Old-Time Camp Stoves and Fireplaces

Old-Time Camp Stoves and FireplacesCreated during the Great Depression by the U. S. Forest Service, this guide was designed to provide environmental safety and maintenance advice for visitors to national forests and parks. Loaded with finely crafted drawings and plans for outdoor stoves and fireplaces, this manual offers a window into a bygone era of handyman activity as well as a wealth of still useful information for building barbecue pits, chimneys, warming units, and other outdoor

Created during the Great Depression by the U.S. Forest Service, this guide was designed to provide environmental safety and maintenance advice for visitors to national forests and parks. Loaded with finely crafted drawings and plans for outdoor stoves and fireplaces, this manual offers a window into a bygone era of handyman activity as well as a wealth of still-useful information for building barbecue pits, chimneys, warming units, and other outdoor heating sources.
Coverage includes considerations of general design problems and their solutions; discussion of detailed designs, from foundations to chimneys; construction materials, including iron, brick, concrete, stone, and sand; and specific types of camp stoves and fireplaces. Do-it-yourselfers interested in older construction techniques will find this volume a source of many tried-and-true ideas and methods.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 11/21/2012
ISBN: 9780486490205
Pages: 91
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 10.79h x 8.28w x 0.34d