terry

NWescapee · RV-Dreams Family Member

Thanks Terry - just added another post with a link. Hoping this time I did it right!

Frac999 · RV-Dreams Family Member

yes i did, but did not see the open space below when i posted the link.

NWescapee · RV-Dreams Family Member

there was a photo there earlier today, wonder where it went??
Terry - really, I didn't see the blank space earlier today.

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Frac999 wrote:
yes i did, but did not see the open space below when i posted the link.

Just for grins, I put my cursor over the blank space and did a mouse "right-click and save as" and it shows up as a gif file. When I saved it to my computer and went to look at it, all I saw was a fully black image. I don't know if it will help, but you might try a different web browser when going onto RV Dreams. I used to use IE (unknown version) and while it would let me log on and say I was logged on, when I would go to post something, it would tll me that I needed to log on.

I've gone to using Mozilla's Firefox exclusively and have not had problems since. I've also tried using the "Insert/Edit Image" icon in the toolbar at the top with no success at all. So, to insert any photos, I use my Photobucket account to host the pictures I want to put into a forum.

You might try some other method of inserting your image.

Terry

dianneandsteve · RV-Dreams Family Member

We purchased the Campfire In A Can in September even though our preferance will always be a wood fire. However after 27 months of fulltiming we realized that we hardly ever had a campfire due to the high cost of firewood. In our experience we would get around 6 pieces of wood for about $6.00 so to have a decent fire it would cost $12.00 to $18.00 a night depending on how cold out it was. When purchasing our unit I was told you would get about 8 hours on a 20 lb. tank if you ran it with the valve fully open for it's maximum 64,000 btu output. We normally run ours between a quarter to half turn on the valve and also run our BBQ on the same tank so I can't say how many hours we get but have been pleasantly surprised how long the tank lasts.

And as stated before an added bonus is you can usually use them during a fire ban.

After the RV Dreams Rally in Oregon a few of us had to stay a few nights at Guarantee RV waiting for our service so the evenings were more bearable with a get together around the Campfire In A Can.

Lucky Mike · RV-Dreams Family Member

it is important to use a stainless washer tub........if you use a white porcelain over steel the porcelain will splinter under heat..these splinters are small and hot........Trust me on this one...been there done that , its not a good thing to happen when your sitting down relaxing and all the sudden your pants are smoldering or worse!!!!...the guy next to you decides to stomp the fire out rather than pour a perfectly good beer on you!!.......(maybe he was concerned about thirst after all that stomping))

-- Edited by Lucky Mike on Tuesday 29th of January 2013 08:11:39 PM

-- Edited by Lucky Mike on Tuesday 29th of January 2013 08:12:27 PM

JayKim-no regrets · RV-Dreams Family Member

I know this thread is 'older', but just wanted to pass on something that one of my friends posted on facebook. Her hubby is the kind of guy that made his own smoker out of an old oil barrel. He recently 'made' them a backyard firepit, he made it out of the inside drum from an old top loader washing machine! He got the part from a scrap dealer, he stripped it down to the original metal, then refinished it with fire proof metal spray paint, he welded three feet onto the drum and voila!! The pics look great, if I can work it out I will come back and add them....but I thought this was a really unique way to re-use something that all us RVers could use!

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

Mark,

Our opportunities to travel with our fifth wheel are pretty limited, considering that we are still working full time. With a bit of luck, we might be able to go to Colorado this summer for a couple of weeks. If not, no telling what will happen. We might just have to drive up to Colorado to see relatives and not take the coach.

I'm more than ready for some extra time somewhere in Colorado. So far, all we've done for the last couple of years was week long trips to relatives. 2009 was our last year when we got to spend a couple of weeks up there.

Now, to the topic of the washer tub fire pit that was at that rally. Here is a picture of it, although with cropping and resizing it, it isn't as clear as I'd like for it to be. One other thing about it, with the stainless tub, it was easy to clean and there was very little in the way of embers on the ground after the fire. However, it just isn't the same as a nice, open fire up in the mountains.

Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Tuesday 29th of January 2013 10:19:59 PM

Terry and Jo · RV-Dreams Family Member

JayKim-no regrets wrote:
I know this thread is 'older', but just wanted to pass on something that one of my friends posted on facebook. Her hubby is the kind of guy that made his own smoker out of an old oil barrel. He recently 'made' them a backyard firepit, he made it out of the inside drum from an old top loader washing machine! He got the part from a scrap dealer, he stripped it down to the original metal, then refinished it with fire proof metal spray paint, he welded three feet onto the drum and voila!! The pics look great, if I can work it out I will come back and add them....but I thought this was a really unique way to re-use something that all us RVers could use!

When we were at an RV rally specific to our brand of fifth wheel, one of the participants had a similar set-up. Their difference was that their washer drum was stainless steel and used the base of one of those patio fire pits for the home as a base for the "fire pit." With the drum being stainless, it was merely a matter of cleaning it and packing it away for travel. I'll see if I can find a photo of it when I get home.

Terry

Mark Serley · RV-Dreams Family Member

terry, i'm glad you mentioned when you were at a rally because i wanted to ask you if you occasionally pick-up stakes and do a little traveling with your drv? it must be alot of work being predomently static, just wondering. thanks, mark

JayKim-no regrets · RV-Dreams Family Member

Terry and Jo wrote:
Mark,
Our opportunities to travel with our fifth wheel are pretty limited, considering that we are still working full time. With a bit of luck, we might be able to go to Colorado this summer for a couple of weeks. If not, no telling what will happen. We might just have to drive up to Colorado to see relatives and not take the coach.
I'm more than ready for some extra time somewhere in Colorado. So far, all we've done for the last couple of years was week long trips to relatives. 2009 was our last year when we got to spend a couple of weeks up there.
Now, to the topic of the washer tub fire pit that was at that rally. Here is a picture of it, although with cropping and resizing it, it isn't as clear as I'd like for it to be. One other thing about it, with the stainless tub, it was easy to clean and there was very little in the way of embers on the ground after the fire. However, it just isn't the same as a nice, open fire up in the mountains.
Terry

-- Edited by Terry and Jo on Tuesday 29th of January 2013 10:19:59 PM

Thank you for posting the pic Terry, that is exactly what I was talking about! Sounds like it isn't that new of an idea to the clever folks on this forum though:)

Mike: Hope there wasn't any permanent damage from your 'camp fire sparks'!!