Winter Survival Weekend

Kelly Kettle?

I've wanted a kelly kettle for ages. This might be my excuse.

I went to school with Debbie Kettle

Originally Posted by Julian_Boolean

I went to school with Debbie Kettle

Meh, I met her, right old boiler.

2 days sitting in a survival bag, eating flapjack and firing flares at passing aircraft. What's not to like. I'm out.
(I was offered a free weekend with that fat fucker off the telly, learning how to eat rabbit kidneys and moss in the new forest.. I told em to poke that too...)

Originally Posted by demographic

Meh, I met her, right old boiler.

Her little sister certainly wasn't

Originally Posted by Julian_Boolean

But it's the mildest winter ever (obviously I've no actual evidence to support this).
I won't be turning up at all, ENA might bring suncream!

That isnt my fault, maybe it will get colder yet? This will take a good few weeks to organise I expect and it could be harsh by then, you never know.

Originally Posted by chillitt

2 days sitting in a survival bag, eating flapjack and firing flares at passing aircraft. What's not to like. I'm out.
(I was offered a free weekend with that fat fucker off the telly, learning how to eat rabbit kidneys and moss in the new forest.. I told em to poke that too...)

If they offer it again, point them my way - I love being outdoors and living off the land and Im only 15 mins from the New Forest

PS

I dont know what a Kelly Kettle is?

But the gist of the rule was no means of heating food / water as there would be wood etc. to make fire with.

Its hardly suvival if you have everything you need is it?


IMO anyway.

Originally Posted by The Martian

If they offer it again, point them my way - I love being outdoors and living off the land and Im only 15 mins from the New Forest

No danger I'm afraid, I haven't worked there for 15 years.. I like the outdoors, but can't stand that Ray Mears and all this raw kidley nonsense. You have caught a rabbit, and can light a fire, hey why not cook the fucking thing. And if you have eaten all the nice bits and are still hungry a kidney isn't going to help...

Originally Posted by The Martian

PS

I dont know what a Kelly Kettle is?

A Kelly Kettle is a brand of storm kettle where you have a fire in a little container at the bottom then it has a double walled chimney that you fill with water, the heat from the sticks and so on you burn heat the inside wall of the double wall chimney and boils the water.
Another brand is the Storm Kettle and there's others I can't remember right now. Not got one but they are supposed to be good for boiling water (the name kettle kind of gives that away) and not as good at general camp cooking (the lack of being called camp stove might give that away also).
With some there's little stands you can put a pan on but I don't know how good they are.


From what I hear the stainless ones are better than the aluminium versions as they have all the seams welded instead of just rolled over and they don't go manky if you leave them wet inside like aluminium does.

Originally Posted by demographic

A Kelly Kettle is a brand of storm kettle where you have a fire in a little container at the bottom then it has a double walled chimney that you fill with water, the heat from the sticks and so on you burn heat the inside wall of the double wall chimney and boils the water.
Another brand is the Storm Kettle and there's others I can't remember right now. Not got one but they are supposed to be good for boiling water (the name kettle kind of gives that away) and not as good at general camp cooking (the lack of being called camp stove might give that away also).
With some there's little stands you can put a pan on but I don't know how good they are.


From what I hear the stainless ones are better than the aluminium versions as they have all the seams welded instead of just rolled over and they don't go manky if you leave them wet inside like aluminium does.

I think a Kelly Kettle would have to be allowed as it uses natural fuel / wood etc. gathered even by my intended rule.

Bloody good idea / bit of kit that

Originally Posted by TightRS

I understand that he was in the SAS and has done quite a few extraordinary things in his life, but by fook he's a right pillock on the TV.
Even my (usually very nice about everyone else) wife describes him as a "drama queen".

I've got a kelly kettle and tried to find my images.



The outer ring or tube boils water in less than two-minutes, these same toroidal currents recombust smoke vapor in another design I recently was awakened too...

They act much like a rocket stove; the further concept of this design is the rocket mass stove heater. An extremely efficient design for wood fires & storing heat.

Rocket Mass Heaters - Tribal Living


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