Stop the Smoke, Do THIS to Your Fire Pit
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How to build a DIY smokeless fire pit just like a solo stove. Stop the smoke in your backyard fire pit with these tips. Sponsored by …
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The smell of a good hardwood fire is why I have them
Man used a lighter beside a lit fire
Could Red clay from the ground be used instead of mortar?
The bottom holes need to be bigger than the top holes just like the patent. This will speed up the airflow from the top holes. Similar to the Venturi effect in converging ducts.
What size and spacing were the holes for the top ring?
You could have made double rigns, that would take care of all the air leakage
Just stumbled onto your video and I have to compliment you on how fun and entertaining you approach these concepts while still being incredibly educational. I have gone ahead and subscribed and look forward to more of your content 🙂
Great video! Hat tip to Haxman! But you wore the same shirt???
I love how you don't interrupt your video with commercials …awesome info too
so you bought an actual wooden dowel for your 30 second experiment instead of just grabbing a random stick?? these are truly the end times
For the supply (bottom), what was the size bit did you use?
bro, if you use wood from almond tree you are going to have zero smoke
Go Vols!!! 🍊
Why the metal ring, scared of heating up some rocks?
Nice presentation. The comments indicate a large nerd/DIYer (like me) following. The geometry is wrong, I agree. Also, I was taught to do a cabin-style fire when I was 10 years old, have been doing them like that ever since (40+ years) and even taught my son's Boy Scout troop to build fires that were smokeless and made coles quick so we could have properly cooked food. I've also used "top-down" with charcoal for decades.
Thinking about how he could have lit the smoke thing using the campfire….
The other solution would be not to use a fire ring. So your fire pit would simply be the stones in a shape of a circle. You could remove one or two (smaller) stones with some angle to allow for the air to move into the circle.
Great presentation and great theory vs. practical application. One thing I have experimented with to "control" the direction of the smoke was to use a perforated steel panel and form it into a cone shape, to place over the pit. The conical and tall shape acts as an accelerator to draw more air is and to shoot the smoke up higher, out of your path. It would be cool to see you add that concept.
Smoke comes from incomplete combustion. The goal here is to get as complete a combustion as possible.
You definitely need a restricted and directed air flow for optimal results. The second combustion method he's using works best when the hot portion of the fire is towards the bottom with holes that draw the heat around the outside and back through the top holes. He'd probably have better combustion if he blocked up most of those extern holes at the bottom in the bricks.
Also, the fire has to be built below the level of the top holes to work correctly. Wood above that point misses out on the combustion benefits.
Great channel! What the secret to make the morter joints great is to use a wet sponge after you have it filled.
Why are you using a lighter to ignite the smoke bomb, when you have a fire going in the pit?……
It would be more smokeless if the pit was deeper. If you keep the wood below the secondary holes there will be little to no smoke even with wet wood. A smaller diameter pit would be less smokey as well. I use an old top loading washing machine inner spin tub. It is perforated with holes and is make of a very tough steel. It makes a perfect smokeless burner. The only problem is the burning wood is deeper in the pit and you can't see the fire as well. When the tub gets real hot and you will have hundreds of little flames shooting through the holes.
It was still smoking a lot…fail…
Like the video, great job, what application did you for the drawing, very cool,
Like your videos. Question(s) I have, how far down from the top or up from the bottom did you drill your holes? I heard you say what sizes holes you drilled, but not where you placed them.
My take away: use dry wood.
You are adding too many variables in attempting to copy the solo stove, but cutting too many corners. You never achieved secondary combustion and only discovered you can reduce smoking by using dry hardwoods. There is a relationship between width and height of the cylinder and feed air needs to be restricted somewhat in the fashion of what is known in stove technology as the air vent. Your column is too short, your inlet airflow is wide open, and your gap between the stone and liner is too wide to form a heat chamber jacket to superheat air enough for secondary combustion while all the airleaks hurt, too. The emphasis of your research, hole size, is not critical.
I tried this and the fact that I had to keep loading wood every 15-20 mins meant that I used a HUGE amout of wood. Effectivley if I let it die down it started Smoking. Still think the New EcoFuego Fireptis are better.
You seem to think the smoke follows you? Well, you’re right, it does. It happens somewhat because of science, but mostly because you’re a Tennessee fan. ROLL TIDE
Cool bro will copy 😊
I wish everyone on YouTube would drink copious amounts of Mountain Dew. Great video you got my thumbs up!
Cool video, I appreciate you enthusiasm and inventiveness. You didn't happen to take temperature measurements did you? I wild be curious about the effect of this extra air on the temperature of the flames
7:03 cool😭😭💀
Great video!!!
Thank you, I didn’t even know that “smokeless fire pits” existed.
I’m sure no one will investigate the tiny hill with the smoke pouring out the tiny pipe. Sure idiot proof 100% sneaky build.
Respect for the thorough work 👊👍