somebody with a plasma table should make this:

[cody c]

something I scratched up on CAD based on something I seen in the background of another thread that I been thinking about building, Im looking at something to use as a short "chimney" section to keep some or most of the smoke up high and still get the heat from the fire.

The idear is, you can cook on it, then fold it up and take it with you, bolt the legs in with wing nuts, and maybe have a short section of "chimney" to keep the smoke up higher, and maybe keep you from smelling like campfire when you get home.

I'm thinking about sending a dwg. file to one of the shops around here and get them to cut something out of 3/8" steel.

I'd build a bracket on the rear swingout so it can be stored behind the spare. Its a bit of a compromise, either getting soot and the smell of cooked food on the interior, or leaving a cooking surface outside of the vehicle where it could be exposed to dirt rust and dust. Any suggestions on a chimney section that would be small for transport outside of the vehicle?


Anyways, anyone feel like building one and letting me know how it works

 

[twoyotas]

interesting idea. for a chimney, you could have four lengths of sheet metal attached to each other with piano hinge so that it could fold flat. maybe some nuts and bolts to hold it to the square opening in your design.

 

[trd55]

3/8" would be way to heavy. I would go 1/4" at most if not 3/16". Great idea. I have heard that just a rod up the middle of the fire will cause the smoke to follow, but the collapsible tube is a great idea too. Maybe out of heavy guage sheet metal like 14-16 guage. Good luck.

 

[george_tlc]

Here's the campfire/cooking setup we typically use in the oz bush. Excuse my mate in his boy shorts

Basically one large fire or heat/light and a small cooking fire. Much easier to cook over a little fire that you can adjust the heat output by adding/removing wood as needed versus over a raging fire....

3/8" steel plate with 4 legs, either welded directly on the plate or screwed into coarse thread nuts welded to the plate so it can lay flat when not in use. Slip it all into a canvas bag to keep the soot/grease etc off the rest of the gear in the vehicle. There's 1/2" rod welded to 3 sides of the hot plate to keep stuff from rolling/slipping off if cooking directly on the plate. The 4th side has not rod, to make it easy to scrape off excess grease/fat/oil etc.

Yum:

Not what you want to cook on:

cheers,
george.

 

[cody c]

I cant see anything george.

 

[twoyotas]

I can see George's pics. it is pretty much just as he describes, like a griddle on legs. the legs look to be about 10 - 12 inches long.

when I have trouble seeing photos, I switch to another browser, usually works.

 

[cody c]

I can see them now...

Thanks for your perspective George.

edit, I changed the image from pdf to jpeg so you can see it: