I love this guy. He is so human. First he forgets his flashlight and now he forgot his tripod. LOL But he is a great outdoorsman.

Thanks, Lonnie for Zero machismo and 100% realistic results. Six hours allows for a good night's sleep and then you awake to a good amount of coals and chard wood! I give an A+, even though you sir seemed dissatisfied. Thanks for the lesson! - Godspeed

The Sami people in northern Sweden, Norway and Finland traditionally make these fires. They recommend dry standing dead pine for this fire. This is actually the first demo I've seen. Great video. I read a book about the Sami art of fire and they say that the bottom log is supposed to be on the ground so that the coal from the logs can fall down on the ground and light the lower log from under. They also say that you gently can hack off some coals on the logs to expose more fresh fuel. I'm going to try your method this weekend.

I really like this channel and it's refreshing to see a guy who knows what a lighter is for and who isn't trying to start a fire using last-ditch methods of fire starting... I'll definitely give this method of all-night log fires a try and thank you for your excellent videos!

This long fire presentation was superb. Clearly, even ignition is key; however, you still got a good (roughly) six hours even with a slightly uneven burn pattern. Thanks for sharing this video!

Great video! I love the long fire and Siberian fires. Winter fires. Thank you! 👍

Update/follow up videos are incredibly useful and this one is no exception. Thank-you for making and posting it. Cheers

I've seen a couple of these today. Yours is the ONLY ONE who thought to raise the logs up off the snow

I love that you showed the log burning as long as it did! Cant wait to try this sometime

You rock lonnie! Only problem I have is I watch your videos all night long and don't get much sleep. Keep up the great work sir. God bless you and connie. From alabama

Thanks for posting this. Very helpful. Your shares are some of of the best on KZfaq.

Nice video sir. Finally someone who shows the lighting. It’s what I gave most problems with

I like your Zippo. Thanks to you I have a bike tube around my Zippo -it saves the fuel from evaporating.

Good to hear from you! Been missing yall!

The oil in the Birch bark really takes off. That what I use in my little outdoor fire place. Once again great job, I'm sure that would keep you good and toasty through the night. Mike in South Jersey

You never disappoint. Keep up the good works.

Really great video (both the original and this follow up). I really like how you didn't edit out the process of learning and improving, regardless of experience. Thanks!

Great technique and skills Lonnie. Thanks very much mate.

Very nice Lonnie, thanks for your time. ATB Sepp

very well done as usual! Thanks for showing this.

Lonnie, Thank you very much. Very informative and educational.

Thanks for this Lonnie. That's a real good fire lay. like a bush electric bar fire - looking forward to giving this a try.

Another great video! Cheers and all the best!

Thx. For the info.cant wait to try this my boys and I do a lot of campfires this time of year cheers from the buckeye state

An easy fire and one that will be useful camping! Thanks for the update.

That was really interesting thanks for sharing.

9-10-23___ I even like your old reruns! 😁👍🇺🇸

I could watch your video's all day. :-)

Awesome fire sir. I'm definitely using this on my next solo outing.

Pretty nice technique Sir. It looks mighty cold where you are. Stay warm! Great demo...as always. Have a great Thanksgiving.

I like this fire set up, but I like the 5 logs placed on top pushing the heat towards you and not going up.

Really awesome follow-up!

Looks nice and warm

Thanks you for this follow up. Looks like you have a great buddy helping you. ;)

That works great! Used it myself during a military survival course. Btw here in Sweden that fire lay is called "Nying". Top class video, my man!

Hey man, really appreciate this channel i'm learning a lot!

I had several of those Casio watches! Those were great.

Good info as always!

If you look at how much snow melted around that fire I’d say it worked. Nice job!

Sweet design. Makes me curious as to how well it would burn with a larger log on top. Good vid. thanks very much!

Great video and love this setup, i was thinking what a great spot to bake something with in, heat from the top and bottom, or throw a steak right in between the coal full logs. mmmm lol great job. think i'll try this my next outting.

that fire is called "rako valkea" in finland. awesome video. 👌

what an awesome fire! this will definitely come in handy for me.. I hate getting up every hour to put more wood on..

And it's now 2022, and this what the fire looks like

Thanks for the video. Something I have to do this year.

Wow, fanning really helped light the thing back up!

I have never seen that type of fire before, very interesting set-up

Thank you for this video!

I was hooked after the first video!!!

Thanks for learning us!

I love his video and learning a lot.

Great! I'll use this over the weekend. Thank you for sharing. Subscribing!

Awesome video!

nice fire setup

Great video Atb Shaun

like the videos . keep up the good work.

Great follow up to the last vid. I use a similar type of fire with a lean-to or Whelen tent, just use 3 logs to get away from the bracing logs. With the spacer logs, I find you don't have to light a fire outside them, just move the spacers right to the very outside edge. Cheers.

Love your vids thank you so much

If you were to make the bottom log longer, you could move the top one a bit to make those spots burn more evenly. You could also lift the log with a branch or with an axe from the end and carve the badly burned spot away. Also the traditional choise of wood here in finland is pine (bruce tends to make too many sparks).

'mornin 2 ya, Lonnie & 'ole friend Buck; Great 2 C this video again,using spruce.It may not have burnt evenly,but it did what was intended. Dirt-Time =Good Times ! Thanks Again 4 Sharing With Us. Safe & Happy Outing 2 All Happy Trails From The Maritimes In Canada " GOD BLESS "

Mesmerising stuff, As a scout leader, I've learned so much from subscribing to Far North Bushcraft Survival.

Cool video.

Actually the areas that didn't ignite as well helped keep the logs spaced allowing lots of 02 in to feed the coals and allow heat to escape. Might be a better way of doing it - don't put kindling in a couple small areas so they become spacers. Also I was thinking, with a group like a large family bring a small chainsaw, cut 18 to 24 inch trees maybe 12 to 15 feet long, get the whole family in on it. That would be a lot of fun and the thing would burn forever. Just have to be extra careful that top log doesn't roll off. I would use metal poles not green wood in that case.

Once again, great video. In your first video you mentioned that spruce wood created more sparking that with using poplar or cotton wood. By the looks of this fire, there isn't any more sparking with this type of wood as there was with the other. Of course, I KNOW you would have different results by using pine ore spruce, as they are heavy with the presence of sap. Nonetheless, thanks again for this great information.

Great vid,I like how the heat pushes sideways and setting the log in front between you and fire in case it rolls off well you're sleeping,I was wondering about how embers would blow in the general direction of you're lean-to when windy and wondered if a windscreen/heat reflector of some sort on the other side like some logs would be a good idea to alleviate that?.

Nice. I am betting that with a higher wind the burn time would fall off but I like this. Very effcient use of wood,

That is some awesome fires. Seems that the viking nations were the master fire builders, even more so than Native Americans.

Good video--got a story. I had an opportunity to get my better half and my little princess out on a camping excursion. The catch was that it was in the dead of winter. But I had access to a power outlet, had 2 electric blankets and a ceramic heater. The other catch was that I had to be outside the tent to work the controls. Fun!!! Well I rigged up the tent box to act like a leaf blower to heat the tent and the gals were sandwiched between both blankets. Good, right. Well the night was cruel. 30-45 mph winds with 35 degree weather - wind chill somewhere around 10 degrees or less. I thought I was freezing to death. My firewood was either blowing out or burning up too quickly. Man I was cold. But I wasn't going to complain. Instead, I parked my lawn chair right under that tent box, put a couple of holes in it and at least my butt was warm. But then I noticed something; I was shrinking. The gals tent was growing and I was getting shorter. I didn't find out til morning, but the chair had melted and I woke up in kinda a lazy boy chair right on top of that box about an inch from the ground--now they were both outside the tent and laughing at me--well at least my butt did stay warm. And my new lazyboy chair, well it ended up in a dumpster somewhere down the road. Hey, they haven't missed a trip since!! . Take care, Lonnie. Jb

Thanks for the info. Clark

Cool Video !

Thank you - never saw that before ... wondered about the heat ... not much flames ... but good coals ... is it really warm enough? Have to try ...

Just an idea, but drilling holes like with a Swedish Torch may increase air flow. Thank you so much for all you do.

very nice.

Real good. I have logs prepped in my back yard to experiment with a fire like this. I am burning pecan wood. All I need to do is prep some kindling.

Great video. Glad I subscribed. Can you cook food using this type of fire?

Great video FNBAS THANK YOU could save a life or make a unexpected night in the woods more pleasant

Love it!

Great video. Thanks. How much heat would you say it throws as it burns? I was curious if the purpose was for heat or to have embers for the morning (or both). Thanks again.

Last very long thanks for sharing, seams to make a very smokey fire huh?

Takes some practice and skill, I see to build this fire properly. In your later vid You use a double base log system is this easier to use? Thank you for the instructions and feed back.

My question about this type of fire is - not how long does it last, but would it keep you warm enough through the night? How close would you need/want to be to it to stay adequately warm in your shelter etc. - thanks for all of the great information -

L and C. It’s Derek from Portland Oregon. Just was thinking of y’all. Hope all is well. D🤙😎🇺🇸

I've read an old Russia book that describes this fire lay as the "Nadia". All trappers used this with their Lean-to shelters in Siberia

You could call this fire a "Hoagie Fire"- have it patented, or, in NY City it would be a "Sub Samwich Fire, looks like a BIG sandwich. Seriously, it was a good thing you propped the logs up off the ground because of the froze ground, you`d have a big mudhole at the end.Thanks Lonnie, Joe

thank you

I like your one pc. steel axe; what brand is it or where can i get one, please? Thanks for vid!

you all ways do good videos . by the way how cold can it get where you are in the winter and how deep can the snow get ?

Fantastic. Is there a specific wood which produces a lot of heat and very little smoke? I was impressed that this fire showed very little smoke. Great job.

good job w/ fallow up. As 4 the stakes vs. frozen ground, I would wait an hour or 2 and pound away.

Great video Lonnie So is the winter starting off slow ? Also wishing you the misses and buck a wonderful thanksgiving my friend

Lonnie, I'm wondering if one placed two sets of logs beside each other, would the fire burn better/hotter. I'm thinking to help keep you warmer? Didn't seem to be much flame there.

I’d like to see you do a Siberian log fire like survival Russia does. I love your channel.

if you only lit one end would it last longer?

In the last video you had a shelter set up, but I didn't see it in this video. How did the heat output feel? Were you able to feel it in your shelter the first time?

Have you thought of putting a smaller burn log with kindling between the support logs? I would think one could rig it to be ignited as the bottom log is finishing burning

Thanks for the great follow up. I am always learning something new to try out. Is that an Estwing axe you have. I have their hatchet and it is indestructible.

This is a really interesting setup. I'd be tempted to shove smaller pieces into the opening as it burned.

Love to see this done using a three log idea.... Take two logs on the bottom notch them out for two logs to sit on top of them then another log to sit on top of those two logs to make a pyramid, that way once the top log get burnt fully threw it just falls ontop of the bottom two reducing the use of nails or spike...could you do a video on that?

I shared this video on my TentCampingHQ page on facebook. hope that's alright.

This just goes to show you that things don't always go the way they are supposed to... even for the experts.