How to make a Dakota fire hole - photo

**Altair** · Dec 23, 2021, 11:27 AM

How to make a Dakota fire hole.

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**Toolmaker51** · Dec 23, 2021, 08:50 PM

Rocket Stove without the shearing, plasma or bandsaw cutting steel and welding, nor the portable aspect.

**schuylergrace** · Dec 25, 2021, 12:06 AM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Rocket Stove without the shearing, plasma or bandsaw cutting steel and welding, nor the portable aspect.

Almost, but you've got no secondary air source, post combustion.

**Floradawg** · Dec 26, 2021, 01:19 PM

Good idea. Diagram not to scale.

**neilbourjaily** · Dec 27, 2021, 07:54 PM

Originally Posted by Toolmaker51

Rocket Stove without the shearing, plasma or bandsaw cutting steel and welding, nor the portable aspect.

This appears to be a survivalist image.
Beyond that, however, it has to do with accessibility. Consider the most accessible form of energy, other than solar, is steam. All one needs is a fire and a container. Make it more sophisticated, and the steam can be contained and used to drive a piston, an arm, a shaft, etc. This 'Dakota Fire Hole' is an accessible rocket stove, and the design predates.