There's a myriad of ways to build a fire in a survival situation. Most methods simply have you build a fire above ground, feeding the sticks into the flames as you dart around trying to find that elusive spot outside the smoke in which you can breathe for a few moments.
Of course, you could use a different method. The Dakota fire hole was a method used by Native Americans to hide their cooking fires from their enemies. They emit no smoke and leave a very little trace that there was ever a fire in the first place.
You may be wondering how you can build a fire underground. How will it get oxygen? Won't it suffocate the flames? These are all very good questions.
Check out the next page to learn just how ingenious a fire building method this is.
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you put an upside down fire in the hole and your good to cook for a decent bit of time without have to feed the fire.
In the picture, the fire is too big, part of the idea behind a Dakota Pit Fire is stealth, so small fire that you can not see from more than like 10-15 foot away. . . .
There are natural tubes like that in the Panamints that we used for cooking fires a long time ago.
That’s pretty cool
It works.
Nice
Ike Siler Randy Siler
In the movie “Dances with Wolves” a Pawnee warrior said “Only a White man would build a fire where everyone could see it” I guess in the post Apocalypse this advice could come in handy indeed.
Rob Mcdowell
They do work but not completely smokeless but damn near
Joshua Griego
Dakota Lain
learn this please…
Fire! Fire!
Introducing? It’s been around for centuries.
Andrew Deming
nothing better then a Dakota Fire Pit
Yep I just made one and it rocks !