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ozark caveman:
Has anyone here ever built one of these? I've read about it in Larry Dean Olsen's book but it's not real descriptive. I've done stone warmed beds but thats not practicle for long term living. I'm going to build on of these soon but would like some help if I can get it

Minuteman:
What is it? Do you sleep over the underground chimney of a pit fire or something? ???

ozark caveman:
Yes! You build a fire in a pit and the chimney runs under your bed. Thats putting it short. I heard it takes about 8 to 10 hours of pretty hard labor to complete.
  If nobody has done this I'll document mine this spring and post it on here.

Justin Snyder:
That would be interesting to see.  I prefer to build a big fire and throw rocks in.  Bury the rocks in about 6" of sand and sleep on that.  Just don't use rocks that were in the water, they explode.  Justin

ozark caveman:

--- Quote from: Justin Snyder on February 03, 2008, 01:56:31 pm ---That would be interesting to see.  I prefer to build a big fire and throw rocks in.  Bury the rocks in about 6" of sand and sleep on that.  Just don't use rocks that were in the water, they explode.  Justin

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Yeah. the stoned warm beds are fun but a lot of work if you have to do it every day. Does'nt leave much time for trapping and hunting. The theory behind the draft bed is once you build it all you have to do is start the fire to warm your bed :)

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