Thread: Eco-billy

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

We've got to keep this thread on the boil somehow...

OOOOOHHHHH!

I've found a disadvantage of the billy. It smells of woodfire in the car!

Originally Posted by Chenz

I would say no. With the amount of smoke they throw out I doubt you could even do a dodgy.

Well I guess I'm just keeping this thread going....
Gave the eco-billy to hubby for his birthday. (16th April)..Guess what it is I asked him......The first thing he did was drop it on the pavement...great!! I wasn't impressed at the newly acquired dent.....after scratching his head he came up with "Is it an exhaust?" mmmm!!! so I told him what it was and how to use it.

I had everything at the ready, water, wood, matches, mug, tea in other words the works and sat back....After a while with smoke billowing all over the yard and hubby exclaiming it's not working useless "bleep, bleep!!" and ready to drop kick said present over the fence, I had to come to the rescue.

He was impressed at how quick it was to boil the full kettle, oh yes and after he had his cuppa remembered to say gee thanks.

1 question I would like to know is - Does anyone use any other fuel besides wood and forest refuge to eliminate the enormous amount of smoke they throw out?

Thanks in advance
The Beast (referring to our rattling defender and not me)

I just came back from a trip to the Watagans last week when it rained on and off all day, so I had the chance to try different fuels.

I found:

• I could boil over three large mugs of water with 8 double pages of a tabloid newspaper.
• Two pages of a tabloid newspaper were enough to dry out and burn wet pine needles and twigs. Once the fire got going, I could just add more wet needles and twigs.
• Once I had some small bits of wood alight in the fire tray, I could boil a kettle full in three and a half minute. I think I could have done it in three if I had bothered to stoke the fire which was slowly dying during the test.

My experience had been that fuels that produce a lot of smoke would struggle to burn at all without the chimney effect of the kettle.
If there is any breeze, it seems to help quite a bit to face the vent in the bottom towards the wind.

Originally Posted by thebeast

Well I guess I'm just keeping this thread going....

1 question I would like to know is - Does anyone use any other fuel besides wood and forest refuge to eliminate the enormous amount of smoke they throw out?

Thanks in advance
The Beast (referring to our rattling defender and not me)

No, as the whole idea is to use leaves and twigs, otherwise you'd use a stove.

My old Aussie bush kettle, and as Ron's Dingo model should have come with a small dish for using metho as a fuel, it used to work quite well at places like stockton beach where there weren't too many leaves

Hi all, I have been using mine quite a lot lately great fun and quick. Try Quorn autoport (08) 86486093 Good price and available in two sizes.
Regards Steve

Bump.

We ended up buying a Kelly Kettle. The 1.7L stainless with the cooking kit. I prefer the fire pot so the kettle can be lifted on/off with the fire contained ... and in a pinch the fire pot can be used as a single burner wood fired cooker, or a small can and metho for a fuel stove. It works excellently. 4min's to boil a full kettle ... about as fast as our electric jug!

$130 complete ex Ireland. Should last me a lifetime ... and it didn't leak!

Should have seen the look on everyone's faces at work when I made a cuppa when it arrived ! Drew a crowd and the look on their faces was ... priceless !

Just returned from a 4 week " expedition" to Cape York. Kelly Kettle used at least twice every day...fab-oh especially being able to use it as well to heat other things on top of the "volcano" while boiling water...